November 5: There is no good news. Capitalism has won. Greed has won.

 I feel ill about writing what I now have to write. I said a long time ago that we humans are, above all animals, unique in our evil and greed. No other creature acts in this way. We are the victims of evil and we are evil itself.

The American elections should be seen in this context.

I wrote earlier that the American elections are evil itself. But that is scarcely unusual. The British Empire, the Roman Empire, the French Empire, the Belgian Empire all built empires of evil. And this lust for conquest and abuse goes far, far back into history. And it's purely a human characteristic. We are the most savage and brutal of all living creatures.

British capitalists wanted to make money out of China as early as the late 1700s. But Britain lacked the wealth to  control the Chinese market. So it turned to India to plunder it's vast store of opium; and it used that to buy control of China. It was stilll pushing opium in China (in what must have been been the greatest drug trade in history) in 1940. By then, it's biggest pusher was Chiang Kai Sheck until he was overthrown by the communists who banned the trade because it was such a destructive business. (Chiang then fled to found Taiwan, the piece of China that we helped the Christian Chiang to save.)

(The much admired Winston Churchill was a brutal player in the game of empire, happily starving millions to death.)

And George Washington? He's the one who murdered millions of America's native peoples - right down to babies - to steal their land. And the US to this day is the most murderous nation in the world.

When I, an anglo, was living in Quebec, the French, bursting with  virtue, began abusing and expelling us because this was French soil. In fact, it was not and is not French soil. The French stole it by stealing the land that had been the land of the Mohawks and other native peoples.

But, oh, we love our plundering and killing. Thus the American display of their political virtue as revealed in elections.

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For about half of the election turnout, the issue is making American great again - which is the short way of saying America should be killing more foreigners in order to steal their land and resources. Thus the need for uncounted wars all over the world. Their must be few countries left that have not felt the sting of American mass murder, of starvation,torture and bombing of all targets from babies to the elderly. It's reminiscent, really, of the human slaughter of American native peoples by George Washington. We really haven't seen a break in this since about 1949.

And Canada has joined the killing since 1945. Britain and the British empire weren't worth fighting for any more, so Canadians kissed up to their American masters - as in Latin America, Korea, Syria, Afghanistan...if the U.S. tells us to kill people - men, women, children...we salute and do it. Many Canadians are proud of that - especially the Canadian Legion and more than a few Canadian war historians. We serve American killers just as we once served the king.

And no. I'm not proud to be  Canadian.

With the appearance of Covid, we toss Canadians - men, women and children - into the streets, there to sicken and die. But our billionaires, by serving the U.S., are actually prospering. So it is that while children die of hunger, While schools are hopelessly underfunded, while the rich can send their children to private schools billionaires like New Brunswick's Irvings can demand and get billions of dollars of our money to keep them happy.

No. I'm not proud to be Canadian.

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That brings us to the Democrat  party in the U.S. as the party of a glorious future.

Donne -moi un break.

The Democrat party, like the Republicans has been evil from the start. So when and Obama becomes president, he murders people from all over the world, just like Republicans. His Obamacare is largely farce. Under his leadership and under Biden's, the purpose of the Democrat party is to  serve the rich, slam most of the population, lower incomes....(American incomes have been going  down for forty years and more. Yes. The paychegues get a little bigger - but the cost of living keeps rising much higher. So Americans are poorer today than they have been for at least forty years.)

Much the same has been happening in Canada. But cheer up. The wealthiesst Canadian is, David Thomson who owns Reuters Press. That is quite an example. of why most Canadian news media never tell the truth. The same is true in the U.S. Almost all newspapers, radio stations, TV stations are staffed by liars.

Oh, and don't go to church. Churches almost all avoid discussing our media and our politics. And they almost never criticize or even mention our murderous and anti-Christian behaviour. That's been true for most of 2,000 years. When George Bush Sr. hired a mass of thugs to murder some 400,000 quite innocent Christians in Guatemala,, our news media never mentioned it. And wiping off the blood, Bush returned to his regular attendance at his church.

In World War Two in Europe, all the major powers who murdered each other were Christians. In some 2,000 years of Christianity, it is almost unheard of for Christians of any country to oppose a war. The use of atomic bombs was pretty vile. But I have never heard of it being criticized by any clergy. As the U.S. kills millions with it's bombing of civilians, no clergy question it. They all praise God and bless our side.

The teaching of Jesus has been ignored almost all the time since Jesus came down from the cross. (Ever wonder how,  in a Christian nation, children and the poor can be left to die in the streets while billionaires get bigger mansions?

What will happen if the Democrats win the election? They will do exactly what the Republicans did - ignore the poor and the homeless, make big profits for the rich,and murder more men, women and children all over the world.

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In the U.S. and Canada and Britain and others, war has won. Christianity has been trashed. (So has Judaism). Evil has won. And we have made it the winner. We are murderers in a tradition of murderers that goes back uncounted years.

Who will win the American election? We have created a world in which only the most savage and vile are respected.

Democrats? Republicans?

It doesn't matter. Evil has won. And we---have just watched it with our faces hanging out.

No. I really didn't want to write this.

Oct. 31: No. Damn it. No!

