There is a scene in Star Wars where Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are interrogated by a couple of Imperial Stormtroopers as to the origin of the Droids (robots) in the back of their hover car. Obi-Wan waves his hand and tells the storm trooper " These are not the Droids you are looking for. We can move along" The storm trooper, affected by the power of the Jedi, parrots the words of Obi-Wan and motions the hover car to move on.
OK, what the heck does this have to do with anything? Well, for one thing, there is a lot of news that the major media just does not report . I first became aware of this in 1989 when we were visiting some friends of ours who happened to be hosting an exchange student from what at that time was called West Germany. The Berlin wall had recently fallen and we were eager to ask the young lady questions. We asked a few questions but was taken back when the young lady said that the protests that led to the falling of the wall started two full weeks before the news media covered the event in the USA. We were surprised to hear this but we attributed it to the delicate situation of geopolitics at the time between the US and the former USSR.
Flash forward to 2009 and we have Climate Gate, the scandal where several thousand emails have been hacked from a British University on the subject of global warming. For over two weeks NBC, CBS, and ABC ignored a story which was covered in leading world newspapers and even made the John Stewart show. The world is a lot different than 1989 and with the advent of the internet news just can't be controlled or contained the way it used to be by the old media.
Concerning Climate Gate we have in effect been told: "These are not the droids we were looking for" and yet we could clearly see them in the back seat. We live in a country that has freedom of the press yet refuses to report an "inconvenient story." To those of us old enough to remember Daniel Ginsburg and the Pentagon Papers any attempt by the media to defend their actions in not reporting this story reeks of hypocrisy.
In the words of the late Mr. Rodgers "Boys and girls can you spell collusion? Sure I knew you could." Does the fact that news and facts are being suppressed by the media scare you? Well it should! You might be surprised what else you aren't being told!
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
the so called news people were in the tank for obama so did not talk about his background in marxism or his anti american friends. if the people knew about these things maybe the outcome would be diferent. if not then we would know what the people realy think
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