Genocidal killer Joe Biden, and other topics

US--LED WORLD CLASS HYPOCRISY With covid temporarily seeming to come under control with over 100 million Americans vaccinated, the White House has moved brazenly to its aggressive stance against 2 of its overseas 'enemies' - China and Russia, the third being Iran - for the crime of not obeying Washington's orders. On Russia - Joe Biden called Vladimir Putin a 'soul-less killer', for the alleged poisoning of Navalny, even though he is not actually dead. No mention of the 400 or so drone assassinations carried out under Barack Obama (with full Biden support) which killed thousands at minimum, including a dozen wedding parties and half a dozen funeral processions. On China - feared principally because of its economy which already surpassed that of the US on PPP in 2014 - the US has ordered sanctions for the alleged Chinese persecution of its Uyghur Muslim minority, with full support from the UK and Canada. That this latest action is brazenly hypocrital, corrupt and vile, is proven by 3 things (at least): 1. The CIA has been training and using Uyghur Muslims to foment domestic terror within China, which is the principal cause of the Chinese government's actions to fight that terror, by taking control of this minority; when 9/11 occurred (although powerful evidence exists it was an 'inside job') the US invaded foreign countries with false pretexts, as one comparison... 2. The US and UK, with Canada's help, have invaded and occupied Afghanistan and the Middle East for 2 decades - merely the West's latest crimes going back a century - and killed millions of Muslims and turned tens of millions into refugees; 3. As the perpetrator of quite monstrous racism against its own African-American minority of tens of millions, descendants of slaves brutally kidnapped for servitude and suffering, the US ought to be in no position to lecture others. But of course it can and does. This is not just the pot calling the kettle black, it is the Auschwitz Oven doing so. And although PM Chretien technically refused to join the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Canada unofficially provided much logistical support, and 'peace-keeping' troops in Afghanistan. Canada's own shameful treatment of its 'First-Nations' - which apparently inspired white South African apartheid - also hardly puts it in a position to lecture China. But as with Jack Layton's shameful apology to Israel for a Libby Davies' blogpost, has the Canadian Parliament not disgraced itself by joining the US denunciation? And of course, these historical crimes aside, the recent anti-China hysterics never mention the horrors suffered by China in its '100 years of humiliation', dominated by British and American opium war-crimes and unequal treaties, which arguably so devastated China that a totalitarian reaction under Mao became inevitable.

ELON MUSK'S TWEET -'SOMETHING EXTREMELY BOGUS IS GOING ON'...AFTER TESTING BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, TWICE EACH IN THE SAME DAY!

Elon Musk is one of the richest men on the planet, with tens of billions made from Tesla, SpaceX and Paypal. Some weeks ago he had publicly declared he would not be taking the vaccine, leading to Bill Gates commenting 'Musk in not much involved in vaccines', and to Musk's riposte - 'hey knucklehead, we make the vaccine machines for CureVac that company you're invested in'. That alone ought to have led to public questions about which of our political leaders are also 'heavily invested' in the pharmaceutical companies making the upcoming vaccines. Et tu, Justin..? And possibly darker scenarios than that.... how about secret rewards for playing along with the Event 201 'playbook'? But now another grievously troubling report - after experiencing some cold symptoms, Musk got himself tested for covid, and then tweeted "Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020 The tech maverick later tweeted that he will get tested by separate labs; the results will be available in 24 hours. If it’s happening to me, it’s happening to others. I’m getting PCR tests from separate labs. Results will take about 24 hours. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2020 When are Canadians and other citizens of 'the allegedly free world' going to wake up? Are we not marching into a global dictatorship...? With such fraudulent and flawed tests and the fake statistics of a 'second wave', we seem well on to the scenario dismissed as 'fake news', of pre-planned,increasingly draconian lockdowns which will wipe out small business and many major industries, leading to 'debt forgiveness' in exchange for property forfeiture, plus drastic measures for non-compliance with vaccines injected under pretext of 'global health security'. Measures which almost certainly will include travel bans, monster fines, possible jail terms or indefinite internment in covid camps... But compliance will result in injection of nanoparticles in the vaccines, which may well be nano-chips for global surveillance, plus others that genetically modify human beings.... why is nobody asking these questions in the major media? If the tests are flawed and unreliable, so are the daily bombardments of covid case statistics.... used as the justification for the imposed lockdowns, which have shut down the global economy, or much of it, while also devastating personal freedoms, on what is almost certainly a fake virus... The upcoming vaccines will make hundreds of billions of dollars for the pharmaceutical companies and similar stratospheric profits for shareholders like Bill Gates, who is (along with Big Pharma) a big funder of the 'World Health Organization'. Wasn't there an adage along the lines of 'he who pays the piper...'. The daily repetition of case statistics, devoid of any comparative numbers for national and global cases and deaths from other causes like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc. is strongly reminiscent of Dubya Bush's 2002 repetition of 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq, isn't it? Something is rotten in the state of Planet Earth, so rotten Earth has likely never seen such rottenness in its 4 billion years of history... It was separately reported that UK PM Boris Johnson, is meeting with Bill Gates (Earth's self-appointed Supreme Medical Advisor) to discuss .... 'global health security'... Nobody seems to want to ask 'Who the f..k is Bill Gates to advise governments on health matters'.

THE UNLEASHING OF EVENT 201, THE GLOBALIST PATH TO DICTATORSHIP - LETTER TO THE TORONTO STAR

As we in Canada, and the US, and presumably the world entire, face daily bombardments of just 2 numbers - covid-19 cases and deaths - a whole series of questions remain unasked, and reports remain suppressed. Among them: 1. Was WHO started by the Rockefeller Foundation, and is it principally funded by the Gates Foundation and Big Pharma? Under its recommendations, strongly influenced by its funders (he who pays the piper....) children now receive over 50 vaccines, a ten-fold increase from a few decades ago. Isn't this a monstrous conflict of interest, and de facto capture of WHO by its beneficiaries in Big Pharma, (and Big IT)? 2. Did the Gates Foundation not make experiments with dangerous vaccines on hundreds of thousands of the poorest and most vulnerable children and women - in India, the Philippines and Africa? And did disastrous consequences including death and disability, not ensue for thousands of these involuntary guinea pigs, tricked into their roles with false promises of being injected with 'vitamins'? Why are these crimes not broadly reported, and prosecuted? 3. Does Bill Gates have major investments in the companies whose vaccines he is touting? 4. What secret medical degrees Bill Gates has been conferred, given the authority with which he has made pronouncements about the efficacy or lack of American tests, the need for 'multiple doses' of vaccines, recommendations for drugs like Remdesivir and Dexamethasone, etc? Surely his modesty is unparalleled? Setting aside sarcasm, surely his IT credentials provide the surest connection to the global surveillance and control agenda that is unfolding, prompting his recent denial that nano-chips would be installed via the vaccines? 5.Research into nano-particles in vaccines, and the potential dangers of them, such as with metal toxicity even at nano-sizes, is neither broadly reported nor discussed. 6. Nor is there mention of what was disclosed 20 years ago in James Bamford's Body of Secrets - that DARPA, Cray Research, MIT, and so on, have been researching nano-computers of unparalleled speed, marrying synthetic and organic elements like DNA and E-coli, and capable of being powered by electrical charge from the human brain. 7. That the lockdown has itself been draconian with consequences that thousands of doctors in Europe predict will kill several times more people than the alleged pandemic. Through poverty, starvation, breakdown in food and medical supplies, and the probable unleashing of far more dangerous pandemics from malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases that will mushroom in the horrific conditions engendered by the economic shutdown, especially in the poorest and most populous countries where billions live. Additional tens of millions of global refugees may ensue. In India, the economy has shrunk by a quarter, and millions walked hundreds of kilometers to their villages, fleeing from the shuttered cities they had come to work in. This is possibly just the beginning. 8. Western 'liberal' democracy - already under attack after 9/11's instant bastard - the Patriot Act, and the 2010 'Citizens' United ruling's authorization of unlimited bribery of politicians as 'free speech' - is further being shredded with huge fines, and such things like the arrest in her home, of a pregnant Australian woman, for the 'crime' of posting an anti-lockdown message on Facebook, called 'incitement' by the police. 9. In the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 'Dubya' repeated his 'weapons of mass destruction' ceaselessly as pretext. The current covid numbers, provided without comparative ones for other diseases, like flu, cancer, heart disease, suggest similar devices at work. All manner of questions about false positives boosting statistics, lumping of co-morbidities to them, and so on, have been dismissed as 'conspiracy theories'. After being herded into social distancing, now we are told the virus 'may be airborne', which might make the wearing of masks permanent.... The invention of external threats like the 'Red Menace' and 'Islamic terror', are now superseded by this mysterious, invisible foe, which justifies the destruction of the global economy. Where are we headed? 10. The Spanish Flu cited as precedent, killed 50 million when the global population was 1.8 billion. After months, the coronavirus has just killed over 1 million (even assuming reported statistics are accurate) with the globe's population nearly 5 times larger. Our health-care systems were supposed to have been overwhelmed, weren't they? 10. Apparently both the Rockefeller and the Gates Foundation had published secret documents years ago, like Event 201, that more or less provided the blueprint for the current crisis. Arundhati Roy mentioned in her latest book, that we may be entering a 'portal' from which there may be no return.

The historically amnesiac, and naive anti-China tirades in India

It is interesting how full of naivete, historical amnesia, and absence of touch with reality, the current anti-China tirades are from so many Indians, and in the Indian media. I am Indian, by the way. Yes there has been a violent (but comparatively small..) confrontation in the Galwan, and yes China has aggressively taken Aksai Chin and Tibet, and also supported Pakistan since 1947. But that is only a small part of the history. People have forgotten who ruled and raped India for over 200 years – turning it from the second largest global economy and second richest country (a veritable ‘soney ki chideeya’) into one of the poorest countries in the world – those same British, who gave birth to their bastard nation the US, which has taken over the superpower status from them. The US was forcibly stolen from the tens of millions of ‘Red Indians’ who inhabited it for millenia, BEFORE COLUMBUS WAS EVEN BORN! And some 90% of whom were wiped out, with such things as pipe-dream treaties never honoured by the US, and genocidal devices like blankets infected with small-pox, ‘gifted’ to those poor souls. Plus the brutal kidnapping and import of tens of millions of Africans into slavery, which allowed the US to replace the British as the world’s largest economy through cotton grown for free by slaves, at a time when ‘cotton was the oil of the time’, to quote Noam Chomsky. And the Brits had destroyed India’s economy (as Tharoor describes) which was the world’s greatest producer of cotton, by such devices as destroying Indian looms and cutting off the thumbs of weavers (at least in one case). And we think the US-led West is our friend? India is more ‘popular’ than China with these people? Think again. It was in 1971 when the US and UK navies charged into the Bay of Bengal to threaten India, which had been forced to intervene in the East Pakistan crisis, which created Bangladesh. Who saved us? Our Soviet friends literally saved our bacon – sending submarines which reached the Bay before the US and UK, and sent them packing. How soon we forget!! The reason the US has been on an anti-China tear has been the unprecedented, and unpredictable growth of a global economic rival – China, whose manufacturing is double that of the US (as percentage of global share) and ten times that of India! Think about that before you assume that the fiasco in Galwan will cause the Chinese to lose heart. It might - because of such things as long supply lines to that border with India, but don’t bet on it - China’s economy is nearly 5 times bigger than India’s. Yes PM Modi is acting intelligently in seeking military alliance with the US-led powers challenging China, such as Japan and Australia. But it is not in India’s interest to fight a war with China, and neither is it in China’s interest. Both have major problems internally, but India’s problems are bigger. Yes the Chinese are being sanctioned by Western countries for the new ‘security’ law in Hong Kong, and US aircraft carriers have been in the South China seas since the time of Obama….. but these are all part of the US-led anti-China campaign. And the US support of India, which only began at the time of W. Bush with the US-India nuclear cooperation deal – is calculated to countervail the growing power of China, which the US clearly fears. For decades before that, the US penalized India with sanctions for daring to build a nuke and explode it at Pokharan. And all it did was incentivize Pakistan to develop its own arsenal, and yes with Chinese cooperation. But that demon has been unleashed, and cannot be put ‘back in the box’. Who created the 1971 crisis? The US! Which gave billions of dollars of weapons to West Pakistan (via Iran’s SAVAK and Saudi Arabia) to murder millions of East Pakistanis, whom the Punjabi Pakistanis regarded as inferior…. When millions of East Pakistanis fled to West Bengal (India), Indira Gandhi was forced to intervene. She was later assassinated (read Tariq Ali’s fictionalized book on this) by her bodyguards, with secret CIA encouragement, or else they might never have dared do it. Who created the Hong Kong demonstrations which ultimately led to the Chinese clampdown? The CIA and MI-6 – who have a record of fomenting this type of trouble to topple governments or weaken them – they have done it all around the world! Do you have the first clue what Hong Kong’s history was? Hong Kong was seized by the British (whose navy ‘ruled the waves’ at the time….) after the Chinese emperor ordered that their opium - which the British forced Indian farmers to grow in Bengal (also causing famines – which cumulatively killed 35 million Indians, read Shashi Tharoor’s Inglorious Empire…!) and were dumping in China - be stopped. A Chinese official threw one British opium shipment into the sea (shades of the Boston tea party) - so the global superpower and the world’s greatest drug cartel of the time, used its gunboats to bomb Chinese coastal cities - forcing the Chinese emperor to surrender, pay the equivalent of billions of pounds in reparations, and cede territories like Hong Kong to the British, which they used to continue the drug trade, which was a major source of ‘royal’ fortune. And these are the people who are claiming China is injuring freedoms in Hong Kong! Please – please – stop parroting American and British nonsense. Go back and read history. We have had recent border conflict with China. But they never robbed or raped us. That was the British and now is the Americans (see below). Yes it seems the Chinese intend to dominate the off-shore resources off their coasts, whose ownership is disputed by Vietnam, etc…. But let’s keep perspective…. the British colonial history is one of outright theft of other countries… as Tharoor puts it, most if not all museums in London, are full of treasure stolen from former colonies, which the no-longer so ‘great’ Britain refuses to return to the rightful owners. Like the Kohinoor diamond stolen from India, or the ‘Elgin marbles’, stolen by ‘Lord’ Elgin from Greece. Yes the Americans are now looting India, as we foolishly surrendered to them the freedom achieved at so much cost from the British! Read Arundhati Roy’s Capitalism a Ghost Story, for how trillions of dollars of mineral resources in Orissa, Jharkhand and Chattisgarh, were simply handed over to US corporations for a song!!! Literally all India gets will be royalties as little as 0.5% or possibly as high as 7%.. Which Indian politicians had big deposits in their Swiss bank accounts in consequence..? I don’t know. No wonder Obama – one of the greatest ‘actors’ (as in Hollywood or Bollywood) in history – soon thereafter told an Indian audience what their esteem-starved minds wanted to hear: ‘India is already a superpower’. What a laugh! The overwhelming majority of India’s population – over 700 million – remain in horrible crippling poverty…. While the major corporate controlled media yammers on about a handful of Indian billionaires, like Mukesh Ambani, who has apparently overtaken Warren Buffett. China on the other hand, has LIFTED 700 million people out of extreme poverty. China is our geographical neighbour…. And this minor conflict needs to be handled diplomatically, not to escalate into a potentially catastrophic war. And there is no fundamental geopolitical reason to be at odds with China. What has been not understood by Indians, is that the border conflicts at Aksai Chin and Tibet, were caused by lines drawn in 1947 by 2 British officials - Johnson and McMahon - lines which the Chinese never accepted! Who is right is not clear. But one thing is CRYSTAL CLEAR - war with China will be a disaster for India, as Pakistan is unlikely to miss the opportunity to invade Jammu and Kashmir, and complete the theft it initiated in 1947, which a Gandhi-dominated India did not repel by force. It is hard not to see that as a major blunder. But now is the time to stay cool.... thandey dimaag se kaam lena hai, josh se nahin. Yes China supports Pakistan. But who created Pakistan? It was the British who deliberately created the Muslim League during the struggle for independence, to ‘divide and conquer’, weakening the Congress Party of Gandhi, Nehru and Patel. And long before China, it was the British and the US who gave huge materiel assistance to Pakistan, including weapons, which they used to wage wars against India. This was the reward to Pakistan for allowing the Brits and the Americans to spy on the Soviets from their territory, which India refused to allow. Stop parroting American propaganda….. they don’t really care about India – they are only using India to rival China in the region. And climate change, whose horrors we are just beginning to witness, as with the months long fires in Australia which burned over a billion animals to scorching death, will affect India far worse than most countries, and certainly far worse than China..... And google 'US wars in 130 countries', all in pursuit of corporate plunder of local resources, all the while pretending to be a 'Global War against Terror', after the self-inflicted 9/11, blamed on 19 Arabs who could not possibly have done it - read the books of David Ray Griffin - so that the Cheney/Halliburton plan - their Project for a New American Century - to invade the Middle East and take control of its massive oil reserves, using a 'catastrophic, catalyzing event, a New Pearl Harbour', could be realized.

The flogging of Djokovic and other disturbing questions

Since the onset of the current pandemic, many disturbing questions about it have been suppressed, either covertly or overtly. Chief among them was the banning of David Icke, a self-described 'conspiracy theorist' - from youtube and facebook - for his claims that there is no certain virus definition (hence the burning of some 5G towers), that statistics of deaths are being manipulated (with co-morbidities falsely attributed to the coronavirus), and the presumed intent by billionaires like Bill Gates (who is now the largest funder of W.H.O.) to plant nano-chips in vaccines which are likely to become mandatory or carry consequences for those who resist (like restrictions on travel). That nanoparticles are being researched for use in vaccines and nano-medicine is an open secret, easily googled, with benefits such as new limbs, repairing damaged nerves etc. being positive possibilities. But none of this is openly stated. The WTA, including Canada's Eugenie Bouchard, mocked Novak Djokovic since his Adria tournoi (done without distancing), resulted in him and others testing positive. What is not mentioned is whether Novak or any other affected person, such as his coach Ivanesivic, actually suffer any symptoms post diagnosis. Isn't that a relevant question? Yes theoretically these people could 'infect' others.... but if most of those others suffer no symptoms, is there harm or benefit? The only way to acquire immunity is exposure - either direct infection or through vaccine. We are told without vaccination the death count would be vastly greater. But therein lies the dilemma..... should the focus be on natural herd immunity, or dependency on Big Pharma vaccines? The Gates foundation openly prefers the latter, and has a record of pressuring the poorest in Africa to serve as guinea pigs, with some disastrous consequences. But the billionaire's wealth and current neo-liberal corruption is likely to protect him from consequences, both civil and criminal. And the as yet undiscussed $6.4 trillion dollar question, and potentially a $64 trillion dollar question if pandemics (real or manipulated) become a future trend - is why is a set of private, undisclosed hyper-rich bankers (called banksters by former Canadian Clerk of the Privy Council Paul Hellyer) - have the license to create from thin (if polluted) air, these trillions of dollars being 'borrowed' by governments around the world? Almost certainly they include the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.... And why should citizens, including Canadians - have to pay back such fictitious money - through vastly increased taxes or slashed programs? Isn't this just another grotesque and monstrous money grab by the hyper-rich, from the 99%?

LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES RE KASHMIR

Your op-ed presents a biased picture of history as it recommends the UN get involved. The history is that at the time of independence in 1947, Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu. Under the British administration of the partition, princely states could opt to join India or Pakistan. As the Hindu ruler demurred, forces from Pakistan 'surged into Kashmir', and took by force what is now called POK - Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. This illegal seizure induced Kashmir's ruler to sign to join India. That obviously included the portion seized by Pakistanis. The Indian Army was capable of repulsing this invasion and reclaiming by force what is now POK. But in view of Gandhi's beliefs on non-violence, and that India and Pakistan were 2 limbs of the same body, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (himself a Kashmiri Pandit) ordered the army to desist. A line of control developed (LOC). Arguably, the Indian army can still take POK, although now the situation is far more calamitous, with nuclear weapons on both sides. Having grabbed a third or more of Kashmir by force, Pakistan never stopped trying to seize the rest by force. Wars in 1967, 1971, and 1999 followed. Pakistan's own massive crimes against what was East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) include the murder of millions using weapons supplied illegally by the US via Iran's SAVAK and Saudi Arabia. This led to Bangladesh's independence as India had no choice but to intervene as millions of East Pakistani refugees flowed into West Bengal. This was a by-product of the 1971 war. Having failed to grab Kashmir though open wars, Pakistan switched to supporting terrorist acts both in India-controlled Kashmir (ICK) and in India. The history of murderous bombings in Indian cities is well established, including with what is called 26/11 in India - the attacks on the Taj and Sheraton hotels and the train station formerly called Victoria terminus, in Mumbai. In all of this of course, there was a direct line to the fanatic jihadists installed in Afghanistan, trained under ISI auspices, by the CIA, to oust the USSR, which (if Zbigniew Breszinski is to be believed) was lured in by an American coup in Kabul (removing a Soviet-friendly government) to 'give the Soviets their own Vietnam'. So this is a more complete history than what you have written. Then there is the case that Pakistan itself has committed human rights abuses in POK. The hysterics of PM Imran Khan ever since India moved to integrate ICK into the Indian federation, show clearly the continued lust for territory of Pakistan. The claim on Kashmir by Pakistan is based on the fact that a majority of ICK residents are Muslim. That does not amount to a legitimate argument, as India has more Muslims than all of Pakistan. And Pakistan's history of treating Muslims who moved there from India during partition is a poor one - they are called 'mohajirs' (refugees) - decades after the partition, and subjected to open discrimination. All things considered, Pakistan does not have any legal rights to the Kashmir that has been part of India since 1947.

FALSE FLAG OP IN THE STRAITS OF HORMUZ

The US, joined by its usual ally the UK, and invisibly by its partner Israelin all anti-Iran matters, has immediately accused Iran of attacking 2 tankers in the Hormuz Straits off the coast of Iran, where it had already sent an aircraft carrier. The immediacy of such accusations, backed by 'intel', should be viewed with great skepticism. The US has a history of such 'false-flag' operations, including Operation Northwoods (which was not carried out but replaced with other actions against Cuba), the Gulf of Tonkin incident with which it gave itself the pretext to attack North Vietnam (after already having drenched South Vietnam with Agent Orange), and more recently the Weapons of Mass Deception used to attack Iraq in 2003, following 9/11 which half-a-dozen books by Professor David Ray Griffin and others including Christopher Bollyn allege was unquestionably an 'inside job'; the 'incontrovertible' evidence of which has been dismissed as conspiracy theory, while the official US government theory that 19 Arabs successfully conspired to smash the security systems of the world's sole superpower blankets any open discussion of the 'real' facts. The ultra-right wing neo-cons of the W. Bush administration had discussed in their long-planned 'Project for a New American Century' or PNAC, the need for a 'catalyzing event', a 'New Pearl Harbour', to accelerate their plans to re-arrange the oil-rich Middle East, consonantly with the Israeli 'Oded Yinon' plan to create a 'Greater Israel' comprising chunks of smashed Muslim countries, that supposedly existed thousands of years ago according to the Old Testament. Iran, being the strongest of the ME countries, was the last target on the list, and its invasion has been delayed by the insurgency in Iraq which has cost the US trillions of dollars, which made 'boots on the ground' invasions of Libya and Syria (also abetted by Russia) impractical. That the US position is loaded with duplicity is also demonstrated by the fact that under Trump the US has broken a US-negotiated deal with broad international support including Europe and Russia, by which Iran was curtailing its nuclear activities in exchange for easing of US-imposed sanctions. Iran accepted this deal notwithstanding the fact that Israel is allowed to keep more than 100 nuclear weapons with not a word of Western protest, but rather massive support of every kind - financial, diplomatic, technological and military - by the US. The best option for Iran, and the most logical one, is to re-commence nuclear development. Its leaders have been painted as reactionary and unstable and impossible to trust with a nuclear bomb by the US and Israel for the plain and obvious reason that a bomb would neutralize much of US-Israeli threats and plans against Iran. Like the smaller and weaker North Korea, Iran would acquire a far more effective 'defense' against its enemies. A slightly older review of history, brazenly suppressed by Western media, is that Iran was the US's #1 ally in the ME between 1953 and 1979. 1953 was when the US and UK supported a coup d'etat in Iran, toppling a democrat and installing a puppet dictator (the Shah) who terrorized, tortured and killed thousands of Iranians, while having breakfasts flown in from Paris on the Concorde as his wife took baths in tubs of milk, while the population suffered as the pitiful oil revenues went to buying US weapons. Kissinger used his considerable influence to pressure US universities including MIT, to accept Iranians into nuclear engineering programs. But all that changed when the Iranians kicked out the Shah in 1979, when Iran went overnight from being US ally # 1 in the region to US enemy # 1. A war with Iran will continue the genocide of millions of Middle-Eastern Muslims, by an increasingly stretched and desperate superpower, anxious to keep its hands on the throttle.

PEELING THE LIES BEHIND NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMICS - THE MINIMUM WAGE ISSUE

The last few decades have been called the age of neo-liberal economics. Following the 'Powell memorandum', these policies have been implemented with a progressive takeover by big business and the super rich who own them, of public institutions - political parties, the media, the academy, major chunks of the judiciary, and so on, at the cost of decimated unions whose power was stripped away with technological changes that enabled off-shoring of manufacturing to places where labour cost 'peanuts'. The so-called 'free trade agreements' progressively (or rather regressively) turned corporations into Masters, nation-states into Servants begging for investment, and liquidating their natural resources at bargain-basement prices. Kevin Taft (former Alberta politician) has written on how this process unfolded in Alberta (as one example), with the Peter Lougheed government being the last one to successfully negotiate reasonably fair terms for the province and its people. Key elements of the fraud that has been neo-liberalism have included tax cuts for the super-rich with promises of 'trickle-down' jobs and benefits, but as Arundhati Roy has put it, all that happened was a massive Gush-Up; by a recent estimate of some $30 trillion to the super-rich in the West, at the cost of a rapidly disappeared middle-class, transformed from what was once the 'proletariat' into what is now the 'precariat'. Other massive cons were privatization - trillion-dollar thefts creating billionaire oligarchies everywhere (because 'public' enterprises were simply 'inefficient'), and the 'deregulation' tsunami that produced the multi-trillion dollar subprime fraud which nearly wrecked the world's economy, but resulted in Zero CONSEQUENCES for the perpetrators in Wall Street, who remain TOO BIG TO JAIL. Thus Wall Street followed up the junk mortgage fraud of the early 2000s, with an even more brazen mortgage foreclosure fraud in 2010, with banks foreclosing on thousands of American homes with fraudulent documents filed in courts. Soldiers returning to the US from service in Iraq found their homes had been seized by banks.... One of the neo-liberal frauds is that higher wages destroy jobs. Well Big business... at least some representatives of it - 100 CEOs who include at least some big corporations - Facebook, Tesla - are finally clueing on that robbing the worker blind does not make for a sustainable economy. That's what the Ford company which made the Model T a century ago understood well - that paying its own workers well improved the market for its own products. Michael Hudson's book 'Killing the Host' talks about how decimating labour wages was the parasite (virus) killing its own host. During the 1950s and 60s, US labor enjoyed its highest prosperity, executive wages were only 10-15 times the worker's wage, and tax rates were incomparably higher for the rich. The US economy remained the dominant one, but prosperity was shared. Neo-liberal fraud has changed all that. But at least some businessmen are getting what Ontario Premier Doug Ford does not - that there are 2 sides to the minimum wage issue. Ostensibly, higher wages make it harder for business to pay for workers.... in the short run. But in the long run, higher wages mean more money spent by wage-earners on the products such businesses make or sell... Duh! 'Ontario is open for business again', says Doug. What he means is he wants Ontario to join the likes of states in the US South, where 'Right-to-Work' means to work for next to nothing, with no labor unions fighting for the workers' rights. Profits and executive compensation then can go sky-high. As Michael Moore shows in Fahrenheit 11/9, a young man working in construction rages about how he makes $7.30/hour in a Southern state; and gets 17 hours of work a week. This is what the US has done throughout Central and South America, destroying labour movements, arming and financing death squads to topple 'left-wing' governments that want to create a better life for their populations; assassinating labour, political, even Church leaders (priests) so that American transnational corporations can make higher profits, squeezing the life out of overseas economies, labour and nation-states. Well that ideology is now operating in the West, starting with the US. The parable of the frog and the scorpion is instructive here - even though the scorpion needs the frog to cross a stream, it stings the frog anyway, because that is its 'nature'. Those increasingly lower-paid workers in the US pay for the massive costs of the Pentagon, CIA, private mercenary/security armies like the former Blackwater, the 70,000 strong 'Special Operations' forces, etc which enforce the wishes of the gangsters of capitalism, in anywhere between 130 and 150 countries around the world at any given time, according to recent reports, naturally unpublicized in the major corporate-controlled media. The 99% who pay taxes (which the top 1% are more or less exempt from) carry the burden of the racketeers for the capitalists that make up the 0.01% who have benefited from decades of neo-liberal theft. Before the Powell memorandum the 0.01% were the principal beneficiaries of the international racketeering; now the racketeering has turned to the domestic populations of the West, through neo-liberal frauds. So at home (within the West) the frog is slowly being cooked so it doesn't realize what is happening. That minimum-wages destroy jobs is a lie; that tax-cuts for the rich create jobs is a lie; and that 'austerity' programs for countries which end up being 'loan-sharked' by the biggest sharks on the planet - the IMF, World Bank etc., are needed is also a lie. Bankers create loans from thin air.... then charge interest... then break bones of countries which cannot pay... usually because the money loaned went not to the country's population, but to crooked elites (the 1%) who lost it and the burden then fell, as is also usual - on the 99%. The 'greatest nation in history', also the richest on the planet and in history, has unlimited funds to pay for wars, weapons of mass murder, terror, torture and mass destruction, but is being driven bankrupt by socialist programs like medicare and Social Security. So the brainwashing goes. And as it goes in the US, so it slowly goes in other Western countries, through an inevitable process of osmosis, pushed through the international financial system. In short, Capitalism (the rule of the 1%) is Democracy, and Democracy (the wishes of the 99% or a majority of the 'un-brainwashed') is Communism.

The Kavanaugh mess; and why the 99% should watch Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9

Aftermath of Kavanaugh 'victory'. A sickening mess. And why Michael Moore's latest film 'Fahrenheit 11/9' should be seen by all who care about democracy, the planet, human rights and justice. I realize I posted against allowing CBF's unsubstantiated and largely uncross-examined testimony to be allowed to derail the Kavanaugh nomination. But this has not led to a good result either. And this 'victory' is going to lead to a more intense fight in the upcoming mid-term elections. Both Republicans and Democrats will find reasons to fight harder in those elections; the R side to capitalize on their 'victory', and the D side to capture sufficient seats in Congress to be able to initiate impeachment proceedings against the new judge. So if that scenario plays out, women like CBF may find another chance to go after their target. So long as due process is followed, I have no problem. For me a Republican majority on the US Supreme Court is an obscenity. On this score I highly recommend Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 11/9', which I saw last night. This provides a frightening and good overview of the diseased system which produced Trump, and which long-experienced writers like Noam Chomsky predicted would produce a 'strong-man' figure like Trump. Moore asks the question 'HTF did this happen?' and then gives his own answer to it. Sometimes the answer produced queasiness in me, as it looked like bias, but once I saw the film to the end, Moore makes a compelling case. He covers a lot of bases: - aside from the distortions and lies and 'narcissism' that led to Trump's victory in 2016, he covers how decades of Democratic sell-out to the neo-liberal (big money) takeover of US politics starting with Bill Clinton made an 'outsider' like Trump possible. It was Bill Clinton who massively accelerated deregulation (like destroying the regulatory protections put in place after the Great Depression separating investment and commercial banking, which led inexorably to the multi-trillion dollar sub-prime mortgage fraud which nearly destroyed the world economy in 2008). - After Billy Boy Clinton came the W Bush administration, which Moore suggests caused 9/11 and the war-crimes that followed. David Ray Griffin's many books provide mountains of evidence to support this charge. - he shows unsettling videos of the Trump rallies at which African-Americans were insulted and kicked out from - at one Trump himself yells to one black man 'go home and get a job'. And of course those infamous comments about Mexican rapists and 'build a wall'. - he also covers the Flint poisoned water supply problem. Shows how racist, corrupt Michigan governor Rick Snyder ordered the building of an unnecessary pipeline (because a functioning one already existed) to supply Lake Michigan water to Flint, thus benefiting rich corporations. While the new one was being built, the old pipeline was shut down, and Flint's water-supply sourced from a lead-polluted Flint river. Thousands of black kids became poisoned for life ('irreversibly') with the Snyder administration doing nothing but deny and coverup. - when that poisoned water began to damage the parts produced in the sole GM plant in Flint, however, Snyder acted to re-route the pure Lake Michigan water, TO ONLY THE GM PLANT. Flint residents continued to drink poison. This led St. Obama to visit Flint, with tens of thousands of black residents overjoyed. - But all Obama did is at public meetings, to ask for 'a glass of water'; when people yelled out 'ask for a bottle of water', he insisted on a glass. Then he pretended to drink from it and asked for calm. The Flint residents, who wanted Obama to call in FEMA, Army engineers etc., to deal with this massive crisis, could only watch in disbelief as he betrayed them and later ordered a US army training exercise in that city, using the many abandoned buildings. Helicopters shot missiles into those buildings as Flint residents watched in fear, also having received no warning. Could there be a more revealing image of the cynical fraud that Obama was? Moore reveals that Goldman Sachs was the biggest contributor to St. Obama's campaigns; and of course overseas Obama murdered tens of thousands with drone strikes. - he discusses the only positive things that arose in response to this blatant neo-liberal destruction of the environment and democracy in the US. Teacher unions in Virginia successfully arising in revolt, and the students who organized huge rallies after the mass shooting in Florida. As he puts it - time is running out. With Trump in charge, only the worst can happen as climate catastrophe and corporate greed threaten the US and the planet. Of course, the corpo-Rats and the politicians, judges and media people in their pockets, make sure we stay ignorant - drunk or opiod addicted, or busy with sports, sitcoms, movies and such 'shit' so we barely have time to think, let alone act.

AFTER THE CURRENT KAVANAUGH V FORD TEMPEST

The current storm over the Kavanaugh nomination is over Ms. Ford's allegations, supported by womens' groups who also fear he would help overturn Roe v. Wade, and by African-Americans who believe he will help further disenfranchise them, including denying them the right to vote. Some groups have apparently been talking about rioting if this man is appointed to the US Supreme Court. Missing from this discussion is the great likelihood that even if his nomination is derailed, whoever might replace him would likely be as much a supporter of the ultra right-wing, neo-liberal inequality-advancing, and international war-mongering agenda of the Republican party. The substitute candidate would also be partisan - a key feature of the US Supreme Court for a long time. Hence there is likely to be little difference to the Republican dominated US Supreme Court - it would continue the same judicial policies regardless of who Trump appoints. The key problem is that 5 of the Supreme Court judges have been and will remain partisan loyalists of the Republican party, even if past appointees did not openly show the partisanship that Kavanaugh did in his pressure-filled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Until this Republican majority is turned into a minority, that court will function pretty much the same way. Under the court led by now deceased 'Chief Justice' Anton Scalia, those Republican judges carried out 2 of the greatest and most brazen attacks on democracy, a fact never mentioned in the nearly 2-years of hysterical outrage over the alleged Russian interference/attack on American democracy. Those attacks being the 2000 shutdown of the Florida recount which would have made Al Gore President, and the 2010 Citizens' United ruling (which really should be known as 'Billionaires and Corporations United against the 99%' if truth were told, having been substantially pushed by the Koch brothers who openly reject the notion that business has any responsibility to society or the environment). The 2000 attack on American democracy ushered in the people whom millions or tens of millions of people including Americans believe carried out 9/11, to provide the pretext (the 'New Pearl Harbour') for re-arranging the Middle East and taking greater control of its vast oil reserves in Muslim hands, and eventually assimilating giant chunks of smashed countries into a 'Greater Israel'; being the consonance of interests of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) and the Oded Yinon plan. Millions of Muslims murdered and tens of millions turned into refugees, with Iraq (location of the second largest oil reserves in the Middle East), Afghanistan (location of planned pipeline to transfer oil and gas from the Caspian Sea), Syria (location of another planned pipeline the Syrian leader rejects - hence he 'must go'), and Libya (whose leader wanted to sell his country's oil in a gold-backed African currency, deviating from the US Petrodollar which grants the single superpower its 'exorbitant privilege', and its ability to finance unlimited weapons of mass murder, terror, torture and destruction) among the countries destroyed or devastated. Matters proceeding substantially if not exactly as per plan. The set-up in 1991 of Saddam Hussein and Iraq (the US encouraging him to violently deal with Kuwait which was effectively stealing Iraqi oil from a 'disputed' oil well), was also motivated by his attempt to sell his country's oil in Euros - the same 'crime' Iran is guilty of. The US allegedly stands for 'free-market capitalism', except when other countries' attempts to be 'free' threatens American interests. The 2010 ruling authorizing unlimited campaign contributions by the super-rich and corporations, (while also paying lip-service to the vastly poorer unions' ability to do likewise) was a major contribution to the liquidation of democracy into a 'plutocracy' of and by the 1% for the 0.01%. Along with the decades of neo-liberal policies drastically enforcing the 'Powell memorandum', this has helped not only create grotesque inequality, but turned millions of people, mostly men, into alcohol and opiod addicts, and raised the American suicide rate by some 25% across the board. So while this tempest rages, these matters remain mostly untouched, with Trump betraying the tens of millions who voted for him, and quietly advancing these problems, which bear no comparison to the alleged attempted sexual assault on a teenage girl by a couple of drunken boys at a college party (decades ago, to boot). While all eyes are focussed here, the far more relevant story of how the Trump administration may be moving to war-like measures against Iran with its actions in Basra, abetted by other Israeli claims about Iran, also remains on the sidelines.

One hell of a conspiracy theory

https://nomoregames.net/…/flying-a-boeing-767-piece-of-cake/ As we may recall, although it was a while ago, back in September 2001 - that '9/11' was carried out by Muslim hijackers who trained at flight schools in Florida and California (?). Well those schools must have had Boeing 767s for them to train on...? Surely....? Boeing must lend its major passenger airliners to such schools..... but any Hollywood or James Bond movie shows such schools providing training on tiny planes, carrying perhaps the trainee pilot and the teacher. Yet the question that no one in the official news media asked is how did those 'Muslims' go from being trained on a tiny plane, to immediately taking control of sophisticated giant airliners and fly them with deadly accuracy into buildings....? Can we learn to drive a car with a 'G' license, and simply stride into a giant truck and drive it to wherever? I would have thought that impossible. But what do I know? Here's how flying a Boeing 767 is shown to be a mere 'piece of cake'. So shame on those airline pilots who have undergone scores of hours of training in the classroom and in the cockpit (of a 767...), before being allowed to fly a 767. What a joke, when the job is so eee-zzy. Professor David Ray Griffin's (of Claremont University in California) many books - New Pearl Harbour, Debunking 9/11 Myth Debunking (that's right - he totally debunked the BS the US government came up with after polls showed close to half of all Americans believe 9/11 was an 'inside job', (aka a 'false-flag operation' - done many times before by America to justify its wars against the Philippines back in 1899 or so, Mexico and more recently Vietnam)), and so on - decimate the official story of the US government; and prove it was an inside job carried out to provide the pretext for invading Iraq (home to the second largest oil reserves in the ME) and Afghanistan (home to many essential minerals, but also the pathway through which pipelines must pass). And yes, there are scores - more than a hundred - such impossibilities in the US government's story of 9/11. As Professor Griffin shows it is the official US government coverup that is the real conspiracy 'theory'. Or rather conspiracy 'fiction'. But when there is a wider 'conspiracy of silence' which refuses to consider the real evidence, that real evidence which proves a completely different conspiracy with perpetrators within the W. Bush administration, then the lies become accepted without examination of the evidence. Then there is the fact that normal security by the US airforce had been ordered to stand down. Why? Because on that very day, the US government was conducting simulations of attacks identical to the ones that were allegedly carried out! For example, there is AE911 - representing hundreds of American architects and engineers who challenge the official explanation of how Building 7 collapsed. Most people are not even aware that there was a third tower - 47 storeys tall - which collapsed in hours though no 'airplane' struck it. The official US government finding, or rather 'conspiracy', is that debris falling from the 2 principal towers which were allegedly struck by hijacked airliners, and which turned into dust within hours - something that hundreds of architects and engineers say is impossible - caused the third tower to turn to dust and collapse into its own footprint within hours, classic planned demolition style. Two impossibilities - that the 2 main towers could have metastasized into dust within hours from airplane fuel. And secondly that a third tower - also a massive steel-frame building - could collapse on its own footprint in classic planned demolition style - within hours because of debris from the 2 main towers. There is a long video on youtube by Dr. Judy Wood, who provides powerful evidence that the 3 buildings were laced with a top-secret US army material - nanothermite - which turned the steel frame into dust - and kept fires burning for weeks. Naturally there are plenty of people who dismiss it as 'lies'. And the report that Mayor Giuliani had some 120+ truckloads of debris from the towers carted away and sold or destroyed within hours of the event, likewise receives no official attention. What was this if not destruction of the evidence? Professor Griffin also talks about many things that were simply disregarded by the US government 'investigation'; which ought perhaps to be called the 'New Warren Commission' report. Things like multiple reports and testimony by many onlookers and firefighters that they heard explosions in the buildings after and before the 'airliners' struck. And there is the absence of a single official government video from the 'most photographed building on the planet' (the Pentagon) which shows bodies, baggage, debris, fuselage, or the practically indestructible jet engines, which would have resulted if a hijacked airliner had struck it. There are actually over 80 videos including from a gas-station across from the Pentagon, which were seized by the FBI back then, but NOT ONE has been released, for obvious reasons - they would decimate the American government's conspiracy theory. Or rather conspiracy 'fiction'. The only available footage on youtube shows a single hole - caused most likely by a cruise missile - which is what the white tube-like object travelling at high speed at ground level almost certainly is - from the only video of the event photographed by a member of the public. At the time, that missile reportedly killed 125 members of the US government investigating the disappearance of $2.3 trillion from the Pentagon, also eviscerating all the files and evidence. In December 2017, forbes.com reported that 2400 auditors were investigating the disappearance of $21 trillion, or $21,000 billion, from the Pentagon. Something was rotten in the state of Denmark. A lot more is rotten in the greatest 'shit-hole' on the planet.

