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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” - Mohandas Gandhi, “Non-violence in Peace and War”
President Obama is using the same aggressive rhetoric we saw prior to invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, with media repeating the quickly-verifiable lie that Iran's President threatened to "wipe Israel off the map." Previously, Senator Lieberman, Secretary of State Clinton, and former UN Ambassador John Bolton resumed rhetoric of a United States attack upon Iran. There are two general justifications they speak of to justify war: Iran's "nuclear program" and their threat to Israel.
Both claims are false (again, verify here and here), which follows a history of US lies regarding wars.
The following is edited from my brief, “War with Afghanistan and Iraq, rhetoric for war with Iran.” The focus of this article is to explore US interest in having a war with Iran. It's from my brief: War with Iraq and Afghanistan, rhetoric for war with Iran.
In history, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously approved of a US-initiated false-flag operation in 1962, named Operation Northwoods. The plan included killing American citizens and/or US military personnel, blaming Cuba, and then riding public anger for a military operation to invade Cuba.[1] False-flag operations have been used extensively in history to rally public opinion for an offensive war.[2]
Vietnam is a similar story of an illegal invasion; that time in support of a dictatorship in South Vietnam after the US rejected an election for the people of Vietnam to choose their own leadership. Most recently, President Clinton violated the UN Genocide Convention by taking no action during the Rwanda genocide of 1994 that killed between 500,000 and 800,000 human beings. In fact, Secretary of State Madeline Albright blocked UN Security Council action to prevent the slaughter: a simple proposal to increase UN troop presence from 2,000 to 5,000 from the request of Canadian Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, the Commander of the UN troops in Rwanda.[3]
In addition, it’s useful to know that US refusal of International Laws and Treaties is common. The US is currently in violation of nine[4]:
- The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT),
- The Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines,
- The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC),
- A protocol to create a compliance regime for the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC),
- The Kyoto Protocol on global warming,
- The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM),
- The nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT),
- The Chemical Weapons Commission (CWC),
- The UN framework Convention on Climate Change.
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government… We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. And history is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence,” 1967. Text and audio: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm .
Cui Bono? An economic motivation for the US invasions of Iraq and Iran is those countries’ shifts from selling oil exclusively in dollars to including Euros and Yen. The drop in demand for dollars would decrease the US government’s ability to fund programs by selling government securities. Saddam became the first OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) member to sell oil for Euros in November, 2000. President Bush’s Treasury Secretary, Paul O’Neill, wrote that the President began discussing removing Saddam as soon as he moved into the White House in January, 2001.[5] As soon as the US was prepared to export oil from Iraq, the currency was reestablished for dollars only.[6] Iran began accepting Euros in 2003; US rhetoric for attacking Iran began shortly thereafter. Iran increased their market for Euros in 2006.[7]
If another attack occurs against the US, false-flag or real, President Obama has the legal authority to declare himself the sole authority of US government, bypassing any authority of Congress and the Federal Court System. Under National Security Presidential Directive 51[8] (NSPD-51), issued May 9, 2007, if the President declares a “national emergency,” all government authority is “coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches.” This means that the President is the legal dictator of the United States, with only his discretion allowing influence by Congress and/or the Courts. Details of this plan are secret for “national security,” even to the members in Congress on the Committee for Homeland Security.[9] Just after passing the MCA, Congress also repealed the Posse Comitatus Act, and gave the President legal authority to command the state’s National Guard without consulting with state governors for the purpose of “suppressing public disorder.”[10]
If the President invoked NSPD-51 and the states’ National Guards to suppress public protest, Americans would have to be arrested and detained in large facilities. For the past several years, FEMA has been constructing and renovating such “camps” with Congressional funding.[11] The existence of detention camps for Americans was originally disclosed to the public in Congressional Hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987 under the name REX-84.[12]
Information Operations Roadmap is a program approved by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in 2003, and surprisingly released to George Washington University’s National Security Archive in a Freedom of Information Act request.[13] Wikipedia acknowledges its existence, but fails to inform of its content for government influence of American public opinion for support of US military operations. The existence of this document confirms governmental planning to replace fact with spin for the American public’s consumption.[14]
In 2000, CNN reluctantly acknowledged that they employ military PSYOPS (Psychological Operations Group) personnel at their news station.[15] The express purpose of US military PSYOPS is propaganda; to manipulate public opinion in favor of government military policy.
