It Can Happen Here, It IS Happening As We Watch

Why Socialism Is Possible

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Hey folks,

I have been talking about the true intentions of the LWL {Left Wing Loonies} and the NEW Democrat Party. I have posted their own words, chronicled their own actions. I have pointed out what the true definitions of what could very well happen, if what they are doing and saying, were to actually come to pass.

Back on Sunday October 14, I gave you a trip down memory lane. Kind of a round up of all the things I’ve been warning you about. Even then, I could not add EVERYTHING. I told you how they want to indoctrinate our kids into their way of thinking. “He who controls the youth, controls the future.”But STILL, with all this, some of you out there are still saying, “It can’t happen here. This is America. We will not allow it.”

Do you know what it is that causes a Dictator or a Socialist Society to rise? YOU. The people. Hitler could not rise by himself, unless he had people HELPING him to. Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili {Joseph Stalin} same thing. The Soviet Union would have never been, had not some people WANTED it to be. ONE man, one idea, can do little. They need support. Little Hitler {Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadenijad} is rising right now because there are many helping him. Including some in this very country. Hugo Chavez? GET THIS according to CNN- Critics say changes in Venezuela law could erode rights

The pro-Chavez legislature already has approved 33 other changes to the constitution. They are to be considered in a referendum slated for December 2.

“We will do what we have to do to approve the constitutional reforms that the president proposes because that is what the people want,” said Iris Varela, a pro-Chavez member of parliament.

But Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas director at the New York-based Human Rights Watch, expressed fear the changes could do more harm than good.

“This amendment, if approved, would allow President Chavez to invoke a state of emergency to justify suspending certain rights that are untouchable under international law,” Vivanco said.

"These include the presumption of innocence and rights to a fair trial, to an attorney, against self-incrimination, for a defendant to know the charges and evidence against him, and against double jeopardy," he said.

"The proposed amendments would eliminate limitations on how long a state of emergency could last and the requirement that a constitutional tribunal review the suspension of rights during times of emergency," Vivanco said.

They also would get rid of language requiring that any such decree “meet the requirements, principles and guarantees established in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights,” he said.

Sound familiar?

So scanning the news I caught this from the AP- Poll: Some Germans see good in Nazi rule By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer Wed Oct 17, 1:25 PM ET on Wednesday.

A quarter of Germans believe there were some positive aspects to Nazi rule, according to a poll published Wednesday — a finding that comes after a popular talk show host was fired for praising Nazi Germany's attitude toward motherhood.

Pollsters for the Forsa agency, commissioned by the weekly magazine Stern, asked whether National Socialism also had some “good sides (such as) the construction of the highway system, the elimination of unemployment, the low criminality rate (and) the encouragement of the family.”

Forsa said 25 percent responded “yes” — but 70 percent said “no.”
Stern commissioned the survey, conducted Oct. 11-12, after Germany's NDR public broadcaster last month fired talk show host Eva Herman over comments she made about the Third Reich.

News reports quoted Herman as saying there was “much that was very bad — for example, Adolf Hitler,” but there were good things under the Nazis, “for example, the high regard for the mother.”

Herman, 48, who has written books urging a return to more traditional gender roles, has stood by her comments.

“What I wanted to express was that values which also existed before the Third Reich, such as family, children and motherhood, which were supported in the Third Reich, were subsequently done away with by the 68ers,” she later said, referring to 1960s-era leftists.

Praising the 1933-45 Nazi dictatorship is taboo in Germany. The Nazis were responsible for the murder of some 6 million Jews and for starting World War II — a conflict in which at least 60 million people died, including more than 7 million Germans.

The poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, showed that people 60 or older had the highest regard for aspects of the era, with 37 percent answering “yes.”

Those who grew up directly after the war, now aged 45 to 59, were the least enthusiastic about the Nazi era, with only 15 percent responding “yes.”

The point is folks, it seems to be in reverse here. The LWL are getting to our youth. They are attempting to indoctrinate them into Liberalism. They are also using the pure and unadulterated hatred for Bush and anything Christian to rev up the Loony base.

They are small, but very well funded, and very loud. They no longer even try to hind their goals. Hillary said this.

"I prefer a 'we're all in it together' society, she said. I believe our government can once again work for all Americans. It can promote the great American tradition of opportunity for all and special privileges for none."

"There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people a chance to succeed, she said. Fairness doesn't just happen. It requires the right government policies."

Campaign for America's Future co-director Roger Hickey just said this.

“Congressional conservatives and the president are the culprits who have stood in the way of a new progressive direction for our nation”

“A new progressive direction for our nation” SOCIALISM He just came out and said it.

If you vote the LWL to stay in power, and you vote someone like Supreme Leader Wannabe Hillary into the White House in 08, you WILL have someone in power who has antepenultimate power. Like what we just read by CNN “We will do what we have to do to approve the constitutional reforms that the president proposes because that is what the people want,” will be heard over and over again in OUR OWN Country. The only way to stop this? DO NOT ALLOW IT. YOU have the power. YOU either support or condone the Socialist quest by the LWL, in turn helping it to rise to power, or YOU do not allow it. YOU are the fuel. The choice is YOURS. Get educated. Get ready. When the time comes, go VOTE.

You do not think this can happen here? There are some here working really hard on MAKING it happen. YOU are the only thing standing in the way.
Peter

Sources:
OPNTalk- History Of Warnings of The Quest for Tyranny
OPNTalk- Controlling Young Minds Series
CNN- Critics say changes in Venezuela law could erode rights
Poll: Some Germans see good in Nazi rule

Can We Jump Start the Economy with Energy?

Mitt says he will do it. 

Hey folks,

So can we really jump start the economy with Energy. Yup. As I have been telling you for the last few years. It will create jobs, increase National Security, DECREASE the cost of everything, and INCREASE revenue to the Government. There is no doubt about it. '

Mark Green, over at Energy Tomorrow has an excellent piece. Here it is.

A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds two of the top three issues that Americans care about the most in this election year are … jobs and reducing the federal budget deficit. Check and check. America’s oil and natural gas industry can help with both. Respondents were asked to weigh the importance of a number of issues (see chart), and 92 percent said creating good jobs is “extremely/very important.” On cutting the federal deficit the figure was 86 percent. Jobs and revenue to the government – we can help.

With the right policies in place – increasing access to American natural resources, the right approach to energy regulation, encouraging energy investments and more – our industry could create 1.4 million jobs by 2030. Here’s how the Wood Mackenzie energy consulting firm charts the potential jobs growth:

Leadership is needed to make this happen. Industry is doing its part – investing in America – and it’s willing to do more.

