July 30: Yes. I know this one is messy. I'll try to be a good boy next time.

 Guess who, as I write this, is the leading country in gold medals at the Olympics.

No. It's not the U.S.  The U.S. is in third for gold medals. But the leader is...

China.

For over a 150 years, China was horribly and murderously plundered by Britain. Then the U.S. turned on it. It took China a long time to recover from this. But, since the 1970's the horribly abused China has been the class act in national development.

(No. This has not been the tone of western journalism. But western journalism has never been very good at telling the truth.)

We've never  been told what a miserable lot the British were in China, then in Hong Kong. The story on Hong Kong has always been ignored by our press.

I shall never forget the hot night I left my Hong Kong hotel for a while because I couldn't sleep.

I turned at the corner to see families dressed in rags sleeping on bits of cardboard. There seemed to be - and there were - miles of these wretched people. And there were, of course, no toilets, no water supply....

I hurriedly turned the next corner. - to see more miles of human misery. And more when I reached the next corner of that. There were thousands of them just in my area. I have no idea how many there were in other parts of Hong Kong. (I never saw them in daylight because there were all cleared out before dawn.)

As I passed parks I saw more of these wretched people on cardboard. There were also wire cages that seemed to be designed for elderly men. Nobody could stand or even sit in them. One could enter only by lying down and rolling sideways into a cage.

These were the wretched poor of Hong Kong. I would later learn that the children were condemned into poverty for life. Few could ever go to school.

Later, talking to the very arrogant and obnoxious Enlishman who represented power in Hong Kong, I learned of his contempt for the poor. And his refusal to help them. (Alas, I also learned he was my cousin in law.)

I was in Hong Kong to teach in a university there. I soon realized that those students were the children that the British had a use for. They would be kept and employed.

The rest would die on their cardboard squares.

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Canada is spending 76.8 billion dollars to make sure Canadians can get 90 billion   barrels of oil. Isn't that just what we need? Yes. 90 billion barrels of oil. I mean, 90  billion barrels of oil could (would) kill millions of Canadians and millions of our American friends.

This is the estimate as climate change is opening the way to huge oil reserves in our Arctic. So climate change is good.

God bless oil billionaires.

(As I right this, China has just widened its lead in Gold Medals.)

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As a  footnote to all this, the president of Memorial University in Newfoundland has announced that oil and gas are good for us.

Well, yeah. It's also true that university presidents are not a bright lot. Seriously.

I was once offered the presidency of a university. I turned it down as I realized that university presidents are expected to be puppets for the wealthy businessmen of the university board. I must do a blog on that some day.

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And how are things getting along in your world and mind? We're all getting hammered. we're all getting destroyed. In Canada, our junior Trudeau has been eager to please the oil industry in the west and in the far north. That means huge forest fires. It means death to Canadians just like the deaths in California. It means the severe flooding we have seen all over the world. And that means hugely increased suffering all over the world. In the north it means billions of tons of showers of carbon dioxide over huge areas.

Our whole world is dying in what we like to call climate change. And it only gets worse.

It has already hit much of the U.S. And oh, yes, it's going to hit central and eastern Canada.

To our oil billionaires, the important thing is it makes profits. And they are making their biggest profits in history, and all of this is destroying wild life that we need. It may sound rdiculous, but we humans cannot survive in a world losing insects like ants, bees, and all the way through the animals. We cannot survive with the tremendous damage we are doing to our oceans and lakes. Already, Californians are suffering human deaths for lack of drinking water. And it can only get worse.

This is happening now all over the world. We are now already losing water, agriculture, and we're killing human life. Indeed, it is very likely that half of this world's people will die for lack of food and water. (That means billions of people.) In the long run, it may mean all of us.)

(On the other side, it means the destruction of most of the  people of Africa and huge areas Asia. But who gives a damn?)

I mean, we are all busy, in the long run, of killling us all.

Pay special attention to the U.S. The American spread of aerial  poisons is already stretching across most of Canada. Soon, very soon, the U.S. will insist on a takeover of Canada. And the Liberals and Conservative will clap hands.

