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How often are news stories just the 'official position of the government'?


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 11:58 am
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I often think that most news pieces would benefit from the addition of paranoid and unfounded accusations of a high level peadophile ring. When they were talking about the 17 year old suicide bomber from Dewsbury on Channel 4 news last night, I wondered if it was all Cyril Smiths Fault. It probably was!


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 12:01 pm
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Blimey binners, how did you guess?

Funnily enough, Maurice Oldfield, head of MI6 who was involved in Kincora + Elm Guest House (where Cyril Smith and his friends Leon Brittan and Jimmy Savile would go) and Allen Dulles, head of CIA, who recruited + trained underage children as prostitutes to be filmed in compromising positions with powerful people, worked together on several projects which contributed to instability in the Middle East.


 
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Posted : 16/06/2015 1:01 pm
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[i]How often are news stories just the 'official position of the government'?[/i]

When they've been fed to the Sunday Times and re-printed verbatim, then I suppose we can assume that they are.

But this is nothing new. Presumably there a point to your post marching towards us with undeserved confidence?


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 4:01 pm
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Posted : 16/06/2015 4:11 pm
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When ever the Sunday times is directly fed the story spends months trying to confirm it finds no independent evidence to back it up so publishes it anyway.


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 4:25 pm
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But this is nothing new. Presumably there a point to your post marching towards us with undeserved confidence?

Cheer up buttercup...

Of course, it kinda sucks that Her Majesty's government is trying to curtail human rights, increase snooping powers and generally roger us over a barrel (that we paid for) but significant chinks like this in their armour are key to exposing the methods they employ.


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 9:14 pm
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[i]Cheer up buttercup...[/i]

Oh, do **** off you supercilious arsehole. One of the most irritating things about people like you is the insufferable air of superiority you all adopt, but then that's the whole point of the conspiracy theories isn't it? The idea that you think you know something that others don't, so that you feel better about yourself.

Saddo


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 10:10 pm
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Posted : 16/06/2015 10:17 pm
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Now now grumpy pants...

Everyone has different fields of expertise

[url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Mozes_Kor ]Eva Mozes Kor[/url], a survivor of experiments in Auschwitz followed me on twitter the other day, because she wanted help in tracing documentation for the experiments she endured.

Nazi scientists continued human experimentation after the war with the CIA so I helped her with what I know...

But hey, feel free to claim I'm just playing the smart-arse card.


 
Posted : 16/06/2015 10:48 pm