"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
"I have been asked to talk about what I consider the most important challenge facing mankind, and I have a fundamental answer. The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance. .." ~ Michael Crichton To read more - click HERE and scroll down to "Environmentalism as Religion" Remarks to the Commonwealth Club by Michael Crichton, San Francisco, September 15, 2003
The first rule of advertising is “Advertise your weakest point”. Hence, we have names like “Fact Check”, “Fairness Doctrine”, “Progressive”, “Hope”.
For instance, FactCheck.org itself, cannot be trusted (ditto Snopes) even though it has sold itself as “Politically NEUTRAL” to America’s voters and media personnel. HERE
NOTE: I want to recommend this article to you when you get time to read it:Strategic Intention and Mass Man by J. R. Nyquist
Excerpt:
“..There recently appeared an essay by Anthony Daniels, published in The New Criterion, http://newcriterion.com/ in which he summarized Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset’s notion of “mass man” as the man “who goes from distraction to distraction, who is prey to absurd fashions, who never thinks deeply….” In the first decade of the twenty-first century this is all too familiar. In 2008 we live in a society dominated by “mass men,” overtaken by mass psychology, mass media, mass schooling and the mass ignorance presently crowding in around us. Today’s mass audience cannot distinguish the important from the trivial. What needs to be acknowledged, and one day will be acknowledged, is the very real distinction between “low-minded” and “high-minded,” between moral courage and venial conformism, between thinkers and fakers. This is what it comes down to. [snip]
Read the WSJ article below very carefully -- if you want to learn exactly how you're being scammed
. WSJ OCTOBER 13, 2008: Obama's 95% Illusion It depends on what the meaning of 'tax cut' is.