Disinformation - Things we're not supposed to know
I love "The Hour" and George Stroumboulopoulos. His interviewing skills are amazing, and he is introducing the young and hip generation to CBC. I have tickets to a taping of his show next week - can't wait. On The Hour website, there is an area devoted to disinformation. It's scary - you need to check it out at http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/disinformation.php. It's filled with little facts about things that our leaders, businesses, etc. don't want us to know. For example:

1. We were almost nuked in 1995 - minutes away from a nuclear holocaust due to a breakdown in communication involving the US (who else), Norway, and Russia.
2. One person in 10 isn't fathered by the person they think is their dad.
3. Approximately 30% of lynchings in the US did not involve black people.
4. Gandhi refused to let his dying wife take penicillin for reasons of faith (she died) yet when he contracted malaria a few weeks later he took medicine to save his own life.
5. The Bayer company made heroin and introduced it to the world. It was originally used as a cough suppressant. They got out of the heroin business when those pesky addictions started surfacing.

The nuclear war piece in particular freaked me out, and made me think about what I was doing on January 25, 1995.