The Oil Drum

indeed Mike.  that is why most informed Americans (which there are few) don't look to mainstream TV or radio for their information.  it makes it more difficult, but you gotta know you're being fed propaganda if all u do is watch/read corporately controlled media coverage.  

To be fair, its not so much that people need to look away from the US for information, its more that they need to look away from the mass media.

RealClimate is a US site for example, and you can't get much better information about global warming than you do there...

in israeli american media circles (which is to say, most of the american mainstream), it's common knowledge that global warming, sea level rise and peak oil are all antisemitic plots designed to show that israel and israeli americans had a motive to stage 9/11 and the ensuing wars in the middle east. all those theories are based on bad science foisted upon an unsuspecting and gullible american by neofascists and tree huggers.

of course, the deathwish christians of pat robertson's ilk have had a motive to expel palestinian arabs from jerusalem since the 1830s, when a young scotswoman had a vision of christians being raptured out of their socks once the temple is rebuilt on the temple mount, which is now the site of the al aqsa mosque, which sharon visited with a small army in september of 2000, which kicked off the current intifada, which coincided with PNAC's call for a "new pearl harbor".

i wish i was making this up.

i won't mention cheney's 1999 speech about peak oil at the london institute of petroleum, cheney's may 2000 call for the construction of 1300 to 1900 new power plants ---mostly nuke no doubt--- or his energy policy development group's emphasis (june 2001) on nukes and hydrogen.

i wont mention those things because that would lead to speculation that 9/11 was staged to provide the pretext for the middle east/central asian wars now in progress, which are necessary, as per PNAC, to control china's access to energy before it becomes a rival militarily to the usa.

and i won't mention those things since that might lead to speculation that these wars are also needed to capture enough oil to sell at high enough prices to finance the conversion to hydrogen.

all three factions mentioned above ---the likudnik israeli americans, the deathwish christians, and the corporate fascists like cheney--- are represented in the makeup of PNAC, and PNAC more-or-less called for "a new pearl harbor" to kickstart the wars in september of 2000.

don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player