The Decarie Report 2019-07-16 23:02:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/july-on-course-to-be-hottest-month-ever-say-climate-scientists Nah. It ain’t happenin’._________________________________________________________________
Graeme Decarie
JJuly 16COMPUTER PROBLEMS…..
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 –…
July 13: Dreadful
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…
July 11: Keep an eye on Iran.
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 –…
July 9:Very bad news
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 –…
July 06: Sieg Heil!
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…
July 4: The Final Delusion
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…
July 2: My tragedy.
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…
June30:
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…
June 29: we are a disaster waiting to happen.
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…
June 27: Damn fools – all of us
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…
June 25: Let’s get real. Let’s get angry.
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…
June 22: A Quiet Day – as they go.
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._______________________________________________________________…
June 20: Things are very, very dangerous.
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…
June 18: It is probable that on this post….
……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…
June 23: Praise the Lord….
….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…
June 20:sometimes one has to hate everybody.
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…
June 11: Wow! Social media spread fake news. CBC breaks huge story….
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.…
June 08:I should be positive? Why?
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…
June 6: Forgive me. I have no patience left.
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…