Don't kid yourself. We are heading for the end.

Man first appeared on this planet many, many, many thousands of years ago. And some of them, probably just a small number, gave themselves the power to rule all the rest. Humans are the only example of that behaviour. Other animals may occasionally get more angry with each other. But humans are the only creatures to obey a small group and to accept that small group as their masters. We have to understand that humans have always been governed by other humans going back to our earliest days on this planet. We have always been governed by a very small majority interested only in their own power and wealth. They wealthy of Rome lived in splendour. The great mass of the people of Rome died in the streets, and were casually dumped in great, mass pits of thousands at a time. The Emperors of Rome were certainly not bright, nor did they govern for the betterment of the people of Rome. They governed simply to enrich themselves. I don't know how far this practice goes. But it is still the way we govern. Rich kids grow up knowing that this is their world.The likes of super rich like the Irvings can roll in their piles of money - and this in a province that is poor. The rich have a right - going back for tens of thousands of years to be rich, to skip taxes. This has been the fact. The rich have been the rich going back countless thousands of years. And for the rest of us? We can sleep in the filth and pain of the streets. This is what we always have been. This is what we still are. I grew up in a district of Montreal noted for violence, murder and dreadful exploitation, As children, we were taught to know we were poor and weak - and always would be. We were expected by our parents to become poor - just like them. So when I got kicked out of high school, there was no anger or even sadness. No, this was a wonderful opportunity to work in a foul industrial shop largely staffed by drunks. Like many of my earlier classmates, this was to be my class in the world. In the U.S. and Canada today, billionaires are the equivalent of the same sort of bastards who enrich themselves - and let millions die in misery. This is the equivalent of the horror that was ancient Rome and of every Empire since then (and before then). The billionaires actually pay almost nothing in taxes. They actually get bonusses - such as cash grants to billionaires who produce ever more weapons to kill children and their parents all over the world while American children and their parents die on the streets. (And this happens in Canada, too.) Do the billionaires always go to church? Oh,yes. They're real Jesus Jumpers. President George W. Bush is a regular church goer - but it never interfered with his launching of a war in Afghanistan that set new standards for the murders of children and even babies. His father was even worse. He led in a new war of hired mercenaries to slaughter priests, nuns, and missionaries in Guatemala. Our Canadian equivalents of this behaviour has been the Irving family of New Brunsick. So far as I know, it doesn't directly kill the poor. But it's still a centre of greed that bleeds away the incomes of New Brunswickers and that destroys the hopes of the coming generation. But,like almost all the rich hypocrites in history, the Irving's go to church. In fact, they built the church and modestly named it after themselves. Just a short walk down the road from the "chapel" is a Catholic church whose graveyard holds the body of a missionary that was murdered by George Bush Sr. hired thugs in Guatemala. But I doubt that the Irving's ever look at it. And, certainly, they never allowed the Irving newspapers (all of them) to tell the story of how that missionary died. Oh, anyone should know that American governments, GOP Democrat, are not democracies. They never have been. And Canada's Liberal and Conservative parties are not democracies. But the reality is that most Canadians and Americans have no idea of that. In a real democracy, the people are in a real control of the vote. But in Canada and the U.S. billionaires pay those four parties so they can win - and so neither Canada nor the U.S. has EVER been a democracy. (In fact, you might find it hard to track down any country that ever has been a democracy. Britain, for almost all of its history, has been a country governed by it's aristocracy. And the British newspapers, owned by the upper classes, almost all support the rich.) In a democracy, the people have to have the power to challenge the wealth of the super rich. And that is exactly what the American, British and Canadian Journalists never do. Canada's Liberal and Conservative parties are owned by billionaires. Anybody should be able to recognize that. But Canadian voters are as thick as they come. They are ignorant as the American parties are. The only party in Canada that is a democratic on is the NDP. It is the only party not owned by billionaires. But will Canadian voters ever know that? Nah. Oh, and where do the churches fit into all this? I don't know how devout Christians were in the days of Rome. But I do know that for many, many, many centuries the Christian churches have always supported their king or emperor or whatever. In World War Two, British, Canadian and American Christian churches were all on the side of the British, Canadians and Americans. (The worst and most simple minded of the churches are the evangelicals. And the German churches were all on the side of Hitler. And the Italians on the side of a pope trying to be on neither side. And when the U.S. murders children and babies, American (and Canadian and British) churches clap hands for our side. There is nothing in our churches that has anything to do with the teaching of Christ. Today, the U.S. is anxious to get it's hands on an Australian journalist named Julian Assange. Assange was a brilliant journalist who told the truth. The U.S. government doesn't like people who tell the truth. It was particularly angry when he founded an intelligent and honest news service called Wikkileaks. Everything he said was truthful and honest. So the U.S. drove him into isolation. As a sideline, the CIA tried to kill him - and its been trying every since. Assange had to take refuge in a British government building. But the British kissed American asses. He was put into a British prison - without trial. And he went deep into the hell of solitary. But the U.S. wanted him in their solitary confinement - again without having committed any crime. (And it's no secret that the CIA is eager to murder him.) As matters stand, Assange is a man who has never committed any crime. He's a brilliant and honest journalist who has pretty much been destroyed by corrupt journalists - and, oh, we have a hell of a lot of those. The modern newspapers go back to the late 1800's. And they've always been liars. They are devices of the super rich to give themselves power. (I live in Ottawa where we get ghastly newspapers from Toronto.) I don't know of any commercial newspapers in North America that are not ghastly. (And yes, I would include the New York Times in that.) We are still living back, thousands of years back, when a small number of people made themselves rich and powerful as kings and emperors - and most of the rest of were cheap labour who lived in the filth and poverty of the streets. (And, gee, the U.S. is becoming very much like that. So is Canada.) And the American military have been trying very hard to take this power to domination of the whole world for American trillionaires. The major target is China. And this will be a war that will call for massive killing with nuclear bombs what will obliterate uncountable millions - maybe billions. And, yes, this will set off hundreds of nuclear bombs all over the world. Horrible as they were, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were only two bombs. This one will almost certainly set off many hundreds of nuclear bombs, and much more powerful ones,all over the world as in China, the Middle East - and possibly with some hitting the U.S. and Canada. But don't worry. The super rich will have found excellent hiding places even as the rest of us dive for shelter that really isn't there. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Our Savage Neighbours

