The desert of the real

The 20th and 21st Centuries have seen some high profile media events. Many have been proven to be the product of disinformation, manufactured to drive popular opinion. Many of these events have spared nothing in their far reaching psychological tactics. More often than not these fictional events have featured loss of life or  suffering somewhere in the narrative. For the most part it would seem reasonable to assume that the majority of these events have been played out to gain political traction. However, for some there is no clear political motive and their existence stands as clear evidence of mass deception simply for the sake of it.

1. The Bowling Green Massacre

In 2017, presidential staffers KellyAnne Conway and Sean Spicer were handed the ultimate toxic disinfo bomb. Who exactly fitted them up like a pair of kippers is not commonly known. However, it doesn't take a consulting detective to work out that discrediting the Trump administration was clearly going to empower their detractors.

Like many active shooter events that regularly punctuate the news coming out of the USA, the events in Bowling Green were somewhat contentious. So suspicious in fact that various journalists and fact checkers appear to have exhibited the due diligence that Spicer and Conway did not. Consequently the entire thing was revealed to a total crock of #alt shit. 

The media pundits reveled in the fall out from this event. Pro Republicans frowned and virtue signaled their way through it:

This is the exact type of political sabotage we have come to expect from the Democrats and the Deep State 

Pro Democrats pointed to the absence of due diligence and how quick the Trump administration were to foster political collateral from a bogus tragedy.

Our President is defecating all over the Oval office

 

The discerning spectators were still reeling from the highly theatrical election to office of President Donald Trump. Caught slightly off guard, the critical thinking minority faltered slightly before responding with a tsunami of visceral responses represented by seemingly infinite memes.

Unsurprisingly Spicer and Conway didn't survive the toxic disinfo bomb that they had so eagerly embraced. Their dash for the touchline resulted in the end of their political careers.

2. German Kadaver Factory

In 1917 various reports appeared in British broadsheets regarding the use of fallen soldiers in some extremely macabre ways.

The reports claimed that glycerine was being extracted from the corpses of both German and Allied soldiers who had died on the battlefield. Broadly accredited to MI7 operative Hugh Pollard, this was but a single example from literally thousands of propaganda news items that were produced by both sides.

3. Pizzagate

Originating with the 2016 release of John Podestas emails by Wikileaks, Pizzagate was a hotly debated sleaze jamboree. The basic outline was that the restaurant Comet Ping Pong in Washington DC was a front for child sex trafficking. The attention grabbing inclusion of high profile 'customers' created a whirlwind of accusations most of which featured Bill and Hilary Clinton.  

Although officially discredited by the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, many critics have alleged that the wide spread debunking was falsely acknowledged. The Clintons have been the subject of numerous allegations throughout their extensive political careers. Some of which have been claimed to connect to each other. 

It was Hillary Clinton, not Bill, Janet Reno, Webb Hubbell, or Vince Foster - who ordered the Waco massacre in 1993 that led to the death of 76 Americans, including 21 children and two pregnant women. The Waco attack motivated Timothy McVeigh to launch the Oklahoma City bombings two years later on April 19, 1995

Many critics maintain that PIzzaGate was absolutely genuine. Much of the justification centres on the related activities by the Clintons. 

Laura Silsby was arrested at the Haitian border attempting to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti without documentation. Her sentence and charges were reduced after an intervention by Bill Clinton.

Unfortunately for the maintainers of the PizzaGate narrative, much of the credibility hinged on the release of the Podesta emails by Wikileaks. Critical analysis of the actions of Julian Assange have revealed behaviour which in no way inspires faith in his activities. Consequently, anything that was ever handled by Wikileaks comes with a substantial slice of distrust.

4. Suicidal Lemmings

Accepted on a global level, the academy award winning technicolor con perpetrated by the Disney Corporation lives on to this day. There are still literally millions of people who believe that Arctic rodents annually congregate in vast numbers and throw themselves from clifftops straight into the sea. Despite there only ever being a single piece of evidence for this total and utter horseshit, the cognitive dissonance of the average 20th Century hearsay exponent provides a healthy platform for an enduring lie.

The lie was bolstered by the fact that obviously there is no tangible evidence for this supposed yearly phenomenon. Clearly the carcasses of these forlorn furry rodents are washed away by the pounding waves of the Ocean. Nobody ever witnesses it because it all happens in remote areas of tundra which have no convenient road access. This is obviously a barrier for any goulish tourists seeking to witness mass casualties among the hamster-like leapers.

All great it seems, just another bizarre phenomenon of the natural world. More evidence that mother nature is indeed a cruel and jealous God.

Except it bloody isn't.

Whether Walt Disney himself was in on it is not part of the record. However we do know that in 1958 Disney released the film "White Wilderness" which depicted lemmings leaping to their watery graves. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee conducted an investigation in 1983 which revealed that the entire concept was simply not true. Any qualified commentators emphasise the fact that yes, Lemmings do indeed disperse from exhausted feeding grounds in occasionally huge numbers. When they reach a substantial body of water, they will often attempt to swim across it and predictably enough, many do not make it. However this is not some kind of despondent collapse of Lemming society, but merely the fact that they are prodigious consumers of their local habitat. Many animals exhibit similar migratory behaviour for various reasons including Birds, Fish, Whales, Reptiles and even Man himself.

Carrick, who was a cameraman on the production, alleged that the filmmakers paid kids in Manitoba 25 cents to wrangle lemmings and then transport them south for filming. The crew members constructed spinning turntables covered in snow to jostle the lemmings and send them tumbling, and then proceeded to throw them off the cliff . The resulting footage was edited to make the mass animal killing look like natural suicide. 

What motivated the Disney Corporation to make this and other spurious segments in the True-Life Adventures series is assumed to be financial. Far from their claims of preserving records of our disappearing natural environment, they were simply using nature as yet another vehicle for fervent commercialism. It would not be unreasonable to speculate that this enduring myth was crafted purely for the purposes of deception. There are certainly groups who place substantial value in mass deception. Was Walt Disney seeking to cement his position as a grand weaver of realities?