As for tax revenue for government, to help with the deficit, Wood Mackenzie estimates a pro-energy development strategy could generate a total of more than $800 billion by 2030:

Again, in a struggling economy the oil and natural gas industry is adding jobs and supporting communities while generating revenues for government. Energy-driven economic growth that’s being seen in North Dakota, Texas, Pennsylvania and other states can be realized in other places with a true all-of-the-above (and below) energy strategy.

Sources: 

Energy Tomorrow - Jobs? Revenue for Government? We Can Help

Facts About the Recovery?

Got this in the Emails,

Hey folks,

BG sent this to me. I think it was BG actually. It was a different Email address than he normally uses. I have no idea where this is from. I have no idea Becket Adams is. But you really can't argue facts.

This Graph Says an Awful Lot About the So-Called ‘Recovery’

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Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about “the recovery” and lot of arguing over who’s to blame for its supposed slowdown. But before we got too bogged down in who’s responsible for retarding economic growth, maybe we should first look at the data.

Without one word of explanation, Harvard University econ professor Greg Mankiw posted the following graph to his blog:

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

As you can see, the shaded area indicates the recession and everything to the right of that is the so-called “recovery.”

Huh.

So, was this what the White House meant when it said we’re moving in the right direction or should we just not read too much into the data?

Just wanted to share...Oh wait. I think I found it. From the Blaze? Anyway, like I said. You can't argue facts.
Peter

Government Toting the Slowing Of Energy Production

This is all IN SPITE of Government. Not because of Government. 

Hey folks, 

Bloomberg has a great article out there today. They are attempting to tote Obama and his administration as the ones that have brought this all about. The truth could not be father from their interpretation if they tried. Many of the points they make in this piece are one hundred percent actuate. However?  This is all IN SPITE of Government. Not because of Government. 

As you read this, I want you to ask yourself one question. What if? What if the administration actually just got our of the way. None of this is happening, well, other than perhaps the decrease in demand, because of the oppressive regulations and insane attacks on Coal. They admit, that because of Obama's Policies, entire towns are disappearing. Remember that? They feel bad. They didn't want to do it. But they did anyway. 

"But know right now, we are, we are struggling. We are struggling because we are trying to do our jobs. Lisa Jackson has put forth a very powerful message to the country. Just two days ago, the decision on greenhouse gas performance standard and saying basically gas plants are the performance standard which means if you want to build a coal plant you got a big problem. That was a huge decision. You can’t imagine how tough that was. Because you got to remember if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities who depend on coal. And to say that we just think those communities should just go away, we can’t do that. But she had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it’s painful. It’s painful every step of the way." 

That was EPA Region 1 Administrator Curt Spalding. I awarded him the Idiot of the Week for this statement. All the advances in energy are happening as they normally would. However, they are happening far SLOWER than they normally would. Reason? All the interference and blockation, is that a word? Blockation of this administration. They are thriving in spite of the out right attacks by Obama and crew. 

As you read this. Think to yourself, what if the government actually got out of the way?.. 

Energy use in the U.S. is expected to grow less than one percent per year through 2035 and the U.S. will become less dependent on foreign energy sources, the government reported.

The Energy Information Administration released its Annual Energy Outlook Monday, which projects energy production and consumption through 2035. The energy landscape in the U.S. has shifted dramatically in recent years. Domestic oil and gas production has increased as the industry has learned to tap resources trapped in shale formations across much of the country. At the same time, efficiency programs inspired by environmental concerns and recent energy price spikes have led to lower energy consumption.

Among the trends identified by the government:

LOW ENERGY DEMAND

— Overall U.S. energy consumption will grow at 0.3 percent per year on average between now and 2035. This is because economic and population growth are both expected to be slower than in the past, while state and federal efficiency programs are encouraging conservation.

— Gasoline consumption will fall by 0.6 percent per year through 2035 because cars and trucks are getting more fuel efficient in response to high gasoline prices and stricter federal fuel economy standards. Gasoline consumption could fall even further, if proposed fuel economy standards for cars and trucks are adopted. Cars would have to average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025 under the proposed rule.

HIGH DOMESTIC ENERGY PRODUCTION

— U.S. crude oil production has increased over the last three years, reversing a decline that began in 1986. The government predicts the country will produce 6.7 million barrels of oil per day by 2020, up from 5.7 million barrels per day this year. The EIA said production could vary "significantly" though, because techniques used to find and tap newfound resources onshore are still being developed.

— Natural gas production will grow by nearly a third between now and 2035, and outpace consumption by early in the next decade. The U.S. will become a net exporter of natural gas as it builds liquefied natural gas export terminals.

— Crude imports will fall by about 2 million barrels of oil per day over the next decade, as production rises while demand slows. At today's oil prices, that will reduce imports by $58 billion per year.

CHANGING ENERGY MIX

— Natural gas will be used to generate more of the nation's electric power, because of low prices and environmental regulations that will reduce coal consumption.

— Renewable energy will be used to generate 15 percent of the nation's electricity by 2035, up from 10 percent now.

— The nation's emissions of carbon dioxide, the most important global warming gas, will remain below their 2005 levels through 2035. This is a result of low energy demand and the increased use of natural gas, which emits less carbon when burned than coal or oil.

Now they can attempt to give Obama credit for this. All this information comes straight from the government to start with. That is what they are doing. But the truth is, this is happening at a far slower pace than it would if government would just get out of the way. The experts, the REAL experts in the field, have told us that we could be completely energy independent in less than ten years. 

The numbers they cite are actually tiny compared to what we could actually accomplish in reality. Remember, gas was like $1.85 when Bush left office. They knew we were about to increase our own production and use our own resources. Now? 

All these numbers sound good, but just imagine if the energy industry was free to do their thing..

Peter

Sources: 

Bloomberg Business - US energy use to slow, get cleaner

By The Associated Press on June 25, 2012

IWA For Sunday 062412

This guy is a complete idiot in general.

Hey folks,

Giving this guy the IWA is like giving someone like Nancy Pelosi the IWA. They are complete idiots 24-7. So winning the idiot of the Week, is no real great accomplishment for them.

Our winner is a typical New Liberal Loon. He is a card carrying member of the LWL. He is a kook, who thinks that the majority of Americans think like he does. He is wrong of course. But He is getting rich spreaded the LWL propaganda.