 Just minutes ago, I watched CNN on TV. And this is the same garbage I've seen on every channel. Like virtually all commercial news media it ignores the central problem of almost all of our news media. It gets nowhere near the meanings of the issues it discusses.And we lose the real meaning of what is happening.

Trump has a long record of erratic behaviour. Biden - do a little research - has built his career on being an errand boy for the very rich. It's no secret. Biden's Democrats are doing well because the super wealthy are pouring money into the Democrat campaign.

This campaign is not between two ideologies. Historically, both U.S. parties have always had the same ideology. This is not a struggle against good and evil.  (They are both crashingly immoral and evil.)

Canada is much the same, though with some greater idiocy in it's political philosophies from Liberals to Conservatives. (Canadian Conservatives believe in a province governed by a fat premier who spends much time every day standing in front of a TV camera with a long row of flags behind him, and between him and the flags a half dozen or so polical flunkies who, blessedly, don't say anything. How will that help us? Get real. It won't.

Our news media treat this whole affair as if it were, perhaps, a traffic accident. And that's the traditional way western news media treat all news. In particular, they pay almost no attention to the realities of what this is all about.

In 1945, we beat Hitler and Hirohito. The 'great' war was over. So this kid thought as he stood watching the crowds in 1945. The reality was quite different. Within just four years the U.S. began a series of wars - nobody knows how many - wars that murdered civilians, children, babies in the millions. To this day, millions of women and chldren are, quite seriously, murdered. And nobody knows how many. Africa is a place of such suffering and death that millions of families flee to survive. And we of the Christian West sink their boats and drown them.

Canadian soldiers have been in on the killing - though most of that never makes our news. So it was that Canada played a major role in the murder of untold numbers of civilians in Haiti. So it was that Candian pilots joined our American friends to bomb civilian targets in places like Libya. to train others to kill for them in Syria.  Our news media were silent when George Bush Sr. murdered Guatemalan priests, missionaries and nuns.

Oh, going back - ever wonder why our news media never told us, before WW2,  about the reason for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour? In our news media, it was because Japanese were ugly and looked funny. But there was another reality.

The U.S. wanted a Japanese attack to give the excuse for an American war on Japan. (They had no idea the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbour.) Western news media  have always treated this as a Japanese provocation. Not so. The Americans wanted that war so its could take over China (stealing the Jewel of the British Empire.) But our news media never told us that, either.

Meanwhile, the Japanese were plundering China. So the U.S. moved for the Korean war to take over the job of plundering China. Their boy in that effort was Chiang Kai Shek. who happily murdered millions of Chinese so that with U.S. help (and tons of illegal drugs) he could be rich. But he lost - and so his few followers went with him to Taiwan. And these are the ones the U.S.is about to help.

And that takes us to modern China. My sympathies in the Far East lie with Hong Kong. But a reality is that we - Britain, the U.S. - murdered and plundered China into dreadful poverty and early deaths for more than a hundred and fifty years. (I wonder what the hell the Christian missionaries were doing.)

When China, after WW2 got some control over itself, the U.S. murdered it at every step. Of course, it's hostile to the West. What else could it be?

Western capitalism may well be the most evil and destructive force this world has ever seen. (Hell, if you want to get some idea of that, you should read the story of Americans, British, Canadians and others over the horrors inflicted on common people until very recently. And you might want to think now about the millions of Candians and Americans  today who live in tents and even under just the sky.

And think hard. How many billionaires are suffering these days? (In fact, the super rich are the richest they ever have been. They are actually making greater profits now. Betcha didn't read that in the news media they own.)

No. The image our nedia project is of a stage of truth tellers And the reality?

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1. The U.S. wealthy (liked many other wealthy including Canadian wealthy do NOT act to help us. They act to take - only to take, to plunder, to abuse....

In this, they have the full support of their Christian churches.

Thou shalt not kill? In two thousand years Christians have wallowed in killing - killing heathens, killing other Christians. Today, the U.S. routinely murders children and babies. No. These are not the side effects of war. These are the 'glory' of it. So it was with the British Empire and every empire there ever was. For two thousand years, Christians have killed not only heathens - but other Christians. We now live in a world where some leaders want a war to murder Chinese by the millions - in fact, by a billion or more. (When was the last time that China invaded us? And did you know that American warships are in the China Sea - on the grounds that these are American waters? Gee. I wonder if Lake Superior is a Chinese possession.)

Iran has oil. So the British plundered it. In the end the Iranians kicked the British out. Since then, American billionaires have wanted to plunder it. They want to own (steal) Iran's oil. And, in American eyes, that makes Iran evil. And this is exactly what is also happening between the U.S. and Venezuela.

Ever wonder why the U.S. went to war with Afghanistan? (No. Afghanistan did not attack New York on 9/11.) The U.S. has been there for twenty years in hope of plundering the mineral resources of that country and make American billionaires happy. That's why American heroes have been bombing women, children in Afghanistan. That's why Canada sent troops to Afghanistan - to kiss American asses.

That's why Canada's war veterans sit around their beer tables at the Legion and clap hands for war. Look. The legion should exist to help whose fought for Canada. They  deserve the help of all of us. They didn't create the wars. And I have known many who suffered terribly from them.

Being cheerleaders for wars that mass murder women and children and babies set up by greedy billionaires doesn't help our veterans. I wish our Legionnaires would think about that. I  wish their greatest admirers (like Canada's leading military historian, the one who set up Ottawa's war museum) would think about that.  I wish he'd think as a general practice.

