Sunday, August 9, 2020

August 8: Our very dangerous tomorrows

Sorry. My computer crashed in a big (and expensive) way for the past week.

I must also warn you that much of today's news is profoundly depressing. 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/canadian-ice-shelf-area-bigger-than-manhattan-collapses-due-to-rising-temperatures

Not to worry. If this were really happening, the premiers of Alberta and Ontario would have told us. Oh, and New Brunswick too. (New Brunswick's Irving family has a big stake in oil. But, luckily, New Brunswickers are spared reality  since the province's government and newspapers are stage puppets for the Irvings.)

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https://profile.theguardian.com/signin?returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2020%2Faug%2F07%2Fharry-truman-and-the-nuclear-bombs-dropped-on-hiroshima-and-nagasaki&skipConfirmation=false

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/08/india-prime-minister-narendra-modi-plans-to-fell-ancient-forest-to-create-40-new-coal-fields

Covid is a temporary problem. A far, far bigger one is the destruction of our atmosphere, the rise of our oceans, the destruction of our farm lands- all topped off by the unlimited greed of our super rich. Funny how most of that hardly makes the news at all.______________________________________________________________

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/07/fair-wayne-bryant-louisiana-chief-justice-bernette-johnson-dissent

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-canada-schools-1.5679090

This is an important message for Canada and the U.S.

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And here's a man of outstanding courage.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/17718185639

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/melted-ice-caps-collapsed-milne-shelf-nunavut-canada-arctic-1.5678802

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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/08/alberta-ucps-k-12-curriculum-news-conference-turns-bizarre

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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/08/what-you-should-know-about-workplace-harassment

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https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/needs-no-introduction/2020/08/unpacking-anti-asian-racism-through-intersectional-lens

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https://rabble.ca/columnists/2020/08/medicare-all-prescription-against-deadly-covid-capitalism

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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/08/good-union-jobs-green-jobs-ucp-supporters-need-not-panic-theyre

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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/08/nuclear-disarmament-remains-imperative-75-years-after

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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/08/four-day-work-week-can-spur-necessary-transformation

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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/08/alberta-education-minister-changes-tune-masks-when-schools

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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-fake-national-threat-may-be-trumps-only-hope-of-winning

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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/05/atomic-bombings-at-75-from-hiroshima-to-collateral-murder/

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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/07/covid-19-the-free-market-wolves-of-the-pandemic/

No, Canada and the U.S. are not better than other nations in this respect. We face quite a number of threats - And all of them are sustained by "the free market wolves".

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This next is a bit of a long read - but well worth it.

https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/06/atomic-bombings-at-75-hiroshima-and-the-backlash-against-historical-truth/

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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/08/05/atomic-bombings-at-75-from-hiroshima-to-collateral-murder/

You're not likely to find this story in your local newspaper.

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Read all of this one to get a sense of the very dangerous path Tump is following.

American democracy - never very democratic - could suffer a death blow on this one.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/07/friday-night-massacre-us-postal-service-postmaster-general-major-trump-donor-ousts

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/america-had-first-contemplated-nuclear-war-against-china-and-north-korea-in-1950/5613455

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/power-elite-always-run-amerika/5720179

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55436.htm

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55429.htm

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55434.htm

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55432.htm

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42537.htm

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55419.htm

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/08/07/news/toronto-public-health-issues-warning-over-back-school-class-sizes

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/08/06/news/i-feel-im-getting-sent-back-die-student-says-ndp-calls-doug-ford-scrap-back-school

Doug Ford appears several times a day every day with a background of two flags, and two flunkies. And so he tells us about the wonderful things he's doing. 

Alas!

Ford has a long record of being a flunky for the very rich, and a long record of serving those rich who don't give a damn about the environmental crisis or the destruction of nature in this province.

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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/08/05/news/thousands-tenants-risk-court-rejects-interim-stay-ontario-evictions

Like - who gives a damn? Go to UTube. Take a look at all the families on skid row in Los Angeles. Some are living in tents on the sidewalks. Others, including children, just lie in the open on the sidewalks.

