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and this is why the politicians and the media elites are able to brush off these uncomfortable facts

The burden of proof falls upon the claimant, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

If there is a conspiracy to wage war against the US, there better damn well be a more creditable news source than a sensationalist tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch, than the NY Post.

There's nothing particularly extraordinary in these claims.

Other than a foreign power, one of this country's largest trading partners, aided and abetted criminals who staged the largest act of aggression ever inflicted on any country in the last 50 years.

You have an interesting definition of the word "extraordinary". Also, let me tell you about a little tea pot which is right now in orbit around the sun.

Maybe those "media elites" just have higher standards.

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