"Nobody is working together to get rid of the virus like they should be."

That's not true. Cuba, China, and Venezuela especially are sending people around the globe to several countries to help combat this virus. While every westernized country selfishly accepts this help, they will return right back to demonizing them when it has slowed down enough this summer. China has been and will remain receiving false negative coverage through all this in the US even though those false narratives have been debunked. That's the only distraction that's being waged. To distract us from our own governments incompetence from their capitalist system that caused it to be so bad here and abroad.

@William_Mary You summed it up very nicely.

The planet contains, for the moment, an uncountable amount of slaves. As long as we allow the current system to continue we continue to fall into the cracks they create. This has been going on for several decades starting with Nixon and the China agreement. Our manufacturing jobs begin to take the hit, the slaves in China take the jobs. This slowly continues up to the Clinton administration with trade agreements Bush was working on as he left office. More manufacturing jobs to China, Mexico, and Canada. More slaves in Mexico to take our jobs and in Canada.

You're in Canada, feel free to express how trade agreements effected Canada. We lost a series of manufacturing in the auto industry, for example, due to rules in trade agreements. We had to agree to a percentage of our auto manufacturing to be outsourced to Canada and Mexico in which we use to do it all right here. Which became the first apparent reason made in America became a laughable statement. Almost everything we have now has parts that have been sub-assembled in another country, at best.

These trade agreements also devastated farming communities in Mexico which began the heightened migrant movement to the US. Now the slaves are willing to even come to the country in which has helped to upturn their lives. You can add this aspect to all of Latin America from the 80's when Reagan began his colonialist perpetual warring in their countries. Farming has been the most devastated industry globally from trade agreements. Add genetic engineered seeds to that issue now. That's another topic though.

Our entire work structure has been outsourced around the world killing our middle class for larger profits for the world ruling elite. Canada isn't any less responsible either.

Sometimes you seem to vision "we down here" paraphrasing, are the only one's that have lost our collective minds and such. But your country plays a large role in the very same world events. Your country just happens to be like Europe with better structured conditions and it's easy for all of you to point fingers at the madness we deal with. But with all due respect, I feel used! Venezuelans might feel used also when it comes to the sanctions and false narratives your country strongly support as it wants to get back to taking their gold.

You might have often caught me denouncing Caitlin Johnstone on a number of occasions. She does a wonderful job of recognizing our political corruption and the maddening support from the tribalist this system gets. I have posted a ton of her work here and agree with most of it. And will do so in the future most likely. She's from Australia by the way. But one thing funny about her, is she never confronts the politics or history of her own country which has a mirrored image of ours. She never ever correlates the collaboration her country follows with ours and Europe in world affairs and damages it has created. You'd never know her country is and has been in Afghanistan committing several war crimes and crimes on humanity as she always directs her middle east dissenting views only towards the US.

While I recognize we have a vast majority of people here living in a delusional reality that has been created for them, we almost deserve it to a point, but we are also getting used by the rest of the world under these conditions in a lot of respective ways. And quite frankly, I'll argue this is a large part of the sense of a world society that's letting us down as the rest of you take advantage as you watch your governments collaborate with the world elites to make this the process.

If we were to finally stand up and pull ourselves together and abandon this process, where would that leave the rest of you? Looking at the world strongest power under a better leadership of a new socialized vision to begin taking care of its own again within a much wider view to rebuild, no more elite ruling class calling the shots here. Call Russia and China. I'm curious to how that would go.

Maybe the nazi nationalist here have a good point after all. In a sense I can see how they feel. Tired of being used. They just aren't bright enough to vision a world society united.

@William_Mary Sorry I'm tired and partly fellasleep reading this. But I did read it and I'll try to answer you later. I can tell you that most Canadians hate Nafta. They hate the provisions where you can and do sue us for trying to be environmentally conscious. I know that we demanded from you and from Japan and no doubt other countries that if you insisted onselling us your cars we wanted you to at least do some of the manufacturing here.
By the way I hate Barrick Gold. We are a resource economy. Most of our resources are mined, collected exported by Amercan companies. Most of the logging that I see is done by American companies. Virtually all of our oil and gas is by American companies. Your country creams off our wealth and we get very little in return.

@rogerbenham right, you're making my point for me, where I wish it was with me.

We're stuck in a battle between our governments using us to enrich corporations for their failures. Neither being any better than the other within a collaborate scheme. Unless you believe you're government or corporations haven't sued us in the past. Or that the pipelines from your tar sand oil production hasn't polluted our lands. Especially upturning a number of native American communities.

Maybe our government and auto industry managed to force you into buying their automobiles, "we" really didn't have a choice in that. The wiser here supported Ross Perot and his thoughts on NAFTA. WE, were doing rather fine with you buying them at your own will before Michigan went to shit. Along with all the sub assembly factories throughout the states that provided certain parts. GM's Buick division loves China. Which has been a trend for decades, approximately 4 1/2 times the amount sold in the US are bought in China. A 2015 figure at nearly 1 million autos sold there.

So you get a strong sense of how Venezuelans feel. And how we feel.

@William_Mary All these trade deals are essentially created by multinational corporations flexing their muscles over governments for the advantage of those corporations.Ever since NAFTA came into being I have not noticed any free trade on my purchases from the USA. Everything pretty well that I buy from the states gets taxes and handling fees added at the border. UPS shipped stuff always.
Brian Muldroney one of our hated prime ministers left office and promptly joined Barrick Gold. Everything that that company does is horrible. Their treatment of indigenous peoples a disgrace to Canada.
We do try to get some labour input on our side of the border but when I see US owned companies shipping out whole logs and paying 25 cents a tree to the province my blood boils! In fact the whole complaint about BC lumber swamping your market is ridiculous since the vast bulk of the monet ends up in the States.
TG Safeway Canada is now Canadian owned. For years it paid no Canadian taxes by buying from Safeway USA and selling at a lower price in Canada thereby creating losses to counter their profits. No doubt they found ways to pay no USA taxes as well.
What pisses me off is that if we attempt to impose environmental restrictions your fucking corporations sue us. I hate the lot of them.

@rogerbenham yea I noticed your corporations hold like 70% of all claims in law suits per 2015.

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But notice where a lot of that money goes? The lawyers make nearly a 1/3 in what the fines are that are handed out. Who gets the fines? It sure as hell isn't the people! And why are the law suits against the US at a drastically higher rate?

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We're all getting bent over the fifth-wheel they're using to grease our asses with and fucked. If they're kind enough to use the grease. This essentially another taxation without representation that only benefits the corporations and politicians they own. Did your country have the pleasure of voting for these trade agreements? We did not. And if I remember right, the new modified version has vastly taken away the rights of people to sue corporations for damage.