If You believe the above quoted statement is true, sorry to deflate your bubble. But you are living in a fantasy land.

Yes, I know this is what you are fed in a daily diet of dribble coming from politicians, and those who wrap themselves in the American Flag proclaiming themselves the “Defender’s of America” all immigrants and foreigners out. Whether legal or illegal (and there is a big, big difference between the two groups).

However, if you really think about it and then look at what is happening, you will realize it is all “smoke and mirrors.”

But as the saying goes “If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.”

Let’s explore this… OK?

China’s Costs Are Rising Dramatically

According to an article in the Washington Post entitled Rising Costs in China Seep Into U.S. Market — Importers Pay More or Cancel Orders The article reported:

A confluence of events — the weakening dollar, soaring domestic inflation, new labor laws, the end of some government export subsidies, the increasing cost of raw materials, more stringent product safety regulations, and bad weather — means the cost of goods produced in Chinese factories is rising fast.

Those increased costs are already showing up in import prices. After falling for years, the price index of goods from China rose 2.4 percent in 2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics division of international prices. That’s the largest annual increase since the index was first published four years ago.

The added costs could compel U.S. companies to shift their manufacturing elsewhere — particularly to Southeast Asia, where countries such as Cambodia have already seen an increase in U.S. investment.

So… my friends… as you can see, 2007 was the largest increase of costs in China over the past FOUR YEARS!

As a result of that.. Were lots of new plush (stuffed) animal factories set up in the USA?… NO

Were lots of new shoe and boot factories set up in the USA?…. NO

Well, surely lots of labor intensive manufacturing jobs came back to the USA… Right?…. WRONG!

As an advisor to Obama said… (and I’ll paraphrase)… If the costs of making shoes in China was the same as it is in the USA, would all the shoe companies come to the USA to set up factories?… NO they would move on to another low labor cost country.

And proof of this is borne out by the statement of fact in the third paragraph quoted above….

Let’s Review…

The added costs could compel U.S. companies to shift their manufacturing elsewhere — particularly to Southeast Asia, where countries such as Cambodia have already seen an increase in U.S. investment.

Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries are now seeing lots of USA investment, and the USA is seeing floods of goods coming from those countries.

So How Were People Fooled Into Believing This Nonsense?

It started with a story. Written in a newspaper. Written by someone who was sympathetic to a story given them by a special interest group… perhaps a labor union.

The story went on about how workers were losing their jobs due to “Foreign Competition”

I’m sure it spoke about how hard it was for the now displaced American workers to cope.

You can bet it did not talk about how it was the American workers responsibility to retrain themselves. To learn new job skills. How possibly the unions themselves caused this salary disparity with ever increasing demands for more, and more, and more.

Then for a while there was nothing.

Then another story about the hardships being faced by displaced American workers. Maybe about how a factory closed, and now the town was suffering huge un-employment.

Then slowly more and more stories. Then stories about worker abuse and insinuating ALL the overseas factories were “Sweat Shops” which of course they weren’t.

And in the case of China, how it was children and prisoners who were the workers in factories.

So that begs the question. If it was only children working in the factories… what were their parents doing? Sitting at home drinking tea? Especially when their one and only child was working?

Ask yourself, if you had only one child, would you want to send that child off to work, or would you want to give that child the best, most fun filled childhood you could. Especially since it was by law the only one you could have?… Yeah, I thought so.

And regarding the “horror” of using prison labor… All across the South and in many places in the north USA you will find prison labor. Not the old style “Chain Gangs” rather they are all in prison jump suits and do gardening work, cut grass by the side of highways, fill in at factories, etc. etc.

Then Comes The Next Step

After being fed a diet of sob stories, and your emotions being riled up, we are now fed stories about how it is us against them.

Fed stories about how “Them damn foreigners are taking our jobs.” Which of course the jobs are the company’s jobs not the workers.

Which reminds me of a joke by I believe it was the comedian Steve Wright who said “I lost my job. Well, actually I didn’t lose it. I go into the place where I used to work, and someone else is doing that job.”

Soon those that want to protect jobs paying artificially high salaries and benefits, turn it into a patriotic theme complete with a great patriotic slogan…

“Buy American”

Who can argue with that? Even if what they think they are saying is true is not true.

General motors cars manufactured in countries outside of the USA. Toyota’s and other cars manufactured inside the USA. Which is American? Why?

Back to the Story In The News

Other Countries Soon To Be Blamed For USA Inflation

The Washington Post story went on to say…

Among some economists, there’s a larger concern: that inflation in China — which was 4.8 percent in 2007, an 11-year high, and which forced the government to freeze prices of staples such as grain, edible oils and eggs — is adding to inflation in the United States.

With the US politicians trying to score points against China by claiming it’s currency is kept artificially low, and then the general medial under reporting if reporting at all the falling US Dollar against the Chinese Currency and how much it has fallen.

The Washington Post has done a great job or reporting it here.

Check out this part from the article…

For example, …
the dollar is down 12 percent against the Chinese yuan. Also,…
the tax rebate is down 2 percent, labor costs are up 20 percent. . . . Raw material costs on average are up 10 percent.

Ask yourself, have you seen many reports showing the US Dollar down 12 percent against the Chinese Yuan (RMB) in the last year? But it’s a fact.

This goes in to the Key For Propaganda

The key to propaganda is control of information. If you can control information, you can control the message. If you control the message, you control the people.

Like mass brainwashing. Like North Korea does… All outside societies are corrupt, but we are not. All other countries live in poverty worse than we do.

Then when they get a chance to see what is going on in the rest of the world…. Well, you get the idea.

Best Advice

The best advice is to try and find out who is actually behind the story. A politician? A labor union? A company? An investor? A person running some organization?

As the saying goes “Follow the money!”

