Ran across a site that was thought provoking - take a look. (warning - may be hazardous to the mental health of the right)

On Capitalism:

At the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, the United States has been far out front in opposing action on renewable energy, prevention of global warming, biodiversity protection, and decent sanitation for people who don't have it. One senior European delegate was dumfounded: "We cannot understand why the United States, being a world leader, is taking such a harsh stance."

I'm afraid that the answer is a simple one. We and other wealthy nations are committed to the global pyramid scheme we call capitalism. That means we are committed to infinite economic growth on a finite planet. And that puts us on a collision course with Mother Nature.
A study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded that human activities worldwide are already overshooting the earth's carrying capacity by 20 percent. The authors put the results in these terms: "It would require 1.2 earths, or one earth for 1.2 years, to regenerate what humanity used in 1999."
As recently as 1961, humans had been consuming the resources of only 0.7 earths per year. At that rate of economic growth, we will have to find a second planet in 40 years.

Capitalism

On ''The illusion of choice'' :

But the question begs to be asked, who is more vital to the democratic process: someone who robotically reports to polling stations to make uninformed decisions on a punch card and then goes back to life as usual, or someone who demands participation and thought beyond a symbolic gesture?
What are we voting for?
Just because we are presented with choices does not mean we really have a choice. Who chooses the choices we choose from? What can we do if we don't like the choices?
Americans trudge to the polls proudly each election and inevitably vote for the "lesser of two evils." Candidates are weeded out from a gaggle of wealthy, former/current businessmen who are now exchanging the corporate world for the governmental one, a shift that is quite natural considering that the government is a business itself intimately linked with the largest corporations on the planet, who along with various government institutions determine the health of the economy and therefore the mood and well-being of the general population.

Voting

On US patriotism and Bush:

The United States is a nation whose basic mode of living is to take what it wants, wherever it wants it. That doesn't mean they don't pay for what they take (usually) but often the vendor didn't want to sell and was bullied into it. On a domestic level, they practice the fine art of "bugger your neighbor" almost to the point of perfection, and they have yet to figure out that some very minor social benefits would go a long way toward making the majority of their citizens a good deal happier than evidence suggests they are. On an international scale, they are powerful but without much conscience. Over the years, the United States has attacked more countries than you can shake a stick at, rarely with any substantive reason; they have interfered persistently in other nations' affairs; and yet they have provided enormous aid and assistance to countries in trouble, but rarely without exacting an uncomfortable price from the recipient.
In fact, the United States is the most dangerous rogue nation history has ever shown us. In that regard, they currently have the perfect commander-in-chief.

Bush

On North Korea:

North Korea's recent admission of enriching uranium for the purpose of creating a nuclear weapon may be an attempt to foil the U.S. strategy of keeping North Korea a public threat in order to facilitate the creation of the Theater Missile Defense (TMD) system.

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