Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
The United States in the 1940s and 1950s was a far better place than it is today. There was a homogeneous population and, thereby, far more social cohesion. Pre-puberty kids, and everyone else, were far freer than they are today. On weekend days, we disappeared all day on our bikes. There were no cell phones with which to communicate with us. We even biked at night to watch Atlanta Crackers baseball games. Our bikes were always there when the game was over, and we biked home without being captured and sold into child prostitution. Our parents had no cause to worry about us.
For pocket money and to build up savings, we had paper routes. After school we delivered to nearby homes the Atlanta Journal. The Atlanta Constitution was the morning paper, delivered before or as people woke up. It was the breakfast paper that men read before they went off to their jobs. This paper was delivered by grownups. But on Sundays the papers were combined, and they were heavy. We pre-puberty kids had to get up at 4am, collect our heavy newspapers–if you put them in the front basket without stabilizing the bike, the bike would tip over–and after delivering them return home to get ready for Sunday school at church.
On Friday evenings you knocked on the door of your customers and collected 25 cents, a quarter dollar, for the week’s delivery. To cut down collection work, we endeavored to convert weekly payers to monthly payers, which was one dollar. It was difficult, as a dollar was real money, not like today. The point is that no one worried about pre-puberty kids being out delivering newspapers in the early morning dark hours or collecting from their route customers in the evening.
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We were raised with the obligation instilled in us to tell the truth. A person who lied was too reprehensible to be associated with or to do business with. This standard, if applied today, would eliminate the entirety of the Western print and TV media, NPR, BBC, and all the rest of the Ministry of Propaganda, and all Western governments, and a large percentage of university faculties, administrators, and public school officials and teachers, who all lie in order to advance evil agendas, such as the demonization of white gentiles, sexual perversion, transgenderism and war.
Today the inroad on truth has reached the point in which Zionist Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people is described as Israel’s right to self-defense, Russia’s rescue of the Donbas Russians is said to be an invasion of Ukraine, and national sovereignty is said to be fascist and racist.
In America and its Western puppet states, there is today no greater crime than to be a truth-teller. Despite habeas corpus and due process enshrined in British law and the US Constitution, Julian Assange has been illegally detained for a decade for telling the truth. Reiner Fuellmich, the Germany attorney, who was about to file charges against the pharmaceutical companies for deaths and injuries from the Covid “vaccine,” was kidnapped in Mexico by the German government and placed in solitary confinement in Germany on obviously false charges in order to prevent the lawsuit. Barry Young, the New Zealand Covid database administrator who released the official data showing that the alleged “vaccine” was a deadly killer, has been arrested for revealing the truth.
Be sure you understand what I am telling you. Those who tell you the truth are being arrested and treated worst than mass murderers. Murder is not a threat to the corrupt ruling establishment, but Truth is.
All truth-tellers have a target on their backs, including me. For reporting accurately on Putin’s hopes for reconciliation with Washington, I was labeled a “Putin agent/dupe.”
This was just the beginning. George Soros, who Elon Musk said “appears to want nothing less than the destruction of Western civilization,” finances “fact checkers” and “verification” sites, the purpose of which is to discredit those who tell the truth. The State Department, the FBI, CIA, Mossad, and any number of government agencies and official organizations in the West work overtime to discredit truth-tellers.
Wikipedia labeled me an “anti-semite” for quoting WW II historian David Irving in a book review. A truth-suppression website–NewsGuard–financed by who?–describes my website, which is read in every country in the world, as “A Conspiracy-oriented website that regularly publishes falsehoods about US election, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and other issues.”
It is extraordinary that after describing me as a disinformation artist, NewsGuard accurately describes me as an Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, a presidential appointment which requires confirmation by the US Senate in order to take office, as an editor of the Wall Street Journal, as an author of books published by Harvard University Press and Oxford University Press, highly prestigious publishers who required credibility on the part of their peer-reviewed authors.
So here I stand, with numerous top secret security clearances over many years, confirmed in a presidential appointment by the US Senate, a Wall Street Journal editor, a Business Week columnist for a dozen or more years, an academic at Stanford University and occupant for a dozen years of the William E. Simon Chair for Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, and all of these front line institutions appointed a “conspiracy theorist.”
