MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
Once upon a time, the Vice-President of the United States
met with over a hundred oil executives. I do not think there was one meeting;
but a series of meets. The object of the meets was to come up with a national
energy policy.
The meets were made in secret. The names of the executives
or most of them were even kept secret.
The policy was kept secret.
The media went a little nuts but Main Stream Media never
spent that much time on the story.
This made sense on a number of levels.
First and foremost, we never really had an energy policy as
such; just unbridled capitalism.
Second, it is most difficult to get 300 million people to
agree on specifics regarding any major policy.
Third, since Halliburton had more than just a hand in energy
as profit, the Vice-President knew something about energy.
Fourth, Americans deep deep down hate rich people and hate
rich oil companies. This attitude has been with us since the days of
Rockefeller and Standard Oil.
I believe the policy included, among other things, the following elements.
This would be the policy for a decade--at least. Promises of
a permanent repub majority were made. And the primary rule would be to never
speak badly of the administration or the repub party.
Not that there had not been scores of incidents over that
decade of unbridled capitalism. Keith O was reporting 36 incidents during that
time period--half of which involved the omission of a safety measure that saved
the oil companies fifty million bucks for every off shore platform installed.
A ProPublica report last week chronicles BP's involvement in some of the biggest oil and gas disasters of the past five years due to their negligence. In 2005, an explosion at BP's Texas oil refinery left 15 workers dead and injured 170 others. The cause? BP had ignored its own safety regulations and left a warning system disabled. In 2006, 267,000 gallons of crude oil spread into Alaska' Prudhoe Bay due to a tiny hole in the company's pipeline. The company had been told to check the pipeline in 2002, but ignored the warning. The spill was not even discovered until five days after it occurred, and was the largest in the region's history. The list goes on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/7-secrets-bp-doesnt-want_n_563102.html#s87772
So, there was the accident that was never supposed to occur.
And, as in the past the propagandists are disseminating 'floaters'. That is,
the capitalist pigs are attempting to find the messages that work.
Huffpo has one of those cute light shows; a series of photos with squibs that are usually only seen at Daily Beast. This series is fun. And it presents all the floaters currently being disseminated. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/06/gulf-oil-spill-photos-the_n_565016.html#s88301
Rush Limbaugh put forth the idea that the BP disaster was the
result of domestic green party terrorists. Domestic terrorists blew up the
platform.
Joe Liberman put forth the concept of accident. That is, shite
happens. Just because shite happens does not mean that we as a nation must
abandon a perfectly good energy policy.
BP tells us that they had nothing to do with the incident at
all. After all, BP does not own the oil platform or anything contained thereon.
This is based upon the independent contractor theory of life. Otherwise known
as, IT'S NOT OUR FAULT!!!
BP keeps showing commercials dealing with wind farms and solar
panel farms and...well BP has the sweetest green logo around. WE ARE ON YOUR
SIDE, after all!!!
The repubs in general wish to make this into Obama's Katrina. He did not act quickly enough. Napolitano was negligent and failed to act promptly. Blah blah blah.--see mediamatters.org/
Palin talks gibberish. I really do not understand her position
at all except that she seems to be saying that BP is a foreign corporation
so....When is America
going to understand that all corporations are foreign in that they have
absolutely no allegiance to the interests of this country at all.
John Boehner (R-Ohio) saw
the disaster as an opportunity to call for expanded offshore drilling: "This tragedy should remind us
that America needs a real, comprehensive energy plan, like Republicans'
'all-of-the-above' strategy. This is kind of your normal repub floater. A
disaster is an opportunity. I mean disasters do become opportunities...for some.
I mean some mobile home manufacturer sure made a lot of money off of the
Katrina disaster.
Michael Brown, director
of FEMA during the Bush years, told FOX News' Neil Cavuto: "This is exactly what they want, because now he can pander to the
environmentalists and say, 'I'm gonna shut it down because it's too dangerous.
This president has never supported big oil, he's never supported offshore
drilling, and now he has an excuse to shut it back down. This is like the old reverse in football.
Even better than boner's really. I mean you get the absolutely worst symbol of
repub ineptitude and you....Jesus, I really do not understand what the fuck the
repubs are doing with this asshole and I don't know how far that can get. HECK
OF A JOB THERE BROWNIE.
Finally, when in doubt, blame it on God: Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) speculated that the spill may have just been God's doing: "From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented."
Again, I really am not a violent man but would it really be
that awful to take these people and put them in some back lot and proceed to
beat them senseless with a baseball bat?
And before you simply gasp at all this propaganda, thinking
it will never work; think again. That is, do not feel too comfortable in the knowledge that
the American people are not that stupid.
THIS TYPE OF PROPAGANDA GOT THE MOST INEPT AND CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY REELECTED IN 2004.