We might also give some thought to this country we call a democracy. Indeed, there are almost no  democracies in the whole world. Certainly, Canada and the U.S. are not democracies - and never have been. In both countries - and as in most of the world - they are controlled by the wealthy. (A democracy would be a country in which we control billionaires. But the U.S. is collapsing now because Americans don't own their nation - billionaires own it.

And yes, the U.S. is a failing nation. That's why it's 20 year war in Afghanistan has beaten them. This is, almost certainly, the beginning of a collapse of the U.S itself. But that is coming far to late for most of us get any control over it.

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Today's blog is a deadfully unpleasant one. But we need the brutal reality.

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July 27: The Final Days?

 I,000 children is just the starting record of Canadian indigenous children as young as three being murdered with the authority of Canadian governments and the Roman Catholic Church.It was a definite decision on the part of   government and churches  - and, in the case of churches all the way up to the pope.

The record so far also includes  the murder of uncounted  indigenous people by spreading smallpox in their blankets. Indigenous people were also dispersed by kicking them out of territories that were livable, and forcing them to live in barren lands and swamps. And now that governments admit some of this, they and the Roman Catholic church are doing - nothing.

This is the destruction of a whole society.

As well, we've (the governments,  priests, churches, the Pope) only uncovered a tiny part of the thousands of indigenous children as young as three that we have murdered.

And millions of the guilty - governments, priests, churches, and the Pope have not done a thing. This is on a level with Hitler's murder of the Jews.

And they aren't going to do a thing. Depend on it.

Trudeau is a leading wimp in all this. And the Conservatives are right up there wiith him.

We need to reorganize the miserable lands we have forced on our indigenous people. And we need to make up for the horrible racism we have practiced over the years.

Or will we go on as gutless bullies and thieves?

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I just came across a story that the super rich at 1ess than 1 percent of the population of the U.S. have taken 150 TRILLION dollars out of the rest of Americans.

(The pattern in Canada  is similar - but not ever mentioned anywhere.) 

Well, that's why millions of Americans live in wretched poverty. That's why American children are dying in the streets. And it can only get worse with the average American earning less, much less every year, income so far as much of the population is concerned Education is being destroyed. Health care, always a disaster in the U.S., has disappeared for much of the population.

The US murders all over the world - for it's rich.The word democracy is absurd.

America? There is not such a thing. And the American people have lost any sense of  the meaning of their world. There is no significant sense of what American means.

That takes us into a world of super chaos. And that, within twenty years or less, takes us all to the end.

Oh, and by then  (under government by Conservatives and Liberals), Canada will be American.

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The U.S. maintains a prison at Guantanamo. At first, back  in the early 1900s, the U.S. stole Guantanmo from Cuba. (That was illegal, but what the hell....)  

Since then Guantamo has been vilest of prisons. It is entirely a torture location for the American government.

And why shouln't it be a torture location on American soil?

That's because it is illegal for any country, including the U.S., to have a torture (and murder) prison. So the U.S. gets it's dirty work done just outside the U.S. And, yes, that's the constant work of the U.S. in Guantanamo -  torturing people.

Remember how the U.S. got uppity moral when China killed people on China soil? Remember how indignant we were about it? Yes, Americans can get very indignant with others who sin. But the U.S. is by far the worst illegal killer in the world.  It murders children right down to babies by the million. (Nobody knows how many.) It has a branch of the air force (and quite illegal one) that bombs people it isn't even at war with. And the bombers have no crews. They are operated from pilots sitting in rooms in the U.S. The targets are usually civilians,   children.....  

The U.S. news media, of course, never mention this.

Most U.S. wars are fought, not to fight any enemy but to lavishly and illegally murder people, especially children, for the glory and profit of American billionaires. The billionaires pay virtually no tax for all this of course. Their joy is plundering our murdering and mostly illegal wars.

Compared to the U.S., Hitler was an okay guy.

