The first causality of any war is always the truth. Merely changing an “and” to a “but” or a “this” to a “that” has the potential, and frequently the intent, of compromising any recorded data. Now, with one metaphoric gremlin in the stew, the entire meal is discarded like a baby with the bath water. Because a written article has been exposed to a single flaw it has been defiled, and therefore the total meal is unfit for consumption. Who would be happy to down a glass of punch from a bowl wherein two mice had breathed their last breath. How the mice, got in there, who could possibly know, … a trickster perhaps or a disgruntled employee, … none the less, the deal is done, and one cannot drink around the unpalatable and so, regretfully, out everything must go perchance any defiled substance should touch the lips.
The same fate awaits the printed word.
Sadly, the truth cannot be salvaged, it has been in the company of untruth and regretfully, …. “outski” with all.
It is such a simple but effective ploy, employed by every dictator or “crooked barrister”, but only when needed, and always because it only works every time.
Who can you trust?
The simple answer is probably nobody.
Paul Simon wrote, in his 1968 song The Boxer, “… still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest”. Even those who seek the truth filter what they will consider. It is what we have been educated/socialised/trained to do.
But why would anyone defile the truth?
Allegedly, in October 1922, which is 100 years ago at the time of writing, an eyewitness report regarding the warming of the Artic was penned having sections of it published on page two of the Washington Post on the second of November 1922. The report was printed, allegedly, with the headline “Artic Ocean Getting Warm, Seals Vanish And Icebergs Melt”. The following is one such version and yes there are others. (see pic 1)
“The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer, and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Ifft, at Bergen, Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard‐of temperatures in the Arctic zone.
Exploration expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3100 m showed the Gulf stream still very warm great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well-known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are being found in the eastern Arctic, schools of herring and smelt, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/warm-welcome/)
“READ ALL ABOUT IT”
In other versions the main context is contained, even containing verbatim sentences. How can this be? Other sources add, “Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt the sea will rise and make most coastal cities uninhabitable”, but, amongst photos of various printed articles, I have had no success in finding the addition advising of a predicted uninhabitable coastline. Why add it later? If it was not written originally, it should not exist feigning legitimacy in a reprinted copy. More analysis here (https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/04/faking-it/)
Not telling the truth does no one a service, especially the truth. The truth does not need embellishment or protection. Only misinformation needs to be protected to survive. Misinformation fails in the company of the truth because the truth stands up to scrutiny, even close scrutiny and it defends itself. Misinformation cannot. These old documents clearly record the warming of the Arctic waters in the early 20th century. Later reports record a cooling and re icing of land masses in later years and an increase in sea ice. This is no new event as Arctic ice has been recorded as increasing or decreasing during the decades for as long as observations have been possible. At the time of writing, the 22 October 2022, the Murray is flooding. At least one of my cousins is sand bagging in Echuca or Nathalia as I type.
This sun burnt country has droughts and flooding rain.
It always has. It always will.
Reducing cattle numbers and eating insects or blaming a flood or a drought or the thinning or thickening of ice in the Artic ocean on “global warming” will not change what is happening now or what will happen in the future. The rivers have flooded and run dry in the past and they will do so in the future.
The extreme short term weather “events” like the unseasonal weather Australia is experiencing at this time, (Oct 2022), appears to be unnatural, anthroprogenic in nature, man-made in layman’s’ terms.
That’s geoengineering. Not climate change, but climate control.
Can THEY control the weather?
Well THEY claim they can.
( http://homeenergysecrets.com/theres-something-strange-in-the-neighbourhood/)
At this time you can still successfully search and find weather modification patents and military and commercial reports on specific events.
If THEY can control the weather, why are such devastating weather events world wide continuing to occur increasingly more often with increasingly greater destruction? What is the objective?
May I reiterate, “the first causality of any war is always the truth” and it must be dealt with post haste as the truth, to any adversary, is a formidable foe.
To those dishonest, the truth is a dangerous adversary.
To the honest, the truth has value beyond any possible description.
John Lynn