February.11: We have very little time

The paragraph be below is from a post to this site something over a week ago. I keep thinking of the follo post from a reader with sympathy for the reader's perception - and with sadness that It cannot be all true..

 So here it is...

I am sure (says the reader) how the Canadian Legion or churches could possibly head off a war with China. I also don't think any country, America, China or Canada really wants to go to war in the traditional sense with soldiers, bombs and guns. It is more likely that we are entering a period of economic warfare where we wound each others economies through extreme trade policies. War is basically a failure of our political leadership to do what is best for their people and 21st century warfare would likely wipe out the entire world and all thats in it since we have enough nuclear weapons to blow up the entire planet 40 times over. Climate change is definitely going to be a game changer for all countries and I am more afraid of having to deal with the economic and social collapse that will come with environmental collapse because the target for American dominance in a world short on resources like water and food, will be Canada not China.

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I don't disagree with the general spirit of this. But I don't agree with it's hopeful message. Here are a few points.

The Canadian Legion and the churches won't head off a war with China. That's true. But they could play a role in heading off such a war. Alas, they won't. In two thousand years of history it has been extremely rare for churches of any country to be critical of their country. (In World War Two, the British churches supported Britain. The German churches supported Hitler and Germany.)

The British churches thought it was just fine to support the empire when that empire, contrary to the message of Jesus, was murdering over 400 million. And where have the American  churches been for the last seventy years as American  armies murder children, babies and civilians in the millions..  .

Neither the Churches nor the Legion are anything but puppets..  

In the most recent development, the U.S. has said it will no longer supply Saudi Arabia with weapons to murder the children and babies of Yemen in it's years of mass murder of those children. But fear not.

British weapons supplies will take over the burden.in what is possibly the greatest mass murder of children and babies in history. 

And we are now in a period of getting away from that? Alas, there is not the slightest chace we will get away from that.

People as a united   whole do not exist. The destructive people - a very small  component of humanity are the vicious ones. These are the ones we call capitalists , or super rich. And they get away by much of the evil means that characterizes them. And they aren't like the rest of us.

  Virtually all of them are men. But they are a special breed going back thousands of years to the origins of humans. They are characterized by greed and by evil. Through the years, they became the the origins of kings, emperors, aristocracies..... And they manipulated all the resst of humanity into becoming their servants, warriors,  slaves and victims.

Unilke the rest of the animal world, these humans are evil and highly destructive of the rest of humanity. They haven't always been capitalists though. That's just their latest role of the last 200 years or so.

These people have nothing of what we would normally call human instincts. They are motivated purely by greed and self interest.. And it makes perfect sence to call them by  the quality that distinguishes them -greed.

 They're not necessarily intelligent. They are simply greedy and quite evil. And, after these thousands of years, they now have the power to destroy us all. They have nothing but contempt for the rest of us.

This is not imagination. This is thousands of years of evidence. These are the people who have made our religion values irrelevant. There are the people in the U.S. who have thrown tens of millions of Americans to suffer and die in the streets while their masters are racking up their biggest profits in history. 

This isn't genius. This is pure greed. And if we ever recover from this mess, this super rich will continue to get   richer - and the rest of us ....Well, we won't. I was a child in the 1930s. There was a pandemic in 1918-19, And then a terrible reession.    I was born in that. I remember that well. I remember my father shoveling snow for the city before he went to work.  When I was still young, our monthly income was well unider a hundred dollars  a  month, probably something like 50.. 

and I remember visiting the stunning mansion that my mother lived and worked in when she was 10, working there for 24 hours a day at a salary of pennys. 

Through the horror of those days I learned that the super rich were still the super rich.  And we're facing that period again.

In this time of hardship, the super rich are actually making their highest profits. Children are dying of hunger in the streets. But Mr. Irving, like all those others of his miserable breed, not only avoids taxes .  buts demands we pay taxes so the super rich can pick up billions gifts from our tax dollars

And they want power that goes even further.

In New York, Bill Gates has offered to take over change in the shools. His teacher training? None. And the governor of New York has accepted his offer.

What will New York's children get? They will get courses of praise for capitalism, for American mass murderers all over the world, for the worship of the greedy,. for hatred of those people all over the world who reject American dominance. Even now, before the Bill Gates takeover, the U.S. is overcome by hatreds that are destroying ----the U.S.

Capitalists have nothing but impatience for those who think, who question. The same is true of Canada's Liberals and Conservatives.

Go back through the world's history, and you will find the same pattern as, for example, in the European examples such as France, Belgium, Britain..... You will also  find in the ninetenth and twentieth century tjat the  commercial  news medio we rely on  for information lie to us. Of course. Of course. they are owned by the super rich. That's true for alll of them from the New York Times (which has never carried  the story of the American massacre of Catholics in Guatemala to the real stinkers like the newspapers of Ontario's National Post to all the Irving nwespapers of New Brunswick.