We live in what is shaping up as the most brutal and greedy wars this world has ever known. Much of Africa, perhaps 30 million,  are almost certain to suffer death by starvation within the new year. Many, many thousands of Latin Americans are starving because of Americans who steal their food and mineral resources - and deliberately starve them. That's why they flee to the American border. It's not for the joy of being God bless Americans. But the U.S. separates the children, and tosses them, like their parents into vile prisons.

As Africans flee the horror of starvation in their countries, they try to escape to Europe. Some are accepted, sort of, to suffer and eventually to die in vile campgrounds. Others are sunk by patrol boats, and go down into the sea. We haven't seen the worst. But there is every possibility we will and soon as 30,000 or more nuclear bombs embrace our planet.

Meanwhile, Canadians, Americans, others are suffering from a financial crisis that is going to last for some time. The super rich aren't suffering. They've steadily been getting richer since 1960 at least. And they are still getting richer even as millions now live under tents or, often, just under the sky.

Children can starve here - and many do - just as children in Africa and Latin America do. And what are we doing about this? Nothing. In fact, murdering and starving children has been a major factor in every war since World War 2.

- So - what are Trump and Biden and Trudeau and Conservative leaders like the chubby premier of Ontario doing about all this?

Well, nothing actually. They are really offstage. The people who really count are a relatively small group of whom we commonly know their names - and not much more. Near the bottom of this pile are New Brunswick's Irvings, and at the top, America's Bill Gates.

Ever since the emergence of humans, we have been plagued the most vicious and greedy creatures of this planet. The wealthy. They have been the dominant force in these thousands of years of kings, aristocrats......(and forget the Christian churches. They have been wimps and cheerleaders for the rich and powerful from the start - and commonly on both sides. In World War Two, German Christians supported Hitler. Canadian and American Christians supported our side.)

News media? Get real. These have been the puppets for the super rich from their first appearances. I have known, and I have worked with a great many of them over the years. They are not necessarily dishonest (though many are). They just know when to shut up.

Politicians? Almost all Liberals and Conservatives are puppets for the super rich. For Americans, the Democrats and Republicans have all been puppets. Canada's CCF, NDP and Greens have been honest. That's why they never have the money to win elections while the Liberals and Conservatives get piles of it from our billionaires. And that's why the news media (most of them owned by the super rich) would never dream of supporting those parties.

In the years after 1945, the power and wealth of the super rich has increased. The rest of us have been going downhill. A depression won't change that.  And that is the eternal history of humanity. We are, with few exceptions ruled by the greediest.

Don't even think about the American election. It doesn't matter. Don't waste your time on political leaders like Doug Ford. He's so brainless and irresponsible it's not even necessary to buy him.

Forget about Trump and Biden. Both are bought and paid for. There is nobody to vote for in the U.S. There never has been. Forget about Liberals and Conservatives in Canada. Either will do whatever Americans tell them to do. (Feeling like taking that one on. Canadian Legion? Does it make you feel proud to help Americans kill civilians and babies?)

Forget what most of your news media tell you. They're liars and puppets - and most of them have always been liars and puppets.

The U.S. has never been a democracy. I see no sign it ever will become one. Indeed, the great danger facing Canada is that our Liberals and Conservatives will roll over to be tickled by an American president who will be tickling Canada so American billionaires can speed up the climate destruction of our north.

Canada has in effect, four parties. Two of them are exactly the same as the American ones. And we don't have much time to get over that - if only to slow down our record in the mass murder of civilians and children and babies.

Canada is running out of time. The U.S.? It's time has already passed.

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But they're being cheerleaders for war benefits nobody.

Oct 28: The savagery of wealth

The UN has warned that we are very close to starving to death a  whole generation  of children in Yemen. Onward Christian soldiers. 

After I read about this, I came across a new report. For some time under Trump, U.S. drone bombers were bombing civilians - and drone bombers make no distinction. In fact, the U.S. routinely bombs countries with which it is not at war. And drones routinely bomb children.

Do you feel angry at those children? threatened by them.?

I wonder how many children around the world our leaders have murdered. Starved. Crippled. The U.S., since 1945, has murdered, starved, crippled children in well over 50 countries. American soldiers and airmen get medals for it. Christian chaplains bless them.

When Canada went to war against Afghanistan (a country that never attacked Canada or the U.S.), Canadians stuck signs on funeral roads. calling them the  Highways of Heroes. Canada sent troops to destroy Haiti, a country that had never attacked anybody.

How many have we killed to please the U.S.?

 Who's counting?

Why are wars fought? Almost always, wars are fought - on one side at least - to please the wealthy. World War One was fought, primarily, at the urge of capitalists on both sides. On each side they wanted to damage capitalists on the other side.

However, unlike the American military today, (and unlike the British Empire in it's glory days) it did not make a habit of killing civilians, children...babies.

No, I am not exaggerating. In Korea, the U.S.made a point of bombing civilan targets. Same in Vietnam. In fact, that has become standard practice for American bombing.

Then there were the attacks on Venezuela that included starvation. And why did they attack Venezuela? That was because those selfish Venezuelans wouldn't hand over control of their oil fields to American billionairs.

