A political “solution” will not last. Land ownership is the answer. Ownership is clear cut, with no waffling and posturing and broken promises brought on by current affairs, oil prices, and elections.

Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Bernard Arnault, Larry Ellison, the Sultan of Brunei and his peers–the Royal Families of the Muslim world–and the all the world’s religions must negotiate on Israel’s behalf and put money on the table.

Israel gets security and peace and the people of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan get some of the cash they and almost everyone else on Earth desire.

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The problem in Canada is that compared to the United States, there is NO competition, and that lack of competition in Canada invariably means that prices rise when public taxpayer-owned corporations are sold off. (A few people get rich while the average taxpayer becomes poorer.)

The solution is to 1) refrain from privatizing public corporations or 2) allow American companies to enter Canada and compete with the virtual monopolies that result from the government sell-off and privatization of taxpayer-owned public corporations.

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In essence, British Columbia would flower; it would become a research park supported by funds from all over the world and by international tourism.

That reality really would put British Columbia on the map.

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Fisheries biology is an interesting field of study, but it often attracts (and subsequently recruits) autocratic individuals who as teenagers and young adults failed to muster enough smarts to succeed at jobs requiring higher levels of creativity, originality, and diplomacy.

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But now Arizona’s lawmakers are preparing to vote on budget cuts that could shut down the entire state parks system by July 1. And that vote in January 2010 might result in the sale of state parks to the highest bidders. That’s right: I’m hearing that once an Arizona state park is closed, it must be sold: Land speculators and developers will mutilate our public gems, our community wilderness. They will restrict access, and Lost Dutchman State Park will become a gated community or a private suburb, with lot and house prices starting at $700,000 or more.

Here’s a group of hikers who will show you how to protest the closure of Arizona’s state parks: visit the Take a Hike message board and web site.

Also see Petition to Save Arizona’s State Parks

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But since when is the “here and now” fair? I imagine that many sociopaths live in the “present moment” and feel inner peace after a “kill.” And if everyone on Earth drank themselves into a very prolonged stupor, fewer endangered species would go extinct in the near future.

Surely, rather than getting too wrapped up in imaginary “inner peace circuitry,” we must first focus on reality and root causes: we must do more to help the poor, the crippled, the abused; we must do more to curb the excesses of our hackneyed justice system; we must do more to stop white-collar crime.

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Stay on your feet. Go for a walk or a hike. Lift weights while you watch the news. Find a good deal at a gym (the best deals usually appear when a gym first opens for business and offers a contract that stipulates that they can only raise your fees by, lets say, 1 percent every 3 years).

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Multi-tasking and texting are products of our service economy; as skills they benefit secretaries, telemarketers, and corporate middle managers. Conversely, specialists (scientists, astronauts, mechanics, doctors, nurses, drivers, engineers, etc.) need to concentrate, not multi-task. Writers need to write, not text.

When the TV pundits and news anchors praise multi-tasking and texting and the younger generation’s ability to simultaneously do homework, watch TV, surf the Internet, and text, they are leading our young people down the drain, to lives of drudgery in a service economy.

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When Alan Greenspan decided to pop the High Tech stock bubble by raising interest rates back in 1999 – 2000 (despite the fact that corporate leaders said he was doing the wrong thing, that he should let the good times continue), he did not take into account unforeseen disasters. Yet unpredicted disaster was on us soon enough, in 2001, when the World Trade Towers fell to dust on 9/11, furthering the decline on Wall Street and in our economy.

So the big-money guys on Wall Street had to find another way to make the money they had been making during the High Tech boom, and when the government reduced interest rates in order to counter the effects of 9/11 and of Greenspan’s earlier decision to blow the High Tech stock bubble, the big-money guys saw that the housing market could be manipulated. They saw a way to make the money they used to make buying and selling High Tech stocks.

If Greenspan had taken unforeseen disaster into account when he decided to manipulate, pop, and blow the High Tech bubble, maybe the money and the money men would have stayed in the High Tech sector rather than moving on to manipulate home mortgages and subprime loans.

These guys in the government should know by now that if anything can go wrong, it will.

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October 28: A friend said, “Yeah, if Greenspan hadn’t popped the High Tech stock bubble, America would be a high-tech economy instead of a service economy.”

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