The Pentagon complied with Freedom of Information requests and released over 8,000 pages that confirmed beginning in January 2002, they recruited over 75 former military “experts” to be what they termed as their “surrogates” and “message force multiplies” to appear in major media to advocate for the War on Terror under the disguise of independent analysts.[16] They collectively appeared over 4,500 times to reinforce the government’s military positions while the media called them “military experts.”[17] The program was managed by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Victoria Clark, funded by our tax dollars, and again had the express purpose of propaganda. The title for this episode that stuck was “PSYOPS on steroids.” The Pentagon claims to have discontinued the program.
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan confirmed that the Bush administration directly sent “talking points” to Fox News for their communication to the American public.[18]
Americans seem to be taking notice of at least some of this information. According to a poll by the Pew Research Center, the majority of the American public see the US major media news organizations as politically biased, inaccurate, and uncaring. Among those who use the Internet, two-thirds report that major media news do not care about the people they report on, 59% say the news is inaccurate, 64% see bias, and 53% summarize their view on major media news as, “failing to stand up for America.”[19]
A hypothesis to explain our government’s motivation to disinform the public in favor of Middle East wars that seems to be supported by the facts is to dominate the Middle East’s oil supply. Indeed, the Bush administration first named the Iraq war, “Operation Iraqi Liberation.”[20] Wikipedia used to have an article explaining that the project name was changed due to people wondering if its acronym, O.I.L., was the war’s real purpose. Regarding war with Iran, 90% of their oil and gas reserves are in the province that borders Iraq, most of which is right on the border, a tempting and nearby target should the control of oil be the objective.[21]
For those who cling to the notion that the purpose of the war was to remove a vicious dictator for the good of the Iraqi people and the safety of the world rather than for oil, consider that the US supports vicious dictators in Africa who cooperate with their oil exports to the US. The second and third largest oil producers of Africa are Angola and Gabon; neither belong to OPEC. In addition, Equatorial Guinea is a significant exporter of oil. All three countries have dictators at least as bad as Saddam. All three are on favorable terms with the US and were welcome to meet with President Bush.[22]
Also consider the CIA program, “Operation Mockingbird,”[23] disclosed to the public in the Church Senate Committee hearings in 1976, then reported in detail by Woodward and Bernstein in the Washington Post.[24] This was a fully implemented CIA program to spread disinformation throughout American media. CIA Director William Colby testified to the Church Committee that over 400 CIA agents were active in the US media to control what was reported through American mainstream television, newspapers, and magazines. President Ford fired Colby after his testimony, replacing him with George H. W. Bush. Bush Sr. ended the CIA’s testimony, stating that there were no other programs of concern to disclose and promising that the CIA would no longer influence the media.
An historical precedent of US government manipulation of the media that may have encouraged such a program was the successful cover-up of the destructive effects of the US use of nuclear weapons against Japan. After the US used the world’s most destructive WMD in history, General MacArthur closed southern Japan to reporters. The War Department hired NY Times Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, William Laurence, to report to the American public on the accomplishment of the US nuclear weapons program. Part of Laurence’s instruction was to specifically state that nuclear weapons had no danger of radiation. Laurence did so, discounting Japanese reports of radiation fallout poisoning as “propaganda.” Laurence was rewarded for his “reporting” with a second Pulitzer.[25]
I can’t answer with certainty why the Bush Jr. administration, President Obama and Democratic/Republican leadership, and our major media have lied about Iraq’s WMD, Iran’s right to nuclear energy, and “wiping Israel off the map.” The Constitutional response of impeachment hearings to consider if “high crimes and misdemeanors” have occurred is not seriously considered by leadership of either party. Democrat and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, stated she’d support impeachment “if anyone knew of a crime” that had been committed,[26] but admitted that she had not read the Articles of Impeachment introduced by Congressman Kucinich and heard in the House Judiciary Committee.[27] I do observe that many historical governments have considered manipulating people toward their policy preferences as more important than objective reporting of the facts, civil conversation, and democratic vote. As you know, there is strong historical precedent for leaders of government preferring dictatorial powers rather than serving the will of the public. Indeed, President Bush joked on at least three occasions that a dictatorship in America would be easier than democracy as long as he were the dictator.[28] President Bush was also quoted by three White House sources of exploding in a meeting with Republican leadership over the Constitutionality of the Patriot Act, shouting, “I don't give a goddamn. I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way. Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!”[29]
If this information is new to you, you’re welcome to be shocked and skeptical. Please confirm these facts for yourself. You are not welcome to disbelieve it. Disbelief means that you’re using your personal belief system to evaluate these claims rather than the factual evidence. I know that you have historical information of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. I also know that if this is your first time feeling the magnitude of these scandals you might be shocked. This process of fighting your way to the essential history and facts of policy, considering its economic costs and benefits, and determining your voice and vote is what US citizenry is all about.
