Discontent is Becoming Epidemic

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Discontent is Becoming Epidemic
By Timothy Gatto
OpEdNews Op Eds 6/7/2014 at 03:24:26

During the last few months I have been totally amazed by the lies and misrepresentations I have heard. I can honestly say that I'm totally flabbergasted. The reason why I'm feeling this way has nothing to do with any surprise I feel about the government or the media lying to the American people, that has been going on for quite a long time. What has me shaking my head in disbelief is that no effort has been made to make their distortions of the truth believable.

Today was the icing on the cake, so to speak. Listening to the coverage of the D Day 70th year memorial, if one didn't know better, they would have led the people to believe that it was only the "western" powers ("the Allies&quot that defeated Germany. That wasn't the surprising part of the coverage however, we have always tried to portray the West as the primary reason Hitler was defeated. No, what was really surprising was the commentary on Russian involvement in the current crisis in the Ukraine.

It was truly amazing to hear Christiane Amanpour (CNN) tell the viewers that President Vladimir Putin was told by President Obama to "stop interfering in the internal matters of Ukraine". This was repeated by "journalists" on the BBC, CBS and every "news" outlet on the MSM. Pardon me for bringing this up, but wasn't it the United States that funneled over five billion dollars into the protests that erupted in western Ukraine that eventually toppled the government? Wasn't Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland the one responsible for informing the World about that?

It was quite apparent that Putin is being held up as the World's villain right now. Every good thriller must have a protagonist and an antagonist and I guess Russia's Putin fits the antagonist in today's bill. It's convenient that Putin gets the blame for the crisis in Ukraine, after all, didn't he embarrass the President by pulling the plug on US military involvement in Syria by getting Assad to surrender his chemical weapons? In fact, he was probably responsible for getting Obama to stop the cruise missile launches against Syrian military targets until most of us realized that the truth was, we really didn't know where the chemical attacks came from. After all the "hard truth" and talk about "red lines" the UN had no proof that the Syrian government was responsible for those chemical attacks.