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The Great Divide: The world is becoming more polarized and corrupt – and does anybody care?
Posted on January 27, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
January 27, 2013 – WORLD - Yet
here we are, forced to choose between two ideologies, two disparate
worlds that rely on two disparate sets of facts. The reasoned voter, who
cares about finding the best answer to our questions, is forced to
determine the lesser of two jaded markets for truth. These two markets
present problems for our politics. Americans think we are more divided
than we actually are. Our politicians disagree far more frequently than
we need to disagree. Gridlock ensues. Even more disturbing is that
social science becomes politicized, and the public is fooled into
thinking that truth is a two party system. –.Campus Times
Upside Down and polarized:
The world of cinema reflects this widening rift in society, by class,
by race, by religion, by gender, and socio-economic status. In
the movie, Upside Down, reality exists simultaneously in two
adjoining worlds. One is right side up, and the other is upside down.
The only question is which is really which? Kept apart from the girl he
has loved his entire life; Adam must fight to reunite with Eden. But the
laws of his world as well as the laws of gravity keep him from her.
Adam must risk everything to access the forbidden world of affluence
that exists literally above him. As he struggles to keep the authorities
from discovering him while manipulating the gravitational force that
physically pulls him back to his world, Adam faces insurmountable danger
in hopes of finding his long-lost love. Two worlds; worlds apart…
Dangling from a cliff: Political wrangling in Washington and 11th
hour maneuvers, in the face of a perilous approaching ‘fiscal cliff’
reflects the growing divide and inadequacy of a political system that is
already grinding to a crawl under the weight of its own bureaucracy,
financial mismanagement, and corruption. As the world continues to
unravel, and tensions mount in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa and
there’s more debt in the world of late than common sense; American are
collecting guns and bullets in record numbers, preparing for an
‘unthinkable’. The ranks of the disenfranchised are growing, along with
the unemployed, and nobody seems to care or be able to offer solutions
to heal or address either. Meanwhile, religions institutions are seeing
an ever increasing number of followers abandoning the church altogether.
Scandals, corruption, and liberalism continue to be the death keel for
many religious organizations, who are being shaken down by the changing
times. Just consider the headlines in the news of late:
Monsignor runs meth ring:
To onlookers, Monsignor Kevin Wallin’s fall from grace at his
Connecticut parish was like something out of “Breaking Bad,” the
television series about a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a
methamphetamine lord. The suspended Roman Catholic priest was arrested
on federal drug charges this month for allegedly having methamphetamine
mailed to him from co-conspirators in California and making more than
$300,000 in drugs sales out of his apartment in Waterbury in the second
half of last year. Along the way, authorities said, he bought a small
adult video and sex toy shop in the nearby town of North Haven named
“Land of Oz & Dorothy’s Place,” apparently to launder all the money
he was making. He has pleaded not guilty, and jury selection in his
trial is scheduled to begin March 21. On social media sites, people
couldn’t help but compare Wallin with Walter White, the main character
on “Breaking Bad” who was making so much cash that he and his wife
bought a car wash to launder their profits. He has also been dubbed in
some media as “Monsignor Meth.” Wallin, 61, was the pastor of St.
Augustine Parish in Bridgeport for nine years until he resigned in June
2011, citing health and personal problems. He previously served six
years as pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Danbury until 2002. He was
granted a sabbatical in July 2011. The Diocese of Bridgeport suspended
him from public ministry last May. Diocesan officials become concerned
about Wallin in the spring of 2011 after complaints about his appearance
and erratic behavior, diocese spokesman Brian Wallace told the
Connecticut Post. Some reports of his behavior were startling. “We
became aware that he was acting out sexually — with men — in the church
rectory,” Wallace told the newspaper, adding that church officials
deemed the sexual behavior unbecoming of a priest and asked Wallin to
resign. –CT Post
Friar kills himself over sex-abuse scandal:
A Franciscan friar accused of sexually abusing students at Catholic
high schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania killed himself at a western
Pennsylvania monastery, police said Saturday. Brother Stephen Baker, 62,
was found dead of self-inflicted wounds at the St. Bernardine Monastery
in Hollidaysburg on Saturday morning, Blair Township Police Chief Roger
White told the Associated Press. He declined to specify the
type of wounds or say whether a note was found. Baker was named in legal
settlements last week involving 11 men who alleged that he sexually
abused them at a Catholic high school in northeast Ohio three decades
ago. The undisclosed financial settlements announced Jan. 16 involved
his contact with students at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio
from 1986-90. The Youngstown diocese previously said it was unaware of
the allegations until nearly 20 years after the alleged abuse. –ABC
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Posted on January 27, 2013 by The Extinction Protocol
January 27, 2013 – WORLD - Yet
here we are, forced to choose between two ideologies, two disparate
worlds that rely on two disparate sets of facts. The reasoned voter, who
cares about finding the best answer to our questions, is forced to
determine the lesser of two jaded markets for truth. These two markets
present problems for our politics. Americans think we are more divided
than we actually are. Our politicians disagree far more frequently than
we need to disagree. Gridlock ensues. Even more disturbing is that
social science becomes politicized, and the public is fooled into
thinking that truth is a two party system. –.Campus Times
The world of cinema reflects this widening rift in society, by class,
by race, by religion, by gender, and socio-economic status. In
the movie, Upside Down, reality exists simultaneously in two
adjoining worlds. One is right side up, and the other is upside down.
