QUOTES.

"The House of Commons isn't worth protecting, it's just a fraud-----This place has nothing whatsoever to do with democracy. It's just a club with a sort of royal ritual to amuse the middle class and a lot of complicated procedures to confuse the working class, but parliament has lost such power as it ever had. There was a time when it took control of things and improved people's lot, but now it is just an absolutely dead organisation. The media, the multinationals and the money men have taken over the world.

Tony Benn, 50 years a Member of Parliament

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994).
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Douglas Casey, Georgetown University.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. Voltaire (1764).
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850).
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw.

GLOBAL WARMING

The Arctic ice is melting. Perennial sea ice should survive all-year round, but in the Arctic it is vanishing at about 9% each decade. The reason for the melting ice is crystal clear - the Arctic is growing warmer, and far faster than anything we are experiencing in Britain. Of course, the Arctic is so remote it is easy to forget about it, but we need its ice. Both the Arctic and Antarctic are the air conditioners of the world, cooling the atmosphere by bouncing the Sun's rays off large sheets of ice into space. Without that ice, the Earth could overheat at a ferocious pace. Arctic warming could also change the world's atmosphere. As Arctic areas warm up, their permanently frozen soils are defrosting. That could release vast amounts of carbon dioxide and methane trapped in the ground sending greenhouse warming into serious overdrive and the climate haywire.
The capitalist system of chasing perpetual growth in search of ever increasing profit is the best way to add fuel to the problem. We must come together to smash the state/corporate capitalism machine and create a system which tries to work on sustainability combined with social justice. Ann Arky.