One Hell of a Bad World

The big news of the day might appear in our commercial news media. But I doubt it. China has fired a super and ultra hypersonic speed missile capable of carrying nuclear bombs. It went all around the world and back to China. I doubt whether it has many. But it is capable of plunging any nuclear bomb onto --- us. Will the U.S. get the hint? (I doubt it. More likely, it will continue to attack China setting off the most destructive war in history. And the superich of the west? They will be off into their shelters with their servants and flunkies.) Even from it's earliest contact with native peoples, the US has been non-stop murderous with native peoples, with Mexicans, with Latin Americans, and now with dozens of countries our news media don't tell us about. And, despite it's free use of mass murder including babies, it's common and illegal use of torture, it's illegal use of bombing of countries it's not at war with, the plundering of it's own people - throwing millions into the streets, It's unmatched military spending while many, many (most) millions of Americans suffer starvation and lack of medical care.... this is actually worse than the British Empire was. In all of it's wars since 1949 and it's huge expenditure on war (the biggest in the world) the American military has not been impressive since 1949. (The American war machine also supplies, free of charge, nations all over the world - Israel, for example, so it can murder it's neighbours.) China is actually far, far more peaceful than the U.S. is. In fact, China's wish to add Taiwan to it is quite reasonable. Taiwan was a part of China until it was taken by our good friend Chiang Kai-Shek who used it as a base to control the sale of narcotics all over the region. At this point I remember Trudeau, a couple of years ago, I think, standing at the U.S. border and and assuring American politicians and oil bosses, Canada would welcome them to send pipelines to B.C. At the same time Canada's Liberals and Conservatives Assured the oil industry of Canada it was welcome. And do you know that Canadian oil production is fourth in the world at 5.26 million barrels a day? To make it worse, we are destroying our forests (especially in New Brunswick) which hugely adds to the carbon dioxide in our air. Will the Glasgow meeting on climate control change anything? No. Though our news media have not said so, that conference in Glasgow was a farce dominated the very large presence of trillionaires. (What the hell were trillionaires doing at such a meeting? The reality of our Conservatives, Liberals, and both U.S. parties is they were all fronting for the wealthy people who owned them.) This is a short blog because I've been plagued with the sicknesses all us old folks have.But I have lots more material. So I'll be getting back to the rest of us. And BC is a taste of what's coming to us.

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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. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Who am I?

I've been writing for this site for quite a while now. But readers still don't know who I am or what qualifications I have to write a column. so.... I was born at the height of the depression and grew up into one of the worst districts in the city. We were just a walk from the Italian Mafia area. Our next door neighbour was a small time mafia killer who was found one morning in a shallow lake with chains wrapped around him. The English population in that district was very, very small. And the French gangs would patrol the streets to kick us into the sidewalks. (boys fought. girls played. My sister was quite fluent in French by the age of six.) At the age of 9 I moved into a school notorious for overage and brutality. In grade 11 I was notorious for skipping school. They Principal called me down. Let's face it, he said, you have no brains at all. Pack up your books and get a job. So I got one in the horrible factory my father worked in. Well, where I lived it didn't matter. Almost all my friends dropped out even earlier. We weren't expected to have any brains. However, I finished high school in a special class for morons. And that got me into night courses in university where I did terribly but (barely) passed. My father was very upset that I was trying to rise above my station. Kids where I lived weren't supposed to rise. But my next step took me to a teaching diploma which was a happy choice. I learned how to teach , and I had three wonderful years as a grade four teacher, then three more as a high school teacher. Then there was that glorious summer in a Nova Scotia university (Acadia). I got an A. I went home and crushed my parents who felt I was rising above my station. My father, a very powerful man, tried to throw me down the stairs. But I went to Acadia for 2 years. That got me into a PhD programme at a prestigious school. And I passed. Dr. Graeme Decarie Ph.D. I wish I could say was was impressed by professors. I wasn't. They had a quite bloated image of how wonderful they were. And they really didn't know how to teach. They still don't. (I published an article on that which has never made me any friends.) But I liked the teaching part. I also was on radio ever morning. And I was on TV uncountable times acoss Canada. In a typical year, I also gave public talks to large audiences. My favourite audiences were Jewish. (Christians, I learned, were a pretty trivial bunch.) Oh, and I often wrote - but didn't like it. Our news media are liars that I preferred to have nothing to do with. Oh, I also had rather exciting times. My university often sent me to teach in universities in Hong Kong and the Netherlands. I was to boost students who would come to my university. loved it. Another oh, I was over twenty years as a senior executive in Alliance Quebec, an organization to save the English in Separatist Quebec. And that was over twenty years of death threats, extremely dangerous situations, an attack to plunder my home........

