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Common Sense

Who Can You Trust?

By Henry Schulte

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Santa Barbara Current
Dec 19, 2024
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The U.S. Government has Proven Itself Untrustworthy

In 1887, the United States Army Signal Corp banned the word “tornado” from public broadcasts.

The reason?

Here’s what a Chief Signal Officer wrote in explanation: “The harm done by such predictions would eventually be greater than that which results from the tornado itself.”

At the time, a gentleman by the…

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