Interesting stuff, GUEST. I found the Opium connections in Afghanistan and N.Korea particularly so. I've also been wondering about the Venezuela thing...Venezuela is one of the biggest oil-producing countries in the World, and I find it odd that it is the middle and upper class people (those who have the most already) who are protesting against Chavez...instead of the poor people (whom one would think would have the most reason to protest an oppressive system, wouldn't one?). Very mysterious. Sounds like someone from outside pulling the strings to me.

I have never seen a modern country with a supposedly democratic system that was more perfectly inclined by its nature and psychology to be taken over from within by a fascist (or, if you prefer, "communist") dictatorship...than is the USA. The USA is, and for a long time has been, a scary place...where "freedom" is talked about endlessly, while being subverted and taken away at the same time by the most extraordinary forms of hypocrisy and media manipulation from the top.

I suspect that there will be one more LARGE and very nasty "terrorist" attack on American soil (only it won't truly be put in motion by the foreign terrorists it will be blamed on, but by someone on the inside), and that will serve as the pretext to allow Mr. Bush and his power structure to do, basically, pretty much what Hitler did in Germany after the burning of the Reichstag. One problem...the destructive capability of corporate America far outreaches that of Nazi Germany in the 30's and 40's...they didn't have nuclear weapons, smart bombs, and the logistical ability to strike globally and massively at any nation on Earth...and they were not the only Superpower of their day, but just one of several.

About my prediction for that next attack...I hope I am wrong.

If it happens, I will avoid the USA just as scrupulously as I would have avoided Nazi Germany after 1933, but I wonder...will any corner of the World be safe any more? I live in Canada, and as I've said before, Canada is much too close to the USA. Matter of fact, we're just seen as a branch plant of corporate America, and we will be tolerated as long as we serve the big red, white, and blue machine and do exactly what we are told to do. If not, we will be taken over by quite unsubtle means...whatever it takes to cement total control.

By the way, I will say to you what I would say to anyone who expects to find himself on a battlefield soon...

God be with you. And I would say that to anyone. I value people fully for what they are. Their intrinsic worth is far greater than most of them realize.

- LH