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posted by The Whelk
on Jul 6, 2010 -
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Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr was a prison warden, a monk, a lawyer and a religiously-oriented psychologist, and yet he was actually none of those things. Now known as "The Great Imposter", Demara held many careers as he faked his way through life, but his most famous exploit was to masquerade as surgeon Joseph Cyr aboard
the HMCS Cayuga, a Royal Canadian Navy destroyer, during the Korean War.
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posted by Effigy2000
on Mar 17, 2009 -
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The Constitution in Crisis: "The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance." The 350-page Final Investigative Report of the House Judiciary Committee
Democratic Staff "identifies 26 laws and regulations Bush Administration may have violated."
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posted by kirkaracha
on Aug 4, 2006 -
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Lying in International Politics is a 2004 speech given by
John J. Mearsheimer which reminded me of yesterday's post on but controveral but well spoken
Michael Ignatieff. Mearsheimer argues that...
"...international lying takes four forms. Inter-state lying is where states lie to each other to gain strategic advantage. Fear-mongering is where foreign policy elites lie to their own public because they believe that the people do not recognize the seriousness of an external threat and they need to be motivated to deal with it. Nationalist myth-making is where elites tell lies about their state’s history to help foster a powerful sense of national identity among all segments of society. Anti-realist lying is where elites attempt to disguise brutal behavior carried out in pursuit of realist (or other) goals, because it conflicts with widely-accepted liberal norms." (more...)
(Mearsheimer has recently
been covered on mefi on a more controversial subject.)
posted by bhouston
on Mar 31, 2006 -
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Face to Face: The Science of Reading Faces. Transcript(and video)of a 2004 interview with psychologist Paul Ekman, who is known for his research on facial expression and the development, with associates, of the Facial Action Coding System (FACS). Includes a few facial expression photos. Part of the
"Conversations with History" series at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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posted by hortense
on Dec 10, 2005 -
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$20,000 bonus to official who agreed on nuke claim A former Energy Department intelligence chief who agreed with the White House claim that Iraq had reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms program was awarded a total of $20,500 in bonuses during the build-up to the war, WorldNetDaily has learned...His officers argued at a pre-briefing at Energy headquarters that there was no hard evidence to support the alarming Iraq nuclear charge, and asked to join State Department's dissenting opinion, Energy officials say. Rider ordered them to "shut up and sit down," according to sources familiar with the meeting.
posted by Ignatius J. Reilly
on Aug 13, 2003 -
22 comments
A four part tale(1993) of deception, covert operations and secret revelations, which covers :
How The Blind Sheikh Came To USA
CIA's Friends Against Soviet Union
Was Mossad Behind WTC 1993
How The CIA Won It's Jehad
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"Mossad World Trade Center",
CIA,
Hekmatyar, Hekmatyar Heroine,
The Blind Shiekh,
ISI,
The Village Voice,
Robert I. Friedman,
Victor Ostrovsky
posted by adnanbwp
on Sep 20, 2001 -
2 comments
