News and politics

Robotic and repulsive rhetoric

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Everyone with a properly working brain knows that the 45th president and his party are either practically all brain dead or they have stopped thinking. They repeat the same outlandish allegations and outright lies like souped up robots. If the 2024 election in the United States is the most important in history it is so because the 45th president has been trying for 4 years to prove that the 2020 elections were fraudulent.

“If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, All his ministers become wicked.” (Proverbs 29:12, NASB)

Increasingly, people who do not win elections find it convenient to charge the winners with dishonesty. The world is turning with relish to an environment of lies and wild allegations. Politics has always been full of robotic and repulsive rhetoric.

Criminal and immoral

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When does malignant behaviour reach heinous and utterly abominable levels? It has to be beyond lying, stealing, homicide, covetousness, sabbath profanation, dishonouring parents, marital infidelity, idolatry, perjury, swearing falsely, and worshipping the created world.  In addition to these Yahwistic definitions there is the history of counting how many strikes cook a person’s goose making the discovery of heinous and abominable somewhat convoluted.   A completely frank businessman might reckon that seven times is sufficient to put distance between a perpetrator and judicial grace, however, there are too many examples of the book thrown at a single indictment and there are centuries of individual and systematic transgressions going unpunished. It would seem that we are permanently precariously perched on the precipice of tyranny disguised as patriotism and religious integrity. Based on our observations of religious and secular governments we can safely conclude that criminality will never be equal to morality.

Punishment and correction

New standards are nowhere in sight. The powerbrokers are all still killing people to end the reign of evil. It is just as evil to deny people rights to services and even their identity. No punishment has yet been found for the slave traders and colonialists. The difference between White Europeans exploiting Africans for 400 years and Black Caribbean leaders failing to secure prosperity for all island people over the last 189 years explains why. They might think we do not notice that their political parties are always focused on workers or labourers, as if the value of work supercedes the value of humans. For the criminal and immoral there is neither punishment nor correction is in sight, because no cohesive vision inspires the people these days.

Continue reading

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News is not public service. Maybe you can remember a time when news cost nothing or mere pennies. Today, late summer 2023, a corporation selling news, editorial opinion, expert analysis posts a tantalizing headline, followed by a blurb containing neither geography, chronology, science nor theology. Then comes the bridge, “Continue reading”. Click that object and you will learn the price of that “news” item, and the more desperate corporations will use your click to collect your personal information, ostensibly for identifying you as a client.

Incorrigible corruption

The term “news” should be stripped from many names of television stations, radio stations and websites. We will be sorry if we do not take action now to end the reign of political and religious spin. The corruption in information peddling is deep, buried in the very things that have been dividing society and inviting violence and using patriotism and religious conviction to create a new mindless cult. News outfits become virtual silos of specialized packages of information bits. After what we have learned about the Fox media platforms hatred of facts and social media obsession with manipulating public sentiment with algorithms shutting off the faucet of quasi-news is a step in the correcting of the incorrigible.

Very presidential

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Absconding Bravely with Classified Documents

  • Very presidential? No!
  • Sad
  • Stupid
  • Unnecessary

Groundbreaking idiocy

The world has long been obsessed with anyone who seems wealthy or adventurous.  The world loves a mercenary.  We will kiss a man’s ring even as he tells us that he is prepared to torch our only residence, even as his fingers pluck our last $20 bill from our hands.  The 45th US president has no interest in the vision of the founding fathers of the American Republic.  He has no relationship to the justice apparatus, no inclination to be a public servant, no reverence for the immigrant realities of the Republic, but the “slightly damaged genius” wants to be the object of affection, the wearer of gold medals for everything he’s tried.

Stealing documents is easily proven

The wind is already beginning to blow cold in the northern hemisphere, and the scores of felony charges racking up against the dude of Mar a Lago means rear ends are going to freeze in prison. Pictures, text messages, and surveillance videos can hardly be explained away as political interference and weaponization of government departments. The idiocy is evident when Christians confess that their morality comes from Moses and the prophets, not Yeshua of Nazareth. One cannot put more distance between himself and the seats of power than when he threatens to cancel the American constitution. That is as far from presidential as one can be.

The age of MAGA and mediocrity

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I do not know what kind of coincidence shines the spotlight on the number 42 in August 2023.   Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has “42” as the answer to the question ‘life and everything”.  I seriously doubt that Republicans, Democrats, or any other configuration of political and religious entities, will answer life’s most sobering question or questions. Here are the facts. 42% of Americans believe what their religious leaders say. That compares to 71% believing what the lie factory, ex-president 45, produces. The beleaguered 45th president hangs on to 42% as the Republican nominee.  I suspect the universe has conspired to expose the deadly cult into which many across the globe have fallen. Tycoons – moguls and wealthy princes – are posters for mediocrity and short-winded typhoons. Give them enough rope and they quickly quickly hang themselves with criminal ventures.

