Hat tip to Conservative Hideout 2.0 for the video and the larger graphic below the fold:
Nearly every television news-broadcast of the mainstream media has on the screen Obama-shilling anchors who are actually smiling when they speak of the rising cost of gasoline! As the above video points out, when gas prices rose under the Bush administration, these same brainless wonders wore the mask of grief, then proceeded to blame Bush.
What glaring and astounding hypocrisy!
The oligarchs and those shilling for them — all with deep pockets — have zero empathy for those who are suffering in this ailing economy.
Besides, according to Ask Heritage:
With the national average of gas prices hitting $3.65 a gallon, nearing $6 in some parts of the country, and poised to head even higher, America’s families are wondering when the bleeding at the pump will stop. But for Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu, those steep prices aren’t even a concern. In fact, he says his goal is not to get the price of gasoline to go down.Clearly, the realities of the repercussions of rising energy costs are being shoved under the rug and have fallen prey to another agenda.
Chu delivered those stunning remarks in testimony before Congress [in February 2012]....
Hooper's words in Jaws come to mind:
...You are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and BITES YOU ON THE ASS!Additional reading at Bunkerville. Even more at Bloviating Zeppelin. Worth your time.
Hi AOW.
ReplyDeleteIt gets even better.
"Sanctions that Bite?" India raised last month the amount of crude oil imported from Iran by 53 percent.Price of gas in India is now around $ 5/Gallon, soon it will be cheaper......Obamanomics!
This just to show you all, we need a government program to provide every Merican (spelling error on purpose) the gas and oil they nned sort like a chicken in every pot only a full tank in every car....ah uptopia where freedom is slavery.....
ReplyDelete"What glaring and astounding hypocrisy!
ReplyDeleteThe oligarchs and those shilling for them — all with deep pockets — have zero empathy for those who are suffering in this ailing economy."
It certainly looks like hypocrisy, AOW, but I'm not sure it really is. I think the goal of "The Oligarchs" (a shadowy, largely unaccountable phenomenon in which people like Beamish, who worship "facts" and therefore imagine themselves purely rational, don't want to believe) the goal of The Oligarchs is to BRING US DOWN -- to REDUCE US to HELPLESS PENURY, so they can rush in and "save" us thereby making us their SLAVES.
Oh yes! I do believe that with all my heart. If there were not evil, profoundly selfish, greedy, power-mad men and women in unique positions of influence in effect "pulling strings" behind the scenes, why ELSE would things have developed along the dismal lines they have.
"THe People," while too easily seduced by the insolence of demagogues into believing false promises of a freer, easier life in exchange for surrendering their liberty, are NOT bad at heart.
If "The People" had remained unmolested by aggressively evil intellectual charlatans, and had been left more to their own devices, they would have made much better decisions for themselves.
It has been the promise of EASE and COMFORT in exchange for the SURRENDER of FREEDOM that is proving to be our undoing.
So the gas prices, themselves, don't matter all that much. It's the deliberate INTENT behind the manipulation that made this occur -- and the false idea that it is the result of hostile "foreign" powers, when in fact it is our OWN elected leaders and Captains of Industry -- in CONJUNCTION with FOREIGN POWERS -- who are the true Architects of Evil.
YUP! It's all the result of a longstanding PLOT.
And we'll be done in by the fools who think themselves wise by making light of it while contemptuously telling us to go put on a tin foil hat.
We'll never be able to combat our enemies until we recognize who they really are.
~ FreeThinke
The economy will never recover at this rate.And I believe that is part of the progressive agenda. One of the comments here (Blogginator) made me think of the free cell phones the gov is offering "the poor". I guess gas cards will be next. With all of the freebies some get, "the poor" will surpass the middle class in disposable income and we are paying for it.
ReplyDeleteI think the goal of "The Oligarchs" (a shadowy, largely unaccountable phenomenon in which people like Beamish, who worship "facts" and therefore imagine themselves purely rational, don't want to believe) the goal of The Oligarchs is to BRING US DOWN -- to REDUCE US to HELPLESS PENURY, so they can rush in and "save" us thereby making us their SLAVES.
