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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-30-06 01:22 PM
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Do we really WANT to know the 'truth'?
I do-
as ugly and uncomfortable as it may be. Somehow the truth is far easier to handle even at its worst, than tortured lies.

PLEASE- if you do nothing else today- PLEASE- watch this video from the BBC-
The 'news' we hear, is so manipulated- especially by this government-

People die trying to bring us the truth..... without accolades- without notice, often.

This video is almost 50minutes long- it drags in places, but it opens up a world of perspective that people have given up their lives in the effort to bear witness to...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13420.htm

(if you only watch some of this, watch the last 25mins)
Killing Without Conscience Iraq: The Hidden War-

Please, please, please- watch this, and pass it on-----

Imagine living this life here in the comfortable usa...

and take note when the news leads with
"53 dead in a car bombing in Tikrit today..."
there are people just like you and me in those faceless numbers


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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-30-06 01:32 PM
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1. I think it's more
that you DESERVE to know the real "truth" and not just what you may suspect that to be.

It's worth keeping an eye open for any of our UK TV documentaries all of which have been broadcast mainly on either BBC2 or Channel 4.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-30-06 01:43 PM
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2. you are right- deserve, and need
to know the closest thing to truth we can find.

We don't have anything other than fuzzy rabbit ear local TV stations, and only just now got DSL, which is how watching this documentary was possible-

I am so depressed and discouraged.... comfortably numb is only possible with heavy duty chemicals for me... and even that doesn't seem worth it anymore ....

thanks for the reply-

blu
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King Coal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-30-06 02:41 PM
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3. If you have truth on your side, you are always right and will prevail.
Thanks so much. I just watched the whole thing.
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-30-06 03:50 PM
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4. extremely powerful
this occupation would have ended a while ago if these images were broadcast nightly. Thank you for posting this.
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-30-06 08:18 PM
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5. The truth?
Stolen election in 2000. 9/11 truth isn't here yet. The run-up to the wars and another stolen election in 2004. The wars. New Orleans.

People didn't want to know then, they don't want to know now.

Say la vee.
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-31-06 06:17 AM
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6. The ruling class does not want us to know the truth,
for if we'd know the truth we would not support their wars.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-31-06 06:29 AM
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7. Most Media in the US is complicit with the Fascist Regime.
The Corp. Media benefits by supporting the Busholini Regime. Multi-Natl. Corps benefit by supporting the Busholini Regime. The American Middle Class is being is being screwed over by all of these Powers.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-31-06 06:40 AM
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8. I am tempted to attach this video file
Edited on Sun Dec-31-06 06:51 AM by malaise
to an email to all of MSM and ask them if they have the guts to show this since they had no problem showing a hanging all day yesterday. Not one of those channels cared about our sensibilities yesterday. Fuck all of them.
Anyone who doesn't believe the truth is being hidden is clueless.

Add.
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-31-06 10:12 AM
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9. thank you- and i wish you would..
thank you to everyone who watched this file

Wish i could shout this out to all the world-
i'm emotionally overloaded right now.


out of sight isn't the same as out of reality-
and what we see on tv is usually
what the people who get where they are by manipulating our view reality-
WANT us to 'believe'.


one thing that struck me so odd in this video, was the sound of the birds in the background-
Bagdad sounded like it was a beautiful summer day in new england....
Nature is far more intelligent than we are


blu
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-31-06 10:48 AM
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10. This video makes it clear, violent Iraqi insurgents are surpressing the press.

Why are Iraquis killing, kidnapping, or shooting at the press?
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