British and American capitalists have a close relationship to Hitler's holocaust of Jews. So it was that the U.S. made it a point to kill Roman Catholics - priests, nuns, missionairies..in Guatemala.  And none of our news media to this day have ever carried that story.

We are living in the most dangerous time in history.It is possible for a Donald Trump to effectively wipe out the whole population of China with nuclear attacks. And that would be the greatest mass murder in history. (Oh, and Canada would be instructed to join in. And there are probably Canadian legionaires who would wet their pants for joy.)

And, let's get real - It is quite likely that a Biden would do the same. American presidents have been as murderous as the most savage. George Washington ordered the mass murder of aboriginal babies. The U.S. army, from 1900, has spent it's time conquering Latin Americans, conquering oil producing countries all over the world. American capitalists, from 1945, have been obsessed with conquering the world - thus the Trump slogan - MAGA. Thus the constant American wars going back to their wars through the centuries.

We allow the super rich to run wild. We always have. We've done it .when the super rich were kings, emperors. This is a human behaviour that goes back thousands of years  - and has now reached it's most savage level.

Either we control our super rich or it's game over and, no, it's not just Trump. It goes all the way down to the level of one of our Canadian capitalists, the Irving oil family.

And among our Liberal and Conservative parties, our politicians bend their knees to the super rich. A leader in that whose picture I see every day is our premier of Ontario, Doug Ford - who slobbers at the feet of the very rich -very much like the slobbering of the government of New Brunswick. And, in that context, one should never forget the government of Alberta.

We learned back about 1990 of the damage that was going to come down on us. Our Liberals and our conservatives did virtually nothing. Now, the storm is coming down on us - Arctic ice is disappearing with ocean change rapidly rising and with terrible effects on coastal area, fish stocks are in serious trouble, a variety of creatures, from bugs to elephants are disappearing. Terrible fires now happen every year. Not only has this done massive destruction. (The fires are now all over the world). They threaten even cities like Los Angeles.

But major capitalists, notably in the oil business just close their eyes. We've knowm this was coming for 30 years. But our oil execs think they know better than all  the world's scientists. And that's why we're doing nothing.

In recent years, we have changed the world enormously because billionaires can make more billions out of that.

Soon, very soon, perhaps already, it will be too late.But don't worry about the super rich. They are already building survival communities, mostly underground.

But no. You won't be invited.

 

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Oct.26: Don't think; it ain't good for you.

 I know, I said I would stop bothering you with my blog. But I made an extremely unpleasant discovery. Go to Counterpunch in your blog titles for October 26. The first item on that page is about Trump and China. It says that Trump plans a nuclear attack on China at about his election time.

No. It won't be a conventional form of warfare. It will be nuclear, using nuclear bombs far more powerful that those used on Japan in 1945. And the article doesn't say so,  but I'm sure Trump will be calling on Canada for military support.

(And I feel fairly sure the Canadian Legion will jump with joy.)

China has no great nuclear arsenal - somewhere in the low hundreds and so far as I know, nothing to attack the U.S. which has something over 10,000 nuclear bombs. Of course, the U.S. will need to have enough bombs in reserve in the very strong possibility of a Russian entry into the war. And even the possibility of European powers supporting the Russians.

What's this all about?

It's about the American election. Trump is a genuine psycho. He is a man obsessed with - himself - and only himself. Within days, he faces an election. And it's quite possible he will lose. For a man of his ego,  losing an election is an impossible humiliation. So he will destroy millions - and himself.

Will the Canadian government send Canadians to fight this quite insane war?

It probably will. With the end of World War 2, Canadian governments stopped fighting British wars. That's because Britain was no longer an economic giant. That is why Canadians served and died in Korea - and Afghanistan - all over Latin America..anywhere the U.S. told them to go.

That is why the sons of the Candian rich (like their American cousins) have not rushed to serve in their country's wars. 

In 1945, I was thrilled to stand in a huge crowd to celebrate the end of war. And I was wrong. Almost all wars are fought to benefit the very rich. That's why Canadians fought and died in Korea.That's why Canada, foolishly, sent Canadians to die in Afghanistan.....

The history of humanity is a history of killing millions to benefit a few super rich.

Oh, and don't mutter about the Chinese being evil timers compared to Americans. The Chinese have been far more productive of good than Americans and British ever were. I don't like some of their behaviour, especially as regards Hong Kong. But on the whole,  they've been far better than the U.S. and Britain. And Hong Kong had a long history of abuse by Britain.

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I'm thinking of coming back to this site in a different way. I'll post this site beginning with letting you look for your own selection of sites. I'll put a list of the sites I've been using - and you can pick the ones, you want to read and to make your own judgement about.

There's may be other changes I haven't worked out yet.

The sites I use are 

Guardian, rabble.ca, CBC, Gwynne Dyer (he might be a little awkward to get). The Nation, Consortium news, Counterpunch, Breaking News. common dreams.org..

Haaretz (it charges a fee), Counter Currents, The Tyee, Global research, Information Clearing House, National Observer, Truthout, The Intercept, The Saker, Voltairenet.

Look through the sites that are interesting to you.

If there are sites you don't like, tell us about that in the blog.

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Oct. 17: The evil that men do....

