November 16, 2010
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM

U.S.-led treatment of disaster-stricken Pakistan is both immoral and inhumane.
In the months since catastrophe first struck beleaguered Pakistan, one thing has become painfully clear: that the U.S.-led western industrial “democracies” are fully prepared to crassly ignore the desperate pleas of the Pakistani people.
When disaster struck Haiti at the beginning of this year, every country that could afford to generously offered some kind of assistance to the desperately impoverished Caribbean nation.
And in varying degrees and with the notable exception of the United States – the richest country in the world – almost all of these countries have at least partially honoured their lavish commitments.
In the case of the U.S., of course, the generosity that was promised was largely intended to prevent an influx into America of a large number of black, French-speaking refugees. That the United States already owes so much to Haiti is irrelevant.
But months after making its ostentatious promises, Amerikkka has delivered almost nothing.
That 1.3 million people were living in flimsy tents when the heavy rains arrived and that tens of thousands are now threatened by the deadly disease cholera seem to be of little import.
In the case of Pakistan, however, the role played by the U.S. and its so-called “allies” has been much more malicious and malevolent.
It was bad enough that Muslims, Arabs and “Pakis” are the new “Niggers” of the western world, now even more reviled than African-Americans in the dominant Amerikkkan culture.
Afraid to challentheir own econocorporate socioeconomic elite that is bleeding the world dry, ordinary Americans always need a scapegoat.
And what more perfect scapegoat could there be than a dirt-poor collectivity of faraway people whose skin is brown, whose religion is Islam and whose primary language is foreign!
To advance its so-called War On Terror, the NATO “alliance” has tried to depict hard-pressed and ungovernable Pakistan as the world’s key breeder of Islamic “terrorism.”
WRISEUP.COM’s readers, however, should keep in mind that many – if not most – of the “terrorist” plots either carried out or “foiled” in the western world in recent years have been false flag events carried out not by “Arab” or “Muslim” or “Paki” “terrorists” but by the CIA, CSIS, MI5 and other western so-called “intelligence” agencies.
Yet the U.S., even while denying Pakistan the most basic disaster assistance, remains ever ready to provide the country with weapons of war.
The corporate mass media in both the U.S. and Canada have tried to depict the problem as some sort of “compassion fatigue.”
But as evidenced by Haiti, the United States is the least compassionate and least generous industrialized country despite its vast population and extreme relative wealth.
Americans and Canadians should ignore the anti-Pakistan rhetoric and propaganda pumped out by the corporate mass media and the political whores in both the U.S. and Canada.
For while Amerikkka may be loathe to admit it, when a Pakistani bleeds, he or she is every bit as red-blooded as the most jingoistic, steroid-packed, tanned and toned white American “macho man.”
The desperation and the harsh deprivation prevalent in Pakistan are no less tragic and no less deserving of the entire world’s compassion and generosity than any whitebread Amerikkkan disaster would be.
October 11, 2010
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
For years now, inner-city residents in the U.S. – to a lesser extent in Canada – have experience an increasingly hard time finding fresh fruits and vegetables in their local grocery stores.
Even in the tony suburbs, where supermarkets stock abundant quantities of produce, the safety and nutritional value of the offerings has come into question.
Far too many of the products are either GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) or other hazardous hybrids.
More and more, however, inner-city residents and even suburbanites have taken to solving their individual and collective problems through guerrilla gardening.
Guerrilla gardening consists of planting home or community gardens on urban rooftops or on abandoned properties in declining ghettoes using almost exclusively organic seeds.. read more »
October 10, 2010

No one should control anyone else's body -- or mind.
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
It is often said that prostitution is the oldest profession known to mankind. Whether or not that is true, it is certainly true that sex-trade workers have the longest history of professional persecution – and not just by the law.
Most prostitutes have routinely experienced persecution at the hands of the law,
their “tricks” or “johns” and, perhaps most tragically their pimps or “managers.”
Quite recently, an Ontario court struck down many parts of the federal prostitution-related laws and Ottawa is preparing an appeal.
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October 7, 2010

