Is the bee die-off threatening the world due to cell phones as some scientists are now speculating may be the cause? And if so, what is to be done about it even though Einstein thought the loss of bees would spell the end of humankind within four years. Still, some of you are old enough to remember when the radiation given off by TVs caused some to caution about sitting too close to them. Are we certain the problem was really overcome?

If the present global warming cycle leading to such catastrophic changes in weather is only a “cycle,” even if the cycle is of only ten years duration how would America endure and survive? That unholy trinity of draught, floods, and famine is a certainty; it is only a question of who will survive such a “cycle.” And who trusts world leaders to cooperate in providing for such a cycle? Certainly the leaders in Russia and China are looking out for themselves, but who is looking out for America?

While the bee die-off is alarming, holding cell phones to blame should that prove to be the case poses some equally alarming scenarios; one of the most alarming is it might lead to that Nuremberg Tribunal for America! Not so farfetched when you consider the corporate interests involved on a global scale and the fact America may find itself surrounded by enemies through force of circumstances already at work throughout the world.

It’s a telling scene in the film “Judgment at Nuremberg” where Spencer Tracy tells Burt Lancaster that notwithstanding Hitler’s dictatorship, the first time as a judge he knowingly condemned an innocent man he gave up any right to ask consideration for himself. And we all know what the outcome would have been had not the Duke students had the financial resources to defend themselves. Nifong, Jackson, and Sharpton would have succeeded in putting them in prison and throwing away the key.

Certainly the case of the Duke students represents “How much justice can you afford?” And the reality is those without the resources are commonly treated in such a manner justice is not a consideration; but most often expedience and possibilities for advancement are the only considerations, and those without the resources suffer accordingly. The Pope condemns capitalism; our own judges, lawyers, and politicians condemn anything approaching “Justice for All.”

It is gratifying to see so many unlike the hucksters Jackson and Sharpton coming to the fore denouncing the depravity of rappers glorifying violence and sexual degradation of women. Many Negro leaders and pundits are beginning to acknowledge they have the responsibility to clean up their own mess before engaging in further denunciations of those like Imus and I wish them every success. But there are a number of Caucasians in the same category as Negro rappers that will continue to abet those like Nifong. But they will do this by circumventing the law and having powerful allies supporting them.

My opinion is that while Jackson and Sharpton did not know the Duke students were innocent, it wouldn’t have mattered to them so long as they saw an opportunity to advance their own agendas. Nifong, on the other hand, may very well have known they were innocent, thereby putting himself in the place of that judge in the film, undeserving of any consideration being shown him now. But Sandy Berger is no less guilty than Nifong, Jackson, and Sharpton. It all comes down to the privileges of wealth and power. When race can be made a cause, here come the opportunists. When position like Berger’s can be used to cover up for a President, he puts himself in the same category as Hitler’s judge, Jackson, and Sharpton. And here is a Congress as with Hitler’s servants so corrupt it is doubtful Berger/Clinton will ever be held to account.

Tragically for America, and perhaps catastrophically we have a President that holds himself only accountable to God, but not We the People. In his own way, Bush is placing himself in the position of that German judge that condemned the innocent. But unlike the judge that knew he was serving Hitler in doing so, Bush does not understand he serves the Devil while deluding himself he is serving God. A 9/11 coverup? By now, many people believe this. The Warren and 9/11 Commissions like Hitler’s judge serve the bidding of their master and are themselves too corrupt to do otherwise. Five-million emails go “missing” to protect those like Rove, Gonzales is a proven friend of Mexican slave labor and an enemy of America, there is an ongoing war we were lied into leading to multiplied thousands of deaths of the innocents and still ongoing, and where are those to hold the criminals to account?

To repeat something I wrote some time ago, there are times when the “unthinkable” becomes thinkable by force of circumstances and there is no muddling through. For those of us who lived that era of WWII and went on to study the history of the war at length it is impossible to miss some very disturbing parallels to what is happening with our present government and that of Germany leading to the Nuremberg Tribunal.

That our present White House has become so ultra-secretive is a case in point. One cannot but help wondering what the President and his administration have to hide? Once secrecy for whatever reason is invoked, especially on the seemingly too oft specious argument “national security” all becomes suspect. None of us question the need of secrecy where actual national security may be at risk, there are valid cases of “need to know,” but there is Sandy Berger. And we know there are many Berger’s in the present administration.

But there is little in the Congress to give us hope corruption in government will be ended, or even contained. When it comes to politics it is business as usual and we would be hard pressed to point to any one politician and say we have faith in that person to act with virtue. Some say they have faith, but let’s see them prove that faith by their works.

So, I worry. To quote from an article a while back: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In an emotional speech on the Senate floor Sen. Gordon Smith, a moderate Republican from Oregon who has been a supporter of the war in Iraq, said the U.S. military’s “tactics have failed” and he “cannot support that anymore.” Smith said he is at, “the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs, day after day… That is absurd,” he said. “It may even be criminal.”

While Smith’s use of the word “criminal” has caused him to do some furious back-peddling the word has been used, and there is no going back from it. He may have fallen under the spell of his own rhetoric, a typical cause of politicians putting their foot in their mouth, but many understood the enormity of such a word being used. I certainly understand it and had already written about it a year before Smith uttered the word, knowing as I do the lessons of history and human nature teach there is nothing too fantastic to imagine happening in a world seemingly lunatic because of being dominated by religious and political hatreds.

I have written at length about the benefits of Christianity once it became a civilized religion as opposed to that of Islam. No civilized person born in America with our Christian heritage and culture would trade places with someone born in Iraq or Iran, any more than an educated person would trade places with an illiterate one. But problems arise when either religion or politics become so hypocritically corrupt and powerful as to threaten the existence of a nation.

Every social structure, every personal relationship must engage in some degree of hypocrisy else, as Thoreau pointed out, we would all come to open war. It is when such civilized hypocrisy, often in the form of polite manners, becomes outright barbarism institutions and relationships are set on a course of calamity; it is here where America faces the threat of some kind of Nuremberg Tribunal for our nation as did Germany and Japan should Congress find itself emasculated by the depth of its own corruption from being able to hold either itself or a corrupt White House accountable.

The whole world is watching what is going on in America, and our dirty laundry is being exposed to all. A corrupt and inept Congress and White House, racial strife, hedonistic materialism displayed on nearly every TV channel; and worst of all is an America that seems without any national identity or purpose, without any leadership of character or virtue. In short, an America that seems increasingly vulnerable to that Nuremberg Tribunal. Every nation but America will secure and protect its borders, will do what is necessary to save and protect their bees.