LYING BY OMISSION. Lying by omission is worse than lying by commission because at least the latter permits refutation and public debate
Lying by omission is worse than lying by commission because at least the latter permits refutation and public debate.
A damning example of Mainstream Media Lying by Omission is comprehensive failure of US-beholden Western Mainstream Media to report compelling scientific evidence for US Government involvement in the 9/11 atrocity (see “Experts: US did 9/11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ). Thus, for example, Dr Paul Craig Roberts (2019): "Every informed person is aware that elements of the US government were involved either in the perpetration of the 9/11 attacks or in a coverup of the attacks " and The Australian Citizens Party (2019): "A research team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering department has concluded that fire did not cause the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 (WTC 7) on 11 September 2001[as asserted by the US Government] ...The only thing that could have brought this structure down in the manner observed on 9/11 is the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building … With few exceptions, the mainstream media ignored what should have been major news”; ; and a detailed engineering Final Report into “A structural reevaluation of the collapse of World Trade Center 7” from the Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks) (2020): "It is our conclusion based upon these findings that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of all columns in the building". ]
The most appalling and dangerous examples of lying by omission involve the ignoring of immense crimes against humanity such as holocaust (the deaths of huge numbers of people) and genocide (defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Conventions as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.
Holocaust is the destruction of a large number of people. The term was first applied to a WW2 atrocity by Jog in 1944 (Jog, N.G. (1944), “Churchill’s Blind-Spot: India” (New Book Company, Bombay)) in relation to the “forgotten” man-made Bengal Famine (6-7 million Indians - many of them Muslims in a "forgotten" WW2 Muslim Holocaust - deliberately starved to death by the British, 1942-1945). It was subsequently applied to the Jewish Holocaust (5-6 million killed, 1 in 6 dying from deprivation) which was part of a horrendous WW2 European Holocaust (30 million Slavs, Jews and Gypsies killed in the Nazi German Lebensraum genocide).
Unfortunately the racist Zionists (RZs) (who were complicit in the Jewish Holocaust by collaboration with the Nazis, opposing placement of Jewish refugees anywhere but Palestine and persuading Churchill to oppose the Brand scheme to save 0.7 million Hungarian Jews) have appropriated the term Holocaust to mean only the WW2 Jewish Holocaust to the exclusion of all other holocausts (see the testimony of outstanding humanitarian Jews Joel Brand:
http://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/brand-joel-exposing-zionist-complicity-in-nazi-mass-murder-of-hungarian-jews and Lenny Brenner: http://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/brenner-lenni-exposing-zionist-collaboration-and-complicity-with-the-nazis ).
Genocide is very precisely defined in International Law as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group” as set out by Article 2 of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
Generating refugees is also genocide. Thus racist Britain generated 8 million Muslim refugees (and 10 million Hindu and Sikh refugees) in its "divide and rule" Partition of India in 1947. Today in 2015 and overwhelmingly generated by Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI) US Alliance war criminals and state terrorists, there are about 30 million Muslim refugees in the world, the breakdown being 11 million Syrians, 7 million Palestinians, 5 million Iraqis, 2 million Somalis, 2 million Rohingyas, 1 million Pakistanis, 1 million Libyans, and 0.5 million Central African Republicans (see “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).
Key to this internationally agreed, legal definition of genocide is “intent”. Thus the “intent’ of a serial killer is not abolished by his refusal to confess or otherwise explicitly declare “intent” – it can be clearly established simply by the evidence of sustained, remorseless actions leading to serial deaths. Likewise, for example, the sustained, remorseless actions (and inactions) of the British caused the deaths of 6-7 million Indians in 1943-1945 Bengali Holocaust (see the transcript of the 2008 BBC broadcast involving myself, Economics Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen and other scholars: http://www.open2.net/thingsweforgot/bengalfamine_programme.html ) ; the sustained British deprivation of its Indian subjects in the 2 century British Indian Holocaust (1.5 billion excess deaths, or about 1.8 billion including the Native States, and about 20% of them Muslims) (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/26713/42/ ; http://mwcnews.net/content/view/31306/42/ ; and “Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Bengal Famine” writings of Gideon Polya”, Gideon Polya: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust ).
Outstanding humanitarian Denis Halliday (who resigned after 34 years with the UN, including being UN assistant secretary-general, over the Sanctions imposed on Iraq, characterizing them as “genocide”) on genocidal “intent to kill” in answering the question “Who, in your view, is primarily responsible for the deaths of those 500,000 children under five [under Sanctions]?” (2000): “All the members of the Permanent Security Council, when they passed 1284, reconfirmed that economic sanctions had to be sustained, knowing the consequences. That constitutes ‘intent to kill’, because we know that sanctions are killing several thousand per month. Now, of the five permanent members, three abstained; but an abstention is no better than a vote for, in a sense. Britain and America of course voted for this continuation. The rest of them don’t count because they’re lackeys, or they’re paid off. The only country that stood up was Malaysia, and they also abstained. But you know, by abstaining instead of using your veto, when you are a permanent member you're guilty because you’re continuing something that has this deadly impact. However, I would normally point the finger at London and Washington, because they are the most active in sustaining sanctions: they are the ones who will not compromise" (see: Denis Halliday, interviewed by David Edwards, “Half a million children under five are dead in Iraq – who is responsible. An interview with Denis Halliday - Former Assistant Secretary-General of The United Nations”, Media Lens, May 2000: http://www.medialens.org/articles/the_articles/articles_2001/iraqdh.htm ).
