You
Shall Not Bear False Witness: 25 Uncomfortable Facts
The
Mainstream Media Wouldn't Discuss in 2015
by Rev. Paul
J. Bern
The Ninth
Commandment, as it written in the Book of Exodus chapter 20 along
with other nine, is very explicit – you shall not lie (or “thou
shalt not”, if you prefer). Yet for its entire existence, humankind
has developed a remarkable propensity for ever more sophisticated
forms of deception. For example, during the Hitler dictatorship in
Germany from the 1930's up to the mid-40's, there was a branch of the
government called "The Ministry of Propaganda" that dished
out a torrent of profane distortions about Jewish people, and later
the outcome of the war itself. It was headed by a guy named Joseph
Goebbels, who committed suicide at the end of the war rather than
face capture, which would surely have been followed by a death
sentence at the Nuremberg Trials. Today in America, we have a similar
position within the White House staff that we call the Press
Secretary, who can be seen regularly on the evening news. He serves
the same function, he just has a far more innocuous title than
"Propaganda Minister". This person's job – and I have
noticed regular personnel changes – is to spoon-feed the media the
information du joir of
the day. Everybody knows that the media is told what to say and how
to say it, and yet there were remarkably few protests about it up
until about 2011 or so. This was during the mushrooming of the Arab
Spring, which led to the “Occupy Wall St.” and “we are the 99%”
Movements, and more recently into the “Black Lives Matter”
protests, all of which are still very much active today. So this
week's message is my small contribution towards demanding some
genuine truth and authenticity from our news sources. No more US
Government propaganda please, we're all fed up with the government!
Not so much America, mind you, just the government.
For
decades, the mainstream media in the United States was accustomed to
being able to tell the American people what to think and how to think
it. Unfortunately for them, a whole lot of Americans are starting to
break free from that paradigm and think for themselves. Contrary to
what many atheists and agnostics are saying, this includes a
significant number of people of faith like myself. A Gallup survey
from 2012 found that 60 percent of all Americans “have little or no
trust” in the mainstream media. That number is now exceeding 80
percent here at the dawn of 2016. More people than ever are realizing
that the mainstream media is giving them a very distorted version of
current events and human history, and they are increasingly seeking
out alternative sources of information. In the United States today,
just six giant media corporations control the mainstream media. Those
giant media corporations own television networks, cable channels,
movie studios, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, publishing
houses, music labels and even many prominent websites. But now,
thanks to the Internet the mainstream media no longer has a complete
monopoly on the news. In recent years the “alternative media”
(Alternet, Infowars, Democracy Now, Bill Moyers, Truthdig, etc.) has
exploded in popularity. People want to hear about the things that the
mainstream media doesn’t really want to talk about. They want to
hear news that is not filtered by corporate bosses and government
censors. They want “the whole damn truth”, and they know that
they are not getting it from the mainstream media. That's also one of
the primary reasons why people are doing away with cable TV as I
have. It's not just the money saved from unsubscribing to cable TV,
it's the fact that everybody knows everything they are watching is a
load of BS!!
We are
watching a media revolution happen, and many influential people in
the traditional media are totally freaking out about it. In fact,
some in the traditional or “lame stream” media have even begun
publishing articles that mock the American people for not trusting
the MSM. For example, a 2012 CNN article entitled, “Still
‘Paranoid’ After All These Years” portrayed Americans that
don’t trust the media as paranoid conspiracy theorists that have
left rationality behind. Ever have the feeling you’re being lied to
by the news media, the authorities, the corporate world? That
somebody — or something — is out to get you? You’re not alone,
and you're not losing your mind, either. Welcome to 21st-century
America. Look around. Trust is hitting historic lows. Less than one
fifth of Americans have a favorable view of the federal government, a
decline of about 40% since 2002, according to the Pew Center for
People and the Press. Gallup has Congress’ approval rating down in
the low teens. And the news media aren’t much better off. “Negative
opinions about the performance of news organizations now equal or
surpass all-time highs on nine of 12 core measures the Pew Research
Center has been tracking since 1985,” a Pew report said back in the
summer of 2013. The article goes on to make it sound like it is very
irrational not to trust the media, but in this day and age it is
imperative that we all learn to think for ourselves. Pardon me if
this seems a bit too blunt, but blindly trusting someone else to do
your thinking for you is both very dangerous and very lazy. Contrary
to what all the conformists have been saying, it's perfectly OK to be
skeptical!
Anyone that
does not acknowledge that the mainstream media has an agenda is
either really naive or they're not being honest with themselves. The
mainstream media presents a view of the world that is very favorable
to their big corporate owners and the big corporations that spend
billions of dollars to advertise on their networks. The mainstream
media is the mouthpiece of the Establishment, and the worldview being
pushed on the big networks is going to be consistent with the
economic, financial, political and social goals of the Establishment.
The mainstream media loves to talk about things that fit with that
agenda, and they don’t like to talk about things that suggest that
there is something wrong with that agenda. The following are 25 facts
that the mainstream media doesn’t really want to talk about,
because they are all 'red flags' that tell us that theirs is an
agenda for a system broken beyond repair:
#1
The mainstream media doesn’t really want to talk about the fact
that gun sales are absolutely skyrocketing in the aftermath of all
the mass shootings everywhere. Americans from all backgrounds are
arming themselves to the teeth!