ReplyDeleteLet's just call a spade a spade. You're recycling the nonsense of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and thinking yourself clever for doing so.
Back on topic...
ReplyDeleteAs I tell my liberal / leftist friends complaining about the gas prices - when Obama was merely a unvetted Senator running for President, he several times claimed it was necessary to raise gas prices to make alternative / "green" energy sources more attractive - and dumbasses voted for him anyway.
If you voted for Obama and you're complaining about gas prices, put some sails and some solar panels on your car and STFU.
The problem does go well beyond the price of gasoline.
ReplyDeleteBloviating Zeppelin:
- No coal (dirty, comes from the ground)
- No oil (see above)
- No nuclear (see Japan)
- No windborne (kills birds)
- No water-powered (means more dams and reservoirs)
- No geothermal (not enough, too unstable)
- No solar power (eats too much arable land, requires too much water for cleaning)
What's left?
YOU. Pedaling a bicycle on a pulley system connected to some fan blades in summer.
Freedom By The Way,
ReplyDeleteThe economy will never recover at this rate.And I believe that is part of the progressive agenda.
I agree.
Obama is all about the New World Order.
I read the other day something about a "global minimum tax."
I also read that Treasury Secretary Geithner said something about the rich needing to pay more for the privilege of living here in America.
PRIVILEGE?
He's speaking of American citizens, of course, not "foreign businessmen" here in the United States.
I, for one, just cannot WAIT until the prices at the pump are reflected at grocery store and every other retail establishment!
ReplyDeleteRamen noodles are on me!
"Let's just call a spade a spade. You're recycling the nonsense of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and thinking yourself clever for doing so."
ReplyDeleteSorry, but you're wrong.
I am completely unfamiliar with the material you cite. Never read it.
Ah jess calls 'em lack Ah sees em, dat's awl.
~ FreeThinke
"Ramen noodles are on me!"
ReplyDeleteBut, dear Brooke, at the rate things are going, very soon you may not be able to afford even those.
We ARE being ground down by forces we cannot know who are totally unaccountable to us, because they OWN our politicians -- and our judges too most likely.
It is not "OBAMA" who is doing this to us, it is the PUPPETEERS who've designed and groomed him to do their biding. WE did not put Obama in power. THEY did.
Haven't the Republican Primary Follies given a pretty clear indication that MITT ROMNEY is the CHOSEN ONE this time around? Mot people do NOT want Mitt Romney, but we're going to GET him, because "THEY" want it that way.
Romney -- just like the Clinton, the Bushes and Obama -- are PART of The Oligarchy that's working ceaselessly to enslave us.
Party politics have no meaning anymore. It's all a charade. It's been that way since before we were born.
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years.
"It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government.
"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
~ David Rockefeller Baden-Baden, Germany 1991
By the way, the last I heard John D. Rockefeller and his family were decidedly not Jewish.
~ FreeThinke
FreeThinke,
ReplyDeleteParty politics have no meaning anymore. It's all a charade. It's been that way since before we were born.
Yep.
As for David Rockefeller, he did spill the beans in 1991.
And 17 years later, America elected Barack Hussein Obama.
At the rate we're going right now, America will re-elect BHO in 2012.
I am completely unfamiliar with the material you cite. Never read it.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you should, Mr. "Facts are not the Truth is my Motto." That anti-Semitic conspiracy theory tract contains the entirety of your endless spiel, without deviation, and you can likely find it on the same websites you lifted that Rockefeller quote from.
Could save you a lot of typing time by just saying "Protocol #6"
::rolls eyes::
Obama and his ilk are not against affordable energy per se. They are against the freedom that affordable energy provides to the people.
ReplyDeleteRemember, Obama said our energy prices would NECESSARILY skyrocket. That may be the only thing he didn't lie about.