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https://truthout.org/articles/if-the-fed-can-bail-out-wall-street-it-can-rescue-public-education/

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As far back as we know, homo sapiens has been creature marked by it's obsession with power over other creatures of it's own kind. Yes, you will find other creatures with such a characteristic - but in nothing like the obsession of homo sapiens. Male lions might have moments of power in, for example, who gets first choice on the meat of a kill. But other creatures do not have any power resembling the power of leadership and dominance that humans have over their own kind.

The earliest human rulers that we know of lived in the obedience of the large numbers of their kind that they ruled over. That is a marked characteristic of every human society we know of. The upper classes of Rome lived on the plundering of most Romans as much as on the plundering of their conquests. The British Empire was, like the American one is,  controlled by a tiny group of the upper classes who used the lower classes to murder and plunder all over the world.

(Notably, women are rare, very rare, in this chain command.)

Usually, this power of homo sapiens, is restricted to males for reasons that are not clear. Greater intelligence is not usually a characteristic of these ruling males. Look at Donald Trump and, probably, most American presidents, at George Biden, a high proportion of the kings of England, many of the emperors of China....

The poor are poor not because they are stupid but because their environment from childhood encourages them to have a low opinion of themselves. And the very rich are rich because their environment from childhood encourages them to have a high opinion of themselves - and to have the privileges and connections to make themselves rich.

And now the super rich have the ultimate power to turn loose the most destructive  weapons in history.

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Saturday, August 1, 2020

August 1: Let's Get Real

This blog may be shorter than unusual. My computer has been under treatment in the computer hospital.
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Cheer up. You might die in  nuclear war. But all those super rich that we all love will be safe. There are safe havens for them being set up on tropical islands. As well, there is the development below.....

rhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/01/3m-price-tag-inside-luxury-doomsday-bunker

Of course, this will also help some of us peasants - but not many. There will be a need for servants, cooks, doctors, etc. This is real. The super rich (including oil bosses) are using some of the money that they're allowed keep without paying any taxes to create shelters while the rest of us............
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The 'peackeepiing police and military pull out of Portland - and peace returns on the city streets.
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Hey. No problem. These people just need to move into those five story luxury bomb shelters that the super rich are building.
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Americans badly need a party to serve in the real needs of the U.S. Alas, both Democrats and Republicans are owned by the super wealthy. And America's crash into poverty is no adequate help for a Sanders revolt.
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What gives the U.S. the right to tell Venezuela who it has the right to trade with? The reality is that the evil force in this tragedy is the U.S. It is impoverishing and starving the people of Venezuela - and it is doing it purely to get American billionaire control over Venezuelan oil.

Indeed the U.S. has been illegally plundering (and murdering) in Latin America for 190 years.
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This is going to get worse - much,  much worse. But the super rich who own the American government will still refuse to pay income taxes or even to report their real wealth. And, even as millions starve, the wealthy will still demand and get billions of dollars in government handouts.
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The people of Ontario daily see Premier Doug Ford looking solemn on TV with a row of Ontario flags behind him and a couple of flunkies who try to look as solemn as he does. Frankly, rather than watch this farce on TV, I would prefer to see him doing something useful.

Alas! This is the man who has done nothing helpful for anybody except for the super rich that  he's a puppet for. Until recently, he was busy destroying environmental protections that the super rich didn't like. Now, the major effort is his daily bout looking solemn in his face and unattractively overweight.
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Perhaps we should expect what it happening. Homo Sapiens are I think, the only animals who routinely plunder and murder their own kind. That's why, if you look back at history, you see a constant pattern
of a tiny number of homo sapiens setting themselves up in power as emperors, Kings, as capitalists,
to  plunder all the others. And there has been no change in this, probably for uncountable thousands of years. Other animals kill to eat - and sometimes kill out of a fit of anger. But Homo Sapiens kill for pure greed. Almost all the history of human warfare, right up to us and right up to today is about the horror we inflict on others of our type. That is why we are fighting wars today. And we are terribly close to destroying ourselves.

Even the multi billionaires who control most of the world's oil realize that - which is why they are building the secret retreats made necessary by the horror they are inflicting on all the rest of us.
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This has been a terribly hurried blog today. Sorry. And I hope my computer is now over it's ills.


