No. I said I would take a break on writing my columns. And I will. But.....something came along. It's about Canada's billionaires - which are pretty much like  billionaires all over the world.

Canada's biggest billionaire is David Thomson who is listed at 43.4 billion dollars. (Canada has a total of 45 billionaires.

They are, you will be pleased to hear, making more money than ever. Yes. They are making bigger profits. After all, they can cut staffs, reduce salaries, fire workers by the million while making their cheaper replacements harder working.

How rich are these billionaires? Nobody knows. In addition to not paying taxes, they can hide enormous sums of money that are kept secret. And it's assumed that within the current lifetime, they will hit a total of trillions. That's 100,000,000,000. And even that isn't counting that fact they already get lavish gifts of our money from the governments (Liberal and Conservative) that they own.

And I, yes I, have been on the edge of their world with the Irving family of New Brunswick.

It began with my decision to quit teaching high school and to go back to school for an MA. My choice was a university in Nova Scotia, Acadia University. It was a pleasant school in a pleasant town. I got a room in a university residence which contained an even greater thrill. I had been assigned to the same room that had been assigned to a student of 1920. By the time I got there, he was the richest man in the Maritime provinces. He was K.C.Irving, oil magnate.

Alas, he dropped out after only one year. By the time I arrived, there were already Irving rooms and Irving scholarships. And two Irving sons had been at Acadia just some ten years before I got there.

But like there daddy, they quit too, so they could concentrate, like daddy, on making piles of money. Both James Irving (6.9 billions) and Arthur Irving (3.5 billions). And, like their father, both sons lusted after recognition with the result that Acadia today is smothered under Irving buildings, Irving scholarships, pictures of Irvings..... I had never before seen such a craving after honours and praise from a university for a family that was largely ignorant of anything but making money.

The irvings learned early that all you have to do to get huge sums of money out of Canadian taxpayers is to buy off the Liberals and Conservatives. Then you can invade aboriginal land and get police lined up to shoot any who protest. (I was at one of those.) You can poison the land with oil development. You can hide money that should have been taxes. You can crash one of your trains killing people in the middle of a city - and not even have to say sorry. You can take money the government and people need for schools and hospitals, and instead give piles of it to Irvings. (And you can take comfort by going to Acadia university and looking at it's pictures of Irvings and it's magnificent display of Irving rooms, and it's list of Irving scholarships.)

The Irvings own all the newspapers in New Brunswick, and they're even more wimpy and  lying than usual. (Check them. Tell me how many stories you can find critical of the Irvings.)

In the province's last election, one of the liars for the Irvings won. Of course, only the Liberals and Conservatives had the money for an election. The NDP was out in the cold with no money. Result - New Brunswick is going to hurt terribly in the coming years. Already, the homeless are showing up in the streets; and that is going to get worse, much worse

The Irvings, of course,  have no shortages (except for their shortage of decency).

So far as I know, and much like all the other super rich, The Irvings are still making profits. And that's pretty much the case all over North America. The super rich are savaging all the rest. They are making huge profits as millions starve. It was like that in the Great Depression, too.

What we're watching is the old evil of the depression years and all the years before that. Greed and savagery are built into us humans. Unlike all other creatures, we are born with evil in us. That's why empires and kings rise and fall.

Right now, as I write this, humans like the Irvings are destroying Canadians just as Rome destroyed itself, as Britain destroyed civilizations, as the US today murders men, women and children all over the world. We've been doing it for thousands of years. And, as always, even our churches don't seem to notice - or care.

For the people of New Brunswick, I dearly wish you could wake up. You have very little time.

Oct. 13: Enjoying the life I have left.

When I begam this blog, my purpose was not to express my opinions. It was, in the face of a largely dishonest news media, to expose readers to a larger range of choice in reading the news. This larger change meant bringing in honest commercial news media (like The Manchester Gardian, CBC and, when possible, Haaretz) as well as those web sites we call social media.

Alas! That came crashing down some weeks ago. That's why this issue of the blog relies on my own opinions - chosen from those of a small number of journalists I have some faith in.

However, I have never wanted, really, to force my opinions on anybody.I have simply wanted to supply reading that, so I have learned, is honest.

Most of today's blog is based on my opinions. However, late in today I have managed to reassemble at least one and myabe more sites that permit you to form your own opinions. As I write this, I already have one site that does this - and I hope to have more before bed time.

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 Forget all the polls showing Biden in the lead. We should pay more attention to the Gallup Polls. Gallup has been in the business for a long time and, according to a story in Information Clearing House for Octobert 12, Gallup shows that over 60% of Americans feel they have been better off under Trump than under any recent president.

Gee! I feel better already. Mind you, I can't see any great difference between Democrats and Republicans. For all the American chatter about right wing and left wing, the reality is that neither party has ever been anything but right - far right. And both parties, going all the way back to George Washington, have always been owned by the super rich. (George Washington,  remember, was of British descent, and like any upper class Englishman of his time - and of today - had nothing but contempt for anyone who wasn't rich.)

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https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/10/stephen-harpers-son-lands-plum-job-alberta-premier-jason

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In the Guardian, German researchers have issued  report that we could solve world hunger with just 330 billion dollars spent over just 10 years. Will we do it? 

Of course not.

We need that money to spend on wars. There's profit in wars. No. I'm not exaggerating. This is a decision we made long ago.

