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Lies, liars, and you

November 23, 2020 by Guest Post

By Scott Turner, Corvallis

The following are answers to lies told by the shiny, handsome, well-spoken wizards we call the press or the media.

The Maine was not attacked by the Spanish in Havana Harbor. 

The Lusitania was not an innocent passenger ship torpedoed by German U-boats .

The Nazis were never attacked by the Poles justifying their invasion into Poland.

Pearl Harbor attacks were no surprise to the higher echelons of Allied power. 

A single shooter on a grassy knoll is a lie.

The Maddox was not attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin.

The War on Drugs resulted in an explosion in drug use. 

The War on Poverty resulted in massive increases in social safety net programs.

Iraqi soldiers never threw Kuwaiti babies out of incubators.

There never were any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

There never was going to be a smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud.

World Trade Center Building 7 did not fall into its own foot print due to a fire in the lower levels.

Anthrax attacks were not from Al Qaeda.

Mercury in tooth fillings is actually dangerous to your health.

Khadafi was not brutally killed because he was aggressing against his own people.

Assad did not gas his own people.

There was no Russia collusion.

Roundup (glyphosate) is not safe at industrial scale.

Jeffery Epstein did not kill himself.

Covid 19 is not a pandemic.

Pattern recognition is a critical human skill. From innovation, to survival, to human relations it is foundational. Some of the above you may agree with, some you may not, they are answered in my voice via my education. All the above fit the pattern of media pushed propaganda. These people are not on your side, they do not serve your interests, mountains of bodies and rivers of cash are in the wake of these lies. Break the wizards’ spell, stop believing them! 

 

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