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Friday, July 31, 2020


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Thursday, July 30, 2020

July 30: Oh, if only we had done what we said we would do in 1945.....

...but we were sold out by politicians - Liberal, Conservative, Democrat , Republican - who were, themselves, sold out to the super rich.
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My computer is acting very odd today. The blog that I sent two days ago never made it until today.  (It appears below this one.) Apparently, our computer providers are making major changes in our blogs. It took me two hours today just to get started. So this may be a shorter blog than usual.
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https://www.theguardian.com//2020/jul/30/climate-denier-shill-global-debate
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Nah. This has nothing to do with climate change.Ask anybody in the oil industry. They'll tell you.
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Whoa! What right does Trump have to tell other countries who they're allowed to deal with? And
what kinds of wimps are Canadians to do whatever the U.S. tells us to do?
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I have every respect for the people of Hong Kong - so much so that I considered living there when I retired. But let's get real. We cannot help Hong Kong by swearing at China. And a war with China would alsmost certainly lead to the complete destruction of Hong Kong. Their is no solution to this in threats and wars.

China has suffered dreadfully from almost two centuries of murder and plunder by Britain (with American and German help) while the French capitalists inflicted their horrors on French Indo-China (Vietnam). The only solution to this is a peaceful one. Peace is what we should have tried in 1945. But we didn't try it because the West supported Chiang Kai Sheck for his massive support of the drug trade  - a support that made huge profits for western capitalists who supplied the drugs.

China does not trust the west. It has every reason not to trust a west dominated by a super-rich who have, for centuries murdered, humiliated, plaundered and generally abused it. It's time to put a lid on our super rich,  and open the way to a peaceful solution that would benefit both China and the rest of us.

The alternative? The destruction of Hong Kong and, quite possibly, of most of the rest of us.
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Yes, this is terrible. Odd, though, that we don't get news about American prisons all over the world - like Guantanmo - where prisoners are torturred to death.
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Brilliant! Just in time for the second wave of illness.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-canadian-energy-centre-war-room-fiasco-1.566592_________________________________________________________________________
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Much of the world is plagued with so much control of its natives by the super wealthy. They - and not the people we voted for - are the ones that run our nations and our lives. And they are the ones who do it entirely to further their riches. Human greed by a small number is what causes our wars. And human greed is what will end us.
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In the minds and the greed of capitalists all public services whould be operated by capitalists for their profit. So it is that most Americans cannot afford medical care. The next target, probably, is the postal system.

Forget Russia and China, the real evemy for most of the west is capitalism. It's capitalism that has murdered all the Latin Americans that our (capitalist) news media don't tell us about. And they've been doing it for well over a century.

Both world wars - and most of the western countries involved - were fought for the benefit of major
capitalists.

By the way, ever notice that the Nurenburg trials of Nazi war criminals did not include all those German capitalsts who used Jews as free labour until it was time to kill them? Nor did they try the many American capitalists (like Henry Ford who enthusiastically supported the holocaust of Jews,. and like the American Rockefeller (who supplied almost all the gas and oil used by Hitler.)

Much of the west's capitalist support for Hitler existed even before the war - and AFTER Hitler had begun his holocaust of Jews. We knew about all of this before the war started. And we didn't care.
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Americans and Canadians should pay close attention to this message from Australia.
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This is really an appeal for funding. But it tells us about something we should watch for.

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An analysis that you won't see in any North American commercial new medium.

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The American Empire is ending. The U.S. itself is quite likely ending. The peace we should have designed in 1945 never happened. Can we still find it?

American capitalism, like most other capitalisms, doesn't want a world peace. Capitalism bloats itself on wars. British capitalism led the way, killing over 400 million people in wars that had nothing to do with protecting the British people. Indeed, the ordinary British people were as abused and plundered as were all the other victims of the British Empire.

American leaders, from the start, were as bloody-minded as the British. Indeed, the U.S. was the natural child of British capitalism even after capitalism formally began.Today, it's capitalism has thrown the American people - and everybody else - into the final conflict. The good news is that capitalism is collapsing. The bad news is that we have not prepared ourselves tor a better world, and so we face only a chaotic one.
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July 28: And it goes on....

