- "The Press was protected so that it could bare the
secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained
press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among
the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of
the government from deceiving the people." --- Hugo L. Black, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice
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- "Our job is to give people not what they want, but
what we decide they ought to have."
- --- Richard Salent, Former President of CBS News
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- "There is no such thing, at this date of the world's
history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know
it The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright;
To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country
and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly
is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals
for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull
the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and or lives
are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
--- John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times (1953)
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- "We must use terror, assassination, intimidation,
land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee
of its Arab population." --- David Ben-Gurion, from Ben-Gurion, a
Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar (May 1948)
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- I admit it. I'm an Internet news junkie.
But, it keeps me off the street. Besides, I need something with which
to fill my empty hours since I stopped reading newspapers, watching broadcast
TV news and listening to broadcast talk radio.
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- Flitting around the Internet globe every morning provides
a worldview increasingly different from that afforded by traditional Western
media. How do I know that what I read is accurate when it diverges
from American news? Honestly, after years of this, I have learned
through bitter experience to ask the question the other way 'round.
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- Foreign news sources match up to each other much better
and their reporting rings true in a way that Fox News' doesn't. Even
the London Times is far more accurate than the LA Times, Washington Post
or NY Times these days. Besides, I have repeated experience at being
caught up in media events and know from firsthand experience all too well
just how much American media twists and distorts, compared to international
news sources.
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- There no longer is an American paper worth taking, sad
to say. Used to be, the LA Times was dispensed on Washington, DC
street corners in those ubiquitous yellow coin-operated boxes ... and for
good reason. These days, I'll check the headlines on major American
papers via the Internet, but when I read their articles, it really is to
evaluate the degree of slant on a particular story versus foreign reporting.
Though bad ever since Nixon was taken down, that slant has grown incredibly
steep during the current Bush regime.
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- There is American News and Then There is the Truth
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- Here are a few examples, just from the past day's news,
most of which you probably never will hear about from American news sources
and, if you do, will be tightly spun to support the Israeli party line:
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- 1. Two Lebanese Red Cross ambulances,
plainly marked and with emergency lights flashing, were shelled and strafed
by low-flying Israeli jets. Each took a precision, laser-guided American-made
missile through its roof, precisely in the middle of the cross. Your
tax dollars at work, folks. (Cross? Reminds me of a joke: Why
did the Jew cross the road? You'll find the answer in my most recent
column. Coincidence that the cross was holed dead center? Do
you believe in coincidence?) The ambulances carried Lebanese civilians
(an entire family) seriously injured in a previous attack upon civilian
targets. This is a war crime.
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- 2. Israeli Jets "accidentally"
attacked a UN observer post, despite flags and markings clearly designating
it as UN and despite unequivocal proof that they knew of it beforehand.
American media reported it because the UN is making a big deal about it
being intentional, but what isn't being reported is how many times that
post was attacked: fourteen times. Four UN observers died.
A mistake, says Israel. Fourteen coincidental mistakes. Do
you believe in coincidence? Like Israel's 1967 repeated attacks upon
the USS Liberty, this is a war crime, but America's veto will prevent the
UN from lodging even a formal complaint. Also like the USS Liberty:
Do you suppose the UN observers were observing something that Israel did
not want reported? Or do you believe in coincidence?
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- 3. Israel told Lebanese civilians
to get out of harm's way in southern Lebanon, then proceeded to bomb the
roads and bridges necessary for that exit. Not satisfied, Israel
then fired upon Lebanese families on the open road who were trying to leave,
just as they had been told to do by Israel. One of those families
was in the ambulances noted above. This is a war crime.
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- 4. One-third of the casualties
in Lebanon are children, proving that Israel not only is not attempting
to miss civilians, but is actively targeting them (as if the point directly
above did not prove that all by itself). This is a war crime.
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- 5. Israel is employing true
weapons of mass destruction (banned internationally) - both antipersonnel
cluster bombs and chemical weapons that burn people in a way doctors never
before have seen. These chemical weapons victims are all civilians,
25% of them children. Go here for some truly grim pictures of what
Israel has wrought. This is a war crime.
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- 6. The full extent of Lebanon's
destruction by Israel, resulting in the displacement of 800,000 civilians
so far, makes plain the intent to extinguish it as a nation, yet another
war crime.
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- 7. For sure, you will not be
shown this short video made by Iraqi defenders and directed to us, the
American people.