This isn't a pleasant entry. Until almost a hundred years ago, Britain was the world's leading murderer and plunderer. So it's no surprise to learn that the British immigrants to what would become the U.S. conducted extraordinary mass murder to steal land from the aboriginal people - and slaughtering men, women and children - yes, even babies - in their centuries of wars. It happened in Canada with the French and the British, too, of course, and that was brutal enough - though the intensity of the slaughter was much greater in the U.S. As well, Canada put an end to its fighting in the nineteenth century - except for the brutality of the residential schools run by the Catholic churches. But the U.S. killing of native peoples was non-stop all the way to 1923 as, along the way, the U.S. conducted mass murder of women, children and babies. Canada was bad; but the U.S. conducted mass murder on a complete scale. Aboriginal survivors have been very few. Then they turned their attention to murdering Mexicans in what is now Texas, California and other regions. In all of these murders, the killing was of all genders and ages. It was rather like Hitler's death camps - though on a very much larger scale. That took time and money. As a mass murderer the U.S. was very much in the class of the British Empire at its worst. These years of mass murder demanded 9 years out of every ten. The U.S. also tried several invasions of Canada - though without luck. (However, it did manage to steal that strip of land down the Pacific coast called the Alaska panhandle. And this cut off Canada's only river to the Yukon.) In general, the U.S. carried out major killing for 9 years out of ten. Then it got worse. From 1900 or so, the U.S. murdered and plundered it's way over Latin America. Countries like Cuba got stuffed for American plunder. One of the early losses was Cuba's Guantanamo. The U.S stole it, and now uses it as a torture and murder base for prisoners taken as much as twenty years ago. (No. Their sin was not evil. It was having the nerve to defend their own countries when the U.S. attacked them. Afghanistan is a good example). As for the people of Latin America, they (including millions of children) have been enslaved in brutal work for almost no pay - and no education. Most recently (starting in the 195O's) the U.S.hired mercenaries (murderers) to kill uncountable numbers of priests, nuns, and missionaries, including a missionary from New Brunswick. The commander of this wretched army was the church-going father of George W. Bush who would become an ardent church goer too. As president the son would become the man who attempted the mass murder of Afghanistan. Praise the Lord. And note that none of your news media ever reported any of the above. No. The purpose of our news media is to keep us dumbed down. Oh, a missionary who was murdered in the attacks on Guatemala was, years after, buried in his home town in New Brunswick, which was also the home town of the billionaire Irvings. So it never made any news medium. However, if you ever are down there, it's just a short walk to the Irving Chapel where anybody who goes to that church is a damn hypocrite and fool. (And the minister must have no sense of any faith of any sort.) Except for a short time after Christ's crucificion, the Christian churches have blessed the warriors of their own side. So it was that Britain was blessed in 1939 - and Hitler was blessed in 1939. That still happens. And I really don't think that was what Jesus had in mind. The U.S. fought World Wars One and Two in the normal way of fighting against soldiers on the other side. But then the U.S. went back to it's old ways in 1944 when it bombed Dresden, a German city of very little military importance. And that was a bombing deliberately focussing on civilians, on children.... Ever since then, almost all American murdering has been of civilians, children even babies. It was no secret. The U.S. even bragged about it's mass murdering of civilians and children. It has also made a specialty of using "stealth bombers" to kill civilians of countries it was not at war with. In short, the U.S.military is centuries of mass murder and plunder for the benefit of the wealthy. If anything, it beats the behaviour of a Hitler. And that opens up a huge question for Canadians. Do we want to be the allies of America's Hitlers? Or worse - are we already the allies of America's Hitlers? Where does the Canadian Legion stand on this? It has supported our murderous American neighbours every step of the way. Do our Canadian armies murder civilians and children on the style of the American Hitlers? I don't know. However, I don't see how we could avoid murdering in the same style. After all, we were fighting along with the Americans in most of the wars since 1949 against countries none of whom had ever attacked Canada. (I can't even guess at the number of wars we have fought. That's because our lying news media have never told us.) And our Legion jumps at every command it gets from our American masters. Thus our 12 years with American mass killers in Afghanistan - a country that neither Canada nor the U.S. had any business in killing and plundering. And thus our news media that don't even tell we are at war with some nations. And do we kill with the same inhuman slaughter as the U.S. does? Almost certainly. Give some thought, too, to this. In 1945, Canadians fought in British wars. Then, abruptly, it turned to fighting American wars. Why? Try this. The British empire died in World War 1. So Canadian billionaires leaped into the arms of the American empire. They needed that to get into the arms of American capitalists. And the Canadian Legion joined that leap. Do we really want an army as vicious as that of the U.S.? Do we already have such an army? Are our top brass in the arms of the U.S.? Are our billionaires in the arms of American mass murderers?