  For reasons best known to itself, my computer did not send out the following blog on July 28 - though I ordered it to do so. But computers follow their own convictions. So I add this now, on July 30.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/global-climate-fight-could-be-lost-trump-re-elected

Yes. Climate change is real No. We don't have much time to deal with it. No, the Donald Trumps and Doug Fords and most of the province of Alberta refuse to deal with it. And Canada\s Liberals and U.S. Democrats sit around with their faces hanging out.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/fossil-fuels-oil-gas-industry-police-foundations
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/28/pandemic-era-rainforest-deforestation-exploitation-wildlife-disease
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/28/china-halts-hong-kong-extradition-treaties-with-canada-australia-uk

Yes. China is wrong in it's behaviour. No, western threats are going to be of no use. China has had well over two centuries of western killing and plundering.It's not going to accept more of it. Worse,
this puts us on the path to the most horrible war in history, horrible in the weaponry, horrible in the loss of life. And it's not likely the U.S. - or anybody else - would win anything by it.

(And for war cheerleaders, I point out that the U.S. has been almost constantly at war - and mass murder - and plunder - going back to when the pilgrims landed.)

In 1945, we had the chance to establish a world wihout war. We didn't do it. Instead, the west plunged into war in China by supporting the corrupt and murderous and champion drug dealer Chiang Kai-Shek.

Sorry. I'm sure war is glorious. But this planet can't afford it any more. As well, we have staggering problems to deal with in world starvation and disease and climate change that is very close to destroying us all.

We need to create the peace we didn't create in 1945. Yes. It will be difficult. and we probably have very little time to do it. (If you have any alternative to this, I would be delighted to hear about it).
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/28/us-racial-injustices-will-worsen-climate-crisis-escalate

Yes. Don't tell the premier of Ontario or any Conservative or Liberal in Canada, but climate change is happening -and quickly.
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https://rabble.ca/news/2020/07/if-trudeau-led-coalition-government-hed-be-stronger-position-now
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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/alberta-diary/2020/07/canada-keep-your-eye-alberta-it-wont-be-pretty-it-should-be
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/fascist-tactics-trump-wisconsin/
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-only-trump-administration-is-hot-for-a-cold-war-with-china
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/27/killing-democracy-in-america/

As Americans point their collective finger at the evils of this world, they forget to point at the greatest evil of them all ---the U.S.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/27/the-narrative-is-crumbling/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/28/the-united-states-faces-irreparable-damage-in-a-cold-or-hot-conventional-war-with-china-and-its-allies/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/27/boogaloo-movement-usa-far-right-is-growing-thanks-to-donald-trump/
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/majority-americans-back-black-lives-matter-protests-and-think-demonstrations-will

Canada has a Black population, too. And it, too, had been terribly abused for centuries. But I don't see much action in Canada to deal with this.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/climatologist-michael-mann-2020-atlantic-hurricane-season-hate-say-we-told-you-so
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/f-35s-dont-help-families-pay-their-bills-gop-under-fire-slipping-30-billion-pentagon

As millions of Americans live on the streets, and go hungry and hopeless, the U.S. government is making sure billionaires continue to make profits. The Pentagon exists to make the super rich richer.
It's needed for defence? Get real. With the exception of Pearl Harbour, the U.S. hasn't been attacked since the British army attacked Washington - and even that was in war started by the U.S.

American treatment of it's poor has ALWAYS been savage.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/history-will-not-judge-kindly-dnc-platform-committee-votes-down-medicare-all

The U.S. - a nation that lavishes billions on the very, very rich - but won't feed hungry children or offer medical care to the ill - except at an impossible price for most Americans.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/28/history-will-not-judge-kindly-dnc-platform-committee-votes-down-medicare-all
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The greed of the super rich in the U.S., Canada and other western countries is the death toll for millions of us and - in the long run - for the super rich.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/28/not-heals-act-heels-act-gop-covid-19-plan-puts-corporate-greed-human-need

We (and they) are being destroyed by our super wealthy. They are the ones who refuse to pay taxes - leaving millions to live in filth and misery. They are the ones who bankroll our Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans and Conservatives. And this has been the pattern for nations and empires for thousands of years.
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/28/us-occupation-haiti

Note - Canadian military and police played a prominent role in the destruction of democacy in Haiti. We did it to  kiss the asses of American billionaires. And this raises a question. The Canadian Legion has shown no interest in. It sees all wars Canadians take part in as glorious.

