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Oscar de la Rento
Tragedy or Hope
Summary and links to revealing news reports not widely covered by the mainstream media - plus pointers to open source evidence challenging historical orthodoxy
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- Accelerating change - Intensifying complexity
" The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.": Gore Vida
"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace." - John Lennon
Have we become intoxicated on our individual self importance while dazzled & seduced by the trivial inconsequential trappings of Western consumerism? ...
The greatest danger to the Western way of life is the Western way of life
They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening
George Orwell
"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst" Aristotle
The Money Key
Tragedy or Hope
The most effective propaganda was defined as the kind where the subject moves in the direction you desire for reasons which he believes to be his own
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual." ..... Frank Herbert
"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."
Steve Beko Speech in Cape Town, 1971
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws." John Adams
"The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people":
Frank Kent
Frank Kent
"TV producers want people who sound learned without confusing the matter with too much knowledge"
Margaret Carison: Time Magazine
“The greatest enemy of the truth is not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth – persistent, pervasive, and unrealistic.”
John F. Kennedy
"There are two ways to pacify the people ... television & television"
President De Gaule
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“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” -
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.
Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta
Buddha - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta