When it comes to local or world political issues I believe in natural selection.

After all said and done the one that can better adjust and anticipate change will survive. This is true in the case of Arabs working to secure a state for the Palestinians or Venezuela ensuring their sovereignty is not trampled by multinational oil companies with close ties to big guns. And the third world struggle to fight off first world economic domination through political manipulation.

Bottom line is that the competing interests will have to fight for survival. If Iranians are smart enough they will ensure that their short term and long term interests are not shit canned by stupid remarks. Mexico will use its powerful neighbor to improve its plight (there is no reason for them to come over the border for work).

Cuba will have to prove with action that their social model works despite all the roadblocks they encounter. The US will continue to project force, sweet talk, bribe, and ideologically argue why her method is the best. Israel will continue to influence anyone they can to help them survive and perhaps expand its power in the region.

That is how natural selection supposed to work, its about survival.

Here is an IDEA;

What if 50 years from now a world body decides that native Americans have been savagely brutalized for several hundred years and they must have their own nation. So, they carve out Texas, California and Nevada to form the North American Indian Republic (NAIR). I wonder how the white (non-Indian) Texans and Californians that will be forced to move out of those states think and fight back.

That is the plight of the Palestinians. Lets not treat them like they are a nation and have these stupid demands like, you must stop your struggle for independence before we can give you your independence. The Palestinians are not on the same footing as Israel with enormous material and moral support from West.

Palestinians are an occupied and broken people that need our help not our savagery.

Well, Well, Well ------

Here is the rundown:

Miers pulls back her nomination -- Here is a clever Bush tactic in tough times. He is in deep shit with CIA agent leak, illegal/immoral invasion of Iraq, and finally coming to light his inability to bringing quite and assurance to the social and political seen. People are ever more unsure of present and future, his leadership, or lack of, has contributed to this sense of unease in the country.

The continued casualties in Iraq with no end in sight is giving this man of privileged (WAR PRESIDENT)more sleepless nights.

Miers resignation is supposed to show that he is not as bad as everyone thinks he is and will compromise. This message is spinned for both wacky right and drugged up left. The supposed religious conservatives are getting the boss attention and made up left is sacking the Roe vs. Wade killer.

Bottom line is that the political machine that is made up of right and left of democratic dominance is making adjustments to not sink the boat. That is it. All the politicians in DC know that but grass root is as usual dreaming.

One other item --- It just occurred to me that religion in US is also a corporate entity. That is its a produce that has to be manipulated to better the lives of the people. The benefits of how its cultivated in the open society out weighs the harm that it causes. Christianity is particular has be turned into commodity. With bunch of entrepreneurs working to come up with a better mouse trap.

Lets Welcome the """CORPORATE RELIGION""" to our neighborhoods.

The most egregious domination of any peoples today is the Palestinian plite. This inhumane occupation and treatment of these people by Israel and total support by West will bring the day reckoning someday.

For close to 50 years this imaginary nation has been created and propped up based on European guilt and reward for failing Jews in 30's and 40's.

This graft vs. host disease can not be sustained because the foundation of this nation is not natural. The settlement of European Jews in Middle East can not take. The western Jews are like fish out of water. The Palestinians will not be able to conform to a more advanced European civil and political structures, at least nor for foreseeable future.

What we have here is forced South African apartheid constantly fueling the race and cultural differences. Its inevitable for the future that this wall will crumble and the European Jews will either leave or remain like much of the white South Africans have today.

That is the final settlement of the Arab - Israeli conflict.

BUSH - The domestic Front

The only thing bush and its trickle down economic elitist have in their favor is an economy that is HUGE. This economy has been able to absorb numsculls in the past. With slight dips and side steps its has kept going up. The imperial economy of US is far bigger than neocons or Clinton cigar boys. This large machine almost has its own internal life and driver. The politicians do influence the parts but they just oil and lube this monster. The military portion of the economy is so dominant that I wouldn't pass them to create conflicts so they can stay in "command and control".

They are boys with big guns and you'll have to take it from their cold hands.

I see however this trend is not going too well. The old American dream keeps getting further and further from reach. There is no frontier to exploit and concur, no Indians to kill, no Mexicans to push back, no clear evil to kill. As if the American experience is now reached the usual mundane everyday stage. Now we must learn to deal with our messes and have to dwell in this confined island. The manifest of destiny has now been converted to manifest of You Are Here.

