[Gandalf_the_White]

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008 ... 8626t0.asp

This article suggests there are currently lines at the pump in Australia.

I just saw a spot on The News Hour suggesting that the Pentagon has been running psyops against our own country to grease the skids for Iraq and the program is ongoing.

Can someone tell me why the American Media does not cover a gas shortage in Australia, would'nt there seem to be an obvious connection when another industrialized nation is running low on fuel.

Do you guys believe we are being psyop'ed?

[TT]

Hi Gandolf

We do seem to have a fuel shortage in Aussie at the moment, but no one seems to be noticing.

I live in eastern Victoria.

About a month ago Bairnsdale - a town of about 50,000 right on the main highway between Victoria and NSW - was completely out of fuel. The next day they got some supplies. A few weeks ago the only two service stations were completely out od fuel. We were all told to come back tomorrow after 11.00am as they would be getting 3000 litres then. About a week ago I was passing through Traralgon - a town of about 20,000 right on the Princes Highway - and the whole town was completely out of diesel.

The shortages seem to move around the state. First one town out and then another. Never the same town twice in a row.

No one seems to care much. It's like they don't realise that this could get worse. I'm not hearing anything about this on the news or radio. People are whinging about prices, but not a mention of no petrol in this town or that. I truly don't know the reason our supplies are so low. I really didn't think that we would have petrol shortages so soon.

Prices here are increasing on an almost daily basis. We are now paying $1.55 per litre for unleaded petrol and nearly $1.70 for diesel. About 6 weeks ago it was about $1.30 for unleaded.

I haven't seen lines at service stations, just a lot of service stations with signs saying "out of diesel" or "out of unleaded".

We haven't had the rice shortages the USA has. The food sotres here seem to be well supplied, but the fuel situation has me a little spooked.

[Jack]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gandalf_the_White', '
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Can someone tell me why the American Media does not cover a gas shortage in Australia, wouldn't there seem to be an obvious connection when another industrialized nation is running low on fuel.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gandalf_the_White', '
')Do you guys believe we are being psyop'ed?

[Kaj]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jack', '
')Yes - but not in the way you mean. Advertising is carefully managed to control us. I've been reading a delightful little volume titled "Propaganda" by Edward Bernays, still in print, but originally from 1928. It is well worth reading.

[Ferretlover]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gandalf_the_White', ' ')Do you guys believe we are being psyop'ed?

[mercurygirl]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gandalf_the_White', 'D')o you guys believe we are being psyop'ed?

[DrBang]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his article suggests there are currently lines at the pump in Australia.

[Plantagenet]

I don't think occasional closings of gas stations in Australia is important enough to make the news in the US. Australia is a looooong way from New York and the east coast, where all the US media is headquartered

In contrast, the shutdown of a refinery in England and potential gas shortages there are getting lots of coverage in the US media. England is always well covered in the US media.

[Tyler_JC]

Would the Australian press cover fuel shortages in North Dakota?

It's just not important enough for the US media to bother with.

No one in the US media market cares and they won't buy a newspaper that has a headline of "some gas stations 10,000 miles away ran out of fuel for a few days".

Mass rioting in the streets? That might get our attention.

[Kingcoal]

Actually, we don't get very much news from down under. For that matter, we don't get much news about Europe either. Having satilite TV and the internet, I can get all the news I want from anywhere, however. It's just that Americans on the street tend to be very provincial If they don't think it affects them, they don't care about it.

[TT]

Even the Aussie press is not covering this. Obviously its not important enough even here. Aussies remain oblivious to fuel shortages.

Fat chance of hearing about it in USA/UK

[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I') don't think occasional closings of gas stations in Australia is important enough to make the news in the US. Australia is a looooong way from New York and the east coast, where all the US media is headquartered

In contrast, the shutdown of a refinery in England and potential gas shortages there are getting lots of coverage in the US media. England is always well covered in the US media.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '
')If an entity had good motives, modern advertising could be a tremendous force for good.