Unmitigated Mendacity.

Recognizing mendacity then...

“The rules are simple. They lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.”

Elena Gorokova

On growing up in the Soviet Union in the 1960's.

Recognizing mendacity now...

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Martin Pengelly, writing in the Guardian, has more on the 'now'....Here.

Btw...The Blogroll is back! (on the left sidebar)...Found a work-around to remove objectionable stuff...

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