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.
Joined: Mar 04, 2007 Posts: 504 Location: Hong Kong
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: Re: Die Off: The Media Response
JohnDenver wrote:
The overwhelming majority opinion in this thread is that the die-off will be completely ignored, or intentionally hid, by the mainstream media.
So far, that doesn't seem to be holding up.
I think Shanny got it right near the beginning of the thread.
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I think disease and war will cause most of the deaths. A famine bad enough to cause large scale global die-off (even if it's not evenly distributed) will probably lead to lots more of both. I doubt it will be reported as a "die-off." The big picture won't be discussed much. Most people either don't understand or don't believe in overshoot, of which peak oil is just one symptom.
I agree with this. I think that the media will report on the events that make up the dieoff but not the dieoff itself. They will report on starvation, wars, disease, etc. I hope that they put it into a larger context, such as resource depletion, topsoil loss or overpopulation.
I don't particularly care whether they call all of these calamities together a dieoff. The dieoff may take upwards of a century, maybe more. Reporting on one incidence of starvation as part of the dieoff may seem ludicrous at the time. The media may not be aware of what's happening, and they also won't necessarily have the proof that something larger - the dieoff - is happening and that the particular event is in fact part of that dieoff.
I think that what is about to happen to humanity will be referred to as a dieoff by historians a few hundred years from now. _________________ "We shall live in interesting times, and we shall die in them too." - Heineken
Joined: Aug 15, 2005 Posts: 269 Location: Hicktown OK
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:46 am Post subject: Re: Die Off: The Media Response
Ferretlover wrote:
Regarding a die-off in the US, I doubt the MSM will mention it-someone, somewhere will whisper in the editor's ear that, for the sake of homeland security, it would not be in the best interests of the nation.
Then, after a few years, there might be a little blurb in the streamer across the bottom of the screen that mentions a slight epidemic, or tainted food, etc., that affected a small number of people in a certain area.
I have no doubt that we will Not learn of the die-off from MSM. It will be from word of mouth.
I think that's going to be basically what it all boils down to. There will be some suppression of stories for the good of the 'public' and "so as not to cause a panic", and while the sheeple might buy it, there will be some who will know that things are more grim than they appear to be at the surface. _________________ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.-H.G. Wells
Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 4590 Location: Boston Suburbs
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: Die Off: The Media Response
zensui wrote:
mos6507 wrote:
zensui wrote:
And why would I hate those? I disaprove of there actions (although I only have heard of Kim Jong), but why hate them?
I didn't ask you whether you hated them.
What is your point/question then?
I was just asking you whether you measure the conduct of foreign leaders the same way you do with the US or whether you give them a free pass on the basis of "the devil (i.e. the us) made them do it".
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Die Off: The Media Response
mos6507 wrote:
zensui wrote:
mos6507 wrote:
zensui wrote:
And why would I hate those? I disaprove of there actions (although I only have heard of Kim Jong), but why hate them?
I didn't ask you whether you hated them.
What is your point/question then?
I was just asking you whether you measure the conduct of foreign leaders the same way you do with the US or whether you give them a free pass on the basis of "the devil (i.e. the us) made them do it".
They're on the same "deserve hell" group. Although for me (and all those that are part of Dharmic religions) hell is not eternal. _________________ @deviantART @wordpress @hi5
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