Every speech this moron gives is the same. Oh, he adds in a few things, but it's all the same old crap. Obama is God. Anyone not liberal are racists, bigots, homophobes, chauvinistic, hicks. We are too stupid to understand that the LWL are smarter than us, and we need to shut up and sit down, and let them run things. He is also a racist himself. But that is never discussed now is it?

Well, this moron gives a speech at the "Take Back the American Dream Conference.." Sounds like something the Tea Party would organize. Does it not? You can watch the speech HERE. Here are just some of the highlights...

“Look at the [young people] who watched the hopes of a planet be destroyed by a do-nothing, obstructionist Congress that still has not moved on climate change, that still has not moved towards clean energy, that that has been stuck on stupid – afraid of science now for three or four years. Look at the face of that.”

Lets see Vanny. Solyndra, Abound Solar, Energy Conversion Devices, BrightSource, LSP Energy, Evergreen Solar, Ener1, SunPower, Beacon Power, ECOtality, A123, Uni-Solar, Azure Dynamics, and now Solar Trust? All these companies were propped up by your tax money. ALL of them gone. The last one, $2.1 BILLION. Hundreds of thousands of job lost. Revenue to the Government, lost. Debt, increased. National Security, decreased. Cost of everything in an already hurting economy, increased. Yeah, that worked. 


Now lets look at reality. Lower cost of energy, including lower cost on everything. HELPS the economy. Increased revenue to the government, HELPS the economy. NO increase in debt at all. No cost to tax payers at all. Increased National Security through energy independence. Hundreds of thousands of new, long lasting, well paying jobs created. Who's stuck on stupid? 


Then he gives credit to "young people" for blocking the Keystone Pipeline.

“They said, ‘we’re not going to let them jab this dirty needle of a pipeline into America. We’re not going to let them take the dirtiest energy ever created and cook it up and stick it into this country. And they broke the seal in August of last year, in civil disobedience against this White House, nobody a year ago was saying ‘it’s time to do civil disobedience against the White House.’ These young people said, ‘My future and the future of this planet is too great,’ and 350.org and Bill McKibben and the Native American tribes went down in the heat of August. And they sat in, and thousand were arrested, and the media tried to ignore it, but a message was sent. And through their courage, the project was derailed.”

This guy is a kook. Occupy Wall Street and all this other garbage had nothing to do with killing the Key Stone Pipeline. A Billionaire kook did. Friends of Obama, did. Obama didn't bow to the pressure of anything the "people" said or did. HE wanted to kill the Keystone pipeline while attempting to take credit for something he had nothing to do with. You are an Idiot Van Jones. You really are.

Congratulations to you Van Jones. For towing the LWL party line, spreading lies and propaganda, and attempting to rally Obama kook supporters, I guess you deserve credit. You know your role and you are playing your part. Good little puppet. The problem for you is, America is not stupid. The majority of the people in this country understand that it is people like you, and Obama, that have put us where we are. Trillions in new debt. EVERYTHING is worse than it was when Obama took office. You want more of the same? We don't. Guess we'll see in November, who is really stuck on stupid. Right?
Peter

Sources:
The Blaze  - ‘Stuck on Stupid’: Van Jones Compares Keystone Pipeline to Heroin Needle

DLA For Sunday 061712

I always liked this guy.

Hey folks,

I always liked this guy. He is a great actor. He is a good guy. He is a smart guy. He tells the truth. He had my Vote the first time he ran for President. Here is a guy that sees reality. A guy I had no doubt, that had the intelligence, and more importantly the courage and the strength to get things done that he knew needed to be done.

Here is what he has to say about Barack Obama today..

“For the last three-and-a-half years, he has been demonstrating he doesn’t understand the economy and what to do about it. They came in very convinced that Keynesian economics would bail them out. They were very brash about what they thought the  unemployment percentage would be, after their policies were instituted.

Dead wrong about that — dead wrong about the effect of the stimulus . . . So now, they can only resort -- he can only resort – to going back. And the reason he stumbled so much lately is because he is looking backwards all the time — that’s his strategy, apparently.”

He is talking about Obama and crew blatant attempt to rewrite history. He calls Obama a leader that has “literally run out of things to say.” He has nothing. He can't run on his record. He can't talk about anything he has accomplished. So he comes out and talks about the "failed policies of the past." They were not nor did they fail. We were far better off at nearly anytime in history, than we are now. The reason is simple. Obama and crew and their liberal policies FAILED. 

“The policies of George W. Bush should not be measured by the last 24 hours or the last year of his administration.  The fact of the matter is the Bush tax cuts didn’t cause this debt, didn’t cause this deficit. After the Bush tax cuts, we had the greatest increase of revenue for the federal government in history.”

That is one hundred per cent true folks. Our winner of the Display of Logic Award for today, Sunday, June 17th, 2012, is former Senator of Tennessee, former actor, and former Presidential Candidate Fred Thompson. He wins for being able to apply logic to reality. To see what the truth is of both history and the reality Obama and his policies have created.

Look around folks. Look at the conservative policies of Reagan. Cut taxes, raised revenue. Freedom for the private sector meant a boom we never saw prior, or since by the way. Look at the conservative and the sane policies of George Bush the first. Look at the sane policies of Clinton when he worked with the Republicans and balanced the budget. Look at the sane policies of George W. Look at the FACT that the Bush Tax Cuts increased revenue to the federal government in record numbers territory. Now look at the Liberal policies of Obama and the Democrats in the Senate. The House as well for two years prior, and what do we get? Decreased revenue, increased debt, record high unemployment, record high foreclosures, record high energy cost which increase the cost of everything.

History tells us the truth. Obama lies. This is why he must attempt to rewrite history. However, his attempt to rewrite history is doing the same exact thing all of his other policies and strategies are doing. Failing.
Peter

Sources:
Newsmax.com: Fred Thompson: Obama Has 'Run Out of Things to Say'

NYC Food Police At It Again

I'll eat what I want. Thank you.

Hey folks,

There are many reasons NOT to live in New York. Especially, New York City. Most have to do with financial reasons. Oppressive taxation has driven out both the average Joe, and the millionaire. You can hardly breath without being taxed. When you are not being taxed, you will have to pay money just to get around New York. Couple that with the way over priced housing market. Hundreds of thousands dollars rent. Million dollar rents. Over priced, well, everything from a pack of smokes to food, to everything else. NYC is not for the less wealthy.

Another reason more and more people are leaving, is one specific reason. One department that is one of the most intrusive in government history. The Food Police. These are those that feel you are too stupid to make good decisions on what you should and should not eat. They feel they need to step in and BAN what they do not like. For your own good of course.