Bad, Bad Times

The American military, for all it's size and cost, has really not been impressive in it's wars since 1945 - even though all of them have been against vastly inferior opponents and it's use of torture. That was true from the start as it plunged into a wars against Korea, Bay of Pigs in Cuba, Afghanistan, and others. In fact, we have no idea how many wars it has been losing because our news hasn't been telling all of them. Now, the U.S. has by far the biggest and most expensive army in the world. And it's been losing to much smaller and poorer countries. It's too bad that the Canadian Legion hasn't noticed that before sending off Canadians to kill and die in wars that have nothing to do with them. But, then, the Legion has always been more than a little retarded. The U.S. has by far the biggest military financing in the world. It's military development has been lavish - so much so that it financially outclasses everybody.But it's performance has been in the toilet. Afghanistan, the part the U.S. fought in, was a very small power. And the U.S. couldn't handle that - not even when Canada joined it. (And that, incidentally, was with the full support of the Canadian Legion. Think about that before you send more Canadians to get killed in somebody else's wars.) The U.S. is now getting ready for a massive attack with nuclear missiles that would be likely to kill a billion and more Chinese, men, women and children who don't deserve to die. But the world of nuclear missiles has changed. Russia and China now have nuclear missiles - and it's one hell of a different world for us. Russia and China have developed missiles far exceeding the destructiveness of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nuclear missiles can now be fired at unbelievable speeds at least half way around the world to----us. As well, they can be and are fired from Russian and Chinese submarines. I am suddenly reminded of billionaires bragging of some years ago. They were building mansions underneath the desert sands. There, at any sign of danger, they would live in those monster mansions under the sand that they and their servants and flunkies, perhaps a hundred or so for each underground mansion. I know that 'mansions' were built. And in a world of nuclear missiles your only hope might be to kiss up as a servant - if you can find an underground mansion. We live in one hell of an ugly world with every possibility and likelihood of our destruction. Ever notice how few of our billionaires ever enter military service? As I flicked through my computer I came across a picture of a Ukrainian soldier. (Ukraine was neatly taken from Russia by American intrusion.) The soldier had a symbol which is worn, I guess, by all of them. It was a swastika.And he's on our side. Whoopee!

Who Started World War Two?

