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.
Let's
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 you're
counting,
that's 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 nation's
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
state's
phone calls.
This empire
is vast, out
of control
and in dire
need of
overhaul and
reform.
Read
enough? It's
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.
PRG
executive
director
Stephen
Bassett
will
speak at
the V
World
UFO
Forum,
November
21-24, Iguazu
Falls,
Brazil.
His
presentation
will
address
Brazil's
potential
leadership
of the
U. N.
joint
resolution.
There
will be
advanced
publicity
to that
effect
in
Brazil
and an
effort
will be
made to
set up
post
conference
meetings
with
Brazilian
officials.