These newspapers and radio stations exist to lie to us. And, by their lies, they are meant to destroy us.

That's why I constanty try to warn us that we have among us a super wealthy  class, small in numbers and great in power. It's now called the the super rich but's just a variation of what it always has been for thusands of years of kings, conquerors.. And, as we approach the greatest wars in history, it will destroy us - unless we develop a greater sense of what human life should be about.

Always terrible, the    evil has been a characteristic of some humans for thousands of years. It's now capable of destorying us in thousands of days.

This is why I have written so much about the current crisis. It's because our news media have said nothing about those destructive people among us, the decendents, perhaps, of that small number who have controlled us for thousands of years. We fight and die in wars to enfrich them. And we pay for the wars with out tar money.and, often enough, our lives.

British soldiers and sailors got nothing for their fighting and dying in almost two centuries of war.When they were too spent to continue, they were simply dumped in the streets. (In Canada the Legion was rounded to ensure veterans got better treatment. Alas it soon became an organization to fight wars even when it was wrong to fight them. Think of the recent wars which were fought to benefit American billionaires - Korea, Afghanistan,Haiti,..Think of the troops we are going to send ti China. And remember the ones we sent to assist British brutality and thievery in South Africa.. I'm very  much afraid of where this will take up in the next fifty years.

Serving their country? For the most part, wars are not fought for our country. They are foutght for our billionaires in Canada and the U.S. They are fought to make them rich - and us poor. And that has marked all the thousands of wars over the past many thousands of years.

And the children of the streets that will mark them for years as they suffer and die so that  billionaires - who don't pay taxes - can get biillions more in free handouts from the Irvings of this world. That is the future of most of us - unless......we  break the super powers of the rich.

And don't expect the Liberals, Conservatives, Republicans and Democrats to do that.

And the time is very, very short.

                                                                                                                                                                     

Feb. 3: And a very disabreeable blog.

The first part of this blog may not seem to have a place in my usual topic. Actually, it does.

For an opener to stimulate thought, let's try to forget our image of China as a dictatorship and a threat. The reality is that we created a China that was a hell for those who lived in it. We murdered, enslaved, starved, drugged a whole nation to satisfy our greed. When the Chinese broke free of us in the late 1940s and began the  task of modernizing their country, we sent an army to block their way.  This was the Korean War.

(Curiously, we disguised this war as one on North Korea - and in defence of South Korea. Not surprisingly, the nation we pretended to be defending was a really vile one. It was South Korea, a nation governed by brutal dictators who had been supporters of the Japanese occupation in World War Two. And it would reign over a savaged people of South Korea until well after the Korean War. Yep. And our news media told us we were the good guys.)

In short, we killed (and died) to set up a China for destruction. China kicked us out. Ever since that, China has amazingly developed and has helped most of its people in ways the western powers never did.

Yes. I know China has been wrong, very wrong, in it's treatment of some groups. But in defiance of  more than 200 years of abuse and hatred  by us, China has made amazing progress. For example, China has just completed a massive improvement of housing the the poor. No country in the world can match it. (The God-fearing U.S., at the same time,  has been destroying it's own poor by throwing millions into the streets to sicken, starve and die. And Canada is moving that same way.)

A reader sent me a reply to this in my last blog. (It's somewhere here or in the previous blog - but I can't find it.) She criticized me for criticizing our churches and our Canadian Legion for our behaviour toward China. She says neither churches nor Legion can force China to drop some of it's backward ways.

Well, no, they can't. I never said they could. But churches surely have a responsibility to have a public position on this. (Alas! Throughout history our churches have almost always supported wars In fact, they have almost always supported wars even against other Christians - and the churches on the other side have supported their wars. Alas! Jesus never said we should always support the Christians soldiers on our side. In fact, through the 1950s and 60s. the U.S. hired mercenaries to murder over 200.000 Christians - priests, nuns, missionaries - in Guatemala. And the leader of this murderous job? It was the ardently Christian George Bush Sr.  Our newspapera practiced restraint, and never reported on this.)

And the Canadian Legion? It always does what government tells it to do. That's why Canadians died for no good reason in Korea. Others died in Afghanistan, a war that was a bad idea at the start, and had nothing to do with Canada. (A gathering of Canada's leading military historians announced our troops were sent to die in Afghanistan in order to bring democracy to that country. And that is pure bullshit. Nor was the U.S. there to bring democracy. It was there to get control over Afghanistan resources.)

But in the whole history of the Legion, I don't think it has ever questoned our wars. The Legion could and should be a place where veterans could ensure that we do not waste the lives of it's members. Instead, it's a cheerleading squad for billionaires who make money out of wars.

Forgive me for spending so much time on this. But one needs to give this some thought in face of the changes that are coming in the near future.

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In the recent year, American billionaires have made their biggest profits in their history. But how is that possible? In the past year Americans  have seen their people - in their millions - kicked out of work, out of their homes, and onto the streets with the lucky ones living with whole families in tents on sidewalks.