Outstanding anti-racist Jewish American scholar Professor Jared Diamond in his best-selling book "Collapse” (Prologue, p10, Penguin edition) enunciated the "moral principle, namely that it is morally wrong for one people to dispossess, subjugate, or exterminate another people", an injunction that is grossly violated by racist Zionist (RZ)-run Apartheid Israel and by its racist, genocide-committing and genocide-ignoring US Alliance backers. Thus the Zionist-perverted and Zionist-subverted US Alliance is involved in a genocidal Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims (aka the US War on Terror, Muslim Holocaust, Muslim Genocide) in which 32 million Muslim deaths from violence (5 million) or imposed deprivation (27 million) have been associated with US Alliance invasions of 20 countries since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity that killed about 3,000 people. The remorseless, ongoing Palestinian Genocide (2 million Palestinian deaths since the mid-1930s from violence, 0.1 million, or imposed deprivation, 1.9 million) and the remorseless , ongoing Zionist-promoted Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide remind one of the racist American saying “The only good Indian is a dead Indian” that is often attributed to American General Phil Sheridan in the context of the 19th century North American Indian Genocide ( Gideon Polya,“Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115.htm; “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ ; “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ; “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ ; “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”:http://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ ; Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ; “Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/2015-update ).
Lying by omission with existential implications relates to ignoring the nuclear weapons., poverty and climate change threats that threaten the world with horrendous mass mortality. A nuclear exchange would wipe out most of Humanity (current population about 7 billion) , successively through the initial instantaneous destruction of cities, subsequent deaths from burns and radiation sickness from radioactive fallout, and finally through a “Nuclear Winter” decimating agriculture, photosynthesis and photosynthate-based life in general. Poverty kills – thus UN Population Division data indicate that about 17 million people already die avoidably each year from deprivation in Developing Countries (minus China ) on a Spaceship Earth with One Percenters in charge of the flight deck. 9 years ago global avoidable deaths totaled 16 million per year. In 2009 the WBGU, which advises the German Government on climate change, estimated that for a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2C temperature rise, the world must emit no more than 600 billion tonnes carbon dioxide (CO2) before zero emissions in 2050. Unfortunately the global greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution is so high that the World has now in 2017 exceeded this terminal budget (see “Nuclear weapons ban , end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban; “Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed ; “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ;"Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming; Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes a history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ )
Lying by omission, climate genocide, omnicide and terracide. Both Dr James Lovelock FRS (Gaia hypothesis) and Professor Kevin Anderson ( Deputy Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Manchester, UK) have recently estimated that only about 0.5 billion people will survive this century due to unaddressed, man-made global warming. Noting that the world population is expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050 (UN Population Division) , these estimates translate to a climate genocide involving deaths of 10 billion people this century, this including roughly twice the present population of particular mainly non-European groups, specifically 6 billion under-5 year old infants, 3 billion Muslims in a terminal Muslim Holocaust, 2 billion Indians, 1.3 billion non-Arab Africans, 0.5 billion Bengalis, 0.3 billion Pakistanis and 0.3 billion Bangladeshis. Already 16 million people (about 9.5 million of them under-5 year old infants) die avoidably every year due to deprivation and deprivation-exacerbated disease – and man-made global warming is already clearly worsening this global avoidable mortality holocaust. However 10 billion avoidable deaths due to global warming this century yields an average annual avoidable death rate of 100 million per year ( “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ ). Yet thanks to lying by omission by Mainstream journalist, politician, corporate and academic presstitutes, atmospheric CO2 is now at a dangerous and damaging record level (405 ppm CO2) and is increasing at a record rate ( 3 ppm CO2 per year). Ditto the greenhouse gas methane (CH4) – increasing leakage of CH4 in the Arctic represents a huge threat to Humanity “Methane Bomb Threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ ).
Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. Holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated (see Gideon Polya (2008), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2008 edition that is now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ).
A powerful example of Mainstream Lying by Omission is given by the Deafening Silence from Mainstream journalist, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes in response to the following Letter sent to thousands worldwide about the new book “US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide” by Gideon Polya (for a comprehensive list of this and other man-made famine, holocaust and genocide atrocities, together with deaths from violence and imposed deprivation and provided in the Epilogue of this book, see “Report Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/reportgenocide/list-of-holocausts-and-genocides ).
Dear … ,
New book: Climate Genocide & Muslim Holocaust
2 decades in the making, my 400 page, science-informed, humanitarian book has just been published in Germany - Gideon Maxwell Polya, “US-imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide”, Korsgaard Publishing, Germany, 2020 (for details see: https://korsgaardpublishing.com/portfolio/23945/ and https://www.amazon.com/US-Imposed-Post-9-Muslim-Holocaust-Genocide/dp/8793987056 ).
