Nov. 21: extra
I had not intended to write a blog today because I’m up to my ears in packing. So this will be short. Trump has forgiven the prince of Saudi Arabia…
Graeme Decarie
Nov. 20: Our Last Chance?
I don”t know quite what to make of this piece of sensationalism/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/defence-policy-trump-china-russia-1.4910038 Of course we could lose the next world war. In fact, It is almost certain everybody would…
The Decarie Report 2018-11-17 15:24:00
As I write this, the California death toll in the Paradise fire is up to 63 – and is expected to rise to as much as 600. The oil industry…
Nov. 12: Time is running out.
s Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 2m2 minutes ago More It is our sacred duty to support America’s Service Members every single day they wear the uniform – and every…
Nov. 13: The Canadian Empire
Oh yes, there is a Canadian empire. Us Canadian just don’t like to brag. (I guess that’s why the Moncton Times and Transcript never mentions it.) Like all empires, it…
Nov. 10: There’ll be bluebirds over…
…The white cliffs of Dover\Tomorrow, when the world is free.There’ll be love and laughterAnd peace ever afterTomorrow, just you wait and see. I was a very young child when I…
Nov. 8: It’s not just Trump
The problem is not Donald Trump. The problem is about half of the American population. That’s roughly the number who supported Trump in the mid-terms. The problem originated, I suspect,as…
Nov. 6: It really doesn’t matter.
There is, it seems, something worse than climate change. And we may have only two years to deal with it. (But it can’t be all that important. Our local Moncton…
Nov. 3: There’ll be blue birds over…..
…The white cliffs of Dover.Tomorrow just you wait and see.There’ll be love and laughterAnd peace ever afterTomorrow when the world is free…. This child can still hear the magnificent voice…
Niv, 1 A bad, bad, bad, bad day.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/five-countries-hold-70-of-worlds-last-wildernesses-map-reveals One of those countries is Brazil. but its Amazon rain forest has been declared as a target for the new, very fascist, ruler of Brazil. As well, the U.S.…
Oct. 30: It’s not my fault. I just report on the news.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/29/end-game-how-australian-preppers-are-bugging-out-and-hunkering-down_______________________________________________________________ https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/national-yukon-glaciers-climate-change-kaskawulsh-1.4873035 https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/living-plant-wwf-2018-1.4882819 Stories like the above – and worse ones like the very little time we have to deal with climate change – explain why I think New Brunswickers…
Oct. 28: After the disaster – to several more disasters
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-d-roosevelt-speaks-of-four-freedoms As November 11 approaches, it’s important to remember what we told Canadians they were fighting and dying for in World War Two. And Freedom of Speech was top of…
Oct. 27: A new, gutter low.
I have just spent almost four hours writing my blog. And it disappeared! I have no idea why. This has happened a couple of times before but this time was…
Oct. 25: very, very dangerous times.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/25/trump-insults-bombs-targets-democrats The world has had great dangers over thousands of years. But – and I’m quite serious – nothing so dangerous as the rule of Trump. He has built his…
Oct. 23: Dangerous Times
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/chrysler-auto-loan-canada-account-write-off-edc-bailout-taxpayer-wudrick-milke-1.4871648 Aren’t you proud of how nice our governments are to billionaires? Funny – irving press didn’t have this story._______________________________________________________________Thanks to a reader who sent me this superb and very,…
Oct. 20: Yes. New Brunswickers will have a new election. And no. They will still get it wrong.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jamal-khashoggi-consulate-death-1.4871498 https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/jamal-khashoggi-1.4867155 This has been a bizarre story from the beginning. Both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been deliberately starving and bombing millions of children to death. The U.S.…
Oct. 18: Time to go back to the drawing board.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/khashoggi-column-1.4863809 I know what he means. The U.S. is today’s Nazi Germany. It is a nation charmed by a Hitler who murders for exactly the same reason Hitler murdered –…
Oct. 16: Why Nothing Happens in New Brunswick
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/climate-change-costs-1.4833281 https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/10/15/opinion/mr-speaker-say-yes-climate-change-emergency-demanding-urgent-action Yes, it’s happening. But not here in this province of New Brunswick. In their recent provincial election, voters felt the real, gut issues were a need to improve…
Oct. 13: The world downhill.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/usmca-canada-china-coalition-1.4855868 Get used to it. We are now America’s bumboy just as over a hundred years ago, we were Britain’s bumboy in fighting a British war that had nothing to…
Oct. 11: The rise of fascism – again.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2018/oct/10/climate-change-what-will-happen-hellfire-california-forest-fires https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/losses-from-climate-disasters-surge-over-last-20-years-un-says-1.4856708 https://theantimedia.com/united-nations-geoengineering-save-humanity/ http://rabble.ca/news/2018/10/new-un-report-warns-climate-catastrophe-while-ford-kenney-spout-rhetoric https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-global-warming-report-falls-short-of-honest-truth What should be the biggest news of our time almost never makes the pages of our local newspapers here in New Brunswick. We are very,…