ReplyDeleteOnly lefties won't see the hypocrisy in the media and that democrats.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately for us, liberals want the price of just about everything to go up, now they may not agree with me or even believe it's happening, but that's the reality, when liberal are running things, the price of everything mostly goes upwards.
Down here in Australia it's a similar story, the current gaggle of lefties came into power on a platform of cost-of-living problems like the price of groceries, gas etc. Since they came into power, they wasted a lot of our money trying to fiddle with the market but failed completely.
Now the prices of just about everything is higher and on top of it our budget surplus is gone and we're in debt.
Fortunately for leftie politicians, the media is also in favor of this, so just like in America, few will even mention that things are worse now than before.
Thanks, AOW. I think we largely see eye to eye -- not that it will help change things for the better. I'm afraid the dye was cast and the inner workings of the Doomsday Machine were set in motion long ago.
ReplyDeleteOdd to come to the realization after having lived a pretty long, rich, full and satisfying life -- though certainly not the one I planned -- that the deck was stacked against us long before we were born.
The evil certainly can't be fought when most are either blissfully unaware -- or willfully blind -- to circumstances under which we are truly living.
I'm very grateful to be in the last laps, believe me.
I only hope I can make my Final Exit before Armageddon.
~ FreeThinke
Meanwhile, I suppose we can all pass the time merrily "straining out gnats, while swallowing camels."
ReplyDeleteWho knows precisely when "the jig" will finally be up?
Live as though there were going to be no tomorrow.
Dance as though no one was looking.
Love unstintingly till the axe falls, and don't stop a moment sooner.
~ FreeThinke
Yawn. This is another lying graphic from the loony right because; Cap and Trade was never passed. The President has nothing to do with the price of oil. GOP asinine rhetoric about bombing Iran can have an influence on rising gas prices. Obama has increased drilling in the US by 350% and our number 1 export is now...oil! So bitch to the oil companies and get some facts for a change.
ReplyDeleteThese people are arrogant enough to think they are fighting the good fight. What will happen is they will stand by as prices go up and the economy goes down taking Obama's popularity with it.
ReplyDeleteSo, see, in the long run it may be a win for us.
Liberalmann you never cease to amaze. You know damned well that the increase in drilling is due to Bush's policies. Wait and wee what it looks like in 3 or 4 years once Hussein's policies kick in.
ReplyDelete@Freethinke
ReplyDeleteI'm honestly curious: where do you have your facts for this puppeteering? I don't disagree, but I don't really see it.
PS this is likely due to age
On topic: this is scary, but not surprising. If Obama wants a one-world government, everyone needs to be on an even plane, so America needs to be knocked down a few pegs. Plus the beaten-horse-won't-kick philosophy. Though if the media are able to sell this I'll be amazed and disgusted.
-Wildstar
I do find that laughable...The refrain from the Democrats is that takes 5 or more years to get oil once a permit is approved...yer Obama who has been there a total of 3 years less 100 days of golf someone increased production.....lol
ReplyDeleteanother day of Obama and libs taking credit for something done by the Bush Admin---duh
Not usre if it was Beamish or Freethinke but there were several comments about making us slaves...
ReplyDeleteLet's see first we devalue the money you have in the bank
second we start defunding your pension plan but we call it a tax cut
next we let some tax cuts on gas sunset raising the price 10-15 cents but we blame it on Iran
we slow the permit process down so that only private firms and natural gas
annouce the closing of several coal plants
"free health care"
The value of homes is down 30-40%.
This is an assault on our pensions, houses, and the value of our money.
And if you think gold is the answer---during the Depression private ownership was outlawed...even if you had it it was worthless
The wealth of the middle class is being stripped away there is no other conclusion.
Not usre if it was Beamish or Freethinke but there were several comments about making us slaves...
ReplyDeleteLet's see first we devalue the money you have in the bank
second we start defunding your pension plan but we call it a tax cut
next we let some tax cuts on gas sunset raising the price 10-15 cents but we blame it on Iran
we slow the permit process down so that only private firms and natural gas
annouce the closing of several coal plants
"free health care"
The value of homes is down 30-40%.