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Also in The Guardian, the Arctic is losing ice at the rate of a million tons a MINUTE.That, of course mean rising sea levels along our coasts. (It means  Florida under water and a New York. It also means the extinction of much of the wild life of the Arctic.) And we are doing......

....nothing.

Of course, most of our newsmedia haven't mentioned it.

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In Rabble.ca, a piece of good and heart-warming news. Stephen Harper's son (You know Stephen Harper. He was once premier of Canada for the Conservative party.) Well, he has a son who is only 24, and who just got his first job. And his starting salary is a hundred thousand a year. Isn't that nice?

He'll be working in the office of Premier Kenney of Saskatchewan - who, by concidence I'm sure - is a Conservative.

By the way, most senators in the U.S. are millionaires. You know, these are the ones who help the poor and  homeless in the U.S. - some day, maybe - but probably not.

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This next item appeared in Information Clearing House.

"Only one government in recent history has endeavoured to overthrow fifty foreign governments....established an intelligence agency that has killed at least 6 million people in the first forty years of it's existence...

...developed a draconian police record to destroy any domestic political movements that challenged its dominion...

...constructed a mass incarceration system that cages a greater percentage of the population than any other country in the world, and which is embedded within a global secret prison network and torture regime.

Hint - It's a country that calls itself a democracy."

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Information Clearing House

President Madura has announced their have been 400,000 deaths in Venezuela caused by an American blockade for 20 years that has made it impossible for the country to sell it's oil. (U.S. billionaires want to own Venzeuela's oil just as they stole British and middle east oil.)

I'm no fan of anybody's oil but ---he U.S. has no right to tell any  country who it's allowed to trade with.And to do so is illegal.

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Hurray, the kind of site I hope I'll be getting from now own. Just press on the blue print - and read - and make up your own mind. (This particular example is not really a good one. But I'm hoping it will open the way to some good ones.)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/13/brexit-michel-barnier-mocks-boris-johnson-third-deadline-on-talks                                       

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No. Dammit. I'm learning that this blog just depresses me. Maybe it's time for me to get a life. The reality is that we are among the most lying and murderous nations in history.

You're heard of war crimes? Okay. How many war crimes do you hear of on our side?

The U.S. routinely tortures and murders prisoners. That is a war crime. Have you ever seen charges of that? No. And you won't.

When Canadian troops were in Afghanistan, Canadian troops handed over prisoners to the American army. t

They did it knowing those prisoners would be tortured to death. The Canadian army knew it. And knowingly doing such a thing is a war crime.

Hello, Canadian Legion, didn't you know that?

Many years ago, I had to appear before a Senate comittee investigating alleged crimes by Canadian troops in World War Two. (Interestingly, Canada's military historians were too busy to be there.) It was there I got into conversation with a Canadian general who had served in the invasion of France. There, he stood on a bridge over a river. On the other side, Canadian soldiers were marching hundreds of German prisoners along the river bank.

Shortly after they had passed, he said, he heard a tremendous amount of shooting. Then he saw the hundreds of bodies of dead German soldiers floating toward the bridge.

The murder of prisoners is a war crime. Hello, Canadian Legion. Hello, Canadian military historians. Didn't you know that?

The soldiers in both sides of any war I have ever heard of have raped, gang-raped, and murdered many thousands of women on their side and the other side in every war I have ever heard of. That's a war crime with a death penalty. Ever heard of a trial?

(Well, in fairness, I have to say that the U.S. did try and execute some soldiers in World War 1 for gang rape. But it was mostly blacks who got executed for it.)

American soldiers in the Pacific often cut off the heads of Japanese dead to keep the skulls as souvenirs. That's a war crime....that nobody cared about.

Fortunately, it is not a war crime to murder civilian men, women and children. So the U.S. since 1944 has specialized in murdering them - as in the middle east. In  the 1950s and sixties, it added a refined wrinkle to that by murdering nuns in Guatemala. As they say, God Bless America.

Britain, of course, beat this sort of killing  with the mass murder of civilians in the glory days of the British Empire. But in fairness we have to mention the mass murder of native peoples in Canada, and the even more savage mass murder of men, women and children native peoples that was begun by George Washington.

We are, all of us, happy killers.

Wars today are based on the mass murder of civilians, of women, children and babies. That's why babies are starving to death in countries like Lebanon. That's why children in Vietnam were born with horrible defects caused by American chemicals.

World War Two, we were told, was the war to end war. But in just four years it became what is so we were into the war of 70 years, and probably much, much more - while morons cheer.

The U.S. wars generally begin with a request for God's blessing. When the Japanese Bombed Pearl Harbour, military chaplains acted in a way that prompted a popular song, "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition". General Rommel's favourite chaplain with his German army was one who loaded the guns for firing at British tanks and troops.

Uh, well, as I understand it, The Bible says thou shalt not kill. But that must be the most ignored statement in Christian history. Christians and their churches have supported whatever side their governments are on. and they've been doing it for thousands of years. Commonly, Christians have fought and killed Christians. I can't think of any more ignored Christian principal. George Bush Sr. was a devout church-goer. But in the 1950s, he led the mass murder of Catholic priests, nuns, and missionaries in Guatemala. His son (also George) was equally a devout Christian. And he led wars that killed men, women and children in Afghanistan and Iraq. (There was no valid reason to attack either country. Canada, very foolishly, joined the American side in that war for no reason except to make George Bush happy. And the Canadian Legion, which should have been supporting our soldiers, happily shipped them off to die in a wildly illegitimate war.)

