Everybody's Worried About Stopping Terrorism. Well, There's

The Un To Some Extent Diffuses U.s. Power. Therefore It's Less Direct An Agency Of The United States Than The U.s. Army Is. But Still, It Can't Escape The Distribution Of Power In The World.

Israel Produces And Stores Chemical Weapons. So Therefore The Us Will Prevent The Chemical Weapons Convention From Being Imposed On The Middle East. But It's Necessary To Evade This By Misrepresenting The Convention, And I Think Maybe 100 Percent Of The Media, Or Close To It, Go Along. But That's A Critical Issue. Actually, Syria's Chemical Weapons Were Developed Largely As A Deterrent To Israeli Nuclear Weapons. Also, Not Mentioned.

There Is Either A Crisis Or A Return To The Norm Of Stagnation. One View Is The Norm Is Stagnation And Occasionally You Get Out Of It. The Other Is That The Norm Is Growth And Occasionally You Can Get Into Stagnation. You Can Debate That But It's A Period Of Close To Global Stagnation.

I Do Not See How We Can Rationally Oppose High Speed Rail Because Of The Environmental And Other Costs Without Considering The Social And Human Consequences Of The Radical Elimination Of Transportation That This Entails.

We Can Try To Gain Some Of The Sensibility Of Some Of The Indigenous Populations Of The World Or Our Predecessors 800 Years Ago. We Can Laugh At Them As Being Naive And Unsophisticated, But Unless We Can Gain That Sensibility That There Has To Be Rights Of Nature As Bolivians And Others Put It, Then We're Going To Be Destroyed.