—“IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO,” PORGY AND BESS, LYRICS BY IRA GERSHWIN FROM THE GEOLOGICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA, IT WOULD seem that Earth has been home to several civilizations—human or otherwise—long before recorded history. In a book little known in America entitled Gods of the New Millennium:...
Thanks to what Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called the failure of America’s financial system, by the start of 2010 more than $5 trillion of household wealth had evaporated. About one in every eight mortgages was in default or foreclosure. It is predicted that there will be ten million fore...
