Everything spinning out of control

By Alan Fram and Eileen Putman

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RedMeatKoolAid at 07:10 PM JST - 24th June

We have an election coming and one party needs their formidable allies in the media to ensure that all news is bad. And this time around if you don't buy what they are peddling you are a racist.
weedkila at 09:05 PM JST - 24th June

not sure what "men in black" have to do with this thread but by completely rejecting any ideas other than your own preconceived version of reality shows how easy it would be to further any agenda a shadow government or the Bilderberg grp might have, if that's what you are talking about.

It's not only "paranoid" Americans who "imagine these absurdities." In fact an increasing number of non-Americans (I'm one of them) know or suspect the situation is not quite as the politicians and ABCNNBC et al portray things. History is replete with stuff like this but people fail to learn.
RedMeatKoolAid at 09:22 PM JST - 24th June

Not like the 80's or 90's eh. Those were tough times for shadow governments and Freemasons.
cwhite at 12:05 AM JST - 25th June

they should have bumped up oil tax prices decades ago and used it to find, harness, utilise and mass build clean alternative means of energy. Hopefully the world will now be forced to find other means of clean and efficient energy.
rajakumar at 04:52 AM JST - 25th June

World out of control, why? Energy price out of control, so more people finding problems in transportation woes. World will change according,to what change is imposed on it. Change is good, many nations still doing well despite, high energy woes, because their governance has adapted to changes pro-actively. Many nations governance is not adapting with hard work, to new pro-active solutions of 2000s.They want to be reactive nations/reactive citizens, so they will be affected ,because of their slow reactive obsolete governance.
Badsey at 07:08 AM JST - 25th June

this sums it up:

Cost of gas has tripled: What has our Gov done? = nothing. Food prices doubled (generally): =nothing done. Interest rates should move up within the year: expect nothing to be done (unless the rich are affected.) Electricity/home heating costs: Tax rates: up except for one time stimulus check.

Politicians talk about Iran, Iraq, Palestine, disasters but forgot about their voters. = where are the solutions to these local problems and why are you not fixing them..
tkoind2 at 08:34 AM JST - 25th June

weedkila I do agree that a lot of what we spend our time being afraid of is manufactured or designed to keep us under control. We make women fear they are not beautiful so they spend so much energy trying to meet the model that the media has set for them. We guys feel inadequate unless we fit the Armani suit wearing sports car driving mega male image.

The news tells us something is always out there waiting to kill us.

From Bush and the Patriot act we've seen what fear can empower governments to get away with. And we are seeing more and more control of government by corporations and a growing gap of rich and poor that will certainly leave a lot of us with very little say in things.

That said. There are real immediate problems. The environment is a real problem with real consequences. Same goes for Peak Oil. And dozens of other very real dangers we face. The trouble is sorting which ones are real and which created to keep us afraid.

Despite all this, I still believe very strongly that we can fight back. We can start taking steps to assure that we preserve rsources and moderate the impact of some of the real problems. But it will take a lot more of us standing up and trying to be heard. And that may be the most real danger in this age. But it must be done.

The poor and working people have to find a voice and start demanding change.
MPLS2 at 10:16 AM JST - 25th June

High oil prices don't just mean higher prices at the pumps, it has a great knock-on effect, and it's not limited to motorists. Transportation cost in general, cars, trucks, planes, higher food prices due to higher tramsportation costs, for feed to animals, for all oil derative products.

People who push for biofuel are misguided, Studies have shown that the net saving on oil dependncy is negligible, little enery is saved for little return. Cost of food going up due to land being used not for food but for bio-fuel.
nutsagain at 10:29 AM JST - 25th June

Well as Warren Buffet so succinctly puts it; 'my secretaries at Berkshire Hathaway pay more per capita tax than I do.' to whit: payroll tax is the chief source of taxation in the US and the rich pay comparatively very little indeed. Not a good scenario for any country.
tkoind2 at 03:01 PM JST - 25th June

MPLS2. You are right about both the impact of oil prices and the limited impact of bio-fuel on consumption and the negative impact upon food production.

There are currently no calorie for calorie replacements for oil. We are just not there yet.

What makes sense for food it what several leaders have already proposed. The leading economic powers should invest heavily in the development of African agriculture. Teaching farmers modern methodologies to assure that food production can rise significantly and address both food reserve and supply needs. This will work. And it will bring added stability.

It will cost money. But it will pay off in the end in benefits. This needs to be done. Then and only then can surplus production be retooled to bio-fuel solutions.
weedkila at 03:29 PM JST - 25th June

The trouble is sorting which ones are real and which created to keep us afraid.

tkoind: I agree and good to hear you're ready to do something about it : ). Perhaps if you follow the money you'll also start to understand more fully the media obsession with topics like the carbon emissions 'problem' and even peak oil (although we don't seem to hear so much about that these days.)

As I mentioned further up the page, the Fed is privately owned and is one of the reasons the US is currently in deep trouble. (An ex president, Wilson, sold out to a bunch of banking families in 1913.) It is these parasitic families (and corporations) who really pull the strings. Interestingly, there is not even a law that requires US citizens to pay income tax, although it's enforced anyway for the elite's wars and so on. This is not a conspiracy theory and has all been thoroughly documented. A couple of online vids that explain it quite well are "America: freedom to fascism" (Aaron Russo) and "Money as debt" (both on google vid.)
weedkila at 03:31 PM JST - 25th June

tkoind: I agree

re. your 08:34 AM JST post
Mark_McCracken at 04:48 PM JST - 25th June

Avoid flooding with these simple rules: Don't live in a flood plain. Don't live below sea level.
WMD at 08:10 AM JST - 28th June

Don't worry, it'll soon get far worse. When Israel/Us invade Iran.
rajakumar at 08:16 AM JST - 28th June

Iran/Israel/US/palestine problems, will be the challenges, in future better order in world.