{"id":357700,"date":"2018-04-20T23:54:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=357700"},"modified":"2018-04-24T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:47:12","slug":"how-wikipedia-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-wikipedia-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"How Wikipedia Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know that Vice President Dick Cheney admitted that on 11 September 2001 he, as President George W. Bush\u2019s brief stand-in during the 9\/11 attacks that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, issued an order (and it was carried out) to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 while it was in the air near Pittsburgh? If what he said at the time was true, then the standard \u2018historical\u2019 account of the plane\u2019s having been brought down as a result of action by the passengers, would be concocted, not history at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the video-clip of V.P. Cheney on 9\/11, making this claim and explaining why he gave that order: <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7vV3fjfeb9Q&list=PLOg2tzhKRd4j-yNHID9_Ru3MWe-VwwCxl&index=4<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Wikipedia article on Flight 93<\/span><\/a> provides the standard account, and fails even so much as just to mention the Vice President\u2019a assertion and explanation that he provided on national TV at the time of the 9\/11 events.<\/span><\/p>\n

So: I edited the Wikipedia article by adding a sentence at the end of its opening paragraph, and by following that sentence with a brief second paragraph, and here is that entire two-sentence addition:<\/span><\/p>\n

Vice President Dick Cheney alleged that he gave the order to shoot down Flight 93, and explained why when asked about it by Chris Wallace of Fox News as shown in this film-clip: <\/i>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7vV3fjfeb9Q&list=PLOg2tzhKRd4j-yNHID9_Ru3MWe-VwwCxl&index=4<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Consequently, the account given below of what brought the plane down \u2014 an account inconsistent with what Cheney said \u2014 could be entirely false. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

On the web browser that I was using, the addition showed as having been successfully made in the Wikipedia article. However, to be sure, I opened the URL in a different browser, and this time my addition was absent. I then went back to the \u201cEdit\u201d page\u201d and this time to the \u201cView history\u201d page, and clicked there on \u201c(talk)\u201d and found this message, which I saw virtually immediately after I had thought that I had inserted the new information:<\/span><\/p>\n

Hello, I’m Shellwood. I wanted to let you know that I reverted one of your recent contributions \u2014specifically this edit to United Airlines Flight 93\u2014 because it did not appear constructive. <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

No other explanation for blocking my addition was provided. \u201cShellwood\u201d was there saying that mentioning, and linking to the video of Cheney saying, that allegation, which Cheney made on 9\/11 about how Flight 93 came down, is not \u201cconstructive\u201d to Wikipedia-readers who want information about Flight 93.<\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, even the BBC published the fact that Wikipedia is edited by the CIA<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who reads the present article is hereby welcomed to try making the same addition to that Wikipedia article, and I hope that one of the readers here will be able to get it accepted by the editors of that site, so that Wikipedia can be made at least moderately trustworthy, on at least that one article. Perhaps if enough people try, then Wikipedia will come to recognize that Wikipedia\u2019s modus operandum isn\u2019t merely a very successful system of propaganda, but that it\u2019s also something of a PR problem for Wikipedia, which they\u2019ll need to do something about, if they\u2019re to be able to survive (or at least retain their credibility) at all. Blocking inclusion in an article, of a fact that disproves part of the \u2018history\u2019 (and here the most important part) which is told in that article, is unacceptable in anyone\u2019s eyes. <\/span><\/p>\n

As of today, April 20th, the Wikipedia article on Flight 93 does make one, and only one, mention of Cheney: <\/span><\/p>\n

Vice President<\/i><\/a><\/span> <\/i>Dick Cheney<\/i><\/span><\/a>, in the <\/i>Presidential Emergency Operations Center<\/i><\/span><\/a> deep under the <\/i>White House<\/i><\/span><\/a>, upon learning of the premature crash, is reported to have said, “I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane.”<\/i>[2]<\/sup><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The link there, [2], goes to a CNN article<\/span><\/a>, likewise published on 11 September 2001, which likewise presents Cheney as saying that he ordered the shoot-down of Flight 93:<\/span><\/p>\n

After the planes struck the twin towers, a third took a chunk out of the Pentagon. Cheney then heard a report that a plane over Pennsylvania was heading for Washington. A military assistant asked Cheney twice for authority to shoot it down.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

