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No Possible Relevance Media
The greatest environmental catastrophe and resource crisis in human history is about to crash down on our heads. What is CNN talking about? Missing airplanes and dead celebrities. What is the New York Times talking about? Illegal alien children are cute–let’s give ‘em amnesty. What is NPR (No Possible Relevance Radio) talking about? The usual harebrained multicultural gibberish they always talk about. To wit: whether the matriculation policies at Mills College are favorable to the transgendered.
Let’s speak plainly. Melting ice caps. Peak oil, peak water, peak rare earths. Everything’s getting scarce. 90% of all the ocean’s pelagic fish gone. Unchecked deforestation from Madagascar to Indonesia to Nicaragua. Desertification. Overpopulation. A financial system held together by baling wire and duct tape. Etc.
We’re on the brink folks. Do you get it?
The media certainly doesn’t. If it did CNN wouldn’t be talking about dead plastic-faced celebrities and whether the name of an east coast NFL franchise is offensive to native Americans. No fucking relevance whatsoever to what ails us and the challenges we face. What they should be talking about is what’s going to happen to western civilization when the oil and all the other resources run out. That should be broadcast 24×7 along with some kind of strategy for scaling down civilization and transitioning to a sustainable world. Even a really bad adaptation strategy would be welcome. But no. Instead what we get is the Erin Burnett pituitary retard crap dispensary.
24 Comments on "No Possible Relevance Media"
shortonoil on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 1:40 pm
This is a re-post from a couple of days ago.
“Ghana to Double Oil Production by 2017”
This is a very good example of the propaganda now being elicited by the financial press. Ghana is at the center of the worse epidemic that the world has witnessed in over 500 years. Ebola is now ravaging Central West Africa, and the WHO has declared it out of control in that region. Because of its exponential growth rate, and poorly understood transmission methods there is every possibility that Ghana may not even be a recognizable civilization by 2017. But Bloomberg in their madness to prove that all is doing just fine on the BAU front is publishing that a nation that very likely to be completely emaciated over the next year is going to increase its oil production. The world’s press has now gone into completely cognitive disconnect mode!
forbin on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 2:21 pm
is anyone at all surprised at what MSM pumps out over here or over there?
Its entertainment folks!
bread and circuses : panem et circenses
old as civilization itself
Forbin
shortonoil on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 3:09 pm
“is anyone at all surprised at what MSM pumps out over here or over there?”
It appears to have mutated into something much more nefarious than that; it is now a bought, and paid for propaganda machine for anyone willing to pay the toll. Big pharm, big oil, big government. It plays on one of our most basic instincts; the desire to mimic. We see a house in the burbs with two dogs, and a manicured yard; we want one. We see a smiling woman taking the latest XYZ rat poison; we want some. We are told the government is our best friend; we believe it. The best thing one can do is to take out their TV, and have it recycled into something more useful. Something like paper clips. Paper clips have some margin of socially redeeming value.
MSN Fanboy on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 4:08 pm
LOL
The sad fact is youre both correct.
Well look on the bright side, when peak etc… does happen these people will be dead.
but think of what youll miss!
NO MORE KIM KARDASHIAN
NO MORE CELEBRITY NEWS
NO MORE CABBAGE TELEVISION, that creates drones who mimic CABBAGES
NO more multiculturalism, And being accused of Rascism if you disagree.
NO MORE Goverment
NO MORE MEANINGLESS AND POINTLESS JOBS WHICH LEAD TO NOWHERE WHILE THE OWNERS PROFIT FROM YOURE WORK.
WAIT A SECOND…..
I CANT FUCKING WAIT
MSN Fanboy on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 4:12 pm
I do truely hope we fail in an “epic” manner of speaking.
Its nothing less than we deserve
Welch on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 4:14 pm
Agree with you all. MSM is a business. The average person laps up this crap. The best way to learn about the world is to read good books by experts in their respective fields. As for most current events–who really cares? Most of what is happening around the world is depressing and one can’t really do anything to change it anyway. F**ck it.
