The fake Anastasia
Back in 1918, the Bolshevik Revolutionaries executed the last standing members of the Romanov dynasty: Tsar Nicholas II, his empress, and their five children. However, rumors started to spread that the couple’s youngest daughter, Anastasia, managed to escape.
Out of all the impostors that tried to exploit this rumor, there’s one that has gone down in history as the greatest con artist ever – Anna Anderson. After a failed suicide attempt, a mute Anderson family member was discovered in a German canal with no ID whatsoever.
The authorities then there her into an asylum, where everyone believed she looked just like Anastasia. While lots of former Romanov aides and relatives had immense doubts about her legitimacy, she still had many supporters who believed she was the duchess.
The Watergate scandal
Back in May 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters that was located in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. They were there to bug office phones and steal some of the most confidential documents.
A month later, the spies were successfully arrested, as they came in a second time. However, authorities discovered after a while that these men were actually sent by President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign.
Even if the population had suspicions, Nixon managed to get re-elected to serve his second term, after denying being involved in the scandal. However, it wasn’t enough, as The Washington Post managed to expose the president’s cover-up of the Watergate crimes, as an anonymous whistleblower from the FBI told everything.
The Ponzi scheme
Charles Ponzi was an Italian immigrant who made a fortune out of lying to people. Even more, he was so good at it, that the government decided to name the type of fraud he invented: the Ponzi scheme.
Back in 1920, Ponzi managed to trick thousands of New England residents into putting their money in a postage stamp speculation scheme. He promised all his investors that he is able to provide a whopping 50 percent return in only 90 days.
Every time a new investor gave him money, he would use those funds to pay off earlier investors, which created an illusion that they were profiting from a legitimate business. He raked in $250,000 every day, which was about $3 million in today’s currency.
Team Ultra
During World War II, there were a lot of lies, as you could probably see. Besides the Japanese code, there was another code that was extremely difficult to break – the Nazi Enigma Code. The Allies were desperately trying to decipher that code, as the German U-boats were constantly sinking a vast number of merchant ships that were in charge of food, oil, and supplies from North America to England.
But in 1941, a British mathematician called Alan Turing, alongside his team, managed to break the code that revealed all the German submarine positions. From that point, Ultra, which was the Allied intelligence project, used a slew of false messages so they can keep the Germans off their trail. Ultra’s knack for craking difficult codes was one of the major contributors to the final win.
The Pentagon Papers
President Lyndon B. Johnson managed to keep his lies about the Vietnam War well-hidden and sealed until a military analyst leaked all the records that were exposing the president’s decisions about the war to the New York Times in 1971.
The Pentagon Papers were actually a top-secret Department of Defense study that was in charge of documenting the extent of America’s political and military involvement in the Vietnam war, from 1945 until 1967.
However, President Johnson was only one of the many presidents that were named in those papers, including Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy. They were all involved in misleading the United State’s involvement with Vietnam.
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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!