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Epimenides Lives With CNN and Putin in Georgia

August 13th, 2008 • Marshall Ivan Risidin

Filed Under: FEATURED

Tags: CNN lied about video clip • Epimenides • Georgia • putin • Trash Western news coverage

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Epimenides was the king of Crete, a nation of fabulous liars. When asked by the Greeks if it were true, he responded ,“All Cretans are liars”—creating the famous “Epimenides Paradox“.

I have inserted a Novosti news clip allegedly from a Russian cameraman claiming CNN, the Epimenides of news, lied about the location of a news video clip. It appears Tsinhvali in South Ossetia was misidentified as Gori Georgia during a bombing. What is disingenuos is that although true, the misidentification was a slip and not a deliberate CNN lie [unlike their deal with Saddam in 1991]. This slip is used to trash all Western news coverage.http://www.vesti.ru/videos?cid=2&vid=143916

When GW Bush said “I looked into Putin’s eyes and saw a friend,” McCain said “I saw pure KGB” which by the way is highlighted WITH PRIDE on the Russian SPETSNAZ website for their version of the green berets. Disinformation is part and parcel of reinvigorated Russian hegemony.

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1. Comment by R. Cochrane on 13 August 2008:

   I prefer Alfred Tarski’s paradox especially after I have had a glass or two of bourbon, ergo:
   1. Sentence 2 is true.
   2. Sentence 1 is false.

2. Comment by Ivan Risidin on 13 August 2008:

   Tarski is paraphrasing Kurt Godel . For an expansive discussion read “Godel,Escher,Bach” by Hofstadter. The real meta conclusion requires 54 pages of dense logical development to reach the “sentence one sentence two” epiphany !

   By then, two BOTTLES of bourbon for you, a case of Romanee Contee for me.

   Ivan

3. Comment by R. Cochrane on 13 August 2008:

   Don’t forget Bertrand Russell using predictive calculus Russell paradox is therefore x[(Kx & ∀y(Ky → y=x)) & Bx].

4. Comment by Ivan Risidin on 13 August 2008:

   Richard,

   I was not aware of your tautological grace !

   I respond with the MIT flag football cheer, “[e^u]du/dx ln[a]
   hay !!! When playing Harvard, whose mantra was “repel them,repel them, make them relinquish the ball !

5. Comment by Richard Cochrane on 13 August 2008:

   Ivan: As in “true fact” At the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition.

6. Comment by Ivan Risidin on 13 August 2008:

   Circular reasoning at its best—diametrically opposed agreement !

   IVAN

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