When one can no longer take anything at face value..? 2026 3 14

The West leading with how the USA and Isreal, according to its Media, are winning the current war in the Middle East against Iran, whilst Social Networking sites have it the other way round: how the Iranians are in the driving seat which will either be confirmed or denied within a few days, but bear in mind this second option was missing for most of my 87 years...lol

Look at it from another perspective that of my dear wife who, like her father before her, and her younger brother, who recently passed away, were all avid readers of the Western Media: her father gifting her a subscription to the main Swedish language newspaper in the country, her younger brother boasting of how he subscribed to two newspapers a day: one in the morning, one in the afternoon.
Whilst I personally rarely read any newspapers, but rather got on with my "ignorant way of life"..?

But in my old age playing catch-up of e.g. how during the 1960's the British put down a million Kikuju "terrorists" in Kenya who were fighting for home rule: the Brits killing a million warriors without publishing any news of their actions and subsequently destroying all knowledge of their actions. We the ppl of "The United Kingdom" (another misnoma!) living in ignorance.
For me personally no big deal since I didn't for the most part read their lies or lies of omission.
But now I get much news, truthful or false revealed after some time later, when as the world is waking up one has to believe the old ways are getting replaced..?
Like now my wife likes to accuse me of getting all my news from platforms like Tic-toc (mispelling intentional), YowTube or EX, as being disreputable alternatives, so her brain-washing for most of her 60 years of adult life, so rigorous, she is loath now to accept it..?

But me, being me, I'm gonna leave this blog here for a few days and then come back to see who turned out to be right, leaving my money on Professor Seyed Marani..! Have a good continuation everyone !!

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