I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Pollution should never be the price of prosperity.

A zebra does not change its spots.

...2009 saw the eighth 'ten-year flood' of Fargo, North Dakota, since 1989. In Iowa, Cedar Rapids was hit last year by a flood that exceeded the 500-year flood plain. All-time flood records are being broken in areas throughout the world.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.