A picture says a thousand words - for a complete image of my big “Manhattan Madonna” painting (1.3 x 2.9 metres) that was used for the front and back cover of the book see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/3429196820/in/set-72157616584873236/ .
See also my huge painting for West-Muslim World friendship entitled “Isfahan Matisse”: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4290121654 .
While the terms “holocaust”, “genocide” and “Geneva Convention observance” are precisely defined, the terminology and shocking underlying substance of most of the chapter headings (see below) are overwhelmingly ignored by Western Mainstream politicians, academics and journalists in a process of ongoing holocaust ignoring and genocide ignoring that is far, far worse than repugnant holocaust denial and genocide denial because the latter at least permit refutation and public debate.
This appalling catalogue of human suffering and premature death in the 21st century Muslim Holocaust and Muslim Genocide should be considered in the context of atrocities in the 20th century and earlier. The Epilogue succinctly, quantitatively and comprehensively details deaths from violence and deprivation in man-made famines, holocausts, and genocides from the 19th century Irish Famine, the “forgotten” 1757-1947 Indian Holocaust, and the “forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust to the 21st century Muslim Holocaust, and including the worsening Climate Genocide (Chapters 1, 19 & 21) and the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide that is quantitatively compared with the ongoing Palestinian Genocide in Chapter 16.
Peace is the only way but silence kills and silence is complicity. We are obliged to bear witness. Please tell everyone you can.
Yours sincerely, Dr Gideon Polya, Melbourne, Australia
Table of Contents
Foreword by S. Korsgaard: Accountability and Freedom of Press……iii
Foreword by K. Barrett: Holocaust Studies…………….……………..xx
Introductory Comments by G. Polya………………….……….……...xxvi
Chapter 1: Global Avoidable Mortality Holocaust…..………..……....3
Chapter 2: Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission...17
Chapter 3: “Forgotten” WW2 Bengali Holocaust (1942-1945)……....27
Chapter 4: American Empire (1776-)………………………………...41
Chapter 5: US state terrorism & 9-11 (2001-)………………………..53
Chapter 6: Afghan Holocaust & Afghan Genocide (2001-)………….65
Chapter 7: Iraqi Holocaust & Iraqi Genocide (1990-2011)…………..77
Chapter 8: Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide (2001-)…………89
Chapter 9: Libyan Genocide (2011-)…………………………………111
Chapter 10: Iranian Holocaust & Iranian Genocide (1978-)…………125
Chapter 11: Iraqi Genocide resumed (2012-)………………………...143
Chapter 12: Syrian Holocaust & Syrian Genocide (2012-)…………..157
Chapter 13: Somali Holocaust & Somali Genocide (1992-)…………191
Chapter 14: Yemeni Genocide (2015-)…………………………….…203
Chapter 15: Opiate Holocaust (2001-)…………………………….….219
Chapter 16: Palestinian Genocide (1916-)……………………………235
Chapter 17: Indian Avoidable Mortality Holocaust (1757-)………….261
Chapter 18: Rohingya Genocide (2016-)………………………….….275
Chapter 19: Air pollution deaths…………………………………..….293
Chapter 20: American Holocaust…………………………………..…307
Chapter 21: Climate Genocide & War on Terra……………………....321
Chapter 22: War on Truth……………………………………………..339
Epilogue……………………………………………………………......357
This website is an alphabetically organized compendium of facts and opinions in relation to lying by omission.
AL-DAQQAQ. Abi Ali al-Daqqaq (Islamic scholar): “Whoever restrained himself from speaking the truth, then he is a mute devil” (“Irsyad Al-Hadith Series 259: Restraining oneself from speaking the truth (mute devil)”, Mufti of Federal Territory’s Office, 19 March 2018: https://muftiwp.gov.my/en/artikel/irsyad-al-hadith/2348-irsyad-al-hadith-series-259-restraining-one-self-from-speaking-the-truth ; Dr Ramzy Baroud, “Silent in Ukraine: Weapons perpetuate, do not end wars”, Countercurrents, 12 March 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/silent-in-ukraine-weapons-perpetuate-do-not-end-wars/?swcfpc=1 ).
AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS PARTY. Australian Citizens Party (formerly the Citizens Electoral Council) on how engineering experts expose 9/11 lies (2019): “A research team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks engineering department has concluded that fire did not cause the collapse of World Trade Centre Building 7 (WTC 7) on 11 September 2001. Professor of Civil Engineering Dr J. Leroy Hulsey, who led the research team, has demonstrated that the official US government version of the WTC 7 collapse is a scientific fraud, which leaves us with some very troubling questions about the entire 9/11 attacks… The official US government analysis of WTC 7 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was released in August 2008. At a news conference, NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder concluded: “WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fuelled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from fuel oil fires.” This statement infuriated many engineers and architects. No skyscraper in the world had ever collapsed at freefall speed as a result of office fires. This only occurs in a controlled demolition. The official explanation defies the laws of physics! Dr Hulsey concluded: “We simulated every plausible scenario, and we found that the series of failures that NIST claimed triggered a progressive collapse of the entire structure could not have occurred. The only thing that could have brought this structure down in the manner observed on 9/11 is the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building below Floor 17… With few exceptions, the mainstream media ignored what should have been major news” (Australian Citizens Party, “Engineering experts expose 9/11 lies”, Australian Alert Service 18 September 2019: https://citizensparty.org.au/engineering-experts-expose-911-lies ; see also “Experts: US did 9/11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ).
JASSON. Allen Jasson (outstanding Australian humanitarian writer and activist) on Mainstream media fake moral outrage re Trump (2017): “In the Mainstream Media (MSM) there presently is an imposing impression of international uproar and moral outrage suggesting the imminent demise of a newly‑elected President. Nothing like it was observed when pomp and circumstance was afforded the state visit to the UK of George Bush junior, mired in the blood of Iraqis and pungent with the stink of lies and deceit.
It has already been noted in the alternative media that while Trump has allegedly infringed upon the rights of people from these ‘mostly Muslim countries’ it was Bush who was bombing them, killing civilians, murdering women and children, whole families, turning weddings into village bloodbaths, destroying infrastructure, schools, hospitals, water-treatment plants. Never was it mentioned in the MSM that it was an illegal, immoral, aggressive and violent war initiated on a pack of obvious lies for the interests of his OIL-rich friends among the “haves and have-mores”. They felt content to squabble over whether The Lancet got the numbers right.
The conjuring tricks that create these illusions of international uproar and outrage suggestive of something imminent are only possible in the echo-chamber owned, operated and precisely orchestrated by the Corporate Mainstream Media…
Fake news there may well be in the alternative media, but it’s nothing compared to the systematic fake news of omission, distorted emphasis and spin that is the hallmark of the MSM. Misled by the preoccupation with Israel’s right to defend itself the swill-digesting public is presumed not to be interested in Israel’s application of vast airpower and military force to the persecution of a million Palestinians held under siege in Gaza.
The fake controversies over anti-Semitism are standard cover for the ongoing criminal activities of the recidivist Jewish State of Israel in the theft and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian land that has gone on for almost 7 decades. The possibility that some obscure author lied about the holocaust is apparently more newsworthy than the shocking inhumanity, genocide and human rights violations undertaken in the occupied Palestinian Territories on a scale that easily qualifies as utter lawlessness. According to the MSM it is ‘our democratic values’ that must be upheld in the parliament, not the ‘populism’ that is all-pervasive among the masses and ‘our moral values’ are exhibited in using diplomacy to make ‘gradual progress’ in defending human rights in barbaric dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia when they murder civilians in neighbouring countries using British-made weapons and planes” (Allen Jasson, “Trump, the media and muddled morals” MWC News, 9 February 2017: http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/63669-media-and-muddled-morals.html ) .
KENEALLY. Tom (Australian writer of fiction and nonfiction) (2016): “It was well established, he [Father Frank Docherty] would say on later Sundays, that against the proposition of St Paul ‘s that the greatest commandment was love, the fact that in South Africa there prevailed a regime which denied proper human status to the majority of its residents was an outrage. And having inherited our land from an indigenous race , whose dispossession we had not yet faced [1968], we should neither imitate apartheid nor fail to condemn it. It was one of the counsel of Christ that no government should legislate to exalt one race over another. Yet only when the world was persuaded to condemn apartheid would it end. Indeed, Frank said, it would be interesting to ask if we in Australia would ourselves have passed an apartheid law had there been many more Aboriginals than whites” (Tom Keneally, :Crimes of the father”, Vintage, Sydney, 2016, Chapter 16, “Maureen Breslin remembers Humanae Vitae, 1968”, page 158).
[Editor’s note: Indigenous Australians were treated appallingly and were not even counted as Australians until a 1967 a Referendum was passed with 92% support for the question: ” DO YOU APPROVE the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled— 'An Act to alter the Constitution so as to omit certain words relating to the People of the Aboriginal Race in any State and so that Aboriginals are to be counted in reckoning the Population”. Passage of this Referendum allowed the counting of Aborigines and the passage of laws relating to Aborigines by the Federal Government. The 1975 Racial Discrimination Act outlawed racial discrimination (notably the notorious and popularly dubbed White Australia Policy. However the Northern Territory National Emergency Response (the Intervention) in 2007 involved the racist suspension of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act in relation to NT Aborigines. The Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide continue. Turnbull Australia ranks second after Trump USA as a supporter of Apartheid Israel.]
KING. Martin Luther King Jr. (African-American civil rights leader and preacher): “The day we see truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die” (Goodreads. “Martin Luther King Jr quotes”: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6188-the-day-we-see-the-truth-and-cease-to-speak ; Dr Ramzy Baroud, “Silent in Ukraine: Weapons perpetuate, do not end wars”, Countercurrents, 12 March 2023: https://countercurrents.org/2023/03/silent-in-ukraine-weapons-perpetuate-do-not-end-wars/?swcfpc=1 ).
