July 13: An Extra Opinion for the Week.

 The western U.S. and Canada are now becoming unlivable. There is murderous heat in Death Valley where temperatures are the highest ever recovered anywhere -  54.6C. -and it's going to get worse. Experience tells us this will get worse in September and October. In the U.S., things are even worse as water supplies are vanishing. Hoover Dam is a monster dam. But the water it was holding has largely vanished, drawn up to  the sky  by the heat.

The American experience (California,Arizona, Washington State, Nevada, Oregon) is covered in gigantic wildfires. So is British Columbia - and they are spreading into our prairie provinces. So far, some 300 fires have been identified, most of them covering huge areas.

In Canada, our prime minister recently gave permission to the oil industry to increase it's movement of fossil fuel. In the U.S., president Biden is issuing fossil fuel permits quicker even than Trump did.

Latin Americans are fleeing across the border to get away from the horror in their own countries. A high proportion of them are children. So far this year, 127 of the children have been found dead in desert heat.

This is the strongest example we have yet seen of climate change. And it's going to move east.  (It already has in most of the U.S.)

We know how it happens. We've known it for at least twenty years now. It's from the rise of chemical gasses - especially the gas generated by oil. Indeed, scientists have been telling us this for years. But both Trudeau and Biden are the ass kissers of the fossil fuel billionaires.  In fact, Trudeau has been their boy from his start.

Canadians and Americans have died. It's going to get worse, much worse as the oil industry kills us.

All this, I suppose, is why we are doing nothing to defend ourselves. This is why oil billionaires have prepared their deep underground mansion bunkers where they    can live in comfort while most of us die.

Wake up!  Because if you don't, you could be the next victim of 'climate change'.

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Our news and radio reports have been very hard on Cuba and of Cuban protests against their government.  I had a suspicion the version of this news was not entirely honest. That's not suprising. Our news media in Canada and the U.S. are not to be trusted.

There have been demonstrations against the government - but only a small proportion of the Cuban people have been taking part in them. (Yes. Canada's news media are mostly liars.)

Only a relatively small number in Cuba have taken part in demonstrations. Conditions in Cuba have certainly been terrible from the start. But those conditions were created by the American government, not by anybody in Cuba. For sixty years, American governments have savagely blockaded the Cuban government. Any suffering in Cuba is caused by that.

Get used to it. Your local paper is almost certainly a liar. I learned  in my CBC days that CBC is probably the best conventional news service in Canada. But I also learned that top brass at CBC sometimes insisted on lies. (When I was weekly on CBC radio, I was also on the board of the English rights groups, Alliance Quebec, at that time when French politicians were determined to destroy the English.  I never mentioned that issue on air. But the bosses of the French section of CBC insisted  I should be fired anyway.

And newspapers? I don't know of any newspaper in Canada that can be trusted. And, certainly,  that also includes U.S. papers - even the New York Times.

If you want to get some honest reporting on what is happening in Cuba, go to a site on your computer called Common Dreams. It is one site of an army of such sites available on your computer and that are free and honest. I'll end this column now to give you time to look at it. In Common Dreams, it's called The Heavy Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests.

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July 12: The murdering bastards we call capitalists

 I'm pretty old. Some day soon I'm going to die. I look forward to it.

Our lives are governed by thieving, murderous, greedy people. And that came to me with real force as I followed the news from Cuba where there were demonstrations against the government. I noticed that none of the demonstrators were anywhere close to being old.

They protested that the government was communist. Well?  So?

I'm not a communist. But if someone else wants to be one, it's as good as anything else on the shelf. The United States is capitalist. American capitalists have kicked American families out of their homes by the millions. It is starving them. Meanwhile, capitalist Americans plunder the world,  pay no taxes, have the biggest incomes in history,  - and do nothing to help the starving poor. The same is true of Canadian capitalists if on a smaller scale.

As for Cuba, us old folks remember it when it was ruled by the U.S. It was on TV regularly. The streets were controlled by murderous gangsters  who killed citizens at random. Torture for no reason at all was constant.

