Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:41 am Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
Here in Canada, peak oil is barely on the radar yet. So perhaps what you are saying is pretty US-centric. Here, people are still looking at the short-term price gouging attempts done by the local refiners as opposed to looking at the long-term consumption problems.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:54 am Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
Yes, have that feeling to.
The newspapers I read (Swedish and German) often write about this issue as if their goal was to avoid worries. High oil and gas prices are always "temporary" and a result of "bad luck" and everything will be just fine soon.
Not even the scandal sheets are interested. They write hysterical doomsday stories about avian flu, how you get cancer from everything and global warming but not a single word about the possible effects of oil depletion.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
Today I saw something very interesting on CNN. They had a Proffesor from Yale on talking about how our (US) suburban lifestyles is a major cause of our energy problems.
It was like watching "The End of Suburbia." She spoke about how we needed to return to more localized communities. Work and food being located closer to homes etc... The segment was relatively long (a few minutes).
Its a start, and the first I've seen on one of the major mass media outlets discussing this issue. The majority of the news is still about anything but energy though
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
You actually listen to the media?
What a dope. _________________ "By the time individuals discover that remaining resources will not be adequate for the next generation, the next generation has already been born. " David Price
Joined: Sep 06, 2004 Posts: 5315 Location: Smalltown New Zealand
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
Shadizar wrote:
I like to see what 95% of America is being exposed to.
-Shadizar
It's "La,la,la,buy,buy,buy,la,la,la,borrow,borrow,borrow,la,la,la,spend,spend,spend,la,la,la,happy,happy,happy,........." _________________ "Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers." - Henry Louis Mencken
Joined: May 06, 2005 Posts: 98 Location: Weare, NH
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
It's more than just buy, buy, buy. It's also "hate the Arabs, love Israel", and "put your money into Wall Street", and "We can put anybody in jail, even sweet Martha Stewart", and a bombardment of other manipulations that few realize even exist. I read, or at least scan over, the Boston Herald every day, one of the most ridiculous right-wing tabloid rags in the country. I want to know what is being presented to the borderline literate.
But I seldom watch Foxnews. Hey, I can only take so much...
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 2:23 am Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
there's always a hidden side to the media. i observe the newsreaders a lot, watch their expressions, emotions and adlibs
I'm always hearing things like 'thats like an omen', 'there's hope for us all', etc. I'm convinced behind the scenes they know somethings going on but in a conservative environment that doesn't join the dots.. its not a suprise. There's room for some being human in the west that refreshing
oh.. and I often watch bloomberg, got a thing for that Erin. When the market's crash so long as she's telling me I don't care. She is so professional, so the other day I flicked over, she was laughing away. I was suprised, then realised it was a story about POT growing! cool
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:22 am Post subject: Re: A Pall Falls Over the Media
Given that most of the mainstream media is controlled by corporations who have a vested interest in not acknowledging PO and its consequences, we shouldn't be surprised at their callow approach to the subject.
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