[1] Wikipedia for background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods and Operation Northwoods. Bamford, J from his book Body of Secrets, pg. 82. US Planned Fake Terror Attacks on Citizens to Create Support for Cuban War: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html .
[2] George Washington’s Blog. If We Don’t Learn our History, We’re Doomed to Repeat it. April 10, 2008: http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/ .
[3] Project Censored. Phillips, P., Sullens, A., Runas, M. #6 in top 25 censored stories for 2001: International report blames U.S. and others for genocide in Rwanda. http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/6-international-report-blames-us-and-others-for-genocide-in-rwanda/ .
[4] Project Censored. Cominsky, L., et al. #7 in top 25 censored stories for 2004: Treaty busting by the United States. http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/7-treaty-busting-by-the-united-states/ .
[5] CBS News. Bush sought “way” to invade Iraq? Jan. 11, 2004: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml .
[6] Project Censored. Liddell, W., et al. #19 in top 25 censored stories for 2004: U.S. dollar vs. the Euro: another reason for the invasion of Iraq: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/19-us-dollar-vs-the-euro-another-reason-for-the-invasion-of-iraq/ .
[7] Project Censored. Beard, P., Miller, B. #9 in top 25 censored stories for 2006: Iran’s new oil trade system challenges U.S. currency. http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/9-irans-new-oil-trade-system-challenges-us-currency/ .
[8] NSPD-51 and the Potential for a Coup d'état by National Emergency. William H. White . March 4, 2008:
[9] YouTube. Continuity of the US Government…Top Secret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdfjsS9Wqk8 .
[10] Project Censored. Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008. #2. Bush Moves Towards Martial Law: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/2-bush-moves-toward-martial-law/ .
[11] The Village Voice. General Ashcroft’s Detention Camps. Sept. 4, 2002: http://www.prisonplanet.com/090402camps.html , Truthout. Parry, N. Bush’s Mysterious “New Programs.” February 21, 2006. http://www.truthout.org/article/bushs-mysterious-new-programs , Above Top Secret. US Concentration Camps: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/camps.html , and video: Prison Planet. High Quality video of FEMA Detention Camp: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/September2006/170906Camp.htm .
[12] Global Research. Roland, A. REX-84: FEMA’s Blueprint for Martial Law in America. Aug. 20, 2006: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3010 .
[13] National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Operations_Roadmap .
[14] Try these: The National Security Archive. Rumsfeld’s Roadmap to Propaganda. National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #177: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm , and BBC. Brookes, A. US Plans to “Fight the Net” Revealed. Jan. 27, 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4655196.stm .
[15] CommonDreams.org. Cockburn, A. The military and CNN. March 23, 2000: http://www.commondreams.org/views/032300-107.htm .
[16] New York Times. Barstow, D. Behind TV analysts, Pentagon’s hidden hand. April 20, 2008: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html .
[17] Media Matters. Military analysts named by Times expose appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR. May 13, 2008: http://mediamatters.org/items/200805130001 .
[18] Truthdig.com. Scott McClellan: White House fed “talking points” to Fox News. July 27, 2008. http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080727_scott_mcclellan_white_house_fed_talking_points_to_fox_news/ .
[19] In From the Cold. And they wonder why we despise them. Aug. 10, 2007: http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2007/08/and-they-wonder-why-we-despise-them.html .
[20] White House Press Briefing of March 24, 2003: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030324-4.html , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Iraqi_Liberation&redirect=no
[21] For additional background: Westminster Committee on Iran. Iran After the NIE Report: Exploring the Issues, Exploding the Myths. Dec. 20, 2007: http://www.payvand.com/news/07/dec/1205.html and map of Iran’s Petroleum Facilities, 2004: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_petroleum_facilities_2004.jpg .
[22] There are many updated articles you can research. For foundation: Energy Bulletin. Beinart, P. Rigged. June 9, 2004: http://www.energybulletin.net/node/596 .
[23] What Really Happened. Mockingbird: The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA: http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html , Prison Planet. Louise, M. Operation Mockingbird: CIA Media Manipulation: http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html , Brandt, D. Journalism and the CIA: the Mighty Wurlitzer. April-June, 1997: http://www.freedomofthepress.net/journalismandtheciathemightywurlitzer.htm , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird .
[24] Bernstein, C. The CIA and the Media. Oct. 20, 1977: http://carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php .