American billionaires have not had that problem. How is it possible the wealthy could make such huge profits at a time when millions have had their lives ruined, possibly forever. (Almost certainly forever.)

It was easy. For a start, American billionaires for some time had been moving much if their business to poor parts of the world - as in Latin America and the middle east. There,, labour was cheap - a very attractive situation for American capitalists. So let the dudes at home suffer with their loss of millions of jobs.

Canadian capitalists played the same game. And they still do.

American capitalists also insisted (ordered) that the U.S. government must pour its tax money into the pentagon which is the most expensive (and profitable) weapons maker in the world. The U.S. does not need such a hugely expensive "defence" industry.

But wealthy capitalists insisted on it because it is a hugely expensive defence industry with monster profits for the wealthy. So what the hell....let poor kids and the elderly die in the streets. It also supplies American capitalists with lots of products not only to profit the rich but to be used to attack the 75 or so nations the U.S. has attacked and plundered since 1945.

All of these factors are why American (and Canadian) super rich happily support the 'defence' industry. It makes a hell of a lot of money for the super rich, money that immediately pays for their wars - as in Afghanistan, the middle east, Latin America.

In addition,  the super rich make extra money for themselves without risking their own money. Instead, the wealthy use their political influence to protect the wealthy from paying taxes. So  the money that floats these wars comes from the taxes of us common slobs. Meanwhile, our governments permit the super rich not to pay taxes at all. (Nobody knows how much we lose in letting the  super rich off with unknown trillions of dollars. Certainly, though, we lose the huge sums that   could get our poor off the streets, establishing them in decent housing, feed them well, and hugely improve our educaton systems.

Instead, we face a future in which prosperity will NOT come back. We   are seeing a development that is very likely to mean extreme poverty - and even worse. We know that because we have seen it happen for thousands of years.

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Humans have been the victims of a relatively small group of other humans since humans appeared in our world. We humans are the only creatures whose greatest purpose in life is to manpulate others of their species This goes back thousands of years. In that time, small groups of humans manipulated, abused, murdered their own kind.

(I know I've said before it's important to understand this). The kings of Europe for centuries used their subjects to fight wars that benefited only the aristocracy. The English people were treated by their rulers as  scum while using them to make the aristocracy rich. Until recently (and sometimes still today) we were privileged  with the best education, with the highest commands in the military, with wealth ---while the rest lived in filth and hunger. The children of the poor rarely had a chance to go to school since most of them had to work 15 hour days from the age of five or six.

It's still true. British Prime Minister Johnson is an example of the worship of the rich. In Canada, I went to school with kids who started to drop out in grade 3. Most had dropped out by grade 9. When I was kicked out in grade 11, my parents were not at all upset. But when I went back to finish high school. my parents were very concerned. As they told friends,  I was trying to rise above my station. And when I got a PhD, they simply avoided discussion of anything with me.

Meanwhile, rich kids of low intelligence rose in the world without getting smart. They went to private schools. I had a cousin in that category who got ahead in the world not for having any brains   (because he didn't) but because he went to a private school.

All around the world, the rich abuse the poor - and the poor get no chance, (American troops commonly murder children, even babies. They do it, probably, by the millions - by starvation, by bombing... They plunder and impoverish whole nations - as in Latin America and the middle east.

Onward Christian soldiers. (Hell, our billionaires have long since accepted religion - just so long as our "Christians"   cooperate with them in killing people. And it works. Canada sent troops to Haiti to destroy Haitian democracy. And we sent missionaires to bless it all.)

Most  wild animals kill because they have to eat. TheYdon't normally organize themselves simply to abuse other animals of their kind. Only we humans do that. But so far as we know, humans kill to exploit other people. There is the origin of rich kings and lords and, in this present day, of capitalists.

Our GOP and Democrats and Liberals and Conservatives don't give a damn about the Canadian people. And in the western world, we serve the GOP, Democrats, Libeals and Conservatives by being good little girls and boys - and voting for them. We are now on the edge of a hell that we have worshipped from the beginning of human life.

The super wealthy are very close to the final capturing our societies - and us. Indeed, the super rich have long since taken over the governments of countries like Canada, the U.S., Britain. And the dumping of millions into the filth and hunger of the streets is one hell of a form of where we are heading.                                      

Jan. 28: We have met the enemy - and he is us.

 Yeah, Yeah, Biden has created a new America.

Well - no. He hasn't.

The American constitution is not a symbol of democracy. It never has been.George Washington was not a democrat. He believed in decision making by the rich.He had no patience for those who weren't rich. And the mass murder of native peoples that he launched was scarcely an act of love. Like just about all rulers of his time, his faith was in the rich, Indeed, fairly large numbers of the very poor were NOT allowed to vote in early, American elections.

From the start, the rich flocked to Washington looking for favors and offering bribes. And that has been true of every government since then. The same has been true of Canada.