In fact, Canada has routinely sent troops to kill at the wish of billionaires. If The Canadian Legion is to support our military - and so it should - when is going to stop the cheerleading for Canadians killing and being killed in wars that are simply wrong. (Think Boer War, Korea, bombing of Libya, killing of Afghans, training killers in Syria, destroying democracy in Haiti--- What the hell does all of that do to defend Canada? The Legion should be there to help the soldiers, not to be cheer leading killers for billionaires.

Sometimes what we do is wrong. And when the Legion becomes a cheerleader for the sort of thing, it isn't protecting our soldiers. It's sending them to kill and maybe die to please the most greedy people in our world.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/india-caught-between-us-and-china-russia-duel
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/system-change-a-basic-primer-to-the-solidarity-economy/
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/07/24/How-Canada-Oilsands-City-Supports-Indigenous-Food-Sovereignty/
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/07/21/Did-Suncor-See-Climate-Crisis-Coming/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/climate-change-mind-blowing-warnings-arctic-antarctica/5719671

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https://www.globalresearch.ca/colonial-drug-trafficking-and-the-british-empire/5716926

We forget this. China doesn't.
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/gop-stimulus-scheme-generously-fund-privileged-americans-crumbs-workers/5719556
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55400.htm
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/28/features/torontos-catholic-schools-struggle-racism-students-colour-say
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https://thesaker.is/how-nazism-came-to-dominate-both-of-americas-political-parties/
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I don't fully agree with this next item on the history of religion in the U.S. But there's no doubt that the U.S. has always had a passion for Christian excuses for it's very unChristian action.


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Forgive me. I could not  resist this story.

In 2016, construction workers in California called police to tell them they saw a homeless man breaking into a house. The police replied with---

Fifty-five vehicles
Two helicopters
Two ambulances
A fire truck
A crisis negotiation team in a motor home
A SWAT team
A backup SWAT team
A robot

The police then.....
Broke six windows
Ripped out the front door and and interior door
Pulled an office wall off the foundation
Used a flash bomb in the office
Ripped off the door to the laundry room
Tear gassed the laundry room
Tear gassed the kitchen
Tear gassed the master bathroom
Teargassed the kitchen
Teargassed the office bathroom
Teargassed the guest bedroom
Teargassed the sewing room
Destroyed more that ninety feet of fencing with a SWAT  vehicle
Shattered a sliding glass door for robot entry

The homeless man did the following:
Broke a window
Stole milk, ate an ice cream bar, and half a tomato
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Saturday, July 25, 2020

July 25: A very depressing blog.....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/trump-federal-agents-portland-ploy-election
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/houston-consulate-jeers-for-china-as-us-officials-shut-mission

Western threats and bravado might seem like "making America great again"; but it won't make anybody great. A war with China would be a no-winner.Even a conventional war (a war without nuclear weapons) Would mean the greatest death toll in a war ever. A war just between the U.S. and China? Get real. This is the "America great" that hasn't been able in 20 years to defeat just a faction in Afghanistan.

In any case, it would soon turn into a nuclear war with the massive nuclear stockpiles of the U.S., Russia, India, Pakistan and the lesser ones of Britain, Israel, China raining down in their thousands.
Hmanity can no longer afford to fight wars.

We have to deal with China as we should have done in 1945. Instead, and to satisfy the greed of western big business, we went to war with China, and getting beaten, in Korea.

We humans are the only creatures on this earth who fight wars against each other. Other animals kill to get food (and we too do that), But they don't go on to fight organized wars against each other. And almost all of out wars in history have a common pattern. They were fought to satisfy the greed of the wealthy. Yes, that' even was what World War 2 was about. These have been the real cause of our wars for thousands of years.

Now, we have to break that pattern - before it breaks us.

