ThePythonicCow
10th July 2016, 18:58
Here is an example of how the news and analysis presented to us, even by well regarded alternative media sites, can be manipulated.
In the article Dallas-Style False Flag Warning Issued for Shreveport, LA (http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/10/dallas-style-false-flag-warning-issued-for-shreveport-la/), Dave Hodges of TheCommonSenseShow.com presents a 19 second video clip from a 2014 speech made by President Obama in Germany, introducing with the video clip with the following words.
Here's the introducing words and video clip that Hodges posted:
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Finally, I want to refer the readers to an Obama speech made in Germany in 2014. This 19 second video says it all and no further elaboration is needed as this represents the end game with regard to the present level of insanity that we are witnessing.
YfRtbIQ1kTw
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It appears in this video clip that Obama is advocating for a new international order in which individuals surrender their rights to an all powerful sovereign.
However, if you go back to the actual transcript of these Remarks by the President in Address to European Youth (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-address-european-youth), at the Palais des Beaux Arts, in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 Mar 2014, you can plainly see that Dave Hodges left out a substantial portion of Obama's speech, and that Obama was denouncing, not advocating, such a surrender of individual rights to an all power sovereign.
Hodges left out the portion that reversed the meaning of Obama's words.
Here's the relevant portion of Obama's speech, with the two segments that Hodges spliced together in the above, misleading, video clip marked in bold:
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Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.
Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle -- through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution -- that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. The belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed, and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding. And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men -- and women -- are created equal.
But those ideals have also been tested -- here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by “us” versus “them,” or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.
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Tsk, tsk, Dave Hodges :)
Caveat, lector (beware, reader).
Such a new international order might be what Obama's handlers intend, but they surely are not going to have Obama's speech writers put it that plainly in a major speech.
In the article Dallas-Style False Flag Warning Issued for Shreveport, LA (http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/07/10/dallas-style-false-flag-warning-issued-for-shreveport-la/), Dave Hodges of TheCommonSenseShow.com presents a 19 second video clip from a 2014 speech made by President Obama in Germany, introducing with the video clip with the following words.
Here's the introducing words and video clip that Hodges posted:
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Finally, I want to refer the readers to an Obama speech made in Germany in 2014. This 19 second video says it all and no further elaboration is needed as this represents the end game with regard to the present level of insanity that we are witnessing.
YfRtbIQ1kTw
========
It appears in this video clip that Obama is advocating for a new international order in which individuals surrender their rights to an all powerful sovereign.
However, if you go back to the actual transcript of these Remarks by the President in Address to European Youth (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/03/26/remarks-president-address-european-youth), at the Palais des Beaux Arts, in Brussels, Belgium, on 26 Mar 2014, you can plainly see that Dave Hodges left out a substantial portion of Obama's speech, and that Obama was denouncing, not advocating, such a surrender of individual rights to an all power sovereign.
Hodges left out the portion that reversed the meaning of Obama's words.
Here's the relevant portion of Obama's speech, with the two segments that Hodges spliced together in the above, misleading, video clip marked in bold:
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Leaders and dignitaries of the European Union; representatives of our NATO Alliance; distinguished guests: We meet here at a moment of testing for Europe and the United States, and for the international order that we have worked for generations to build.
Throughout human history, societies have grappled with fundamental questions of how to organize themselves, the proper relationship between the individual and the state, the best means to resolve inevitable conflicts between states. And it was here in Europe, through centuries of struggle -- through war and Enlightenment, repression and revolution -- that a particular set of ideals began to emerge: The belief that through conscience and free will, each of us has the right to live as we choose. The belief that power is derived from the consent of the governed, and that laws and institutions should be established to protect that understanding. And those ideas eventually inspired a band of colonialists across an ocean, and they wrote them into the founding documents that still guide America today, including the simple truth that all men -- and women -- are created equal.
But those ideals have also been tested -- here in Europe and around the world. Those ideals have often been threatened by an older, more traditional view of power. This alternative vision argues that ordinary men and women are too small-minded to govern their own affairs, that order and progress can only come when individuals surrender their rights to an all-powerful sovereign. Often, this alternative vision roots itself in the notion that by virtue of race or faith or ethnicity, some are inherently superior to others, and that individual identity must be defined by “us” versus “them,” or that national greatness must flow not by what a people stand for, but by what they are against.
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Tsk, tsk, Dave Hodges :)
Caveat, lector (beware, reader).
Such a new international order might be what Obama's handlers intend, but they surely are not going to have Obama's speech writers put it that plainly in a major speech.