Does Biden represent any part of this interference wiith government? Oh, yes. He was, an still is, the friend of the rich. The reality is that the rich buy every government they can. That's why an Irving has no trouble getting permission to poison the  land and forests of New Brunswick. That's why the Irvings have no trouble plundering the provincial budget. That's why a missionary from the Irving home town can be murdered by American capitalists, then be forgotten and buried in the Irving home town.

What we call democracy doesn't really exist. And most of the voters have voted for the people who clearly don't give a damn for them. The CCF party was an honest one which gave us medicare which is perhaps the best health care system in the world. (Of course you have the option of American health care which has plunged American patients into poverty, misery, and hopelessness.)

Canada's lack of knowledge is really the product of news media which, like those in the U.S. , exist only to lie. Think about that. Think about the the New Brunswick missionary who was murdered by American mercenaries in Guatemala - and who was buried in the home town of the Irvings. And his burial not even noticed by any Canadian press.

Not a single Canadian news medium carried that story. And the Irving papers led the way in ignorance though the Irving family chapel was just a short walk away from it. That chapel nust keep a steady supply of wimpy clergymen. 

The reality is that we have very little in the way of a free press. And we have churches that have turned a blind eye to evil for almost 2000 years. 

Will Canada's Liberals and Conservatives stand up to defend Canada? Not likely. Canada,  was once a colooy of the British Empire and which killed to please British billionairs - as in the Boer War  -  fought British wars is now a colony of the American empire. - and has been since 1945. (Don't tell the Canadian Legion. It thinks we fight wars to defend out country. We don't. The Korean war had nothing to do with defending Canada. Ditto for the Afghanistan war where Canadians died to make American billionaires rich. Ditto for Canadians who destroyed democracy in Haiti to please more American billionairs - and for Canadians who have troops in the middle east to please their American masters, and who very well might soon be killing Chinese to please our American masters. 

The language of patriotism sounds good. But think hard. The British 'fought for their country ' in the 1800s, British billionaires killed hundreds of millions of people all over the world to make themselves richer. And the British soldiers and sailors?

They were dumped in the streets to die there. They weren't serving their country. They were serving their billionaires.

And that's what a war with China would mean for Canada.

Anyone with a grain of sense should see that war as it is now will destroy all of us - and probably very quickly. That should have been made obvious at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should have been obvious in 1945 that we had to break the war habit.

But the billionaires don't want to break it. And hiring the rest of us to kill for them is what they call fighting for our country.

(As I write this,tens  of millions of Americans - young, old, men, women and children - are dying in the streets while billionaires are making the biggest fortunes in history. And this is creeping into Canada as well.

War is no longer an option. In fact, it never has been.

(My how nice it would be if our churches had anything intelligent and Christian to say about this. But they never have. Worst are the evangelicals who think they just have to believe, and then they will die happy happy and will  stand on clouds to sing praise to God 24 hours a day for millions of years to come. What does that have to do with the teaching of Jesus?

Donne-moi un break.

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You think things will get better? You're dreaming. I took a look at several examples of where we're going. These are all items in the news - though often not in our daily papers.

1. The world is now at the hottest it has been in 12,000 years. And no, that's not a good sign.

2.President Biden wants to get tough with China. Why? Because it has become the fastest growing economy in the world. And they're really not allowed to out sell the U.S. Only the U.S. is allowed to have unlimited growth. Biden is going to put China in it's place

3,And that means war. And war against 2 billion people means unlimited use of nuclear bombs and, certainly, intervention by Russia and other countries. Gotta put them Chinese in their place. Oh, and such a war Would also mean that countries like Canada must join in on the American side. Americans have been allowed to rule the world.......but. in fact, the American empire is now a loser.

4,The U.S. is far the biggest military spender in the world. That's why so many millions of Americans have to sleep in the streets.

Instead of learning to cooperate after World War Two, The U.S. has chosen unending war for the last 70 years. And we are very close to game over.

If we continue this world world of chaos and mass murder and unlimited greed, we will never see the end of this century. And, so far, American billionaires have no intention of giving up on mass murder and unlimited greed. And Canada, ever since 1945, has been America's champion wimp as Canadians have killed and died  in American wars.

It's more than time for members of the Canadian Legion to put down their beer, and decide which side they are on.

We needed to work out a world of cooperation and sharing in 1945. We didn't do it. And  drinking beer at the Legion hall isn't going to change that.The Canadian Legion should be serving it's members. Instead, it has routinely thrown Canadians into wars that had nothing to do with us. (And Canadian war historians haven't been much help.)

The U.S. has not dealt with it's wars of agression, wars designed not to protect anyone but to make billionaires richer. And we now have very little time.

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Jan. 17: Be Patient with us old farts....

