A VERY UNHAPPY BLOG

I'm really astonished by the Canadian (and American) contempt for the Chinese - and for the popular belief that the Chinese live in poverty and filth - and with no housing. In reality, it's the U.S. and Canada who have thrown huge numbers of people into the streets. It's us here in North America who have created slums. And that's not the first time this has happened. My father was a scout master for a troop in Montreal's Chinatown. Now, we lived in a VERY poor district of Montreal. But even for us, Chinatown was one hell of a shabby place. I liked the boys and was happy to help out with them. But, oh, I was also struck by the poverty and shabbiness. At Boy Scout Summer camp, the other boys (being genuine, white Canadians) went out of their way to shower contempt on the Chinese boys. And, oh, the history of that goes further. For a hundred years, the British plundered and murdered Chinese. And, of course, it was all the fault of the Chinese. When I was in Hong Kong, that sort of belief was common.I shall never forget the night I saw the horror of thousands of Chinese, whole families crammed onto the streets for miles to sleep on cardboard sheets. But I never saw any English treated like that. However, I did see the English, lots of them, treating the Chinese with utter contempt. (The worst was the Governor's right hand man who was, to my dismay, married to my cousin.) Today, the Chinese have done a magnificent job of recovering from the cruel and arrogant rule of the British. So, of course, we hate them. Our press forever criticizes them. Amazing how our press never notices the mass murder by our side. Can you spell U.S.? Britain? Canadian Legion? Let's get real. Why did Canada spend over ten years killing people in Afghanistan? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter is closing in. But, so far as we know, the U.S. and Canada will not lift a finger to help their homeless. And that includes the elderly. children and babies. What king of miserable bastards have we allowed ourselves to become? On the other hand, American billionaires - and perhaps Canadian ones - are developing warrior robots to protect them from ---us. Oh, yes, the U.S. also wants Australian journalist Julian Assange murdered by the CIA. He was a superb journalist and an honest one. That's why he has spent years in solitary (currently in a British) prison without charge or trial. The U.S. wants him - for the same reason. Again, there won't be a trial. Instead, it will be immediate solitary with no trial. Or, for greater efficiency, the CIA will murder him. God bless America, land of the - whatever. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Canada are begun a real horror show. Our farms are going under. We may (will) face shortages created by us as the price of our carbondioxide, thanks to our worship of cars and trucks and factories. I'm so happy that the Irvings keep the people of New Brunswick happy with showers of gas and oil. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Also noticeable is the wimpiness of the American armed forces since 1949. They, by far, have been the most expensive and most expensively armed forces in the world. And they have been amongst the most feeble. Afghanistan, a relatively poor country (and the American target of only a small part of it.) And Afghanistan beat the pants off it. It was the same in Korea. Since 1940, it has has lost a string of military targets, often losing to small (sometimes very small and very poor countries). Now, the U.S. has been a world leader in killing. It began with the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers. (Then, George Washington was obsessed with killing.) From that day and up to as late as 1930, the U.S. was killing it's native peoples. It tried several times to conquer Canada. It murdered Mexicans to steal what became Texas, California and other states. There is probably no country in the world that matches the U.S. for it's history of wars and conquests. Starting in 1900, it slaughtered the largely helpless people of Latin America and has been robbing them ever since. The prison (torture base) of Latin America is today Guantanamo that it stole from Cuba. There is probably no country in the world that can match the many hundreds of years of American murder. But the world is at last catching on. In 1945, the U.S. clearly planned to conquer the world so the whole whole world could be slaves of American billionaires. And it's not even close. Instead, the rising power is China with it's population of 2+ billion. The U.S. cannot defeat China in the usual sort of war. No. It can win only by killing huge numbers, perhaps a billion, of men, women and children with nuclear bombs. God bless America. (Oh, the U.S. will call on neighbour Canada to join that war. Depend on the Canadian Legion to support it.) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Would you like to hear about a more civilized country? There is a country which are news media tell us almost nothing about. It's a country that is lowering the rights of it's billionaires. It's a country the billionaires had almost taken over. The country doing this is a country determined in establishing a society of equality. (No, alas! It's not Canada.) It's China. So far as I know this is a country which aiming equality instead of the rich and greedy. (I don't know of any western country that has done that. In the U.S. - as in Canada where I grew up - the rich have always, for example, celebrated private tutors for rich kids. And for poor kids like me? We were taught to be scum. It took me years to learn I could go to university. That raised me a notch or so. But I was still low on the ladder. It took me eight more years to realize I could do a PhD. China is unique in the world in trying to give all its people a land of equality. We talk about it. But we've never done it. Our news media teach us to hate China. In fact, I hate our news media for their lies and propaganda. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And, oh, can't we and the U.S. give a damn about the homeless of our countries? We give trillions every year to the billionaires and trillionaires. Salaries for the rest of us are decades out of date. We throw billions at the drug companies whose owners hugely over charge us for them. That's why there's no money to save so many nations - as in Africa. They're dying now. And they're going to die a hell of a lot more , many millions of them. The cruelty and greed of our drug companies is a reasib why billionaires make it a point to own news media - and to lie. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________