KINGSOLVER. Barbara Kingsolver (American novelist, essayist , poet and author of “The Poisonwood Bible” and other powerful works) explores Mainstream, media lying by omission in her great novel "The Lacuna" (lacuna meaning hiatus, blank, missing part, gap, cavity, or empty space) which has Russian Communist revolutionary and theorist Leon Trotsky (Lev) and his secretary Van having the following discussion about media (2009): ""But newspapers have a duty to truth", Van said. Lev [Trotsky] clicked his tongue. "They tell the truth only as the exception. Zola [French novelist of "J'accuse" fame] wrote that the mendacity of the press could be could be divided into two groups: the yellow press lies every day without hesitating. But others, like the Times , speak the truth on all inconsequential occasions, so they can deceive the public with the requisite authority when it becomes necessary." Van got up from his chair to gather the cast-off newspapers. Lev took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. " I don't mean to offend the journalists; they aren't any different from other people. They're merely the megaphones of other people" … [Trotsky observes to his assistant Shepherd] “Soli, let me tell you. The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know”” (Barbara Kingsolver, “The Lacuna”, Faber & Faber, London, 2009, part 3, p159 ).
PILGER. John Pilger (2012): “History is buried with the dead and deformed of Vietnam and Bhopal. And history is the new enemy. On 28 May, President Obama launched a campaign to falsify the history of the war in Vietnam. To Obama, there was no Agent Orange, no free fire zones, no turkey shoots, no cover-ups of massacres, no rampant racism, no suicides (as many Americans took their own lives as died in the war), no defeat by a resistance army drawn from an impoverished society. It was, said Mr. Hopey Changey, "one of the most extraordinary stories of bravery and integrity in the annals of [US] military history". The following day, the New York Times published a long article documenting how Obama personally selects the victims of his drone attacks across the world. He does this on "terror Tuesdays" when he browses through mug shots on a "kill list", some of them teenagers, including "a girl who looked even younger than her 17 years... How much longer must we subject ourselves to such an "invisible government"? This term for insidious propaganda, first used by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and inventor of modern public relations, has never been more apt. "False reality" requires historical amnesia, lying by omission and the transfer of significance to the insignificant. In this way, political systems promising security and social justice have been replaced by piracy, "austerity" and "perpetual war": an extremism dedicated to the overthrow of democracy. Applied to an individual, this would identify a psychopath. Why do we accept it?” (John Pilger, “History is the enemy as “brilliant” psy-ops become the news”, john pilger.com: 21 June 2012: http://johnpilger.com/articles/history-is-the-enemy-as-brilliant-psy-ops-become-the-news ).
POLYA. Gideon Polya (Australian scientist, writer, artist and humanitarian activist) (2017): “.Lying by omission is worse than lying by commission because at least the latter permits refutation and public debate. The most appalling and dangerous examples of lying by omission involve the ignoring of immense crimes against humanity such as holocaust (the deaths of huge numbers of people) and genocide (defined by Article 2 of the UN Genocide Conventions as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”… Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated. Holocaust ignored yields holocaust repeated (see Gideon Polya (2008), “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability”, G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2008 edition that is now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ )” (Gideon Polya, Home, “Lying by omission”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/lying-by-omission ).
Dr Gideon Polya on Mainstream media fake news through lying by omission (2017): “Fake news is simply a new, Trump-popularized descriptive for media lying that occurs in 2 basic forms, lying by omission and lying by commission. Lying by omission is far, far worse than lying by commission because the latter can at least admit refutation and public debate. Western Mainstream media impose a huge burden of fake news on Western societies through entrenched and pervasive lying by omission. Indeed the most egregious and pervasive Mainstream media lie of omission is suppression of reportage of such lying by omission. The unimpeded, remorseless, corporate-dominated Mainstream media, politicians and pliant intellectuals are now going further, and variously threatening residual effective free speech and Alternative media on the basis of asserted fake news” (Gideon Polya, “Mainstream media: fake news through lying by omission”, MWC News, 1 April 2017: http://www.mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/64626-mainstream-media.html ).
ROBERTS. Dr Paul Craig Roberts on Federal grand jury investigation of 9/11 (2019): “Although the United States is allegedly a democracy with a rule of law, it has taken 17 years for public pressure to bring about the first grand jury investigation of 9/11. Based on the work of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth led by Richard Gage, first responder and pilots organizations, books by David Ray Griffen and others, and eyewitness testimony, the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry has presented enough hard facts to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York to force his compliance with the provisions of federal law that require the convening of a federal grand jury to investigate for the first time the attacks of September 11, 2001. This puts the US Justice (sic) Department in an extraordinary position. Every informed person is aware that elements of the US government were involved either in the perpetration of the 9/11 attacks or in a coverup of the attacks. There will be tremendous pressures on the US Attorney’s office to have the grand jury dismiss the evidence as an unpatriotic conspiracy theory or otherwise maneuver to discredit the evidence presented by the Lawyers’ Committee, or modify the official account without totally discrediting it. We can have hopes that the United States can establish the true story of its own Reichstag Fire, but I am not holding my breath that the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York can stand up to the powerful elements in the Deep State that perpetuated or covered up the 9/11 false flag attacks or that he is inclined to try” (Paul Craig Roberts, “9/11: finally the truth comes out?”, Foreign Policy Journal, 4 January 2019: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/01/04/9-11-finally-the-truth-comes-out/ ; see also “Experts: US did 9/11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ).