 Ah, the confusion of life. I have a whole blog that seems to have gone missing.  And  my confusion is not helped by a diet of sleeping pills that can knock me out for  15 hours and more. I'm sorry. This has been a wretchedly drawn out several days for me.That's the trouble with us old folks. We get - you know - old.

 So let's pick up the pace to the modern day and our determination (some of us) to conquer the world.  A  useful starting point is the British Empire of the 1700s and more.

This was the empire of a Britain that was controlled by the British aristocracy, the wealthy. There was no place in there for common people. These were held in contempt by the  aristocracy. No. All the power (and it's profits) were held by a tiny aristocracy. The rest of the British lived in poverty and filth. Oh, they could serve in the army or the navy. But only at the lowest levels. and with the lowest pay.  (On naval ships, the women of the poor commonly served on the gun decks, and commonly produced children who would serve on them, too. Thus the expression 'Son of a gun.' And many a son of a gun would die down on the gun decks. 

Britain owed nothing to it's lower classes, If they served they then became less effective, They were simply dumped into the streets of the nearest port, there to die of  poverty and disease.

Winston Churchill was a typical product of that class contempt for the poor. Check his political records. You'll find he served only the rich. That's why the British voters turned against him near the end of World War Two.

But Churchill and his like served the wealthy in grand style. They murdered over 400 million people all over the world to steal their  resources, to force them into cheap labour, to starve them........ And, not suprisingly, British (and French settlers of the higher sort in the Americas, and Latin as Latin Americans followed their leaders - as their descendents still do.

In this they were following a system going back among humans for uncounted thousands of years. Unlike other animals. humans were created so that some were attuned to enslaving other humans. No other animal treats it's fellow animaals in that way. Others might fight other in quarrels. But these fights are usually short term. Not so among humans. Dominant humans permantently abuse and even kill their own kind.

Thus the brutality of the British arisitocracy and it's abuse of the English people. Thus the British request for Canada to join the British war against the Dutch colony of South Africa. And the reason for it?

The Dutch (Boers) had taken control of South Africa becuase it had massive gold  fields. The Dutch (almost all Christians) wanted to steal that gold. But, about  1900, the the British invaded to steal that gold. In short, The wealthy British wanted to steal that gold for wealthy British. And so a war happened to please wealthy Brish and displease wealthy Dutch.

Curiously, the British army felt it needed Canadian help.

Actually, it didn't. So why demand Canadian help? Well it really did need Canadian help for a future war.

That was to set a precedent so that in future Canada would be required to fight British wars in general. European corporations in Britain, France, Germany, were rapidly expanding to modernize for wars with each other. So the British wanted a precedent for Canada (and the rest of the empire) to fight British wars.

What did that war have to do with Canada? Nothing. In fact, the nearby U.S. wouldn't join in the war until very late in the game.

That was world war one in which Canadians fought and died so that Britain, France, Germany, etc. could fight wars that had nothing to do with Canada. But it was highly profitable for war industries on all sides.

At the end of that war all sides agreed not to blame anyone for the war - largely because they had all fought the war for the same reason - to protect their rising industries. But it took Britain and France a very short time to demand that Germany be punished Their purpose of course was to destroy German competition. So they imposed  conditions so severe that Germany fell into deep poverty. This, in the eyes of British and French would destroy German industrial competion leaving Germany a land of poverty - while British and French capitalists were free to run wild. And that is what opened to a door to a Germany led by a sort of Donald Trump racist who ralled Germans by hatred of Jews. (Just like Americans and sometimes Canadians) fight North Koreans and Afghanis and anybody in the middle East) - and will be called on  to fight Chinese and anybody else the U.S. tells them to fight.

And who has benefitted from all this?

In the U.S., American incomes seemed to remain steady in the post war years. In fact, they dropped steadily in purchasing power. At the same time, Americans got dramatically poorer, a poverty far worsened by a pandemic attack.  

 This was an attack that called for government help. But the only government help was to billionaires who used the money to fight even more wars and plunder even poorer countries.

Americans have suffered terribly. But American billionaires are doing well,  with the highest profits in history. Indeed, billionaires are the only people making profits in the U.S., most of them from making weapons and killing people of impoverished countries.

In fact, the super-rich have been making the biggest profits in history from our   wars - while millions of Americans sleep on the streets at night, and go hungry during the day. As American die of hunger and exposure, Billionaires, especially in the U.S., have been making huge profits.

And that, in a nutshell, is the history of the world. And if we don't control this in this century, we are dead meat. As our world mechanizes, the super rich need fewer and fewer of us. As it is, the U.S. with it's massive unemployment, can still produce the most weaponry in the world. Indeed, they need a smaller population, not a larger one.

So far as I know, there is no other animal that acts like this. Oh, some will flare up for a moment of anger. And they will kill each other to eat. But it is only humans which will organize wars against each other, which will mass murder, which will kill for power. Or, put in blunter terms, it is only humans who are evil, And, yes, our business leaders throughout history have been evil and ruthless and murderous. And we are within reach of the worst of their evil.

