Well said Flysurfer
I'll ask Gus Honeybun to give you 2 bunnyhops and an ear wiggle
"I remember as a kid, asking a school mate "did you see that news report", and he said "you can't believe everything you see on the news" and I thought, what an idiot, as if they'd lie on the evening news.
It wasn't for a good many more years that I finally awoke from the bliss of my ignorance... and I'm not sure about being better off.
But as a famous person once said, Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.".......And there's your problem right there. Flysurfer, do you realize you're both correct. No, you don't. Unfortunately you don't understand the subtlety that most people can use to look at the news report and try to weigh up the the various news stories. For example, most people understand there are competing forces at work especially in the commercial media. I wouldn't say that the media "lies" to it's audience. Sometimes our media has an agenda, like the Herald Sun trying to dispose of our police commisioner because of a "law and order" crusade at the time, or adopting a political "tone". To lie, the media would have to knowingly "lie". It's different to Crusading, beating up, repeating a "factoid"....like weapons of mass destruction etc. There's a difference, its subtle, its sophisticated. I find with most conspiracy nuts that the main problem is that they don't possess the ability to see things in any shade of grey. So it's "the media is Corrupt!!"(yes, sometimes...mainly not) "I don't believe anything the media tells me"(what not even the football scores???).
I don't think I've watched the news in a decade. The only paper I read is The Herald for its satire. It is satire, right?
I live in a bit of a bubble. I read books.
...and the whole "elite agenda" thing. What a load of self important rubbish. You think that "the elite" think about you, at all? You think they plan and scheme against you? You think you enter their thoughts at all? Ha! They have their own lives, their own problems, desires, wants, goals and such that they think about all the time. That same as every other human with "The Condition". You don't register on their radar any more than your own neighbour registers on yours.
The "1%" are just as completely ignorant of you as you are of all the workers in places like China that support your standard of living, because on a world scale you are the 1%.
</caffeine fuelled little rant>
If it's not the elite,you think it's the bloke living ln the end block that is possibly behind this worldwide aerial spraying,the planting of small nukes in buildings,etc,etc?
As flysurfer said earlier in this thread,and +1 by doggie,it is a FACT.
OK. I believe you. US Govt. planned and executed the whole thing. Paint on explosives set by psychopathic fairies or whatever. You are right.
...but I don't understand why they set it all up to point to a terrorist organisation in Afghanistan, if they really wanted to invade Iraq. How many of these fake terrorists where painted as Iraqi? Why not all of them? And then they went in on the old WMD angle they'd been pushing the whole time anyway. The U.S., as we all know, doesn't need permission to invade anywhere borderline like Iraq. They go anyway.
the whole global conspiracy thing doesnt work for the simple reason that the governments are just not that organised! they are fkn hopeless and couldnt orgainse andy sort of cohesion like that.
Also people are very bad at keeping secrets, and there is always someone who wants to whistleblow.