The American President 'anoints' Jerusalem

The US President's decision to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital was mildly criticized by Western leaders. The British PM called it 'unhelpful'; France's President called it 'unilateral', suggesting a lack of support outside the US. Actually there is practically universal condemnation for it and for the century old plot, hatched in America (eg Supreme Court 'justices' Felix Frankfurter and Louis Brandeis) and Britain ('Lord' Balfour) to carve a Zionist homeland for Jews out of lands inhabited by Muslims and Christians. This involved the brutal expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes back in 1948 (over which their descendants still demand the 'right of return', something Israel can never allow, since that would eviscerate the theft of this country), one of the major war-crimes since WW2 supported fully by the US, UK and some Western countries, specially the ones who also were established the same way - as 'settler-colonials' who exterminated or ethnically 'cleansed' the local populations using various pretexts (calling them 'savages' back then, with the current term of justification being 'terrorists'), and then simply stole their lands. The super-rich Jews (Rothschilds) and their super-rich backers (Rockefellers, British 'royals', among others) who supported the crimes of Israel overcame significant opposition including in the US State Department and media, as described in Alison Weir's book 'Against our Better Judgment'; those who spoke up for Palestinian rights saw their careers derailed and destroyed. Today those who criticise Israel are dismissed as 'anti-Semites', but the world's leading anti-Semitic state is surely Israel, if the word 'Semite or Semitic is truly interpreted - as meaning a person who speaks a Semitic language - hence Arabic and Aramaic. In contrast, Tel Aviv University professor Shlomo Sand has described most Israeli Jews as 'Khazars'.... in his book The Invention of the Jewish People. Ilan Pappe, Miko Peled, and of course Noam Chomsky among others have described the crimes of Israel's leaders in detail, which include acts of savage terror by Zionist militias led by men who went on to become Prime Ministers - Begin, Shamir, Sharon. The acts of butchery by these Zionist terrorists rivalled those of the Nazi SS, including rape and disembowelment of pregnant and old women and school girls and the murder of old people: the now forgotten bombing of the King David hotel, and in the present includes bombing of Gazan children by Netanyahu, and harassment, incarceration, torture of Palestinians, and the brazen theft of the little of Palestine that remains in Palestinian possession - Gaza and West Bank, stripped progressively of its best parts - arable land, water, and the rest 'Bantustanized' with walls, highways, security fences and checkpoints; all calculated to torture, strangulate and slowly exterminate the surviving Gazans and West Bank-ers, while pretending all the while that they (the victims) are terrorists who eschew peace. In her book (p. 61) Weir cites an interview for US television in which Menachem Begin is asked 'How does it feel .... to be the father of terrorism in the Middle East?" To which the proud reply is: 'In the Middle East? In all the world". Naturally all this is excised from Western history and news coverage. 9/11 was carried out by neo-cons Cheney Rumsfeld and many others including Pentagon generals, with Mossad playing the role of lining the WTC towers with nanothermite.... The successful transfer of blame to Arabs who simply could not have done it, has greatly accelerated the plans of the 'Zio-Nazis', which are to smash Muslim countries and incorporate Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and parts of Egypt and Saudi Arabia into a 'Greater Israel', that mythically existed at the time of David and Solomon according to the Old Testament. Just as Israel cannot allow the return of the expelled Palestinians, the US government cannot allow a re-opening of the investigation into 9/11, as it would lead to the execution of virtually the entire former W. Bush administration, and the decimation of American prestige around the world, which got a significant boost after 9/11. Therefore all public and international calls for the 'truth' are dismissed as 'conspiracy theory', and the mountains of evidence proving it was an 'inside job' - absence of airplane debris, baggage or bodies in any of the alleged airliner crashes, the clear video showing a white tube (cruise missile) hitting the Pentagon and conveniently murdering 125 employees investigating the disappearance of $2.3 trillion from the Pentagon as well as eviscerating all the files of evidence, etc. etc. etc... simply ignored by the major corporate and Jewish-owned media who do not report on any of these matters, but only on the pitiful pinpricks of retaliation (eg rockets launched in Gaza)...... Truly, we live in horrific times.

THE NARRATIVE OF MALE PREDATION AND FEMALE VICTIMHOOD

The allegations which started against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein have turned into a veritable tsumami of allegations against men everywhere, regardless of place or position. The unspoken assumption is that the truth about men as devils and women as angels is finally coming out. And surely it is long overdue to cast a dissenting voice..? This hideous hysteria about predatory men taking advantage of 'helpless' women has gone on long enough, and frankly is not new. The spate of allegations against some possibly predatory men - no denying they are out there - conveniently supports the illusion and false ideology that all men are predators and all women victims, an ideology that is wicked and unjust. There are plenty of women who are hateful, malicious predatory vermin - whether they are the gold-digging type, or the ones who bully, nag, hen-peck and dominate their male partners, but especially the ones who make false allegations of rape, assault or sexual harassment knowing the current judicial/legal system will act on them Going back thousands of years to Samson, we know how the most powerful man was brought down by the clever Delilah... plenty such examples exist in history. But restricting oneself to modern instances, let's consider the recent Canadian case of Jian Ghomeshi - whose career was destroyed by predatory women who hunted him for his celebrity...throwing themselves at him because of it, much like teeny-boppers have thrown themselves at rock-stars for generations.... If men are turned on by female beauty, women are turned on by proximity to power, celebrity, status, and of course, money and the toys it buys... Women play the passive-aggressive game, always ready to accuse men if men don't dance to their tune exactly as ordered. And the story of their male victims remains untold, repressed, buried by official adherence to the ideological narrative. The clever Ms. DeCoutere claimed she did not remember cuddling with the man who supposedly 'choked' her, or writing him she 'loved his hands' and wanted him to 'f..k her brains out'. But nothing has happened to her despite this brazen and malicious perjury which could have put Ghomeshi in jail for decades. Going on... let's look at the great actress Meryl Streep, winner of many Oscars.. she deserves another one for claiming she was unaware of Harvey Weinstein's conduct (assuming the allegations against him are founded)... really.... hadn't she heard of the century old 'casting couch'? And Ryan Gosling - the macho ex-Canadian hunk ....hasn't he had Hollywood starlets or fans throw themselves at him..? Did he perhaps speak out under pressure or threat of allegations that might otherwise surface - true or not? Of course there is another side altogether - of women who destroy the lives of men with false allegations - whether of rape or assault or sexual harassment, such as in the Ghomeshi case. And the biased system of injustice in North America allows such men no recourse whatsoever... no punishment for female perpetrators and no compensation for their male victims. While there may have been abuses by men specially in places like Hollywood, the reality in the real world outside it is often different. Even illiterate immigrants in Canada know they can have their husbands thrown in jail on accusations which may have zero basis in fact. Police have been indoctrinated in North America to arrest the man in any domestic dispute, regardless of the evidence. Some years ago, Vancouver police infamously and criminally beat up an innocent Vietnamese man after receiving a 9-11 call; CBC only called it a case of 'mistaken identity', not criminal assault by police. In the US a decade ago, a heated argument at a motel between a football player and his wife resulted in his arrest, over the protests of his wife who pleaded she had physically assaulted him. When evidence plays no role, it is not justice but ideology that is operating. These matters go far beyond 'harassment' of the male victims - whose lives are devastated or destroyed by a cruel and malicious system of injustice. In the GTA a few years ago, 2 South Asian doctors were accused of sexual assault by a woman they picked up in a bar, who decided in the morning to accuse them (the 'morning after' syndrome); their faces and names were broadcast on TV and print, the alleged victim remaining anonymous. After a female judge threw out her rape allegations, there were neither consequences for the accuser, nor redress for her male victims who were scarred for life. And it is well known in Canadian family courts that women have been falsely accusing their estranged spouses of child abuse to get custody, but this persistent perjury has not resulted in consequences for them. Women are emboldened to make false accusations by such a system, which has no basis in law, but is clearly an ideology designed to humiliate and demoralize men, for reasons that surely have to do with the neo-liberal destruction of millions of manufacturing jobs, mostly male jobs.... because the ideology is a flagrant rape of both natural justice, and the Canadian Charter S. 15's guarantee of equal treatment before the law. But our judges take their direction from the great neighbour to the south, whose Supreme Court Canada's 'Chief Justice' Beverley McLachlin once called 'the most important court in the world'. The mighty US knows it faces no external threat, being protected by one-half of the planet's weapons of mass murder, terror, torture and destruction. Only possibly an internal one... to preclude which measures have been enacted, such as the building of 'immigration detention centres', which some have said are proto-concentration camps in the event of a revolt. Where is the massive opioid crisis coming from for instance..? As is typical, Western media discourse excludes the relevant facts and contexts, piously raising questions but burying the answers. When official government policy has been to outsource jobs to benefit a tiny 0.01%, and the rights of men in law brazenly quashed, what must result if not suicides, alcoholism, opioids..? Yes there are male predators, but predators are not exclusively men... there are plenty of female ones as well. They just have different ways of going about it. The penis projects outwards, the vagina inwards... biology has powerful impacts on psychology and behaviour. Women have had thousands of years to develop thousands of tricks they play on men.... in addition to bombarding them with pheromones there are billions of dollars worth of industries dedicated to prettifying women - putting layers of make-up, shaving and waxing ugly hair, shampooing and hair-dos, fashion and clothing, etc... To pretend all of this has nothing to do with attracting male attention is part of the great lie about female victimhood. Yes the workplace has traditionally been dominated by men, but even that is changing rapidly with positions in the federal bureaucracy, even places like firefighting, going to women who may or may not deserve them... in some federal agencies what used to be 80% male positions are now 80% or more manned by women. Like much else in North American society this narrative of male predation and female victimhood has a massive fog of deception, deceit and outright falsehood about it. It would seem more accurate to now call North America the 'home of the Eunuch, land of the John Bobbitt', rather than the brave and free. The judge who dismissed the charges against Ghomeshi called them 'laced with deception'. There is plenty about the official narrative of sexual harassment that is 'laced with deception'.

