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February 1, 2011
NO FREE PRESS = NO FREEDOM
Questions that Americans should be asking as a new decade begins are (1) is America a “free country” and (2) is there a “free press” in our nation today? Unfortunately, the answer to both of these profound questions is a resounding NO! Instead of a “free country” we have become a nation of burdensome and suffocating rules and regulations, the vast majority of which fly squarely in the face of the U.S. Constitution.
By literal definition, America has devolved into a defacto police state wherein the principles of individual liberty have become subordinated to the interest of the collective at every turn. With the passing of each year we have witnessed the systematic dismantling of the basic freedoms and liberties which have, historically, been taken for granted in our nation. Through a variety of mechanisms and manipulations, we have become increasingly subjected to a contrived and distorted perspective that has spawned the impression that statist trends, in general, are both necessary and in the best interest of all. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth!
Alarmingly, we now find ourselves staring into a hopeless chasm of Orwellian new speak and heavy handed policy, the net result of which has led us to what seems to be the point of no return. How can we ever turn back the hands of time and put the monster of oppressive government back in the Constitutional cage where it belongs? Lord Acton said it so well when he stated that “power corrupts” and “absolute power corrupts absolutely.” George Washington manifested the ultimate in wisdom when he said that “Government is not reason, it is not eloquence…it is force. Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” Indeed…the state in modern America has assumed God-like status and powers and has become utterly perfected in its embodiment of hypocrisy, abusiveness, and corruption.
Central to the problem of our rapidly disappearing liberty is the fact that for many years there has been no functioning free press in America. The print and broadcast media have served as abject accomplices in the ongoing campaign to brainwash and control the American people. Sprawling communications empires are nothing more than crass vehicles of mind control which perform ceaselessly and energetically in the interest of perpetuating the status quo or what some consider to be the “party line.” The wise American founders understood that freedom of the press ranked right along side of religious freedom and freedom of speech as cornerstones of true and genuine liberty.
For generations, Americans have been oblivious to the fact that the media functions as a tool of manipulation and control in the hands of a monied, oligarchic elite. In contemporary America the public has been “dumbed down” to the point of stunning ignorance and lack of common sense! The average person today is so thoroughly captivated and distracted by meaningless forms of diversion and entertainment that they are woefully incapable of understanding the broader and weightier philosophical concepts upon which the American republic was originally established.
In John 8:32 Jesus stated that the truth sets men free. It has been observed that “none are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” Americans falsely believe themselves to be free when all around them the walls of statist tyranny are being erected and fortified. Only the truth will suffice to emancipate well intentioned individuals from the dreadful lies they have been subverted into believing. That truth, of course, must be heralded and proclaimed through the age old mechanism of a free press. If such a vehicle and engine of liberation (i.e., a genuine free press) does not soon emerge, we will find ourselves hopelessly and permanently enslaved by the false god of big government, and all the mindless lackeys who dutifully perform the daily exercises that are necessary to effect and maintain the oppression and enslavement of their fellow man.
May 27, 2010
Will America Resort to ‘Nuking’ Gulf Oil Spill?
By Victor Thorn - American Free Press Issue 22 May 31 2010
Is detonating a nuclear device to shift our planet’s tectonic plates the only way to seal a spewing oil fissure 5,000 feet beneath the ocean surface? Incredibly, on May 12 science writer Jeremy Hus broached this topic: “Using a nuclear explosion to plug the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico might sound like overkill, but a Russian newspaper has suggested just that based on past Soviet successes.Read More
May 27, 2010
The Oil Solution Under Our Feet; the Opportunity Under Our Noses
By Mark Anderson - American Free Press Issue 22 May 31, 2010
Major oil deposits are right under our feet, not just off the coasts such as in the Gulf of Mexico, where a British Petroleum rig spewing crude oil into the water may be used as an excuse to suggest that our domestic oil options are limited to offshore rigs that carry more risks than other sources. Perhaps someone should tell President Obama.
There are numerous land-based oilrigs, owned by individuals and small companies, throughout America. However, the lesser-known but huge oil finds are the Bakken Formation, a shale-oil deposit where North Dakota meets eastern Montana and the nearby Canadian provinces; and Gull Island near Alaska’s North Slope. Let’s revisit the Bakken Formation.
AMERICAN FREE PRESS has reported on the Bakken (and Gull Island) before, including during 2008, when oil prices spiked and the economy sputtered. The Bakken oil deposit is estimated to be at least twice the size of Saudi Arabia’s Ghawar oil field.
The real lesson from the Gulf of Mexico “leak” is the need for a populist economic revival, based partly on an energy initiative involving much greater access to both the Bakken and Gull Island deposits and an easing of some regulations and a boost in activity regarding slant drilling on the Great Lakes and other lakes. Oil wells and plant sources of biofuels owned by families and small companies across America also could contribute.
We must move away from corporate monopoly of energy production.
Most American media continue to sidestep such a clear solution of getting oil from better, safer sources with far less favoritism toward companies like British Petroleum that represent the corporate culture that has ransacked the U.S. economy. On April 10, 2008, the year that crude oil jumped to more than $140 per barrel, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) press release was headlined, “3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate.”
