Posts Tagged ‘truth’

The War On Truth As Reflected In History

April 16, 2010 (By Bud Burrell)

– From “Front and Center”, by Bud Burrell

 “What utter madness to believe that one can prevent the truth of history from eventually being written.” — Emile Zola.

Numerous attempts have been made by supporters of financial market manipulations and financial profiteering to suppress anyone who opposed them. Slanders and libels have come from every quarter, launched by parties attempting to cut-off the threats of the communications with the public from parties who have seen through the ploys used by these nefarious villains. Indeed, one victim has built a pocket industry in outing the use of “Sock Puppets” by tainted journalists, offshore scammers, and worse.

I have seen the conflicts of interest displayed by these parties, who are so cowardly, they hide behind screen names, while they attack the enemies of their enemies, irrespective of guilt or innocence of said targets. I have personally outed many of these individuals, who were paid well in their positions as trained attack dogs for sleazy, mob connected criminal operators, to ruthless hedge fund short sellers who made fortunes off attacking every component of American society. They have used short selling techniques to bet legally and illegally against the United States in a difficult time, and our regulators have done nothing but protect them. [entire post]

What About…? (Part One)

April 5, 2010 (By Todd Essary)

– From “Personal Privilege”, by Todd Essary

What about the “big” “moral” questions?  And, at this point in time, even before we can ask those questions, can we even agree or decide what qualifies as big, or moral?  I don’t believe “we” can, because we are too confused and angry and disillusioned to agree on any such matters.

And despite (or in addition to) all of that, we’re too caught-up in finger-pointing mode to be able to look beyond problem or blame-oriented thinking.  And, further beyond (and/or beneath) that problem/blame-orientation, we’re collectively in denial.  Consider the United States of America as one entity.  If we were one “person”, how would you honestly assess our mental health?  How “stable” would you (honestly) say this person called “USA” is?

Personally, details don’t mean much to me.  Details are day-to-day things.  I’ll leave the details to the pundits and the speculators.  Details sell advertising for the 24-hour news cycles, and give the talking heads something to talk about.  Personally, I prefer a combination of big picture perspective mixed-in with fundamental truths.  That’s my personal recipe, in two equal parts:  1.) all-encompassing point-of-view; plus 2. ) unbiased realism.  Cooking directions: stir together, while simmering thoughtfully, into one big pot of “progress-oriented stew”.

So I’m going to just go ahead and “suggest” what the big, moral questions are.  But, the truth of the matter is that I’m being delicate to say I’m suggesting anything about such questions.  You can take them as suggestions, though, if it makes them more palatable to you.  After all, anything anyone says is ultimately an “opinion”, isn’t it?  Especially in the United States of America.

My college football coach had a saying about opinions: [entire post]

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