Canada's very uncertain future.

This is a triple duty blog. It's to provide readers with some knowledge of where I find my sources. It's also to define the possibility we may have moved in a terrible direction since 1945. And it will probably make me some serious enemies. And it has a starting point that goes back to 1940 or 41. We lived in a district of extreme poverty and violence. Almost every day in winter, my father was up to shovel snow for the city. At the end of a work day that paid something less than four dollars a day, he would walk all the way to downtown Montreal and back to bring us a bag of charity food. (He couldn't afford the nickle trip on the tram cars.) These were the years of serious depression and hunger. Then, I think it was when I was in grade two, he came home with news. He had joined the navy. I remember how my mother took me and my sister to say goodbye to Chief Petty Officer Malcolm Decarie. He would be gone for five years. But he wrote to us often and affectionately, and often sent us wrapped gifts to be tucked away until he came home. There really was no choice. We had until then lived in the most wretched poverty. Now, oh splendour, we got a navy payment of - wow - I think it was 90 dollars a month. (I don't remember if that's accurate. It may have been less- but, oh, it was better than we ever had seen.) The only bad part was the next door neighbours on our balcony. They were small time Mafia thugs. With my father gone they made life hell for us - and once they broke in. Then - the war ended. We sent to the train station to greet my father. He came to us with the hammock (mick) that had been his bed in the navy. And, oh, he kept that for years. But he was furious when he heard about our Mafia neighbours. My father was a big man, and very strong. As soon as we got home and still in uniform, he stood at their door, arms folded. They never bothered us again. (I should add that the Mafia husband disappeared one day. Police discovered his body at the bottom of a shallow lake. He was wrapped in chains. We later learned that he had cheated on his Mafia friends.) Back from the navy, my father went to a meeting of the Legion. Big mistake. My father was a non-drinker, and he soon realized the Legion was nothing more than a booze club. He left early, and never went back to it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, let's take a look at the sources I use for information. For the most part, these are not newspapers. Most - almost all - newspapers are just lying propaganda. They almost all have been liars going way back into the late eighteenth century. Of course. Almost all owners of newspapers are propagandists. And that means almost all of their reporters lie. (And if they don't lie, they get fired.) However, the first newspaper I list is a big time paper. It's a British newspaper, The Manchester Guardian. It's not as daring as it should be. But it beats almost all other commercial newspapers. Just type this one and others at the top of your screen. Rabble.ca is a superb Canadian site. It's independent, just type Rabble.ca. Their leading figure was a parliamentary reporter in his employed days. When he retired he put together a first rate group of truth telling authorities. CBC on the web is pretty good. Gwynne Dyer is a brilliant analyst of world affairs. I knew him slightly when we shared space at CBC long ago. He's now an outstanding analyst based in England. The Nation is an American web magazine - and perhaps a little too much American. Consortium is worth a long read. CP Home is good. Breaking News is good Oh, and a superb site is Information Clearing house. It, like the sites above, would dearly love you to make contributions of a 10 or 20 dollars to them. But that's entirely up to you. I know that Information Clearing House site is a large and expensive operation. But that's up to you. Information Clearing House is run by a superb journalist who was, until recently, out of business because of the cost to him of preparing his site. I'm always amazed at the scale and depth of his reporting. The reality is our news media - radio, TV, print - are liars. I'm about to raise an issue on this which, since it criticizes our military, raises very serious questions about the U.S. military and how the Canadian military is marching into the U.S. model. That is going to make me some enemies.

