Tales from the Time Loop, Wisdom Ancient
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To Kerry, Gaz and Jay
I am
so
proud of all of you.
One question: one answer
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular; but one
must take it
because
it is
right
.
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
The global monarchy
"A lot of national leaders recognise that the security of their countries depends on a good relationship with
the US, so they value the opportunity to be received at the White House - the place where all decisions are
made. When America votes [or doesn't] for the person who rules here, it has a huge effect around the
globe. If you're in a bazaar in Cairo or pushing a cart in Shanghai, that choice will have a large effect on
your
personal security and prosperity.
"It is therefore important for their leaders to be able to go into the Throne Room. If they're lucky when they
get there, they'll be given a bigger quota for their apples or, perhaps, American backing for the dam they
want to build because we'll vote for the loan in the World Bank. It sound arrogant, 'but it,;.. true.
"Our power is so great, and so unlikely to be challenged for many, many years, that you have to go back to
Rome for any kind of parallel. It's a misnomer to speak of the United States as being merely a super-
power. We're aSIJper-duper power, and I don't know that the world has seen one of those before."
Admiral Stansfield Turner, former head of the CIA
Daily Telegraph,
June 16th 2003
And a few people can't control the world ... ?
... it's a piece of cake ...
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