One Big Circle
By David Glenn Cox


As the late Jim Croce once said, “Gonna tell you a story that you won’t believe.” The other day I read a news story about NASA's measurements of the growing ocean acidity in the Arctic Ocean. The acidity of the water was making the ocean warmer because it was holding more heat and removing less carbon dioxide from the air. Then fortunately, or unfortunately, I was sidetracked by the next big Tea Bagger movement.


The Google ad at the bottom of the page said “An Inconvenient Lie,” the True Cost of Al Gore's Movie. Discover the Truth Today. Of course, as a right-thinking and God-fearing American I just had to know! So I clicked on the ad and was whisked to their website: “Not Evil Just Wrong.” The true cost of the Global Warming Hysteria. The website is adorned in the red, white and blue with a picture of former Vice President Al Gore alongside the title.


Maybe I should investigate further, I thought to myself. I don’t want to support evil, and I sure don’t want to be wrong! So I began to look further at the website, and their thrust is to spark a national movement, much like the tea bagger movement, by the worldwide screening of the film “Not Evil Just Wrong” on October 18th. The film, made by two conservative Irish filmmakers, takes us through a litany of the dangers of environmental extremism.


“Global warming alarmists want Americans to believe that humans are killing the planet. But 'Not Evil Just Wrong,' a new documentary by Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney, proves that the only threats to America (and the rest of the world) are the flawed science and sky-is-falling rhetoric of Al Gore and his allies in environmental extremism.” (Not Evil Just Wrong website )


You see, like me, I’m sure many of you thought that fears of global warming had come from world scientists and NASA. How wrong we are! This is all a front set up by Al Gore and fear mongers to rob you of your future!


“But environmentalists like actor Ed Begley Jr. and Leo Murray of Plane Stupid, who appear in the film, won't tell you that. Instead, Begley sheds phony tears for ex-cons who are offered 'green' jobs, and Murray decries air travel as the modern world's worst indulgence. Their hysterical claims have fooled many people into believing that carbon dioxide, an element that is essential to life, is poison.”
( Not Evil Just Wrong website)


I do understand that carbon dioxide is as essential to life as water, but it is also my understanding that too much water inside of a human being can be quite lethal. So I began to ask myself, who are the leaders of this ground swell of public outrage? I scanned the website looking for my neighbor’s address so we could storm the Bastille of environmental extremism together. Instead what I found for a contact was, CRC Public Relations of Washington D.C.


Gee, I wonder who CRC Public Relations are? So I went to their website and they have a partial list of their customers. Americans for Hope, Growth, and Opportunity (AHGO)- Steve Forbes, honorary Chairman. Yet checking further I couldn’t find any other names connected with AHGO and thought, somebody has to be paying the bills. I’m sure that the fine folks at CRC, even as public-spirited citizens, wouldn’t work for free!


AgustaWestland- Defense contractor that builds helicopters.


Coalition for Patient Choice- But the Coalition has no web site. Odd that a group that calls itself a coalition would have no website. I mean, everyone has a website! Little kids have websites!


Discovery Institute- They list themselves as a non-partisan think tank while their rolls of fellows are chock full of staunch conservatives and nothing but staunch conservatives including Michael Medved. God, Israel and tax cuts.


Free Enterprise Foundation- More rightwing folderol, but again only one name on the website, Robert E. Freer, Jr. Freer is listed as chief executive officer of The Free Enterprise Foundation, which strives to educate the public on the vital role of free enterprise in securing the blessings of liberty, and the creation of enterprise excellence consistent with the highest standards of ethics and civic responsibility through best practices. The only other name is Michael S. Smith II; Smith is listed as a senior fellow to Kissinger McLarty Associates.


The Manhattan Institute- The listed Mission of the Manhattan Institute is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.



Media Research Center-“The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove — through sound scientific research — that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene.” The Media Research Center is also the parent of CNS news.


Parents Television Council- Demand that lawmakers make bad words go away on television because they don’t know how to turn off their TVs. Their campaigns include boycotts of sponsored products, and there's a top ten list of best and worst sponsors and movie reviews. "Tinker Bell" and "High School Musical 2" were OK, but there was some adolescent kissing and bare midriffs, so no children under ten.


Regency Publishing- The fine publishing folks that bring you the works of Michelle Malkin and Bernard Goldberg.


Yet it gets even gooder and gooder, as the ground swell storms toward the world movie premiere! On the “Not Evil Just Wrong” website, half of the blog posts are written by K. Danny Glover. Where does K. Danny Glover work? He works for News Busters. And who owns News Busters? Why, CNS. And who owns CNS? Why, the Media Research Center. On the Media Research Center website is an article by Brent Bozell taking Harry Reid to task. Who does Brent Bozell work for? Why, the Media Research Council. And who is on the list of advisors at Parents Television Council? Brent Bozell!


Whose movies did the Parents Television Council recommend? "Tinker Bell" and "High School Musical 2," made by Disney. And who does Disney hire to do their public relations? Why, the fine folks at CRC Public Relations. Who else is a PTC advisor? Michael Medved, and where else are his works published? Media Research council, CNS and News Busters.