To cap it all the U.S. was the real power in Cuba. It approved of the gangsters. The U.S. also imported American top rank gangsters to keep Cubans in line. In fact, American top ranked gangsters were the real and only government of  Cuba. Mass murder and torture were the fun games of the day.

President Biden knows that. And those are the good ol' days he wants to bring back.

In their years of control, American governments made Cuba a living hell.

President Biden is a murderous liar. He knows all this. He also knows that when Cuba did get control of its country, the U.S. forbade any country from trading with it. The U.S., of course, also forbade any country from dealing with Cuba. The U.S. also stole Haiti's Guantanamo which, to this day, it has used for extended (and illegal) torture. Real sweethearts, those Americans.

And now, liar Biden has pretended he wants to help Cuba.

Is the Cuban government communist? I don't know. It probably has elements of communism. Is that bad? No. Any government has the right to be whatever it wants. Is communism evil? No. In fact, most Americans (and Canadians) have no idea what it is.

What we should realize is that capitalism is a stunningly brutish ism with a long history of mass murder.

But I noticed that the Cuban crowds on TV were not elderly. They don't know the past. And they don't know the future they are setting themselves up for.

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Our world (unless we smarten up) is a model of what we have been doing for thousands of years. A small group of us became rulers -  kings, empires....., . and they ruled, using the rest of us as tools for their greed. And the rest of us became poor, starving - and worse.

And we are still living in that. Rome had a population that lived in filth and hunger while a tiny minority live in unimaginable wealth. The British Empire was like that. Thus its mass murder to kill hundreds of millions of Chinese, of India, and others. And thus the American multi billionares who murder children and babies in their thousands all over the world.

Oh, thinks about all those dead and rudely buried indigenous children in Canada and the U.S.

And thus the Canadian legion that kills anybody it's told to kill. (wouldn't it be interesting to find out if Canadian veterans suffer suicide after a war as so many Americans do?)

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The man guiding us is  Pierre Trudeau. A-A-A no. Pierre was a far more principled person. The man guidiing us now is, God help us, Justin Trudeau.

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God help us.

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July 10: Canadians - get used to singing God Bless America

 Thinking of going to Las Vegas? Bad idea. Las Vegas is under a brutal sun of 40 degrees and over as high   (so far) as 45. And don't even think of taking a stroll outside Vegas. All you can see from that misery is desert as far as the eye can reach. And that is  because the water that Vegas needs for it's meals has largely disappeared.

And agriculture? Forget it.

Indeed, all of California and well beyond California the land of desert -  there are signs of that stretching well across the whole of the U.S. That's climate change. And all across the country there are wildfires, far more wildfires than can be controlled.

And that means, among other things, massive destruction of farming.

In a variation of American troubles, New York is a disaster area of flooding. And, no, I don't mean localised flooding. I mean deep and long-lasting flooding. And that, too, is climate change.

The U.S. has suffered tremendous damage, much of which is getting worse. So what will the U.S. do?

It will turn to land that has not yet suffered so badly. Of course, it will expect that land to become American territory. So forget the O Canada stuff. Practice the words to God Bless America.

No. I'm not exaggerating. I'm  quite sure this is going to happen. Canada is also attractive because it has huge, northern areas that are not terribly far north but healthier than climate change areas.

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The news  from Haiti is a great example of how our news media are liars. The killing of the president, Govene Moise, is treated as the brutal murder of a good man who was the loved leader of the people of Haiti.

 Come off it.

Moise was never elected. On the contrary. Even the gangster government that we  (Canada, U.S., and France) established in Haiti, hated Moise. He was a murderous, plundering, amazingly  self-centred torturer, killer, and thief.

Why did Canada take part in bringing Moise to power? It helped big, Canadian mining companies to get into Haiti's gold fields.   

The new ruler will be the same - but not quite so greedy and self-centered as Moise. And I betcha the U.S. will tell Canada to settle things in Haiti, and kill only the right gangsters and thugs.

And the Canadian Legion will wet it's pants to please the U.S. They will call it's role as "doing it for their country". That's a  term the Legion uses constantly - and neither they nor I have any idea what that term means.  ________________________________________________________________

President Biden is either a liar or a fool.