Is the Canadian Legion simply Canada's sell out to the U.S.?

The U.S. is quite possibly the worst murderer in history. That goes all the way back hundreds of years to the time when the first British settlers arrived to murder the native peoples. That was an extended slaughter that went on all the way to 1923. The British and French in Canada were bad enough but they came nowhere close to the killing of men, women and children and, yes, even babies, by the U.S. In the process of doing that they carried out the mass murder of Mexicans so the U.S. could steal Texas, California and other states. And, of course, they made several tries at Canada - and we can expect to see more of that as we see much of the U.S. becoming uninhabitable. Roughly speaking, Americans have murdered and stolen the property of nine out of every ten years. Then it moved in on Latin America. That began about 1900. It reached a spectacular level beginning in the 1950s when the U.S. hired mercenaries (thugs and murderers) to murder Guatemala's priests, nuns and missionaries. (No, our news media never bothered to report this.) One of the victims was a New Brunswicker who, many years after his murder, was returned for burial in his home town (not far from the Irving Chapel which was owned by billionaires who also owned the local newpapers.) But, course, no Canadian news medium ever mentioned this. And the Irving leeches couldn't care less about it. In World War Two, the U.S. deliberately chose the German city of Dresden. Dresden was not a military target of any sort. It was a city of husbands and wives and children. And that's why the U.S. bombed it - to murder husbands and wives and children. And this became the pattern for all American warfare to this day. U.S. wars have been constant since 1940, aiming heavy bombing at chidren and bragging about it in the news. Nobody knows how many innocent civilians and children have died since. U.S. troops also had a deliberate role in the mass murder of very young children in much of Africa. Oh, and then, there are the remote bombers controlled by pilots in Washington gymnasia These have been used for some years to bomb civilians in countries that are not at all at war with the U.S. or anybody else. Typical targets are aimed at gatherings of families and children. And, since 1949 Canada stopped fighting British wars -and fought----American ones. Why? I've never seen an answer to that. But fighting for the U.S. is now Canada's major type of war. One of them is the despatch of a Canadian warship to waters on the China coast. What the hell is Canada doing patrolling Chinese waters? That's a move that puts Canada in line for one hell of a nuclear war. Canada, some years ago, also kissed American asses by killing Haitians and destroying the development of a Haitian democracy. We are now on the edge of the most destructive war in history,and I wonder---- ----Our news media tell us little (nothing) about our troops organized for war in western Europe, in China waters, in Syria.... and, more broadly speaking, are we the servants of American billionaires? And do we fight wars in our way? Or in the way our American masters tell us to. I very much fear that our military simply imitates the American style. We fight in the American style that peddles propaganda, that takes pride in murdering civilians and even children. If so, is our Canadian Legion simply fighting American wars and setting us up, all of us, for the terrible American ending? And has it committed itself to American butchery and destruction on our side? Is the Canadian Legion simply a patsy for making all of us American murderers? over the world we can see the destruction of countries by the U.S. And that makes me wonder.