This is an evil which one finds in no other animal - and very rarely in male people. Jesus in no way represented such evil. And that, alas, may explain why His churches have, for two thousand years, rarely represented His values. (Check  history. The European wars of the twentieth century were wars of Christians against Christians - and had been for 2,000 years.)

I'm not trying to get religious with you. I am saying we either bring our super rich under control or they bring us into total destruction. And that is the reality about a Bill Gates or an Irving. 

Oh, for members of the Canadian Legion, explain to us why it has been necessary for Canadians to kill people in Korea, Afghanistan, Haiti, and more to come....?

Is it so the Irvings and Gates of this world will like you?

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Jan.9 Down, Down, Down, Down...

Forgive me. Writing this blog has been extremely painful for me. Yes. There are people on the other side who do evil things to us. But let's get serious. We probably out'evil anybody on the other side. 

In the current crisis, the term nuch used has been "American values". What American values?" The American government hired killers to murder hundreds of thousands of priests, nuns and missionairies in Guatemala. What American value does that reflect? One of the victims was a Canadian missionary. But the Canadian government said nothing and no Canadian news medium has ever carried the story.

So let's take a look at Canadian and American 'values'

Let's take a look Let's take a look at the values we claim to represent. Let's take a look at the evil we represent, and ask why we represent it.

I'll try to start that tomorrow (though I, in the feebleness and uselessness of age, have few values or uses.)

We might also ask why we sent Canadians (we called them heroes) to kll Afghans and to send troops to help out the U.S. in Syria, and to fight an American war in Korea.

Oh, and ever wonder why very early in the twentieth century we sent Canadians to kill dutch settlers in South Africa - and what that had to do with world wars one and two?

And ever wonder why we don't sent them to British wars any more? (Just American wars.)

Above all, let's get past the bullshit we call values.

Oh, another point. We should stop teaching history in our schools because what we teach are lies, anyway.

Jan.11 Why rich humans need poor ones

 

(I'm nor not sure wether the text below has already aappeared in my blog.)

This morning (December) I was checking through some of the usual, conventional papers that are worth reading only because I can get them free. Today, I was enraptured by the tone of a typical article these papers carry. It says that President Biden may feel it necessary to invade Cuba. It seems he is of the opinion that the government of Cuba is evil, and that it kills or tortures (or both) innocent Cubans.

Therefore, it might be necessary to use force against the evil, Cuban government.

Whoa baby. Where is all this American virtue coming from?

In fact, the U.S. has been murdering, torturing, plundering, enslaving Latin Americans for 120 years. Just in more recent times, the U.S. hired mercenaries to murder priests, nuns and missionaries in Guatemala. Funny how U.S. (and Canadian) governments and their news media never mentioned it though the slaughter was in the hundreds of thousands.

(Maybe they didn't want to bother us about those shy mercenaries.)

Back iin the early days of TV, a young (and cute) me   watched horrible stories about the U.S. torturing and murdering thousands of Cubans. It used hired thugs to torture and murder uncounted numbers. This use of thugs, dating back to the conquest and theft of Guantanamo dated back to the early I900s. Cubans were denied ownership of their own agricultural land as the former owners became very cheap labour.

Cuban children were, for the most part, denied education.

American gangsters soon became a common sight in Cuba, with, it seems, the full blessing of the American governments - including the saintly Franklin Denalo Roosevelt. As a final touch, the U.S. handed all government in Cuba over  to Cuban thugs. And, by 1945, those thugs were in full and murderous control.

Early TV nade no secret of all that. Sneering thugs happily sad for TV interviews.

And that  is what led to to the rise rise of very courageous and capable Cubans like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Life in Cuba was hugely improved - though the U.S. did all it could - and  often with terrible damage to Cuba that has somehow survived the interference and lies of American governments and their lying newspapers.

Now, as I read our current, privately owned newspapers, there is  no mention of this. In fact, the tone of their coverage is to give the impriession that Castro was the evil one.

Let's get real. Almost all of our commercial news coverage is made up of lies and propaganda. That happens because the ownership of almost all our commercial covorage is dishonest

And that's why I started a blog many years ago.

But let's get on to something even worse.

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As I write here in what can politely be called my senior years, I am finding numerous handicaps. One is that time is being stolen from me. For reasons over which I have no control, I'm now asleep for some 15 or 16 hours a day. I have no idea why.  I hope it's temporary but I really don't know. In the time I have left, it's hard to keep up on what's happening.

For example, the U.S. has become perhaps the worst country in the world for it's own people - epecially the poor ones. Right now, ten of millions - men, women, and childlren - are living in filth, poverty, hunger - and it's going to get much, much worse.

In contrast, the U.S. wealthy are floating in the biggest profits ever seen. An upper group of a few thousand have actually been making billions out of the American economy. 

