Fresh water is the new oil. Breathable air is the future tax base. Check and Mate.

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.

The War On Drugs is a for-profit oxymoron being fought on the wrong battlefields. In any real war named as such, all artillery should be aimed squarely at the pharmaceutical industry.

Welcome to America, the Land of the Fee and the Home of the Slave.

Look, America is no more a democracy than Russia is a Communist state. The governments of the U.S. and Russia are practically the same. There's only a difference of degree. We both have the same basic form of government: economic totalitarianism. In other words, the settlement to all questions, the solutions to all issues are determined not by what will make the people most healthy and happy in the bodies and their minds but by economics. Dollars or rubles. Economy uber alles. Let nothing interfere with economic growth, even though that growth is castrating truth, poisoning beauty, turning a continent into a shit-heap and riving an entire civilization insane. Don't spill the Coca-Cola, boys, and keep those monthly payments coming.

If you can't see the decline of America at the hands of greedy corporate barons today, you're either willingly blind or just stupid.