[25] Wanttoknow.info. Cover-up of Original Atomic Bomb Effects in New York Times Rings True Today: http://www.wanttoknow.info/atomicbombcoverup .
[26] After Downing Street.org. Swanson, D. $1,000 to ask Pelosi a question. July 29, 2008: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/35102 .
[27] Crooks and Liars. Bluegal. Pelosi says she “hasn’t read” articles of impeachment. Aug. 10, 2008: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/10/pelosi-says-she-hasnt-read-articles-of-impeachment/ .
[28] Conspiracy Planet. If I were a Dictator: http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=96&contentid=778 , and video. President Bush – As Long as I am the Dictator: http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=bush%20dictatorship%20video%20easier&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv# .
[29] Capital Hill Blue. Thompson, D. The Rant. Bush on the Constitution: a Goddamned Piece of Paper. Dec. 5, 2005: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
Comments
You do your readers a disservice by including easily disproven conspiracy theories in this article. Do your research.
Mandamus,
Let me introduce you to professional standards of evaluating factual claims: a claim is made and evidence provided. If you refute a claim, specify and demonstrate how the claim is false and/or incomplete. Without this, any professional puts the burden of proof on you to do your research and provide it. You do our readers a disservice by ad hominem name-calling rather than address facts and evidence.
But I do thank you for helping to clarify the choice Americans have with current claims for war with Iran: either blindly believe political "leaders" and say anything else are "conspiracy theories," or be a person who engages in fact and rule under law.
Choose carefully.
Mandamus there isn't a single conspiracy theory here and it is all backed up by proof and references. Maybe you should do YOUR research. Lemme guess your megaphony alarm went off and your forgot your paid shill talking points? The best you can say is "do your research" and mention "conspiracy theories?" Whats next "holocaust, never forget, and anti-semite!"?
Thanks, Kevin. Well said :)
www.popularme chanics.com/technology/military_law/4312850.html
I did not say it was ALL conspiracy theories. Nor did I make any references or accusations of anti-semitism or anything like that. I just said that you should do your research, as it appears you haven't. Linking other stories on your own website or linking the paranoid ramblings elsewhere on the net is not proof of anything. As a journalist, theoretically you are aware of certain methods and procedures involved in the preparation of an article.
I do not disagree with the premise of this article, I do however think that by including references to conspiracy theories that can easily be disproven, as the link above shows one such debunking, you do a dis-service to yourself, your story, and your readers by not taking the time to research your points properly. You are making the positive assertion here. Therefore it is your responsibility to provide solid evidence for your claims.
Mandamus:
The link you sent was regarding a FEMA camp, which is not a subject I address in this article. Did you find any problem with any particular claim in the article?
The paragraph that refers to footnote 11 is about the FEMA camps.
A lot of your claims refer to laws in place where it MIGHT be used to do this, or it COULD be used to do that. The American government COULD take your rights away at any moment, laws or no laws. The President declares martial law and ALL your rights disappear like a fart in a jacuzzi. You don't need any references or quotes for that. It's how the system is set up. Your rights exist because they let you have them. The thing that's missing from all this speculation is whether or not they WILL do those things. Do you have any information about whether or not they actually INTEND on doing any of it? Without that information, You're just fear mongering. There's a lot of misinformation out there. By repeating it, you do more harm than good.
Mandamus:
I apologize; I do have FEMA camps here. And I will do an article with video documentation of FEMA camps soon. But the point of this article is background of US government misrepresentation to help people understand it's not unusual for the US government to lie about war with Iran. Most people are unaware of the history documented here.
As we have proof that the US is lying about the reasons for war with Iran, just as all reasons to invade Iraq were false and known to be false at the time they were told, that's enough proof for Americans to demand justice for me. That means an end to these wars and hopefully Truth and Reconciliation to find out what else we're being lied about to our harm.
Importantly, our rights are inalienable; governments are instituted among men to secure their rights, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed.
popular mechanics is completely worthles and has a conflict of interest with people in the establishment during dub the shrub junior. mandamus you are going to have to come with evidence from somewhere other than popular mechanics, they are about as reliable twig holding up a 2 ton elephant. he never even SAID anything about nano-thermite or buildings collapsing at free fall, or three buildings falling when only two planes hit, he said NOTHING of the sort, he mentioned the PREMISE offered by Operation Northwoods, this potential operation is documented in a previously classified memo directly from the US government itself, vastly pre-dating 9-11, along with the PNAC prayers for a "new pearl harbor" yeh its pretty hard to look away from the possibility of a story outside the normal conspiracy theory (to use one of your favorite terms) touted by the consistently wrong MSM and the a completely inept government. Nothing has changed since dub the shrub!
