Our next Backgrounder will examine why MainStream Media is doing such a bad job of providing the information citizens need to make intelligent decisions in the marketplace and in the voting booth.
From time to time MainStream Media does do a very good job of documenting the results of citizens making bad decisions in the marketplace and in the voting booth.
A case in point is the series WaPo is running on “Harvesting Cash” – details of federal farm subsidy pork barrel / fraud. In another good example, WaPo recently ran a series on the disasters generated by federal pork barrel water projects about which the veto override made the news this week. Both are available in the archives at http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Of interest today is the Page One coverage by Steven Mufson: “Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth.” The wealth transfer is stupendous, the graphic on the jump page with respect to the impact on the US of A is frightening.
The US of A is a wounded whale with a lame duck president and such dysfunctional settlement patterns that there is little hope of changing course without massive economic, social and physical pain.
Fundamental Change in human settlement patterns is the only possible course of action that will significantly reduce foreign oil dependency. It is the only way to substantially reduce the demand for Autonomobile use other transport waste that consums 70 percent of the oil imports.
Fundmental Change in settlement patterns is the only way citizens can be happy and safe, and not be hostage to rising oil prices.
WaPo tells us where citizens are going due to past errors in the marketplace and in the voting booth. They did not tell citizens that there were alternatives nor did they articulate the result of the current trajectory when the resources were available to make Fundamental Change without massive pain.
Enjoy to game.
EMR