The next twenty years are very exciting for this experiment. I suspect much of what we see today will remain in play but we should witness beginnings of some profound changes like:

1) Identity crisis - who are we now that we have tamed this beast
2) Established cultural Divide - Whites, blacks, Hispanics.....Etc.
3) Regionalized ethnic centers - Whites up north, Blacks down south, Hispanics southcenteral,.....
4) Economic model not adjusting to rapid pace of changed conditions - Market economy succeeds when you don't have deep cultural divide and elitist class.

Of course these are based on past dictating the future, and that can also change ====

I am really baffled that Bush/Blair can with straight face ignore the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and have balls to blame everyone in the general vicinity for fighting the invaders. I am not sure what sort of drugs these boys are on.

What I know for sure is that they are trying to feed the domestic opinion machine with war support food. The fact is when you invade a country on false pretence you have nothing but lies as bases to go forward from there.

The "axes of imperialism" will keep providing for its population with unsustainable material and they will do anything to keep the advantage. The culprits keenly believe in their superior status and will not back off until they meet their match.

This axis is far more complex and layered than the "axis of evil" in that they are placed in there by western democracies with tacit support from its constituents. The constituants that are cultivated/accustomed with unsustainable ways of consumption and that are not willing to share power or wealth. Since they are democrats, they will go on trying to save the environment, critters, wetlands, or anything else that needs saving but will vote to invade and kill innocent people for oil and maintenance of a dreamy life standard, in another words "national interest".

This axis is based on force built upon colonialism.

Is it possible that west and other nuclear powers have accepted nuclear Iran. It is becoming more apparent that perhaps Iran does posses the bomb and what we have been witnessing is a gradual introduction of that fact.

In any case a nuclear Iran would add another dimension to east-west picture. Perhaps both sides can then begin to explore the similarities and not focus so much on the differences. Once middle East is assured of its place in the international arena in the way of nuclear capability then we may see an improved and constructive dialog between the two civilizations.

In any case the situation existed up to this point in my view does not and will not ever bring that understanding. The colonial and imperial history of the region will not allow such dialog under current conditions

The nuclear Iran and Pakistan will===============

I think perhaps the American version of democracy based on protecting ones national interest is not sustainable and ultimately would crash and burn under its own weight, it will take outside forces to change. Or on the other hand it will find its misdeeds and change direction organically. In either case the "ideological" evolutionary of "preferred selection" will prevail.

I read today that according to 2004 census Americans spend more money on pets than other areas. This is another indication of the experiment gone south. When do we wake up? So buried in self indulgence that nothing makes sense anymore, while the Rome is crumbling.

On the positive note: the Supreme Court nominee MS. Miers is single and is worth less than $250K (according to the power house) even though she is a born again and Bush's work wife.

Here we go again the faith smoke and mirror president has done it again. He has selected Harriet (jet) Miers to the high bench. I truly think all this talk of faith, god, born again, and conservative values are nothing but sound bites used by these "white" boys to fenagle the electrets. They are convinced and from the last election's result have come to believe that most people are buying this crap.

If this continues for another term or two kiss this whole experiment goodbye.

OH one more thing --- Still the invasion and occupation of Iraq is/was useless, illegal and immoral. Go tell that to all the families that have lost their loved ones and remind Georgy Poo what faith and god can do!!!!

The contempt that elitist in White House and other centers of power have for the unfortunates like minorities and non-whites are every now and again shows up in rare slip ups. The Raegan's education secretary Bennett's radio statement about connection with lowering crime rates in US with aborting every black pregnancy was a slight window in how they think but cleverly disguise. These conservative hate mangers are not really hateful, that's just the way they believe. In their mind its just the way god created it. Some are more intelligent than others. Much like their colonial ancestors.

I agree that he was misquoted, but for a professional politician and a educator to even slip up like that to me shows how he really thinks. I have seen it in much lower levels in the town I live how they have nothing but contempt for Asians, Blacks, immigrants, Arabs, Women, or anyone other than their white northern European buddies. The Bush "white" house is now full of these guys.

This is not to say the Clinton "white" house didn't have a large contingent of these dudes!!! Demos on the other hand can better mask the real characters.