He has announced that the U.S. is leaving Afghanistan after more than 20 years because the U.S. went to war only to get Osama bin Laden.

Please. They went to war to get just one man? Well, they got him years ago. They killed him and threw his body into the sea. So why did the world's largest and most expensive military stay at war for years after?

And why did Canada sent troops to kill and die in that world? Any thoughts, Canadian Legion? Hint - American billionaires wanted control of the large and undeveloped resources of that country.

That's why almost all wars are fought - to plunder countries and make billionaires  even richer. That's why the U.S. wants a war with China. That's why it has large armies in the middle east. That's why it keeps a lid on democracy in Latin America. That's why it cannot accept Cuba as a democracy.

American  billionaires are  the greatest threat to this world. And the Canadian Legion, which should be serving the interest of those who have fought,  is like the British government, an ass kisser for American billionaires.

And the best part of it for American billionaires is that they pay almost no taxes for these wars. The American (and British and Canadians and others who kiss billionaire asses) do all the paying.That's why we can't pay or feed or house families who are living in the streets.

We are destroying ourselves and our children to enrich billionaires who give us nothing.

And as we get caught up in the killing, it gets worse, much worse, every year. And the destruction gets more vicious - as in the American enthusiasm for murdering and starving children in places like Yemen.

And that, in the not too distant future  will destroy all of us.

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What's the greatest danger the American military face? No it isn't death on the battlefield. That's only be 7 or 8 thousand. The real danger comes after the war. That's when over 30,000 American veterans commit suicide.

That is something that our news media should be reporting on. But, of course, it won't.

Has the Canadian Legion studied this in the Canadian armed forces? No. The Legion isn't big on thinking.

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There are many Palestinians who stayed in Israel when others fled to Palestine. Israel was never fond of them though their presence is quite legal. But all that is something you'll never find in most commercial newspapers.

Israel now is routinely arresting, torturing, and murdering the Jews who live in Israel - all of them. No reason is given. And the U.S. happily supplies Israel with the weapons it needs for this - and for it's happy attacks on all arabs in the region - including Palestine.

And that bears no resemblance to the principals of Judaism. Hitler failed to destroy Judaism. Now, the Jews of Israel are destroying what Hitler could not do.

They are destroying Judaism.

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Another story you're not likely to see in your local newspaper or on TV news is that the U.S. wants to put an Australian journalist of high reputation into solitaire for the rest of his life.

Well, in fact, the US and the British been making life hard for him. They've doing this for most of his life. His crime? He told the truth.

There was nothing illegal about that - except in the minds of British and American politicians. Nothing he ever said was illegal. No. It was embarassing for some British and American politicians.

I can't remember now how long ago this began. It must have been 30 or 40 years ago. He was exiled (and could not leave) another country. Then, for years, he was locked in an empty apartment in London - without visitors. And he's now in solitary in a notorious British prison.

Now the U.S. wants him for a  continuing life of solitary confinement. The experience for a long time has been one of mental torture for the sin of telling the truth for his newspaper. His condition now is of a mind destroyed - and very close to death.

Remember - he has never done anything wrong. He simply told the truth as a journalist. It was all legal. (I don't know of any newspaper in Canada or the U.S. that tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth.)

The U.S. wants him. It want's to abuse what's left of him. The American government does not like people who tell the truth.

Australia, his home, wants him too. The people of Australia want this lifetime of torture ended. But in order for Australia to get him, Australia will be required to keep him in the same horrible condition in solitary until he dies.

Enjoy your Globe and Mail, and Washington Post, and even the New York Times. They never offend people with power. They keep themselves and us in ignorance of the real news.

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Check out Information Clearing House on your computer. The first article you will see is headed by a picture of a starving child in Yemen. It's true of all the children in Yemen. American policy in war concentrates on starving children to death. This is happening all over the middle east in particular.

That might be why so many American soldiers commit suicide years after their wars.