Oh - and forgot all this crap about communism being evil. (I don't know whether it's evil or not.)
But let's get real. Capitalism is certainly evil. Hitler's Germany was capitalist. The American murder and plundering in Latin America is capitalist. All the horror of life and wars in the middle east are caused by capitalism. Millions in capitalist countries have to live on the streets. That includes children  Almost all wars are wars of capitalism.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grenier-covid-minority-election-1.5662235
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-covid-19-coronavirus-schools-reopen-1.5661252

Canadian universities are ahead of the game - in a way.

They are letting students stay at home, and communicate by computer. But they need one more touch.
They should assign books for the students to read.

No. it's not a great way to learn. But I still remember many of my own classes. We had teachers who talked at us about what we had to memorize for exams. It was a nuisance to travel all the way to school every day, and hustle into a class of hundreds and make notes as we listened to professors,  many of whom could not speak intelligibly about topics we would, for the most part, forget as soon as the exams were over,

Now, they can simply assign books which cover the same ground as the lectures - but more clearly and without the vagries of professors whose time is used up with um, ah, uh, and personal stories about their own genius. Reading could,  in fact, be more effective than listening to profs.

I remember nothing much from my university courses, all nine years of them, so nothing would have been lost by reading a book instead of listening to a prof.

Of course, it would be even better if university profs learned how to teach. But that's not ever going to happen.
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https://rabble.ca/news/2020/07/are-liberals-shopping-new-leader

Karl Nerenburg was THE outstanding journalist for the CBC in parliament. And he's still the best at rabble.ca.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/operation-relentless-pursuit/
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/24/israel-demolishes-covid-19-clinic-in-epicenter-of-west-bank-outbreak/
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https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-only-trump-administration-is-hot-for-a-cold-war-with-china
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/24/37-senate-dems-join-gop-to-approve-740-billion-war-budget/

Millions of Americans live in squalor - and even in the streets. Millions of American children live (barely) in hunger. But, oh, the U.S. needs billions for its war budget. Why? Well, largely, it's because the super rich make piles of money out of the war budget. and the super rich own American governments. Yes, the U.S. starves the growing ranks of the poor, and sends billions of dollars to the super rich. (We can see the same thing in much of Canada - as in Alberta and Ontario.)
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/23/canadas-support-trump-administrations-venezuela-policy
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/thawing-arctic-permafrost/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-fighter-jets-in-near-miss-against-iran-passenger-plane-in-syrian-airspace/5719398
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55391.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55387.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55392.htm

You think you're a pessimist? I could wish I hadn't read this one.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55394.ht

Nearly all commercial news media in Canada and the U.S. lie.
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https://truthout.org/articles/the-ugly-terror-of-a-fascist-abyss-lurks-in-the-background-of-this-pandemic/

Alas! The Democrats are not different.
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https://truthout.org/audio/the-decades-long-battle-to-privatize-the-post-office-could-be-coming-to-a-head/

In the U.S. and Canada the super rich want control of everything. They want all profits in the nations. They then raise the prices on all vital services.They create the poor and they keep them poor.\
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The super rich want everything - and they're getting everything. This isn't new. It's been like this for thousands of years.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-and-devoss-plan-to-reopen-schools-hides-a-sinister-agenda/
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https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-are-afraid-to-attend-their-convention-but-want-your-kids-in-school/
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https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-are-afraid-to-attend-their-convention-but-want-your-kids-in-school/
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Today's blog has been the most terrible experience for me. The U.S. is collapsing Oh, the super rich won't collapse - yet. They'll be the last to see the horror that they have created. Canada remains actively evil with it's Conservatives, and,  at best, wimpy with it's Liberals. Seventy-fivw years after World War Too, we have blundered without a break into a world of greed and horror. All that was promised in 1945 was abndoned almost from the start, abandoned by the super rich with the help of sell-out Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans.

I think now of the signs I saw on that day in 1945 when I was sent home from school for being late, and spent the day in jubilant cries of "We've won the the war! Now we've got to win the peace."

Well, we didn't lose the peace.No. We threw it away in the plundering of middle east oil, in a Korean War that was really a war to invade China. We abused the whole of Latin America. We even threw away our own poor so the super rich could could avoid taxes and walk home with the greatest profits in modern history. We are murdering and plundering all over the world to please the super rich. And we are even increasing the numbers of the poor as we drive them deeper into poverty. And as I write this, poverty and deep hunger in much of the world have created horrors we really can't imagine.

