Endurance

Nations are tribal political entities of governance; states are criminal enterprises created to steal the wealth of nations.

Modern tribes and tribal institutions -- due in part to evolved traditions -- can be a check on the anti-democratic states arbitrarily created from European colonial mandates, Nigeria being a case in point. Democratic tribal institutions, in this context, can serve as a nexus of networks engaged in democratizing capital ownership. The World Indigenous Peoples' Movement, for example, presented a tribal proposal to the UN last December, as an alternative to carbon market trading and other Ponzi schemes of its member states.

As recently as a year ago, I was under the impression that fraud accounted for around 15 percent of world trade. In the aftermath of Cobell v Kempthorne and the investment banking scandal, I have a feeling I may have been off by a bit. I guess it all depends on how you define criminal enterprise.