Plantagenet on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 4:17 pm
Surveys show that 90+ of the media are democrats. Why is anyone surprised at the banality and irrelevance of their reporting.
Kenz300 on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 4:34 pm
Murdoch and his media empire is the propaganda arm of the RepubliCON party and the top 1%. Cheerleaders for the fossil fuel and nuclear industries.
Faux Noise never saw a story that they could not distort.
Faux noise is where the truth goes to die.
Davy on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 5:10 pm
I can’t stomach MSM. I can’t stomach most satalite channels. Modern American malls are surreal. I am becoming a hermit living in the country. I can’t take too much of the insanity of the modern world. I wish I could go offline but that is hard on my family. In any case the collapse will pull the plug so I can wait a few years for a true spirituality to return
Makati1 on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 8:10 pm
I watched a US news program over the weekend for the first time in a decade. I had trouble not laughing or getting angry. 99.99% was disguised ads, misinformation, or pure BS.
I know Davy is going to jump on this, but, Philippine news is still real news. Yes, they have ads, but they are ads, not ads disguised as news. They talk about the government trials, the bad Manila traffic, accidents, storms, etc. News here is still relatively free to say what they want. Being the President or a Congressperson does not protect you from being reported on both positive or negative in detail.
If you remember Edward R. Murrow in the US after WW2, you remember real reporting. Or Paul Harvey, of “The rest of the story” fame. Or a few others that reported the news, and not the spin. Not saying that there was none. Obviously, about the war, there was spin, but it was not as blatant as today.
But then, the Empire is gasping it’s last breath…
Chris Hill on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 9:53 pm
Yes, it is entertainment. Also, true news costs money to report and is d***ed depressing, that doesn’t sell stuff.
Every month I wonder why I pay the satellite TV bill. If it wasn’t for a couple shows on RFD TV and the music channels, I’d have cut it long ago.
It is a shame we can’t have a real news network anymore.
GregT on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 10:44 pm
For the most part, I stopped watching the idiot box 25 years ago, after taking courses in advertising and communications. The ‘programming’ became crystal clear after that. I do have an OTA HD antenna, and receive 8 HD channels for free, but I seldom watch TV unless something important breaks. Even then, I find the MSM sensationalizes, or downright lies about events to promote agendas.
The days of a free press in North America, are long gone.
synapsid on Sun, 7th Sep 2014 10:57 pm
MSN Fanboy,
Don’t forget
NO MORE WORLDWIDE WEB
Perk Earl on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 2:47 am
When I worked on the offshore rigs, namely the BP-40’s off of Aberdeen in 1979-80, their regular newspapers had nothing but tabloid news. I asked where the regular papers were and they said that’s it. I was aghast. What had happened to that culture to end up that way?
Then of course later on it happened here in the US, first in magazines then on MSM. They talk about who’s pregnant and who is getting married. That kind of stuff means nothing to me. What can it possibly mean to people to find out Scarlett Johanssen just had a baby girl. Who cares? Is that really our business in first place? Should I contact her with our family business? Oh Scarlett, our Aunt just got a dog!
I’ve noticed something lately and I wondered if anybody else has noticed it. It seems in the past year or so people have gotten into a worse mental disposition. I mean out in public on the highways, in the Walmarts, the Safeways. I can’t figure out what might have changed this past year, but it’s either local to this area or happening in other areas as well.
antiwarforever on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 4:05 am
And now the US is provoking Russia with naval maneuvers in the Black sea (it’s the same thing as if Russia made naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico) and the sheep instead of demonstrating against the hawks like during the Vietnam war are totally brainwashed and keep bleating “beee beeee”…
Norm on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 5:46 am
The sheeple are all ugly fat & stupid now. They chew their monsanto food products and smoke their legalized pot.
Such turds aren’t capable of sitting in a chair and listening intelligently to Walter Cronkite. So even if you could bring Walter back, the modern retards won’t listen to him.
Fortunately anybody with a brain can find real info on the internet.
Wont it be funny when the fat stupid sheeple find out there aren’t gonna be corn chips & gasoline anymore. Problem is get away from them, cause they will want to take you with them (to the afterlife).
