Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Watch this 14 second promo clip and try to determine which side is represented in the Battle for America. Does it have the people’s best interest in mind? If not, then who might benefit from this news/advertisement? These are not easy questions but the answer is within the grasp of those willing to put in the work, utilize their education and have decent deductive reasoning skills. Finally, what word that begins with the letter “P” am I thinking of? Good luck.
“Cutting off Chavez” is a political move regardless of it’s resulting change to gas prices. I personally feel that way too much of the information we have about Chavez comes from the Bush administration and I don’t trust it. However, I also believe that just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean there isn’t someone out to get you. CONCLUSION: Too much Politics, not enough information for me to decide if this is good for the people. I will bet that regardless of the politics involved, BIG OIL will benefit here.
Tax breaks for Big Oil will benefit Big Oil. Period. They may succeed in throwing a bone to the enviornment and to consumers, but I’d be surprised if the consumer savings plus environmental expenditures total anything close to the benefit to Big Oil.
Taking these two together, further bolsters my impression that this is beneficial only to Big Oil and DOES NOT HAVE the people’s best interest in mind.
Let’s see, P words. Politcs…nah…PHONY…well, it is but…Profiteering…again true but probably not the word you are looking for….how about PROPAGANDA?
“Some say” always be skeptical of ANYTHING on broadcast television especially if it is fast paced, fast talking and visually distracting and colorful, (FOX).
Is the word Poop.
Once my sister dropped a big bottle of glitter on the floor, her dog thought it was a treat for her. You should be able to figure out what happened a little while later.
Is the word “prestidigitation”?
This would not benefit Americans, only oil companies. Chavez is doing business just like US oil companies. Who would this benefit… I don’t know, could it be… the Plutocracy?
I think after I watched that I had this bile taste in my throat, so I’ll say Puke
Didn’t they just say ExxonMobil made the biggest profits ever in American history just now? And they need a tax break? Propoganda is “the word”.
I look at an ad like this, and immediately see it’s propoganda. What % of Americans do the same?
PROPAGANDA!
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I really think the word is “propaganda”, too.
Do you think we will see the day when the FCC will demand Fox take the “News” out of their name?
Oooh I’ve got it! But wait…Bullshit doesn’t begin with P…
Well thank God there are good soldiers out there who are doing the opposite of deceitful crap like this, and truthout.org honored a few of them today (though why they left Brad out is beyond me!)…
“Truthout 2007: Freedom and Democracy Awards
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020107W.shtml
Today we are announcing the recipients of the first annual Truthout Freedom and Democracy Awards. These awards have been granted to three individuals who have done the most in the past year to promote freedom
and democracy. These recipients will each receive an honorarium of $1,000 to assist them in continuing their work.
This year’s recipients, in alphabetical order, are:
“¢ Gold Star Mother of US Army Spc. Casey Sheehan and peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who has taken her protest of the War in Iraq to the president’s doorstep and worked tirelessly to bring an end to US engagement in Iraq.
“¢ 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, US Army, the first commissioned military officer to publicly refuse to deploy to Iraq, stating that the war was not legal.
“¢ Ann Wright, former member of the military and a US State Department Foreign Service member who resigned her post in protest of the Iraq War and has joined the fight to end the war.
Each of these recipients has shown a deep commitment to efforts to strengthen freedom and democracy in a time of great need. Truthout salutes these honorees for their work.”
Why the US Is Not Leaving Iraq: The Booming Business of War Profiteers
by Prof. Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Global Research, January 12, 2007
The military-industrial-complex [would] cause military spending to be driven not by national security needs but by a network of weapons makers, lobbyists and elected officials. “” Dwight D. Eisenhower
There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket. “” General Smedley D. Butler
“””As this combination of increasing military spending and decreasing tax liabilities of the wealthy creates wide gaps in the Federal budget, it then justifies the slashing of non-military public spending””a subtle and insidious policy of reversing the New Deal reforms, a policy that, incidentally, started under President Ronald Reagan.
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The fact that powerful beneficiaries of war dividends flourish in an atmosphere of war and international convulsion should not come as a surprise to anyone. What is surprising is that, in the context of the recent US wars of choice, these beneficiaries have also acquired the power of promoting wars, often by manufacturing “external threats to our national interest.” In other words, profit-driven beneficiaries of war have also evolved as war makers, or contributors to war making.[9]
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Not only does the new form of imperial or colonial aggression, driven largely by the powerful interests that are vested in the armaments industries and other war-based businesses, bring calamity to the vanquished, but it is also detrimental and burdensome to the victor, namely, the imperium and its citizens. Contrary to the external military operations of past empires, which usually brought benefits not only to the imperial ruling classes but also (through “trickle-down” effects) to their citizens, U.S. military expeditions and operations of late are not justifiable even on the grounds of national economic gains.
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It follows that US troops will not be withdrawn from Iraq as long as antiwar voices are not raised beyond the premises and parameters of the official narrative or justification of the war: terrorism, democracy, civil war, stability, human rights, and the like. Antiwar forces need to extricate themselves from the largely diversionary and constraining debate over these secondary issues, and raise public consciousness of the scandalous economic interests that drive the war.”””
http://www.globalresearch.ca/in...articleId=4423
Could we all just drop what we’re doing, and stop WWIII, now, before I have a stroke?
P is for PIG.
PIG Oil, PIG Profit, PIG Power
After all we have gone through since 9/11, how can anyone ever have believed it was anything BUT planned, inplemented, promoted, and fully exploited by members of the Bush administration.
“P” is for pretend. The Bush administration is a pretend presidency. “P” is for pretend terror attack. 9/11 was a pretend attack. It certainly happened, people did die, but it was not exactly as we have been told it was. And “P” is for pretend evidence that other countries are a threat to us. Pretense that Iraq had WMDs, pretense that Iran has WMDs, pretense that Israel is defending itself from Islamic terror and the pretense that they need us to stand beside them in that effort.
P is for puppets, which is what these Faux news talking heads are. Guess they plan on broadcasting from the underground cities when the full plan finally kicks in and we are under martial law. Who will get the oil then?