Big Media and Big Oil - are they one and the same?

The Greatest Story Never Written is what's going on with gasoline prices and what's causing it. That, aside from Big Media's failings on wars and their causes, is their greatest and most costly failing in my memory. Big Media simply will not address the hidden story of manipulation of world energy supplies and the power and riches resulting therefrom.

I have maintained throughout the years that the laws of supply and demand do not freely operate in energy markets (and many others controlled by government). Because of that, as I said here 5/2/08, Bush and the oil companies are eating America alive and mass media can't see that the Energy Empire - using front men like Pat Tiberi - is in a final drive to seal some deals before Bush departs. Read it here.

Breitbart reported 5/17/08that Bush said "Our problem in America gets solved when we aggressively go for domestic exploration. Our problem in America gets solved if we expand our refining capacity, promote nuclear energy and continue our strategy for the advancing of alternative energies as well as conservation."

Was my prediction on target?

Two days later Cal Thomas, who sometimes seems half-bright, wrote an Advocate column that had what he wants us to believe is the answer to our problems. He quoted an expert on why repeal of the $17 billion in tax breaks to oil companies would be wrong and why oil companies should be allowed to defy environmentalist concerns about off-shore drilling. His source? That would be Peter Robertson, vice chairman of Chevron.

Brilliant journalist, that Cal Thomas.

The fact is that Americans and the rest of the world are under attack by oil companies, politicians, speculators, and most of all the President of the United States.

The oil swindle started with President George H. W. Bush and helped propel George W. into office. You can read how this occurred in a report by Samuel A. Stanson, entitled Did former President George H. W. Bush create an oil crisis in order to get his son elected?

Then read another well-researched piece by Emanuel A. Winston at Israelenews.com:"The Oil Swindle Never Stopped"

All Big Media need to do is to pick up on this research. They haven't and likely they won't. They will keep publishing rehashes of oil company propaganda written by hopeless hacks like Cal Thomas.

Is it because Big Media are too lazy and/or too stupid? Or is it rather because - somewhere up the feeding chain - Big Media and Big Oil are one and the same?

Ohio Porkers, you're in the spotlight

Whoa, Ohio porkers! The Dispatch - for the first time I know about - has named names. Including Porker Space and Porker Tiberi, who were voted to office in part by people of Newark, and other Ohio Porkers Wilson and Pryce.

They were named for their part in the scattering of billions of our tax dollars in porkified projects. Go read it here.

There is but a single way to stop Pork Barreling: That is to tell voters back home about it. That is to remind voters next election day that they sent a Porker to Washington.

Traditionally, the media tell about this awful Pork Problem, how many billions were wasted by it, go "tsk tsk" and that's it. They generally don't mention the local porkers nor benefactors by name.

That the Dispatch has done it is the foremost step toward getting it stopped.

If every newspaper would do likewise, the federal Pork Barrel would vanish; it cannot exist in the spotlight.

Where in the hell is the 12th District anyway?

Pat Tiberi, U.S. Congressman from the 12th District, wrote a significant column, published on the WCLT web site. He tells how congress has been spending time, wasting money, and spinning wheels. It's certainly worth a read if you haven't already done so. Here's the link.

Anyway, reading Tiberi's stuff cued my interest in just how far away from where I live is this man's Congressional kingdom. Not a simple search, Google notwithstanding.

In fact, I was all over the Internet until I finally found a map that will show you, street by street, where you live, Congressional-District-wise. Here's the link for that.



You will notice that the Congressional District map through Newark is pure bureaucratic poetry, and God only knows how much it cost to get a legion of our public employees to figure this thing out. Would that they could be so useful on real problems.

Its just plain stupid to run the line between two districts right through the City of Newark because: 1) you don't know where either district begins and ends unless you're lucky enough to have the above Internet link, and worse, 2) Newark's needs from the federal government are just half as likely to be met with two Representatives supposedly working on it instead of one.



Zack's kingdom stretches from Newark's east side to Amish country to the north, through the fields and forests of Appalachian Southeastern Ohio, almost to the Ohio River. It includes Mt. Vernon, New Philly, Zanesville and Chillicothe - places like Newark.



But Pat's 12th district "includes the heavily African-American part of Ohio's capital city, Columbus, Ohio along with its northern suburbs, including Westerville," (in the words of Wikipedia) - places very unlike Newark.

This Congressional District mess only intensifies the confusion and inefficiency of an already-impossible system for good communication to, and representation from, Washington.