The Corporate – Government Revolving Door

Imagine you control an entire nation but only do so on $250,000 a year.  You are also in charge of giving out corporate status to businesses so they pay lower taxes and the CEOs of those businesses get first-class legal protection under your wing.  Now let us say a corporation you sanctioned wants monopoly powers over the world’s food supply and they want to push their genetically engineered products through even though some tests showed the products may be detrimental to health.  The CEO catches you off duty while you are at a luncheon, hands you $1 Million in cash money and tells you that if you take it, you need to “work some strings” to get the product through the FDA and that you guarantee him a job in the FDA by 2010.  You want many things that million dollars will buy which you could never have on your $250,000 salary so you gladly accept the money. You share a little of it with your pals in the FDA to push through this questionable produce and in 2010 you appoint your corporate “donor” a new job in the FDA at which time he allows even more questionable science through the FDA under GRAS policy (Generally Recognized As Safe – if it looks like corn, then it’s just corn).

As rediculous as the above sounds, it is happening on an annual basis in the U.S.A.  It’s called a “revolving door partnership”.  Corporations will scratch the backs of politicians if those politicians will scratch theirs.  In the end, they each get what they want even though it is against the will of the people.

This doesn’t happen strictly with chemicals and questionable genetically altered food crops.  It occurs with media – both mainstream and alternative.  Government desires stories to be withheld from the public so they pay off media moguls to keep the silence.  Government wants to squelch dissent, they either pay off or threaten corporations like Google and their YouTube to pull specific videos off-line labeling them as “against terms of service” without any additional explanation as to what it was in the video that was against the terms of service.

Blogs are the same.  If a blogger accepts government or corporate funds to either add a story or to pull a story, a revolving door partnership exists.  If government or corporate individuals cannot get a media outlet such as a blog or YouTube (etc) to pull a story off-line – the individual “commits suicide”, is “quietly abducted and imprisoned” or… mysteriously disappears without an explanation or without a trace.

Airplane accidents “happen” all by themselves.  Cars are found in the ditch on the side of the road with the disobedient driver having had a “heart attack or stroke”.  When just weeks or months before their demise, they objected to a large corporation or to government request.

If you think all of these disappearances or deaths are mere coincidences then I have a watch to sell you!