Disclosure and the State of the Union: COMMENTARY In the past I have steadfastly avoided straying too far from the core issues of the ET truth embargo and government abuse of secrecy. I am going to make an exception with this commentary. At the end of this non-partisan essay you will find out why. The recent debacle in Washington, DC over the budget and debt ceiling is only one of many indicators the body politic is suffering from multiple organ failure. Nations, empires, kingdoms - they die the same way people do. No society is perfect, no person is perfectly healthy. Both can withstand the odd dysfunction (illness). When the illness spreads and becomes multiple organ failure the person (society) dies or is enfeebled. It happened to the Sun-never-sets-on-the-British Empire. The Soviet Union was able to sustain multiple system dysfunction well past its shelf life by sheer force of raw suppression, but inevitably blew up into fifteen republics (mercifully without too much violence). And, of course, there is the famous and extensively studied collapse of the Roman Empire. What took several hundred years in the time of Rome now can be accomplished in a few decades. That said, it still takes years to achieve the state of affairs in which the U. S. now finds itself. Time enough for too many citizens to not see the process of failure unfold. Not anymore. Eventually the suffering person realizes they are terminally ill. The American people, thanks in large part to the power of the Internet, are now quite aware their vaunted society is coming apart at the seams. Lets review. -- The two-party political system by virtue of bad law, bad judicial decisions and pure greed for money and power has frozen into a block of ice (Some say the world will end in fire......). New ideas are strangled in their crib. New political parties are throttled. Independent candidates crippled. -- The American education system is slowly imploding with U. S. students collectively falling further behind other nations in every category. -- The American health care system, while satisfactory for the very wealthy, is collectively one of the worst in the developed, industrialized world. It is helping to destroy the middle class - the primary engine of social stability. Health issues are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. -- The massive U.S. military spending - not long ago greater than all other nations in the world combined - guarantees that fiscal balance and adequate funding in support of the human condition will not be possible. -- Along with war spending, massive entitlement commitments made without any effort to control that war spending going back to 1960 now place the nation in immediate debt of $17 trillion dollars with an almost incomprehensible long term exposure of $80 to $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. -- Economic recovery after the 2008/2009 greatest train robbery is a temporary illusion created by an enormous printing of $trillions of new money that will eventually lead to inflation. -- The investment and standard banking industries have bought politicians to pass laws that have allowed a massive shift of wealth to the upper class and stripping the middle class of pensions, jobs, home values, and home ownership. Virtually no one is held criminally accountable for this. Eventual fines are trivial. -- Behind the confiscation of middle class assets by the investment banking abuses is the exposure to derivatives (casino debt). Some experts claim this exposure is over $200 trillion. If youre counting, thats over $300 trillion in risk exposure for the U. S. society. -- Voting systems in the U. S. are an antiquated joke with voter turnout one of the lowest in the developed world. This is made worse by a venal policy of one of the political parties to suppress voter turnout in every way possible that would undermine the other political party. -- The very infrastructure of the nation - roads, bridges, dams, waterways, power grids, sewers - are falling apart with little funds to fix. $2.5 trillion of investment is needed by 2020. Half baked efforts and illusionary promises are put forward that few believe sufficient. -- American international influence, trust levels and esteem are declining under a plethora of terrible policies, brutal war measures and outright stupidity. -- American political institutions, particularly the U. S. Congress, have fallen to record levels of disapproval, and distrust in government has polarized the nation making common sense policies next to impossible. -- The U. S. dollar, the cornerstone of American financial power, is being circled by a number of nations quite willing to replace or diminish it for their own benefit. The U. S. literally submits to this process with profoundly destructive financial decisions year after year. Loss of reserve currency status all or in part would trigger significant inflation. -- American manufacturing jobs are disappearing by being shoved off shore or replaced by low paying service jobs at minimum wage. -- The gap between the rich and poor grows and the American middle class is diminished. This is a recipe for violence and disorder in the most heavily armed nation in the world. -- The criminal system is antiquated, extraordinarily expensive and hamstrung by absurd laws which have created the highest level of incarceration in the world. -- Perhaps well intention legislative and judicial blunders resulted in the granting of personhood status to corporations leading to a destructive shift of power away from actual persons (citizens) and a wholesale corruption of the election process in the United States at all levels. -- A fossil fuel based energy industry has bought politicians in order to get away with monopolizing energy production, fixing prices, misrepresenting both held and potential reserves, not building new refineries and pushing exploitation of more dangerous extraction modalities such as tar sands, shale and fracking. In other words, utilize every trick to drive the price of energy higher at the nations expense. Meanwhile, government and corporate entities have been buying up and suppressing competing energy patents, intimidating inventors and confiscating competing technology under national security imprimatur. All this while fossil fuels are contaminating U.S. air, rivers, soils and ground water and bringing premature death to millions. -- The food industry is being taken over by a consortium of companies led by Monsanto that intend to own a re-engineered food and seed supply designed to force the use of their own pesticides in mass quantities. Few things are more representative of the concept of system failure than the losses in the honey bee population (Colony Collapse Disorder). Growing evidence connects CCD to the actions of companies like Monsanto, easily the most dangerous corporation in the world today. The environmental impact will be devastating. The government does nothing. Huge corporate spending thwarts citizen activism. -- Lastly, a secret empire was built to service the $10+ trillion (in adjusted dollars) Cold War (acknowledged) and address the presence of extraterrestrials (non-human intelligence) engaging the planet (not acknowledged). This empire has become a world unto itself with a low opinion (perhaps justifiable) of politicians meaning senators, congresspersons, the president and their staff. Just yesterday the White House indicated the NSA had not informed the President about the surveillance of foreign heads of states phone calls. This empire is vast, out of control and in dire need of overhaul and reform. Read enough? Its a partial list, but the point is made. Why am I telling you this? The children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the baby boomers are more likely to inherit a greatly diminished rather than a viable society moving forward unless something very powerful, very profound intervenes to short circuit the multitude of current trends leading to the emasculation of America. What could possibly be sufficiently powerful to alter the world view of political institutions, corporations, and 300+ million people overnight and open the door to multi-system reform? The usual candidate is a war equal to the magnitude of distress. The last version of that scenario was WWII. Sadly any war worthy of the present dilemma would destroy the world itself. What does that leave? Disclosure. Every day the citizens of Earth are denied the truth they are not alone in the galaxy as sentient life, that a vast new world awaits them when that truth is out in the open - a world where once again all things are possible - is one more day closer to the end of the American Dream - the 21st Century nightmare study after study projects. Disclosure will be the most profound event in human history. It is inevitable, but will it be soon enough? All who have a basic understanding of this have a decision to make. Stand up and support the Disclosure advocacy movement or stand down and hope for the best. Stephen Bassett Los Angeles October 29, 2013
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:20:34 +0000
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