How do we know it’s a lie? I think the saying is something about if their lips are moving, and maybe that’s true for a lot of them from whom we expect to hear fabrications, and the lie itself is often not as diabolical as the damage it causes. For instance, there is one circulating here in the US about how much more advanced we are technically and economically than “anywhere else”. Well, if anyone cares to look around, China and Japan have some really beautiful sleek bullet trains whizzing about Asia, but we still have the old diesel antiques putt-putting on our dilapidated railways and over shaky bridge trestles that the Amtrack riders hope will hold up for one more pass. The ultimate damage from this one is that since we are convinced of our technical prowess, we don’t see a need to invest in improvements, hence we fall further behind the rest of the world – including our adversaries.

The mainstream media of America try to studiously avoid stories about places like Philadelphia’s Kensington and the tent cities of Denver and San Fransisco, slums on downtown streets which incidentally we did not see on the many recent videos of Moscow – what a nice, clean place. Cities in the US look more and more like Mumbai or the poverty-stricken slums of Islamabad.

The lies Americans are fed beggar the imagination – we are convinced of our military superiority in the world, yet we don’t have the hypersonic missile that even Iran and purportedly Yemen have, and Russia has already been using them in the Ukraine. There are several places in the world where we started wars that we’ve had to leave with our tails tucked between our legs as we loudly proclaimed our “victory”. Such is the deplorable state of our government’s space program that our astronauts have been hitching rides to the space station for years with our “underdeveloped” adversary, Russia. It seems they are continuously improving their space program and assets as American defense contractors shovel taxpayer dollars into their accounts – whether their products work or not is not even a consideration anymore. Although they might be billion-dollar boondoggles, they are determined to be successful if they make money.

I was an American sailor, one of many selected to form the nucleus crew of the USS Nimitz, the pride of the fleet during the 70’s. How proud I was to see pictures of us “manning the rail”, when she left the shipbuilding docks and put to sea. Manning the rail is done on special occasions when hungover sailors put on their dress blues and stand side-by-side lining the weather decks, typically in waters near enough to shore that people can see the show from land. Incidentally, the Eisenhower was being built next to us in the shipyard, next in line to be commissioned and of the same class as out Nimitz. One little (totally irrelevant) tidbit that few people know about the Nimitz is that her class was originally designated as CVAN, instead of CVN, having dispensed with the A, such as carriers are designated nowadays. C- carrier, V – fixed wing aircraft, A – attack, N – nuclear powered. I guess to keep selling the notion of “defense”, the attack part had to be dropped.

We were commissioned in 1975, before we all realized the Vietnam war would soon wind down and try as they may to get her in service in time to get a campaign ribbon, she did not become seaworthy, or better yet, battleworthy in time to get to the West Pac to kill her share of Vietnamese peasants, who at that time were still horrendously threatening American freedom. More lies. There were a lot of underhanded things going on in which vast profits were gained by American defense and construction corporations. We didn’t know all of this at the time, though. We were all told that Vietnam was the key domino that was about to fall and lead to a communist takeover of Asia. Another lie, but such was the effectiveness of their propaganda, I and the thousands of other naive military boys actually believed we were somehow “serving our country”, or worse, “defending freedom”. What a crock! What a bunch of morons we were! We were explicitly serving the likes of Henry Kissinger and a bunch of millionaire businessmen right here in the good old USA.

Once the Vietnam debacle was over, (the hot part – it will never be forgotten by those Vietnamese folks who survived it). Just when it looked like peace might be here to stay, the liars in charge found a new bogeyman in Iraq – new lie – who had ‘weapons of mass destruction” and was ready to attack Americans in Hoboken. A woman named April Glaspie was sent by HW Bush to sell Saddam the lie that the US would not interfere if he wanted to invade Kuwait as payback for stealing Iraqi oil, so he did just that. April who?!! In no time, Saddam’s soldiers were grabbing babies out of incubators and slamming them into the wall! The horror! Another big lie – Nayirah Al-Sabah, a young Kuwaiti girl who tearfully recounted this BS had been tutored to deliver this convincing story to garner public support so ex-CIA chief Papa Bush could send the boys to attack Iraq. Turns out, she was the daughter of the Iraqi ambassador and was coached to give this testimony. And everyone bought it. It was later revealed that the story was false, but since it helped lead to war, it serves as another example the damage of the lie. It would be easier to fix a baby that has been slammed than to undo the lie.

