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To: average joe who wrote (199)	12/13/2012 4:12:02 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 926

What a load of malarkey. Presumably taxpayers were paying those illustrious luminary Supreme lawyers to pontificate about how they won't rest [but I bet they have all had plenty of rest since pontificating about how they won't rest, not to mention lunch, some fine wines and a general kleptocratic enjoyment of the perks of power]. Mqurice

To: average joe who wrote (199)	12/13/2012 1:05:33 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 926

Lucknow Declaration seeks new world order Successful orders have been generated spontaneously, without command, for the past some centuries. Some measure of a vigorous state is necessary to keep the wheels greased, but there are always maggots who grab the levers and imagine they should dictate rather than supplement the processes. Someday, perhaps in the far future, people will learn to quickly apply the Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu Memorial Term Limitation Measure to that sort as they emerge.

To: average joe who wrote (199)	12/14/2012 7:24:44 AM
From: Tom Clarke	5 Recommendations Respond to of 926

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.” - Oscar Wilde

To: average joe who wrote (199)	12/14/2012 7:46:03 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 926

According to NPR the intelligence agencies appear to be concluding that there is a pressing need for an overall global authority to help contain the problems they foresee. >>By the year 2030, for the first time in history, a majority of the world’s population will be out of poverty. Middle classes will be the most important social and economic sector. Asia will enjoy the global power status it last had in the Middle Ages, while the 350-year rise of the West will be largely reversed. Global leadership may be shared, and the world is likely to be democratizing. npr.org