{"id":7413,"date":"2015-04-19T06:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7413"},"modified":"2015-04-19T06:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T11:57:30","slug":"how-trustworthy-are-u-s-western-news-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7413","title":{"rendered":"How Trustworthy Are U.S. &#038; Western \u2018News\u2019 Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonsblog.com\/2015\/04\/trustworthy-u-s-western-news-media.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Trustworthy Are U.S. &amp; Western \u2018News\u2019 Media?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">During the days of the Soviet Union, and in all dictatorial countries, the \u2018news\u2019 media were and are actually propaganda-media, which filter out information that the aristocracy (the people holding the real power, which in the Soviet Union were the Communist Party bosses) don\u2019t want the public to know. Is the United States like that now?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I first came to the conclusion that the U.S. is a dictatorship in 2002, when I found proof that George W. Bush was lying to claim that he possessed proof that Saddam Hussein was rebuilding his WMD (weapons of mass destruction) stockpiles, and when the U.S. and UK \u2019news\u2019 media hid this crucial fact that their heads-of-state were lying. Bush and British Prime Minster Tony Blair were arguing in 2002 against sending IAEA inspectors back into Iraq in order to verify whether or not Saddam was rebuilding his WMD stockpiles; they alleged that they (Bush-Blair) already possessed proof that he was accumulating WMD.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Here is how I found out that they were lying about that: On Saturday 7 September 2002, the White House issued\u00a0<a title=\"\u201cRemarks by the President and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Photo Opportunity Camp David\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20020921164923\/http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2002\/09\/20020907-2.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cRemarks by the President and Prime Minister Tony Blair in Photo Opportunity Camp David\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0(still googlable at\u00a0<a title=\"here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/news\/746506\/posts\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>), with the following exchange between a journalist and Bush-Blair:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>THE PRESIDENT:\u00a0AP lady.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Q\u00a0Mr. President, can you tell us what conclusive evidence of\u00a0any\u00a0nuclear\u00a0\u2014\u00a0new evidence you have of nuclear weapons\u00a0capabilities of\u00a0Saddam Hussein?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Trustworthy Are U.S. &amp; Western \u2018News\u2019 Media? During the days of the Soviet Union, and in all dictatorial countries, the \u2018news\u2019 media were and are actually propaganda-media, which filter out information that the aristocracy (the people holding the real power, which in the Soviet Union were the Communist Party bosses) don\u2019t want the public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2384,496,512,1426,570,655,1302],"class_list":["post-7413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-elite","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-news","tag-propaganda","tag-status-quo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7414,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7413\/revisions\/7414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}