No. No conspiracy theories here. sigh.
You have in your footnotes links to conspiracyplanet and prisonplanet, Alex Jones is one of the biggest whackjobs on the planet.
The things you talk about here are all well documented. Either by whackos or by regular news outlets. What do you hope to accomplish by rehashing old news? Do you have any suggestions? Should we all go out and by guns? or suicide pills?
And no, your rights are not inalienable. They are given to you by other men. Men more powerful than you are. Sure, it sounds nice when someone says they're inalienable, but don't fool yourself that they cant disappear in the blink of an eye. That's what all your sophistry is about. The world is approaching a crossroads. Which path we choose depends on who is in charge when we reach it. There are those that seek power for the sake of power. We saw this with the Straussian neocons and PNAC. Look up Leo Strauss. Stop repeating the prisonplanet bullshit.
And certainly stop looking to the likes of Alex Jones for inspiration. There are plenty of real things to watch for in the world today without making up your own boogeymen.
Well, this is odd.
www.foxne ws.com/story/0,2933,513024,00.html
Here's Glen beck (I KNOW!) debunking the FEMA prison camps.
He doesn't seem to have a problem using the PM information. Are you saying Glen Beck is in on it?
That's just one example by the way, not the only example.
Speculation on the motives of someone is fruitless without evidence. Sure, the PNAC statement about needing a new pearl harbor is pretty suspicious, but without direct evidence linking them to it, there's nothing there. Focus on the things that you DO have actual evidence for. Follow the path From Leo Strauss to Reagan's whitehouse, then GHWB's and then GWB's. Look for REAL connections. Not imagined ones.
I'm going to leave you with this. "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
Mandamus: Alex Jones is one of the biggest whackjobs on the planet.
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I find him readable and informative and haven't found anything of his that is a lie, though i have read that his wife is Jewish which might explain his avoiding the subject of the Jewish State.
To the extent he tells half the story we just fill in from other sources to get the whole picture.
Can you point out some lies of his, Mandamus ? Having an opinion that he's a whackjob is permitted, and will not sway anyone here, but what would is if you can show us that he is lying. Not mistaken, but lying.
Mandamus: you're welcome to draw your own conclusions from the facts, as well as determine which facts are and are not helpful. Insulting Alex Jones or anyone else rather than evaluating the claim is ad hominem, and categorically rejected by anyone with professional standards. And while people can ursurp power, most Americans stand by the political philosophy of Jefferson that our rights come from God and are inalienable. That is, if removed, that is unjust.
"My God! We don't need another war. We don't even want this one!"
This will be the outcry of the American People once they receive word of the attack on Iran. Look for a first strike to take place next year on a moonless night. Then comes the draft and the end of America as we know it. Can anyone see this for what it is? The final stages of the soon to be hated new world order.
Get ready for a wild ride. For truly we are in the End Times.
mandamus: you are a shill, you are OBVIOUS about it (maybe less obvious then your equally bought cohorts) but we're still not buying it. You use the asinine mouthpiece glenn beck and popular mechanices (a yellow journalist rag that would make William Randolph Hearst blush). Glenn Beck jumps on any bandwagon necessary to gain trust and notoriety. He defamed Ron Paul endlessly when it was the popular MSM thing to do, but then he realizes oh wow this guy is right A LOT, maybe ill jump on that train to gain some cred. Yeh Alex Jones is a whackjob who tries to distract us with crazies theories about death cults and illuminati, but he still provides some important half truths that expose many people to a partial slice of reality for how things really happen in this world. The ability to reason and weigh evidence in our own minds is one of our gifts, if you blindly believe everything from one angle then you are doomed to a life of ignorant stupidity.
Mandamus: Alex Jones is one of the biggest whackjobs on the planet.
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I find him readable and informative and haven't found anything of his that is a lie, though i have read that his wife is Jewish which might explain his avoiding the subject of the Jewish State.
To the extent he tells half the story we just fill in from other sources to get the whole picture.
Can you point out some lies of his, Mandamus ? Having an opinion that he's a whackjob is permitted, and will not sway anyone here, but what would is if you can show us that he is lying. Not mistaken, but lying.
Of course the "US Gov't" would "lie". How can it be a lie if orders come from the top? Puppets don't lie, they only appear to speak, the sounds and words are those of the master, those creatures who print and loan money out of Thin-Air.
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