This post is Part 2 of a three part series. You may wish to go back to read Part 1 first.
History has clearly shown -- particularly in the US -- that whatever information our government leaders share with us, it's either complete subterfuge OR it represents the tiniest tip of the iceberg! While many people naively believe that "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and George W. Bush were anomalies in the annals of history, it was more par for the course than anything else.
Back in the 50s and 60s, several different presidential administrations -- both Democrat AND Republican -- told the residents near the Tri Cities area in south central Washington that they had nothing to fear at all from the "insignificant" releases of radioactive substances at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Just go about your everyday lives, they told people. Big brother is watching out for you!
Of course, we now know that this was a big pile of crap! The releases were anything but insignificant and government scientists were studying the effects of known toxic substances on a public kept completely in the dark. Those "effects" still haunt people to this day.
Do you believe the official government version of 9/11? Polls show that most Americans don't. Heck, a significant number of people still don't believe the official versions of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. either.
When I was growing up we were taught that the Japanese launched an unprovoked and surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. I later learned that a lot of historians consider the official version weak and that FDR's administration not only knew about it but did nothing to stop it nor warn anyone about it because it served a crass political purpose.
The reason I bring all this up is that I would think any rational person must know that, whatever the government is telling us about the oil spill in the gulf, it only represents a smidgen of the truth. In concert with BP, the feds have underestimated just the flow of oil by epic proportions. If they are now admitting that the "real" flow rate is in the neighborhood of 100,000 barrels per day, then, taking their miserable track record into account, it makes me wonder if the true rate is 200,000 barrels per day or more!!
Another thing that should give any sentient being a reason to take pause concerns the new regulations that keep the media, scientists and nonprofit groups at least 65 feet away from all the ongoing efforts to do something about the oil. If you're caught violating the new rule, it could cost you up to $40,000 and 1 to 5 years in prison.
The most obvious question this rule brings to mind is: What in the heck are they hiding? What is it that they don't want the public to see? For an administration that pledged to be transparent, this is murky times ten.
The very fact that they are forcing the media to report at arm's length -- just like during the Iraq War -- tells us right off the bat that something isn't kosher here and it does lend a certain amount of credence to the doomsayers.
History has clearly shown -- particularly in the US -- that whatever information our government leaders share with us, it's either complete subterfuge OR it represents the tiniest tip of the iceberg! While many people naively believe that "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and George W. Bush were anomalies in the annals of history, it was more par for the course than anything else.
Back in the 50s and 60s, several different presidential administrations -- both Democrat AND Republican -- told the residents near the Tri Cities area in south central Washington that they had nothing to fear at all from the "insignificant" releases of radioactive substances at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Just go about your everyday lives, they told people. Big brother is watching out for you!
Of course, we now know that this was a big pile of crap! The releases were anything but insignificant and government scientists were studying the effects of known toxic substances on a public kept completely in the dark. Those "effects" still haunt people to this day.
Do you believe the official government version of 9/11? Polls show that most Americans don't. Heck, a significant number of people still don't believe the official versions of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. either.
When I was growing up we were taught that the Japanese launched an unprovoked and surprise attack on the US at Pearl Harbor. I later learned that a lot of historians consider the official version weak and that FDR's administration not only knew about it but did nothing to stop it nor warn anyone about it because it served a crass political purpose.
The reason I bring all this up is that I would think any rational person must know that, whatever the government is telling us about the oil spill in the gulf, it only represents a smidgen of the truth. In concert with BP, the feds have underestimated just the flow of oil by epic proportions. If they are now admitting that the "real" flow rate is in the neighborhood of 100,000 barrels per day, then, taking their miserable track record into account, it makes me wonder if the true rate is 200,000 barrels per day or more!!
Another thing that should give any sentient being a reason to take pause concerns the new regulations that keep the media, scientists and nonprofit groups at least 65 feet away from all the ongoing efforts to do something about the oil. If you're caught violating the new rule, it could cost you up to $40,000 and 1 to 5 years in prison.
The most obvious question this rule brings to mind is: What in the heck are they hiding? What is it that they don't want the public to see? For an administration that pledged to be transparent, this is murky times ten.
The very fact that they are forcing the media to report at arm's length -- just like during the Iraq War -- tells us right off the bat that something isn't kosher here and it does lend a certain amount of credence to the doomsayers.
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