Dr Paul Craig Roberts on academic engineering investigation of the WTC Building 7 destruction (2019): “A research team at the University of Alaska’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, led by Dr. Leroy Hulsey, Dr. Zhili Quan, and Professor Feng Xiao, Department of Civil Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, released on September 3, 2019, for public comment their findings from a four-year study of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. This is the first scientific investigation of the collapse of the building. Here is the conclusion: “The principal conclusion of our study is that fire did not cause the collapse of WTC 7 on 9/11, contrary to the conclusions of NIST and private engineering firms that studied the collapse. The secondary conclusion of our study is that the collapse of WTC 7 was a global failure involving the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building.” Notice three things: (1) it has taken 18 years to get a real investigation of the destruction of a building blamed on Muslim terrorists, (2) the only way “near-simultaneous failure of every column in the building” can occur is through controlled demolition, and (3) this remarkable finding is not reported in the presstitute media. In other words, the study is assigned to the Memory Hole. This is the way The Matrix operates. This is why you need this website. The only purpose of print and TV news is to program you so that you insouciantly go along with the agendas of those who rule you. Those who sit in front of TV news, listen to NPR, or read newspapers are programmed to be mindless automatons” (Paul Craig Roberts, “The official story of the collapse of WTC Building 7 lies in ruins”, Foreign Policy Journal, 6 September 2019: https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2019/09/06/the-official-story-of-the-collapse-of-wtc-building-7-lies-in-ruins/ ; see also “Experts: US did 9/11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/home ).
SWANSON. David Swanson (author, activist, journalist, radio host, director of WorldBeyondWar.org , campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org and author of “War is a Lie”) suggests 7 December as Golden Age Day after Gore Vidal’s novel “The Golden Age” that describes the secret Anglo-American push for war against Japan in WW2: “Golden Age Day should include public readings of Vidal's novel and the glowing endorsements of it by the Washington Post, New York Times Book Review, and every other corporate paper in the year 2000, also known as the year 1 BWT (before the war on terra). Not a single one of those newspapers has ever, to my knowledge, printed a serious straightforward analysis of how President Franklin D. Roosevelt maneuvered the United States into World War II…
In The Golden Age [by Gore Vidal] , we follow along inside all the closed doors, as the British push for U.S. involvement in World War II, as President Roosevelt makes a commitment to Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as the warmongers manipulate the Republican convention to make sure that both parties nominate candidates in 1940 ready to campaign on peace while planning war, as FDR longs to run for an unprecedented third term as a wartime president but must content himself with beginning a draft and campaigning as a drafttime president in a time of supposed national danger, and as FDR works to provoke Japan into attacking on his desired schedule. …
Joseph Rochefort, cofounder of the Navy's communication intelligence section, who was instrumental in failing to communicate to Pearl Harbor what was coming, would later comment: "It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country." The night after the attack, President Roosevelt had CBS News's Edward R. Murrow and Roosevelt's Coordinator of Information William Donovan over for dinner at the White House, and all the President wanted to know was whether the American people would now accept war. Donovan and Murrow assured him the people would indeed accept war now. Donovan later told his assistant that Roosevelt's surprise was not that of others around him, and that he, Roosevelt, welcomed the attack. Murrow was unable to sleep that night and was plagued for the rest of his life by what he called "the biggest story of my life" which he never told. Have a Meaningful Golden Age Day!” (David Swanson, “Golden Age of Pearl Harbor”, Countercurrents, 6 December, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/swanson061214.htm ).
