The Decarie Report Sept. 7
Sept. 7: I am running late because I ran into some computer problems. I hope to have them repaired on Sept, 8, and have the blog ready late on September…
Graeme Decarie
Sept. 5: The disaster that is my life.:
I’m still having trouble getting my items onto the page. However, there is one thing I can do. I can apologize to Israel. No. I don’t like Netanyahu. No, I…
Sept.5:: repairs successful?
Let’s start with a change of pace. We humans are murderous bastards. We have have been from the start. Yes, other animals kill each other – usually to eat. We…
Sept. 3: Nuthin’
I am having computer problems. I shall attempt to clear them tomorrow (Friday.)
September 1: After today’s horrible news, yesterday’s bad news became cheerful.
It has been disappointing to see how little we are informed by any of our news media – and that includes the social media like this one – about the…
August 29: Bad, bad news.
Sorry to be almost a day late with this. It was my birthday, and my children held a birthday party for me and gave me gifts and lavish meals. Did…
August 27—And my birthday. But that is the only good news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias-infiltrate-us-police-report __________________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hillier-navarro-canada-afghanistan-idiot-1.5701264 The reality is that neither Canada nor the U.S. should have been in Afghanistan in the first place.Despite American propaganda, there was no connection between Afghanistan and…
August 25: The world? duh…it went that way.
I’m sorry this one is late. (I had serious computer problems/ But they seem to be fixed now.) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/the-us-is-in-a-water-crisis-far-worse-than-most-people-imagine —————————————————————————————————- https://rabble.ca/news/2020/08/new-federal-sick-leave-benefits-no-replacement-permanent-paid-sick-days-say-advocate ___________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/08/liberal-democratic-west-brink-total-collapse ___________________________________________________________________ ttps://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/activist-toolkit-blog/2020/08/province-province-look-returning-school-during-covid-19 It looks bad, very bad…
August 22: We are approaching the enemy. And he is us.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/20/greenland-ice-sheet-lost-a-record-1m-tonnes-of-ice-per-minute-in-2019 Relax. Real smart premiers like Ford of Ontario and Cheney of Alberta tell us it ain’t happening. And, you know, those oil executives, they know things too. So why…
August 20: The last days?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/19/climate-crisis-leaders-greta-thunberg https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/20/gas-industry-waging-war-against-climate-action#img https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2020/aug/20/california-fires-heatwave-wildfires-newsom Each year the fires get worse. This year’s is far the biggest. So who are you going to believe – a young girl? Or real men who…
August18: Time is Short
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/17/death-valley-temperature-rises-to-544c-possibly-the-hottest-ever-reliably-recorded Not to worry. Oil chiefs and their expert premiers – as in Alberta and Ontario – have told us nothing is happening. So there. ____________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/the-plastic-we-use-unthinkingly-every-day-is-killing-our-planet-and-slowly-but-surely-killing-us ————————————————————————————————– …and in…
August 15: A Slowing of the News.
https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/brent-patterson/2020/08/six-nations-land-defenders-criminalized-court-injunctions ___________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/08/progressives-must-overturn-global-capitalism-next-pandemic The above article is quite true. But it will never appear in the commercial news media dominated by billionaire ownership. ___________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/needs-no-introduction/2020/08/unions-fighting-anti-black-racism ___________________________________________________________________ Note——-this next item is…
August 13: Yes. I am discouraged…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/kamala-harris-vice-president-economy-1.5683974 Biden’s choice for VP is a long way from being a fresh breeze in American politics. Indeed, she is
August 11: My Most Depressing Blog
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/11/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-will-it-work-is-it-safe-sputnik-v _______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/11/why-would-anyone-argue-against-billionaires-paying-more-tax-just-see-useful-idiot-theory Funny how our local news media haven’t mention this. _____________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/11/the-pandemic-is-helping-the-rich-get-even-richer-its-time-to-tax-their-obscene-wealth As families around the world fall into deep poverty – homeless, without food, without hope, and…
August 8: Our very dangerous tomorrows
Sorry. My computer crashed in a big (and expensive) way for the past week. I must also warn you that much of today’s news is profoundly depressing. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/07/canadian-ice-shelf-area-bigger-than-manhattan-collapses-due-to-rising-temperatures Not to…
August 1: Let’s Get Real
This blog may be shorter than unusual. My computer has been under treatment in the computer hospital. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Cheer up. You might die in nuclear war. But all those super…
July 30: Oh, if only we had done what we said we would do in 1945…..
…but we were sold out by politicians – Liberal, Conservative, Democrat , Republican – who were, themselves, sold out to the super rich. _________________________________________________________________________________ My computer is acting very odd…
July 28: And it goes on….
For reasons best known to itself, my computer did not send out the following blog on July 28 – though I ordered it to do so. But computers follow their…
July 25: A very depressing blog…..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/trump-federal-agents-portland-ploy-election_________________________________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/25/houston-consulate-jeers-for-china-as-us-officials-shut-mission Western threats and bravado might seem like “making America great again”; but it won’t make anybody great. A war with China would be a no-winner.Even a conventional war…