#2
They also don’t really want to talk about the fact that disarming
the population has resulted in some of the most horrific massacres in
human history.
- 1911 – Turkey disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1915 – 1917 they murdered 1.5 million Armenians.
- 1929 – Russia disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1929 – 1953 they murdered 20 million Russians.
- 1935 – China disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1948 – 1952 they murdered 20 million Chinese.
- 1938 – Germany disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1939 – 1945 they murdered 6 million Jews and slaughtered 34 million others.
- 1956 – Cambodia disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1975 – 1977 they murdered 1 million educated people.
- 1964 – Guatemala disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1964 – 1981 they murdered 100,000 Mayan Indians.
- 1970 – Uganda disarmed it’s citizens, and between 1971 – 1979 they murdered 300,000 Christians.
#3
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that a bill allowing
for the “indefinite military detention of US citizens on American
soil” was quietly passed by the U.S. Senate more than 3 years ago.
Never mind that it's completely unconstitutional (see the Bill of
Rights to the US Constitution, namely the 4th,
5th and 8th
amendments).
#4
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that volcanoes all
along the Pacific ocean's “ring of fire” are roaring to life. It
seems like a new eruption is being reported every few days now, and
earthquakes globally are at an all time high.
#5
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that the use of
genetically engineered seeds has caused on explosion of new “super
weeds” that are incredibly difficult for farmers to kill.
#6
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that trends
forecasters globally are predicting a major financial disaster in
2016.
#7
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that it is easier to
get into Harvard than it is to get a job as a flight attendant in
America today.
#8
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that over 500 TSA
employees have been fired for stealing from travelers since 2003. Our
tax dollars hard at work. Nice.
#9
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that giant
corporations such as Facebook, GE, Halliburton and Citibank (among
numerous others) are funneling gigantic amounts of money through
offshore banking havens such as the Cayman Islands in an effort to
avoid taxes.
#10
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that the U.S. dollar
is in danger of losing its status as the primary reserve currency of
the world. If this were to occur – which is becoming increasingly
likely – financial calamity would surely follow. Such a calamity
would make the 2008 crash and the Great Depression seem like a
daycare center in comparison.
#11
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that they should be
doing a much better job keeping track of Wall Street speculators,
their bankers, and all their filthy lucre. Instead, the MSM has to
mention that president Barack Obama has gone off to vacation in
Hawaii while the rest of the nation works multiple part time jobs.
#12
They don't want to discuss the fact that one fourth of all homeless
people in America are children under the age of 12. This one social
injustice alone makes me ashamed to be an American. Moreover, like
the rest of the country, I too am one check away from becoming
homeless myself. For such a thing as this to be happening in what is
allegedly the world's richest country is absolutely inexcusable!
#13
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that the U.S. economy
is losing millions of jobs to nations where it is legal to pay
workers slave labor wages. Actually, this process is already started
in the US as well, due to the fact that no one can live on a minimum
wage paycheck of $7.25 an hour. The mainstream media is totally
married to the one world economic agenda that their corporate owners
make so much money from, and so they say nothing as a steady stream
of businesses and American middle class jobs continue to leave the
country.
#14
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that large numbers of
formerly patriotic Americans are leaving the country in droves
because they are completely disgusted with what America has become –
the world's largest arms merchant and biggest bully.
#15
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that hunger and
poverty are absolutely exploding in the United States at the same
time that they are telling us that the US economy has 'recovered'.
#16
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that North Korea now
has a three-stage rocket with enough range to potentially hit the
western United States.
#17
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that the United
States Postal Service is losing 25 million dollars a day and is on
the verge of financial collapse.
#18
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that our biggest oil
supplier in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia, still kills people for
changing religions.
#19
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that 'political
correctness' is taking over America. The truth is that the media does
not see any problem with that at all.
#20
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that nearly half a
million employees of the federal government are making more than
$100,000 a year.
#21
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that the birth rate
in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. The elite are
actually absolutely thrilled that less babies are being born.
#22
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that many major U.S.
cities are seeing violent crime totally spiral out of control.
#23
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that Barack Obama
received more than 99 percent of the vote in more than 100 precincts
in Ohio on election day back in 2012.
#24
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that during the first
four years of the Obama administration, the U.S. national debt grew
by about as much as it did from the time that George Washington took
office to the time that George W. Bush took office.
#25
They don’t really want to talk about the fact that the Federal
Reserve created the conditions for the last financial crisis and
their mismanagement of the economy has now brought us to the verge of
another horrible economic downturn. According to the mainstream
media, the Federal Reserve is “above politics” and should not be
criticized. Maybe the Federal Reserve should be nationalized so that
printing and coining money returns to the auspices of the US Treasury
like our Constitution specifies (see article 1, section 8). All the
US top-tier leadership needs to do is return to the original
Constitution. It's the perfect way to wipe out the so-called national
debt, which really only exists on paper anyway. But they can't
because their corporate sponsors won't allow it. That's why the
system is broken, and it's up to us, “we the people”, to get the
job done.
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