Who else are customers of CRC?

Contract With America
Federalist Society
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Joseph Seagram & Sons, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
National Republican Congressional Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers Assoc.
Republican National Committee
Simon & Schuster
Telecel International, LTD
The Walt Disney Company ABC Television network
TIME Warner Inc. parent of CNN
Universal Studios, Inc.
U.S. Business & Industrial Council
Viacom Inc. Formally tied with CBS
Visa USA
Walden Media
Warner Brothers Television Network CW Television network


On the list of the Parents Television Council, six of the ten best shows belong to either ABC or CBS. Of the ten worst shows only two belong to CRC’s companies, one by CBS and one by the CW. If you go to the Parents Television Council website you can click on the link to movie reviews by none other than Michael Medved!


So time's a-wasting; your friends and neighbors are counting on you to fight environmental extremism! Why not order from Regency Publishing “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global warming and Environmentalism.”


Maybe you, too, could host a showing of “Not Evil Just Wrong.” Premiere Party Pack Only $29.95!


“Be part of a World Record at home with friends on 18 October with this red carpet Premiere Party Pack...This pack has everything for a premiere party, even a piece of red carpet to have your own paparazzi experience at home (please send us your photos). The pack includes the DVD, the official poster of the film, invitations/postcards for you to send out to friends to watch the film with you and (bling bling) your own red carpet for you to put out in front of your door for the big premiere evening.” (Not Evil Just Wrong website)


Be a part of the big circle and front organizations with no known members save for Steve Forbes and his checkbook. Coalitions without websites, the Republican National Committee and just plain folks. Remember, the only thing we have to fear is Al Gore himself! Global warming is just media hysteria, so smoke 'em if you got 'em and keep the coal fires burning! Your right wing friends and tea baggers are counting on you! Only you can save America from Al Gore. Why, I can show you articles from a dozen websites that say so.


http://www.noteviljustwrong.com/home

Good job. What you are describing in this instance is the rule, not the exception.

Our goal should be to get to it - to understand it, to explain it, and to fight effectively against it. So we look for ways to do that, and we find Socialism. We talk Socialism in order to understand and to fight back, we don't talk about the problems in order to promote Socialism - as though it were a product or a religious dogma. The confusion between those two is all that stands between us and clarity and effectiveness, and clarity and effectiveness are a matter of life and death. Nothing is more important, and there is no part of our lives that is free from this battle, immune from the consequences of the outcome, regardless of whether or not we "choose" for that to be the case.

It could happen that some FDR will enact reforms, and postpone things for a couple of generations, but that will never happen - never has happened - without massive pressure from the Left. Bringing that pressure is our responsibility, and it is escapism to merely express the wish for an imaginary happy outcome of New Deal reform while shirking our duty, our part in the process.

but I have a slightly different take on this.

We probably agree that the root cause is corruption and greed. It demonstrates that the one critical element that is needed to expose this crap is unhindered freedom of speech. I don't see the solution as being prolonged discussion of abstract economic theory that will never change, but instead the immediate ability of the media, of bloggers and of average Americans to continue to expose and offer counter opinions based upon fact.

When candid discussion is stifled for any reason and it is often masked so as to protect elements of society not for what they've done, but because of whom they are, and it eventually creates a stigma that works against full public disclosure. The moneyed interests and their boundless greed need exposed without regard to superficial constraints.

Much of this underlying control is pushed by media and internet interests who wish to constrain the internet under the guise that network neutrality is bad for America. We need net neutrality.

but I have a slightly different take on this.

We probably agree that the root cause is corruption and greed. It demonstrates that the one critical element that is needed to expose this crap is unhindered freedom of speech. I don't see the solution as being prolonged discussion of abstract economic theory that will never change, but instead the immediate ability of the media, of bloggers and of average Americans to continue to expose and offer counter opinions based upon fact.

When candid discussion is stifled for any reason and it is often masked so as to protect elements of society not for what they've done, but because of whom they are, and it eventually creates a stigma that works against full public disclosure. The moneyed interests and their boundless greed need exposed without regard to superficial constraints.

Much of this underlying control is pushed by media and internet interests who wish to constrain the internet under the guise that network neutrality is bad for America. We need net neutrality.

it is capitalism. Capitalism promotes corruption and greed. If you do not get rid of capitalism, you will never get the boot off the back of working people worldwide. Capitalism is a kind of slavery and if you don't get that, you are in essence defending slavery. The root cause is not any part of human nature, it is the society we are forced to live in.

But you go on, ignoring reality, and pretend that the real problem is "evil doers" rather than the system itself. You seem to not be receptive to reality-based discussions...

it is capitalism. Capitalism promotes corruption and greed. If you do not get rid of capitalism, you will never get the boot off the back of working people worldwide. Capitalism is a kind of slavery and if you don't get that, you are in essence defending slavery. The root cause is not any part of human nature, it is the society we are forced to live in.

But you go on, ignoring reality, and pretend that the real problem is "evil doers" rather than the system itself. You seem to not be receptive to reality-based discussions...