The Las Vegas Massacre

The Las Vegas massacre has led to much official soul-searching about the motive of the perpetrator. How could such a heinous crime occur in Bible-thumping, Jesus-loving Christian America, which stands for freedom, human rights and democracy? Patrick Buchanan on his website talks about the 'dead soul of Paddock'.... but isn't that dead soul is a molecule of the dead soul of America itself? Mr. Buchanan says Paddock killed those many people virtually for sport.... but there is plenty of American government precedent for that. In the UN-US war against North Korea in 1950, for instance, the US flattened North Korean cities, killing about 20% of that country's population, something the major news media never mentions in its rants about the North Korean leader. Or that it is the US army which has stood on his country's border, threatening it again for the past 67 continuous years... two-thirds of a century! When the bombers in 1950 ran out of targets - literally - they destroyed North Korea's dams, flooding that country's agriculture and horticulture - decimating it. And the US pilots who did this were exultant - boasting about 'kicking ass'.... Similar crimes were committed with similar glee in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia and many other countries. Prior to the catastrophic invasion of Iraq in 2003 for instance on false pretences, the US government openly bragged about the 'shock and awe' its carpet bombing with thousands of B-52s, would inflict on Iraq.... the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians, a majority being women and children, was not mentioned or ever reported in Western news media. Wikipedia reports that 80 million unexploded American bombs remain in Laos, regularly blowing up children. During WW2 in Japan, one of the great sociopaths of modern history - Curtis Lemay - burned some 67 Japanese cities to the ground (virtually - on average 50%) - leaving only Hiroshima and Nagasaki intact for the atomic bombs.... unnecessary as Japan was completely surrounded and wanted to surrender. But the myth of Japanese soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves to defeat an American invasion was used to justify Lemay's crimes. And the Bible-thumping President Truman ordered Fat Man and Little Boy dropped purely to send a message to the Soviet leader Stalin that the US was the undisputed boss of the planet. And two-thirds of a century later, American leadership still talks about the 'day of infamy'... in last year's visit to the USA by the Japanese PM, it was he who offered condolences for the 2400 souls lost in Pearl Harbour; Obama did not offer any for the hundreds of thousands or more Japanese souls killed in retaliation. 72 years later, after avenging Pearl Harbour a hundred times over, US leaders still froth at the mouth about the ‘day of infamy’. What words can suffice to describe the criminality and blood-lust of such people, or 'the horror, the horror', that they constitute the elites who control the world's SuperPredator, the SuperTerrorist..? In their “Project for a New American Century”, Cheney and Rumsfeld spoke openly of the need for a ‘New Pearl Harbour’, which would accelerate their plans to destroy the Middle East, take control of the massive oil reserves owned by Muslim countries, and incorporate major sections of them into a ‘Greater Israel’. The evidence is now overwhelming - beyond any reasonable doubt - that neocons Cheney and Rumsfeld planned and carried out 9/11, aided by NYC mayor Giuliani who had the massive debris evidence (full of top-secret US army material nanothermite which turned the WTC towers to dust) carted away within hours from 'Ground Zero' (before travelling to the UK to receive his 'Commander of the British Empire' medal); that cruise missiles photoshopped to look like airliners were used in the attacks which occurred in a country with the most sophisticated air-defence systems ordered to 'stand down'; and the blame put on Arabs who simply could not have piloted massive airliners with their minimal flight-school training on tiny planes, or undertaken the 'fighter-jet' like contortions the alleged planes did, etc etc.... so that their "Project for a New American Century', replicating the Oded Yinon plan for 'Greater Israel', could be carried out, along with the assault on civil liberties launched by the 1200-page "Patriot Act', miraculously produced within hours of 9/11, and in that paranoid atmosphere, easily stuffed down the throats of Congress...... so that the murder of hundreds of thousands (by now millions) of Muslims could be carried out, and their countries destroyed, their oil stolen.... In a country like this, is there any surprise that a dead soul like Paddock would be produced, when its top government officials, its highest ranking judges, are among the worst criminals in history. American crimes since 1945 easily rival if not exceed those of the Nazis. But the world's single Tyrannosaurus-Rex keeps crying wolf to deflect attention from its own crimes. Like the murder of thousands or tens of thousands of civilians, women, children, wedding parties...by Obama's weekly drone assassinations - never covered by official Western news media. One obstacle to the global empire ambitions of the neo-cons is Russian President Putin, who unlike other Western leaders, will not take American orders, or stand by helplessly as the neo-cons plot the destruction of his country and the theft of its massive resources. The entire 'Ukraine crisis' is a brazen inversion of the facts - that the Obama administration carried out a violent coup d'etat in Kiev to remove a Russia-friendly leader and instal a US puppet, in support of massive American investments (the biggest one led by Joe Biden's son) in Ukrainian oil and gas fracking. Or that if Putin had not annexed Crimea, formerly part of the USSR, US-controlled NATO would have set up a naval base at the only warm water port available to Russia. Another obstacle is the growing economic power of China, and China's 'New Silk Road' project to transform 'Eurasia'.... So China, Russia, and India are conspicuously omitted from the great 'trade agreements' planned by Obama, unquestionably one of the greatest actors (as in Hollywood) in history. Except they are not trade agreements, but 'corporate-rights agreements' - decimating the rights of nation-states and populations to safe, clean environments and societies, so their resources can be plundered by the American (and European corporations)that will face no obstacle if such agreements are installed. The last year has been dominated by hysteria about 'Russian interference' in the US election. Not a word about the American destruction of democracy in dozens of countries since 1945 - assassinations, CIA operations, terror crimes, death squads - still going on in 137 countries around the globe, creating the 60 million refugees in the planet today, but never reported in the major corporate owned media. Or of the brazen American interference in Russian elections, so a drunken stooge (Yeltsin) in the pockets of Wall Street could be installed, a fact openly boasted about on the cover of Time magazine? Followed by the liquidation/theft/privatization by Wall Street, of trillions of dollars worth of Russian resources...but not one that sated American greed. Inline image 1 Or the continued denial of climate change by the Republican party, despite clear incontrovertible evidence which most recently destroyed 90% or more of Puerto Rico, and islands owned by France and Holland. In the 1970 Godfather movie, the leading mafioso is described as 'carrying the judges and politicians of New York in his pocket, like loose change'. The 0.01% who carry the top judges and politicians of America in their pockets are not mentioned... like the 5 American Supreme Court 'justices' who wrote Citizens United..... Those liquidators of democracy (into plutocracy) were the same ones who also attacked American democracy in 2000, installing the 21st century's worst war-criminals into the White House, against the wishes of the American people. Their judicial hands are also stained with the murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans... But these basic facts are never mentioned in the hideous hysteria about Russian hacking - or that the US is itself the greatest hacker of the entire planet.... a country where the leading financiers of war-crimes can carry out brazen multi-trillion dollar criminal frauds, and suffer no consequences whatsoever.... The one developed country on the planet which does not allow a publicly funded health-care system which over 60% of its population wants, because the insurance companies and health mercenary organisations who gorge one of the greatest gravy-trains on the planet, will not allow it......the other multi-trillion dollars gravy-train being the Pentagon, CIA etc.. paid for by American taxpayers so American corporations can rape and pillage all over the world, protected by the 'gangsters for capitalism'. A country which still pretends it is a frontier society, therefore awash in guns so the gun-manufacturers flourish while the NRA prattles about the 2nd amendment...? In a country like this, is there any surprise that the likes of Paddock should flourish?

REQUIEM FOR MURDERED CHILDREN

REQUIEM FOR MURDERED CHILDREN The terrorist attack in Manchester in which 22 were killed and dozens more injured has received the publicity it deserves. World leaders, including the British (and Canadian) Queen, have condemned it as a shocking, cowardly and wicked attack. Public reaction included flowers, condolences, candles… Today news covered another attack by ‘armed men’ in Egypt on a bus carrying ‘coptic Christians’, many of whom were children. But CBC news also reported on a US attack on a Syrian site that killed some 35 civilians, including ‘women and children’, perhaps for the first time. As Western leaders of the G-7 meet in Sicily and also discuss their reaction to the ‘global’ terror threat, it seems appropriate to remember other children who were also ‘murdered’, but whose memory is forgotten, marginalized, or never been reported. George H. W. Bush (the senior) helped ‘sell’ the 1991 invasion of Iraq (following its invasion of Kuwait) with the story that Saddam Hussein was killing ‘babies’ in Kuwait. His country (aided by the UK) then went on to kill between 500,000 and 750,000 babies in Iraq, with their policy of sanctions called ‘genocidal’ by the 2 British diplomats administering it (who resigned after their protests were dismissed by US Senators with: ‘these men are paid to work, not talk’). Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who was asked in an interview about these infant genocides, replied that it was ‘a price worth paying’. After the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq (following a decade-plus of ‘sanctions’ and ad-hoc bombings by the US and UK whenever Bill Clinton or Tony Blair needed a boost in their domestic political ratings) ended up with an insurgency/civil war in Iraq, belying Dubya’s declaration of ‘victory’, and cost US taxpayers some $4 trillion or more (also putting - along with the 2008 economic crash caused by the multi-trillion dollar sub-prime fraud for which no one was prosecuted, being ‘Too Big to Jail’ – the US $’s reserve currency status under pressure), President Obama resorted to a ‘no-boots on the ground’ approach to the destruction of the other Middle Eastern countries, called for by the Oded Yinon plan for ‘Greater Israel’ (to incorporate not only Gaza and the West Bank but pieces of other countries like Syria, Jordan and Lebanon), or its US counterpart PNAC – the Project for a New American Century. Through the usual devices available to the global SuperPredator and Terrorist, Libya and Syria have been destroyed. One ‘conspiracy theory’ on the internet calls these events the logical execution of Oded Yinon/PNAC, following the ‘false-flag’ operation 9/11 – the ‘New Pearl Harbour’ that PNAC called for as the trigger. The task of the US and Israel is of course only partly finished. Millions of Muslims have been murdered a majority of whom almost certainly were women and children; millions more turned into refugees - such as the bloodied Syrian boy who captured Canadian imagination and led to P. M. Trudeau’s acceptance of 25,000 refugees from Syria. In its buildup to Iraq 2003, the US government boasted about the ‘shock and awe’ its bombings would cause… not reported was that massive numbers of civilians including women and children would be eviscerated as they experienced that ‘awe’. Perhaps the US planners (being Christian) imagined a sort of ‘rapture’ for their victims. And in keeping with the official ‘saintly’ image of Obama, his weekly drone assassinations (some 400 ‘deadly’ attacks during his 8-years in office) – some taking out entire wedding parties or even funeral processions, were simply blanked out from Western news media.. Thousands if not tens of thousands of ‘Muslims’ including ‘women and children’ were blown off the face of the earth, their lives cruelly and prematurely ended. The half-million women who marched on Washington DC the day of Trump’s inauguration, condemning his ‘grabbing of womens’ genitals’ though it may only have been ‘locker-room talk’, lamented the loss of Obama, apparently having no clue about Obama’s murders of women and children. As we are living through the return of the ‘Russian threat', though it may only be ‘American propaganda' – actually the inversion of the the American/NATO threat to Russia (since those forces are amassed on Russia's border, not the other way around) – it seems appropriate to remember other ‘murders’ of children on other pretexts. The burning of untold numbers of Vietnamese children with napalm for one, and the unreported dozens of ‘My Lai’ style massacres the US army carried out, following Nobel Peace Prize winner Kissinger’s order to ‘kill anything that moves’, killing old/infirm men, women including pregnant women after raping them, babies...pigs...chickens...anything that moved. Or of the hundreds of thousands of babies born with missing limbs or brains even today, because of JFK’s ‘drenching' of South Vietnam with Monsanto’s Agent Orange, manufactured in good clean, peace-loving Canada. Even though their effects are far more horrible, agonizing and long-lasting than sarin gas, neither napalm nor Agent Orange is called a ‘chemical weapon’, for obvious reasons. Or the thousands of Laotian children killed and at risk from the millions of unexploded US bombs that litter the country. Or on another note, the murder (reported by Miko Peled, son of one of the generals who helped create the state of Israel , but not covered by Western media) – of hundreds or thousands of Gazan children on whom Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu dropped hundreds of tonnes of phosphorus bombs at 11.30 am, the moment when Gazan school-children change shifts, so that the maximum number of them are on the streets. But in these remembrances of murdered ‘children’ one should not forget ‘fathers’ - especially the ‘founding fathers’ of ISIS – including the prosecutable Tony Blair, and his unprosecutable US masters.