The writings of Linda McQuaig never fail to inspire.
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
Toronto author Linda McQuaig – one of the most prolific and pertinent non-fiction writers North America has to offer – has come out with another blockbuster with her current bestseller.
The Trouble with Billionaires explains in very-well-researched detail how little of the private wealth amassed by the super-rich rightly belongs to them and how much of it rightly belongs to society at large.
The book also makes quite evident the fact that no one should ever be allowed to amass a fortune of a billion dollars or more.
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October 5, 2010
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
A Texas homeowner has learned the very hard way not to trifle with his regressive tax burden.
In recent years, federal, provincial or state, and local governments across North America have been on an orgy of tax redistribution as tax cut after tax cut after tax cut for corporations and the very wealthy have been partly offset by a slew of regressive taxes – such as user fees and co-payments for health, education and social programs.
These regressive taxes serve a single purpose – to deny to the very neediest any access
to a wide range of government subsidies generally available to the less needy and the very greedy. read more »
October 5, 2010
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
In recent weeks we have seen a great upsurge in mass protests across much of Europe as its citizens are being asked to accept drastic government “austerity” to pay for the massive bailouts over the last couple of years of global banks, financial institutions and corporations and the billionaires and mega-millionaires who control them.
In effect, middle-class, working-class and poor Europeans are being asked to tighten their belts – several notches – for many years to come and those European masses are beginning to reply with a measure of defiance.
The likely upshot of the public resistance to government austerity will be some sort of compromise that will lighten the burden on the masses. read more »
October 3, 2010
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
United States food safety officials have just approved yet another brand-new Frankenfood for marketing to the public without disclosure of its genetic modification: Atlantic salmon.
No doubt Canada will immediately follow suit.
It seems some genetic genius has found a way to modify the genes of Atlantic salmon to make it grow twice as fast as its organic brethren.
It seems that no matter how many times the same mistake is made with genetically-modified foods, that same mistake will still be repeated over and over and over again.
But is not just a mistake – it is a crime against humanity for governments to approve GMO foods for public marketing without proper labelling. read more »
October 1, 2010

Lives were toyed with in the wartime penicillin experiments.
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
The troubled Central American state of Guatemala has just received an abject apology from the highest levels of the U.S. government for America’s recently-exposed 1940s policy of infecting Guatemalans with STDs (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) in order to test the newly-developed drug penicillin.
That the U.S. would only now be apologizing – and only after it was exposed – for a seven-decades-old crime against humanity is in and of itself appalling.
But what is more appalling is that this most-recently-disclosed transgression against mankind is just the tip of the iceberg in what seems to be a policy that transcends the lifetime of the American Republic of perpetually inflicting as much damage upon the human species as possible.
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September 27, 2010

Michael Cooke's questionnable skills made him paranoid of rivals.
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
It quickly became evident after my second illegal firing by the (Montreal) Gazette in late 1981, that neither future Toronto Star Editor Michael Cooke nor Mel Morris nor the Gazette nor Southam Inc. nor the Brit-dominated power clique at the Toronto Star would be satisfied simply with my departure from the Gazette.
Cooke inspired his co-conspirators both with his false allegations about me as a political hazard and with his false tawdry tales about my personal character to help him destroy my professional career and my livelihood.
The day after my second dismissal, I began calling other Canadian newspapers in quest of a new job. And the response I got was astounding.
I had never before had difficulty finding employment in my chosen profession. Now, suddenly, nobody would even talk to me.
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September 24, 2010

Multi-billionaire Betty Windsor no longer wants to pay to heat her own lavish digs.
By Henry McRandall
WRISEUP.COM
While millions of cash-strapped Britons are wondering how they will pay for heating fuel this winter, the multi-billionairess queen of England – Queen Elizabeth – has applied for winter heating assistance for her many palaces from a United Kingdom government fund set up to help the truly needy to just survive.
It should come as no surprise that the richest woman in the world – with a net worth of over $2 billion U.S., at last count – is queuing up at the public trough.
Right-wing demagogues like to attack low-income Britons, Americans and Canadians for feeling they have some sort of entitlement from government when the struggling global economy leaves them behind.
But it’s always the billionaires and the mega-millionaires – or their loyal lackeys – who are standing at the head of the line-up for public largesse.
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