Alternate reality

We live in the information age, and where you get your information will determine your beliefs and actions.

Those who pay attention to mainstream news will believe exactly what the handful of men who own all media want them to believe. The television's version of events is designed to completely distract people from the truth. If they aren't outright lying, then they are omitting the most important information.

This goes hand-in-hand with what we are taught at the beginning, in "social studies." Teachers will happily ram the same banal details down children's throats while skipping over portions of history that are ugly, or "irrelevant."

Just today, my daughter was saying that the French helped out the 13 colonies during the Revolutionary War. I asked her who else helped us. She said the Spanish did, but only a little bit. I asked her if her teacher said anything about Russia helping. She said no. Why would her teacher omit that piece of history? Probably because Russia is generally considered an enemy nowadays, even two decades after the Cold War ended. School history, then, changes according to current events. And news changes according to the owner of the news, and the whims of the establishment.

The more you stay away from the media's version of events, the more your mind will begin to see through the far-fetched "reality" they peddle. If you really care about the truth, you had better start paying attention to other, usually underground, sources of information.

For example, take a look at this website, which has some strange data: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data

Apparently, as the housing bubble burst, and people were in dire need of money, the money supply began to contract! This, of course, repeated the terrible (but purposeful) action that caused the Great Depression (which the Federal Reserve has admitted). Thus, rather than alleviating stress on the market, the Federal Reserve exacerbated the problem.

Now we are in a recession. Or is that a DEPRESSION? What is the unemployment figure right now, anyway? According to another graph on that same page, the government places unemployment between 9% and 16%. But the reality is more like TWENTY PERCENT. One in five citizens are unemployed.

The accuracy of these graphs on this site are open to debate. But don't let anyone TELL you the truth. You must discover it for yourself.

I have learned not to trust anything the government says. They lie about everything! In recent history, the reasons for almost every war and "military action" are lies. Two perfect examples are Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin) and Iraq (weapons of mass destruction). The list is lengthy for interventions, such as assassinations (President Allende) and coups (Iran in 1953). The documentary "Why We Fight" has a fairly comprehensive (as far as we know) list for those who are curious. The point is that the government is secretive and, at best, misleads the people.

As I wrap this up, I want you to recall, once more, the national debt. It's over 11 TRILLION dollars, with spending at around 50,000 dollars/second! These are the numbers we are presented by government sources, the masters of spin, the lying machine. Even if we aren't looking at Enron-style figures, this country is in big trouble.