get lost - somebody.

I think it was just days ago that I submitted a blog which included the behaviour of Chiang Kai Shek in his occupation of Taiwan. that drew a reader of the type who tells me I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm stupid. But he's smart.. He included a long analysis of his very intelligent thinking to prove I was a person of low intelligence while he was a genius. One always gets a character or two like that. This one illustrates his point with the brilliance he shows in his analysis of it all. So, in this case he informed me (while breathing contempt for my inferiority to him.) Alas! His analysis disappeared yesterday. I have no idea how or why. But here's as much as I can remember. (I enjoy arrogant fools.) He pointed out that Taiwan had a long history of independence by the time Chiang Kai Shek landed in it. Well, yes. But it also had long periods of ownership by China before that. He says that Chiang's army got along well with Taiwan. - and that Chiang tolerated the population and the wishes of the people of Taiwan. (More on this later.) What really annoyed him was my analysis of this mutual friendship which continued even as the Taiwanese rose into the majority. Eventually, so we are told, the Taiwanese became the majority and they controlled the future of the island again. And that is all brainless. Think hard. A Chinese army on the run lands in Taiwan. So what's that army of males going to do? These are men who have been caught up in a losing war. This is an army with damn few women. What will they do? Well, a great many of them will rape Taiwanese women. Some, perhaps less violent, will force marriage on them. After a very short time, a whole new generation will arise. Are the people of Taiwan Chinese? Of course they are. They were Chinese (all sides). They always had been. The smug author of this pedals the notion that they were now becoming simply Taiwanese again and becoming democratic. nonsense. There were no people who were just Chinese. The author then refers to a "new" generation who are pure Taiwanese. Nonsense.After all those years of mixed marriage, of rape, they're all a mixture. And they're all Chinese. From the beginning, there never was a 'new' generation. The store owners on the street could be descended of rape, of murder, - they could have any kind of blood. They were all different. There was no such thing after all these years as a person who was, for example, a pure blooded anything. The person who wrote all this drivel to me should think harder before inventing these myths. Oh, and the people of Taiwan are not necessarily pioneers of the future. They are all just pretty much like all the rest of us. And maybe even more boring than we are. Whoeer

The Horror of the U.S.

