Lying About Your Nuclear Age

About a week ago, the Internet was buzzing about an explosion that was detected in Iran. The various reports on the internet claimed that in their quest to destroy the United States Iran has triggered a massive explosion which appears to be nuclear in nature. The explosion went off in the city of Qazvin. It was reported that the entire city was burning and that the 1.1 million people that lived in or around the area had to have perished in the explosion.

The Los Angeles Times first suggested that the blast could have been a nuclear development accident. Israeli National News reported that: “The blast may be related to nuclear development in Iran, according to the Los Angeles Times. Iranian officials in the past have strongly denied claims by Mujahedin Khalq Organization, or MKO, a cult-like Iranian exile group, that it has a secret nuclear enrichment facility in Abyek, near the major city, according to the daily.”

Reports have surfaced however that the blast may not have been so severe.

According to Al Arabiya News, Iranian officials have since waived rumors of a nuclear explosion as, “incorrect.” Balls of flame were seen shooting into the sky however as oil storage facilities that were burning out of control and raged on through the night.

Now the question is, how is it that a nuclear explosion has happened in Iran and there seems to be not one report of it in the mainstream? Many forums where the report was filed has asked for intelligent discussion on the matter and the overall thoughts being expressed is “Who cares?” and, of course, the obligatory posts of how we should be celebrating the incident as a victory for our side and that why should we care if Iranians are blowing themselves up with nuclear weapons.

I think that what is being missed here is the important fact that there are simply no real facts coming forward about the explosion and whether or not it was a nuclear accident.

Are we that uncaring that we are willing to just ignore the environmental impact of a nuclear explosion because of our hatred for a group of people?

It wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for Iran to cover up reports of a nuclear blast, but if proven false who is responsible for the disinformation campaign. I have an idea because it has been done before.

Back in January of 2013, as AntiWar.com reported, “Israeli government officials aggressively promote an unsubstantiated story about an explosion at an Iranian nuclear facility. The Israeli government has been notorious for pushing stories such as these without any evidence. Israeli government officials willfully reported false stories about Iran in order to legitimize a war of aggression in the Middle East. Israel isn’t the only country to create a false story to legitimize war. It happens more that we care to admit because for the war hawks it is your ignorance that gives them their strength.

It is with lies and ignorance that wars are started and war chests are opened as the banks set the stage, name the enemies and finance both sides for the slaughter.

The time we wake up to this is the time we truly become free.

In the main lobby of the CIA headquarters is an old axiom taken from the bible that reads “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” The irony of the statement posted in the main lobby of the CIA is that we know that many of the alphabet organizations are fanatically devoted to deceit and lies.

We have seen time and time again the quantity of lies and deceit that have been used to make the CIA and other intelligence operations the monstrous entities that they are today.

With the wars that have been prolonged to the deaths, assassinations and executions associated with the wars we fight, we realize that truth is a casualty of war and ignorance becomes a spoil of war and as any spoils of war may come, it is the ignorant that prevail in America and the ignorance is encouraged by pundits who are paid a lot of money to keep that ignorance intact.

It is highly discouraging to see discussion on the nightly news that exemplifies the ignorance that has become a commonality in America, and what is worse is how lie upon lie can be thrown out to the American people and they swallow it up without even thinking that there is a reason why certain topics and ideas have been slated for the national dialogue and others are ignored.

I realized that there are weaponized words in America that silence any discussion. One of those weaponized words is ‘racist’. The most uncomfortable thing to realize is that if anyone shouts ‘racist’ at an opposing view we begin to see the opposing view lose its ground regardless if the opposing view even had anything to do with the race card.

We are seeing tactics being used in the media that prove that if you push a negative long and hard enough it will break through and stick and any counter argument or even a logical, well-thought out debate cannot be used against an already well thought out agenda.

Personalizing an argument –freezing it in a negative light, and then displaying it makes it “truth” in the eyes of Americans that love the drama and sick pleasure of schadenfreude.