We all know about the stuff they have already ban. Salt, frying oil, hell, NYC Mayor Bloomberg even ban food going to homeless shelters. Well, he picked up the phone again folks. This time, he issued an order to the Food Police, no more Slurpees.

I'm not kidding folks.

The proposed ban would affect virtually the entire menu of popular sugary drinks found in delis, fast-food franchises and even sports arenas, from energy drinks to pre-sweetened iced teas. The sale of any cup or bottle of sweetened drink larger than 16 fluid ounces — about the size of a medium coffee, and smaller than a common soda bottle — would be prohibited under the first-in-the-nation plan, which could take effect as soon as next March. 

Bloomberg, who is in his unconstitutional, and voter rejected third term, actually said this...

“Obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the United States, public health officials are wringing their hands saying, ‘Oh, this is terrible,.’ New York City is not about wringing your hands; it’s about doing something. I think that’s what the public wants the mayor to do.”

You think WRONG Bloomy. The public does NOT want the government dictating to them how to live their lives. They do NOT want the government telling them what they can and can't eat, drink, or anything else. You are WRONG sir. 

When asked if he thought that this would limit the freedom to buy whatever the person wants to buy, he said this... 

“Your argument, I guess, could be that it’s a little less convenient to have to carry two 16-ounce drinks to your seat in the movie theater rather than one 32 ounce,” Mr. Bloomberg said in a sarcastic tone. “I don’t think you can make the case that we’re taking things away.”

You arrogant, liberal, nut job. No wonder they call you Nanny Bloomberg. I hope this IS what people do. If I had a business that sold soda, I would sell two 16 oz for the price of a thirty two. I would simply do a buy one get one free thing. I hope others do the same. It's about time people in NYC stood up and said enough. 

What about the lost business? Oh he thinks it'll be fine. If businesses see a lost in revenue, his answer? Just charge more for smaller drinks. I kid you not. 

Now Bloomy here, has been attacking soda for a while. He tried a state tax on soda, to limit the sale. Much like the cigarette tax. The sane folks in Albany squashed that. Then he tried to say, NO SODA if you are on food stamps. But that failed as well. The feds said, uh, you can't do that. So all this is, is an attempt to limit soda, without having to have sane people get involved.

I have a feeling, sad as it is, that even though this loon is attempting to tell a business like 7-11, that they can not sell one of their signature products, Slurpees, the people in NYC will just lay down and accept it. They have been so conditioned that they will just say OK. 

You want the Food Police knocking on your door, checking your cup size? Go for it. As for me? I'll eat what I want. Thank you. I will drink whatever I want. In whatever size cup I want. The Food Police can kiss my, uh, backsides. And people wonder WHY people are leaving liberal looney controlled states in droves? It's not that hard to understand. It's called freedom.

Peter

Sources:
NYT -  New York Plans to Ban Sale of Big Sizes of Sugary Drinks By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Published: May 30, 2012  

The Free Market Works

In spite of interference, energy production is increasing. Imagine what we COULD do.

Hey folks,
This really is a great piece by Joel Kurtzman. It's in the Wall Street Journal. Now I know, Obama will attempt, and has attempted to take credit for all this. However, just remember this. Moratorium, de-facto Moratorium, increased and oppressive regulations. Slowed Permitting process. Stated goals of bankrupting the coal industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars thrown away on "Green Energy" that has produced nothing. No folks, This increase in energy production is in spite of Obama. Not because of Obama.

But this piece in the Wall Street Journal hit's it right on the head. It IS the free market. That is what has produced all the advancements in natural gas, shale and tar sands oil production, and other areas that are still being worked on. Nothing to do with this administration. The free market.

Those who doubt that market forces still have the power to transform the world aren't paying attention to America's revitalized energy sector.

Revitalized from Obama

Four years ago, oil prices climbed to about $145 a barrel world-wide. The impact on the U.S. economy was devastating. Consumers who paid between $2.50 and $3 for a gallon of gas in 2007 paid as much as $5 a gallon in 2008. For many Americans, the high cost of commuting to and from work meant choosing between paying the mortgage or paying for gas. Many chose the latter.

But eventually prices did what they're supposed to do in a market economy—they prompted the development of new sources of oil as well as oil substitutes. Some companies began drilling new oil wells using new technology including 3D seismic imaging and directional drilling. In 2002, when oil prices were in a trough, there were roughly 800 oil-drilling rigs operating in the U.S. Today, there are roughly 2,000. The last time we had that many rigs drilling for oil was 1985. In addition, energy companies went after and found more offshore oil, and far more "unconventional" oil from shale, tar sands and long-abandoned wells than most people thought possible.

The results of these efforts have been impressive. Since 2008, domestic oil production has increased 12%, while imported oil has fallen to 45% of total consumption from 61%. Four years ago, when prices were high, the U.S. was on track to spend nearly $1 trillion on imported oil each year. Lower prices and falling demand mean we are likely to spend $350 billion this year—still high, but falling.

Not surprisingly, companies also sought opportunities developing cheaper alternatives to oil. Chief among these fuels is natural gas, which is a cleaner fossil fuel than oil and coal. In 2008, estimates were that the U.S. had just 12 years of natural gas reserves left. Plans were being put in place to import liquefied natural gas from the Middle East, perhaps even Russia, to meet future demand.

But high energy prices prompted companies to develop new technologies. Hydraulic fracturing—drilling deep vertical wells then drilling horizontally to release natural gas from shale rock—was perfected. Because of that, natural gas reserves increased dramatically while prices fell. In 2008, natural gas sold for about $12-$14 per thousand cubic feet. Now it sells for about $2 per thousand cubic feet. Instead of supplies lasting only 12 years, there is now sufficient natural gas for at least 100 years.

However, keep in mind that Obama is currently attacking Hydraulic Fracturing. He is trying to slow it down. Administration officials have come right out and said that they think one of the reasons that the green energy market has slowed, non-existent, is because natural gas is just too cheap. With this administration , cheap energy is bad.

Rather than importing natural gas, the U.S. may begin exporting it. Since natural gas is sold in local rather than global markets, price differentials between countries are high. Average futures prices are about $9.50 per thousand cubic feet in Europe and about $16 per thousand feet in Asia, versus $2 in the U.S. Pricing differences this big will make exporting natural gas lucrative, perhaps even balancing our perennially in-the-red trading account.

Right now, natural gas is so abundant and cheap that some worry the U.S. and Canada, which has large reserves north of those in the U.S. Midwest, may soon run out of storage capacity. Some companies have even announced plans to curtail drilling due to falling prices and oversupply.