This is an assault on our pensions, houses, and the value of our money.
And if you think gold is the answer---during the Depression private ownership was outlawed...even if you had it it was worthless
The wealth of the middle class is being stripped away there is no other conclusion.
PART ONE
ReplyDeleteGood morning, WildStar,
A good place to start looking for "proof" of my assertions would be an article by Linda Kimball published several years ago at American Thinker called Cultural Marxism.
However, it's very difficult to find concrete proof, because
A) those who fear, dislike or disapprove of the idea that plans to central political and economic power to the advantage of a few elites are determined to vilify, dismiss and discredit all the information as coming from "the lunatic fringe."
B) it's like the existence of God -- something no one has ever been able to prove using material logic -- but even so the belief in His existence remains vital to the well-being of countless millions.
C) If you type New World Order into Google, myriad items come up -- many of them derogatory, and dismissive -- many of them a little too wild-eyed for my taste -- and some that are dignified and responsible. You'll have to sort it out for yourself.
Suffice it to say that entrance into the world of
1. The Industrial Revolution
2. The Labor Movement
3. The writings of Hegel and Marx, who pirated Hegel and perverted his intent.
4. The Emergence of the Fabian Society in Britain
5. The Progressive Movement in the United States
6. The founding of the ACLU by Roger Baldwin conceived to protect the interests of Communists
7. The writings of Antonio Gramsci
8. The emergence of The Frankfurt School who stole most of their ideas from Gramsci, and made them "go viral."
9. The introduction of the Income Tax
10. The introduction of the Federal Reserve
11. The concept of The League of Nations -- i.e. the beginnings of International Law and Government (loss of sovereignty for every nation, and the establishment of Central Command and Control)
12. The phenomenon known as International Banking and Finance
13. The New Deal
14. The stranglehold we put on ourselves by acceding to the internationalist "peacenik" notions put forth at Nuremburg -- the place where the UN -- a creature of the left -- was born
15. The emergence of gigantic International Corporations
(CONTINUED)
PART TWO:
ReplyDeleteAll these things -- and others I failed to mention -- indicate the existence of powerful individuals, who've managed to jockey themselves into key position of influence, who are bound and determined to change the world to suit THEIR vision.
Their ideas of establishing a NEW WORLD ORDER have always been and remain contrary to the ideals of governance our Founding Fathers bequeathed to us. The ambitions of these people -- whom I call "The Oligarchs" as term of convenience -- are bitterly opposed and fiercely hostile to the ideals and principles that enabled us to become a great nation.
If you start digging into all of that -- and are smart enough to see its hideous ramifications -- you'll begin to understand what I've been driving at.
It AIN'T fiction, that's for sure, but it's so monstrous and incongruous to what-I-would-have-to-call The Average Mind -- i.e. those with little imagination, less insight, and little or no capacity to put isolated facts together to form a coherent pattern or draw logical inferences from the disparate elements that make up the whole of modern Civilization --. Such people may "know" a great deal, but miss the ESSENCE of it -- what it means -- and how it may apply to our daily lives. That old bit about not being able to see the forest for the trees again.
Much Madness is divinest Sense —
To a discerning Eye —
Much Sense — the starkest Madness —
’Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail —
Assent — and you are sane —
Demur — you’re straightway dangerous —
And handled with a Chain —
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
I have always found much empathy, great insight, sound judgment, wry humor and profound awareness of the ultimate meaning of existence in the short, pithy verse of Emily Dickinson.
I hope this helps answer your question, Wildstar, if only a little. Thank you for your curiosity.
Best regards,
~ FreeThinke
FT,
ReplyDeleteJust FYI....Wildstar is one of my homeschool students.
What a gem she is! I would go so far as to say that she is a genius (with some quirks, as most geniuses exhibit). I am privileged to be her teacher! I don't say that about all my students, believe me.
I've watched her progress in the subjects I teach with something approaching awe. Sure, we've had some bad moments. But that's often the price of working with someone like Wildstar -- not to mention my own quirks.