Davy on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 8:14 am
We here generally have brains and big brains (at least we humor ourselves we do) “And” Berry Goldwater said something to the effect “God created us all the same but that is where it ends” Let’s not forget the masses have always been sheeple. If we were smart we would be sheeple in a simple pure existence with the basics covered and be ignorant of our PO discussion in bliss. Sometimes I wish I were just a simple dirt poor farmer raising cattle with a good wife and a couple of kids to help around the farm.
Steve O on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 8:29 am
Bread and circuses. The media keeps the people distracted and divided while the corporate structure keeps the cheap beer and corn based starch flowing.
Business as usual all the way to the end.
GregT on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 12:10 pm
Perk said:
“I’ve noticed something lately and I wondered if anybody else has noticed it. It seems in the past year or so people have gotten into a worse mental disposition.”
I’ve also noticed the same, people are becoming more aggressive, and even more idiotic. I am finding that in my day to day dealings with people, interactions continue to make less and less sense.
Like everything is rising to a crescendo…..
Northwest Resident on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 12:28 pm
We see in many cases how an individual, faced with certain suffering ending in death, will become delusional — he will lose his fucking mind.
We see this happening to our culture, to our civilization. This current version of civilization is faced with certain death and is currently enduring the suffering that will ultimately conclude in that certain death. As a result, we witness our entire civilization going full retard delusional, losing “its” fucking mind, and so don’t be surprised that many of the people who are part of that civilization follow suit.
Perk Earl on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 12:31 pm
Thanks for relating your experience as well, GregT, as I was hoping it wasn’t just local to this area or my own viewpoint. Yes, more aggressive & idiotic. It’s like they are beginning to not care so much about the impact of their interactions with others, with a sort of cold, detached stare pervading. I imagine this will only get worse until such point people are playing bumper cars and opening fire, or as you refer to it a crescendo.
Perk Earl on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 1:52 pm
Speaking of mind washing by MSM, here’s a sideline conspiracy theory of my own: For those of you still watching NFL games on TV, have you noticed those annoying sub-liminals they sling at the screen using NFL and team insignias?
They started about 3 seasons ago – at the start of a replay they sling a team or NFL insignia really fast at the screen, then it disappears as fast as it was initially slung, and then at the end of that same replay they have it go in reverse. So fast the conscious mind cannot fully process what it just sort of saw. A special effect I assert is to tattoo the sub-conscious brains of fans. (I know when they are going to do this and look away, but I think most people just stare at them). As evidence of this the throngs of NFL fans in the first opening game of the season this year between Seattle & Green Bay had tickets selling (in the secondary market) at a much higher price than ever before for an opening day game. And in spite of difficult financial times these stadiums are sold out.
I think if the US went to war, they could claim the enemy was intent of eliminating the NFL and fans by the millions would come forward to risk life and limb to insure, to perpetuate those sub-liminals crashing into their brains. They have been indoctrinated – the NFL now completely owns them like automatrons.
So it wasn’t good enough to grow into a multi-billion dollar business they felt so greedy they needed to seek out ways to inject themselves into the deeper regions of the brains of fans. How sick is that?!
Stephen on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 8:26 pm
I think we will have a crisis in which the rich won’t get richer, but they will find their stocks collapsing due to a supply line failure on a massive scale. The media is not reporting this, partially because of its ownership, and partially because they are unaware of the scale of the problems. If humanity wants to find solutions, they will have to bring people other than the corporate elite to the barganing table and look for priorities other than more profits or economic growth, but HOW TO SURVIVE NEGATIVE GROWTH AND USE LESS OF EVERYTHING.
Makati1 on Mon, 8th Sep 2014 11:26 pm
GregT, try living in a different country and then coming back to the US for a two week visit every year. The negative changes are staggering. More pot holes in the interstates, higher fees, higher food prices, grumpier people in the stores, etc. When my mom passes (she is 88) I will likely never return to the land of the drugged and the home of the slave. I don’t miss any of it.