amicus
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Public Broadcasting; Left wing Radio and Television, “Extreme Oil, The Wilderness”
As a brief thumbnail sketch, from memory, no research, PBS began as a broadcast vehicle for college classroom instruction and a showcase for the National Endowment for Art, the much maligned, (and properly so) government subsidy for artists. It expanded to classical music, opera and theatre productions.
All in all, so most would say, a benign beginning, a proper expenditure for public funds, taxes.
On a general level, I personally disagreed with government running, managing and paying for radio and television stations, I advocate individual freedom and the radio and television spectrum should be on the free market level, not the Federal Communications Commission.
But PBS over the years became a hotbed of radical leftwing philosophy and propaganda, alternative lifestyles pushing an agenda of activism on all levels.
To most, it is of little concern as the viewing and listening audience is miniscule.
But as with small things, they can become a thorn in the side, an irritant provided by the liberal intellectarati, ( a play on illuminati).
Case in point, the rebroadcast of a September 27, 2004 program, “Extreme Oil”, The Wilderness episode that aired last night, Monday, April 24, 2006.
This program is a blatant, unabashed attack on the petroleum industry and a pandering, embarrassing defense of ecological radicals.
20 percent of crude oil used in the United States comes from the North Shore fields and the Canadian Tar sands oil refineries in Alberta, Canada. Another 10 percent could come from the ANWR site if it were developed.
Simple awareness of the energy crisis would seem to dictate that all resources should be utilized to produce, refine and transport crude oil to consumers.
Not so said the line up of left wing politicians from both Canada and the United States along with a coterie of radical environmental activists from all walks of life.
This select group of anti industrialists advocate a cessation of all exploration and drilling in Alaska and Canada and forbid any exploration or off shore drilling up and down the entire coast of North America.
This program ran the gamut of sob-sister left wing liberal hippie memorabilia from 12 string guitar music to a banjo and vocal solo by a environmental activists, to crying for protection of a whale hunting village of Inuits to another small village of caribou hunters whose ‘children are only happy when we are killing and eating caribou.’
Although every Alaskan citizen receives a $1,000 annual share in oil income, some villages reject oil industry projects and prefer to live without running water and electricity to ‘maintain a native environment.
PBS directors did not rerun this program as a public service, no, they did it as political propaganda. They chose to run it again at what they felt was a propitious time in the ongoing debate about ANWR and the current energy crisis.
It may well backfire on them if people begin to understand the real cause of high energy prices, the generation long attempt by the left to curtail energy production.
But the worst and most insidious element of the program(s) is that they are ‘approved for in school viewing’. But if you go to the ‘teachers guide and instructions’ portion of the PBS online site, you will find no mention of the political content of the program, not a single word, only broad references to science and biology.
In other words, to influence your children in school, they sneak this left wing environmental agenda into the public schools through the back door, the typical liberal ploy to infect and influence young minds almost subliminally through total exclusion of fact and reason.
Not even the approval of whale hunting villages (save the whales) or the subsistence hunting and butchering of Caribou(PETA), usually the activists agenda, none of that topped the newborn Caribou calf with the umbilical cord still dangling from the Mother’s vagina.
I failed to mention the almost criminal accusations and falsehoods directed again British Petroleum, BP, “Beyond Petroleum” libel and slander that percolated through the entire program.
Higher energy prices for gasoline and diesel, jet fuel and heating oil, increased costs across the board will, as some have already noted on this forum, make it difficult for many people to live comfortably as the energy crisis deepens.
A generation long campaign by the left, by environmental activists and anti business politicians is to blame and it should be laid at their feet.
Amicus…
As a brief thumbnail sketch, from memory, no research, PBS began as a broadcast vehicle for college classroom instruction and a showcase for the National Endowment for Art, the much maligned, (and properly so) government subsidy for artists. It expanded to classical music, opera and theatre productions.
All in all, so most would say, a benign beginning, a proper expenditure for public funds, taxes.
On a general level, I personally disagreed with government running, managing and paying for radio and television stations, I advocate individual freedom and the radio and television spectrum should be on the free market level, not the Federal Communications Commission.
But PBS over the years became a hotbed of radical leftwing philosophy and propaganda, alternative lifestyles pushing an agenda of activism on all levels.
To most, it is of little concern as the viewing and listening audience is miniscule.
But as with small things, they can become a thorn in the side, an irritant provided by the liberal intellectarati, ( a play on illuminati).
Case in point, the rebroadcast of a September 27, 2004 program, “Extreme Oil”, The Wilderness episode that aired last night, Monday, April 24, 2006.
This program is a blatant, unabashed attack on the petroleum industry and a pandering, embarrassing defense of ecological radicals.
20 percent of crude oil used in the United States comes from the North Shore fields and the Canadian Tar sands oil refineries in Alberta, Canada. Another 10 percent could come from the ANWR site if it were developed.
Simple awareness of the energy crisis would seem to dictate that all resources should be utilized to produce, refine and transport crude oil to consumers.
Not so said the line up of left wing politicians from both Canada and the United States along with a coterie of radical environmental activists from all walks of life.
This select group of anti industrialists advocate a cessation of all exploration and drilling in Alaska and Canada and forbid any exploration or off shore drilling up and down the entire coast of North America.
This program ran the gamut of sob-sister left wing liberal hippie memorabilia from 12 string guitar music to a banjo and vocal solo by a environmental activists, to crying for protection of a whale hunting village of Inuits to another small village of caribou hunters whose ‘children are only happy when we are killing and eating caribou.’
Although every Alaskan citizen receives a $1,000 annual share in oil income, some villages reject oil industry projects and prefer to live without running water and electricity to ‘maintain a native environment.
PBS directors did not rerun this program as a public service, no, they did it as political propaganda. They chose to run it again at what they felt was a propitious time in the ongoing debate about ANWR and the current energy crisis.
It may well backfire on them if people begin to understand the real cause of high energy prices, the generation long attempt by the left to curtail energy production.
But the worst and most insidious element of the program(s) is that they are ‘approved for in school viewing’. But if you go to the ‘teachers guide and instructions’ portion of the PBS online site, you will find no mention of the political content of the program, not a single word, only broad references to science and biology.
In other words, to influence your children in school, they sneak this left wing environmental agenda into the public schools through the back door, the typical liberal ploy to infect and influence young minds almost subliminally through total exclusion of fact and reason.
Not even the approval of whale hunting villages (save the whales) or the subsistence hunting and butchering of Caribou(PETA), usually the activists agenda, none of that topped the newborn Caribou calf with the umbilical cord still dangling from the Mother’s vagina.
I failed to mention the almost criminal accusations and falsehoods directed again British Petroleum, BP, “Beyond Petroleum” libel and slander that percolated through the entire program.
Higher energy prices for gasoline and diesel, jet fuel and heating oil, increased costs across the board will, as some have already noted on this forum, make it difficult for many people to live comfortably as the energy crisis deepens.
A generation long campaign by the left, by environmental activists and anti business politicians is to blame and it should be laid at their feet.
Amicus…
