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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts)
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 11:00 AM Feb 2015

Speaking of Propaganda and war

Anyone remember this BIG LIE? That got your juices up for war?

very short video but worth the time.









Governments lie, ours and others

“He had decided that what was going on was that everybody was very carefully avoiding paying attention to what was going on.”

― Robert Anton Wilson, Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
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Speaking of Propaganda and war (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 OP
Thank you for posting this swilton Feb 2015 #1
K&R woo me with science Feb 2015 #2
Its amazing how many have not seen this Ichingcarpenter Feb 2015 #3
I remember when saddam stole all the incubators of kuwait Jesus Malverde Feb 2015 #4
It's amazing 90-percent Feb 2015 #5
Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis Karmadillo Feb 2015 #6
The inattention of the mass media to what is important is ludicrous. But it is getting noticed. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #7
They also showed the Saudis pictures of tanks they claimed were on their border ready to attack. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2015 #8

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
5. It's amazing
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 12:50 PM
Feb 2015

It's amazing that the propaganda technique known as "the big lie", which seems to have been invented somewhat by the Nazi's, is so remarkably effective. And in common use by our corrupt institutions and Oligarch's to this day.

There are so many examples, many even taking place as I write this. The most magnificent big lies in recent history are the "935 lies" that drove America into the unnecessary war of choice invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

And what is most amazing bout it is that it's pretty clear in the minds of most well informed people on the planet that this was was illegitimate and the reasons for it were outright lies and fabrications.

The whole world knows GW-Cheney-Rice and all the others lied to the world. And everybody knows they all walk free and have suffered no consequences what so ever for their war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Because everybody knows when wealthy and powerful people engage in mass murder they get a free pass and can cause the deaths and suffering of millions of people with impunity.

So we all know there is no justice other than "might makes right". And we're all perfectly OK with it, cuz sacrificing a handful of our Constitutional Rights is a small price to pay for our authoritarian police state to "keep us safe"

-90% Jimmy

Karmadillo

(9,253 posts)
6. Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis
Sun Feb 15, 2015, 01:25 PM
Feb 2015

Different Bush war criminal and different set of lies, but the principle seems to be the same. No Independent Thought. I wonder if the absurdity of the claim (if you question the ridiculous, transparent lies of the elites, you're a Nazi) suggests fear the system of enforced blindness is weakening. Or maybe the system is so strong, the elites feel they can say anything, no matter how distant from reality. Let's hope it's the former.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/laurence-silberman-bush-lied-nazis

Federal Appeals Judge Compares People Who Say Bush Lied To Rise Of Nazis
ByBRENDAN JAMESPublishedFEBRUARY 9, 2015, 10:40 AM EST

A federal appeals judge wrote in a column published on Sunday that people who accuse former President George W. Bush of lying about the Iraq War are peddling myths like those that led to the rise of Hitler.

Laurence H. Silberman, a federal appellate judge appointed by President Ronald Reagan, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the idea the Bush administration "lied us into Iraq" has gone from "antiwar slogan to journalistic fact."

"t is one thing to assert, then or now, that the Iraq war was ill-advised," he wrote. "It is quite another to make the horrendous charge that President Bush lied to or deceived the American people about the threat from Saddam."

After re-litigating the case for invading Iraq, Silberman wrote that the charge could have "potentially dire consequences."

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