The U.S. went to war in 1941 because it was determined to conquer the whole world. That's why it went to war with Korea. It was to be the entree to an invasion of a China which the British had ruled and plundered until 1939. But it didn't work. All American wars since then have been aimed at world conquest.
The Americans also dragged in Canadians for their war. (After all, the British had long dragged in the Canadians for their wars starting with South Africa.) So it was that the U.S. became an American world aggressor and it dumped Britain and kissed up to the Canadians
The U.S. has now been fighting those wars - some of them quite successfully, some not so - for years. Over the years since 1949, the U.S. has rampaged and murdered in a hundred and more countries. It has also murdered nobody knows how many children and even babies as their enemies. And it has routinely, using radio guided aircraft, bombed men, women and children who were countries not at war.
The Canadian Legion might well wonder how many children and babies Canadians killed. (The Canadians were in Afghanistan for 12 years. But nobody has any record of the killings. I guess our heroes were too shy to tell us about it.)
Ask a member of the Legion why Canadians did the killing. They'll tell you they did it for their country - a remarkable piece of stupidity. How attacking and murdering other nations can be good for our country is a brainless babble.
(My father was a navy veteran of WW2. He went to the Legion only once. But he was a non-drinker and drinking seemed to be the only skill that Legion members had. I am puzzled why such an organization should have the power to approve of wars is something I don't understand.)
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Last night, I worked late until a little after midnight. Then I opened a window to let the fresh air in, and snuggled myself after that.
Then I was stunned by the loudest thunder I have ever had. There was a stunningly heavy rain, more thunder. There was the noise of something on my balcony. I guess is was those giant, frozen ice balls.
Get used to it. We are going to see more and worse of this. These are storms caused by our utter failure to deal with this planet we have abused so badly. These are related to the even worse and more dangerous horrors of the failure of much of the U.S., B.C. Alberta to remind of our failure to deal with climate control.
We're going to get more of this. And much worse of it.
Among other things, the failure of our kiss up to American oil billionaires, a kissup organized by the Liberals and Conservatives, is going to haunt us terribly. This happened just months ago when Liberal Trudeau and Conservative O'Toole met on the B.C. border with the US to assure American oil companies and politicians that oil sands were perfectly safe. This was said even as BC was suffering huge fires fed by oil sands. ________________________________
As I write this, I think of another very ugly feature of our lives. In the U.S.over 70 million people now live and sleep on the streets. Years ago, I saw the same sort of thing on the streets of Hong Kong after dark. But those were only thousands. In the U.S. In the US it's far, far worse.
And the U.S. does nothing for their street people. No. In the U.S. the money is spent on trillions of dollars for what it by far the most expensive military in the world - FAR the most.
Recently, huge numbers of the poor who lived in cheap housing were kicked out into the streets.
You get sick in the states? Tough. Hospitals in the U.S. are designed just to make money for billionaires. Many common treatments that cost nothing in Canada cost tens of thousands of dollars in the U.S. And that means a great many Americans have to stay out - and die. Neither Liberals nor Conservatives in Canada introduced our medical system. The old NDP forced it on them.
The U.S. has impoverished a huge part of its population to please the rich. And, for the money of the wealthy they have multiplied into the billions and even the trillions as the super rich send their wealth up like rockets.
Those super, super rich are the ones calling for (and getting) a war in China. with thousands of nuclear missiles on both sides, this will be the bloodiest war in history.
Why does the U.S. want a war with China? It is because China has at last thrown out the horror of it's British control, and is now a rival to American corporations.
No! No! mustn't do that. (Yes. China does mistreat some of its people. But the Chinese scale of brutality is far less than that of the U.S. The U.S. is by far the most brutal and murderous nation of our time.)
And the war? It could kill well over a billion people - men, women, and children. It's also possible some of China's nuclear bombs could reach Canada and the U.S. But don't worry. I'm sure the super rich will be tucked away in safe havens.
This is the worst time in the history of planet earth. And we are really governed by billionaires who are damn fools.
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Actually, we have fallen into an old pattern. In the days of British Empire, the country was really ruled by super rich. They're the ones who put crews on ships at almost no salaries, and then tossed them into the streets when they were no longer useful.
A recent sample of this ruling class was Winston Churchill who was not the nice guy he seemed to be in World War 2. In fact, as a member of the British upper class he never gave a damn about the common people. Before the war, when he was a power in the far East, he deliberately allowed millions of people in India to die as he cut off their food supplies. (Well- they were just common people.)
Check his record. You'll never find a piece of legislation to help the poor in all his political life. (Britain now has a premier from the upper class who has no interest in the needs of the people.) And Trudeau and O'Toole are both cut from the same cloth.
I knew Pierre Trudeau quite well. (He wanted me to be a Liberal candidate.) Even he had to pay close attention to the wishes of the super rich. I preferred not to spend my life kissing rich asses.) __________________________________________________________________
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