125 years ago today: Remember the Maine (propaganda)
February 15, 1898, was a muggy Tuesday night in Havana Harbor.
Some 350 crew and officers settled in onboard the U.S.S. Maine. “At 9:40 p.m., the ship's forward end abruptly lifted itself from the water,” writes author Tom Miller. “Along the pier, passersby could hear a rumbling explosion. Within seconds, another eruption — this one deafening and massive — splintered the bow, sending anything that wasn't battened down, and most that were, flying more than 200 feet into the air.”
Here’s what I wrote about it last year:
Everything that happens at the local level is multiplied as it climbs the ladder. I’ve been at what seems like every local emergency that happens in my city for the last 27 years. I’ve yet to see the local news get the story right. There is no way in hell the national media gets anything correct in its entirety, if at all. With the government pulling the levers, it’s ALL propaganda now.
Yeah, nothing is as reported and perception management of the masses by those with secret agendas has always been with us. Maybe enough of us are finally catching on. Thanks.