I have the French Legion of Honor signed by French President Mitterrand, the US Treasury’s Meritorious Service Award, the US Treasury’s Silver Medal, the International Journalism Award from the Press Club of Mexico. I have been in Who’s Who In America and Who Who’s in the World for decades. I have Who’s Who in America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. I have been on boards of multi-billion dollar financial and manufacturing institutions. I have been an adviser to J.P. Morgan Guaranty Trust and other large money managers. I have endless endorsements from distinguished Americans. And a dismal unverified hired gun organization called NewsGuard declares the entire journalistic, academic, business, and political establishment to have appointed a “conspiracy theorist” to the highest positions in the society.
No, I am not bragging on myself. I am pointing out that NewsGuard has no shame. The organization declares a truth-teller who has the highest honors to be a liar.
Every corrupt, evil, material interest has money to demonize the truth. NewsGuard is one of their operatives. These are people devoid of integrity, but these sorts of sites are plentiful online, and given the insouciance of the American people, these sites might have more influence than truth-tellers.
It raises the questions: can truth prevail when endless money can shout truth down? Can truth survive when people show scant interest in supporting truth and those who tell it?
If you look objectively with open eyes at the news and at the indoctrination that passes for education, you will see that you live in a world of lies constructed by official narratives. Throughout the Western world police powers are being used to enforce the official narratives–every one of which is a lie.
Think about what this means for science and scholarship when Big Pharma-paid shills can shout down and discredit honest independent scientists, when educators can turn fiction into fact and fact into lies, when we live in Orwell’s world where Newspeak and Doublethink prevail: “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” “Ignorance is strength.”
Many misinterpret 1984 as a warning against Stalinism and Nazism, but George Orwell was predicting the future of the Western world. That future is here.
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Here’s the democrat party slogan for 2024.
COME LIVE THE LIE !
For years I’ve been telling my adult children everything they believe is a lie. The propaganda is too omnipresent, grossly funded and deeply ingrained. They continue to believe the lies.
The lies contain some comforting theories on a more utopian like existence for them. All they have to do is to believe. Feeling trump facts for them.
Nothing is going to change them until the cold slap of hard reality knocks them conscious.
The lies will continue with increasing regularity and greater abstraction of the truth until it all burns down.
Only then will they believe. Only then it will be too late.
The brick wall at the back of the theater is every skill set you have learned.
No. It’s the Final Exam of every skill you’ve managed to acquire. It’s the trial by fire…in a crowded theater.
When they rugpull the system completely it will be every skill mastered using what is left over and available to use.
Schismogenesis. The term for black propaganda is called “schismogenesis.”
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_negra
You are a good father.
Concerning the description of life at the beginning, it was safer then because we didn’t have forced integration with the problem race. Now you can’t walk by a feral without the risk they’ll shoot you in the head for a thrill.
Yep.
And Everyone SINGLE of them is your potential murderer, rapist, violent assaulter, robber.
Nice handle, Peaky
NEWSGUARD — The “Ministry of Truth”
Now take a close look at the outrageously woke “Advisors” of this premier censorship organ of the U.S. Federal Government. Every truth-seeker will get a really good laugh at this list of ultra-liberal closet communists and “Big Brothers & Sisters” who only seek to tell you what to think and what you can read/view/listen to.
Paul, being a truth teller will always be valuable. This glimpse of the satanic world of lies and deception are enough to convince me to knuckle down to even more truth telling. There is no value in men who are liars and cheats, perverts and abusers. There is no happiness in their world.
I too was in Atlanta in the 50’s, it was a great place and people were happy after the war. Funny that I get so much flak for saying the same thing you have written in this article , guess you had to be there and experience it at the time. The truth will never lose it’s value, never.
Almost everything the people in the US think they know, is a lie. They do not know the real world history, or even their own. They do not know how their government really works, or who the people in charge really are.
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
William Casey, former director of the CIA
Please tell us who is REALLY in charge.
Name names.
Back it up with something.
There is always infinite value in actual truth.
The problem is the lack of it.
The truth is ,prepare for Armageddon.