Being right or real is divorced from religion

The current sinkhole of politics and religion will not give up its victims. The victims have turned off the taps before they finished soaping up their hands. They have made themselves patriots and reluctant martyrs for their cause. The scenario reminds me of the Pharisees in New Testament times who thought they had a Moses follower in Yeshua from Nazareth. The Sadducees did not even think of that potential. The two parties were already aware that Moses, temple, law and levitical priesthood were all heading out the door. Mediocrity and open malice never saved a nation, and yesterday’s greatness is incriminating, across the board.

Ford’s frantic fraud

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Ontario’s premier is banking for the votes of business and we should not underestimate the proportion of votes that accrue to a party going all out to opt out of Canada’s constitution, health system, and land and environmental sustainability vision.  Every single initiative of the Conservative government had the smell of a drug deal, with a caring soundbyte out front and repeated often. Thanks to an alert and  brave Canadian Mr. Ford’s brazen raiding of the federal purse is out in the open.   His plot to unravel the fabric of Canada’s unique national consensus began with his conferences with the Atlantic premiers, ostensibly coordinating demands for health funding.

Thank you, Brave Canadian, Ms Cooper.  For a necessary medical procedure, she ended up paying fees of nearly $1200.  Believe it folks!  There is a network of medical practitioners and their staff lining up to pick the pockets of Ontarians, all in the name of providing alternate locations for medical procedures to reduce wait times. Thanks to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, we have seen the tip of the iceberg.  The urgency for sending land developers into the Greater Toronto Area’s Greenbelt is that there is a shortage of homes.  The Federal government’s commitment to the right of workers to strike is just too much for a party pledged to stand with business entities. The Premier’s insincerity comes forth, like a leaky faucet, drip, drip, drip.

Who wants Canada’s secrets out in the public?

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That there is foreign interference in anyone’s politics is not surprising. Since Haiti gave the boot to French sovereignty the great pioneer nation of dispersed Africans has not had a year of release.  The people’s pleasure has been intercepted by the United States and God knows who else.  Every nation has secrets, some of which, like Haiti’s, have to do with survival.  Those people, especially politicians, who want a public airing of covert affairs that make their nation vulnerable are nothing but provocateurs and wannabe patriots and insurrection suspects. I have some ideas about who wants Canada’s secrets aired in public.

Trust with national interest is light years away from Conservative

The national interest will put people first, not corporations, large or small.  It is not enough to have federal politicians clamouring for a public inquiry, now Ontario’s premier is making his case for more details of foreign interference in Canada’s elections, now that, (you guessed it) the finger has been pointed at  provincial government officials from Premier Ford’s party. Geez, man, has the Ford government, while deciding the size of Toronto’s government, offers no insight into the rising occurrences of homicide. 

Smash up things then come in like saviours

Is there a push to create an image of the Ford government fighting crime and anything else? It looks that way and  scoffing and snickering at CSIS holding back secrets might work for Ford fiddlers and Pollievre pilferers.  It says much more about Ford refusing to say what he knows about the occupation of the national capital by admitted allies and friends of Conservative members of Canada’s legislatures. Conservatives have been tilting Canada towards “money talks” and the new right wing black hole. Since the 1970s they have been trying to make the difference between Canada and the United States seem inconsequential. For Ford and the Bloc Quebecois the line between federal and provincial powers and interests is sometimes thick and other times nonexistent.  I think Canadians know the difference between a fox in the henhouse and a German shepherd guarding a flock of sheep. They’re no saviours.

What juice are people drinking?

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Canadians are rallying today March 19th against the racism hoping to eradicate it.  Meanwhile in the United States an entire party, one of the two that make up the American political system, cannot see racism in America. I do not know whether they have convinced the preachers or whether the preachers have convinced the politicians that it’s better not to mention racism.   I suppose it is treasonous to announce the emancipation of the slaves upon whose labour the economy is based.  In Canada preachers  do not see the evil of  filling people with lies and false hopes, neither do the police believe that white people have been killing First Nations children and women.   Racism will be with us as surely as the poor will be with us until the end of the age. 

Part of the problem or slayer

What is taking society as long as it has to end the scourge of racism may be more than simply not being a part of it.  They will tell us we are crazy for saying that our societies need a makeover.  As courageous and visionary as we think Washington and McDonald to be we have contorted the foundations with our selfish and homicidal views. Israel did it too.  I suppose we in the western hemisphere are fortunate that God did not call us to be the guardians of the mystery of the ages.  We seem to be caught between being selfish and being good neighbours.  No one needs a neighbour like Russia, if you are Ukraine, or like China if you are Taiwan.  The problem of racial discrimination begins in homes where the nextdoor neighbour is devalued; his iron, wood and stone are not as valuable as ours.  Let us not keep up the delusion that automobiles made identically in Canada and the United States have sticker prices disparate by  tens of thousands of dollars.

The end of racism is beyond our telescope

From those who find Hitler attractive, hate Muslims, Jews, Christians, and despise all foreign cultures racism is a necessity, and it is curious that the most costly and highly treasured systems of legislation, jurisprudence and education have been taking little nibbles out of the racism beast for decades (in some cases centuries). Not only is the end of racism beyond our vision, it is beyond the reach of our ropes, hoses and ladders.