The Black Sox baseball players
At the 1919 World Series, there were eight Chicago White Sox baseball players who lost on purpose against the Cincinnati Reds, as they were bribed with $100,000 by the gambling business. People started to become more and more suspicious when the White Sox athletes started the game by playing uncharacteristically bad for their style, especially in the best-of-nine Championship Series.
A grand jury then initiated the investigations on this scandal, discovering that the crooked players, dubbed the Black Sox due to their sports conduct, were found guilty of nine counts of conspiracy.
However, the court’s records that were documenting the confessions disappeared, and the “Black Sox” athletes were suddenly acquitted of all charges, receiving nothing but a permanent ban from playing in the Major League Baseball.
P.T. Barnum’s circus of frauds
Phineas Taylor Barnum made a show of fantastical acts that was extremely beloved by millions of people. However, if you had the chance to get a backstage pass to the Greatest Show on Earth, you would only discover that Mr. Barnum made all his money off of white lies, embellishments, and exploitation.
Joice Heth was an elderly Black woman who has been enslaved, and she was the first one he exploited to amuse others. Even if slavery was outlawed in New York during the time he lived there, he still managed to find a loophole and “leased” the woman for one year for $1,000 from someone he knew.
Then, he paraded her all over the place, claiming that she was the 161-year-old former nurse of George Washington. After she died, he went even further, performing a live autopsy on her so he can prove she was only 84 years old.
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What? Why isn’t the Trump russia collusion hoax or the 2020 election fraud in the top 10. I think it should be #1 and #2!
Daniel, knows many through the Seven Hills in Aurora.
As threading pulled from a jacket seam curly quicker wit.
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Speaking of lies, where is the story your headline baited for? What a fraud. Large come on, no story.
David, I certainly agree! What a waste of time. I should know better by now!
EXCELLENT ARTICLE. I HAVE HEARD OF MANY OF THESE DURING MY LIFE AS FAR BACK AS I CAN REMEMBER. THE WORST ONES ARE THE POLITICAL LIES THAT PROBABLY INFLICT MORE DAMAGE AND SUFFERING TO ALL MANKIND THAT ALL THE OTHER CATEGORIES COMBINED. MY FATHER TOLD ME OVER SIXTY FIVE YEARS AGO THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LIKE ANY GIVEN POLITICAL FIGURE, YOU CAN NEVER TRUST ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS. HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN AS HE WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED IN LOCAL POLITICS AT THE LOCAL AND STATE LEVEL AND WAS PRETTY MUCH DISGUSTED WITH THE SYSTEM IN HIS LATER YEARS.
HItler was right! Jews were and still are the enemy of society and now globally. They own every centural bank in the world, news stations, Hollywood, TV shows and all to control and manipulate the world.
I hate ALL religions equally, but why do you hate the Zionist religion badly enough to blame it for everything that ails the world? I would say Christianity id=s far worse than any other religion or group of religions.
Carol, do you have verifiable evidence? Is there a paper trail? A cyber trail? Because if you do, please share it with us.
Just because many facets of our modern world are owned, or controlled by those who are Jewish, does not constitute a worldwide conspiracy to control and manipulate.
Based on your logic, one could argue against Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. Such a conspiracy should be laid at the feet of Capitalism, which is multicultural!
The Jews don’t own any traditional banks – the reason they started many investment banks like Goldman -Sachs and Lehman Brothers,etc. was that the white Protestant establishment wouldn’t let them into traditional banking so instead of complaining and getting angry they started their own . Excluding them was one of the most idiotic things we did because they really are the most literate group of people in the world .
Same thing with newspapers St Louis Post Dispatch (J. Pulitzer) New York Times ( Sulzberger and Ochs) and The Washington Post ( Meyer and his daughter K Graham). Always excluded .Hollywood yes because they invented it because again so many industries were closed to them and they had a creative spirit from the schtetl. Look it up if you don’t know what it means .
When Christians couldn’t lend money someone had to provide the service and when only us Christians could own land someone had to become merchants . Yea Sam Walton learned a lot from Sol Pace the father of Costco . By the way Sol wouldn’t sell out to Sam Walton .
So my dear if you want Jews to go away stop spewing anti Semitism because if you do they will keep winning 25 percent of the Nobel prizes and Pulitzer Prizes and representing 30 percent of the 400 richest people in America and 40 percent of the biggest philanthropists when they only represent 1 -2 percent of the population . It is unprecedented. You want them to go away then accept them . And by the way if you hate them so much give back your polio vaccine (Salk and Sabin ) and your Covid vaccine ( Drew Weissman)
Hate should have no home – every group has contributed . Be a good Christian and accept others and love thy neighbor
God Bless You
With that attitude you wonder why there are bigots and racism in the world? Why there is violence? Why there are wars that kill thousands of young people all over the world? Why thousands more parents cry over lost offspring? Why BILLIONS of dollars are spent on the military? Money that could be used somewhere else?
Think on it.
I am having trouble understanding how the 1919 Black Sox scandal qualifies as a “lie,” or the Cuban missile crisis.
That’s two of the first three: time to quit.
There are no worse lies than political lies as they affect ALL of us. I. E. Watergate was NOT what the WaPo claims…the Kennedy murder was NOT what we’ve been told. The Clinton mafia has never been “outed” though media tries to portray them as gods…families are NOT the enemy of society as portrayed by media…God is NOT “antiquated” but is vital to society…see what happens to society when God is taken out – look at the countries without a HEAVENLY God. (even though they sometimes claim their human “leader” is a god). You and I can go on with examples…just BEWARE of who/what you believe and dig deeper into a subject from ALL views…
The British broke the enigma code of hitler by the ending of all German messages which was “Heil Hitler”
Where is the latest big lie from Trump?
You mean the lies from the democrats
What about the lie that the election was stolen?
I believe you will find that the election in AZ was stolen. Between the election officials, judges, sec of state Katie Hobbs, and the defective machine not working only in Republician precincts it is pretty clear.
. Joe biden got the most votes ever [81 million]
.Two weeks to slow the spread
.Covid 19 [coof- Chinese spoof] the most deadly ever
. The coof vaccine and boosters is/are the most effective, safe vaccine ever. (It didn’t prevent you from getting it ; didn’t stop you from spreading it; didn’t stop you from going into the hospital; didn’t stop you from dying)
.”trans men” should use female restrooms and “compete” in women’s sports
.Joe biden created the most jobs in history
. The economy is the “best and greatest” ever
Shall I continue!
Regards,
P.
Two massive lies misding: WMDs in Iraq and the “stolen” 2020 Election. Those are the two lies with the greatest repercussions of the 21st Century. How could those have been ignored? No one to date has been held accountable for propagating these lies and the damage they have caused.
Do you think that it was just a coinidence those articles (WMD, AFGH and etc.) were left out? There are many others that were left out also. And ALL were connected to the U S government in some way. hAVE A NICE DAY.
You forgot a real big lie. You forgot to post the lie that commie biden won the election with the largest number of votes ever cast. Talk about a whopper of a lie, total bullshit that only the gullible believe.
Yes, what about the lies surrounding the election in the pandemic they never mention any of that, and those of the lies that are directly affecting the entire world today
You failed to include The Big Lie of Donald Trump. He knowingly misled millions of gullible citizens with his claims of election fraud, leading to an unsuccessful coup. Unprecedented in American history!
biggest lie of all? TRUMP is a human!