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July 6 - and time to wake up,

 Oh, for a start, please go back to July 3. I added a larger piece to it - but did so after it was posted. The result is that nobody has read that part - and it's a dangerous one for us all. So please take a look at it.

Today's main post is an even more dangerous one for us - but not for the super rich.

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Take a look at a web site that has never made our news media. It's called Bunker Builders. It appeared on BBC several years ago. It's a site that lists all that our super rich will be doing to protect themselves.

(Actually, it's about something the super rich have been doing for many years. So check out the site called Bunker Builders. It's about how the super rich are spending billions on underground mansions as their defence against climate change and other disasters. And, no. They won't have any room for you.)

A modest bunker is deep, deep underground beyond fear of nuclear attack and beyond fear of climate change. Deep down is the  billionaire with family and staff at 75 or so (doctors, cooks, servants) and with a minimum food supply of at least 2 to 5 years.

Some of these  bunkers are much larger, and they are found in North America and Europe - perhaps in Mexico. And some are designed to last longer  than others.

The plan is that when climate change hits and kills most of us peasantry, the super rich will emerge - with troops - to take control.

This is real.

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On CBC news today prime minister Trudeau annnounced his dismay at the murder of the president of Haiti.   Yeah. He can get away with that because the Canadian news media never told the truth about Haiti.

Haiti is not a democracy. There was a very brief time when it was. But the U.S. destroyed that, and made Haiti a land ruled  by thugs and murderers. That's not unusual. American billionaires don't like dealing with honest governments. And many a country in Latin America   fits that American desire for dictatorships.

But the U.S. government didn't want to take the blame for destroying a democracy.

So - the U.S. instructed the Canadian government to send troops and police to enforce the dictatorship and kill anybody who objected to that.

The Canadian news media lied about all this. Worse, most of the Canadian news media ignored the whole story. The Canadian Legion, of course, wet it's pants with joy at kissing the American ass. And so it was that Canadian troops murdered democratic Haitians, and restored Haiti to government by   thugs and gangsters. .

 Since 1949, Canadian armies have fought only for the U.S. - which is the most murderous nation in the world today. 

We are supporters of the Naziis of our time. No. Worse. We are the Naziis of our time.

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I knew Pierre Trudeau. Our politics were different. But at least he was a man of principal. Not so his son, Justin.

This starts with the 500 people who died in the flames of B.C. And, some days later, at least 180 wildfires raging through that province. That's because oil generates poisonous chemicals that destroy huge regions. It's a profitable business. But one that is murderous. It's happening all over the world. It's  happening over most of the U.S. 

And it's going to come to you and to me. Canada was supposed to put controls on this - but that never happened. Canada's oil industry owns both the Liberals and Conservatives. Justin Trudeau confirmed this when he shook hands with the oil billionaires. Yes. The Liberals and Conservatives are both bought. And we are about to pay a horrible price for that.

No,  It's not just Trudeau. It's those millions who  vote Liberal or Conservative. Now, from Toronto to Newfoundland, a lot of people are going to die.   (Americans are already dying in the thousands.) Children are especially vulnerable - but a lot of us adults are going to die, too.  Heat death now is killing at a rate of 5 million a year around the world. And it's going to be more, much more.

And what will happen to the oil barons? They're the ones who have underground mansions prepared for them and their lackeys.

Canada, incidentally, has the worst record of climate control in the world's advanced nations. And that means it has no record at all. Canada has made no advance in this for the last 40 years. You like oil, gas and coal. Enjoy. 

Yes, climate change is with us. Yes, it may well destroy us all.

Oh, the    explosion of climate change in B.C. is probably what recently killed about 1 BILLION specimens of marine life on the BC coast.

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I have lots of other topics to cover. but I wanted to get this one off quickly.

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Damn-(the follow up to an earlier post.)

This is just a short entry because my computer, as always, is playing tricks on me. But I have something very unpleasant to say about the fires and loss of life of western Canada.

The oil companies are responsible for this disaster. They have ignored all the research of climate scientists. Instead, they have been responsible for at least 500 deaths with more to come. And with the help of Liberals, Conservatives, American GOPs and  Democrats, and our conventional news media are going to kill more. This is all going to spread over Canada and the U.S. indeed, all over the world.

