The Anti-Gentrification Bandwagon

The Term "Gentrification" has been used describe the natural economic process where investors buy low value properties and redevelop those properties. The process usually begins with a single project and results in the increase of adjacent property values.

However, it is more often used by "progressives" as a cudgel and as a hot button to raise the ugly spirit of class envy.

When activists rant about gentrification, they go on about how people are losing their heritage and their homes. With the issue painted in colours of greed and avarice over the backdrop of hardship and despair that is where the progressive theme stops. Not once will you ever hear from the bandwagon drum beaters the rest of the story.

Because? The rest of the story is about how people are trapped by the decay and neglect that originates in and becomes pervasive in their own community.

Ask a homeowner if they would like to see their own property value go up. Ask them if they would like to be able to use that home value to repair or upgrade their own property. Ask them if they would like to have that bigger nest egg to retire.  Ask any of the residents if they'd like to see some stores or jobs in their neighbourhood. Ask them if they'd like to see the derelict properties raised and the empty lots cleaned up or put to use.

The activists won't ask and they won't tell that story either.

Because activism is all about stopping progress and keeping people in their place.

The Anti-Gentrification Bandwagon

Maybe ask why a newspaper feels that it is their job to be the mouthpiece for those activists

Hat Tip to Black and Right

 OMMAG

Is AP the Presidential Gaffe Filter?

Obama and his attempt to broaden the receptive audience for his message propaganda by appearing on late night TV was doomed to failure from the start. Without the teleprompter front and center there was no way that he would get through the staged interview without committing his usual sort of gaffe. I won't even get into the bald faced BS he offered in regard domestic spying and evesdropping efforts by the NSA. What I will point out is that we have a repeat display of his fundamental ignorance of  basic geography because, once again he slipped up on a matter of fact that concerns the USA.

Ordinarily, I do not believe that anyone should be broadly criticized for such gaffes. However, when it is the goddamned president of the US, there is no excuse. In fact, the habitual misspeaking of Obama on matters of what and where things are in the physical body of the USA is a symptom of something that should be questioned. I say that this is an extension of his underlying contempt for the country he has been elected to serve. A sort of tic that manifests when the underlying stress of pretending to give a shit becomes too much for the fragile ego of the narcissist.

But of course there are those standing there, ready, willing and able to help cover up these public verbal twitches. One such helpful agent of the presidential protection volunteers is Associated Press and their agent Russ Bynum who took up the cause and edited what was already said in public in order to smooth over the gaffe in the realm of print.

If we don't deepen our ports all along the Gulf — places like Charleston, South Carolina, or Savannah, Georgia, or Jacksonville, Florida — if we don't do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. And we’ll lose jobs. Businesses won’t locate here.



 What Obama said was not what AP printed.

 AP added the the words ... And In ... to the line "places like..." in a blatant effort to smooth over the factual error and cover up  the habitual tic of the president. The media lies to protect their favorites.

Remember this and apply the question to every thing you read or hear in the media.

OMMAG

MSNBC Filtering The Story

Filtering out the stuff they don't want the public to see ... because it clashes with the broadcaster's own dogma and the lies they tell every day.

To be sure ... MSNBC and CNCB and NBC are the worst of the bunch in US media promoting liberalism and misrepresentation of all things conservative.

But if you don't pay attention then you don't ever get to see how the attempt to play the role of "Great and Powerful OZ". Those of us who DO pay attention may from time to time, tire of the constant and self serving dishonesty of the Mainstream Media .... but it remains constant and virtually impossible to avoid. Short of drinking the "coolaide" and giving up on all semblance of sense and critical thinking, the only escape from the perverse press and other media, is to never glance at a paper or turn on a TV or radio ... or view the internet.
The gist of this rant ....

Is all about the fact that while one of the liberal media' favorite themes about conservatives in general and the Republican party in the USA is that we are all just "old white people".
Sure ... old white people tend to be inclined to follow common sense and behave with dignity.
This seems to be something the MSM liberals need to either ignore or in some way demonize. Otherwise, how would they be able to justify their false claims about the participation of non-white and young people in major conservative affairs?

The pathetic thing about this, of course is that so many actually believe the BS being spewed by the likes of MSNBC. But this goes way beyond pathetic ignorance in the public because it is a deliberate and sustained effort of the self appointed arbitors and editors of what is an what is not in fact going on. The MSM as typified by MSNBC refuse to tell the whole story (another problem that I have elaborated on in the past) especially when that story contradicts the most vile aspects of their own agenda.

It is quite surprising how effective this becomes through constant abuse of their media channels. It becomes painfully apparent when they cannot bring themselves to cover ANY of the GoP convention presentations by NON white members and participants. In short MSNBC and the rest of the MSM are attempting to hide the fact that minority citizens DO NOT align themselves with liberals and democrats alone.

