Video (7min 40sec) Posted by Michael Moore's group: "... he and his cronies and the manufactured outrage of the Tea Party failed to derail Health Care Reform. Failed Mr. Boehner. You lost. You blew it.

... American political parties have disappeared before.

They are never forced out by their rivals. They die by their own hands, because they did not know that the hatred or the myopia or the monomania they thought was still okay wasn't okay, any more. ...

Dwight Eisenhower warned against the United States becoming predominately dependent on military power as a means for its security. The biggest change in American democratic history came about as a result of World War II and the introduction of the nuclear bomb. From the mid 40's to the early 50's two different directions became available for our government to choose from.

One direction was for our government to embrace the principles of the newly formed United Nations, which was originally handed all the tools necessary to civilize this world through a system of International Law and Order based on the establishment of an International Bill of Human Rights.

“That time has come when discrimination with reference to communities, social status, gender and nations, will come to an end. Entire world humanity will live like brothers and sisters.”

-ARTHUR CHARLES CLARK

“If in a particular country, if one or two court cases are fought, people will be amazed as to whether there is any individual who is full of hatred, cunningness and enmity. At that time there will be no racial difference or gender discrimination. A human religion will be established in the entire world. Today all nations have joined hands to establish the United Nations Organization in America.

By the late 1600s, cities began prohibiting smoking. These cities included those in Europe and Austria. Bans established in Berlin (1723), Konigsberg (1742), and Stettin (1744) were later repealed during the 1848 revolutions.

In 1876, New Zealand become home to the initial structure on Earth to have a no-smoking policy. The Old Government Building situated in Wellington prohibited smoking, not out of concern for the healthiness of the general public, but rather to scale back the risk of fire. The structure is the globe’s second largest made of timber.