Industrialization of Secrecy versus Strengthening the Nation and Relations

• New Documentary: Secrecy as facilitating a weakening in national security
• OpenTheGovernment.org's fifth annual report, Secrecy Report Card 2008 (.PDF)
• Cost of secrecy reaches record high
• Secrecy News from the Project on Government Secrecy (Federation of American Scientists)

"Homeland security" and "national security" are brands to protect a defective infrastructure withering into obsolescence, swallowed by a darkening lack of vision.

Instead, a *strengthening* of the nation in a variety of ways is needed to truly become secure and to develop a self-sufficient, resilient quality of life that positively sets an example for other parts of the world to learn from and receive support from.