Oh, be prepared. The U.S. is now suffering from the damage of fires and deaths that can only get worse. As it get worse, it will demand that Canada become a part of the U.S. Wimpy Trudeau and the Conservatives will trip over trying to kiss American bums. 

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Is Canada going to suffer yet more from our western fires? Of course it will. Climate change has no limits. It  is already part of daily life in most of the world. Of course, the super rich won't pay for all this. The rest of us will be impoverished while the super rich run wild.

In the process we will be paying for the horrible dangers of climate change and, oh, it's much worse than we can imagine. Climate change does not mean just wildfires. It's much worse.

It means of course, temperatures we cannot survive. Those are created  by billionaire coal and gas corporations - the ones Trudeau just humbly kissed.

It also means tremendous loss of  animals and, yes, insects. And that is devastating. It is murdering fish by the billions in the seas, animals in the northern and northern regions. Insects have a far greater effect on us than we realize. And we have destroyed huge regions of that. We have already lost more insects than we can afford to lose. That's part of why a destruction of agriculture is happening all over the world.

We are in danger, far greater danger than our news media are telling us.It's already killing millions.

Of course, our billionaires  don't tell us about this. They will contine to destroy us and enrich themselves.

Then they will quietly disappear to places they have prepared.

Our world cannot possibly survive the damage we are doing to it. We can't any longer survive murder and plunder by the billionaires. (and,  in the long run, I don't think they can survive either.)

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June 23: I'm sorry. I didn't see the depth our worship of the greedy.

 This will be brief. And it's about change in the western world that I should have looked at much more quickly. 

Capitalism has always been an abuse of the average people of our society. But the rise of  Jeff  Bezos should have us really scared. He has taken the U.S. back into a world of darkness and fear. And Canadian capitalists (and our Liberal and Conservative parties) also go back into that world.

Bezos has nothing but contempt for the average person. He built his fortune out of  Amazon stores, a chain   that made him super rich out of his contempt for his employees. He forbade unions. He made no concessions or benefits for those desperate people he employed. Unions were forbidden. All of his salaries were beneath living levels. Anyone who asked for anything was fired on the spot.

That's how he became the richest man in the world.

His wealth came as Americans were dying in their thousands as the hungry and homeless.

But at his recent peak, Bezos, spent millions for a huge gift to himself, a rocket that he soared in for ten minutes.

He enjoyed his time, and paid no attention to the millions of Americans who, adults and children, were dying in the streets.

This is a man who takes us back centuries to a world of fabulous wealthy who celebrated at the king's court  while most of the nation suffered. Indeed, the Bezos of the old world of the Roman Empire were his kind of people. and, like them, he would let the  bulk of the population of Rome starve in the streets - perhaps with a distraction of the mob by amusing it with bloody killing in the forum. And when the ordinary people of Rome died, their bodies were simply dumped in huge pits and, eventually, covered over.

Bezos, like the aristocacy of Rome, is evil and destructive. And that is what this world has become. The US intends to go to war to kill tens of millions (maybe more) of Chinese. The Americans who want this don't want it because China is a threat. They want it destroyed to meet the greed of wealthy Americans.

And the Americans doing this will probably be assisted by Canadian troops at the wish of the Canadian wealthy (and the Canadian Legion).

We are facing a terrible world created by the super wealthy. Indeed, we know that American troops since 1949 have produced at least thirty thousand veterans  who committed suicide as they saw what they had done. That's far more than they lost in the fighting.

You'd think the Canadian Legion - which is supposed to help our military - would have the intelligence to see if this has happened with Canadian troops. But the Legion hasn't done it, and it won't.

The U.S. has spent its money to serve the super rich. And,  on the way, it has been impoverishing the American people. Canada is,  I think, going down the same road with the Liberals and Conservatives. Trudeau, for example, recently gave a blessing for expansion of oil projects,  the ones that are killing people in British Columbia. Conservative premiers are doing the same.

So it is that Canada has two lying and destructive political parties. In fact, the only party that is serious about us surviving is the NDP.