Wildstar's astuteness in politics is "genetically inprinted." About politics, she has insights and knowledge way beyond her chronological age.
Hi, AOW,
ReplyDeleteI could see there was something special about WildStar.
I had no idea whether I was talking to a he or a she -- and when it comes to cerebral concepts it doesn't matter on way or the other.
I appreciate expressions of CURIOSITY as much as I dislike outright expressions of dismissal, derison and condemnation.
I don't pretend to be an authority on ANYTHING, but I rarely go off "half-cocked." I've read a fair amount, and usually have pretty strong reasons for the opinions I hold. Also, I long ago realized that Einstein was probably right when he asserted that "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
We can easily memorize 2+2 = 4 and accept it as "fact," but to have understood WHY 2+2 = 4 is something quite different.
Facts are only as good as our understanding of what they may imply, and later the uses to which we put them. Left to itself, a fact is a dead thing -- dead in the sense a whole library full of unread books is dead.
I look forward to hearing more from WildStar.
~ FreeThinke
He's just fulfilling a campaign promise.
ReplyDeleteFT,
ReplyDeleteWildstar comments as her time allows. As a student in my classes (several classes), she has a significant work load.
FT,
ReplyDeleteMy mother, much more the political animal than I ever will be, spoke often of the New World Order, although back then she called it "one world government" (or a term much like that).
I wasn't paying much attention to what she said. I thought that I didn't need to bother myself with any such information.
FT,
ReplyDeleteI'm very grateful to be in the last laps, believe me.
Back in 2005 or 2006, another blogger said to me, "I'm glad that I'm as old as I am. I won't live to see the worst of what America will become."
I didn't understand what he meant. I do know.
I find myself growing increasingly pessimistic.
Yes, some of the pessimism results from being the caregiver of my husband. Before he went down, I had someone else to rely on -- a safety net, so to speak. I don't have it now.
Chuck,
ReplyDeleteReasoning with Liberalmann is an exercise in futility.
The liberal mind set is a challenge! Have fun with them while I just keep bashing them!
ReplyDeleteBYE BYE obuma in 2012!
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ReplyDeleteI often wonder about the people who fear the mythology of movement towards a "one world government."
ReplyDeleteMy questions for them are:
1. How many world governments should there be?
2. Are Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Hugo Chavez and Benjamin Netanyahu and Robert Mugabe all secretly working together to make a one world government happen?
These questions usually weed the dumbass conspiracy theorists out of serious discussions.
Beamish,
ReplyDeleteWhat do you think of the push toward a global minimum tax?
What do you think of the push toward a global minimum tax?
ReplyDeleteAs proposed by the Obama administration, it's an effort to collect more revenue from multinational corporations making money outside the US for the US Treasury.
It's an effort to tax Americans abroad for the purpose of raising revenues for the US government, not some "one world government."
As for the proposal itself, I think it will simply drive businesses out of the United States faster than other taxes already do and have.
Beamish,
ReplyDeleteI've been doing a bit of reading on the global minimum tax and agree with your assessment as far as it goes.
However, I do note that this administration has a penchant for dishing out money to other countries. I think that foreign aid is a drop in the budget's bucket. But what it actually "BUYS" is often contrary to American interests.
What is that Agenda 21 thing, anyway? Smack of New World Order to me, but I admit that I don't know all that much about Agenda 21.
Beamish,
ReplyDeleteOne more thing....What about that Rockefeller statement back in the 1990s?
Yawn. This is another lying graphic from the loony right because; Cap and Trade was never passed. The President has nothing to do with the price of oil. GOP asinine rhetoric about bombing Iran can have an influence on rising gas prices. Obama has increased drilling in the US by 350% NOT BUSH!And our number 1 export is now...oil! So bitch to the oil companies and get some facts for a change.
ReplyDelete____________
No President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices."