Nothing short of evil... because they know damned well that they contribute to racial and social divisions by perpetuating lies.

In lieu of airing speeches from former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, a black American; Mia Love, a black candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Utah; and Texas senatorial hopeful Ted Cruz, a Latino American, MSNBC opted to show commentary anchored by Rachel Maddow from Rev. Al Sharpton, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Chris Hayes and Steve Schmidt.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/28/msnbc-abandons-gop-convention-during-every-speech-by-a-minority/#ixzz24yoVsqwb

Ya got that? ..... instead of showing presentations by Conservative members of visible minority groups ... MSNBC chose to show a  a segment fronted by a deranged liberal commentator (Madow), a deranged black racist (Sharpton) and a panel of FOUR dyed in the wool conservative bashing media hacks.

While I have been asked many times over the last decade to SHOW evidence of my assertions about liberal bias in the media, I have never had a problem doing so. 

The real question that needs to be asked is "How the hell can anyone not be aware of this?"

OMMAG

Medvedev Ghost Writer for NY Times

Echoing that ... "Give me room..." episode where Obama was caught asking for political backstopping from the Russian PM ..... to act as emissary to Vlad Putin.

NYT Op-Ed contributor uses the same plea ...

It aint NEWS people .... when the media are in the tanks for one side .... it's a campaign.

And the mainstream media NEVER stop campaigning for THEIR  team ....


OMMAG

It's ALL About the Children .... and the Future ... and The Earth ....Right?

Kind of interesting how most of these big dollar "Green Initiative" projects get sold to the public with that sort of horse crap! After all ... who can be against "Children" and their "Future"  and "Good Old Mother Earth"

Well!  When big time connected Democrats profit from government Largess .....

You don't hear  Jack Squat in your network news and mainstream bird cage liners accounts of current events.
On the other hand you have people like Andrew Breitbart  who seem to be able to find the time to ask a few questions and offer a few facts about these parasites.

Robert F. Kennedy for one .... who got 1.4 Billion Dollars handed to him through one of his pals. That pal who also happened to be an ex employee of Kennedy's business venture ... just happened to get appointed to a Department of Energy position where ..... wait for it! ......he was able to approve the 1.4 billion bucks for his old pal.

Seems the only "children" in this equation are the descendents of Democrat Robber Barons and their future financial security on this Earth.

Did you hear about this in the NEWS ....??

No?

Go Figure ....................


OMMAG

The $1.5 Billion Election Campaign

Since the CBC seems determined to have their attack dogs Milewski and co. cover up every embarrassment to the Count of Iggula and BASICALLY LIE about every incident involving our PM Mr. Harper ... it seems to me that at least by the time this election is over Elections CA ... should be investigating the expenditures and unauthorized campaign contributions.

In the mean time ... SDA covers the bases ....
To summarize ....
A CBC reporter at an event in BC asks a good question about the connections of a Conservative candidate being run against the perennial parasite Ujal Dosanjh .... the reporter gets his answer ... and the crowd cheers ..... the reporter tries to get the answer repeated in FRENCH ... and the PM complies ....the crowd continues to cheer .... basically the crowd was tired of the reporter and let him know it.
The reporter Trenchcoat Terry Milewski ... embarrasses himself

So how does this get reported by the Globe ?

Tory crowd drowns out question about support from man acquitted in Air India

Add to this .. the CBC/CTV etal parroting the Globe report which in itself is a misrepresentation of what really happened .... and ... spinning the story into some sort of conspiracy to silence those Moral and Intellectual Superiors of the media and you get a bald faced and self serving lie delivered at your expense by the same Partisan Tools that are working overtime to determine what the public "Should" be thinking about our political situation.

The situation for the MSM is what you might call "Pot Committed" .... they continue to overplay their hand in defence of the string of bad plays they have been making in this game.

They are in short ... desperate .... and I like to see it.

Related ....

The First American Prime Minister, At The Ice Hockey Game Booed by Crowd ... Thanks to Kate at SDA ... yet again...

The liberal press corps .... on the job and all over that .... right?

OMMAG

The CBC Effect ...

One of my favourite blogs !NoPasaran! ... has discovered that according to something called "The British Council" Canadians are as smugly self righteous in their views of the USA as are those paragons of self importance .... the Europeans....

From Joe Noory at NP......

"Europeans, permanently putting America on trial, can’t seem to get a bone out of their throats: for all their resentment, they have no-one out there to do for them what the United States does.

Asked to rate US impact on the issue most important to them, views are even more negative. On average, 61 percent have a negative view, with just 29 percent positive. Indeed, majorities in
all countries except one have majorities holding a negative view. The one exception is Poland, which is divided – 44 percent negative, 41 percent positive.

Canadians are 62 percent negative.

The arrogance is in the questions. The only way the “impact us” conclusions make any sense to discuss is if you naturally assume that the United States exist to serve your interests at its’ own expense. It actually doesn’t....."

