<html><body> <DIV>As an aside, note that Gonzalez refers in passing to peal oit;</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The great problem that capitalism has confronted in the last decades is that the great centers of finance and commerce have all become overwhelmingly populated by African Americans and immigrants from the colonial and neocolonial nations of the third world, so that what has happened is that even the progressive movement is no longer directly tied to the populations of the great cities of the United States. And I think that, therefore, they're not recognizing the enormous changes that are occurring, because what has happened, especially now as the United States is reaching peak oil production,</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>