But here the price-mechanism is again at work. Trucking companies and fleet operators, wanting to take advantage of low natural-gas prices, are looking into converting trucks from diesel to natural gas, cutting their fuel bills by half. Passing the bipartisan Natural Gas Act (HR1380 in the House and S1863 in the Senate) would facilitate and accelerate this process by providing tax credits for the cost of conversion and for building natural-gas fuel stations, increasing demand even further.

This is how the free market works folks. There comes a need. People figure out how to meet the need. In time, if the need is there for "green Energy" someone will figure out how to make it work. In time, they will come up with the new technology, the ability to make it viable, and affordable to all. People will buy it. There will be a shift to it. The government will not have to spend a cent on it. It will just happen. as it IS happening with all these new sources of natural energy now.

High energy prices have transformed the American energy landscape. A study released last December by the Congressional Budget Office indicates that new oil and gas finds, combined with traditional sources of energy, including cheap-but-dirty coal, has transformed the U.S. from an energy has-been to a heavyweight.

According to the CBO, total U.S. energy reserves now exceed those of all other countries, including those in the Middle East. The U.S. is so energy rich there's little to prevent us from achieving energy independence.

Prices more than policy are driving these remarkable changes. Other problems to be fixed, rising CO2 emissions, for example, will also yield to the indomitable pressure of price, if carbon is taxed. While Washington squabbled over which energy direction to take, and which energy bill to kill, the markets moved us in exactly the direction the country should go—toward cheap, plentiful energy.

If carbon is taxed. If the government continues to interfere with the market. If Obama and crew stand in the way, the prices will change course and go up. This is why this is such a great piece. It is telling you the truth. Government control brings prices higher. Free market lowers prices, through innovation and demand. Which way do you think is the most logical way to go? It isn't government control.
Peter

Sources:
The Wall Street Journal - The Market-Driven Energy Revolution by JOEL KURTZMAN

Obama Backed LightSquared Files Bankruptcy

So who cares if it interferes with radar?

Hey folks,

Remember LightSquared? I told you about them...

A new Start Up Company of which Philip Falcone, BIG TIME Obama supporter, Contributor to the Democrat Party, has invested $3 BILLION Dollars in it. What they are attempting to bring to Market is a NEW and CHEAPER 4G Network. Turns out, it interferes with GPS. Not just that little box on your dash, or on your Phone, but also Ships, the Military, Air force, Comical Air Flights, ETC. It actually FRIES their systems.

So of course, in no Sane World, would they be approved of this. Witnesses, like a Four Star Air Force General William Shelton, who oversees Air Force Space Command, would Testify of the FACTS that this is DANGEROUS, and a potential THREAT to National Security, and Life itself. He would be listening to. LightSuared would be denied, and YES, Investors, no matter who they are, would lose out. LightSquared would have to go back to the drawing board. Either FIX it so that it doesn't interfere with GPS, or complete fold and go away.

HOWEVER, as I pointed out to you, Philip Falcone, BIG TIME Obama supporter, Contributor to the Democrat Party, is the Investor with the most to loose. SO? Obama called Four Star Air Force General William Shelton, and told him to CHAGE his Testimony.

But then we learned that there was yet another witness that was told to lie. 

On Monday, a second witness, Anthony Russo, director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing, told The Daily Beast that he too was asked by the OMB to insert the 90-day timeframe into his testimony before the House Science Committee, but he refused. The hearing originally was scheduled for Aug. 3, then rescheduled for Sept. 8.

“They gave that to me and presumably the other witnesses,” he said. “There is one sentence I disagreed with, which said that I thought the testing could be resolved in 90 days. So I took it out.”

Russo said he objected to that language because “I have low confidence that we can complete all of the testing in 90 days.” He estimated that such testing would take at least six months. Russo called the White House efforts to alter his testimony “guidance rather than pressure.”

This is all because, Obama is in bed with Falcone. And Falcone was set to lose $3 billion dollars. That's B as in Billion. So who cares if it interferes with radar? The Democrat Party, and Obama, get a lot of money from this guy. It didn't work. The proposed network was blocked. 

So now?

LightSquared, based in Reston, Virginia, listed assets of $4.48 billion and debt of $2.29 billion as of Feb. 29 in a Chapter 11 filing yesterday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. The filing followed intense negotiations with creditors, who had requested that the company’s backer, Philip Falcone, step aside. Falcone and the current management team will remain with the company, Terry Neal, a LightSquared spokesman, said yesterday.

Bankruptcy “is intended to give LightSquared sufficient breathing room to continue working through the regulatory process that will allow us to build our 4G wireless network,”Chief Financial Officer Marc Montagner said in a statement. Reaching agreements with U.S. agencies may take as long as two years, he said in court papers.

Harbinger Capital Partners, Falcone’s New York-based hedge fund, had invested about $3 billion in LightSquared and owned about 74 percent of it as of Jan. 27.

Falcone also had served on LightSquared’s board. Creditors asked for Falcone’s departure when they gave the company a weeklong extension on April 30 to stave off a default and keep trying to renegotiate its debt, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

LightSquared’s bankruptcy underscored tensions between the Federal Communications Commission and the telecommunications business, which is seeking more flexibility in how it uses airwaves. AT&T Inc. (T) Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson has blamed the FCC for not acting quickly enough to approve the acquisition and use of spectrum, creating a logjam for the industry. 

No it was because there were serious problems. It FRIES GPS systems. Including commercial flights, military flights, and ships. It was going to pose a danger for millions of people and posse a threat to national security. THAT is why it was blocked. And rightfully so.


The issue here is that Obama and his crew didn't care. They wanted witnesses to change their testimony. To lie. To down play the threat. To make it sound as if all is OK. I'm glad this was blocked. It had to be blocked. But now, those that invested in LightSquared are screwed.

Yesterday’s bankruptcy filing wasn’t an “option the company embraced quickly or easily, but it was necessary to protect LightSquared against creditors who were looking for a quick profit,” Falcone said in a statement. “We remain committed to our original mission, and I remain steadfast in my belief that a path forward exists that will satisfy and benefit all constituencies.”

Translation. I'm not losing my money. Trust me. I'll get you yours, uh, sometime. {Laughing} It goes on and on to tell you that that people are pulling out all over the place. Contracts are ending. There is really no new information. There is no fix to the original issue. There was no new plan. There is nothing.

