they ...

  .. have a screw (or three) loose

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Consider this item:

  «Oil prices soar towards $US55
Posted November 25, 2008 06:03:00

Oil prices have roared higher towards $US55 as equity markets surged on government action aimed at tackling a severe economic downturn.»
[AusBC/justin]

Some keywords used: 'prices soar,' 'roared higher,' 'equity markets surged,' 'rallied,' 'closed up a massive,' 'pumped billions,' and 'mammoth financial stimulus,' 'prices also benefited,' and 'cut production.'

'They' told us that the oil price 'soaring' to US$150 was 'supply and demand.' Then when it fell back to US$50, that was 'China and India reducing demand.' What utter bulls**t, it was the clever d**k speculators all along - apart, that is from the (illegal!) Iraq war effect. 'They' tell us many things; most, as it turns out, is just more bulls**t. The AusBC, as we can plainly see, is right in the s**t with the rest.

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'They' (GWBush et al.) told us that "They hate us for our freedoms!"

'They' (GWBush et al.) lied.

'They' (GWBush et al.) screeched "We will disarm him!"

'They' (GWBush et al.) lied.

'They' (Cheney et al.) told us that invading Iraq was not for the oil.

'They' (Cheney et al.) lied.

'They' (Murdoch et al.) told us that invading Iraq would give us US$25 oil.

'They' (Murdoch et al.) lied.

'They' (Howard et al.) told us they'd 'keep interest rates low.'

'They' (Howard et al.) lied.

'They' (Costello et al.) encouraged us to borrow and spend up big.

'They' (Costello et al.) cut the CGT in half, triggering the house-price bubble which took average house-prices to around nine times average earnings, effectively ending the 'Great Aussie Dream' for far too many Ockers.

(I haven't got all day to continue this list - it couldn't be finished in a month of Sundays anyway.)

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You can't have democracy when people are lied to (B, B & H; they all *knew* that Saddam had no WMDs.)

You can't have democracy when the MSM retails and extends politicians' lies (almost any media outlet, including AusBC & SBS. Filthy, lying propagandists!)

You can't have democracy when voters are ignored (Howard, calling anti-wars "a mob.")

You can't have freedom when people are concrete-walled in (Iraq, Israel/ex-Palestine.)

You can't have free-trade when the US (and some others) subsidise their own farmers.

(Again I don't have the time to go anywhere near finishing this list.)

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'They' are guilty of many more sins, inspect the labels 'neoliberal,' 'privatisation,' 'out-sourcing,' 'off-shoring' and 'neocon.' Add 'free-trade,' 'freedom' and 'democracy.' (And so on; add your own failing/lying keywords.)

The US is the source of all the evil flowing from those labels (and all the etc.s), the only one of those labels which that has a meaning close to the actual word is 'neocon,' not from 'conservative' but as in con-men - which is what they are.

Bush was 'aped' by Blair and Howard following the principle of "Monkey see, monkey do." The whole foul neoliberal, neocon lot of them, 'inspired' by Greenspan have dumped the world deeply into the s**t. Note that it wasn't always Repugs, Clinton had his filthy fingers in there too. Now Obama is 'employing' lots'a Clinton-types. Rudd, whilst being *infinitely* more preferable than Howard, still mouths the same-old same-olds, like "poverty-busting power of free trade."

This blog is called 'nomoreofthesame' for impeccable reasons; if Rudd and Obama only do more of the same - and the indications are so - then we can't expect to climb out of the s**t 'any time soon' (detested Ameri-speak, spit!)

Where are the adults?