I don't know what's going on with t his idiot machine. This Feb. 19 blog WAS published and sent on Feb. 19. I was shocked here on late February 20 to find listed as unsent.
I did send it on the 19th. I did. I did.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/19/bernie-sanders-announces-2020-run-presidency
Sounds nice. But where's the big money going to come from? For the last several hundred years in the western world, the superwealthy have controlled elections. That's been true in a Britain which induced young men to kill hundreds of millions all over the world for pennies a day. it was praised as 'patriotism'. But it was pure greed and murder.
Though most Canadian history books don't know it, it was true throughout the history of Canada. Ever wonder why Canadians fought and died in South Africa 120 years ago? Was South Africa about to attack Canada?
No. Canadian capialists wanted them there because of their ties to a British Empire for trade. And British capitalists wanted them there to set the stage for Canadian participation in a coming war with Germany. It was to set a precedent for Canada fighting Britisn wars.
And we called it patriotism - though what was patriotic about getting killed while killing Dutch farmers in South Africa isn't clear to me.
Now, of course, Canadian 'patriotism' means killing people to please U.S. capitalists because of the U.S. market ties for Canadian capitalists. That's why Canadians died in Korea and Afghanistan. That's why they trained Syrian rebels. That's why Canadians bombed helpless people in Libya. That's why Canadian troops are very dangerously staged in far eastern Europe.
Most recently, Canada has leaped to support American aggression against Venezuela. And it is quite possible Canada will be ssked (told) to play a military role.
Greed drives capitalism. And capitalism expects Canada to be 'patriotic'. (What the hell did killing Koreans have to do with the patriotism of defending Canada against a Korea that had no intention of attacking us? Or against Afghanistan?)
Now, the U.S., which has destroyed democracy in much of Latin America - which murdered 200,000 civilians in Guatemala, sustained a brutal dictatorship in Chile, has destroyed what was democracy in Haiti. which is still punishing Cuba for overthrowing one of the world's most brutal dictatorships - created by the U.S. - is now looking all virtuous and accusing Venezuela of being undemocratic.
Venezuela is, of course, weak on democracy. But the reccord of the U.S. scarcely qualifies it as a lover of democracy.
Not even in the U.S. itself. There, the very wealthy have established themselves as owners of the political parties. (Indeed, that goes back to the very origins of American 'democracy'). And in Canada, control by the wealthy has been accepted by the very wealthy from 1867 at least. And the wealthy have happily financed both the Liberals and Conservatives from the start. And we are now arriving at a very dangerous point in Canada.
A few months ago, a former New Brunswick premier, Richard Hatfield, addressed New Brunswick business leaders in Ottawa. His message was that politicians (and by implication voters) are incompetent to run governments. He urged the business leaders -seriously - to overthrow governments and to take over. His message was wildly applauded.
(His message neatly overlooked the fact that governments in both the U.S. and Canada have been controlled by big business from the start.)
The reality is that we never have controlled our governments. That's why they're such a mess.
Could a Bernie Sanders win? I don't know. It would be quite a chore with all the money and the news media on the other side.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/justin-trudeaus-top-adviser-resigns-as-political-meddling-scandal-widens
Right. And now indignant Canadians will vote -----for the Conservative party. How dumb can we get?
Donne-moi un break.
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http://rabble.ca/babble/national-news/trudeau-betrays-trudeau-canada%E2%80%99s-big-mistake-venezuela
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https://www.commondreams.org/further/2019/02/18/they-took-my-house-they-took-my-life-they-took-everything
I have known a few of the right wing Iaraeli 'settler's. Believe me- You don't want them next door.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/18/highly-disturbing-facebook-blocks-viral-video-outlets-critical-us-foreign-policy-and
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/19/proving-small-dollar-army-fired-2020-sanders-raises-over-1-million-just-three-hours
Maybe I'm wrong. I hope so.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/sweden-welfare-state-benefits-popular/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh4TDQM-SyQ
God bless America
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/18/news/making-study-says-oilsands-assessments-marred-weak-science
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https://truthout.org/articles/trump-supports-bible-literacy-classes-in-public-schools/
Few people talk about Christianity more - and prractice it less - than Christians.
it really is quite remarkable.
When Americans get killed, I'm sure many churches offer a commentary on it..
And when Americans kill children in Yemen? When they murdered 200,000 in Guatemala? When they killed over a million in Iraq? When American billlionaires plunder their own country? When the (Christian) rich refused to make health care available to the rest?
i guess the Christian churches have always been more patriotic than religious. Christian Germans attended church throughout Hitler's rule. And, certainly, not a word of criticism was ever aimed at Hitler. George Bush became an ardent church church-goer after a presidency in which he killed a million or so innocent people.