In a sane world, LightSquared needs to either fix the problem, or lose out. Fix the problem or go bye, bye. I have no idea how many jobs will be lost. I know Falcone will lose some of his $3 billion. I know the Democrat Party will most likely loose out on some future campaign funds. But this is the right thing to do.

My only fear is, because Obama and the Democrat Party do stand to loose out on future funds from Falcone, the may attempt to step in here. Perhaps even bail him out with your money. They have done it before. Why not do it again? Right?
Peter

Sources:
The Daily Beast - White House’s Testimony ‘Guidance’
Bloomberg news - LightSquared Files Bankruptcy After Network Blocked By Tiffany Kary and Michael Bathon - May 15, 2012 12:12 AM ET

DLA for Sunday 052012

A Representative that truly represents.

Hey folks,

A government official that gets it? I know, I know. A Representative that truly represents. I know, it's rare. I get it. I understand that you may not believe it. But this is why he wins the Display of Logic Award.

I do not know what happens. I do not know if it's in the water? I do not know if it's all the free money floating around finds it's way into their pockets? I do not know if it's as simple as them wanting to further their careers? I have no idea what it is. Frankly, I do not care.

I'm tired of people, truly good people, that take the step, go out there, get attacked, their families get attacked, and survive the process, only to get in, and disappoint. They just assimilate into the system. They say all the right things when running, only to get in and forget what they said.

Many of these folks, seem so disconnected to reality, it's not even funny. So when one shows a glimmer of still being grounded in reality, it's almost rare. Our Winner are one of these people.

He just said this....

“The EPA is actually trying to shut down steel manufacturing in America.
Their analysis is both technically and scientifically flawed. The remediation and compliance requirements – to put a dome over those facilities – is economically infeasible.

They’ll shut down. We’ll lose 500-plus jobs and America will have to buy manganese from our competitors, like China.

That’s a national security issue, and it’s just another example of how the rhetoric coming out of the White House says one thing, and their actions and policies are doing something different.”

What about all this new growth that Obama and his administration love to take credit for?

“The growth is occurring in spite of the president and vice president and their policies, not because of them."

So why does the federal EPA need to insert itself into a process that’s working very well already?

He's not a kook. He's not saying that he wants the government to get out of the way totally. He is not calling for big companies to be free to do whatever they want..

“I’m all for common-sense regulations, but ‘no’ should not be the final answer for any of these industries,” Johnson said. “That’s not what the American people expect. That’s not what the American people deserve.”

Amen brother. His name is Rep. Bill Johnson, of Ohio. You see, what he is talking about are these new regulations that the EPA just "dictated" these private companies have to succumb to. Once in place, these new regulations could effectively close the nation’s only two makers of manganese ferroalloy, a critical component in steel manufacturing. There are only really TWO. They would both be forced to close. One plant is in Marietta, Ohio. The other, in Letart, W. Va.

He is truly concerned about this. he's right when he said it's a national security issue. We have talked about that in depth in the past. This administration is doing the exact opposite than what they should be doing to get us out of this mess that they, and liberal policies, have put us in.

Congratulations Rep. Bill Johnson. For understanding reality, and having the boldness to stand up and speak the truth, you are the winner of Display of Logic Award, for today, Sunday, May 20th, 2012. Thank you sir for getting the message out there. The more people that hear the truth, the more power the people have. Keep up the good work Sir. We got your back..
Peter

Sources:
Newsmax.com - Ohio Rep. Johnson: EPA Rules Crippling my State

Friday, 18 May 2012 06:12 PM By Todd Beamon and John Bachman

More Natural Resources Than Everywhere, Bad!

Dear Peter

In what should be bombshell news, CNSNews.com is reporting that an expert with the federal government testified before Congress that:

The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined.

In a nation with sky-high gas prices, record long-term unemployment and widespread anxiety about the economy, this should be the biggest news story of the year.  But the fossil-fuel-hating liberal media are SILENT. 

As drilling technology improves, many new oil and gas discoveries have taken place.  Most recently a discovery in North Dakota led to an oil boom that has left that state with a nation leading  3% unemployment rate. While fossil fuels continue to power America and drive prosperity, but the liberal media continue to cheerlead for pie-in-the-sky solar, algae and wind energy federal boondoggles.

Hey folks, 

Happy Friday to ya. Time to check the Emails. You too can be part of the OPNTalk2 Blog, or if you just want to comment, complain, or just say "Hi," the Email is, opntalk@gmail.com.

This is from David Martin from The Media Research Center. It goes on a bit talking about how the Obama State Run Media do not report any of this. He talks about some of the things I have been telling you for years. We DO have more Oil and Natural Gas than EVERYWHERE in the world combined. We do not have to be beholden to anyone for our energy needs. We do not have to have sky high energy costs. 

The piece he points out is by CNS News. Here it is.

(CNSNews.com) - The Green River Formation, a largely vacant area of mostly federal land that covers the territory where Colorado, Utah and Wyoming come together, contains about as much recoverable oil as all the rest the world’s proven reserves combined, an auditor from the Government Accountability Office told Congress on Thursday.

The GAO testimony said that the federal government was in “a unique position to influence the development of oil shale” because the Green River deposits were mostly beneath federal land. It also noted that developing the oil would have an environmental impact and pose “socioeconomic challenges,” that included bringing “a sizable influx of workers who along with their families put additional stress on local infrastructure” and “making planning for growth difficult for local governments.”

{Laughing} Yeah it's there but. BAD, bad, bad... The Environment will be effected. Uh, I can't tell ya how, backing it with any facts, but it's going to be bad. All these new people that get new jobs? And their families? We can't have that. It would be horrible for the local governments. All these people. Bad, bad, bad. Yeah we admit we got the resources, but , uh, we can't use them..Bad, bad, bad..

“The Green River Formation--an assemblage of over 1,000 feet of sedimentary rocks that lie beneath parts of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming--contains the world's largest deposits of oil shale,”Anu K. Mittal, the GAO’s director of natural resources and environment said in written testimony submitted to the House Science Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.

“USGS estimates that the Green River Formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil, and about half of this may be recoverable, depending on available technology and economic conditions,” Mittal testified.

Translation, if the government stays out of the way. "Economic conditions" means oppressive regulations and taxation. If the government allows it at all. 

“The Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, estimates that 30 to 60 percent of the oil shale in the Green River Formation can be recovered,” Mittal told the subcommittee. “At the midpoint of this estimate, almost half of the 3 trillion barrels of oil would be recoverable. This is an amount about equal to the entire world's proven oil reserves.”