If there is any doubt in your mind that this exactly the direction that your self appointed moral and intellectual betters would like you to go .... well... there shouldn't be. The Canadian liberal establishment have a long history of holding up the Euros as shining examples of good sense and good governance ... a special class of humanity that has it all figured out .... such elan ... such panache.... such a wonder of social justice is the EU that we should be following their lead in every way.
And it is easy .... peasy ....nice and greasy .... since the mindset has already been established.

Even if it means going right down the toilet .... just like Europe has done.


Just a closing thought .... What do you suppose the poll results would be if a few qualifying questions were used to determine whether those anti American sentiments were actually the result of some understanding .... or rather the result of the continual drip of the liberal media?

OMMAG

Globe&Mail ...

Commissions a poll so they can say that "Canadians" are starting to like Count Igula......

This is why I mock .... mock .... mock .... and despise the MSM.

LOSERS


OMMAG

The Progressive Propaganda Business

Yet another gem from the New york Times ....
In an op-ed from some joker named Bob Herbert at the Times:

"Losing Our Way" the opinionist offers a conflated argument that claims evil conservative forces are attempting to infringe upon "The Rights" of academics by making legal requests for information. The requests in question have to do with communications by State Empoyees that violate policies and laws concerning the use of Public resources for Personal and Political activities.

Of course .... in the eyes of the progressive elite there actually exists something called academic rights .... so as usual the entire argument of a left wing elitist begins with a false proposition.

So what is positioned as an informed opinion on a topical matter is in fact nothing but an anti-conservative .... anti-republican ... propaganda article.

But what the heck ... that's their Job! Right?

OMMAG

Shine a Light on the Media Frauds

Found in a post at SDA today .... Northern Insights noticed one of the usual culprits ... in this case Global TV ..... spiking the news with unrelated video.


Some people were surprised!

Not OMMAG

The MSM

The Globe & Mail.......... as if they were designated water bearers and scrotum lickers for OBozo:


Of all the criticism he’s taken – from the “socialist” barbs to charges he can’t emote – perhaps nothing should bother Mr. Obama more than Gen. McChrystal’s intimation (made through an unidentified adviser) that he is unengaged and uninformed about the war that could define his presidency.

Almost every other account of Mr. Obama’s command of the topic suggests, on the contrary, a President so well-informed and razor sharp as to constantly disarm top military brass, challenging their assumptions and their advice.

Yeah sure ... bozo.

In the world inhabited by main stream morons.

OMMAG

Back to Politics Canadian Style

Where the MSM leads every story with either a LIberal talking point ... slur or lie.

Yeah Right!

OMMAG

Obama White House Texting It In to Iran

Surprisingly ... Associated Press reports on this:

The White House WASHINGTON (AP) — White House officials phoned a blogger from a popular left-leaning Web site on Monday evening to tell him that President Barack Obama had been impressed with his online reporting about Iran. Could the writer pass along a question from an Iranian during the president's news conference on Tuesday?

Irony on a number of levels



Read the whole thing! for the question and answer! Aside from the piss poor effort of CP to actually report the question, The Teleprompter was too precious ... Throwing Iranians Under the bus... of course ... At least they should no longer be under any illusion that the Obama White House is going to do anything substantive for them ... not even offering moral support.

I like this part :
"Given his substantive contacts and reporting in Iran, answering Pitney's question seemed like the best way to communicate to the Iranian people....."

OF COURSE!
Being a lefty sycophantic tool had NOTHING to do with it !



OMMAG

Your Moral Superiors

Brought to you by : SDA

A glance at the workings in the offices of ...
The Arbitors of Morality!

So the point is that because the LIberal leader was shown embarrassing himself, this became a breach of conduct.

However, the daily and innumerable slurs and fabrications coming out of the very same Media were not?

BECAUSE?

Somebody please get a shovel over to the CBSC offices !

OMMAG
....

"Once in a while the MSM does report about LI berals without covering up for them.
Then it's necessary for the bureaucrats to step in and "Correct" that mistake."

Now just imagine what is going on the other 99% of the time.

Because I know Who Actually Poses A Threat ...

To the wellbeing of myself and my children...

"Alleged white supremacist mother says kids were coached by child welfare staff"

... Manitoba Child and Family Services removed the girl and her younger brother from the family home last year after the girl showed up at her elementary school with white supremacist symbols and slogans drawn on her skin in permanent marker ...

"I think my daughter was either force-fed to say these things ... or she was coaxed, maybe into saying them, if she did in fact say them,"


Sure Canadian Press ... vilify the straw man ... The victim here regardless of the distasteful personal views ... and raise up the culprits ... who impose the soulless will of the state without compunction or rightful cause.

