Author: Graeme Decarie

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/july-on-course-to-be-hottest-month-ever-say-climate-scientists Nah. It ain’t happenin’._________________________________________________________________

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-ambassador-us-iran-deal-1.5211399 This is pure greed to satisfy American oil billionaires. It’s also wildly illegal. And it’s bloody dangerous for all of us. But it’s popular among the Evangelical Christians – who arguably are not Christians but are both self-righteous and ignorant. And that’s the ones who have been passionate for

About 1900, Canadian troops were fighting a British war in South Africa. (The enemies were Dutch settlers called Boers. Much of the Canadian role was to guard Dutch families in prison camps where thousands men, women and children died. But why on earth were Canadians there in the first place?

For much of the nineteenth   century, Iran has been a democracy – if sometimes a limited one. Until right after World War Two, it was often a limited one – limited by the clerics and limited by the British who regarded Iranian oil as its own -free of charge.. That’s

Iran has never threatened the U.S. But the U.S. has (illegally) pronounced who it will allow Iran to trade with. That illegal move is already causing suffering for Iran – including the children of Iran. Clearly, the U.S. wants a war with Iran. The death and destruction will be enormous.

The news media, for the most part have treated Trump’s hymn of praise for the military as a triumph. Our Heroes. It was no such thing. We’ve seen this appeal before. It was developed by an Adoph Hitler who was trying to create the kind of heroes he wanted for

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/journalism-doctor/2019/07/cartoonist-fired-after-trump-cartoon-goes-viral In New Brunswick, where I lived for some 18 years, the Irving family is a name of contempt. They control – and abuse – just about everything in the province – and are utterly without any sense of obligation to the people of New Brunswick._________________________________________________________________http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2019/07/we-can-resolve-climate-crisis Yes, there is a 

Today, I spent at least 6 hours writing this blog. Then, in some accident I don’t understand, I lost it all. I’ve done that before – but this time I just don’t have it in me to do it all over again. Yes, I am seriously retarded as a computer

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-election-poll-1.5188097_________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/insulin-prices-united-states-canada-caravan-1.5195399 There is nothing new about this U.S. (and Canadian) plundering of the rest of us by the very rich. In their imperial days, wealthy British built their foortunes by plundering the rest. At the peak of empire when the wealthy were building vast fortunes, the children of the

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-fighters-buzzed-regina-asterix-east-china-sea-1.5193149 Why is Canada sending warships to the East China Sea? Have the Chinese threatened some Canadian interest? Are they going to attack Canada? No. We’re just acting as bumboys for our American masters. Oh, I know. Why not send our ships to Venezuela to tell the Americans to bug

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-heat-records-1.5191106 Gee. Can you imagine how bad it would be if there was a real climate change going on? Aren’t we lucky there’s no such thing?___________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/will-migrant-photo-salvadoran-father-daughter-change-minds-1.5191462 Too bad nobody at the U.S. border patrol knows how to spell precaution._______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/26/credit-line-to-be-announced-to-ease-eu-and-iran-trading In my last blog, I reported an accusation that

https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/ Again, the CBC is doing what all of our news media should have been doing for the last 30 years. Get used to it. But most of your news media lie to you – and always have. CBC has taken a brave and intelligent stand._https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/confronting-carbon/ ___________________________________________________________http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/guardian-propagandistgatekeeper-state-mouthpiece Well, yes.  As

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/what-on-earth-newsletter-climate-change-1.5183329 https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/inourbackyard/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/the-national-climate-change-courts-1.5182876 CBC news has been promising much fuller coverage of climate change – and so far it’s delivering it. That’s very different from our privately owned news media._______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/texas-el-paso-migrant-children-neglect-1.5185329 God bless America.__________________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/21/trump-iran-democrats-congress-oversight-warren-biden We’re not out of the woods yet. Not by a long shot. It’s not really clear

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-resettled-most-refugees-un-1.5182621 Get this. Canada led the world in accepting refugees while the U.S. at many, many times the size of Canada came second. – which makes one wonder about the bigotry and racism of the rest of the world. And you know what? Despite the warnings of Donald Trump these

……we shall get our 1,000,000 viewer.___________________________________________________________https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-us-tanker-accusation-1.5175368 Oh, yeah. Those Iranians are always attacking people. Not at all like peace-loving Americans. And millions of Christian fundamentalists in the South will actually believe this transparent crap, and feel the virtue running through their veins. Shortly after Trump blamed Iran for the attack,

….and pass the ammunition…(The following item is not the usual  blog. That will appear on June 18 with regular blog.  This one, dated June 17, is not at all a regular blog. It’s an extra.) “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition….” That was a popular song right after the

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hong-kong-protests-thursday-peaceful-1.5173320 For a couple of centuries, Hong Kong has been more a nation than being a part of a nation. For a very long time, it was forced to be a British nation despite the arrogance and obnoxiousness of the British. Then – – I remember walking down a street

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/fake-news-facebook-twitter-poll-1.5169916 Yep. It must be true because 90% of Canadians say they’ve been taken in by it.You know – social media – like this blog are fake news. So there. Is there fake news on social media?  You bet there is – sometimes as part of a professional telling of

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/07/uae-tanker-attacks-un-iran-norway-saudi-arabia Right. It’s obvious. This had to be a state-sponsored act of highly trained killers. Ihttps://www.cbc.ca/news/world/immigrant-detention-dhs-report-1.516608_______________________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/oceans-demise-the-end-of-the-arctic-as-we-know-it_____________________________________________________________ I included the next item for personal satisfaction. A high school classmate of mine was a person ever in search of a cause. His first was communism,  and shortly after leaving high school he

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-public-sector-wage-cap-1.5163753 What a collection of soggy wimps Canadians can be. They elected Doug Ford as premier. Ford has used his position to kiss up to the rich – and I would find it hard  to believe that any person of normal intelligence could possibly vote for him. For a start,