"John Bolton is a man best known for sabotaging international
treaties and alienating entire nations. That's why he's been
picked to be our ambassador to the United Nations." from the lead to an AlterNet article.

These may truly be the 'end' of days. We are going so backwards from freedom to tyranny. There seems to be a lot of internet buzz from the liberal left. We're all on another planet from the current regime. A few months back, I had a 'moment' in which I envisioned 'regime change' coming back to bite us. If we continue to alienate all our traditional allies ('old Europe' yeh) in 25 years or so when we have NO friends in the world, the Chinese could call in all of the US paper they own and demand a regime change here - with troops to enforce it.

Now that is a scary but very real possibility. In reality, I see (flashes of) China then going through the end of their own Democracy revolution, and presumably not in any shape to attack anyone. And, please God, we here in America will have changed our own regime to a more progressive form.

The days of totalitarian regime are over, I tell you! People know too much, know too many of each other, world wide, and I believe we, the forces for good heh heh heh- are going to meet up and clean up the media which lies to us to please their corporate parents; the false leaders who are paid to legislate for the big corporations and against their own constituents.
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.