Category: Government

More on the the growing Great Schism Trend. Much of this shift in attitude results from the growing disaffection people feel about the Federal government. There is a price to no one ever being held accountable for the financial meltdown, or the constant reminders of the government's corruption, coupled with the increasing awareness of the government's intrusion into ordinary people's lives.!

Beliefs About Sandy Hook Cover-up, Coming Revolution Underlie Divide on Gun Control
DAN CASSINO and KRISTA JENKINS – Fairleigh Dickinson University

If this had appeared in a lesser publication, or been written by a less accomplished investigative reporter, I would have dismissed it as conspiracy nonsense. But I spent time this afternoon backchecking. It all holds up. Once again all of this arises because of the corruption of the regulatory mechanisms set up to protect the integrity of the financial system.

Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever
MATT TAIBBI – Rolling Stone

Here is some good news. People are beginning to awaken to the research about GMOs.

Pressure Mounts to Remove GMOs From Infant Formula
Common Dreams/The Cornucopia Institute

Here is some good news, about a shift going on in the environmental movement. It offers some hope.

The Giants of the Green World That Profit From the Planet's Destruction
NAOMI KLEIN – The Guardian (U.K.)

Here is more proof of the demise of the American democracy, and the vassal status of the Congress as the non-geographical corporate states become the dominate powers of the age.

Worst Congress Money Can Buy
BILL MOYERS and MICHAEL WINSHIP, Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fellow – Salon/ Moyers & Company

This is the bitter truth of the economic policies that have dominated the U.S., and the world since Reagan, through Republican and Democratic administrations. The Sequester alone, I believe, we will discover killed thousands of people.

How Austerity Is Literally Killing People
TRAVIS WALDRON – Think Progress

We are beginning to see the rise of contractor militias operating in the U.S., as this report makes clear. It is an extension of the same thinking that privatized large segments of the Iraq War. The growing relationship between the company that was formerly Blackwater and Monsanto is another example. This is an extraordinarily dangerous trend.

Why Such Secrecy About Private Military Contractor’s Men Working the Event?
DAVE LINDORFF – Nation of Change

Others are beginning to recognize the great geopolitical shift that I have been writing about for almost 15 years — the rise of the non-geographical corporate states Here is an example.

This Faith in the Markets Is Misplaced: Only Governments can Save our Living Planet
GEORGE MONBIOT – The Guardian (U.K.)

If you have been reading SR for a while you know my views on the Great Schism Trend, and my belief that it was only a matter of time before social progressives woke up to the benefits of States Rights and to letting the Theocratic Right, as it constantly claims it wants to, take the Red value states and go its own way. It is happening, as this essay makes obvious, and I believe we will hear more and more about this.

Memo to the South: Go Ahead, Secede Already!
LEE SIEGEL – The Daily Beast