And our news media (radio, TV, newspapers) are as corrupt as the Liberals and Conservatives are.

I'm  going to die soon. 

But I have children and grandchildren. And they are growing up in a society that is actually worse, more vicious, more lying than Hitler's Germany ever was.

I'm very much afraid we are going back, way back, to the middle ages and even back to the worst of Rome.

July 22: The world change that has never made our news media.

 

As I began this, it seemed to me I should explain how we got to where we are.

These are very bad times,  indeed.

Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, spent billions to get up in the air in a rocket. The thrill lasted for ten minutes. It had no scientific value whatever.

While he was up there, homeless American children were dying  from disease and hunger - and that was happening in the millions.

But Jeff Bezos didn't care. But he did give a damn for Jeff Bezos. And the companies he controls are low, low paying with no employment benefits. His ten minute thrill was done at a cost that was billions. His employees got not a cent. They got nothing but starvation wages. As an employer, he lives on a giant scale. His employees get very few holidays, no health care... In the end, his employees just get trashed.

That is what's called capitalism and, oh, capitalism is flying in the U.S. We haven't seen contempt and, yes, slavery, like this for a century and more.

There are, I suppose, at least a hundred men in the U.S. just like Bezos. They starve children in Latin America, and send them to work in mines from the age of six or so. They were involved (with Canadian help) in the destruction of democracy in  Haiti. The Canadian help amounted to Canadian soldiers and police who murdered Haitians.

(The Canadian Legion called this 'fighting for country'.)

The Canadian Legion has said the same for troops we have sent to kill in Korea, in Afghanistan, Syria, the Middle East. We will also, almost certainly, send them to Cuba when the U.S. tells us to.

This is fighting for Canada? No. This has nothing to do with fighting for Canada. This is just kissing the asses of super rich Canadians and Americans. In all the wars Canadians have killed and died in since 1945 not one was to defend Canada. Indeed, nobody in the period has ever attacked Canada at all. (The last time anybody threatened to attack Canada was the US shortly after 1900.)

The reality is the Canadian Legion sends out our soldiers as hired killers. The Legion likes to talk as though this has something to do with honour. The reality is that the leaders of the Canadian Legion are low on brains and high on ass-kissing U.S. billionaires.

(In it's origins The Canadian Legion supported British wars. But it was obvious in 1945 that Britain was a dead duck. So that's when the Legion tapered off on singing God Save the Queen, and switched to God Saving the U.S.)

The reality we have to live with is that our biggest enemy is the U.S. That is going to be very clear quite soon as American territory is consumed by climate change all across the U.S. That's when the U.S. will insist on making Canada a part of the U.S. And, yes. This is very likely in the near future.

By the way, who started these monster fires in the U.S. and western Canada? Well, that would be the oil companies who filled our skies with carbon dioxide and other chemicals. And these come down on us, set monster fires, sicken us.

And Trudeau's Liberals and the Conservatives and both American parties have blessed these oil companies. The only party in all of North America opposed to oil and its poisons is the NDP. (That's not a political statement.  It's the truth.)

Alas! Liberals, Conservatives, GOPs and Democrats have always supported destructive and greedy causes - and Canadians and Americans have always been dumb enough to support them.

Wake up!

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This world cannot afford another big war. The weapons have become far, far too powerful. And we have far, far more serious problems to deal with. The world also has too many people. Nature, essential to us, has been  crowded out of our lives. We have destroyed much of the animal world - and we need to get it back.

But instead of that, we have destroyed much of our world, overcrowding it with cities. How do we deal with that? I don't know. But it has to be done.

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And while I'm on this binge, let me wake up all of us to a reality we have ignored.

Most people think of China as a backward country. And so it was until very, very recently.

When I was in China, it was, indeed, horribly backward. That shouldn't surprise anyone. China was, after all, a hundred and fifty years in vile persecution imposed by the British. The people of China were not stupid and they were not evil. They were victims of the greed and brutality of Britain and then (now) of the U.S.

