Bill Bonner has found out the hard way how dangerous it can be to question the prevailing bullshit. From Bonner at bonnerprivateresearch.com:
From weapons of mass distraction to the sturm and drang of US politics and plenty more besides…
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We are recounting the story of the 21st century, as told by a sinner.
Yes, according to many Dear Readers, we have erred and strayed like a lost lamb. We failed to see how the internet and dot.com companies would make us all rich. And then, we wouldn’t stand up and cheer when the Bush administration announced its invasion of Iraq.
If you don’t get fully on-board with the latest popular delirium, you risk getting labeled a ‘denier’…a traitor…or an anti-Semite. In 2002, for example, everybody knew Saddam Hussein was a son-of-a-bitch. And he had ‘weapons of mass destruction;’ everybody said so.
But he didn’t. And it wasn’t the first time the American public was misled by its own government and its propaganda press.
At the beginning of WWI, Americans were told that the Huns were spearing Belgian babies with their bayonets, raping nuns en masse (so to speak), and cutting off hands by the thousands.
Naturally, the public was quickly riled up against all things German.
But when a commission was sent to look into these charges, it could find no one missing a hand and no credible reports of rape or infanticide.
