The Disaffected Lib: Monbiot on the "Inveterate Bastards" Who Have Hijacked Our Democracy

By The Mound of Sound, on April 2, 2013, at 10:41 am

 He writes of the plight of Britons but he could as easily be speaking to you.

Most of the world’s people are decent, honest and kind. Most of those who dominate us are inveterate bastards…

“With a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes reproach them of their blindness.” This government, whose mismanagement of the economy has forced so many into the arms of the state, blames the sick, the unemployed, the underpaid for a crisis caused by the feral elite – and punishes them accordingly. Most of those affected by the bedroom tax

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The Disaffected Lib: They Are Not Of Us

By The Mound of Sound, on January 29, 2013, at 1:11 pm

An interesting essay from George Monbiot today on the grooming of oligarchs and why, even though they govern in our name, they don’t rule on our behalf.   They rule as they were born and raised to rule.   An excerpt.

In the Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt explains that the nobles of pre-revolutionary France “did not regard themselves as representative of the nation, but as a separate ruling caste which might have much more in common with a foreign people of the same society and condition than with its compatriots”.

Last year the former Republican staffer Mike Lofgren wrote

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The Disaffected Lib: Nature Is Now On Her Own. World Governments Throw In the Towel On Climate Change.

By The Mound of Sound, on June 26, 2012, at 9:26 am

 

Rio + 20 was, according to U.N. Gen-Sec Ban Moon, too important to fail yet that’s exactly what it did and that’s all it did – fail.

Guardian enviro-scribe, George Monbiot, calls it, “the greatest failure of collective leadership since the first world war.“

“The Earth’s living systems are collapsing, and the leaders of some of the most powerful nations – the United States, the UK, Germany, Russia – could not even be bothered to turn up and discuss it. Those who did attend the Earth summit in Rio last week solemnly agreed to keep

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