No. Not billions. That's the official number. The real number is not billions. It's  TRILLIONS as Amerocam governments have yearly increased  the taxes they are allowed to hide and the grounds they can accept from government. Much the same is true of Canada.  

Americans and Canadians have been driven into poverty by their leading citizens - you know - the ones with names like Gates and Irving. So long as we allow that, we are going nowhere. They are the cause of poverty. You'd think we could catch on.

From the begining of humans many thousands of years ago, we have chosen certain people to be leaders while the rest of us became their slaves, victims. rulers. Over thousands of years we have allowed those 'leaders' to treat us with contempt.

You can see traces of it at ground level. In  the days of British empire, the British aristocracy used the common people to fight their wars, then dumped them in the streets to die. For most of British history, the common people had no chance for education. More ommonly they went to work in jobs that emphasized filth and poverty for life. To this day, Government is commonly for the rich of Britain who today at 1% of the population have amost a quarter of all U.K. wealth. Indeed, that attitude does much to explain class structure and  abhorrent treatment of the poor in the U.S. even today - expecially today.  

When I was a child, my friends were illiterate. They commonly 'dropped out' anywhere from grade 3 to grade 9 to find jobs. When I got to grade 10 my parents were concerned  that I was trying to rise above my station. And they were angry.

That relaxed only when I got a PhD. And that was only never to speak to me again.

But rich kids? Though no smarter than poor ones, they got private education that trained them to think they were superior.

Human history is a long record of privilege, class - and of the most dreadful abuse of the poor.

But there is an exception.  

China has won international praise for it's elimination of povery in the nation. No, I know you won't find this in your local paper. (I got it from Financial Times)  

Even as the U.S. dumps it's poor into the streets and into tent cities and worse, China has been putting it's poor into safe and secure homes. China, not  Canada or the U.S., is the nation that serves the needs of all it's people while the U.S. dumps it's people into hunger and disease. Meanwhile, the super rich, as in Canada and the U.S. and Britain do what they have always done - pile up the geatest fortunes in history.

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But let's get a look at this behaviour over the past 120 years,

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January 27: Do we have the brains - or courage - to face reality and to change it?

 I hesitate to write this. I'm sorry I wrote it. I'm sorry I had to write it. We have one hell of a change to face and, well, we humans are not good at dealing with change.

Maybe the best thing to do is to read only your local newspaper and follow the usual, bland news on your local radio, TV. After all, why work up a rage about the things you'll never read or hear about in your local bland and soothing news source.

I mean, should we really care that the city of Toronto sticks the homeless into tents which, for a start, are really not healthy in winter,  and that fosters stunning rates of pandemic illness. What the hell... let 'em die as they infect each other. Of course, the U.S. government plans to give the millions of the homeless as much as $600 each. At the same time it is giving billions to the super rich. That dwarfs the spending for the sick and hungry.

As an aside, the giving of huge sums of money to the super rich who promptly hide it for themselves has been going on for some years The really rich don't really get just billions. It  now, even as children starve and the poor die, amounts to trillions. That's why the super rich are now making more money than ever in history. And that's why, even as the rich have more wealth than ever,  national wages in the U.S. have not improved in years.

The U.S. of today has a striking resemblance to the Roman mob as it fell into disorder and poverty. Indeed, it resembles all the great empires - Rome, Egypt, Greece, Britain.... At the end of World War Two, the U.S. embarked  on plundering the whole world. That's certainly not a secret. And that is why we live in a world that murders civilians and children and babies by the millions. That's why Africans are starving as their agriculture collapses. (Yes. The agriculture that fed  thousands of generations is breaking down all over the world. It's happening all over the world. In Africa, millions are dying now from starvation. And there is no improvement planned or in sight or even in planning.)       

Meanwhile, American billionaires (trillionaires) with routine help from countries like Canada are plundering the earth, completely ignoring the inevitability of destruction of all of us. (And those twits of Canada's military historians have offered their idiocy about how Canada sent troops to Afghanistan to bring democracy. Significantly, our commercial news media never picked up on this story. Well, what the hell! Our commercial news media never picked up on it - or on the Canadian role in crushing a democratic Haiti, or on the CIA slaughter of priests, nuns and missionaires in Guatemala.  A Canadian missionairy who was killed in Guatemala is largely unkown even in his home province of New Brunswick. That's because he's buried in his home town of Bouctouche, a town that founded the Irving billionaire family.  They also own all the newspapers, and the Irvings don't run stories about people who died for good causes.

(Is it really that   cheap and shoddy and petty?   You bet.   The Irvings are also the family who are bombing New Brunswick with poison gas to improve their forestry business. Well, yes. It does do a great deal to poison people and destroy animal  life. But don't look into New Brunswick's Irving press to say anything about that.)

The whole history of human kind is a history of mass murder, of exploitation, of enslavement, of exploitation.... The outstanding example of it today is the super-rich of  the U.S. and it's bum boy, Canada. And there's a crisis on the way.

