Truth and Power today

What I read in newspapers and see on TV has changed over the years.  I started paying attention to the larger world in college in 1978 and then in the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.

I grew up thinking that Walter Cronkite was America’s newsman and was sad when he retired in 1981.  I believed he reported truth and facts.  and maybe sometimes he did.  He reported that the USA was losing the Vietman war and I believed him.  The truth. 

“The American public believed that if Cronkite reported it, it must be true. If it wasn’t true, then when Cronkite reported it, it became the truth. That was how a 10-year-old kid viewed Cronkite. Multitudes of politicians, activists, journalists, academics and ordinary Americans who mourned his death expressed that same singular belief in Cronkite’s omniscience regarding any news event he reported on…”  “There is an old saying: The devil’s greatest trick is to make people believe that he doesn’t exist. In my opinion, Cronkite’s greatest (or most infamous) legacy during his storied 50-year career as a journalist was to make most Americans believe he was a blue-blooded patriot; a political “progressive” who represented the best ideas of what it was to be an American – liberty, freedom, intelligence, respectability, trustworthiness, unimpeachable character.”

The US lost the war due to political changes in the US during 1972 to 1975.  Militarily the US won every battle and forced the Vietcong to the peace talks.  the lack of support for the South Vietnamese in 1975 allowed the vietcong to overrun the south.  The US wasted the lives of every one of the 58,000 + who died in Vietnam.  Once started,  the US should have pushed to victory in military defeat.

Global Warming and Climate change Watts up with that  is a good source of science based facts and research on Climate and Weather and the  antidote of truth vs the fake news industry created by Al Gore and the religion of climate change as a reason to do more abortions, stop economic activity, etc.

Fossil Fuels the greenest energy

“It was Michael Crichton who pointed out in his Commonwealth Club lecture some years ago that environmentalism had become the religion of Western elites. Indeed it has. Most notably, the burning of fossil fuels (a concomitant of economic growth and rising living standards) is the secular counterpart of man’s Original Sin. If only we would repent and sin no more, mankind’s actions could end the threat of further global warming. By implication, the cost, which is never fully examined, is bearable. So far the evidence is not convincing. It is notable that 13 of the 15 older members of the European Union have failed to achieve their quotas under the Kyoto accord — despite the relatively slow growth of the European economies.”  2005 ARTICLE IN WSJ

What happened in 2016 election and since?

News outlets talk of Russia and collusion,  Trump is many bad things?  The special counsel investigation was formed to convict Trump and stop the Russians influence.

So far, except for grand jury indicting  a few Russian nationals in court, who when they showed up with counsel, the special counsel Mueller h

hastily filed motions to keep the opposing counsel from getting any of the evidence used to produce the indictments….

1. collusion definition – secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others.
   1. I have yet to see evidence of any secret conspiracy to do some underlying criminal activity.  it is now 1.25 years and millions spent by Mueller’s team.
   2. only process crimes have been pursued.
2. Trump is not an angel
   1. everyone who vote for Trump knows this,  we held our noses to keep Hillary out.
   2. Trump is proud to be an American
   3. Dems are ashamed of the USA and want America to be 2nd rate.  And tell us what to do.
3. Hillary and the DNC and the Clinton foundation appear to have cooperated with the Russians in a pay for play deal on Uranium
4. The Foreign agent crimes pursued by Mueller – where is the pursuit of Dems? who did the same thing except larger?
5. The hillary email scandal – ?
6. The FBI/DOJ/Fusion GPS/Steele/FISA Court/Dossier – Dems pay a foreign national Steel via Perkins / Fusion GPS and classify the deal as legal fees.  Where is the pursuit by special counsel?

What is real ? , and what is a narrative?,  offered by the combined forces of what we used to be able to call journalists and the reporting of reality instead of opinion.

As Christ the living Word is truth, so his written word is truth. Though heavenand earth will pass away, God’s truth never will.

Over half the New Testament uses of “truth” (aletheia) are in John’s gospel. Truth is reality. It’s the way things really are. What seems to be and what really is are often not the same. As I develop in my novel Deception, “Things are not as they appear.” To know the truth is to see accurately. To believe what isn’t true is to be blind.

God has written His truth on human hearts, in the conscience (Romans 2:15). Shame and twinges of conscience come from a recognition that truth has been violated. When the world hears truth, if spoken graciously, many are drawn to it by the moral vacuum they feel. The heart longs for truth—even the heart that rejects it.

As followers of Christ, we are to walk in the truth (3 John 1:3), love the truth, and believe the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12). We’re to speak the truth “in love” (Ephesians 4:32).