Warning - I don't know how long it will take to write this. I've been getting medication that puts me heavily to sleep for almost all day. I was astonished to read a report about Canadian warships in waters between China and Taiwan. As the U.S. prepares for war with China, this would place Canada in that war. Not a good idea. Let's not kid ourselves about Taiwan. Under the leadership of Chiang Kai Shek and his thugs, Taiwan was the centre of the biggest opium trade in the world. The people of Taiwan today are, for the most part, the descendents of Chiang's murderers and opium dealers. (They are not, by any definition, Taiwanese patriots.) And Canada has placed itself in a position to have to join in on the side of Chiang's thugs and against the rather considerable forces of China. Oh, yeah, the Canadian Legion will no doubt bless the thugs and send Canadians to die. The Canadian news media, of course, will never tell us the truth about Taiwan. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On your TV set it might be possible to pick out a horrifying story. Go to (forgive me. I'm old and fuzzy so I don't remember what the section is called. Oh, yeah. You Tube.) It's about San Francisco. It has over 80,000 people living on the streets, sleeping on bare concrete, sometimes on heaps of garbage which they search for food. (Any deliveries of free food are rare - and often unpleasant. This applies for the elderly all the way down to babies. I have never before seen such suffering. It's far worse than anything I saw in Hong Kong or China. I saw people sleeping in garbage cans. The dead? They're just dumped. Nobody cares. Almost all are mentally unbalanced. Of course. All try to steal food from the stores. Almost all are sent to prison for long sentences. But the prisons don't want them, either. So within days of sentencing they are kicked out. It's common to see people who have been kicked out and sentenced again 40 times and more. All of them, of course, are hopelessly insane as a result of their experience. And the children of the insane stay in the streets and the filth - and the death. I saw the same for Seattle. It's moving across the U.S. And by every sign the billionaires are not lifting a finger. Meanwhile, the pharma giants are making monster profits from their covid 19 sales - far, far more than their drugs cost to produce. And they don't give a damn about the horror they are creating. After all, this is the U.S. - the happy land of the super wealthy and greedy. Pope Francis has asked the pharma giants to release their covid19 patents. They won't. And millions will die. But don't worry. Your news media won't tell you what's happening. As well, our news media won't tell us that we are killing whole nations with the greed of our capitalists. Millions are dying. But notice there are no stacks of the wealthy dead. We have gone back thousands of years to the emperors and the starving street mobs of Rome. We are soon to murder billions of Chinese in order to please the politicians and the Liberals, Conservatives, Democrats and GOP. And, as we can see, our capitalists are planning to kill all of us. Indeed, we are within range of killing all human life. But to make you feel better about that,China is the world's biggest emitter of coal - a horribly destructive product. So maybe it will destroy us first. Oh, while you're dying, take the time to look at Gwynne Dyer. when his site appears, click on the word articles. I knew Gwynne Dyer long ago when the world and he and I were young. We shared space on a CBC radio show. He was a Canadian and a graduate of Military college. And I thought he was brilliant. I think so now even more. So here is a huge collection of his articles over the years.

A Humble Reply

I don't at all disagree with yesterday's response to my statement that China's proclaimed creation of a nation of general ambition for equality. (and forgive me, I have a computer that drives me around the bend. It must be the one the CIA gave me.) I said in my blog that the Chinese government has announced a wish to bring about national equality in China. And, by closing down on the billionaires of China, the government has demonstrated a wish to do that. But will it be capable of completing such a change? I doubt it. In all I know from history, there is no record of any society which permitted equality. It seems to be a curse of humanity. I don't know of any country in the world - in all those years - of any country in which the rulers have permitted any of their people to have equality. Almost all other animals do permit it. But not us. And there is certainly no sign of it in our western world. Check out the billionaires of our world. They don't give a damn about anyone else. I just called attention to it because it was so unusual. I don't doubt there are many ways to move people into line. The Chinese are trying to do something that can really only be modified, not changed on a huge scale. But ------- ----but throughout history, our world has rarely tried to be anything but plundering - which is what the U.S. is now doing all over the world, and has been doing as long as their has been a U.S. And it's what our capitalists, with the help of the Liberals and Conservatives, do to us. Think of the many, many families of the U.S. and Canada who live on the streets and who now face a winter with, if they're lucky, a tent. Think of the billionaires who spit on them. China houses it's people, all of them. Yes, it took a long time for China to do it. But it housed them. We don't house ours.