CANADA PROCEEDING WITH THE TPP

Huffington Post reports that Canada is proceeding to host talks on the TPP, in an undisclosed location in Toronto, even though the US has apparently withdrawn from it. The location is secret for obvious reasons – because the talks are certain to attract protest from activists and hopefully the public. The 6000 page text of the TPP was drafted by corporate lawyers in secret. No public input was either solicited or allowed. Not even members of Parliaments of the concerned countries had input. This alone should have raised RED FLAGS… But in the corporate-owned news media that dominate the West, these basic facts are not given coverage. Their ‘fake news’ hype continues to call it a ‘trade deal’, in furtherance of ‘free trade’. There is nothing ‘free’ about it except for the principal beneficiaries of the deal – big corporations, who by its terms will put the economies affected (including Canada) into a Corpo-Rat straitjacket. This deal (part of a TRIAD including the European TTIP, and the global TISA) is the resurrection of the hated MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment) which was scuttered by strong public protests (Paris and Seattle?). The MAI at least had the decency to label itself what it was – an Investor Rights Agreement – not a ‘trade deal’. By falsely labelling the TPP a ‘trade deal’, both the media and governments are misleading the public. Lowering tariffs is a very tiny part of this deal, which is calculated to squeeze the life out of what little remains of national sovereignty after decades of successful neo-liberalism, or what should be regarded as the economics of fraud and theft. It is designed to maximise the power of big corporations to plunder national resources, destroy environments (land, water, air), and exploit labour by continuing the devastation of unions. If nation-states do not comply with corporate demands, they will be on the hook for massive damage claims for lost future profits that the concerned corporations will claim, and which will be adjudged not by national courts, but by private arbitration panels made up of the same corporate lawyers who principally drafted the near-6000 page text, kept secret from the public (except where pieces and fragments have been made public by the courage of Wikileaks) and even members of Parliaments. As one tiny example, the town of Erin voted recently on a proposal to slightly raise the infinitesmal price it charges Nestle for water which the company sells at huge profits to the public. Such liquidation of resources has been happening all over the US, as reported by Mark Zepezauer in his book 'Take the Rich off Welfare'. This is a damning piece of work by the Canadian government, to proceed with the TPP instead of embracing (warmly) the opportunity to smash it given by Donald Trump's executive order. Blame must also be assigned to activists on the left who have relentlessly attacked Trump for issues of political correctness, while ignoring the three areas of positive possibility offered by him: improved relations with Russia and the dialling-down of the awesome danger of a terminal war, the promise to retract trillions of dollars of expenditure on never-ending war-crimes abroad, and to kill the dangerous TPP. The first possibility has already been smashed by the ‘Deep State’ with its successful (and largely fraudulent) claims of Russian hacking; the US is the biggest hacker of the entire planet’s population as revealed by Snowden, has the biggest cyberwarfare budget, and a history of destroying democracy around the planet, and within its own borders with Citizens United. (The Democratic Party itself sabotaged the chances of Bernie Sanders in favour of Hillary Clinton)…The ouster of Flynn for essentially engaging in what used to be considered diplomacy – talking to a foreign government - has been a major step. This led naturally to the killing of the second possibility which also was a big threat to the war-mongering Deep State, and the massive weapons industry. That leaves the TPP. Truly an uninformed public needs to awake and protest this serious threat to their economic interest….and hopefully lead to the crumbling of the related TTIP and TISA as well.

THE ROOTS OF ISLAMOPHOBIA

THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ISLAMOPHOBIA Since the election of Donald Trump to the White House, and his recruitment of several extremists in his cabinet and advisers, there has been a sharp rise in racist temperament especially against Muslims, and now we have had the murderous attack on mosques in Canada. The Canadian government – unlike the US government in similar cases such as the 2012 mass-murder in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin – labeled the attack(s) as a ‘terrorist’ one, even though the perpetrators were not Muslim. In the US, terrorism is whatever the government calls it, and tends to focus on ‘radical Islam’. So when white men create carnage and terror with automatic weapons in public places like cinemas (for example), or black churches, that is not ‘terrorism’, because the interests of powerful lobbies like the NRA are at stake. In reports and the funeral ceremony in Montreal yesterday, references were made to social media influencing the perpetrators, and inflaming their ‘ignorance’. But the main source of Islamophobia remains strangely unidentified. Put it simply, it is the major Western news media, which takes it lead from the US, ‘echoing’ the US line. The worst attack attributed to Muslims is 9/11, which killed less than 3000 people. Hundreds of millions of American and non-American citizens remain skeptical about the 9/11 Commission report. All manner of plausible theories abound on the internet; from claims that Mossad agents lined the World Trade Towers with demolition bombs (supported by the collapse of Building 7 which was not hit by a plane), to others that the crater in the Pentagon was not consistent with a 747 airliner hitting it, or that airliners were hijacked but not used in the actual attacks and so on. But they are dismissed as ‘conspiracy theories’, or as they are now called, ‘fake news’. But who has been the greatest disseminator of fake news, if not the major Western news media? Long before Trump ran for office, the major Western news media has been presenting a ‘fake’ perspective on ‘Islamic’ terrorism. The greatest war-crime of the 21st century – the invasion of Iraq – was carried out with major support for it by Western reporters and editors. The reports of cumulatively hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and millions turned into refugees, are rarely mentioned. Similarly, the hundreds of thousands destroyed in Afghanistan, done willfully to force the Taliban to hand over Osama bin Laden, or similar numbers of casualties and refugees created by the West’s destruction of Libya and Syria are rarely mentioned in ‘official news’. These are all ‘Muslim’ victims; literally millions of them. And the perpetrators are Western countries led by the US, which no one bothers to say is the world’s leading ‘SuperPredator’ nation. That it also considers itself a ‘Christian’ country is mind-boggling. ‘No man can have 2 Masters.. it is either God or Mammon’. Yet the world’s leading Mammon-worshipping country is able to pretend in broad daylight that it is a Christian country, while murdering millions of Muslims and non-Muslims with invasions, terror bombings, and black ops (to name a few methods) to maximize its ownership of Mammon, while successfully portraying itself as the victim of 'radical Islam',which it calls the greatest threat to civilization. But it is really ‘radical Christianity’ which is, and has been for centuries, the greatest threat to the planet, now literally threatening its existence with climate change and nuclear holocaust. ‘Capitalism’ is merely the latest incarnation, earlier ones being ‘white man’s burden’, ‘mission civilisatrice’, and ‘Manifest Destiny’. The worst elements of colonialism and imperialism – the work of ‘Christian’ countries – remain alive through open and secret wars in some 138 countries. But we are rarely told the ‘true’ facts. And this infects the seemingly best of our journalists as well. After the Paris attacks which killed 129 some while ago, Western journalists including Canada’s Peter Mansbridge went to Paris to pontificate about the ‘horrors’ of those attacks, and the earlier ones on Charlie Hebdo. Has Mansbridge or any Canadian news anchor, ever used the word ‘horrors’ to describe Western bombing of Muslim countries? If 129 dead is a horror, what words would suffice to describe the murder of hundreds of thousands, or of millions? ‘The horror, the horror’, of a sick, diseased Western civilization which has murdered millions of Muslims, not in a ‘clash of civilizations’, but because the biggest oil reserves on the planet are located in Muslim countries, but successfully pretends it is under attack from ‘radical Islam’. The so-called terrorist attacks by misguided Islamists outraged by the monstrous crimes committed against their countries are but pitiful pin-pricks of retaliation compared to the Western crimes which provoked them. Sadly, so long as the West continues its depradations, so will the pin-pricks continue. The Western news media understand their role – to focus on the pin-pricks, while rarely mentioning the catastrophes which provoked them, except as noble or well-intentioned mistakes. What is this, if not fanning the flames of Islamophobia? No one asks the relevant questions…for example, was Charlie Hebdo journalistic satire? What is to be gained by portraying the Islamic prophet in demeaning fashion? What has he to do with current events? Why ignore so many far more deserving targets – such as the PIGS on Wall Street who have destroyed the middle class in the West? Or the corporate anus-lickers who wrote Citizens United? Or more significantly – are there Muslim armies in Western countries? Why are Western armies in Muslim countries? Western crimes against Islam go back to the Sykes-Picot agreement and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, and include the 1953 Iranian coup. In a prime-time discussion with other journalists, Mansbridge referred to ISIS's references to these historical facts as 'propaganda'.... for obvious reasons, to falsify history... and delegitimize Islamic grievances. There is plenty that is ugly and hateful about the words and actions of Trump and his camp. But the roots of Islamophobia lie in American Empire, or as it should be called –‘radical Capitalism’. Trump’s travel ban for Muslims entering the US from 7 countries is being debated. Not debated is the real and terrible plight of Muslim (and other) nations, which have no practical way of banning the travel of American armies, bombs, Navy Seals, and drones. The world remains at the mercy of the SuperPredator nation.