One you do that, you will see who is behind and pushing the story. You will see what they have to gain. Then you can decide if you want to go along.

Remember, just because something is propagandised does not mean it is bad. Propaganda is neither good or bad… it just is. But you need to be aware and look after your own best interests.

Now regarding the story in the Washington Post… could it be the start of a propaganda campaign by politicians to remove themselves from the cause of inflation? Could it be from the “Buy American” crowd?

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It comes from the AP under their heading of “Science”
Written by an “Honest” journalist — well at least his mother
thinks so. Named Seth Borenstein.

Sounds interesting. Was it filled with complete and honest facts
and statistics, or was it filled with twisted facts and
propaganda?

Let’s see…

In the first paragraph…

“January was the warmest first month on record worldwide – 1.53
degrees above normal”

EVER?…

In the History of the World?

And just what is the “Normal” temperature of the world?

So do tell, Seth the Science reporter,… how do we determine the
“normal” temperature of the world?

Hmmmm?

And his second paragraph continues…

“And as 2007 drew to a close, it was also shaping up to be the
hottest year on record in the Northern Hemisphere.”

And here’s his “proof” of that… right there in his third paragraph…

“U.S. weather stations broke or tied 263 all-time high
temperature records, according to an Associated Press analysis
of U.S. weather data.”

Seems to me I also recall U.S. weather stations breaking or
tying all-time LOW temperature records, and all time SNOW
records.

Doubt me?

Great…

Here’s Proof…

Denver (ABC News Chanel 7)
June 8, 2007
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/13467296/detail.html

“DENVER — Residents of Colorado’s Front Range awoke Friday
morning to frost-covered windshields as temperatures dropped to
the lowest readings in over 50 years.

The temperature at Denver International Airport fell to 31
degrees at 5:44 a.m. Friday, setting a new record low for the
date.

The previous record for June 8 was 37 degrees, last set in 1974.

In addition to the new record low, the sub-freezing temperatures
also became the latest freeze on record for the city of Denver
and the second-coldest June temperature ever recorded.

The previous date of latest freeze on record was June 2, 1951.

Temperatures in Denver have only dropped below freezing two
other times during the month of June; 32 degrees on June 1,
1919 and 30 degrees on June 2, 1951.”

Yup. Sounds like Global Warming to me.

Oh… Wait… But that was June 2007.

How about July?

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/breaking_news/story/137451.html
July 24, 2007 — the Sun News (local paper Myrtle Beach)

“Myrtle Beach saw a record low temperature on Monday, and the
cooler weather is sticking around this week.

Monday’s low temperature of 62 was recorded at 5:48 a.m.,
according to the National Weather Service. The previous record
of 68 was set in 1950. The average low on July 23 is 72.”

What?…

This can’t be!

There must be some mistake.
Take the temperature gauges and put them on a hot tar roof. That should fix the problem…

According to NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Dept of Commerce.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2007/images/jan2007-temp-ranks.jpg
NINE States recorded temperatures below normal.
25 States above normal
Well… Plus Washington DC.
But there is a lot of Hot Air in Washington DC.

Then of course Seth the Science reporter praises Al Gore. But I ask you, the Pseudo-Science, and outright lies in Al Gore’s move… It had as much believability as the movie called “The Day After Tomorrow” where New York City gets swamped by a huge tidal wave and then freezes over.

He continues with further “Proof”…

“The climate panel, organized by the United Nations, released
four major reports in 2007 saying man-made global warming was
incontrovertible and an urgent threat to millions of lives.”

Sounds impressive!

So let’s see, how many “Scientists were involved in determining “man-made global warming was incontrovertible?

Was it… ummm… 29?

No… That’s too many.

Really?

Actually it was a whopping 18.

Boy am I embarrassed at having my facts wrong. I thought it was 29. Good thing I verified my material.

“A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA’s correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.

A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/
archive/2007-02/2007-02-28-voa2.cfm?
CFID=176773832&CFTOKEN=18763637

18 of the smartest minds in the world…

How many scientists refuted the “consensus”?

Was it 19?
Nope.

Was it 29?
Nope

How about 400!

Yes you read that right FOUR HUNDRED Scientists.

Read about it here.
It’s in a report from the US Senate
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.SenateReport

“Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming. These scientists, many of whom are current and former participants in the UN IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), criticized the climate claims made by the UN IPCC and former Vice President Al Gore.”

And that’s just the start of it…

Please read the report. The level of the scientists there will astound you.

Now the nonsense being promoted by Al Gore, Seth the Science reporter Borenstein, and the like would have gone over years ago.

This is how Propaganda works.

Get a message. Control the content. Give only your side or a very watered down other side.

They are doing their best to twist facts for their purpose. They hope people will not really take the time to discover the truth. As said in the TV show the X-Files… “The Truth is out there.”

In fact, thanks to the Internet it is far, far, far harder to use propaganda.

Why?

Because propaganda depends on the ability of the few to control the information the many (that would be us) get.

So those in newspapers control what you read.
The “journalists” control what “facts” go into their stories.
The editors control what stories get into the “news” and where they are placed.

When the public (that would be you and I) can find the facts on our own… we can get to the real story. We can find the real truth, and we can not be fooled.

Their attempts to obfuscate the truth are doomed to fail. Unless and until they (the few) can completely regulate ALL forms of communication.

So here’s to a Free Flowing of Information Future.

Oh and for the record… I do not dispute the earth seems to be getting warmer. I do dispute that mankind has anything to do with it, just as mankind has nothing to do with the temperatures in Mars rising at the same time the temperatures on the earth are.

And certainly mankind had nothing to do with the receding of the ice age in prehistoric times either… Though with “environmentalists” saying that cows farting are causing global warming… maybe it was dinosaur farts that caused the prehistoric ice age to come to an end.

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