In her oral statement before the subcommittee, Mittal said that developing the shale oil would create wealth and jobs for the country, but also challenges for government.

“Being able to tap this vast amount of oil locked within this formation will go a long way to help to meet our future demands for oil. The U.S. Geological Survey, as you noted, estimates that the formation contains about 3 trillion barrels of oil of which half may be recoverable,” she said.

“As you can imagine having the technology to develop this vast energy resource will lead to a number of important socioeconomic benefits including the creation of jobs, increases in wealth and increases in tax and royalty payments for federal and state governments,” she said.

“While large-scale oil-shale development offers socioeconomic opportunities it also poses certain socioeconomic challenges that also should not be overlooked,” she testified. “Oil shale development like other extractive industries can bring a sizable influx of workers who along with their families put additional stressed on local infrastructure. 

Development from expansion of extractive industries has historically followed a boom-and-bust cycle making planning for growth difficult for local governments.”

In her written testimony, Mittal noted that three-fourths of the Green River shale oil is under federal land.

“The federal government is in a unique position to influence the development of oil shale because nearly three-quarters of the oil shale within the Green River Formation lies beneath federal lands managed by the Department of the Interior’s (Interior) Bureau of Land Management (BLM),” she testified.

The GAO also cited potential environmental impacts from producing oil from the Green River shale that included the need to draw large amounts of water, possible harm to water quality, and temporary degradation of air quality and the clearing of large amounts of vegetation.

"Developing oil shale and providing power for oil shale operations and other activities will require large amounts of water and could have significant impacts on the quality and quantity of surface and groundwater resources," Mittal said in her written testimony. "In addition, construction and mining activities during development can temporarily degrade air quality in local areas. There can also be long-term regional increases in air pollutants from oil shale processing and the generation of additional electricity to power oil shale development operations. Oil shale operations will also require the clearing of large surface areas of topsoil and vegetation which can affect wildlife habitat, and the withdrawal of large quantities of surface water which could also negatively impact aquatic life."

And that is how it ends. I checked. There is no page two. So this piece, over at CNS News, By Terence P. Jeffrey, tells us that the resource is there. They admit that it will do what it will do. “As you can imagine having the technology to develop this vast energy resource will lead to a number of important socioeconomic benefits including the creation of jobs, increases in wealth and increases in tax and royalty payments for federal and state governments.”  Yet, it wraps up with what the Environuts will cling on to. Bad, bad, bad. 

Folks, David Martin is right here. With sky high energy prices, the price of everything goes up. People are hurting. Our nation is dependent on ever increasing hostile world powers that do not like us that much to begin with. Unemployment is still record high. Here is a solution to many of our problems. Yet? The Media? Silent. 

The media have a responsibility to report the facts and keep Americans informed about major policy developments. But they don’t.  Instead the media push the radical agenda of leftist environmentalists and socialist politicians.


They are desperate to prevent Americans from learning the truth about the Obama Administration’s war on oil and coal industry.


CNSNews.com’s bombshell report should be on the front pages of every major newspaper. Instead, the media are covering it up.

Yup. But it will not be. Now, you know me. I do not tell you folks what to do. But David and the folks over at MRC have a petition that you can sign if you chose to. Click HERE to sign it. We have always known that the media leans left. In today's terminology leans "Forward." But we have never seen anything like this. With this President, the mainstream media willingly ignores, lies, and covers up for, this administration. They even go so far as to attack private citizens on orders by this administration. So David, it's no surprise that they are not reporting this. 


Have a GREAT Weekend folks. See you Sunday...
Peter

NJ Tries to Rescue Nonexistent Market for Solar Incentives

Here is something you never hear about the Oil Industry.

Hey folks,

Happy Tuesday to ya. Hope your week started out good. May you have a great rest of week. I'm going to try to. Since it is Tuesday, it's time to check in at the Energy Front. Lets talk about Oil. Oil Company ABC sets out to explore. They say to the government, "We want to explore X" The government says sure, pay us this amount, do environmental studies on the exploration process. They spend hundreds of millions. They find an area that they feel possesses enough Oil to make it worth the expense to attempt to drill.

They then go to the government, say, "We found a possible Oil reserve in location X." The government then says OK. For this amount, you can do more environmental studies, pay for permits, etc. Oil Company ABC pays the government more. They drill or use other means of extraction. If they are lucky, they were right, and they get oil, natural gas, etc.

Then they ship the oil or natural gas to refineries. Refine it. Then ship it out to market. Now we are talking about them spending billions. In some cases, hundreds of billions. If there is no oil? Company ABC loses out on all that invested money. If there is, people buy it. People then pay the government money {Taxes} to use it. As well as the Oil Company ABC pays government taxes on the entire process.

So Oil Company ABC spends billions. Makes billions if there is enough product. The government makes billions, regardless, for doing nothing. Then some want to call "Big Oil" recipients of "windfall profits" when truth is, the only ones receiving windfall profits IS the government.

So what is NOT in the example of what you just read? Government using your money to prop up Oil Company ABC. They either make money, or they lose money. But YOU have nothing to do with the process.

Now we have talked about the "Green Energy Market" or the lack of a market, plenty of times. We have talked about how this administration has spent billions of YOUR money on these "Green Companies" only to have them line the pockets of their executives and then fire people and go out of business. They produce nothing.

We have talked about this dynamic before as well. If I make product F, no one buys it, I go bye, bye. It doesn't maker how much someone gives me. They could give me a billion dollars. I could make billions of product Fs. However, that money will run out, and even if a have a warehouse full of Fs, if no one buys them, I still have no choice that to either accept more free money, or go out of business.

So lets talk about NJ.

The market that New Jersey officials set up to subsidize solar energy needs a rescue or there will be disastrous layoffs in the industry, business leaders, politicians and regulators say.

Those in the industry say if the government doesn’t step in to raise subsidy prices paid to solar panel owners, a bust in the market will kill jobs created in the last few years as New Jersey’s solar capacity has more than doubled, putting the state second only to California.

That market works because electric companies must buy solar credits, called SRECs, from panel owners, or produce their own solar power.

But SREC prices dropped dramatically in the last year after a boom in solar panels produced a glut of the solar credits, which are traded on a market.

The credits, once valued at over $600 each, cost a little over $100 on the spot market last week, according to Flett Exchange.

"Many, many jobs being lost, many good companies going out of business, and we don’t know why," warned Lyle Rawlings, head of the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association, which represents more than 100 companies in New Jersey. 

