By Anna Von Reitz
In the present era, we seldom start out knowing the Truth. The "religion of commerce" has universally misled the nations and perpetuated a culture in which lies both enormous and trivial have laid both the foundations and the operating principles of entire institutions.
Most perniciously, our schools have been converted into factories producing ignorance and prejudice and our news media has been turned into a muzzled circus. Some subjects, we are given to understand, can't even be discussed.
What started out as "political correctness" thirty years ago has morphed into outright censorship, with those suckered into a belief in political correctness readily adapting to censorship --- as long as their own views aren't being censored.
The eternal truth that when we bind others, we bind ourselves, still hasn't hit home.
And through it all, the BBC has brazenly supported its motto, "Listen and obey." In the newspapers. Through the wire services. Broadcast from the television and radio stations. Listen and obey whatever tripe we are selling today....
As J.S. Marcus observed, "People forming their opinions on limited information, have limited opinions."
When we, Americans, are fed deliberately skewed, doctored, and politically corrected information, information that presents only one side of the whole, information that omits vital content needed to make rational decisions, we are well and truly undermined as individuals and as an entire country.
Extend this same circumstance to almost every country on this planet, where BBC affiliates have dominated the "talking space" for generations. and carefully crafted what stands as knowledge and what stands for ignorance.
In the news industry it began with the development of the so-called "wire services" -- a means by which news from distant outposts could be "wired" in the days of wired telecommunications to a central news hub and edited, and then distributed out to newsrooms around the country.
The obvious opportunity to censor news stories or prevent them from reaching the public entirely was downplayed by a lot of lip-service to the ideals of journalistic integrity and reporting standards, none of which were observed in real life.
Edward R. Morrow and Walter Cronkite and their ilk were not journalists; they were highly paid actors adept at "sounding" American and reading teleprompters -- a fact that Cronkite admitted before he died.
The stranglehold on American news outlets began during the Civil War, but our traditions of freedom of the press were so entrenched independent journalists continued to carry the torch and political cartoons and parody publications like The Onion continued to expose the truth in back-handed ways despite all the wiles of the BBC and the Rothschild's new "wire service" --- Reuter's, which depended on human laziness and gullibility and the economics of the news business to promote its success.
Reuter's bet on the Low Road, but they were correct. The costs of independent journalism drove the market toward "streamed news stories" that local reporters didn't have to research or write. Just pick up the "news feed" and publish it, confident that certainly, Reuter's wouldn't lie.
If anyone had stopped to think about it, the words "news feed" should have been alarming in their implications, but we somehow ignored the BBC motto, the connection of Reuter's to the Rothschild Empire, and the whole concept of being "fed" news. Even now, when people are noticing the boring and nearly complete "mockingbird" nature of the news media outlets, they aren't catching onto why things are the way they are.
They are this way because the military effectively gagged the Press during the First World War and those gags have never been released.
They are this way because we have allowed the wire services to dominate the so-called "news industry" to such an extent that you can turn on a radio or television and hear different purported journalists using the same exact words and reporting the same exact story from New York to Los Angeles.
For example, how often did you hear the words "safe and effective" during the recent pandemic?
How often did any reporter ask, "Safe and effective for what? Testing an experimental therapy? Depopulation? Promoting obscene claims that people who get the injection are being redefined as property belonging to patent holders and are now "transhumans" deprived of any human rights at all?"
These are the kinds of questions and investigations that real journalists like Jon Rappoport and the O'Keefes explore. They dig. They think. They ask questions. They labor hard to find answers that "hold water". But Reuter's was right.
All they had to do was hold a high standard for a few years, and lull the old-fashioned journalists into trusting their "service". After that, it was all gravy and downhill. Younger generations of journalists aren't even journalists. They just think they are, because they have a degree in Communications from a Major University and a Press Corps badge.
When the cameras pan press briefings you can see them sitting there at attention, mouths slightly open, notebooks at the ready --- being "fed" like so many pet sharks at a zoo. They even jostle each other like animals struggling to get closer to the trough or the teat.
But of course, Reuter's and the AP Newswire and lesser such services all gradually came to serve their intended use, and began lying through their teeth, suppressing some stories or omitting them and promoting others for a discreet price.
The real price, of course, is our ignorance and the way we are manipulated by these unseen gatekeepers to believe things that were never true, and then goaded to act upon these false beliefs, often to our own detriment: the so-called Civil War, WWI, the Great Depression, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan..... In matters both large and small, the list goes on.
To promote their very tarnished halo, Reuter's and the AP have come up with a new slogan (and excuse) for their obvious biases and censorship activities. Whenever news comes from a source they don't approve of or handles news that they aren't "comfortable" with, they claim that the source isn't a "trusted news source".
