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I've been away (in Montreal) for several days. On returning I've learned that one of my students from many years ago is now one of our readers. John Watt was my student in grade 4 in my first teaching job, at Parkdale School (in St. Laurent). It was delightful to hear from him. After several years of dreadful jobs, teaching grade four was a delight. And I do really, really thank him for reminding me of those happy days. A big kiss for John Watt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ alas! The rest of this blog is less happy. The U.S. has far the most expensive army in the world. For almost 70 years it's military has been killing millions all over the world. And it's record is almost laughable. The U.S. murders millions all over that world which, really, it was doing on an almost daily basis from the start. And the people the wars were fought to please were the wealthy of the U.S. who wanted the plunder. (Look - almost all wars are fought to benefit the super rich. And that has been true for the super rich all over the world and all through history.) But this expensive gang of thugs and torturers has lost wars even from the tiniest of enemies (Like Afghanistan. And the Canadians, since the beginning of our subservience (and ass kissing of Americans) have been no better. (But the Canadian Legion will wet it'd pants at any chance to fight for the U.S. and murder at least a billion Chinese- mostly non-soldiers, women and children.) This war has to be fought in unconventional terms. And that means nuclear weapons. But those come at a terrible risk. China and Russia both have advanced systems of nuclear warfare. And these weapons can now reach North American targets. But don't fret. The super rich of Canada and the U.S. will be undercover in those days. You think I'm exaggerating? Not a bit. Our super rich don't care who they kill so long as it's not them. And the U.S. army is trained in torture. Guantanamo is just one centre that holds dozens of prisoners for (illegal) torture. Hitler is gone. But Americans are the new Naziis. And, no, I am not exaggerating. And Trudeau is a wimp. So are the Conservative leaders. Neither Canada nor the U.S. is a democracy by any definition. Luckily for the Liberals and Conservatives, Canadians have no knowledge of what the word democracy means. But you cannot have politicians who are owned by billionaires. Really, there are very, very few democracies in our world. I might add that our churches have been no help. (Of course, one doesn't expect anything intelligent from the Jesus jumpers of the fundamentalist churches. but the Catholic and the Protestant mainstream churches have been no help at all in this. Of course, they never have been.) In every western church I've heard of, all have supported wars - and were based on nationality. The German churches supported Hitler in 1939. The Anglicans of Britain supported the mass murder and plundering of the British Empire at it's foulest. American churches reacted not at all to the American murder of native peoples and to the U.S. constant war and plunder throughout it's history. And in Canada we have Catholics who have been murdering uncounted thousands of native children. And they've made it clear they have no intention of dealing with that. In China? It's quite possible, almost certain, we're now approaching the final war. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The world's leaders met in Glasgow to discuss a plan to deal with climate change. This was a very big meeting. And it accomplished nothing. I don't know what our news media have reported about it. I learned a long time ago to ignore our commercial news media. The reality that I've learned from more honest sources is that the end of this conference was a failure. Conclusions were extremely vague. And the roles of gasoline and coal were so as not to offend the oil industry or coal.`And, well, we don't have the time for that. It was all vague, and with no enforcement rules. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________