The World Today

Today, 2.7 million people, at a minimum, are displaced in Sudan. 300,000 are dead (this year), already. The international community wrings its hands, pulls out aid workers, and condemns the government which has been participating in the genocide. The chief military leader in the country and president, Omar al-Bashir, is charged with genocide in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Two American soldiers missing for months were found dead today.

The UN expresses its extreme warning that at the current rate of growth, the world's estimated 6.4 billion population will swell to over 12 billion by the year 2012. Given our inability to feed the people currently on the planet (note the growing panic and food riots in many countries), and the fact that at a minimum, 200 million women who would use parental planning do not have effective measures available to them, we are not leaving our many, many children a decent legacy at all.

It gets harder and harder to ignore all of this.

The two chief purposes of war are the redistribution of wealth and real-estate, and the modification of population. "Pretty much everything else is trappings."