Well, check the web. It will say it was Hitler. But it wasn't. At the Versailles peace meeing in 1919, it was decided there would be no penalties for World War One since all were guilty of that war. But the British feared an economic rise of Germany. So the British, quite illegally, invaded Germany shortly after the war and destroyed the German economy, reducing it to a nation of unmatched poverty. Well, Britain for centuries had murdered and plundered all over the world for centuries. And it was far from democracy. The British common people of the time lived in horrible poverty with no hope of ever getting out of it. British life was ruled by an aristocracy who didn't give a damn for the common people. Commonly, they had almost no chance for opportunity of any sort. No. They lived in filth and ignorance. Almost the only employment was to join the army, and murder Chinese and Indian peoples. The very rich were the senior services of the army. The regulars? They served and killed for pennies a day. And when they were no longer useful, they were dumped onto the streets of Britain and, there, commonly, to die. Of course, that never made our lying news media. They were owned by the super rich. One of the leading murderers of the common people was a member of the aristocracy named Winston Churchill. When I was a teenager, like most people, I was dazzled by him. I didn't know what a murderous bastard he was throughout his life. In addition to killing innocent people all over the world, (especially India where he cut off all food to many millions of people, deliberately starving them to death), he was, contrary to popular belief, a not very effective PM in WW2.) The British people knew he was, all his life, a murderous bastard in his attitude to the poor. That's why they voted him out shortly before the war ended. A great man? No. Winston Churchill was a very wealthy member of the aristocracy with nothing by contempt for the English majority. Much as the rich praised him, he was a contemptible man. But back to the British destruction of the German economy in 1919. That destruction is what caused World War Two. A man who watched it was a German veteran named Adolph Hitler. He desperately wanted to be a national leader. But few had any interest in him. However, that British invasion of Germany and destruction of it's economy is what pulled Germany together behind Hitler. So what caused Hitler's rise? It was the British government. That's who. (And, yes, Hitler was terribly destructive. But the British, with their mass murder especially in Asia, were actually worse.) And that takes us to the U.S. The idea that the U.S. brought democracy to the world and God bless and all that stuff is pure bullshit. The U.S. began life as a branch office of Britain. And George Washington preserved that. There was no democracy in the early U.S. - and there still isn't. (Alas! Most Canadians and Americans have not the faintest idea what democracy means. _ I'm quite serious. The earliest Europeans to land on American shores were British. And they have remained British to this day. That is, they a ruled by the murderous power they had known in Britain. George Washington's family was, in Britain, a family of the aristocracy. The British family was in decline, but George Washington was as British as they came. So forget the crap about God blessing America. Forget democracy in America. Most people, American and Canadian, to this day have not the faintest idea was the word democracy means.Forget equality. The U.S. was never one of those. (And we have no reason, none whatever, to think that God blesses the U.S. or Canada.) The U.S., just like Britain, has been as murderous as the British was. On a rough count, the U.S. has been a killer for, roughly, nine years out of ten. throughout it's history. It murdered the native peoples even more than Canada did - and Canada was pretty evil in that category. Washington's U.S. was a repeat of the British slaughter of people all over the world. Almost all of Latin America has been victim to that. It got into world War 2 to swipe as much as possible of the old British empire. In particular, it wanted to swipe British territories in China - which is why it encouraged Chiang Kai Shek's massive opium trade. It also used the war to swipe British trade in the oil countries of the middle east. That's why, to this day, it refuses to deal with the American billionaires who are spreading carbon dioxcide in our skies. (And that's why the not very intelligent premier Trudeau is encouraging the oil industry in Canada. (Trudeau is pretty weak and not very bright. Conservative leaders in Canada are even more retarded. And alas, Canadian voters. for the most part and like Americans, have no idea what the meaning of democracy is.} In the early 1950's the U.S. added torture to its menu. (That's illegal, by the way, but that's what Guantanamo is all about - and other sites all over the world. Among other joys, prisoners can be soaked in cold water for a week and more with no food - and kept alive for all that time. Then it gets worse. It also has a domestic murder gang called the CIA that tortures and murders citizens and other the U.S called the CIA. They have attempted to murdered Australia's Julian Assange, a thoroughly honest - and quite brilliant reporter they want to kill because he's honest. Britain has been holding him in solitary for years without trial or charges. Now the U.S. wants him so it can finish killing him. (without trial.) Neither Britain nor the U.S. will ever set him free. Don't waste your time checking all this in the news. I was daily on the radio news and often paper news media for 30 years. I know how cowardly our news media are. And I know that most (all) of our news media are owned by liars for the very rich. That was always true for print, from it's earliest days in the late 19th century through the years of radio and TV. All are owned by billionaires. And they have, long ago, refused to hire intelligent reporters. The one medium I know that is far, far better than the rest is CBC. And it has an excellent spinoff on the web with a site called Rabble.ca which is staffed by intelligent and honest people. There is more, far more to say about all this. You might start out with learning what democracy means and why torture is evil. Meanwhile, Canada spent 12 years murdering Afghans. The Americans were mass murdering children, babies, civilians in general. They were torturing. It is not possible to believe that the Canadian troops along with the Americans didn't do the same. Any thoughts on that - Canadian Legion? No. Thinking is not a strong point of the Canadian Legion. And what the hell gives it the right to approve or disapprove of Canadian wars?

Betcha didn't know the American government can imprison people with no charge and no trial.

This may be a brief post. My computer has gone quite insane - and I don't know which repair shop I should go to. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We don't hear about it, but world governments have been subsidizing coal, oil, and gas - the enemies that will destroy our planet - to the tune of a million dollars every minute. And Canada is a world leader at 64 billion a year plus hidden tax breaks. Bless you, all those thoughtful Canadian Liberals, especially Trudeau, and all those dim wit Conservatives. The reality is those two parties dominate because our billionaires own them. No. Canada and the U.S. are not democracies. No country can be a democracy when it is owned by it's capitalists. The Liberals and Conservatives (and Democrats and GOP) are owned by our billionaires. They, not the voters, get to decide who will govern. And the result in every election in history is that those parties get to govern. We live in one hell of a undemocratic country. But it used to be worse. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ At one time, Canadian hospitals were capitalist operations, like the U.S. And, like the U.S., they charged clients terribly. Today, and unlike the U.S., our hospitals are available to all who need their care. And that change had nothing to do with Liberals or Conservatives. That was pushed through in the 1950s by the socialist CCF party. Ever since then our capitalists have been looking for ways to bleed us. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ And gee, who woulda guessed it? Climate change is not a recent development. No. There was a conference of oil companies who knew exactly what was coming - and this conference of Exon, BP, Chevron, Shell and others kept their secret, leaving us in ignorance of what they were doing in poisoning our skies, our environment.... ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ One day I was on morning radio in a discussion when we were stunned by the news that a U.S. sky scraper had been crashed into by a passenger jet plane full of innocent passengers. Then there was a second, then another in a field, and another into the Pentagon. We could only stare in horror, and in fear of where this would take us. The U.S government led by the dimwitted president Bush, immediately said the villain was Afghanistan- and he declared war on it. In fact..... Afghanistan had nothing to do with it (but the U.S. did have an interest in Afghanistan's mineral resources.) However.... The attackers on that terrible day were NOT Afghans. They were from that good friend of the U.S. Saudi Arabia. But the U.S. has never said that. (So much for the honesty of the New York Times, The Toronto papers, the Montreal papers, in fact, so much for the whole U.S. and Canadian news media.) In fairness, the experience of that war gave a boost to all those brave American soldiers (and Canadians?) who murdered uncounted thousands (or more) of Afghan adults, children and babies. Gee. The Canadian Legion, as I recall it, approved of the war against Afghanistan. Any thoughts on that from the Canadian Legion? No. The Legion isn't big on thinking. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ For twenty years, the democracy loving U.S. has asserted it's right to imprison people - with no charge and no trial. And it does so - often. God bless America. At this point it needs all the blessing it can get.(So does Canada.) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Now, you may not hear from me for some days. My computer is behaving very, very badly. And I really don't know how to deal with this.