“The vice president said yes again,” remembered Josh Bolton, deputy White House chief of staff. “And the aide then asked a third time. He said, ‘Just confirming, sir, authority to engage?’ And the vice president — his voice got a little annoyed then — said, ‘I said yes.'” <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The phrase that Wikipedia is quoting from Cheney, \u201cI think an act of heroism just took place on that plane,\u201d appears later in that CNN article, out of context, when one of Cheney\u2019s aides attributes the statement to Cheney, but, since CNN provided no context for it, no reader can intelligently interpret what it had been referring to, if, in fact, the aide did say that Cheney did say it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wikipedia grabbed that out-of-context, possibly apocryphal, Cheney-statement, and constructed their \u2018history\u2019 of the plane\u2019s crash, upon it, despite the fact that Cheney, on 9\/11, clearly stated that he had ordered Flight 93 to be shot down, and that the order was executed \u2014 in other words: despite the fact that Wikipedia\u2019s account of what brought that plane down is incontrovertibly false, even on the basis of the most reliable evidence that Wikipedia itself links to on that matter. Such a \u2018history\u2019 is fiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So: any reader at the Wikipedia article who clicks onto its sources, can easily know that though the Wikipedia article presents a \u2018history\u2019 in which actions by passengers onboard Flight 93 caused the plane to crash there, that \u2018history\u2019 is fake, not at all real (though some allegations in that Wikipedia article might happen to be true). <\/span><\/p>\n

This means that only readers who click through to sources can even possibly come anywhere near to knowing anything that\u2019s at all reliable about the history of our time. And, of course, the longer that any event recedes into history, the more immovably fixed the lies become as being \u2018history\u2019. We live actually in a world of lies. If modern \u2018history\u2019 is fake, then ancient \u2018history\u2019 is even more so. What about the Bible? What about even recently written \u2018history\u2019 books?<\/span><\/p>\n

If Wikipedia is the best that \u2018the market\u2019 can come up with for \u2018a free press\u2019 in a \u2018democracy\u2019, then democracy isn\u2019t at all possible. Something vastly better than this is definitely needed. What\u2019s displayed here isn\u2019t democracy at all: it\u2019s merely \u2018democracy\u2019<\/span><\/a>. This means that all of the military invasions by \u2018democratic\u2019 countries (such as America), against other countries, are the actions by<\/i> dictatorships, not actions against<\/i> dictatorships (as is always claimed).<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem here, shown by Wikipedia\u2019s hiding that the U.S. Government shot down Flight 93, isn\u2019t that the CIA edits Wikipedia, but that the Deep State, in effect, publishes Wikipedia. Readers of Wikipedia who, like I was, edit Wikipedia, are editing Wikipedia; but, \u201cShellwood\u201d was<\/i> Wikipedia. The censor who removed my addition of the key fact wasn\u2019t \u2018editing\u2019 Wikipedia, but represented<\/i> Wikipedia itself. This is far more grim than merely if the CIA edits Wikipedia. It\u2019s more like the CIA is<\/i> Wikipedia.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more on the rot in Wikipedia, see here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, it\u2019s actually rather easy to document that 1984<\/i> \u2014 the reality, and not merely the novel \u2014 has, indeed, arrived, in our time.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, at least in our time, we possess \u2014 for the very first time in all of history \u2014 the ability to access, merely a click away, an allegation\u2019s actual source, at least in articles such as the present one (since all sources here are linked). The people living in ancient times who were not themselves aristocrats (the people making the key governmental decisions) were unalterably 100% vulnerable to being deceived by aristocrats\u2019 and clergies\u2019 lies, deceived into doing whatever those decision-makers wanted to manipulate them into doing \u2014 such as \u201cfighting for God and country!\u201d Unfortunately, the percentage of today\u2019s people who care enough to be skeptical of whatever other people are trying to sell, and to dig deeper than the mere assertions, even just to click onto a link, is too tiny for democracy to be able to function. Unless they become the majority, \u201cdemocracy\u201d will remain merely a word, not yet even near to being the reality, anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

That, for example, explains why, despite common realities such as this<\/span><\/a>, \u201c74% [of Americans] view Israel favorably, vs. 21% for Palestinian Authority\u201d<\/span><\/a>. In order for the national aristocracy to control its mass of voters, it must first deceive its mass of voters; and, in America, they\u2019re deceived, and have been so, for decades, at least<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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