They routinely claim this about news sources they have been relying on for decades; if any news source reports anything outside the Company Line, they are instantly "not trusted" by Reuter's and the same thing happens with the gatekeepers at the AP. The only difference between these two "wire services" is usually not discernible: one is the lapdog of the Rothschilds, and the other is the lapdog of the Rockefellers.
And what about the Truth, the one necessary component we must have to drive rational thought and feeling? And rational action, too?
The Truth gets lost under a landslide of carefully orchestrated information manipulation. And equally orchestrated omissions.
And we become victims of this manipulated information.
We buy cars based on Bad Information. We cast votes based on Bad Information. We fear other countries and condemn them based on Bad Information. We go to war based on Bad Information. We harm ourselves and forego our best interests based on Bad Information. We disrespect the poor based on Bad Information.
Bad Information is at the core of what is worst in the world -- ignorance, prejudice, and fear, while we don't even realize the extent of the monopolization that has occurred in the news industry over the past hundred years. We don't begin to suspect the commercial and political forces that dominate it.
American Journalism died during the Nixon-Reagan years, but it did so very quietly behind a smokescreen we all know as Watergate. Anti-intuitive as usual, traditional American investigative journalism was being cheered and celebrated, when instead, we were being fed a politically-motivated agency narrative. Just like the Steele Dossier.
There's a reason that Russiagate echoes Watergate: it has all been brought to us by the same agencies, the same institutions.
The best we can do is search for the Truth as earnestly as we search for a flashlight when the power goes out ---and use our powers of discernment and logic to find it. Hone your own journalistic skills by doing a little research into who and what owns the major news syndicates and wire services. And from that, deduce how you are being unfairly manipulated and influenced.
Do what we did, many years ago. Sit down and watch a nightly news show and just keep track of the "stories" that are being fed into your brain.
What is the one-word summary of what each news segment is about? Does it boil down to sex or death or something else? Was the story positive or negative? Was it something you could do anything about? If so, what is it prompting you to do? Evaluate the news as an objective observer. Use a tally sheet.
Was the "news" really news? Or hype? Did it leave you with any useful, actionable information of practical value, or did it just jangle your nerves?
After three weeks of consciously evaluating the major news outlets in this country we concluded that: (1) if anything really major and noteworthy happened, we'd know about it by word of mouth; (2) watching the news served up by the mainstream media was largely a waste of time, including the weather report, which was wrong on a local basis almost as often as it was right.
Objectively, factually, the "nightly tradition" was a waste of our time.
You may find that to be true also, and don't be surprised if you do--- but this reality, that our news media has been rendered as useless as other institutions, in no way removes our need for the Truth.
Make the inquiries and search diligently for truth on every occasion, because our peace and our lives and the quality of our lives all depend on knowing the Truth to the best of our ability.
The Truth will keep us out of wars for profit. It will keep us from senselessly hating and fearing our neighbors. It will stand in the way of electing bad people to offices of trust. It will prevent buying a bad refrigerator because it's "the" brand trending right now.
The Truth isn't just useful. It's fundamentally necessary. It's the foundation from which we build our ultimate results, and if the foundation is flawed--- then what?
Then you have a subprime mortgage crisis. You have a National Credit the size of Jupiter that simply isn't being accounted for. You take shots that harm your health -- modern day snake oil on steroids.
The assaults on our once-free press, like the assaults on our public education system and our healthcare system, are driven by the same corrupt commercial interests.
If we want news that is reliable and useful in making important decisions, if we want educations that leave us empowered instead of being stubbornly ignorant (because we think we already know the answers) and if we want healthcare that is centered on promoting health instead of promoting addictions and disease for profit, changes are needed.
As ever, the needed change begins with each one of us, each individual reading this --- and it can't begin anywhere else. It begins with our determination to find and honor the Truth, whatever the Truth is. This is a quest that most of us have never contemplated in our entire lives, because we were too busy being fed whatever substitute for truth made economic sense.
The Truth was always the province and turf of somebody else -- the journalists, the priests, the teachers, the engineers, the doctors, the lawyers, the professors, the members of Congress, the Experts.
Now the Truth has to become our turf, each and every one of us. We cannot afford to simply ingest the news we are fed like Pablum. We cannot rely on the education provided to the public. We cannot trust the competence and character of the professionals.
We must develop the ability to research, to evaluate, and think for ourselves at a time in history when Artificial Intelligence is offering the same Low Road that Reuter's depended upon --- our natural human laziness, gullibility, and economics.
Remind yourselves daily that the information that Artificial Intelligence crunches is only as good as the people making the data entry and software. Asking questions is only part of the job. You still have to evaluate the sources and information, still have to exercise the capabilities of your own mind and heart to find the Truth.
Issued by:
Anna Maria Riezinger -- Fiduciary
The United States of America aka The American Federation of States
In care of: Box 520994
Big Lake, Alaska 99652
November 22nd 2025
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