Insist on the Truth

One of my favorite sources for news about the conflict in Iraq is a war correspondent Michael Yon. He works for no news bureau. He simply blogs and asks for donations. This makes him very independent.

He doesn’t usually comment on the obvious news filter that exists today, but in his most recent article he talked at length about it.

Here is an important question for every Truthseeker reader. There is overwhelming evidence that all three major networks plus CNN and the major news services, AP, Reuters, and BBC, filter and slant news about the Iraq conflict. Knowing that, do you then seek other sources of news to find out what reality is or do you simply accept what they are telling you? Are you insulted that these news organizations attempt to guide the masses with their carefully shaped version of reality or are you simply OK with their version?

Michael Yon doesn’t have an editor or boss that steers the subject matter. What you see is what you get. In this article, he is not only disappointed in the media; I sense he is disappointed in us as well. He expresses a little bit of my passion. In his recent article titled “Resistance is futile: You will be (mis)informed” he comments, “America seems to be under a glass dome which allows few hard facts from the field to filter in unless they are attached to a string of false assumptions.”

In July of this year, Michael tried to offer an article to AP. The Americans and Iraqi Army found a mass grave of civilians killed in Baqubah by Al Qaeda.. This was absent from the news reports while unsubstantiated stories of Americans killing Iraqis were being published. (Remember Murtha and the Haditha Marines) Michael, who was with the military when the mass grave was discovered, documented what he had found. He offered his story, complete with pictures to the AP, under the assumption that AP would like a factual, on the scene account. His offer: “Would you publish the truth of this story if I gave it all to you for free?” AP was not interested! They told him that no military report or AP reporter new of the story, so – no story. He sent them a picture that he took of the AP correspondent who was with him and the General who investigated it. AP has yet to respond back. Meanwhile, months later the Haditha Marines have been exonerated!

Today, he writes about how Iraq is a different place because of the efforts of General Petreaus. There is a tremendously important story breaking but there is no interest in it. He is concerned that we don’t understand that because of a disingenuous media that long ago decided the outcome and for political reasons is sticking to that scenario. He laments, “No thinking person would look at last year’s weather reports to judge whether it will rain today . . .”

Thinking person? You mean a person who is not afraid to challenge a media with an obvious and proven agenda?

If more people in America were aware of the truth about the conflict in Iraq they would cease to be fooled by the rhetoric they hear from the press and the Democratic leadership. The Democratic Party line dovetails nicely with the mainstream media storyline. What ever their excuse is for not allowing the truth to be told, what is the American peoples’ excuse for failing to be truthseekers?

Quiz

Test for you! Who said it?

1)"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."

A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005


Here is the source of the quiz.

It appears as of today that Hillary Clinton will win the nomination for the Democrats. I don’t believe that she will take any chances on her running mate. I believe she will pick Barak Obama. That would give them a pretty solid left of center to extreme left coalition. It would also guarantee the full resources of the mainstream media and the money and power of Moveon.org. This team would not have to venture very far to the right at all. Hillary’s ability to talk at times as a centrist will be enough to bring in the needed extras to put them over the top. The centrist voters they could fool into voting for them would be gravy and will be ignored after the inauguration.

To the Top of the Continent

In September we went to Banff in Alberta, Canada. I have never been to a more beautiful place. Even though Banff is virtually straight north of home, it is on the other side of the Continental Divide in the Rocky Mountains. The Banff/Lake Louise area is similar to the Yellowstone area in the way that it is, for some reason, a uniquely beautiful location with more wonders per square mile than you could imagine . It reminds me that God loves beauty and he created a few incredibly beautiful places so that we can enjoy them, too.

This is Mount Rundle. It is over 10,000 feet high. Most of the peaks there are.


We're 9,600 feet high (courtesy of a tram).


I love this sign. Which road shall we take?