NEOLIBERALISM - THE ECONOMICS OF FRAUD, THEFT AND ARMED ROBBERY

THE ECONOMICS OF FRAUD AND THEFT Attached is a 407 bill. I accidentally entered the 407 and departed it at the next exit. The bill shows a Toll charge of 46 cents, plus trip toll charge of $1, plus camera charge of $4.05, plus account fee of $3.75, for a total of $9.26. That's an impressive statement of 'efficiency' by the private sector. Efficiency at maximising private profit at citizenry cost. The last few decades have been described as the neo-liberal assault on populations and democracy. It might equally be called the Economics of Fraud and Theft, a fundamentalist 'religion' called the 'free market'. Free for whom? For the 0.1% and their slaves? The major components of this religion included privatisation of public property in different parts of the world, including of resources like water, on the theory that the public sector is inefficient and the free market will do better. From the cost of the subway in London, England, to the cost of electricity in Ontario, to private medical care in the US this is undeniably a scam. Everywhere private sector costs are grotesquely higher, and massive thefts of public property took place at bargain prices, creating the billionaire class of oligarchs who rule most Western countries and Western-influenced countries like Russia. A second leg of this religion was deregulation - to 'free the business class from red-tape and encourage innovation'. This reached ultimate heights in the unregulation of derivatives, where regulation was stopped on inception. A quadrillion dollars of derivatives contracts is estimated to exist on the balance sheets of American banks, and despite clever mathematical formulas suggesting precision, no one can really estimate the degree of risk and fraud they contain. Hence, despite the multi-trillion dollars of 'quantitative easing' (creating money from thin air by privately owned central banks led by the Federal Reserve), 'liquidity' remained elusive. Deregulation and the gutting of the SEC led to innovations like securitization (the creation of dangerous instruments like CDOs which destroyed mortgage audit trails, allowed the sale of trillions of dollars of junk CDOs bearing fraudulent AAA ratings, because billions of dollars in commissions and fees were earned by Wall Street). Financial officers openly spoke of 'off-balance sheet financing', or violating the requirement of 'full disclosure' on balance sheets. This part of the religion relies on 'self-interest' leading to optimal solutions.... as if eliminating traffic rules, speed limits and police would lead to safer and more optimal driving because every driver's self-interest would guarantee it. Dr. Chomsky has challenged the 'free-market innovation' assumption, stating that most of the major components of the post-industrial economy like the computer, the internet, wi-fi, smart phones, and so on, were developed at public cost and risk, in institutions like MIT funded by the taxpaying 99%, but the benefits went elsewhere. But economics students were consistently led to parrot the idea that 'public investment crowds out private investment'. A third leg was 'supply-side economics'. .... The Trudeau government pulled off a minor revolution when it campaigned on tax increases. Since Reagan however the mantra continued virtually unabated that tax cuts for the rich would lead them to invest and this would create 'trickle-down' jobs. But the Laffer curve was another fraud, as the super-rich took the cuts and then disinvested, dismantling manufacturing in major Western economies and moving it to cheap-labor countries, citing 'market forces' and 'globalization'. Why isn't there a movement to reclaim the falsely earned tax cuts back? In the UK in particular but generally in the West, working-class people were encouraged to invest in speculative things like stocks and real estate to distract attention from their stagnant or declining wage. The attack on the deceased Keynes and his replacement by the ‘monetarist’ Milton Friedman almost certainly was ideological. Keynes counselled putting money in the hands of the 99%, who would spend it on the necessities of life. This created the post-WW2 social welfare states, which stuck in the craw of the super-rich, who could not stand the notion of a middle class earning a decent wage. So they set about destroying it, following the advice of the 'Powell memorandum'. Friedman's monetarist theory of growth of money supply a point or so ahead of inflation has been proven to be a 'false doctrine', as credit creation by the Fed proceeds in ways intended to create and support bubbles, with inevitable crashes. A major unasked question is why are the Federal Reserve, the IMF and most central banks privately owned, and why is the identity of the owners secret? Why do private bankers have the license to print/create money from thin air, and then charge the public interest? How much of today's government debts and deficits would vanish if this license (protected by the world's greatest weapons of mass destruction and deception) were to be taken away, and returned where it arguably belongs - in the hands of 'the people'. And no modern economic theory concerns itself with the Economics of Armed Robbery aka Empire.... the use of weapons, armed forces, and 'intelligence agencies' to allow powerful nations to rob and plunder the weak. Perhaps that's what the 'free' market refers to - the freedom of the Empire to do what it wants. To be fair though, the US-UK 'Ivy League' (Harvard, Oxford, etc.) do refer to the strange 'resource curse' which causes countries possessing oil, gold, minerals etc. to plunge into an abyss which the wonderful West then miraculously benefits from..... the unofficial activities of the 'Christian' West in engendering these events by inciting civil wars, insurgencies, toppling of democracies, bribing and arming military or non-military insurrections, etc., do not form part of the profession of economics, which requires its adherents to spend years in the study of exquisite mathematical models leading to 'equilibrium', based on assumptions (rationality, 'efficient markets', etc) which have no equivalence in reality. A 407 BILL.pdf

FAKE NEWS, RUSSIAN HACKING, AND THAT AWFUL PUTIN (USED TO BE TRUMP)

Since the Trump election, a major news media allegation has been that ‘fake news’ interfered with the electoral process, and further that ‘Russian hacking’ helped defeat Hillary Clinton. Today’s declassified ‘intel’ report cites the ‘clear preference’ of Putin for Trump, but keeps the ‘damning evidence’ secret, presumably for national security reasons. Leading the drumroll for aggressive punishment of Russia for ‘undermining democracy’, is Senator John McCain, who says this was an ‘act of war’. He is of course, an ‘honorable man’, like the others in the US government who dismiss Russia as a ‘gas-station economy’ the ‘size of Italy’s’. McCain once made jokes about bombing Iranians. In 2008 in one of his presidential debates with Obama, he repeated the claim of the holiest of recent US Presidents (Reagan), that publicly funded health-care would be ‘like communism - with the state telling you which doctor you can use’. 35 million Canadians and hundreds of millions of Europeans know how exceptionally true these claims are. Such honorable men (and women – Clinton, Rice, Albright) also led the drum-roll for the invasion of Iraq, not very long ago, on charges of ‘weapons of mass-destruction’ (WMD), which then morphed into ‘installing democracy’ when none were found. Some may even recall the ‘evidence’ presented by Colin Powell in the UN in support. Despite references to 'weapons of mass deception' at the time, Oxford did not invent the phrase ‘Post-Truth’ then; only after Trump was elected, against odds and polls; and the wishes of the 'elites', aka the 'Deep State'. Perhaps ‘social media’ was not as strong in 2003. But it seems the real complaint by the major corporate news media is that they no longer have what they have long had – a monopoly. Now there is a serious competitor. Dozens of tomes written by the likes of Dr. Chomsky on what he politely calls the ‘propaganda system’, about the misrepresentation of the role of the US and its allies in the world, at the behest of a few super-rich families and huge corporations, are rarely mentioned in major news outlets – so they must be ‘fake’. (Oxford and its ilk, of course, understand their role in the Empire which replaced the British one.) Trump responds that charges of Russian hacking are a ‘witch-hunt’ by sore losers. While that may be true, the real motives appear to be much deeper-rooted. What Eisenhower called the ‘military-industrial complex’, and early 20th century General Smedley Butler called ‘racketeering for capitalism’ remains a huge and powerful force in US politics. Inventing external enemies is key to justifying half the planet’s expenditure on WMD by the US. After the USSR fell, the war on terror replaced it. Now there is a secret war over the future of the US dollar, the enormous debt accumulated by the US government, financed by Petrodollars (and post-2008 the creation of trillions of $ from thin air, called 'quantitative easing'), which has generated pushback from those who resent this grotesquely ‘exorbitant privilege’ But there is not much news coverage about this secret war, except in ‘fake news’. So let’s review some of the fake news that has successfully been censored by the responsible and ethical major news media of the West (allegedly corporate-owned). 1. That the US and its allies have killed not just hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but cumulatively (including through ‘genocidal’ sanctions) – millions. That Obama’s drone assassination victims number over 80,000 including 8 wedding parties. Both those claims were made by Physicians for Social Responsibility in the US, Canada and Germany, but were blanked out. Imagine for instance the hysteria in major news outlets if ISIS had taken out 1 Western wedding party. 2. That the US and its allies have secret wars in 138 countries, including several in Africa, and this is the source of the 60 million refugees today. That’s from Tomdispatch.com, who also report that every Western bomb blows off heads, arms, legs of women, children, men…. Again no reference in Western news sources to these matters, except to civilian casualties by Russian bombings in Syria. Presumably Russia does not have the ‘smart-bombs’ of the US, which refuse to explode when they hit civilians. 3. The most outlandish of fake news claims on the internet must be that the Federal Reserve, IMF and most central banks are not state-owned, but privately owned banks, and that these invisible bankers have orchestrated wars for centuries, including the world wars and most recently the destruction of Iraq, Libya and Syria because their leaders did not want to sell their countries’ resource (oil) in US dollars. Now we all know for sure that these are simply conspiracy theories, don’t we? 4. Equally outlandish must be the reports including by John Pilger, that NATO's buildup of armed forces on the Russian border is the greatest since Adolf Hitler; or that Obama's 'pivot to Asia' likewise is an unprecedented buildup of naval forces, bases and weaponry designed to provoke, intimidate and potentially strangulate China, including massive arms budgets in Australia and Japan for the same reason. It goes without saying that claims that Brexit and the Trump victory represent 2 revolts by peoples angry at the ‘neo-liberal’ assault against those populations and their democracy are nonsense. True, ‘populism’ raises its ugly head now and then (will the 'stupid and ignorant herd' never learn?). But the real enemy is external, and the world’s greatest defender of freedom and democracy is of course the USA. The revelation of embarrassing information through wikileaks is the assault on democracy; concealment would have defended it. Blaming Putin helps deflect attention from the reasons for Trump’s victory, and other pesky things like Citizens United, which could be called the US Supreme Court’s support for plutocracy, and attack on democracy.