It is Pretty Simple... No One Is Telling the Truth - Oil Cos, Regulators, Politicians, Bankers, MSM

[Blackhatjack]

... and it isn't because they don't know the truth.

Sooner or later people are going to start believing their own observations and come to the conclusion that it has been a long, long time since 'the whole truth, complete truth and nothing but the truth' has been revealed for everyone to see.

And as long as there is more money in lying than telling the truth things are likely to stay that way.

[Octafish]

1. More money in war. And all them is corrupt, too.

Warmongers. They are part of the corrupt class.

[Speck Tater]

2. Diogenes is still looking for an honest man...

[The Straight Story]

3. Not always about money when it comes to lying - people don't like jail, losing power

Best to tell people what they want to hear and distract them (lie/distract).

I will go back to a topic I harp on a lot as an example - smoking. If you die - from anything - there is a check box on the death certificate where a dr can say that smoking was a factor in your death. Without them even studying whether or not it was.

So what happens? Data gets skewed, people don't connect other possible causes (pollution from cars, plants, run off of chemicals, etc and so on).

The same general thing happens with the news and other issues - we get sidetracked by lies or skewed data.

[gimama]

4. those who believe their own observations

are called conspiracy theorists

Last week, I heard(on msm)something like 75% of Americans believe our own guvment was involved in (or at least, knew about in advance)Sept.11.

[Blackhatjack]

5. The average American could look at the video of the oil spill and KNOW it was worse than reported

... and look how it was spun by everyone concerned to slant public opinion.

[yourout]

7. My experience with wastewater systems says that is a 750 to 1000 gallons per mintue....

flow.

Somewhere around 1,000,000 gallons per day.

[Blackhatjack]

9. And it took BP's experts 7-10 days to up the estimate to 25% of your total...

They decided to put the best 'spin' on it to mislead the public. Plain and simple.

[stray cat]

6. And sadly DU is also not a source of factual information across the board

[KonaKane]

8. No one?

Sorry, that's a laughable hyperbole. And, it adds to the problem instead of help solve it.

[Blackhatjack]

10. First, You have to admit you have a problem before you can solve it...

People in a position to know the truth have withheld the truth --plain and simple. IF you believe otherwise, you are part of the problem --not the solution.

[MichiganVote]

11. When there is $ in telling the truth we'll have it...until then forget it.