The news is bad. We have precious little time to reverse the process/Parsing the (Very) Bad News

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The news is bad. We have precious little time to reverse the process

Parsing the (Very) Bad News

 By Alan Caruba  Sunday, December
26, 2010

The dictionary says “parse” means to break down into component parts of
speech with an analysis of the form, function, and syntactical
relationship of each part. The Caruba definition means to take all manner
of bits of information and try to make sense of any of it, in part or in
whole.

Part of the problem is that there are so many “experts” in the world,
PhDs which often translates to “piled higher and deeper.” The lesser
degrees are often lacking as well. A college education today is obscenely
expensive and, as many employers will tell you, of dubious value when it
comes to the mastery of skills that were formerly acquired by the sixth
grade.

A recent issue of Bloomberg Businessweek was devoted to the year in
review and perhaps the most astonishing statistical data it offered was
the way Americans are “stuck in the middle” when it comes to opinions on
all the major issue which the nation must address, half are for and half
are against. Whether it’s gun ownership, doctor-assisted suicide, how to
deal with illegal immigrants, government control of healthcare, or
whether President Obama is doing a good job, one is led to believe that
we are totally divided pro and con.

The key phrase here is “led to believe” because the data was largely
drawn from Gallup surveys, the Pew Research Center, the National Journal,
and other sources. As much as I regard Gallup, Rasmussen, Zogby and other
gatherers of today’s instant “truth”, I remain skeptical of all these
polls. Opinion is fickle, subject to the economy, one’s religion, race,
age, gender, political values, and yesterday’s events.

Most certainly, taking at face value anything “the government” has to say
on any topic is the height of folly. It exists as the instrument of
anyone and any political party that holds the reins of power. As such it
disgorges masses of “information” that is intended to herd the public in
directions that will ensure they remain in power while, at the same time,
often engaging in the most appalling abuses of power, including neglect
of duty.

History is testimony to the most egregious errors of judgment by
presidents and congresses that arrived with their biases and ideologies
intact. We want to know what principles a president adheres to. Some like
Reagan believed in America’s greatness, its exceptional place and role.
Others like Obama arrived with their views carefully hidden behind
meaningless phrases such as “hope and change.” Obama’s first executive
order was to deny access to his entire life’s paper trail of
documents.

My first profession was that of journalist and from that I developed a
lifelong search for factual information, historic and current, with which
to make sense of events. Even when I segued into public relations, I
insisted that it be fact-based, i.e. the truth!

I collect the “news” all the time and maintain vast files of data that go
back years. On my desk today are stacks of items culled from all manner
of sources, most of which I regard as reliable, but The New York Times is
high on my list of the greatest collection of liars and fools since the
glory days of Pravda, the state-controlled Soviet newspaper.

Malaria, DDT

A recent Times
editorial was titled “Comeback Against Malaria” citing
“insecticide-treated bed nets” to protect people from mosquitoes that
transmit the disease. No where does it mention the way the Environmental
Protection Agency, ignoring the science, banned DDT, effective December
31, 1972, and thus condemned millions to an early, unnecessary death. If
African and other nations plagued by this mosquito-borne disease could
begin to spray DDT, it would drastically reduce malaria worldwide. The
Times will not tell you that.

Obama administration’s insane devotion to the totally debunked hoax of “global warming”, now renamed “climate change.”

Another news item reports that Janet
Napolitano, the Homeland Security Secretary, has announced that her
department is creating “a new task force to battle the effects of climate
change on domestic security operation.” This is just one example of the
Obama administration’s insane devotion to the totally debunked hoax of
“global warming”, now renamed “climate change.” Suffice it to say it has
nothing to do with homeland security and is beyond the reach of any
government on planet Earth.

Piers Corbyn of Weather Action, a London-based, independent forecasting
firm, has proven infinitely more accurate than the British government’s
debased weather agency. He is predicting extreme weather for December
25-31 in Britain. Much of the weather forecasts of the U.S. government
are corrupted by computer models that use manipulated “global warming”
data from government agencies such as NOAA and NASA. Thank God for
weather satellites.

Much of the data collected worldwide is from weather stations either
positioned on “heat islands” known as cities or simply non-existent. The
best computers in the world cannot include data on clouds, a major
indicator, because even meteorologists have no idea why they do what they
do, changing from moment to moment. Similarly, it is still virtually
impossible to predict earthquakes or when volcanoes will erupt.

The government consistently refuses to tell the public that the Earth has
been in a natural cooling cycle since the late 1990s. Winters for decade
to come will be harsher and longer. Crops will fail. Food prices will
rise. The latest “compromise” that extended income tax rates also wasted
billions on corn-based ethanol production mandates that even
environmental organizations now oppose.

Illegal Immigration

The latest
Census reports that the U.S. population is up an astonishing 27 million
in just ten years! Immigration, legal and illegal, accounted for
three-quarters of that growth. This growth is exceeded by only two other
decades in the entire history of the nation! Either we change our
immigration policies, reducing this flood of humanity, and lock down our
southern border or you won’t be able to recognize America in the space of
a few decades.

So, parsing the news remains critical if we are to understand or make
sense of anything happening in the U.S. and around the globe. One thing
seems clear, like all empires based on economic and military strength,
power is moving elsewhere after a half century since the end of World War
II that positioned the U.S. as a “superpower.”

“Entitlement” programs

The nation
has wasted its potential on “entitlement” programs that are trillions of
dollars in debt into the foreseeable future. The national debt is owned
by our grandchildren!

The government is in the process of locking up its vast natural resources
from use by its own citizens. It is seizing vast tracks of the nation’s
landmass. It is restricting all new offshore oil exploration and
extraction, and will force coal-fired power plants to close despite the
fact that coal provides half of all the electricity generated
nationwide.

U.S. currency is being systematically devalued because the government
failed its oversight of the financial marketplace and its central bank,
the Federal Reserve.

Housing and Social Justice

Because the government was permitted to intrude in the housing market in the name of “social justice”, it is in a state of complete collapse.

The same will occur to our healthcare system if Obamacare is permitted to
move ahead.

The news is bad. We have precious little time to reverse the
process.

© Alan Caruba, 2010



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