That was very obvious as I travelled about China in the 1970s and 80s. Hong Kong seemed much better then. Alas! I felt differently when I went out one night for a walk.

I liked Hong Kong. I liked my students. I liked their parents. In fact, I seriously thought of moving to Hong Kong.

I did not like the British who ruled Hong Kong. They were arrogant racists. Particularly wretched was the governor's advisor, the man who really ran the place. (Worse news was to come. I learned that the advisor who was the most arrogant and racist of the lot was my cousin in law. He was married to my cousin.)

But I liked the Chinese.

Then, one night, I went out for a walk. I was stunned by what I saw. Everywhere, the streets were jammed with people sleeping cheek to cheek on pieces of cardboard - adults, children, babies.... other's slept on galleries. Elderly men slept in wire cages just big enough to lie down in. No matter where I walked and looked I saw this misery and horror that stretched out of sight. I had no idea how many there were -- certainly it was many, many thousands of wretched and starving people.

I  don't know whether this has changed in Hong Kong. I   doubt it. The British didn't give a damn about the misery of the people they ruled.

Mainland China was the victim of British control for over 150 years. And it was caught in the misery until very recently.

But, oh, things have changed.

Communist China has what is probably the best housing in the world. The buildings are new. And everyone is entitled to  housing. Even the poorest get free housing. (compare that to the misery of the homeless in Canada and the U.S.) This is an amazingly different China in amazingly quick time.

Education? The new China may well have the best education system in the world. And it's free. Jobs in China are plentiful and well paid. Medical care is excellent and free for all. (Compare that to the U.S. where, if you don't have much money you can simply die in the street.)

Cars? Oh, yes. China also has our curse of dense traffic jams.

Everyone, even the poorest, is well fed. (It's better than Ottawa in that.)

In short, China has become an amazingly advanced country - and more caring of it's people than is the U.S. or Canada.

Funny how our news media haven't noticed that.

Does it kill people? Yes. That happens against some groups. But it is nowhere close to the mass murder by Americans in the U.S. and all over the world. The U.S. is by far the worst mass murderer in the world.

In short, China is quite possibly the most advanced country in the world. That's an astonishing change. But you'll never see our news media mention this.

It is also now a leader in economic development all over the world. And that's what has the U.S. scared. China has the fastest growing economy in the world. In a short time, it is close, very close to beating the American economy.

That's why the U.S. is giving a lot of thought to invading China. As usual, American corporations will demand that the American people go to war against China.     (The American capitalists won't pay for it. They'll get you and me to pay for it.)

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July 21 This is a huge topic. I need time.

 There's a man who is super at the top ranks of those who are super rich. I can never remember his name. It's something like bozo. Anyway, his wealth is huge. And all this  caught my attention when I read that he had built a hugely expensive aircraft that could go to outer space - not to another planet,  but just to space. And his first use for it?

He sold huge seats for giggling super rich women who would flop around in space for the fun of it and then giggle at cocktail parties.

Now, he and the women are Americans. American children by the millions are living in filth, and often on the streets or   in fields. Many are dying while still children, dying because they have little or no food and no shelter.

Isn't there something wrong with this?

Oh, yeah. His name is Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man. I guess he decided to go into space. He came back with the advice the world should dump all it's garbage in space. Yeah. Now I think about it, maybe we should dump Jeff Bezos in space.

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 Suddenly, climate change has become the major  force in this world.It's not just California and British Columbia. The heat and the wild fires now almost cross over most of the U.S. and a good deal of Canada. It has struck savagely at the eastern Soviet Union. Europe has seen a dreadful flooding that has killed hundreds and will kill a great many more. China is experiencing unheard of floods with people drowning in subways. The effect of this is flooding that is affecting millions.

Are you a lover of New York?  It is now ranked as having the worst air quality in the world. And it's all because of the widespread forest fires throughout the U.S. The smoke is smothering New York making it almost too bad to breath. And this comes just after New York's bout with flooding.

You can take it as a certainty that a great number of Americans will be demanding the right to make Canada a part of the U.S.  So be patient and you'll soon be able to get military weapons at your local gun store.

