James Morcan

Why are drugs so profitable? Essentially, many argue, it__ because they are illegal. By making drugs a criminal enterprise, it creates an enormous black market economy where drugs fetch far greater prices than they would if legal.

The privileged individuals and families who comprise the global elite will happily bankrupt their own countrymen, decimate their own community and evict their neighbors from houses in their desperate bid to increase their wealth.

The latest scientific studies have revealed extraordinary findings. The brain is much more flexible and adaptable than previously thought. It can evolve and creatively work around limitations and nullify them.

When the brain__ potential is fully unleashed, there can be few if any limitations. Anyone who tells you otherwise isn__ up-to-date with the latest scientific findings on the brain and is exhibiting their ignorance. For the brain__ potential is the human potential_

The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.

The winner takes all mindset at the root of capitalism is a poison if left unchecked. That__ not to say capitalism is bad per s_, or that a more refined version of it cannot work effectively. Nor does it mean the world should move toward socialism or communism, which have both proven throughout history to be just as disastrous. But surely the world__ recent financial catastrophes and the bankrupting of individuals, families, small businesses, communities and entire nations, must make even the most ardent capitalist examine his or her beliefs.

Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine__ memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.

If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists were, or are, also fabricated enemies of the West along with North Korea? Or at least exaggerated threats?

Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn__ matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they__e catching on that it doesn__ even matter if you don__ vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% _ a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe they__e had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.

Politicians would be well advised not to hold their breath for youth to engage in politics any time soon. Today__ youth are the first generation to have realized for real change to occur, it must happen on an individual level rather than at an administrative level.

Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it__ wrong. Period.