As these execrably dishonest narratives began to gush into the American media, most of us who had been raised on Walter Cronkite and David Brinkley didn’t realize we had any reason to doubt them. We had no way of knowing why, we just knew Moammar Khadafi was evil. We weren’t told that he was an extremely popular leader in Libya who was beloved by his constituents. We weren’t apprised (by CNN and FOX) that he had improved the standard of living in his country. The leaders of our country saw him as an imminent threat mainly due to the fact that he had the temerity to locate his country on top of American oil, and they disliked his popularity in Africa. He had to go. So did Daniel Noreiga. Wonder how many remember Hasenfus, a pilot who worked for the CIA running drugs to the US and shipping arms to evil right-wing cartels in places like El Salvador. He crashed his plane in central America and if not for this, we probably would never have heard of the operation. He was smuggling arms that were purchased with money from Iran and from the drug business. This Palestinian genocide is not the first one that the US has sponsored! Google Operation Condor.

After the evil puppet masters installed Bush Junior, they were able to pull off the crime of the century – maybe the greatest crime of all time – to be committed right in front of millions of people. Before you think this episode is a “conspiratory theory”, just consider all of the lies we, the public have been subjected to in the preceding paragraphs and then try to come up with a reason why we should all of a sudden start believing our leaders’ narrative on 9/11. There are so many holes in the official story of those events, a block of Swiss cheese would blush with envy. It just boils down to this, “Are you going to believe us or your lying eyes?” We saw it, and there are those of us who will not be convinced of the flimsy narrative, we know what we saw. This event was probably the central turning point when sane and reasonable people finally said, “ENOUGH!” Everyone else seemed to be willing to let it go. Let’s just pretend we believe the story – who knows, if we can make them think we believe their story, maybe they will suddenly turn from their evil ways and life in America will be good again. That may have been the biggest lie of all, and incredibly, it’s the one we are telling ourselves!

Since the 9/11 lie succeeded in birthing “forever wars” in the world, it brought Lockheed, the Carlisle Group, Raytheon, and all the other blood-dripping entities such good fortune, and as a further gift, the liars in charge have learned that they can abandon any semblance of truth anymore. Americans will believe anything, or at least pretend to, to the extent the public is no threat to them. They can murder with impunity. There are no international laws to which they pay heed. There is no lie too big for them anymore. As long as John Doe public is willing to allow them to do so, they will encroach on our Constitution, our property, our very lives. And we keep our heads buried in the sand.

The lies they have graduated to in this perilous time in our history have grown to become an existential threat, as Bible prophecies reveal to us. Revelation 19 gives us a perfect description of what is about to happen to the United States. We are about to be burned to ashes, and all of us stand by and watch, afraid to say anything which might attract the attention of the beast, lest it devour us, but we will be devoured anyway, so maybe it’s time to at least acknowledge that we don’t believe any of their lies anymore.

There’s an impending election coming up this year. Look at the disasters of human beings we have for candidates! For real, who said these creatures are the only persons we must choose between for a president? Who controls this debacle? We all know, don’t we? There are people out there like Scott Ritter, Larry Johnson, and Douglass McGregor who are risking a lot to try and draw America’s attention to what’s going on. There are college kids out getting their heads banged for trying to get our attention. There are old geezers like me who have been watching the demons take charge for years and are willing to speak up. We’ve got to figure out a way to get through all the lies, we have to seriously get people’s attention before they get us nuked. Now I don’t personally believe Americans have it in them anymore to step up to the plate, but that’s no excuse for not speaking up.

Seeing is believing. Or so I thought until 9/11/2001. When we were told 19 hijackers with box cutters took control of extremely complicated modern jet airplanes and flew them hundreds of miles and were able to control the direction and altitude to hit buildings, especially the one that hit the pentagon at a speed that a passenger jet can’t fly that close to the ground, we should have demanded a real investigation – that’s one lie that sticks in my craw. Around four thousand Americans were slaughtered that day and there’s ample reason to believe organs of our government and that of at least one of our “allies” were involved. If you choose to believe the approved narrative on the events of 9/11, by all means, go ahead. It’s far from the only lie they have told, but the cumulative effects of that one might eventually take America down – as surely as those buildings came down. It ain’t over yet.