Almost all wars, for thousands of years, have been fought to please the super rich and super influential among our number. These are the people who impoverish all the rest, using the rest to kill and die for them. They are quite possibly the creators of our human requirement for greed. And they are certainly the most evil group in human history. (And they act in quite the opposite way of anything that Christianity represents.  Alas! Their evil and greed has been adopted by the churches which pray for their victories.)

In two thousand years, we have not changed this. Indeed, we have made it far worse - so far worse that time for all of us is running short under corrupt and evil governments which are, probably, the last start for human life on earth.

We now have weapons, like nuclear ones, that can kill uncountable millions of people. The U.S. is in the late stages of creating a rocket, nuclear bomb that can hit targets anywhere in the world. And we are also now developing robots to kill for us. (They will also, no doubt, make great members for the Canadian Legion.)

Capitalists, who are as evil as any group to arise from our human society, have just ignored the news that last month (yesterday) was the warmest in recorded history. And most of our news media have just ignored it though we live in a world in which just a small rise in the temperature can end us.

The super rich of the oil industry know that. And they know our use of oil is a major cause of it.  And they don't care. For Canada, the most notorious for ignoring all this are the corporations who own our oil fields - and premier Doug Ford of Ontario who happily destroys any attempt to deal with climate change.

And climate change itself? Our deep oceans are hotter than has ever been known. The world, because of climate change, has just lost a major part of the Arctic with the last parts melting down quickly to flow down and destroy states like California and Florida - soon. And China, quite soon, will be hard hit by the destruction of it's coastline well into the interior (And the clowns we call leaders are doing nothing.) Ocean fish are dying, coral reefs are disappearing.

Much of our world is dying of starvation as climate changes. That's going to get worse - soon. All of this, and more and worse, has been well known for some 30 years. And we have not lifted a finger.

African refugees have been fleeing to Europe to try to stay alive. (And Europe sends them back to die.) Millions of Americans and Canadians, adults and children, have been sent to die of hunger and disease in the streets.

Meanwhile, the super rich have continued to get richer for the last 70 years - even as incomes for Canadians and American have been going down for those years. (Yes.  I know incomes have been slowly rising over those years. But the value of that money has been dropping.)

The big incomes that, to this day, are still rising are those of the super rich. We call them billionaires. But nobody knows how much they own since they've been allowed to hide their money and avoid taxes for seventy years and more. The big ones don't have billions any more. They have trillions in the greatest display of greed the world has ever known. That's why the U.S. can't afford to feed it's people. That's why most Americans cannot afford medical care.

(Rich Americans and Canadian send their children to private schools. No. I've been a teacher, and I know that private schools are not better. But the private schools are designed for children who are going to be rich and greedy.) Meanwhile, the hell with public schools. They're so underfinanced that even the children in them (of whom I was one) were conditioned to be poor.

Both American parties are owned by the super rich. Canada has two such parties, Liberals and Conservatives.

Why are Canadians and Americans so ignorant of what is happening? I don't know why - except for a part of the answer. The super rich own almost all their news services. That's why here in Ottawa where I live, the news media are ghastly.

We are, as we always have been, governed by the most evil and corrupt people in our world. That's why the world is rapidly crashing in on us. Humans have been dominated by evil since the earliest of our breed appeared.

I began writing on this for 20 years without making the slightest dent. And as I look into a mirror it's obvious I don't have another twenty years. So, for a while, I'll try to catch up on having a real life.

Oct. 1o: Evil

75 years ago, I was a child standing on a main street in downtown Montreal and spellbound by the hysteria of thousands of people. A huge crowd followed a leader with a wire wastebasket resting on his hand. I looked to my left - to a store window. A soldier leaned against the window. He had only one leg.

On the window was a sign...we've won the war. I was caught up in the hysteria -   we've won the war..now, my father would be coming home.

Then I read "now we've got to win the peace". But I paid no attention to that. We won the war. And if we've won the war, of course we've won the peace.

In less than five years, we were in another war. We've now been in wars ever since. We've had troops in Korea, Afghanistan, the middle east..we've destroyed democracy in Haiti to please the world's leading aggressor, our neighbouring U.S. We have troops almost on the Russia border. Canada and Canadian capitalists routinely do favours for a plundering U.S. in Latin America.

Canada no longer has any interest in the Britain our soldiers died to defend in World War 2. No. Britain is out of style.. Now we serve American capitalists in the world they have made a hell out of, killing, starving,  bombing (especially civilians and children and that's deliberate). We don't even declare war any more. We just kill. We, with the U.S., have become what the Naziis were.

And the worst is yet to come - a nuclear war against China and Russia. (Oh, you think they're evil? The U.S. is far, far more evil. That's why Europe is turning against the U.S. That's why nobody at the UN takes Canada seriously. But don't worry. Your newspaper won't tell you anything about this.)