--Fox News, circa 2008
FLASHBACK: Fox News On Gas Prices In 2008 | Media Matters for America
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203050007
What is that Agenda 21 thing, anyway? Smack of New World Order to me, but I admit that I don't know all that much about Agenda 21.
ReplyDeleteAgenda 21
My patent answer is "Saddam Hussein didn't fear UN inpectors. Why should we?" ;)
Seriously though, it's a statement of agenda, and calls for brainstorming to implement its intents. In layman's terms, noise. A Greenie wishlist, not a binding treaty itself.
A very good reason to be mindful of who controls the US Senate where treaties are ratified, but globally among UN member states I don't see this ever getting past the waste of office stationery stage.
One more thing....What about that Rockefeller statement back in the 1990s?
We should storm the New York Times and waterboard them all until they cough up the transcripts of the secret meetings.
/sarcasm
Beamish,
ReplyDeleteWell, I think that there have been some local impact here due to Agenda 21 (overt or covert, I don't know). Forget getting the correct amount of money when one sells one's property for development. The greenie police are involved like you wouldn't believe.
From a recent edition of the WaPo:
When Pohanka Automotive Group decided to build a new car dealership in Chantilly, the company agreed to dozens of environmentally friendly features that would make its building one of the greenest around.
The list included clean, energy-saving touches such as a reflective roof, bike racks, a shower for cyclists, motion-sensor faucets, curbs on light pollution, using recycled water in its car wash, and a service shop open seven days a week to cut peak-hour traffic. To top it off, the company promised to build a 117-foot-tall wind turbine to generate electricity.
Not good enough, Fairfax County planners said. The Department of Planning and Zoning recommended denial of the land-use application because Pohanka refused to submit to a national process for certifying green buildings.
The Planning Commission endorsed Pohanka’s plans anyway, and county staff eventually agreed to support the application after Pohanka agreed to achieve verifiable energy savings. Both the staff and the Planning Commission play advisory roles, but their opinions have significant influence with the Board of Supervisors, which will consider Pohanka’s application on March 20....
More at the above link.
Who's running that LEED certification mentioned in the article? Connections with Agenda 21?
Beamish,
ReplyDeleteI have to get ready to go to work and don't have time to read THIS, but you might want to take a look. I found it via a Google search using LEED Agenda 21. No quotes.
Liberalmann,
ReplyDeleteNo President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices."
--Fox News, circa 2008
But a President does have the power to influence those prices via the administration's various policies.
As for the lying graphic, apparently you are totally divorced from reality. Check out the words of your beloved Barack Hussein Obama. He has zero problem with electricity prices skyrocketing, and the same applies to oil prices (often referred to as "energy prices").
AOW Said: "But a President does have the power to influence those prices via the administration's various policies."
ReplyDeleteYeah? What policies? The only force I see in the USA which is influencing the increasing prices is the asinine sabre rattling the GOP is spouting at Iran.
And the GOP is doing it SO the gas policies go up. Yeah, they really care about average Americans....NOT!
Actually the One suggest Pond scum could be used for Fuel while talking to Floridians about a week ago...
ReplyDeletetruly laughable both Obama and his zombie followers like liberman
The GOP currently has not sabre rattling power. Obama meet with Israel not Boehner and probably a good thing because he has been a bit of disappointment as well.
ReplyDeleteIran's leaders are far smarter than you they know Mccain is a has been politician with no power.
Iran is flexing is muscle with sending ships to the coast of Syria because theyknow something you do not...we have no leadership experience in the White House. Maybe a good game of golf but no leadership...
Blogginator,
ReplyDeleteYou've typed in two excellent comments, and I thank you for doing so. Of course, reasoning with an Obama zombie is an exercise in futility.
As my father used to say, "Some people don't have anything to THINK WITH."
HERE is the Obama administration's version of sabre rattling, and it will lead to further destabilization of the Middle East:
ReplyDeleteThe Obama administration is moving to provide direct assistance to the internal opposition in Syria for the first time, marking a shift in U.S. policy toward a more aggressive plan to help oust President Bashar al-Assad....