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- 8. Supposedly, this is all about
two soldiers kidnapped by Hezbollah. However, though initially reported
correctly - that the two Israeli soldiers were inside Lebanon when captured
- the media spin changed the affair into a kidnapping from within Israel
after day one.
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- Here - let me give you a single Internet news amalgamator
so you can take a short cut to reality if you so desire: www.WhatReallyHappened.com
. You will get from that site a smorgasbord of world reporting that
has the site owner's slant, to be sure, but notice how he throws in a good
deal of American reporting for balance, too. If I had to be marooned
on a desert island and could take only one Internet news site access with
me, it would be WhatReallyHappened.com.
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- I've noticed a pattern in American reporting: At
the outset of any new and startling event, the reporting almost is accurate,
if grotesquely incomplete (we never get pictures of dead civilians in Palestine,
for example). However, once the party line gets laid down, anywhere
from 8 to 24 hours later, the reporting changes and goes into lockstep.
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- Case Study in Media Deception and the Red Pill
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- For example, during the first 24 hours of the reporting
about the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Building (you know - Timothy
McVeigh and his incredible plant-food bomb), a lot of truth got reported
by local and national news sources. Truth like unexploded bombs being
carried out of the building by bomb squad members ... two explosions ...
two men in the Ryder rental truck parked in front of the building ... that
sort of thing. Then came the lockdown across every single media outlet
and the party line emerged: one explosion ... one guy in the truck
... no bombs in the building ... militia bad guys responsible, etc.
Early footage that conflicted with the party line went down the memory
hole, thereafter accessible only from videotapes made by private citizens
from the start of coverage.
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- I mention the OKC bombing for a reason: that was
the single event in which I chose to immerse myself so deeply that I could
not fail to learn whether or not our government was involved, even if only
after the fact. What I learned was to confirm my then-growing suspicions
and was, in fact, bone chilling: America's current government gladly
will kill its own citizens (that's you and I, boys and girls) in a heartbeat
in order to advance a political point or to consolidate and increase its
power.
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- The Murrah Building shortly after the explosion.
This is precisely where McVeigh's truck sat (the one that allegedly was
vaporized except for the pristine rear axle found 500 feet away).
How odd ... there doesn't seem to be a bomb crater in the street,
does there?
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- A couple of my very earliest Internet essays, back in
pre-9/11 2001, concerned OKC, with one presenting an in-depth report and
recap of all the evidence supporting my conclusions: Dr. McStrangeveigh
- or, How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the OKC bomb . I challenge
you to read it and not come away with my conclusion, incidentally.
Here's how I explained, at that time, why I decided to get involved in
that mess in the first place:
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- "For some reason, it has seemed important for my
own personal progress to get as close to the bottom of this matter as I
could. Not because I could reach any insight that hasn't already
been attained by others with better research skills than my own, but because
I seem to have chosen this single event as the one with which to reach
a decision about my government our government, that is.
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- "The OKC bombing has drawn me like a magnet and
forced me to ferret out as much as I could, with the idea that, once I
got to the bottom of things, I finally could choose up sides in this brewing
rebellion that seems destined to split apart our country. Not because
of OKC itself, you see, but because of it and so many other things to which
OKC seems to be related: Waco, Trade Center bombing, TWA Flight 800,
Ruby Ridge, Vince Foster and Ron Brown, among so many others. The
relationship isn't necessarily direct, though many of the same faces do
seem to be appearing again and again.
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- "The appearance of impropriety was passed long ago
and the time has come, for me at least, either to put aside all this 'conspiracy
theory' crap or to take the red pill and wake up.
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- "I have reached my decision and fear that I am lost,
never again to be normal."
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- Nor have I been the same since. I already had
awakened prior to my OKC investigation, but that investigation provided
the bedrock for my new world view.
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- Merely allowing yourself to read this essay indicates
that, at a minimum, you are on the cusp of awakening, in case you were
wondering.
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- Time now is very short. Already, it is too late
to prevent the economic collapse of the American economy. It may
be too late to prevent World War III and America's certain destruction.
But there still is time to prepare for the recovery.
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- New America. An idea whose time has come.
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- My name is Edgar J. Steele. Thanks for listening.
Please visit my web site, www.ConspiracyPenPal.com, for other messages
just like this one.
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- (Part two of this article coming very soon.) -ed
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