Somebody puts up some weird thing and somebody else thinks yeah maybe that's the way things work and pretty soon you have some cult going. Its not the fault of the internet, it's the fault of a social and culture system that doesn't educate people properly and in fact on purpose. They don't want to educate people properly.

The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

The United States is unique among the rich countries, developed countries, in not having some kind of a national health-care system.