propaganda; WD pending

To be 'perfectly honest' (but daaarlings, who isn't? - and herein lies this tale); the business of propaganda is to 'sell' lies.

The first 'by-product' of this is that each and every propagandist is by definition a liar. We can be 'perfectly clear' on this, there is no 'wiggle-room,' neither for evasion nor dissembling nor any other 'way out.'
[Web Results 1 - 2 of about 3 from en.wikipedia.org for "fall victim to a big lie". (0.36 secs)].

Long story short: propagandists are liars.

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After we 'assimilate' that nasty little nugget, what's next?

Well, y'gotta ask yourself: "Why?"

Why would anybody want to tell a lie, especially a big lie?

Certain people (including some lawyers) think it impresses audiences to quote Latin, so here is a bit: Cui bono?[1]

Haw, haw, haw! Silly question? Hardly; lies are only the first step towards criminality. It's a 'good' reason to be suspicious of any liar; it's generally accepted that liars lose all credibility (see the 'sprog' imbroglio here).

A corollary of 'Cui bono?' is Q: who suffers? A: the less powerful.

When it comes to telling lies, there is a particular lie (out of a galaxy of far too many, of course - a sad commentary on 'the human condition') that is considered serious enough to be deemed an offence in some jurisdictions: "Holocaust denial."

Here is a list of recent human 'achievements:'

1. Holocaust.

2. US A-bombings of Japan.

3. King David Hotel act of terrorism.

4. 1948 Arab-Israeli War[2].

5. Deir Yassin massacre.

6. Vietnam War.

7. My Lai massacre.

8. US (and UK, Aus) illegal invasion of Iraq.

9. Falluja (et al) massacres; the continuing brutal occupation of Iraq: murder for oil.

I am anti-war, full bloody stop. I do not think any of the above events improved the human condition; in fact the exact opposite. Quite obviously, wars are started by those who think they can win: as if "Might could be right." Well, daaarlings, it's just not.

Trying to keep this brief, I will supply only one 'factoid' to demonstrate murder for oil. Note a) that before the US (and UK, Aus) illegal invasion of Iraq, oil prices were, say, in the $US20s range. Now, b) the prices are in or about the $US60s. Some observers rail at OPEC, as if they were getting all the dough. Do some research for yourself and answer Q: which company recently posted the largest profit ever? The factoid has turned into a rather nasty fakt, no?

The list of items being denied/exploited by propagandists neither starts nor ends with the Holocaust; my own 'favourite' starting-point is the murdering A-bomb attacks, current and significant ones include the continuous scab-on-the-world Zionist murdering attacks on their neighbours, the US mass-murdering in Iraq to enable oil theft, and possibly the biggest ever, the feared CO2 induced climate catastrophe, aka the greedastrophe®.

Facit: "Holocaust deniers" are the tip of a very dirty iceberg. To any in this infamous group must be added 'deniers of murder for oil' and 'deniers of the greedastrophe.' They ort'a all be locked up (if not 'strung up,' but we (in Aus) don't 'do' capital punishment - although sometimes we 'outsource' it.)

If you, dear reader, have read through my Cui bono?[1] reference, you might appreciate just how far from the ideal both the US and Israel (and to a lesser but grovelling, psycophantic® extent the UK & Aus, thanks respectively to 'the poodle' and 'the lap-dog') have wandered.

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Refs:

[1] I love the way 'dictionary-serendipity' sometimes works, just as in here:
17 Cui bono?
To whose profit?
Pro Roscio Amerino ch. 84 and Pro Milone ch. 12, sect. 32, quoting L. Cassius Longinus Ravilla
18 Id quod est praestantissimum maximeque optabile omnibus sanis et bonis et beatis, cum dignitate otium.
The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honour.
[The Oxford Dictionary of QUOTATIONS
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) 106–43 bc
Roman orator and statesman]

[2] As a result of the 1948 war, Israel controlled all the territory allotted to them under the Partition Plan, much of the territory allotted to the Arabs ... [wiki]

Invading land which is not yours is the worst sort'a war you can have[3].

Again 'to be perfectly honest,' I don't care to argue 'who started it' vis-à-vis the Zionists. For me, it is 100% sufficient to say that the Zionists, after 60+ long and very bloody years, have failed to come to a peaceful settlement with their neighbours; it appears to this observer that the Israelis are occupying land-not-theirs, basta!

[3] To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
[yale/Nuremberg]