"Lying" is such an ugly word. It's preferable to call it "disinformation." The CIA (the U.S. government's quasi-independent office of propagandists and warlords known as the Central Intelligence Agency) engages in:
- prevarication,
- gaslighting,
- propaganda,
- deception,
- intrigue,
- intelligence,
- codeswitching,
- spin, and, uh,
- euphemistic languaging characteristic of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four style "Newspeak."
George Orwell warned of these things long ago. |
Good luck finding an outlet not contaminated by disinformation, misinformation, collusion, infiltration, deception, limited hangouts, and good old phony-whistleblowing by agents like the man-of-the-moment David Grusch.
After all, the only good democracy is the completely controlled democracy that still thinks of itself as free, fair, and open rather than what it really is. Alcohol sales are booming in the U.S. to help if that nuisance known as Truth starts to get in the way of expedients and compromises in integrity and honesty. Even the good Dalai Lama was caught up in the CIA's net to have something on everyone in the media. The Company used the temporal and spiritual leader of Tibet as an operative in a proxy-war against China. It's still going on, while most Buddhists deny it in a kneejerk way. The Dalai Lama doesn't deny it. He's almost certainly been told not to talk about it, but the old Los Angeles Times sure has the [backfilled?] story in their archives.
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"Don't Panic" (Douglas Adams) |
This was pointed out by the British genius Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where he explains that the role of a political leader is not to wield power so much as to draw attention away from those who really wield the power (said in reference to the ever-entertaining bumbling dimwit Zaphod Beeblebrox, president of the galaxy).
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