Will Canada reject the American demand? Not likely. Not as long as Liberals and Conservatives are the only governments we have. Trudeau has already made it clear he will do whatever the U.S. and Canadian billionaires tell him to do. That's been true throughout Canadian history. The same is true for all Canadian billionaires.

Canada, by the way has the worst record in the western world for it's ass-kissing of billionaires. That's why Canada is way below other nations in it's control of the oil industry.

Luckily for Canada - sort of - all Liberals and Conservatives support this suicidal form of government. (I feel very, very lucky I'm old.)

Meanwhile, the super rich of this world are soaking up the good with super high prices for those meds we need to survive. Thus the extremely high prices they charge - especially in the U.S. (even having a baby in an American hospital costs tens of thousands of dollars. The whole purpose of a hospital in the US is to make the rich richer.

OKAY, I'M SWITCHING TO THIS PRINT BECAUSE MY COMPUTER IS KICKING ME TO DO IT THIS WAY. SORRY.

THE ABOVE IS WHY EAST AFRICA IS GETTING ALMOST NO HELP AT ALL. THERE'S NO MONEY TO BE MADE OUT OF IT. A HELL OF A LOT OF THEM ARE DYING. CUBA WILL HELP THEM AS MUCH AS IT CAN. THE US AND CANADA WILL JUST LET THEM DIE.

THIS IS A LONG AND COMPLEX STORY. WE ALL NEED TIME TO GET SOME UNDERSTANDING OF IT. AND WE SURE ARE NOT GOING TO GET UNDERSTANDING FROM THE GLOBE AND MAIL OR ALL THOSE OTHER GODAWFUL COMMERCIAL NEWS MEDIA.

I WROTE ALL THE ABOVE BECAUSE I HAD TO SAY SOMETHING. BUT NOW I NEED A DAY OR TWO TO WORK OUT THE POINTS I NEED TO COVER. THEN I'LL START WITH A LITTLE MORE FOCUS.

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 tells him to do. Thus his blessing for a pipeline to the Pacific. 

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July 18: The blog I didn't want to write

 I   don't want to write this. I know many people will be angry at what I write. But I think it's a truth we have to recognize. It's a reality we have to think about.

When the British Empire was at it's peak - from the late 1700s to the early 1940s, - it pretty well ruled the world. In fact, Many a brit still rejoices in that age of conquest - Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. For Britons never, never, never shall be slaves...

In fact, nobody was trying to enslave Britain. It was Britain that was enslaving millions  (even billions) of others. In that glorious age, it murdered hundreds of millions - men, women, children. The British also impoverished and enslaved most of their own population while they enriched their own   aristocracy.

An example of that age was Winston Churchill. In India, he murdered millions of men, women, and children by starvation.    (It was convenient. And he was not, by the way, a great wartime leader. In fact, the British despised him and kicked him out just before the end of World War 2.)

The British also enslaved the whole population of China for almost 200 years. They British also suckered Canadians into a British war so the British could steal the gold mines of South Africa. (The British needed Canada in this to set a precedent for big British wars, of which one soon came along. Then Canadians could die in British wars. Since 1945, Canadians have been suckered into American wars. That's why Canadians died in Aghanistan and Korea, wars that really had no connection to Canada. A Canadian missionary in Guatemala was deliberately murdered by American mercenaries hired to kill Christians in Guatemala. It didn't even make our papers. 

In short, the British Empire was no different from Hitler's Germany - except it was bigger. (and, yes, the British empire had mass murders just like Hitler's  mass murder of Jews.) The British Empire was not heroic. It was Nazi.

The U.S. has been Nazi from the start. It murdered everyone in the way of American expansion. (And it also tried Canada several times.) It carried out mass murder all over Latin America - including, as we should know -Cuba.  (It's now getting ready to attack Cuba - and it is quite possible it will demand that it's Canadian murderers join it. And count on it, the Canadian Legion will wet it's pants for the chance to kill Cubans.