On a scale of 0 to 10 of who holds the potential to cause any real harm in our world ... its' the Nanny Statists who score a clear TEN and the simpleton Racists a total ZERO !

File this one under "Know Your Enemy" among other things.

OMMAG

It's the 5 Step Program...

Here we go again.... It's the Five Step Propaganda Spin Cycle from the usual supsects.

After first creating a story: "Harper Caucus split by infighting over Mulroney" .. Anonymous Sources..... Yeah anonymous.

The spending a couple of weeks fanning what they hope will be embers into smoke: "Harper denies..." blahblahblah....... CP/CBC/CTV/ Globe etc..

Then we get the Polling by the usual suspects... Courtesy Allen Gregg & Strategic Counsel

Finally if the poll results support the original fabrication we get those presented to us as FACTS and PROOF that the whole thing is for real.

Stay tuned for a few more sudden revelations from "anonymous" sources and repeat of the spin cycle. Don't be surprised to see a resurrection of the "Scary Hidden Agenda" either.

OMMAG

Think Tanks A Game of One Upsmanship

Ah! Master D .. so you missed the weekend's efforts to stir faux controversy? Did you know that the Harper Cabinet is all in a tizzy and a turmoil over KHS v Mulroney ??

Did you miss the science program informing us that Giant Meteors exploding in the atmosphere wiped out the dinosaurs?
Apparently if it happens AGAIN there is nothing we can do about it.

So it goes with the CBofC .... having nothing of substance to offer .... they offer .... nothing of substance!

Hey is that Irony? Or what?

The CBofC puts out frequent reports that it cites as being based on their research. I've watch for years as they are a favorite of CBC/CTV/Globe media..... the sole purpose of these so called reports is to attract attention and hopefully drum up some business.
The fact that MSMers are too stupid to realize this or that they just don't care because it serves to support their own memes...... that's no surprise!
It's called Media Professionals at Work.

And so another day passes with the wearers of large floppy shoes running around in circles and and falling down with large red noses into each others buts.

OH yes I forgot to Hat Tip Darcey at www.dustmybroom.com

OMMAG

Michael Ignatieff has caught the attention of the New York Times?

Bumped .... Because CP is now working overtime to do even better!

The Canadian Press takes notice :


"serving as the subject of a largely fawning profile Sunday that described the Liberal leader as a keen intellect waiting in the wings to assume power. "

And seems a bit miffed that someone else has beaten them to the punch on this:

"His ascendancy puts his country on the cusp of an unusual moment, in some ways a throwback to the era of the dashing Pierre Trudeau, another smart-set intellectual who served as prime minister," the Times' Eric Konigsberg wrote.

Well it only goes to show who knows and loves their effete LIberal elites the best.

When it comes to fawning adoration of the breed the New York Times writers and publishers have no doubt about where they stand ( or squat ).

Canadian Press ..... wishing they were the NYT.

OMMAG

A Canadian Press Headline

"Calls grow louder for Ottawa to repatriate Khadr as Obama halts Gitmo Trials!"

Yeah sure whatever ..... if the sound of your own voice reverberating in the space between your ears is what you were waiting for.

Stay tuned for plenty more of this as the MSMers continue their public masturbation in the belief that OBAMA means that everything they say or do is somehow now legitimized.

OMMAG

Back To The MSM - No Pretense of Being Un-Biased

Observe the difference in the handling of these two articles.

1) The LIberal Leadership :

Headline -
"Ignatieff kicks off Liberal leadership bid with attack on Harper"

Followed by simple and uncritical prose about the subject..... no characterizations of divisive internal strife for the LIberals no sir! Read the rest as CP reporter Joan Bryden has her own "little love in" on the matter of the Natural Governing Party's search for the next #1 self righteous ass and political dead meat leader. How earnest she is! With plenty of juicy quotes and quips from LIberal pols who may or may not be in actual contention for the position of keeper of the the faith for the MSM and other institutionalized bastions of our self proclaimed betters.

All the while hoping that by not discussing the facts of the situation she may help to avoid a repeat of "Things having gone wrong for no understandable reason." No discussion of the elephant(s) in the room from Joan and CP when in LIb-Land. Just a steady comforting drone punctuated with moments of slightly breathless excitement as they rub their naughty bits in anticipation of the great resurrection they hope to have us believe is imminent.

2) The Conservative Convention :

Headline - "A few wrinkles develop at Tory love-in"

Followed by a feeble attempt to characterize the actual debate of policies as something that is inherently problematic. The unattributed piece from CP offers NO comment or quotation from anyone connected with the party . Nope ... Conservatives are scary and whatever they are doing is not good for us.

OK by me!

It does not really matter much if you don't talk to people or do research or check any facts before you make up a story. Anymore than it matters if you go and get facts, quotes do research and then make up a story.

At the end of the day what you are telling us is that all you do is make up stories that fit your own POV.

OMMAG