We are losing the pleasure and freedom of the intellectual argument without jumping to unnecessary conclusions because of certain ideas that somehow exonerate the foolish because their race or religion keeps them from being questioned.

The race card is only one weapon that is used to kill an intellectual argument. We are now hearing the words “domestic terrorist” being used to malign anyone that questions the laws or even the maneuvers of a government that is there to lie and to obfuscate.

The words “conspiracy theorist” has also been used in the same breath as domestic terrorist. Even those who use “conspiracy theorist” as a pejorative are not even using it correctly because most of the time that moniker is used against anyone who questions the mainstream narrative and proposes a new narrative based on inconvenient evidence that has been presented and ignored by the mainstream press.

During the Cold War, the U.S. and the Soviet Union relied on a strategy that used to be termed, “mutual assured destruction”. It was the idea that in order to hold off a nuclear planetary holocaust there would always be threat that one would happen. It was a way to hold the entire earth hostage with their massive nuclear arsenals. We were told that each superpower had safely stashed away enough nuclear power to absorb a “first strike.”

‘Safely’ was a relative term as we all knew that tens of millions of citizens would be dead, wounded or irradiated to the point of a slow and painful death.

When the Soviet Union fell, the nuclear weapons disappeared and yet they went nowhere. It was merely a “feel good” move to realize that the godless communists had fell and that both the United States and Russia would cooperate in providing a safe world for everyone.

But with all of the lying with regard to our nuclear age, perhaps we all had to feel like we could fake it and pretend that a cold war could be warmed with understanding. However it seemed the warmth has been stifled with pure and exhausting ignorance about such matters as foreign policy with Russia.

Recently a unique poll was carried out by political scientists Kyle Dropp from Dartmouth College, Joshua D. Kertzer from Harvard University and Thomas Zeitzoff from Princeton University. The poll was taken because the political scientists wanted to know how many Americans could locate Ukraine on a map and how this related to their view of what the US reaction ought to be to the crisis in that area.

According to the Washington Post, the results weren’t all that surprising:

“We found that only one out of six Americans can find Ukraine on a map, and that this lack of knowledge is related to preferences: The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force.”

This shows that for the neo-cons and war-hawks of the world our ignorance is their strength.

The question now has to be asked: Should Americans today make an effort to know anything outside of their little worlds and interests in order to make sound decisions with regard to what battles we fight?

Here we are in America determined to watch, yet again, a painful apology from Donald Sterling and the riveting attack on Jay-Z and Beyonce in an elevator and yet it slips our minds or doesn’t register that the situation in Ukraine was brought about by the US and European Union support of the coup d’état that put a radical group of Neo-Nazis in charge of the Ukrainian government.

It was not done by democratic means; the democratically-elected president of the Ukraine had to flee to save his life. For the Russian majorities in East Ukraine, that was not only “proof” of intended harm, it was a direct aggression against their freedom. But we live in a country that believes that it did all the heavy lifting in liberating the world from Hitler – and that Soviet Union only helped.

We also have a hard time grasping at the fact that Putin is the President of Russia because he was voted into that position. He was chosen by the Russian people to do a job. It should be an American position to respect that position.

However we are puzzled over a map an its complicated geography with regard to where it all fits on a map and whether or not a our foreign policy has been hijacked by the same miscreants that orchestrated the September 11th, attacks and the policies that were proposed a year before the attacks that in order to have a stronger military there needed to be an unforeseeable “new pearl harbor” that would guarantee perpetual war.

Back then I am sure many Americans did not know where Iran was on a map or even Afghanistan; however, they did know where to find them if they were looking at potential targets for aggression. That speaks volumes for America doesn’t it?

I think our biggest problem is that we see that the ignorant encourage that we remain mired in the militaristic mindset.

However, we are seeing more and more people that are learning that we are being lied to in this nuclear age and that the war hawks will lie and cover up all kinds of inconvenient history in hopes that the ignorant will continue to perpetuate the disinformation.