The only question is which is really which? Kept apart from the girl he
has loved his entire life; Adam must fight to reunite with Eden. But the
laws of his world as well as the laws of gravity keep him from her.
Adam must risk everything to access the forbidden world of affluence
that exists literally above him. As he struggles to keep the authorities
from discovering him while manipulating the gravitational force that
physically pulls him back to his world, Adam faces insurmountable danger
in hopes of finding his long-lost love. Two worlds; worlds apart…
hour maneuvers, in the face of a perilous approaching ‘fiscal cliff’
reflects the growing divide and inadequacy of a political system that is
already grinding to a crawl under the weight of its own bureaucracy,
financial mismanagement, and corruption. As the world continues to
unravel, and tensions mount in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa and
there’s more debt in the world of late than common sense; American are
collecting guns and bullets in record numbers, preparing for an
‘unthinkable’. The ranks of the disenfranchised are growing, along with
the unemployed, and nobody seems to care or be able to offer solutions
to heal or address either. Meanwhile, religions institutions are seeing
an ever increasing number of followers abandoning the church altogether.
Scandals, corruption, and liberalism continue to be the death keel for
many religious organizations, who are being shaken down by the changing
times. Just consider the headlines in the news of late:
Monsignor runs meth ring:To onlookers, Monsignor Kevin Wallin’s fall from grace at his
Connecticut parish was like something out of “Breaking Bad,” the
television series about a high school chemistry teacher who becomes a
methamphetamine lord. The suspended Roman Catholic priest was arrested
on federal drug charges this month for allegedly having methamphetamine
mailed to him from co-conspirators in California and making more than
$300,000 in drugs sales out of his apartment in Waterbury in the second
half of last year. Along the way, authorities said, he bought a small
adult video and sex toy shop in the nearby town of North Haven named
“Land of Oz & Dorothy’s Place,” apparently to launder all the money
he was making. He has pleaded not guilty, and jury selection in his
trial is scheduled to begin March 21. On social media sites, people
couldn’t help but compare Wallin with Walter White, the main character
on “Breaking Bad” who was making so much cash that he and his wife
bought a car wash to launder their profits. He has also been dubbed in
some media as “Monsignor Meth.” Wallin, 61, was the pastor of St.
Augustine Parish in Bridgeport for nine years until he resigned in June
2011, citing health and personal problems. He previously served six
years as pastor of St. Peter’s Church in Danbury until 2002. He was
granted a sabbatical in July 2011. The Diocese of Bridgeport suspended
him from public ministry last May. Diocesan officials become concerned
about Wallin in the spring of 2011 after complaints about his appearance
and erratic behavior, diocese spokesman Brian Wallace told the
Connecticut Post. Some reports of his behavior were startling. “We
became aware that he was acting out sexually — with men — in the church
rectory,” Wallace told the newspaper, adding that church officials
deemed the sexual behavior unbecoming of a priest and asked Wallin to
resign. –CT Post
A Franciscan friar accused of sexually abusing students at Catholic
high schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania killed himself at a western
Pennsylvania monastery, police said Saturday. Brother Stephen Baker, 62,
was found dead of self-inflicted wounds at the St. Bernardine Monastery
in Hollidaysburg on Saturday morning, Blair Township Police Chief Roger
White told the Associated Press. He declined to specify the
type of wounds or say whether a note was found. Baker was named in legal
settlements last week involving 11 men who alleged that he sexually
abused them at a Catholic high school in northeast Ohio three decades
ago. The undisclosed financial settlements announced Jan. 16 involved
his contact with students at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren, Ohio
from 1986-90. The Youngstown diocese previously said it was unaware of
the allegations until nearly 20 years after the alleged abuse. –ABC
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