Even as our whole planet collapses with greater horrors yet to come, we do nothing to stop the oil that is going to destroy us.

And political leadership? Well, we vote for a Trudeau and a Ford, and the puppet on a string who rules Alberta, and an Irving in New Brunswick. And the U.S. votes for a Trump and a Biden.

I don't know how much time we have. I do know we are delivering our families into the hands of the most corrupt and evil people this world has ever seen.































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Thursday, July 23, 2020

July 23: A Terrible, Terrible Day in the News.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/donald-trump-portland-oregon-mayor-ted-wheeler-teargas-federal-agents

So who are the good guys as the U.S. descends into chaos? Which party has a plan - any plan?
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/23/covid-19-has-killed-least-health-workers-yemen-report-says

But Saudi Arabia, with American help, will carry on it's war with Yemen, specializing in starvation, especially of children while the American (and Canadian) news media specialize in stories (admittedly true ones) abou the evil of China.

We live in an evil world. We always have. And yes, China is evil. So is Britain. So is the U.S. So, in a quiet way, is Canada..... In fact, we humans have no one to blame but ourselves. We, just about all of us, have been the greatest killers on this planet for all of recorded history - and more.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/23/trump-portland-protests-homeland-security-officers
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/23/world-needs-coronavirus-vaccine-big-pharma-monopoly-astrazeneca-patent-pandemic

Sadly, the response of American capitalism will be that it will control a virus cure, and will demand prices beyond the reach of millions. And that will apply all over the American empire.
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https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/poker-tips-for-trump-muzak-goes-bust-a-black-indie-podcast-network-satirist-alexandra-petri-and-more-1.5652383/nearly-a-century-later-researchers-begin-search-for-mass-graves-linked-to-tulsa-massacre-1.5652392
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Racism is not just a U.S. evil.

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/fatalpoliceencounters

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Nor is abuse of migrant farm workers just a U.S. evil.

https://rabble.ca/news/2020/07/migrant-agricultural-workers-experiencing-food-crisis
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/house-senate-defense-spending/
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https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canada-nazi-monuments-antisemitism/

Here's a story that hasn't made much of a splash in Canadian news media.
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https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/22/influential-dc-based-ukrainian-think-tank-hosts-neo-nazi-activist-convicted-for-racist-violence/

Not surprisingly, capitalists are attracted by the thinking of Nazissm. For evidence of that, remember that Hitler's most important supporters were Germany's capitalists. Yes, they were. And Hitler's Naziism was designed as a defender of capitalism.

Let's see now. How many of Germany's capitalists went on trial at the end of the war?
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/22/because-us-cant-be-counted-uphold-basic-rights-canadian-court-strikes-down-bilateral
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/23/activists-ramp-pressure-other-insurers-after-swiss-company-ditches-climate-wrecking
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/23/unconscionable-unemployment-claims-tick-upward-gop-seeks-gut-600-weekly-benefit

Well, of course. American governments need to reduce the poor to $100 a week. Let's get real. They need that saving so they can continue giving gifts of billions of dollars to billionaires.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/22/planet-edges-closer-multiple-climate-tipping-points-scientists-identify-first-active
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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/07/23/canadas-support-trump-administrations-venezuela-policy

Canada has not covered itself with glory in it's treatment of Latin America. Of course not. Canada's wealthy have many billions of dollars invested there.
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/scientists-finally-see-earths-climate-destiny-more-clearly/

Hey, Not to worry. These are just wacky scientists. But we have real smart people like the American oil billionaires who own the province of Alberta and all it's people and politicians. And think of real smart politicians like Alberta's Conservatives or Ontario's Doug Ford; (there's a reason why Doug Ford's jackets are a tight fit. He has a belly that's a reflection of his brain power.)
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https://countercurrents.org/2020/07/that-damn-camouflage-again/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/23/moment-of-supreme-danger-trumpism-fascism-rears-its-head/

And it isn't just Trump. The Democrats have 'values' very close to those of the Republicans. The U.S. have moved well into fascism - which powerful elements in Canada also admire.
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/07/22/Vancouver-City-Council-Police-Street-Checks/

