Oct. 31: No. Damn it. No!
Just minutes ago, I watched CNN on TV. And this is the same garbage I’ve seen on every channel. Like virtually all commercial news media it ignores the central problem…
Graeme Decarie
Oct 28: The savagery of wealth
The UN has warned that we are very close to starving to death a whole generation of children in Yemen. Onward Christian soldiers. After I read about this, I came…
Oct.26: Don’t think; it ain’t good for you.
I know, I said I would stop bothering you with my blog. But I made an extremely unpleasant discovery. Go to Counterpunch in your blog titles for October 26. The…
Oct. 17: The evil that men do….
No. I said I would take a break on writing my columns. And I will. But…..something came along. It’s about Canada’s billionaires – which are pretty much like billionaires all…
Oct. 13: Enjoying the life I have left.
When I begam this blog, my purpose was not to express my opinions. It was, in the face of a largely dishonest news media, to expose readers to a larger…
Oct. 1o: Evil
75 years ago, I was a child standing on a main street in downtown Montreal and spellbound by the hysteria of thousands of people. A huge crowd followed a leader…
Oct. 9: A confession
This is an extra (and short) post on the subject of communism. It arises from an earlier blog in which I noted the western fury at the rise of communism…
Oct. 8: sometimes one gets pessimistic
I’m still on “big series” of basic events that most of our new media don’t tell us about. And this is an unpleasant one. But we have to face reality.…
Oct. 7: An extra as I wait for repairs.
This is an extra because I feel guilty about my delays in getting back to normal. For an opener, type Haaretz on your computer. It’s an Israeli paper that now…
October 6:
The format of this blog today will be directly from me to you because I am still wrestling and swearing at the way this computer works – and often doesn’t.…
Oct. 1: Just this once – a change of pace.
I missed a blog because I seriously overslept. That happens to us old folks. But coming back to write this blog, I just got angrier at the whole, damn thing.…
September 29: The price of our pandering to the super rich.
https://www.etfo.ca/AboutETFO/MediaRoom/MediaReleases/Pages/Ford%20government%E2%80%99s%20return%20to%20school%20plan%20unravelling%20because%20it%20refuses%20to%20fund%20smaller%20class%20sizes%20to%20keep%20students,%20educat.aspx My home province, Ontario, has a premier who is Donald Trump’s twin brother. His name is Doug Ford. ______________________________________________________________ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/23/aid-agencies-warn-of-covid-19-crisis-in-refugee-camps-as-winter-approaches Our wars have pushed tens of millions – probably…
The Decarie Report 2020-09-28 15:56:00
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-tax-evasion-election/
9/27/2020: The real news.
Sorry this blog is so late. But yesterday was a family day.As well, today’s blog is different because I have to write – not about our news but about the…
Sept 24: growing up stupid
https://rabble.ca/news/2020/09/trudeau-rallied-canadians-fight-second-wave-covid-19-his-throne-speech-lacked-detail ___________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/david-suzuki/2020/09/back-school-uncertain-climate __________________________________________________________________ https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2020/09/pandemic-has-cleared-way-doug-fords-plans-privatize-education I grew up in a working class district. It was assumed, quite casually, that my first year classmates and I would never graduate from high…
Sept. World – go away.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-bitumen-sturgeon-refinery-nwrp-1.5718044 As I have said many times, our super rich exist largely to plunder us. This has been true for thousands of years. And this has been a constant for…
Sept. 18: A horrible day
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/why-concentration-camps-are-still-with-us Concentration camps were first developed by Spain, Britain and the U.S. about 1900. They were designed to humiliate and demoralize and, yes, to kill their prisoners. And that is…
The New Blog
Recently, this blog has become impossible. But I now have discovered a new system. Below are sections in blue. touching them will (I hope) reveal news items. As always, my…
To readers of this blog
For viewers of the blog dealing with current events, I am having desperate problems with this site. I cannot make contact with the topic. Indeed, I don’t seem to be…
.Sept.10: Evil
Pay no attention to the four entries at the bottom of this page. They are part of the confusion I am dealing with. These entries are part of a computer…