The oil   companies are quite concious of what they are doing. They have known for decades that what poisons Canada is oil. They know that the gasses from oil float up then come down to create the poison we call climate change. Alas! They also know the Liberals and Conservatives will support them.

I remember that some decades ago our billionaires were building extremely expensive homes dug way down into the soil down south. Will they now go there to live in comfort while the rest of us die? (I haven't seen any mention of those homes lately. But I'm sure they still exist.)

Meanwhile, we are going to suffer the poisoning.

Forget the irrelevant dreareness of our commercial news media. Climate here has been building to the horror we have seen in BC and Alberta and much of the U.S.

And the oil companies are not going to change their murderous habits. And expect nothing from all those Conservatives and Liberals.

Climate change is very real and very horrible.

And yes. This is happening all over the world. Can we prevent it? I don't know. Perhaps. But the oil industry is not going to prevent anything. And our gutless Liberals and Conservatives won't lift a finger.

500 Canadians died in B.C. And before we wake up, thousands more will die - with as our news media tell us nothing.

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Americans seem to be proud of their armed forces. I don't know why. They are the most murderous bastards we have seen since Nazi Germany. They have been constantly at war since 1949.

Killing evil people?

No.

The dead are commonly civilians, especially children, as American heroes bomb, and starve them. This takes us all the way back through the horrors of Hitler and of the British Empire.

Expensive, too. The U.S. war machine is the most expensive one in the world.

This is the country that has millions in the street, but can't afford to give it's sick medical care.

It's also the country in which a tiny number of the wealthy pay little to no taxes - but who insist the average American must pay heavily to make up for the taxes the rich don't pay. Instead, the rich make themselves even richer sending American heroes to murder and starve children all over the world.

Why does the U.S. spend so much on the military? Because that's very profitable for rich manufacturers.

Seriously. American wars have become hugely popular with billionaire weapons manufacturers.

And, what the hell....if you're going to kill poverty stricken foreigners, you might as well murder starving Americans.

The U.S. super rich wants to rule the world. (And that's hardly a secret.) And so it is that we live under the horrors of America's oil wealthy, that's why Canada joins it's wars when it's American billionaire masters tell us to.

Oh, but don't tell this to the Canadian legion. It kisses American billionaires as it once committed itself to the British Empire.

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Catching up

 I have been suffering computer grief for some days now. So I'm hurrying now to deal with the crisis that our commercial news media have less interest in. This is short. But, oh, this is dangerous.

There is one hell of a dangerous situtation that is so far confined to western Canada.

But our commercial news media have, for the most part, touched lightly on it.   My Toronto paper (also sold here in Ottawa) didn't even bother with it. And P.M. Trudeau has shown little interest in it.

The centre of this story is a village in B.C. which has been suffering the worst of it.

Hundreds have died in B.C. And it's likely that a lot more will die. It's been hit by the worst heat wave ever known on this planet. And it's a huge disaster. So far, the heat has also burned the village as it's people fled. Just wait until it's your turn.

Scientists knew it was coming. They've known it and warned us for at least 20 years. The oil industry knew it was coming. And it didn't give a damn. It's come to other parts of the world, too. Among those other parts is the U.S.

They oil barons knew. And what the oil barons did was to make it worse in order to keep up their profits.

Will prime minister Trudeau take action?  Dream on.

The oil barons knew it was coming. The cause of it was the oil smoke of this earth which floats up to the clouds, then drifts down to poison our breathing. They know it.

And we all pay the price for their greed.

Understand this. The drifting down of oil smoke grows quickly and has the power to kill all life on this planet. And we've done nothing about that for years even though the oil bosses knew all about it.

You vote Liberal or Conservative? Then you're a damn fool. The whole world has been at war for all the years since 1949. And we're largely called on by the most vicious murderers of our time to fight the wars of the most murderous and greedy nation in the whole world - the U.S.

Unless we act, soon, we are heading into the final disaster.

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Israel is the homeland for Jews.

