Posts Tagged ‘corruption’

Dispute on Global Carbon Tax Heating Up

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

A short article in the International Herald Tribune covers the anger building in developing nations over the UN proposals being bandied about to replace the current Kyoto treaty in 2012.  Most of it is old news, but there was one sentence that really grabbed my eye and certain shows the real motivation behind the Church of Global Warming.

Developing countries proposed a 2 percent tax on all transactions of the carbon market, which could become one of the world’s richest commodity markets if the United States creates a national cap-and-trade system as promised by President-elect Barack Obama.

The $700 Billion Dollar Lie

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Wake up, America: you’ve been swindled for far more than what you’ve been told.  The $700 billion dollar banking bailout that was rushed through the Federal government, was just a twelfth of what has been promised and being spent.

As many people, myself included, predicted that the government bailout has not ended, but only begun.  The San Francisco Chronicle has reported the breakdown of government spending and commitment in the overall bailout scheme, and the total value is $8.5 trillion dollars and counting. This is nearly 60 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product!

The USA is officially on the path to becoming a third world socialist quagmire and you can blame both the Democratic and Republican parties for this.  By bailing out rich bankers with your money, and money that the Federal Reserve prints without real backing, they have planted the seeds that cannot be sowed and our economy is going to flush like a giant toilet.  If you want a clear example of taxation without representation, this is it.

If you don’t own a firearm, buy one.  Then buy ammunition and plenty of it.  If the riots in Iceland are any example, you can expect things to get very ugly here, before the economy even appears to be stabilizing – assuming that it ever does.

Robert Scheer on Obama and Wall Street

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Change (© Barack Obama), my arse.  Robert Scheer finally realizes what Ralph Nader was warning of months back: no matter which party won the election, Wall Street players have a lock on the government.

Fake TV

Monday, November 17th, 2008

I realize that the title of this article is an absolute truth no matter what, but the Center for Media and Democracy shows that the shallow fatuity of the deception is simply startling.

Over a ten-month period, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) documented television newsrooms’ use of 36 video news releases (VNRs)—a small sample of the thousands produced each year. CMD identified 77 television stations, from those in the largest to the smallest markets, that aired these VNRs or related satellite media tours (SMTs) in 98 separate instances, without disclosure to viewers. Collectively, these 77 stations reach more than half of the U.S. population. The VNRs and SMTs whose broadcast CMD documented were produced by three broadcast PR firms for 49 different clients, including General Motors, Intel, Pfizer and Capital One. In each case, these 77 television stations actively disguised the sponsored content to make it appear to be their own reporting. In almost all cases, stations failed to balance the clients’ messages with independently-gathered footage or basic journalistic research. More than one-third of the time, stations aired the pre-packaged VNR in its entirety.

See the article and view the videos on your own and realize that television is the last place to look for actual news.  (Especially remember that when the push to invade Iran comes.)

Rahmbo

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Victor Thorn has written a short piece on Obama’s choice for Chief of Staff in the White House, Rahm Emanuel, that brings up some rather spooky questions.  Anyone still clinging to the notion that Obama brand Change (© Barack Obama ) is going to be a good thing, had better start paying attention to what’s going on in the background, behind Obama’s sly rhetoric.

Between Obama’s, Biden’s and Emanuel’s rabid gun control agenda and a push to be Israel’s lapdog, Obama’s ideas of “change” promises to be as bad as Bush’s, if not worse.

On a side note, talks are apparently ongoing between Obama and Hillary Clinton, which may lead to Hillary being named Secretary of State.

The Evil of the Patriot Act

Monday, November 10th, 2008