Recall, this was when gasoline was costing motorists around $4 per gallon, while diesel was hitting $5 a gallon, sidelining independent trucking firms.Why wasn’t the Bakken Formation frequent front-page news?
The USGS assessment “shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency’s 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil,” the release clarified.
Briefly, the Bakken Formation is a shale-oil formation that has five distinct sections, or “continuous assessment units.” Notably, “technically recoverable” means oil that can be extracted with current technology.
The USGS also says the Bakken Formation estimate “is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the contiguous 48 states and is the largest ‘continuous’ oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS, which means the oil is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing ‘as discrete, localized occurrences.’ The next largest continuous oil accumulation in the United States is in the ‘Austin Chalk’ of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil.”
The USGS also says its estimate of 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil “has a mean value of 3.65 billion barrels.”
A grassroots initiative for reasonable energy independence based on much more domestic oil extraction and processing, from a variety of sources, would be supplemented with increased use of natural gas and biofuels, as well as ethanol that does not always have to be corn-based—to make sure enough corn is used for food. As is the case with untapped crude, there are gargantuan natural gas deposits just sitting there, representing work to be done, pay to be earned, homes to be bought, foreclosures to be prevented and families to be saved.
May 14, 2010
The Real Pensacola Tea Party?
by Rick Tyler
Independent News publisher Rick Outzen has been in high gear since the occurrence of the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf. In his customary fashion he has been providing timely analysis and commentary concerning this major news event on his daily blog and has now made a searing critique of BP the focus of the May 13 issue of the Independent News. Of particular interest is Outzen’s clever piece entitled ‘The Real Pensacola Tea Party.’ In this editorial article Outzen equates contemporary oil giant BP with the East India Company of the Revolutionary era. Interesting parallels are drawn between the two commercial titans despite the fact that 200+ years separate them on the historical timeline. With all due respect to Mr. Outzen and his refreshing investigative approach to reporting the news, we would submit that the principle villain in the unfolding circumstances of a nation in the throes of upheaval and uncertainty regarding her future stability and prosperity is not a private corporation, regardless of how sprawling its influence and outreach. BP is a massive entity and it has certainly been guilty of gross negligence and malfeasance in matters pertaining to safety and environmental safeguards. Its crimes and offenses, however, pale into insignificance compared to the abuses and usurpations that are the stock and trade of big, runaway government. Indeed, it was the British crown and her new world governmental subsidiaries that the colonists were lashing out at in the instances of the Boston Tea Party and other related events. Big and abusive government will always steamroll over the rights and liberties of the populace if not held in check by vigilant oversight. King George III installed his lackey puppet rulers and propped up their illicit rule with the murderous power of the hated redcoats, just as the feds do today in a more subtle yet equally oppressive manner.
Mr. Outzen is obvious in his contempt for the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Fox News. He clearly doesn’t resonate with their brand of politics and takes issue with their assessment that Barak Obama and the Democrat controlled congress are the “oppressor” in modern America. Instead, he sees British Petroleum as the dastardly force that America needs to be concerned about. As evidence of this unsavory status, Mr. Outzen references the fact that BP has been culpable in the deaths of two dozen Americans since 2005, and that they have “had a hand in two of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history: Exxon Valdez and Deepwater Horizon.”
BP and other multinational corporations are a symptom of a much larger problem as are the intellectual prostitutes that dominate AM talk radio, never daring to expose the diabolical machinations of a globalist cabal that controls both sides of the spectrum in American politics. Our nation and world have long been drifting toward a corporate, fascist modality and in the process of this steadily evolving trend, our Constitutional republic has been sacrificed on the altar of financial enrichment and technological advancement. Government uses mega corporations to do the dirty work of the planetary economic re-alignment that is essential for the emergence of a global superstate. At the same time that it spawns and sanctions all manner of pollution causing activities, government hypocritically masquerades as a protector and guardian of the environment. Ultra pervasive regulations and controls are foisted upon the nation’s producers and innovators…all in the name of fighting on behalf of the environment. Each step of the way the state amasses ever greater control over business, industry, and the individual.
Offshore drilling need not be life threatening nor a danger to the environment. In fact, it is entirely possible that this latest “disaster” has been contrived for the purpose of achieving not so subtle ulterior dialectic goals. The environmental movement, which as Outzen points out began in earnest in 1962, is much like the “civil rights” crusade led by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. New atrocities must transpire on a regular basis so as to maintain and perpetuate the relevancy and perceived need for the would be savior of humanity.
Pensacola, and the rest of the nation, need a real tea party predicated upon the principles that our forefathers bled and died for. The current BP disaster is but a symptom of a much larger problem…that of corrupt and criminal government that refuses to abide by the Constitution. When we get around to solving that element of the equation it will be a relatively simple proposition to reign in the corporate entities such as BP who presently enjoy a form of immunity from bona fide accountability.
Instead of lashing out at BP and its CEO, Pensacolans would do far more good by telling the oppressive federal government to back off and obey the Constitution they have sworn to uphold…or else face the severest of consequences at the hand of an irate and indignant people. All the while, of course, BP and its irresponsible cohorts should be held accountable and forced through litigation to pay the just penalty for the damages and injuries they have spawned.