Wait. read that again? "Many, many jobs being lost, many good companies going out of business, and we don’t know why,"  Really? There is no market for it. Most either can not afford the start up cost to install these panels, or they do not want to. You do not know why? Seriously? If it was not for the tax payer money, these companies would have gone out of business long ago. Well, if not for tax payer money and government interference in the free market.

Now some in NJ want more. They want to use money of your money, interfere more in the free market, and prop up these companies even more. They do this with the hope, that one day, these will actually be viable on their own. Problem is, we are nowhere near this day coming. There is simply no real demand. There is no market.

Think about this also. The more people buy something, the cheaper it gets. Look at Phones. New Phone comes out it between $500 to a thousand bucks. Some will go out and pay that. Others than either can't or won't, will sit back and wait.  In a couple of months, they will go buy the same phone for $100 bucks. If you sell a product for $10.00 and you sell 100. You make a grand. If I can find a way to sell it for $5.00, I sell a thousand, you get the point.

So there was this "boom" in NJ. A "boom" of people buying into the whole solar thing. Don't be misled here, there really is not that many. But there was enough to drop the price of the credits from $600 to $100. However, they are not happy with this. They want to artificially inflate the price. Or force energy companies to buy more. Do you think this will help or hurt the nonexistent market place?

So to recap, Oil, Natural Gas, and yes, even Coal, stand on their own. They INCREASE Jobs. INCREASE National Security. INCREASE Revenue. Decrease costs of all for all. All this without a dime of your money, until you buy the product. "Green Energy?" Hundreds of billions of your money, that produce nothing. A handful of homes? Maybe? That hundreds of billions are lost. Jobs are lost. National Security is weakened. Revenue is lost. And the cost on everything continues to remain high. So what is the answer here?
Peter

Sources:
NJ.com - State officials look for path to rescue market for solar incentives Published: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 9:30 AM  By Eliot Caroom/The Star-Ledger

Scott Upset With Pink Slime Article

So am I wrong here? Or is this the free market at work?


Hey folks, 


I just re-posted a post I originally posted on the old Blog on March 28th. It was the last of the Pink Slime updates. At least so far. Scott, left a message on the original post that begs a response from me. So instead of posting a response in a jumbled one paragraph mess, and because I really hope he is not a hit and run poster, I figured why not bring the conversation here. So I just posted the original post, complete with the link to the original comment, and now will respond to Scott in a proper fashion.


Scott has left a new comment on your post "Pink Slime Update, Plants Close, Company Blames YO...": 

Honestly, your view on this is pretty sad. My mindset on the pink slime case comes pretty close to the BPI company line. Beef is beef, meat is meat, and pink slime is both. But that's not the point up for debate.

The ABC reports--hell, all reporting on this, including yours--have stilted the issue to make it sound like BPI was intending to scam us. Like ANY company, they needed to be profitable, and using these scraps meant more profit. It also meant cheaper meat, more jobs, etc.

Here is my problem with this Scott. It's NOT beef is beef. It's NOT meat is meat. It IS scraps, tendons, and garbage, that by all rights should be thrown out. Or, as we learned, has been used for years in the making of dog food. As a matter of fact, it is the same process that they use to make dog food, to make the Pink Slime for beef extensions.

I also have no problem with the company attempting to increase profitability. But if they believe in the product so much, then why not simply tell us. Why not label the product? Educate the public in the benefits of the product. "Healthier than pure beef" ETC? Why label it 90 percent lean beef? Now we know why. It's not beef. It's Pink Slime processed garbage. Why do you think that the public was so outraged when they actually learned this?

The ABC report calls the former USDA officials whistle blowers, but I don't think that term applies when what BPI was doing was completely legal, completely within the constraints of the USDA and FDA and, finally, completely safe.

Which only really means that they can get away with it. Doesn't mean it is true or right. You know as well as I do, just how little the USDA and the FDA ACTUALLY inspect. We are learning even more about that with all the salmonella outbreaks. Nothing to do with Pink Slime. Please do not mis-interpret what I'm saying.

There is no adverse health effect to pink slime--it is SAFER than regular ground beef. The food tastes no different or it wouldn't have taken an news report to tell us about it. And if you think pink slime is disgusting, consider reading the ingredients of many of the foods americans love. Anything containing "mechanically separated meat" is the same thing as pink slime. Hot dogs, bologna, etc, all use this mechanically separated meat.

Oh I know. Chicken Nuggets as well. That was also big news for a time.I do understand what you are saying though. Most people do NOT take the time to check out the facts about what they are eating. They assume the label "90 percent lean beef" or "Organic" or "Free Range" is better, and they are willing to pay more. Again, it doesn't mean it's the truth. I'm with ya on this one. It truly is amazing how processed our food really is. More on this in a second.

So ABC presents the public with a news report that could have done NOTHING but cause an uproar. Their report was the beginning of a targeted campaign to cause a public uproar and slander a company. The american public, apparently unaware of how processed their food is in general, bites and goes into an uproar.

So do you actually believe that ABC, and the others that followed up on ABC's report, did so with the sole intent of attacking and the slander of BPI? That there is no other reason why they did this? Why? What does ABC have against BPI? What would be their motive or reasoning. What did BPI do to ABC? I never heard of them until this whole Pink Slime thing. I couldn't care less if they exist or not. They are just like any company out there. They make a product, if the product sells, they make profit and hire people, if not, they go away. 

So yes, it is OUR fault that those factories are going out of business. Instead of doing research, reading unbiased sources and thinking for ourselves, we let Diane Sawyer and ABC tell us what we don't like. Now hundreds of people are out of a job.

Seriously, if pink slime bothers you, read into how the ingredients in 90% of the food in our supermarkets end up at your table. You won't be able to eat again.

OK. I have a company that sells something. I make say a million units. I put it out there. People buy it. I make more. People buy the more, I grow, hire more people, make more units. If it doesn't sell, I go out of business. Problem is, if I lie to the public, and tell them my product is something it's not, and people find out about it, then people have a right to get mad, and stop buying it.Say I have a Tobacco Company. I lie to the public for years that my product is safe. Someone tells the truth and over night, people quit smoking and stop buying my product. Is it the public, or the one that said it's not safe, to blame? Or is it my fault for lying about my product?

P.S. I will laugh so hard if you moderate this. 

Not only did I not moderate this, I made it a main article and a big part of the Sunday Edition. So what say you? Do you really want to have a conversation about this? Here you go. If YOU folks want to have an opportunity to insert your two cents, feel free to comment here, or as always, the Email is opntalk@gmail.com. Am I wrong here? Or is this simply the free market at work? 
Peter