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Truth? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Truth

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  1. poncho

    poncho Well-Known Member

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    Truth? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Truth

    Paul Craig Roberts

    In the previous posting, The Grand Manipulation, I again wrote about the false reality that government manipulation of information and control over explanations creates for Americans and others who have subordinated themselves to Washington.

    Consider the “war on terror.” According to a Nobel economist and a Harvard University budget expert, Washington’s 14 years of war on terror has cost Americans a minimum of $6 trillion. That’s 6,000 billion dollars. This sum, together with the current PayRoll tax revenues is enough to keep Social Security and Medicare in the black for years to come. Without the vast sum wasted on the war on terror, Republicans would not have an excuse to be trying to cut Social Security and Medicare for budget reasons and to privatize the old age pensions and health care of people, thus turning Medicare and Social Security pensions into fee income for Wall Street.

    Combatting terrorism is the excuse for squandering a minimum of $6,000 billion dollars.

    What were the terrorist events that serve as a basis for this expenditure?

    There are five: 9/11, the London transport system bombings, the Spanish train bombing, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and the French Charlie Hebdo rifle attack.

    In other words, 5 events in 14 years.

    The loss of life in all these events combined is minuscule compared to the loss of life in the war on terror. Even the deaths of our own soldiers is greater. Washington’s wars against terror have caused more deaths of Americans than the alleged terrorist events themselves.

    But were they terrorist events?

    Read More At: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/07/truth-dont-need-stinkin-truth-paul-craig-roberts/
     
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