That's why I so clearly remember that day in 1945. We have abandoned all that we said we were fighting for in world war 2. And it's is almost certain to get worse. The U.S. is fading as  a world power. It's a mess as a world power. It is thoroughly disliked by most of the world. To make things worse, we are in the middle of a climate change. Don't kid youself about that. It's rapidly getting worse as California is showing. And it's getting more worse in places like Brazil with its forest fires that have destroyed the Amazon rain forest - which will encourage even more destruction all over Latin America and will kill almost all the wildlife - though that wildlife is important to our survival. This is happening now. And we're going to feel it very soon. Our vegetation and our animals are essential to our survival.

And our political leaders? The Liberals have done close to nothing. The Conservatives are worse, much worse. Conservative premiers in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan have been actively destructive of the environment. (The premier of Saskatchewan has been even worse. He has a long record of drunk and dangerous driving, a record that includes his killing of a woman. If you want to know more about that, don't waste your time looking at our commercial news media. Check out rabble.ca on your computer.)

Oh, my. I got carried away. This daily going through the news in one, horrible, experience

We've won the war. But the reality is we have to win the peace.

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Now, let's change the topic.

Donald Trump has far the worst record of any president of American history. His support is weakening; but it's still, at 40% or so, remarkably high. How can we understand that about this hopelessly incompetent leader?

Can you say evangelical? There's a branch of Christianity that's called evangelical.

While other Christian churches have been losing ground for some years, evangelicals have been growing. I've known a good many of them, including their clergy. The main thrust of their believes has nothing to do with the usual Christianity. They don't care about life on earth. They don't care about most of the usual Christian values. Their obsession is getting to heaven.

They don't care about social problems. The focus of their faith is on dying. They want to die. They want to go to heaven.  And, there, they want to stand on the clouds and do nothing except to sing praises to God -not for just thousands of years but for eternity.

And God, they believe, will accept only them.  All other Christians will go to hell with all the world's other Christians and, most certainly,along with all other religions. And they are now convinced that Donald Trump has been sent by God to create the rest of the world to - you know......

Yes. This is quite a perversion of Christianity. But it has a powerful hold on parts of the U.S. Now........

What will they do if Trump loses? There's a strong possibility that they will still have a large following in some states, large enough to break away from some states. Indeed, along with the tremendous  emergence of armed 'militia' in some states, it is very possible that both groups will separate.

The U.S. is already deep into self destruction. We could see a much reduced and weaker U.S. And a reduced U.S. might well find itself looking for additional land and population --- in Canada. And Canadian capitalists might well support that.

I don't think that will happen - but it's a lot more possible than I would like it to be.

(The U.S. government had a  plan to attack Canada as recently as the 1930s. Don't kid yourself about the possibilities.)

The U.S. also has another reason to need Canada.

Climate change has a powerful effect in the U.S. The whole state of California has become a basket case that can only get worse every year. Indeed, California wildfires with spread to other states and, almost certainly, to Canada. And the fires generate even worse conditions as they raise temperatures. Even a one degree rise would be disaster.

Scientists have warned us about this for some time. And we've done nothing. It takes only a tiny rise -and we are creating these tiny rises. Now,  the fires have been moving inland. We're seeing the same thing in Latin America and in other parts of the world.

Despite what capitalists tell us as they pump ever more air into our atmosphere, and slaughter wild life, we're moving very quickly to destroy the possibility of life on this planet. So why do we go on destroying it? Why do we go on with this insane destruction?

That's because our super rich ignore the tremendous damage they are doing. They are obsessed with wealth. Wealth is all they understand. It's all they care about. Scientists all over the world have been warning them. They don't care. They are today the most murderous people in the world. We can kill millions. We are killing millions with a temperature rise of just a degree. And we are killing them.

We need our wild life. Our planet cannot survive if we destroy our wild life. All of nature works and has to work for us to live. But we are destroying wild life all over the world. That's happening with our destruction of the Arctic. It's happening with the fires and destruction of forests Latin America. They are destroying life from animals to insects - and that is killing us. We're destroying our oceans with our tremendous dumping of plastic in them for the last 75 years ago.

The reality is that we cannot survive in the horrible abuse we impose on all other forms of life.

And it may already be too late.

For thousands of years, we have been producing some people who understand only greed. And only their own greed. We have now placed ourselves in the grip of those who understand only greed. Indeed, as we suffer unemployment for millions as the super rich have increased their wealth in every one of those years right up to today. And they are letting millions starve. And they own our Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and Republicans.

I despair of Canada when I see the people of New Brunsick vote for a Liberal party that, like the Conservatives, will always be a servant of the unspeakable Irvings who have been robbing the people of New Brunswick blind for almost a century. Then there's the people of Saskatchewan who support a Conservative leader who, in addition to his kissing rich asses, is a serial drunk driver who killed a woman and fled the scene but has never been charged. And here, in Ontario, we have a premier who causes enormous destruction of the envionment and adds to climate change.

It's reminicent of a British Empire that starved and abused most of the population of Britain. And the super rich of the timesigned up the British people (with almost no pay) to murder over 400 million people all over the world to make the super rich richer.

We  are ruled not really by our governments but by the super rich------who are the most thorough and evil bastards this world has ever seen.

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By Tuesday, I should have this blog working under my original purpose - to provide important information from the best sources I can find so it's not just my opinion - but it's sources one can rely on - unlike most of our commercial news media..

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