The U.S. needs to destroy China. It routinely sends warships into waters claimed by China China. - This could well start a nuclear war. Yesterday, a Chinese warship ordered the U.S. to get one of its warships out of Chinese waters. Luckily,  the U.S. backed off. But the presence of American warships - in large numbers - is   very, very dangerous. (What do you think the U.S. would do if China had it's warships parading in, say, New York's harbour? - or even the more remote Pearl Harbour?)

American capitalists are very, very likely to want a war with China. This  is a reality which our news media have rarely bothered to mention.  The U.S. is no longer world's dominant world economy as China is very close  to that dominance.   This is particularly annoying to U.S. capitalists who see Chinese displacing them in an Africa that has had more than enough of the U.S., and even a Latin America that far prefers China to the U.S. As well, much of Europe sees more merit in trade with China than in trade with the U.S .

In short, the U.S. is a fading flower on the world stage. Indeed, it is now destroying even itself as a result of it's presidential election. Alas! The difference between Trump and Biden is not nearly so great as we like to think. And be assured that the capitalists who dominate both American parties are very likely to unite in a final attempt to conquer the world.

The American super rich are determined to go on plundering even their own people - and even especially their own people.

Add to that the devastating effects of climate change (which most of our super rich say isn't happening - wildfires on a scale never before seen, animal destruction, crashing agricultural collapse, poisoning of the earth by oil - - all those things the super rich say aren't happening  - but which ARE happening - and at a tremendous pace. 

Democracy is pretty much - a word - and nothing more than a word.

And what will the rich do help the poor and cure this? Get real. They haven't done a damn thing to help anybody but themselves. And we let them do it. This greed and self-serving is and alway has been a product of human minds which place enormous powers on the most wretchedly evil and greedy of humanity. 

And I do not hesitate to use the words evil and greedy. This has been a characteristic of  humans - and only humans - from the start as we simply dump the poor and hungry to die  in the streets even as the super rich take greater control over them and the rest of us. This is a history that we are facing just as the Roman mob did. And in almost all wars between Christians for  the last 2,000 years, the churches have supported their side - as Christians supported  the English  (and Canada) in Britain - but the Germans, also Christians, supported Hitler. They have also supported all  the "Christian" wars since the beginning - the British and American and Dutch and French. And they have been remarkably silent as in wars against North America's native peoples. (They were even silent while Americans murdered priests, nuns and missionaries in Guatemala.)

More recently, we and our churches have been silent as we destroy our planet's land, waters, wild life,  climate......, a campaign that ultimately will destroy us, all of us. And we do it for the super greed of our super rich. Wars,  after all, are what create our superrich in the first place.

Wars put all a nation's  wealth at the feet of the rich - to develop their weapons factories, to put all our taxes at the feet of the super rich. (The super rich, of course, pay very little tax as the rest of us pay for their wars.)

Based on that system - which was also the basic system for the British Empire and all the other empires - it has made the super rich even richer. Wars are almost all fought in the interest of the super rich - but only rarely fought by them.

The U.S. has now put uncounted tens of millions of adults, children, elderly to die on the streets. The immense fortunes of the super rich must be kept by the super rich while the government taxes those poor who still have jobs so that the tax money ---can be used to help homeless? ----No. It's so that money can be used to help the super rich to get even richer. In fact, the U.S. (and Canada) have been acting on that principle for almost all of their history - though the U.S. is the one that has been the super lover of the super rich from their start.

The U.S. is murdering and plundering in grand style in the middle east and Latin America with help of Canada - something our Canadian news media prefer not to talk about. And we are almost certainly headed for a war in China.

Is China likely to go to war? It won't have much choice. And it is likely to get support from Russia. Isn't that evil? Maybe. But it's a hell of a lot better than the more than a century and a half of western murdering and plundering of China.

And, oh, there's so much to write about.

China  is communist? So what? Communism is what made it possible for the Chinese to overcome the many years of capitalist plundering.

In a similar case, it was communism that enabled Russia to overcome it's crushing aristocracy. And without that, Russia would probably have lost to Hitler - and that would probably have meant one hell of a defeat to us.

And it's not as if capitalism is as pure as the driven snow. It has maintained the U.S. as a nation of murderers and a humiliater and starver of it's own people. Look at the condition of the American people today - and tell me why you think communism is bad and capitalism is good. (No. I am neither a communist nor a capitalist.)

To those who vote Liberal or Conservative or Democrat or Republican, you have brought us to the gates of their hell. And, oh, the gates are for a final hell this time.

Will the U.S. change? Not likely. Americans, submerged under centuries of myth about how wonderful they are are not likely to dig out of this one. Indeed, the U.S. itself may not be able to continue existence.

Will Canada change? Fingers crossed on that one. I would have no great faith in Trudeau or any province that would elect a Liberal or a Conservative.

And, oh, I'm sorry I had to write this.

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