The Top 10 Greatest Lies in History

     

Some brainy people in a place called America recently conducted a survey into lying, and it turns out that on average we tell around 280 lies every single day. Obviously this doesn’t mean we’re all at it, people like Nuns, Vicars and Harry Krishna’s don’t tell lies because they are all about goodness, Godliness and fancy dress. The rest of us, however, just can’t help ourselves and that’s not all bad news as that makes us eligible for the World Lying Championships which take place in Santon Bridge, Cumbria in November each year. To celebrate the victory of 25 year old Jack Harvey this year, we’ve put together the list of potentially the ten biggest lies in history.

9/11

Nobody will ever forget the quite surreal sight of two airliners ploughing their way into the Twin Towers in New York in 2001. Overnight the whole world knew about Al Qaeda and one Osama Bin Laden. However, forget foreign looking chaps in desert garb it seems this was a plot conjured up by President Bush who created an alibi for himself by attending a children’s playgroup at the time.

The demise of the Princess of Wales

It’s now been 15 years since that night in Paris when, for some as yet unknown reason, Princess Diana’s Mercedes crashed into a tunnel wall in Paris. On the surface it looked like a tragic accident but it only took a few days for us actually to discover it was a fiendishly murderous scheme that was dreamt up by dark forces within the establishment. Or as Mr Al Fayed more succinctly describes –The Duke of Edinburgh. It turns out they didn’t want her marrying the son of a shopkeeper.

Israel

     

Everyone loves a good story and they don’t come much better than Israel story, Before 1946 there was not a country that called Israel , according to many history book Jewish people they lived all around the world and they never had country.After many years some of them get some controlling power in some of the country they lived in, and they did the biggest lie in the history ,they immigrate to Palestine and they killed the original citizens who lived there.

 Because they have a lot of economical power and political power in many counties, they could flash the world brain with there lie.

Weapons of mass destruction

If he wasn’t such a knob you might have to feel sorry for Tony Blair. There he was in 1997 as the UK’s Prime minister, desperately seeking a bigger stage on which to inflict himself on a larger audience when that pesky Sadam Hussein presented an unlikely opportunity. The moustachioed nutjob was being beastly to his people and sitting on a rather large quantity of oil, all Tony needed was a reason to blast his way into the country and take over. Only he didn’t have so he made up stories about huge mystical weapons that never actually existed and got his very own war.

Bernard Madoff

Despite having pretty impeccable financial credentials as a former non executive chairman of the NASDAQ, Bernie decided to embark on a project that would see him become the most prolific fraudster in world history. Madoff took a wealth management scheme and turned it into a Ponzi scheme that by the time it was rumbled had sucked $65 billion dollars out of investors. Bernard Madoff was imprisoned for 150 years.

Bill Clinton

It takes a special kind of liar to broadcast that lie around the world to gazillions of people and when your job really sort of hinges on honesty and trustworthiness you really have to be a first rate fibber . This was no problem for President Bill Clinton, however, as without flinching he clearly stated to the world that ‘he did not have sexual relations with that woman’. Oh yes he did, and so did his cigar.

Hilary Clinton

It can’t be easy for somebody who looks like Miss Piggy and has the bedside manner of an axe murderer to tell the truth all the time, but just like her husband Hilary only really likes to do it on a world stage. Recounting recently how during the Balkan conflict she had travelled to Dubrovnik Airport which was under siege, Hilary talked about dodging the snipers and incoming fire as she landed and had to run for her life. However, she was actually met by a brass band and a lady with some flowers.

Watergate

Fibbing is not a new thing for US Presidents. Back in 1972 Nixon thought it might be a great idea to sponsor a break in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in a place called Watergate. Unfortunately for Nixon the Police managed to piece things together and despite Nixon publicly pledging no involvement, with a ton of evidence and a conviction looming, he bit the bullet and became the only American President to resign.

Operation Mincemeat

In 1944, with Jerry on the run and the South East of England brimming with troops and equipment, it was obvious that the second front was just weeks away. Germany’s best chance of survival was to pour its defences into the landing area and stave off an invasion, so the Allies had to box clever. They took a dead body from Wales, dressed him up as a Royal Marines Officer and dropped him into the Mediterranean complete with an attaché case full of false D Day landing orders. The deception worked perfectly, the Germans swallowed the bait and we bowled them the biggest wrong’un in history.