Can governments move at the speed of electronic media. Not to be confused with controlled by electronic media...or maybe the government WILL be controlled by it. I am getting the feeling the world populations thinking and decision making and opinions are being formed and made in meer hours and even minutes and the governments decisions still languish for weeks, months and years. Will this process still stand in the near or distant future? It is becoming an archaic way of the operation within the development of the human race. Maybe Congress people, Senators, Presidents, Prime Ministers will all be a thing of the past. Can the political process be streamlined and made efficient and maybe even more fare by using electronic media to allow the people to decide almost all issues? A true Democracy? Our form of government looks more and more ancient, inefficient every day. When the different "parties" (ancient) cannot recognoize and commit to follow their leader then the party form of bonding has run its course. Politics is now an idividual decision now, not a party decision. Either there are very weak leaders or everyone is a leader and they don't want to listen to anyone but themselves. This new way of a governments functioning can and will be enhanced by current and future developments in electronic media.
Business has adopted and adapted to the technology in the last twenty years, maybe its time for government to "update" also. Sounds refreshing to me!

Russian built rocket engine ban to US export ???

The headline sounds a little extreme as far as halting the ENTIRE program, whats left of it anyway, but it IS true that the US does not manufacture for NASA, any engines to be able to launch low orbit space vehicles into space....This includes low orbit satellite and missions to the ISS. Why we depend on a very possible and probable adversary to "supply" these to NASA can only be as a result of the Congress on the US.  It is another indication of how the government acts irresponsibly and stupidly. I am SURE we can get our own engines built and ready for flight in...lets see...a government project??? Maybe, just maybe a decade??? Being optimistic....Oh, and we also do not have any US way of getting our Astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Yep...we depend on the Russians for that too!!! John McCain and his lot think we have the trump card all the time with all issues regarding the future of the world....Well, the position THEY have put us in has left us in the position which THEY say we should NOT be in...Vulnerable! And actually having to consider WORLD OPINION before we make a unilateral decision. The US should have to consult and abide by other countries opinions on acting militarily when it is not a case on US national security..but we should not be in a position to be forced...or blackmailed (eventually, if it hasn't happened already) into any international decisions.

Senator John McCain's Syria oppinion.

McCain's the "Catastrophe" A Senator who's time has come and gone but doesn't want to give up the power. Doesn't add anything to the crisis but stupidity. If hes the go to guy for the US media...were in a lot more trouble than we think! He's a good argument for TERM LIMITS!!!

John McCain "opinion" on the Syria debate.