Major media, the new spokesmen for big oil and more!

Here we go again. Gas prices are creeping up, and once more the pump is foaming at the mouth to get at your paycheck.

So, do you want to know what is going to happen with oil prices? Listen to the newscasters from any of the big media; they get it dead on --almost every time. Have you ever wondered how it is that those news droids get it right with ninety and nine percent accuracy? When they forecast what gas prices are going to be and miraculously it comes to pass, be assured that it isn't because they are expert prognosticators; it is because they are firmly implanted in the gilded pocket of huge business who tell them what they want the public to hear. You could say that the networks and newspaper syndicates have an inside track on the current trend of oil gouging, but that isn't exactly true -- the media moguls are not merely pandering to the wishes of the oil people; they wittingly or unwittingly have become possessions of power mongers much bigger than the oil magnates. Oil is just one facet of their agenda.

Wouldn't you think that alternative fuel and energy sources might have come to full flower by now? The technology that drives that notion has been around for decades. I remember reading about prototype hydrogen (water powered) engines in the seventies. I know what you are thinking: 'He probably read it in 'UFO Alien Watch Weekly.' Actually I read it in the much more disreputable rags, Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. I also spoke face to face with an actual alien (Idahoan) who was using that technology in his own cars - in the seventies!

The official spokesmen of the noble media would have you believe that the fuel technologies needed to revolutionize our transportation and industrial needs are barely a glimmer in the eye of science. Huh? How could we believe such a thing when as I said, the technology has been here for thirty years or better - it's a matter of record. I'll tell you how; what most people hear or read in the media, they believe -- perhaps more than they believe their own ears and eyes. When distortions and outright lies are repeated often enough by a critical mass of media voices, it doesn't matter what you see or hear; by force of numbers what they say must be true.

Alternative news and media sources are being methodically eradicated either by force of government or by out and out extortion Where's the documentation? you might ask. Look at what they are trying to do to talk radio, the only bastion of the conservative voice left. They want to force it out of existence by what they (the 'progressives') call the 'fairness doctrine.' The lengths they will go to ought to give us an idea about just how important and effective the media is to eliminating opposition. Write a letter to the editor to certain syndicate-owned newspapers about gas price gouging, or other financial issues hitting close to the heart of the economic matter, and see if they print it. If they don't, call them, and then see what kind of response you get. I have written numerous times, and they would not print any of my letters. Yes, I know I'm a whacko, and none of what I say can be rationally believed. Well, if I my message is that whack, it should be fairly obvious to any right thinking readers -- right? I called and they would not give me any reason whatsoever. Instead they referred me to this or that editor (who was never available) or to some non-existent official ombudsman until at last my complaint disappeared down the black hole under the false bottom of the suggestion box.

I have thought that they are just like the pedophiles who groom their hopefully helpless young victims for the eventual atrocities they hope to perform. So do likewise the media to the public. Their subtle and not-so-subtle prophecies to me seem so contrived as to desensitize the public to what fiery furnace really awaits. Some propagandized blurbs are actually humorous, and I might laugh were it not so insidious in its intent. For example, I saw a 'poll' on an online syndicated news rag whose emblazoned question read something like this: 'Do you think that President Obama will be able to keep gas prices under $5 a gallon?' Excuse me?!?? I don't know about other areas of the country, but in our neck of the woods, gas prices topped $4 a gallon by a few cents last summer, and that outrageous price nearly brought on a full scale rebellion. Now I'm supposed to believe that Obama is a miracle worker if he can keep gas prices under five bucks. The real message is: We want you to realize that if our president can keep gas at a 'reasonable' price of five dollars a gallon, that is the best we can expect. You should feel darn fortunate for that. (Chew on that for a while, and I'll be back with more unofficial blather)