Amnesia Press Has Short-Term Memory Loss

How Could It Possibly Forget This?

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or disease, but it can also be caused temporarily by the use of various sedatives and hypnotic drugs.

- Wikipedia

ZeroHedge ran a defence piece, defending now fired mainstream media Associated Press (AP) ‘journalist’ James LaPorta with the classic argument he was ‘just following orders’, and not following his conscience. Yes, that argument worked so well for the Nazi soldiers at Nuremberg.

Obvious ZeroHedge flaws aside on why people have a moral obligation to disobey immoral actions — especially ones involving the near-triggering of nuclear World War 3 between entire nationstates based on flimsy information — it appears everyone at Associated Press suffers from amnesia.

AP reporter Vanessa Gera wrote “I can’t imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this”. What? What rock have you been living under for the last 20 years?

This amazing feat of short-term memory loss is quite impressive for someone who is supposed to vet sources and report the news.

Ignoring all the recent falsehoods by intelligence officials claiming Hunter Biden’s laptop leak wasn’t real, the deception of a ‘Russian bounty system to kill Americans in Afghanistan’, or the time the CIA lied about not hacking the Senate, Uranium One, Benghazi, the time they falsely claimed Syria used chemical weapons on their own people, the constantly regurgitated lie of ‘no boots on the ground’ as they perpetually keep putting boots on the ground, historically they have impetus for deception over war as well.

McNamara: It was just confusion, and events afterwards showed that our judgment that we'd been attacked that day was wrong. It didn't happen. And the judgment that we'd been attacked on August 2nd was right. We had been, although that was disputed at the time. So we were right once and wrong once.

Ultimately, President Johnson authorized bombing in response to what he thought had been the second attack […]

Gulf of Tonkin ‘incident’ where a non-existent Vietnamese torpedo boat (the Vietnamese didn’t even have a real navy) fired at a US naval vessel used to ‘justify’ the US invasion of Vietnam, or the time the US let another nation attack their own vessel in order to blame someone else to enter a war. Your mind is probably spinning with examples of intelligence agency lies.

But the golden example everyone can easily point to is the classic Weapons of Mass Destruction lie. So thoroughly debunked, exposed, that even the British were forced to admit it was an entire fabrication on a scale that boggles the mind.

I don’t expect the Amnesia Press to do real journalism, so they won’t have read about the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, an operation to infiltrate news media outlets and have them peddle the lies and untruth the CIA want them to peddle. You know, like the time the CIA told the New York Times what to write, or how the US government told Twitter who to censor.

Perhaps Amnesia Press already works for them? It wouldn’t surprise me in their blatant disregard for truth in order to push a warmongering narrative from a US intel source. Indeed John LaPorta used to work for the US military. The Marine Corps specifically:

Oops! A soldier just following orders sir! Amnesia Press also obviously forgot the time they tried to argue the Iraq war was justified anyway even if there weren’t any weapons of mass destruction. They even retroactively deleted a story that tried to reinforce Iraq as having weapons of mass destruction, with the only copy an indirect quotation.

But Amnesia Press forgot another thing in their rush to justify invasion against Russia and drag the rest of the world into their insanity rhetoric. Their own rules. Yes, surprisingly Amnesia Press have their own rules.

Ignoring the fact that Three Men Make A Tiger is a fallacy, and having two disreputable, anonymous sources doesn’t make it more reputable than having only one disreputable, anonymous source, the fact Amnesia Press can disregard their own rules whenever it suits in order to provoke war — even nuclear — between countries screams volumes. Why wait a day or two when you can scream war now?

Such a nice, thoughtful man.

John LaPorta can’t even invoke ignorance as a defence here, as his throwaway remarks of “Wonder if this triggers Article 5”, with the same vibe a teenager might make when starting a forest fire. Wonder if this will burn down people’s homes? Oh well, who cares?

Article 5 is part of the NATO treaty that obliges other NATO countries to come to the defence of ones under attack; IE go to war. At time of writing there are 30 NATO members. Basically a guarantee for world war if invoked. It shows the absolute wanton disregard and callousness Amnesia Press have for triggering a worldwide massacre.

ZeroHedge is right on one point - John LaPorta is the fall guy. The entire organisation should be dismantled for almost bringing the world to the brink of war with shoddy, maliciously bad reporting. Maybe then everyone can forget they even existed.

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