The Bad News About the world's most evil nation (just south of our border) and our wimpyness

This is just a short note because I'm having big problems with my computer, and I have to find one hell of a good repair man. Just a reminder of how evil our world has become. I live in Ottawa, and in this cold night there are parents and children sleeping out in the streets. We're not as bad as the U.S. yet. But that's what they're heading for. What the hell are we thinking of? Like the U.S. we squander money on billionaires who are the savages that marked our world for centuries. By savages, I don't mean our native peoples. In fact, our native peoples are not and never were savages. We are the savages who killed them. The U.S. is even worse, of course - but we're catching up. I don't know how bad it is for those families. And the children have no chance at all. I was a child in the depression years. I know what it means to grow up in terrible poverty - though it was nothing remotely as bad as our medieval treatment. I do remember, though, that I often had no lunch and I got kicked out of high school. Nobody expected me to do better. Nobody cared. My parents expected me to get kicked out like the rest of my friends. So I became an unskilled worker in a very low paying job - and in a filthy factory where almost all the workers were drunk most of the time. My parents were very proud of me. It took me years to get over that. It was a miracle I survived that. Now, Canada and the U.S. have millions of children in the U.S. and Canada who are living childhood far worse than mine. They're dying of hunger, of shelter, while we shovel billions and trillions down the guts of billionaires. We have moved back to the middle ages. Yes. I say that very seriously. We have no agency to deal with that. And meanwhile we have institutions that should be charging to the help of those people. But they aren't doing anything. Our churches really have done --- nothing. And they've done nothing for centuries. It makes me feel ill to see how useless they have been. We all have taken a huge leap back into a horrible world. And I very much fear it's going to be worse. The U.S., which, for centuries, has been the most murderous in the world has become, for the last 70 years, the most vicious and least effective of the major powers. Yes. It's a real loser. So that is setting us up for a nuclear war with more murder than any war in the past. We could be talking trillions of dollars destruction of China which, incidentally, is far, far less a murderer than the U.S. is. Oh, and lots of countries will take advantage of this as an excuse for their wars. And Canada is copying the U.S. war model. The Legion is the face of the new Canadian worship of our troops who, like the U.S., now kill children, civilians.... I really don't understand why The Legion exists. It's really nothing more than a booze parlour. And it happily sends us to wars that have nothing to do with us. (Think of all the wars cheered on by the Legion since 1949.) I have never heard anything intelligent from the legion. But it's members all burp for a war - any war. (My father was in the navy in WW2. So he went to a legion meeting. It was just a drunken party,so he left early and never went back. Why do our newspapers always promote the opinions of The Legion?) We are being set up for the most terrible war has ever seen. And, given the greed (and wimpiness) of our political leaders and of the Canadian people, Canada will join it. Oh. Another annoyance is our news media. Every day, I study the state of the world. And I never use any media accounts. I was over thirty years as a broadcaster and writer. And I can tell you our news media lie. I know of only two exceptions to that. One (mostly) is The Manchester Guardian. The other (not perfect but honest) is Canada's CBC. All the others are liars. Today, an honest and very capable journalist named Julian Assange has been in a British prison in solitary for some years. There is no charge. No trial. But the U.S. wants him, also with no charge. If the U.S. gets him, he will almost certainly be killed. In fact, it's long been known that the CIA, with the blessing of the American government, wants him dead. His sin? As a journalist he always told the truth and telling the truth is now a crime. But you can use our news media and never know that. (In fact, at the end of WW2, the U.S. happily took in the Naziis who had been Hitlers leading figures, and brought them into American political life.) Well, I now have to see if I can get this computer repaired. Graeme Decarie. The most murderous nation in the world is the U.S - by far. It has been for centuries. It's also a nation that happily murders it's own people.