TOOHEY. Brian Toohey ( outstanding truth-telling Australian journalist, especially re Intelligence abuses ) on Australian Intelligence subversion of Australian media (2019): “Today’s generation of journalists have a much tougher job. Governments have introduced new laws making it a criminal offence to receive a wide range of information. The June 2018 Espionage Act provides a glimpse of the future where it will be an offence to receive “Information of any kind, whether true or false and whether in a material form or not, and includes (a) an opinion; and (b) a report of a conversation”. George Orwell could never have dreamt that one up [page xv]…
After Peter Barbour took over from {ASIO chief Charles] Spry in 1970, he tried to introduce reforms but was often frustrated by senior officers from the Spry era , some of whom were strongly influenced by [B.A. ”Bob”] Santamaria [traitorous and neofascist Catholic Right “asset” (spy) of the Americans who was a key figure in the National Civic Council and the Democratic Labor Party and who was a major figure in keeping Labor out of power from 1950-1972]. John Blaxland’s chapter called “Shaping and influencing” in the second volume of the ASIO [Australian Security and Intelligence Organization] history gives details of operations conducted by a new Special Projects Section established in 1965 to influence the debate over the Vietnam War. Its head, Bob Swan, said those “spoiling operations” were initially “designed primarily to debunk, discredit, disillusion or destroy” the Communist Party and later extended to the anti-Vietnam War protest movement, which merely exercised the democratic right to oppose government policy. ASIO’s attempt’s to damage the government’s critics went far beyond its charter. It made extensive use of journalistic stooges in major media outlets who would put their name on material prepared by ASIO. One journalist, Robert Mayne, later revealed details of this activity in the National Times. For many years during the this period the ABC [the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the taxpayer-funded Australian equivalent of the mendacious UK BBC] and the Melbourne Age [leading Fairfax-owned centrist newspaper] let ASIO vet journalists to weed out people who might be regarded as subversive” [page 12]…
The [joint media organisations] submission [to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security] quoted the [Espionage and Foreign Interference] bill as saying it could apply to the release and reception of “Information of any kind, whether true or false and whether in a material form or not, and includes (a) an opinion; and (b) a report of a conversation”. When the amended bill became law, it retained this catch-all clause. The bill also made it an offence to leak, receive or publish “inherently harmful information” and that the prosecution does not have to prove it is national security classified information” [pages 232-233] (Brian Toohey, “Secret. The making of Australia’s security state”, Melbourne University Press, 2019).
TWAIN. Mark Twain: “The truth hurts, but silence kills” (Mark Twain Quotes, page 3: https://www.azquotes.com/author/14883-Mark_Twain?p=3 ).
WIKIPEDIA. Wikipedia states of lying by omission: “Also known as a continuing misrepresentation, a lie by omission occurs when an important fact is left out in order to foster a misconception. Lying by omission includes failures to correct pre-existing misconceptions. For example, when the seller of a car declares it has been serviced regularly but does not tell that a fault was reported at the last service, the seller lies by omission. It can be compared to dissimulation. An omission is when a person tells most of the truth, but leaves out a few key facts that therefore completely change the story” (“Lie”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie ).
ZUESSE. Eric Zuesse (an historian and the author, most recently, of “They’re Not Even Close: the Democratic vs Republican Records 1910-2010” and of “Christ’s ventriloquists: The event that created Christianity”) has commented incisively on “the most suppressed news of all - news about the news-suppression by the ‘news'-media” (2014): “ Recognize how extremely far from being a democracy today's United States has, in fact, become . This is the most shocking realization of all, because it's the most suppressed news of all - news about the news-suppression by the ‘news'-media…. That's how dire the condition of what used to be American democracy has now become. The biggest news-story of all is thus the one that is, and that will inevitably be, the most suppressed news-story of all: the news-suppression itself. It extends from the major ‘news'-media to the alternative and even to the specialized ‘news'-media… He [Edward Snowden] raised the extremely serious question as to whether, and the extent to which, a government can lie to its public and still be a democracy. That's the question. How can the public have a government representing informed consent, if the ‘news' media are constantly, and systematically, lying about the most important things, and covering up that government's worst, most heinous, crimes? Yet, this is what Americans have today. The United States is thus no longer a model for any country except for a dictatorship. How likely is it that America's press will let the American public know this now-established fact? Something's wrong — and it's not people such as Edward Snowden (Eric Zuesse , “The Biggest Scandal In America Is Its Controlled Press”, Countercurrents, 4 December, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/zuesse041214.htm ).
War is the penultimate in racism and genocide the ultimate in racism. Racism, war and genocide are enabled by lying and censorship. It is very powerful to quote expert humane opinion. Thus eminent physicist Stephen Hawking on the key existential threats facing Humanity (2018): “We see great peril if governments and societies do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further climate change” (Stephen Hawking, “Brief Answers to the Big Questions”, John Murray, 2018, Chapter 7). Most of the following websites alphabetically list expert opinions in 4 inter-connected key areas, namely “Stop lying and censorship”, “Reverse climate change”, “End war and genocide”, and “Free Palestine”. Everyone is invited to make use of this substantial resource and to feel free to disseminate this list to everyone they can.
STOP LYING & CENSORSHIP
“ABC censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/abccensorship/abc-censorship .
“ABC fact-checking unit & incorrect reportage by the ABC (Australia’s BBC)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/abc-fact-checking-unit .
“Boycott Murdoch media”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottmurdochmedia/ .
“Censorship by ABC Late Night Live”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/ .
"Censorship by ABC Saturday Extra": https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbyabclatenightlive/censorship-by-abc-sat .
“Censorship by the ABC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbytheabc/ .
“Censorship by Crikey (Australia)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-crikey .
“Censorship by SBS (Australia)”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-sbs-australia .
“Censorship by The Age”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-age .
“Censorship by the BBC”: https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/ .
“Censorship by The Conversation”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by .