Yes. Canada has it's own, powerful record of racism.
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https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/07/21/Did-Suncor-See-Climate-Crisis-Coming/
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-united-states-failing-state-failed-state/5719274____________________________________________________________________

https://www.globalresearch.ca/media-silent-trump-declares-wars/5719263
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/disturbing-under-researched-legacy-depleted-uranium-weapons/5719262
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55379.htm

I am no admirer of the Government of China. But I know that what China has become is what we created. For more than a century and a half, China suffered horribly from British capitalism - with occasional help from the U.S. and others. When Chiang Kai-sheck rose to power inflicting even greater suffering on the Chinese, he ws supported by the U.S.

Love them or hate them, the rise of Chinese communists has made China a livable country with the schools, housing and health care it has never had under the years of British and American interference.

Has it quarreled with neighbours? Yes. But compared with western powers like Britain and the U.S., it has been gentle as a lamb.

Alas! The current government of China has become increasingly racist and aggressive. It's not nearly as bad as Britain was and the U.S. is. But it certainly is not a place I would care to live in. But the China of today is more like the murderous and racst U.S. than even the British Empire used to be.
And we're not likely to change that by threatening war with China. China's history under war, plundering, mass murder, and threats by Britain and the U.S. are what have made the China of today.

Worse. It has made a China we almost certainly can't beat.  We need to do what we utterly and deliberately failed to do in 1945 - to treat the Chinese as humans instead of as a people to be plundered and savaged. Indeed, we need to be doing that to countries all over the world.

You want to talk about evil people? Okay. Talk about the American billionaires who won't feed  or decently house Americn children. Of course not. They care only about their own greed.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55384.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55380.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55382.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/55381.htm
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article45345.htm
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/07/22/news/if-haida-children-can-understand-risk-and-respect-why-not-sport-fishing-lodge
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https://truthout.org/articles/wells-fargo-reported-giving-only-one-large-ppp-loan-to-a-black-owned-business/
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https://truthout.org/articles/trump-and-devoss-plan-to-reopen-schools-hides-a-sinister-agenda/

Read ALL of this to understand what the religious right (including evangelicals) is all about.
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https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-in-bolivia-continues-to-produce-repression-and-tyranny-while-revealing-how-u-s-media-propaganda-works/
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This has been a horribly depresing bog to write. The U.S. is heading into war -with itself. It is smothered under its own greed - a greed financed to satisfy in insatiable super wealthy who are now displaying on open contempt for the American people.

This is a U.S. that is heading into a war with China, a U.S. that has a tiny population in comparison, a U.S. that hasn't in 20 years been able to beat a small part of Afghanistan, a part that has 30,000, 000 or fewer people who have only a fraction of them able to fight. It couldn't beat a much smaller Vietnam though it freely used heavy bombing of people, especially of women and children, and it used aird dropped poisons to destroy farms and children. It has thrown the middle east into 70 and more years of horror without doing anybody any good except for American billionaires. It is deliberately killing children in Latin America - as in Venezuela where it uses huger to do it's fighting.

Now, it's leaders are also killing Americans. The U.S. greed is the greed of the super rich. And it's now destroying itself. I'm not at all sure than Canada can avoid getting caught up in this. Canadians are already accomplices to American greed and savager in Latin America, the middle east. and near the Russian border. It will be looking for Candians and others to stand with it in China.

And a dying U.S. may want to annex Canada as it has aborbed other nations - to take their resources.

Many American have been rebelling against this nation ruled by greed  But both
Republican and Democrat politicians have taken the side of the super rich. (Trump's leading education minister is an super-wealthy woman who believes that all schools should be private. Tough luck for the majority of children who can't afford that. (She also is an evangelical who believes that God wants all children to recieve Christian - evangelical- training.)

The U.S. is crashing into a thousand idiocies; and the super rich rule the land. This is now the most dangerous world we have ever seen.
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Writing this blog used to be an exciting process. But no more. We are a part of all the evil this world has become.











































































































































































































































































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It lost against the Chinese in Korea, though it was supported by many thousands of British, Canaians and many other countries.


















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