The root cause is a system that allows corruption and greed to flourish. And that system is capitalism. It encourages and rewards corruption and greed.

Economic theory is NOT abstract - it is the guiding factor in our lives - all day, every day...working for wages that are set as low as possible (getting lower as we speak). No job security, crappy health care tied to employment (if you're lucky), no right to food or housing - the 'markets' of food and housing being driven only by profit, not by getting people homes and full bellies.

You think economic theory is abstract? Then you must live in an ivory tower. Cuz down here on the ground economic theory is controlling our lives. Without economic democracy we are forced to be the victims of greed and corruption because of the dominant and very real economic theory under which we live.

Yes, we need 'net neutrality' and a host of other things. But under capitalism it'll never happen - not in any secure, lasting way, because the moneyed powers will always be able to push, push, push away whatever crumbs are thrown at the people. Look at health care, you have this half-assed 'public option' being touted as a success for the people, when a brief look at it shows its a load of crap. Is that the best we can do? When money controls everything and profit is priority #1, yes, it's the best we can do.

Is that good enough for you?

The root cause is a system that allows corruption and greed to flourish. And that system is capitalism. It encourages and rewards corruption and greed.

Economic theory is NOT abstract - it is the guiding factor in our lives - all day, every day...working for wages that are set as low as possible (getting lower as we speak). No job security, crappy health care tied to employment (if you're lucky), no right to food or housing - the 'markets' of food and housing being driven only by profit, not by getting people homes and full bellies.

You think economic theory is abstract? Then you must live in an ivory tower. Cuz down here on the ground economic theory is controlling our lives. Without economic democracy we are forced to be the victims of greed and corruption because of the dominant and very real economic theory under which we live.

Yes, we need 'net neutrality' and a host of other things. But under capitalism it'll never happen - not in any secure, lasting way, because the moneyed powers will always be able to push, push, push away whatever crumbs are thrown at the people. Look at health care, you have this half-assed 'public option' being touted as a success for the people, when a brief look at it shows its a load of crap. Is that the best we can do? When money controls everything and profit is priority #1, yes, it's the best we can do.

Is that good enough for you?

I don't agree "that the root cause is corruption and greed."

I don't agree that "the one critical element that is needed to expose this crap is unhindered freedom of speech." Doesn't matter how "free" you are to speak when you don't have access. That is a matter then of power, not freedom.

I don't agree with your insinuation that anyone is engaging in "prolonged discussion of abstract economic theory that will never change," whatever that means exactly.

I have no idea what this means - "the immediate ability of the media, of bloggers and of average Americans to continue to expose and offer counter opinions based upon fact."

I don't agree that "candid discussion is stifled for any reason and it is often masked so as to protect elements of society not for what they've done, but because of whom they are, and it eventually creates a stigma that works against full public disclosure."

I know that you think that "certain elements" are protected because of "whom they are" while others are not protected. You dance around this issue with almost every post. We are supposed to guess as to just whom these "elements" might be. You see - and have objected to - people pointing out the bigotry in your remarks many times. I asuume that this is what you mean by "superficial constraints," which are preventing you from "exposing and offering counter opinions based upon fact."

I don't agree "that the root cause is corruption and greed."

I don't agree that "the one critical element that is needed to expose this crap is unhindered freedom of speech." Doesn't matter how "free" you are to speak when you don't have access. That is a matter then of power, not freedom.

I don't agree with your insinuation that anyone is engaging in "prolonged discussion of abstract economic theory that will never change," whatever that means exactly.

I have no idea what this means - "the immediate ability of the media, of bloggers and of average Americans to continue to expose and offer counter opinions based upon fact."

I don't agree that "candid discussion is stifled for any reason and it is often masked so as to protect elements of society not for what they've done, but because of whom they are, and it eventually creates a stigma that works against full public disclosure."

I know that you think that "certain elements" are protected because of "whom they are" while others are not protected. You dance around this issue with almost every post. We are supposed to guess as to just whom these "elements" might be. You see - and have objected to - people pointing out the bigotry in your remarks many times. I asuume that this is what you mean by "superficial constraints," which are preventing you from "exposing and offering counter opinions based upon fact."

"...is said by Quarterly Reviewer to fly turbulence and strife, but this is very incompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent certain will induce eagerness; 50 percent, positive audacity; 100 percent will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 percent and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both. Smuggling and the slave trade have amply proved all that is here stated." - TJ Dunning, "Trade Unions and Strikes" London, 1860. Dunning was a British trade unionist, secretary to the London Society of Bookbinders.

This is a footnote in Marx's Capital.

"...is said by Quarterly Reviewer to fly turbulence and strife, but this is very incompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 percent will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 percent certain will induce eagerness; 50 percent, positive audacity; 100 percent will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 percent and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both. Smuggling and the slave trade have amply proved all that is here stated." - TJ Dunning, "Trade Unions and Strikes" London, 1860. Dunning was a British trade unionist, secretary to the London Society of Bookbinders.

This is a footnote in Marx's Capital.