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Almost all of those stories were specifically with...

2012-01-26T09:51:37.726-08:00

Almost all of those stories were specifically withdrawn and corrected, but not very publicly or as widespread as the original outrageous lie. You have to ask yourself: who gains from the story being told and who gains from them being suddenly covered up? Who would do that, and why?

Regarding N.O. and Katrina: back when I used to re...

2012-01-26T05:26:38.408-08:00

Regarding N.O. and Katrina: back when I used to read Vanishing American a few years ago, she had a pretty interesting piece about how the initial reports out of there were full of specifics: names of people raped and killed, specific descriptions and counts of dead bodies, direct quotes from the male British students who had formed a ring around the female students in their group while in the

Thanks everyone, if you can think of any more let ...

2012-01-25T08:42:17.908-08:00

Thanks everyone, if you can think of any more let me know!

How about, why the Peace Corps was created and it&...

2012-01-25T08:23:03.535-08:00

How about, why the Peace Corps was created and it's underlying reason for being.

The lie of the "split personality." Low...

2012-01-24T19:37:53.018-08:00

The lie of the "split personality."

Low fat diets being good for you, eggs being bad, butter better than margarine.

In the 1970s we were seriously warned about The Coming Ice Age.

Also, the Population Bomb (Ehrlich).

Just one : New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina.

2012-01-24T17:54:16.935-08:00

Just one :

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina.

Oh, another: the four stages of grieving - denial,...

2012-01-24T14:59:02.763-08:00

Oh, another: the four stages of grieving - denial, bargaining, etc. It's all bullshit. She faked her data. Everyone accepts it as true because it sounds good, but there's no actual evidence for it.

"Hey, I'm going to write up something,...

2012-01-24T14:42:34.040-08:00
"Hey, I'm going to write up something, maybe a series, about things you always thought and were told were true by the media and education, then found out they weren't."

The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect:

"You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see

On topic, Gov. Allen of Virginia and "macaca&...

2012-01-24T14:05:58.076-08:00
On topic, Gov. Allen of Virginia and "macaca": this is and always was an incredibly blatant lie. There is no word "macaca" in French. There is the word "macaque", which is pronounced exactly the same as it is in English, seeing as how the English stole it. As a general rule in French, trailing 'a' vowels are dropped for silent 'e'. Whatever Allen