A History of a Few of the Lies of the Media and Government from 1950
One of my friends called the article on this website, The COVID-19 Genocide of 2020, garbage. Why would she say that? Because the article is in direct opposition to the narrative she is hearing from the liberal mainstream media such as MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, etc., that’s why. And even conservative Fox News and Newmax (correct me if I’m wrong) have been advocating vaccinations against COVID-19. The article from Robert Kennedy recommends you do NOT get vaccinated.
I told her one of the things I learned since becoming an adult is to not swallow everything I hear either from the government or the mainstream media. And these days even the alternative media is guilty of spreading disinformation!
We should question everything we hear no matter who it comes from! The general rule of thumb is, if it’s not supported by what the Bible teaches, it’s false. Examples: Darwin’s evolution, the LGBTQ agenda, abortion called “pro-choice” when it’s actually murder, etc.
But even Bible-believing Christians have been conned by things the Bible does not specifically address. Below is a list of lies that have been later acknowledged by the media to be falsehoods, and all my lifetime, since 1950.
- Lie: DDT is good for me.
DDT was a pesticide marketed to housewives (and many others). It was later discovered it to be an environmental toxin a carcinogen. One of my friends told me he believes DDT was even the cause of the polio epidemic in the 50s! If so, vaccinations are not the cure for polio.
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Lie: “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” – Vice President Dick Cheney.
“President George W. Bush used the threat of potential WMD in Iraq as justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The claim that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) was a major factor that led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by Coalition forces.” (Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction#United_States_politics )
“Q: Were there really weapons of mass destruction in Iraq when the U.S. invaded in 2003?
A: No. The Iraq Survey Group determined that Iraq had abandoned its quest to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and that it had already destroyed all of its existing stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons.” (Source: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/no-wmds-in-iraq/)
There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq at the time of the US invasion of Iraq. It was a government lie to get us to invade that country.
- Lie: On August 2, 1964, North Vietnamese PT boats attacked the U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin.
“The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox incident, was a disputed international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved both a real confrontation and a fabricated confrontation between ships of North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005, proved that the US government lied to justify a war against Vietnam.” (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident)
- Lie: “I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital with twelve other women who wanted to help as well. I was the youngest volunteer. The other women were from twenty to thirty years old. While I was there I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor. [Crying] It was horrifying.” — 15-year-old Kuwaiti Nayirah’s testimony in October 1990, before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus.
Nayirah was revealed to be not just an ordinary civilian but the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S.
Nayirah’s testimony was widely publicized. Hill & Knowlton, which had filmed the hearing, sent out a video news release to Medialink, a firm that served nearly 700 television stations in the United States.
That night, portions of the testimony aired on ABC’s “Nightline” and NBC “Nightly News”, reaching an estimated audience between 35 and 53 million Americans.
Then-President George Bush and several senators cited the testimony in their affirmations to use force in the war, in the following weeks.
The above info is from https://citizentruth.org/fake-news-1990-that-ignited-gulf-war-sympathy/ As a result of Nayirah’s testimony, the media promoting it, and the US government using it as an excuse for the first Gulf war, from 25,000 to 50,000 Iraqis were killed. (According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War)
- Lie: The fire which destroyed the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas was an act of mass suicide, ordered by Koresh.
Truth: FBI agents fired pyrotechnic tear gas grenades at a storm shelter about 25 yards from the main building several hours before the fire broke out on April 19, 1993. These reports directly contradicted repeated statements by Reno, then FBI Director William Sessions and lower-ranking officials, who all declared that the FBI had used no incendiary weapons in the course of the assault.
Without a doubt there is much much more I can add to this article. I just need more info. Is there anybody out there who will help me? Please feel free to write in the comment section about the things I missed.