 ---- well not really.

My name is Decarie, a name that appeared in Quebec about 1650. Well, no, it actually came from France long before that.

Uh,  Okay. It's originally from Spain.

So do I have a right to move into Spain? Maybe to invade it?  Of course not.

But we daily hear that Israel is the homeland for Jews. The reality is that most Jews now living in Israel have been living in other countries for a thousand years and more. So let's stop babbling about  Jews having the right to occupy Israel. (And, incidentally, the small number of Jews who have been in Israel all their lives are not crazy about all those Jews who have poured in since the 1950s and later.)

That's because the European Jews who moved in on them have been arrogant and have made themselves feared and hated by the Muslims who have lived in Israel for more than a thousand years.

European Jews had no special right to move in after world war 2. It was simply a special device for the Christians of Europe and North American to get rid of them.

And since then, the European Israelis are hated for their denial of any rights to Palestinian Muslims, for military violence, for theft of Palestinian land, for the murder of Palestinians, and for helping the U.S. with it's killing in neighbouring states.

All of this is exactly what Judaism was not about. The sad reality is that Israel's Judaism is exactly what Judaism was never about. 

In that,  it reminds me of Christians who abandoned their past values way over a thousand years ago. Thus the murderous British Empire and now the American empire. And Israeli Jews and Christians remind me both of their indifference to what they started out to be. Both are remarkably similar to Naziism.

This happened when the whole world refused to accept Jews. So, for all practical purposes,  the Jews of Israel are not Jews at all. (Which makes them similar to Christians who have never really been Christian.)

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Remember how so many of our political leaders just knew climate change would never happen? In Alberta, the homeland of  "climate change  will never happen", it's happening, and with record temperatures.

And it's worse, much worse on the American west coast with climate change forcing people eastward. These are unheard of conditions, far past anything in history. And people have to go a long, long way eastward. The land is drying. Streams, lakes, water tables are disappearing in the worst conditions ever known.

Mexico is getting the experience. Brazil is a horror show,  made even worse by it's brutal and brainless destruction of forests.  Much of Africa is getting the same - and worse. China is seriously considering a reduction of population.

Indeed, our whole world needs a reduction of population. Our growth of population has us close to the destruction of wild life - which we need as part of our survival.

I'm not looking forward to this summer. And there are worse ones, much worse, to come.

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Trudeau has announced he is horrified by murders of aboriginal children by Catholic clergy and Catholic employees in schools designed to destroy their existence as our native people.

There are a great many of these schools across Canada...

......but Trudeau says he will not  carry out any government investigation of them and the certainty of many more such murders  that have been carried out across Canada. He's very religious, I guess.                                                                                                                                   

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As I write this, western Canada is suffering terrible heat - the greatest heat ever in Canada -  especially  for a town in BC that suffered 46.1 C,   115 F) .  But not to worry. I'm sure  that both our Liberals and Conservatives will protect our oil industry.

We told by our oil industry that everything was under control. In fact, our oil industry has swallowed huge columns  of chemicals from the skies to be spilled down to kill us.

Why would it do that? It would do that because there's money in it for the oil industry. The industry kills people all over the world to keep all that poison coming down on us.

Scientists like David Suzuki warned us. But we preferred  the promises of oil barons.

The question now is whether we can afford this poisoning which is happening all over the world. Our world has never before seen such poisoning at any point in history.

Will the oil industry change it's ways in time to save humanity? Almost certainly not. Our oil barons have been poisoning our earth for a good 120 years. Will the politicians step in to save us?

Get real. The Liberals, Conservatives, GOP, Democrats take a stand? Not likely. They never have. They're owned by the oil industry. The NDP almost certainly would take a stand. But Canadian voters don't seem to be a bright lot.  If they were, they wouldn't vote for Liberals or Conservatives in the first place. REALLY, THE LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES ARE OWNED BY THE OIL BILLIONAIRES.

Make no mistake. It was the Liberals and Conservatives that allowed this climate crisis to develop. AND IT'S GOING TO GET MUCH, MUCH WORSE.

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