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The key lessons I learned after 9/11 and the run-up to military actions in Iraq & Afghanistan:

1. The "news" media & politicians will use all methods at their disposal to emotionally traumatize the public and keep them fearful and angry in order to garner their support for actions that make no sense in regards to actually protecting the US border or the US public. You literally cannot trust anything they say or show you in these situations.

2. The real agendas behind US military interventions is so crass and pathetic that it can't possibly be made public or no sensible person would support them. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. And we were only told Afghanistan played a role. Notice that once the wars started in earnest, getting Bin Laden was placed on the back burner for over a decade. So, "Justice" for 9/11 clearly wasn't the real agenda behind the Iraq/Afghanistan wars.

3. A lot of people are gullible morons. I include myself in that group. My only saving grace is that age has taught me that I can be manipulated if the right buttons are pushed; so I am always on the lookout for situations where the "news" media is trying to push my buttons. At that point, I take everything with a grain of salt and wait for the stories to play out. Because the first thing you hear or see is virtually always a big fat lie.

A perfect example happened just a few days back. A photo circulated in Western "news" sources of "Russian soldiers" aggressively holding "Ukrainian villagers" at gun point. A video showed "Russian missiles" bombing a "Ukrainian city." Turns out, after 24 hours, a retraction was made on both. The photo was actually of Israeli soldiers holding some Palestinian women at gun point and the video was of Israeli artillery shelling Gaza City.

The bizarre thing is that the same "news" personalities who expressed outrage when it was thought the photo & video were about Russian actions couldn't care less when it was revealed that the photo & video were about Israeli actions. It seems if there was something of any real significance actually going on in Ukraine that in this age of smart phones and global internet that it wouldn't be too hard to get real photos and real video out about it, don't you think? That fact there makes me doubt every single thing I hear (and see) on the "news" in regards to Ukraine.

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