DeepFrequency and QuietStorm

 They may be just words. But he is the King and it is 'the King's English' so he gets to define the words and what they stand for.  It is a place to begin.  If the Threshold of the Dream is to walk into a world of equality it needs to be crossed together. i.e. the English, the Dutch, The Americans, The Russians, The Israelis, the Palestinians, et.al..  One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind.  America for it's part needs to embrace reparation to the Native American Peoples.  The Dutch to the African People.  The Israelis to the Palestinian.  The Palestinian to the Hebrew.  The Russians to everybody.   

 As long as the UN is structured in this way, i.e. a council on which competing members can veto resolutions against themselves or their allies, the UN will be 'a turd on the tarmac.'  Until it becomes at least a two body organization, where in each body is capable of creating and enforcing resolutions and actions upon any member of the entirety, and the opposing body must raise either support or opposition to those actions, the current endless and futile stalemate and waste of resources will continue.  The other alternative is a dissolution of the UN charter and a battlefield contest to ascertain a new membership of the charter and security veto empowered council. 

 Deserts. Food deserts. Concrete deserts. The Ayn Rand utopian paradise of contrived urban communities supported by industrial outlet box stores which we see proliferating today is unsustainable. The Walmart model has proven that box stores leave behind concrete deserts of wasted land, human labor, community unity, and public resources, all for the private profit of a few. Driving supply chain, food, fuel, clothing, shelter, items into narrower and more restrictive environments, both excluding the very poor and catering to the very rich. Food deserts which cripple health. Health deserts which kill the poor. Shelter, clothing, fuel deserts which eliminate the middle classes. On scale nationwide erasing populations that once were forced to intermingle and learn to co-operated to survive, this devastating apartheid is crumbling the foundation of American societal structure for the profit of a few at the cost of the inevitable destruction of the many.