The Real World

Well, I'm at last settled in to Kingston. Bad timing though as Kingston is the Canadian leader in attracting covid. I begin with an apology. I have often used the Manchester Guardian as one of my sources for world affairs. Alas! It has slowly dawned on me that the Guardian is a very weak source. So I won't be using it again. So I'll limit sources to learn what's going on in the world. Wars are fought to benefit the rich. That's always been true. The people of ancient Rome lived in desperate poverty. And the Roman wars were fought only to benefit the rulers and the wealthy. The wars of the British Empire were fought by the poor. But the profits of war never reached most of the British people. The British people were dumped on the streets of Britain while the rich lived in aristocratic splendour. That even applied to World War Two. You'll never remember this from reading the papers. WW2 was really begun by the British upper class. Yes. It was. The treaty of Versailles that ended WW1 assigned no penalty on any country on either side. They all agreed that nobody was responsible for the war. And the British and French in particular soon lied about that 'agreement'. There was a Hitler. But he was a very minor figure with no followers at all. That changed beginning in the 1920s as Britain and France and others violated the Versaille peace treaty to plunder Germany.That is what created the despair of Germans - and led to the rise of Hitler in the 1930s. (I find the web sources remarkably shy about this.) Wars are almost always fought to benefit only the rich. In the U.S., military spending mostly benefits the rich to create the most expensive military in the world. Homeless children in the U.S. are dying in the streets. But there's no help for them. It all goes for the biggest military spending in the world - way, way ahead. And what has been the war record of the U.S.? Bloody feeble. This is the country that in 20 years couldn't beat the small population of a section of Afghanistan. In fact, the general American war record since 1945 has been pretty feeble. And the U.S. has forced Canadian troops at various points in the world to fight it's feeble wars. The American military has done a lousy job of fighting it's wars. But, oh, it's making piles of money of which we know nothing. Canadians have been damn fools to get involved in these wars.(Too bad nobody in The Canadian Legion has had the brains to see this.) The U.S. also funds Israel with billions of dollars so it can murder helpless Palestinians and steal their land. Alas - we have allowed Israel to become what Judaism is not. In fact, it more closely resembles Naziism.In Montreal, I often spoke to Jewish audiences, large ones. They were the most intelligent audiences I ever had (way ahead of Christians who were intellectually fuzzy and giggly.) I doubt very much that Canadian Jews would tolerate the behaviour of Israeli ones. Then there's the journalist - Julian Assange. He was a brillliant journalist and a very honest one. That's why he's been in solitary for over thirty years in Britain. That's why he suffered a stroke. He has never been charged by Britain or the U.S. for anything Of course not. He's never done anything illegal. That's why the U.S. wants him in their solitary confinement until he dies - or is killed by the CIA. (The function of the CIA is to murder people, including people of the U.S. and all the rest of the world.) And don't kid yourself. This manipulation of propaganda to serve the rich is also used by most governments - including Canada. Check out your local newspapers and radio stations. They're all full of lies. They're owned by the super rich, and their purpose has always been the same - to lie to us. That goes back for over 130 years. And that's why they write big stories about how cruel the Chinese are with the story about how a government official of China assaulted a Chinese tennis player. That's why they're teeming with news about how evil all Chinese are. In fact, such assaults are common in the U.S. and Canada, including the Canadian army going all the way up to it's generals and admirals. Don't waste your time on the commercial news media. In a later blog, I'll give you a list of honest news sites.