"Censorship by The Guardian Australia": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home/censorship-by-the-guardian-a .
"Censorship by The Guardian UK": https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/censorship-by-the-guardian-uk .
“Educational apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ .
“Experts: US did 9/11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ .
“Expose holocaust denial & ignoring”: https://sites.google.com/site/exposeholocaustdenialignoring/Home .
“Exposing Australia”: https://sites.google.com/site/exposingaustralia/home .
“Free university education” : https://sites.google.com/site/freeuniversityeducation/home
“Lying by omission”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/lying-by-omission .
“Mainstream media censorship”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammediacensorship/home .
“Mainstream media lying”: https://sites.google.com/site/mainstreammedialying/ .
“Questions Q&A won’t ask”: https://sites.google.com/site/questionsqawontask/home .
“Subversion of Australia”: https://sites.google.com/site/subversionofaustralia/home .
REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE
“1% on 1%: one percent annual wealth tax on One Percenters”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/1-on-1 .
“2 degrees C”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2-degrees-c .
“100% renewable energy by 2020”: https://sites.google.com/site/100renewableenergyby2020/ .
“300 ppm CO2 ASAP: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-ppm-co2-asap .
“2011 climate change course”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/2011-climate-change-course .
“300.org”: . https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org .
“300.org climate crisis glossary”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/300-org-climate-crisis
“300.org – return atmosphere CO2 to 300 ppm CO2”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/300-org---return-atmosphere-co2-to-300-ppm .
“Are we doomed?”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/are-we-doomed .
“Banyule Climate Action Now”: https://sites.google.com/site/banyuleclimateactionnow/ .
“Biofuel Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/biofuelgenocide/ .
“Carbon Debt Carbon Credit”: https://sites.google.com/site/carbondebtcarboncredit/ .
“Climate crisis articles”: https://sites.google.com/site/climatecrisisarticles/home .
“Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
“Climate Justice & Intergenerational Equity”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-justice .
"Climate Revolution Now": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/climate-revolution .
“Cut carbon emissions 80% by 2020”: https://sites.google.com/site/cutcarbonemissions80by2020/ .
“Divest from fossil fuels”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/divest-from-fossil-fuels .
“Eco-socialism, green socialism”: https://sites.google.com/site/ecosocialismgreensocialism/
“Gas is not clean energy”: https://sites.google.com/site/gasisnotcleanenergy/ .
“Methane bomb threat”: https://sites.google.com/site/methanebombthreat/ .
“Nuclear weapons ban, end poverty & reverse climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/nuclear-weapons-ban .
“Older people and climate change”: https://sites.google.com/site/olderpeopleandclimatechange/home .
“Science and economics experts: carbon tax needed and not carbon trading”, 300.org: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/sciennce-economics-experts-carbon-tax-needed-not-carbon-trading .
“Stop air pollution deaths”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-air-pollution-deaths .
“Stop climate crime”: https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/stop-climate-crime .
"Too late to avoid global warming catastrophe": https://sites.google.com/site/300orgsite/too-late-to-avoid-global-warming .
“Yarra Valley Climate Action Group”: https://sites.google.com/site/yarravalleyclimateactiongroup/Home .
END WAR AND GENOCIDE
“Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ .
“Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ .
“Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .
“Afghanistan Genocide essays”: https://sites.google.com/site/afghanistangenocideessays/ .
“Art for peace, planet, mother & child”: https://sites.google.com/site/artforpeaceplanetmotherchild/ .
“Bengali Holocaust (WW2 Bengal Famine) writings of Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/bengali-holocaust .
“Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/drgideonpolya/home .
“Gideon Polya writing”: https://sites.google.com/site/gideonpolyawriting/ .
“Iraq Genocide essays”: https://sites.google.com/site/iraqgenocideessays/ .
“Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ .
“Poetry reviews by Gideon Polya”: https://sites.google.com/site/poetryreviewsbygideonpolya/ .
“Report genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/reportgenocide/ .
"State crime and non-state terrorism": https://sites.google.com/site/statecrimeandnonstateterrorism/ .
“Stop state terrorism”: https://sites.google.com/site/stopstateterrorism/ .
FREE PALESTINE
Apartheid Israeli state terrorism: (A) individuals exposing Apartheid Israeli state terrorism, and (B) countries subject to Apartheid Israeli state terrorism”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/apartheid-israeli-state-terrorism .
“Boycott Apartheid Israel”: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/.
“Gaza Concentration Camp”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/gaza-concentration .
“Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/jewsagainstracistzionism/ .
“Non-Jews Against Racist Zionism”: https://sites.google.com/site/nonjewsagainstracistzionism/ .
“One-state solution, unitary state, bi-national state for a democratic, equal rights, post-apartheid Palestine: https://sites.google.com/site/boycottapartheidisrael/one-state-solution .
“Palestinian Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/ .
“Palestinian Genocide essays”: https://sites.google.com/site/palestinegenocideessays/ .
"Zionist quotes re racism and Palestinian Genocide": https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/zionist-quotes .