News story: Real story:
Global warming threatens world & people. We need excuses for more taxes and less freedom.
Lead-based paint destroys kids’ brains. Special interests have a profitable replacement.
Freon is destroying the ozone layer. Some company has a profitable replacement.
Drilling for oil must be stopped! Political contributors have profitable wells.
Public transportation needs funding. Big unions want to stop freedom of transportation.
Nuclear energy is dangerous. Coal and oil protects high-profit power.
Pressure treated lumber kills children. Lumber sellers want wood to rot faster.
Ethanol helps. Farm state senators want more for their corn.
Support public education. The usual people want more money.
Special interests are behind public relations campaigns. Public relations campaigns are behind most headlines and broadcasts. As an intellectual exercise, Catholic Fundamentalists look behind the headlines by asking “who benefits?” The answers, as above, are obvious. It’s also obvious that those involved do not care as much about truth as about profit.
Love the poor, lost souls. They do not understand that, by participating in what Dante called “Complex Frauds” that they give up access to The Programmer and His joyful, error-free life beyond.