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Lies of p console4/11/2023 ![]() Shortly after the transmission, an intercepted Japanese intelligence report read, “AF is short of water.” Their white lie had confirmed their hypothesis! Not all lies are bad! In fact, some lies can actually work in your favour – like winning a war!ĭuring World War II, Americans couldn’t decipher the codes used in the Japanese military intelligence reports that they intercepted, particularly the “AF” code, a planned naval attack location by Japan.Īmerican military intelligence experts thought “AF” could stand for Midway because the Japanese tended to designate “A” to Hawaiian island locations and Midway seemed to be a logical choice for Japan’s next target.Īmericans tested their theory out and sent an encrypted false message that claimed that Midway’s freshwater distilling station was busted and needed fresh water. Speaking of Cuba, interpid 96 year-old traveller Francine van der Heide had a ball there during her last visit. Six days later, the president ordered a naval quarantine on Cuba until the Soviets dismantled and removed their missiles immediately.Īfter much intense back and forth, the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev finally agreed to the terms and took the missiles back to Russia. The Soviet Union tried to conceal the missile sites with tarps, nets, paint, and mud, but their attempts for damage control were futile. Kennedy told the world that the Soviet had stationed missiles – capable of carrying nuclear warheads – just 90 miles off the American coastline. Oh, except John Smyth – he chased a life under the Big Top.ĭespite the Soviet’s “supposed” reassurances that they were only sending defensive weapons to Cuba, the Soviet Union lied to the United States time and time again about their true intentions to plant missiles in Cuba.īut on October 14, 1962, the secret came out when an American U-2 spy plane spotted and photographed numerous missiles being snuck into Cuba. Probably no surprise very few people run away to join the cirucs anymore. Others who joined his circus of “natural and national curiosities of the world” were conjoined Chinese twins Chang and Eng, the original “Siamese Twins,” General Tom Thumb, a 25-inch-tall dwarf named Charles Stratton, among many others. He paraded her around on tour as he falsely claimed that she was the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington.Īfter she died, he kicked his exploitations up a notch by performing a live autopsy on her to “reveal” that she was only 84 years old. Joice Heth, an elderly former slave, was the first person he exploited for other people’s amusement.Īlthough slavery was outlawed in New York where he lived, he found a loophole and leased her for a year for $1,000. Barnum made his money off of white lies, embellishments, and exploitations. Phineas Taylor Barnum created a show of fantastical acts that entertained millions of people.īut if you were to get a backstage pass to the so-called Greatest Show on Earth, you’d find that Mr.
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