Or perhaps they know a passage in The Bible which ssys how neat it is to have nuclear weapons.
Or perhaps our churches are just full of gutless hypocrites.
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To write a thrice weekly blog on current events becomes profoundly depressing because it is a constrant remember of the presence of greed in our society. There are no limits to the greedy of our wealthy, /Consider. We are planning for a war which, if it were ever fought, would destroy all human life. We murder quite helpless people on a massive scale all over the world - as in Yemen - and it's not at all clear why this is necessary. We have missiles that can destroy most of humanity. How will that make this a better world?
The U.S. has capitalists creating private schools for those rich enough to attenc them. But surely such a system (if it does work) could be done just a effectively with public schools. Why, then, is it denied to low income children/
I'll all for a system that would improve literacy. My childhood friends were illiterate. Of course. They weren't stupid. But the parents and most of the community were illiterate.. Of course. They were poor. They had limiated chances at best. They group up in a separate world All that ssved me from living in poverty was that my father read. I had books from the age of six. And it made all the difference.
To grow up poor is to grow up in a hopeless world - and a different one from the world of others. (I think here of two boys I taught in grade seven who, before they were twenty, were shot and killed by police. That happens when you grow up ini a world without a chance.)
A simple thing like reading and writing can put one in a different world. The U.S. proocides the essential help to get there - but only for kids with prosperous homes who probably don't need the help. Wouldn't it make sense to provice the public schools with such help?
No. Not to the capilal'sts. Their only interest in it is in making profits for themselves.
The U.S. has spent billions since 1950 to kill tens of millions of people all over the world. Was that to save us? Save us from what?
We live in a world dominated by the murderous greed of some of our most resoected cutuzens. And, yes, even Canada capitalists pay the game. We have developed destructive systems so vile that just the existence of them could destroy us all.
This is insane. This is the result of greeds so powerful that, on our present course. we cannot survive.
We have monstrous problems of poverty and suffering all over the world. And the U.S., British, French, etc. responses are to do things like killing more Venzuealans so billionaires can steal their oil.
In a world of serious problems, we are led by people whose only interest is their own greed. In this moment, we are ruled by the greediest, most obsessed and most evil people in history.
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Forgive me for not checking my spelling on this one.It's getting late - and I'm tired and not in a cheeful mood. It's very unpleasant to write, three times a week, about the most evil people this world has ever known.
I did send it on the 19th. I did. I did.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/19/bernie-sanders-announces-2020-run-presidency
Sounds nice. But where's the big money going to come from? For the last several hundred years in the western world, the superwealthy have controlled elections. That's been true in a Britain which induced young men to kill hundreds of millions all over the world for pennies a day. it was praised as 'patriotism'. But it was pure greed and murder.
Though most Canadian history books don't know it, it was true throughout the history of Canada. Ever wonder why Canadians fought and died in South Africa 120 years ago? Was South Africa about to attack Canada?
No. Canadian capialists wanted them there because of their ties to a British Empire for trade. And British capitalists wanted them there to set the stage for Canadian participation in a coming war with Germany. It was to set a precedent for Canada fighting Britisn wars.
And we called it patriotism - though what was patriotic about getting killed while killing Dutch farmers in South Africa isn't clear to me.
Now, of course, Canadian 'patriotism' means killing people to please U.S. capitalists because of the U.S. market ties for Canadian capitalists. That's why Canadians died in Korea and Afghanistan. That's why they trained Syrian rebels. That's why Canadians bombed helpless people in Libya. That's why Canadian troops are very dangerously staged in far eastern Europe.
Most recently, Canada has leaped to support American aggression against Venezuela. And it is quite possible Canada will be ssked (told) to play a military role.
Greed drives capitalism. And capitalism expects Canada to be 'patriotic'. (What the hell did killing Koreans have to do with the patriotism of defending Canada against a Korea that had no intention of attacking us? Or against Afghanistan?)
Now, the U.S., which has destroyed democracy in much of Latin America - which murdered 200,000 civilians in Guatemala, sustained a brutal dictatorship in Chile, has destroyed what was democracy in Haiti. which is still punishing Cuba for overthrowing one of the world's most brutal dictatorships - created by the U.S. - is now looking all virtuous and accusing Venezuela of being undemocratic.
Venezuela is, of course, weak on democracy. But the reccord of the U.S. scarcely qualifies it as a lover of democracy.
Not even in the U.S. itself. There, the very wealthy have established themselves as owners of the political parties. (Indeed, that goes back to the very origins of American 'democracy'). And in Canada, control by the wealthy has been accepted by the very wealthy from 1867 at least. And the wealthy have happily financed both the Liberals and Conservatives from the start. And we are now arriving at a very dangerous point in Canada.
