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Cost of Lies
Valery Legasov (1936 - 1988)

Posted on 06/08/2019 5:52:58 AM PDT by junebug58

Chernobyl shows what happens when authority and appearance are more important than science and truth.

“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all.

When the truth offends, we lie and we lie until we can no longer remember it is even there. But it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth and sooner or later, that debt is paid.” - Valery Legasov (1936 - 1988)


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1 posted on 06/08/2019 5:52:58 AM PDT by junebug58
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2 posted on 06/08/2019 5:54:45 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: junebug58

Lying about illegal immigration also has horrific consequences. It just hasn’t happened yet.


3 posted on 06/08/2019 5:54:51 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Just like the bum.. er homeless problem.


4 posted on 06/08/2019 5:57:23 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Continuing to pretend it’s “The Department of Justice” is going to have some pretty serious consequences as well.


5 posted on 06/08/2019 5:59:08 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: junebug58

Best miniseries I’ve seen in years, probably the best since Band of Brothers
If you don’t have HBO, get the DVD when it comes out.
You won’t be sorry.


6 posted on 06/08/2019 6:07:29 AM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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Yes. It was riveting. The cover up almost made Northern Europe uninhabitable.


7 posted on 06/08/2019 6:13:55 AM PDT by Josa
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To: junebug58

This may be of interest. I recently relocated a site I thought was gone forever.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/chapter1.html

This (large-many links) site is a running story by a young Ukranian girl riding A Kawasaki motorcycle (later an auto with friends) around the Chernobyl area with pictures & commentary. Back in the day (5-10 years ago)I thought it was one of the most interesting sites on the internet.

I found the commentary outstanding if her English is rough at points. The comments are a little antinuke, but not what one might expect from a young girl riding around an area of vast devastation with only a Geiger counter for protection.


8 posted on 06/08/2019 6:36:45 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: junebug58

The Bible tells us not to bear false witness. It’s not because God is a meanie and likes rules. It’s because 1) evil is evil and 2) He knows what the consequences are.


9 posted on 06/08/2019 7:23:06 AM PDT by JamesP81 (The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
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To: HangThemHigh

Thanks.
Sjb


10 posted on 06/08/2019 7:41:50 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: HangThemHigh

Watch “The Babushkas of Chernobyl.” It’s an excellent documentary of the women who live immediately around it, against the law.

We saw it on Amazon Prime.


11 posted on 06/08/2019 8:05:45 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: junebug58

“What is the cost of lies? It’s not that we mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all. “

THAT is EXACTLY where the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia and their Dem allies have taken our
country: We can no longer believe anything they claim, no matter what it is!


12 posted on 06/08/2019 11:07:31 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: mkleesma

“Best miniseries I’ve seen in years, probably the best since Band of Brothers”

indeed.


13 posted on 06/08/2019 11:08:07 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Thanks much for the tip (The Babushkas of Chernobyl). I just finished watching on Amazon Prime.

I kept looking for a girl on a big Kawasaki on the roads. I recognized some of the scenery in the movie from her pictures on the website.

That stuff forces you to think - ‘life goes on within you or without you’.


14 posted on 06/08/2019 8:24:39 PM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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