Meanwhile, the U.S. is busy with  it's murder and theft in the oil fields of the middle east.

There was nothing unusual about Hitler's murderism. We have all of us been Naziis. And most of us still are. The American assault on China (which the Canadian Legion will cheer) may well be the end when our super rich flee to their underground mansions.

Meanwhile, we are all Nazis.

On the way, we Nazis will continue to mouth praise of Christ while,  for over a thousand years, our churches have been thronged with Nazi killers - including the ones in the pulpits of our churches.

The most recent tragedy by the way has been Nazi trend of  Israel.

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July 16: It's worse, much worse than any of us can imagine.

 Germany has just suffered flooding that has left a hundred people dead. And the damage  extends into Belgium and The Netherlands.

Yes. Climate change is happening. It's not just happening in California. Climate change is happening all over the world. And yes, it's going to keep spreading. And another yes, it's largely caused by our use of gasses created by the oil industry.

And both Biden and Trudeau have been on the side of the oil industry. We've  known about this for over twenty years. And both have made it worse. Of course. In Canada, both Liberals and Conservatives have been the friends of the oil industry that is killing us. In the U.S.  both Democrats and GOP have supported the oil industry. Of course....

... all four of those parties are financed by, among others, the oil industry.

The reality is that Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and GOPs have always been Controllers of Canadian and American governments. Canada and the U.S. are NOT  democracies. They never have been. (In fairness, I have to add that I don't know of any western country that is truly a democracy. All are owned by the wealthy. One of the worst examples of that is New Brunswick where the super-wealthy Irving family owns the government (the premier of New Brunswick was a senior official in the Irving family's business empire.) The Irvings also own the newspapers of New Brunswick. Oh, and they also get lavish gifts of billions of dollars every year from the taxes of the people of New Brunswick.

In Canada and the U.S., governments daily toss the poor and hungry into the streets and to sleep on the streets or in fields. They do this even as they hand out billions of dollars to the super rich who pay almost no tax in the first place.

Let's stop kidding ourselves. We are not democracies. We are not all equal.

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I have to add a little more to the story of what's happening in Cuba. The real key to this tragedy is that when the Cubans kicked out the American thugs (who promptly became the leading thugs of Florida), the U.S. sent in American warships to surround Cuba, and to blog any trade for it.

That blockade was illegal under international law. But that's what the US did. The result? Cuba could not export it's products, and it couldn't import the food it needed to feed it's people.

And for sixty years, without a break, the U.S. has starved Cubans. And next?

Well, it might happily bomb Cuba. Or it might get Canada to go in - as Canada did in murdering Haitians. Canada's Liberals and Conservatives seem to be happy at murdering people to please the U.S.

American and U.S. TV seem much the same as the U.S. The U.S. broadcasting of news that seemed decent - if boring - has been CNN. But I watched it's coverage this evening and it was just disgusting lying about Cuba.

Is the U.S. going to get more honest? No way. This is the U.S. - which has been murdering men, women, children, babies (deliberately) since 1949. There is no available number, but it is certainly in the millions. American soldiers have been killing themselves in tens of thousands as they realize what they have done.

Luckily, the Canadian Legion doesn't think at all. (Or, I wonder.... maybe it's time to find out how many Canadian military, like the Americans, have been ashamed for the killing they have done.) 

We are being set up for a horrible war on Cuba, for mass murder, for a return to the Americans who plundered, starved, abused, murdered Cubans for forty years.

Americans are the Nazis of our time. And, too often, so are we.

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footnote - keep an eye on the terrible flooding in Europe. Whole cities are flooded and an uncounted number have died. We're going to see a lot of that. It's what's called climate change and, roughly, the same horror as afflicts the western U.S. and Canada.

Our refusal to deal with it is going to affect all of us. But we mustn't complain. We musn't offend the billionaires who own the oil industry.

We are facing the destruction of our planet. (and no, I'm not exaggerating.) That's why the super rich have built underground bunkers. We are letting ourselves be bullied and murdered by a handful of the very rich.

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