A few months ago, a former New Brunswick premier, Richard Hatfield, addressed New Brunswick business leaders in Ottawa. His message was that politicians (and by implication voters) are incompetent to run governments. He urged the business leaders -seriously - to overthrow governments and to take over. His message was wildly applauded.
(His message neatly overlooked the fact that governments in both the U.S. and Canada have been controlled by big business from the start.)
The reality is that we never have controlled our governments. That's why they're such a mess.
Could a Bernie Sanders win? I don't know. It would be quite a chore with all the money and the news media on the other side.
________________________________________________________________
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/19/justin-trudeaus-top-adviser-resigns-as-political-meddling-scandal-widens
Right. And now indignant Canadians will vote -----for the Conservative party. How dumb can we get?
Donne-moi un break.
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http://rabble.ca/babble/national-news/trudeau-betrays-trudeau-canada%E2%80%99s-big-mistake-venezuela
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/further/2019/02/18/they-took-my-house-they-took-my-life-they-took-everything
I have known a few of the right wing Iaraeli 'settler's. Believe me- You don't want them next door.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/18/highly-disturbing-facebook-blocks-viral-video-outlets-critical-us-foreign-policy-and
____________________________________________________________
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/02/19/proving-small-dollar-army-fired-2020-sanders-raises-over-1-million-just-three-hours
Maybe I'm wrong. I hope so.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/sweden-welfare-state-benefits-popular/
______________________________________________________________
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh4TDQM-SyQ
God bless America
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/18/news/making-study-says-oilsands-assessments-marred-weak-science
___________________________________________________________
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-supports-bible-literacy-classes-in-public-schools/
Few people talk about Christianity more - and prractice it less - than Christians.
it really is quite remarkable.
When Americans get killed, I'm sure many churches offer a commentary on it..
And when Americans kill children in Yemen? When they murdered 200,000 in Guatemala? When they killed over a million in Iraq? When American billlionaires plunder their own country? When the (Christian) rich refused to make health care available to the rest?
i guess the Christian churches have always been more patriotic than religious. Christian Germans attended church throughout Hitler's rule. And, certainly, not a word of criticism was ever aimed at Hitler. George Bush became an ardent church church-goer after a presidency in which he killed a million or so innocent people.
Or perhaps they know a passage in The Bible which ssys how neat it is to have nuclear weapons.
Or perhaps our churches are just full of gutless hypocrites.
_____________________________________________________________
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
To write a thrice weekly blog on current events becomes profoundly depressing because it is a constrant remember of the presence of greed in our society. There are no limits to the greedy of our wealthy, /Consider. We are planning for a war which, if it were ever fought, would destroy all human life. We murder quite helpless people on a massive scale all over the world - as in Yemen - and it's not at all clear why this is necessary. We have missiles that can destroy most of humanity. How will that make this a better world?
The U.S. has capitalists creating private schools for those rich enough to attenc them. But surely such a system (if it does work) could be done just a effectively with public schools. Why, then, is it denied to low income children/
I'll all for a system that would improve literacy. My childhood friends were illiterate. Of course. They weren't stupid. But the parents and most of the community were illiterate.. Of course. They were poor. They had limiated chances at best. They group up in a separate world All that ssved me from living in poverty was that my father read. I had books from the age of six. And it made all the difference.
To grow up poor is to grow up in a hopeless world - and a different one from the world of others. (I think here of two boys I taught in grade seven who, before they were twenty, were shot and killed by police. That happens when you grow up ini a world without a chance.)
A simple thing like reading and writing can put one in a different world. The U.S. proocides the essential help to get there - but only for kids with prosperous homes who probably don't need the help. Wouldn't it make sense to provice the public schools with such help?
No. Not to the capilal'sts. Their only interest in it is in making profits for themselves.
The U.S. has spent billions since 1950 to kill tens of millions of people all over the world. Was that to save us? Save us from what?
We live in a world dominated by the murderous greed of some of our most resoected cutuzens. And, yes, even Canada capitalists pay the game. We have developed destructive systems so vile that just the existence of them could destroy us all.
This is insane. This is the result of greeds so powerful that, on our present course. we cannot survive.
We have monstrous problems of poverty and suffering all over the world. And the U.S., British, French, etc. responses are to do things like killing more Venzuealans so billionaires can steal their oil.
In a world of serious problems, we are led by people whose only interest is their own greed. In this moment, we are ruled by the greediest, most obsessed and most evil people in history.
____________________________________________________________
.
Forgive me for not checking my spelling on this one.It's getting late - and I'm tired and not in a cheeful mood. It's very unpleasant to write, three times a week, about the most evil people this world has ever known.
