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Truth and Free Speech Are Being Taken Away From Us
Truth and Free Speech Are Being Taken Away From Us Free speech and the ability to speak truth are being shut down. It is happening with the complicity of the print and TV media, the liberal/progressive/left, the US Department of Justice (sic), the law schools and bar associations, Congress, and the federal judiciary. The attack […]
The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department
The Largest Conspiracy Theory Peddlers Are MSM And The US State Department The US State Department has issued a statement accusing the Syrian government of having carried out a false flag chemical weapons attack in northwestern Aleppo with the intent to blame it on the jihadist factions in the region, citing “credible info” that the […]
How Plutocratic Media Keeps Staff Aligned With Establishment Agendas
How Plutocratic Media Keeps Staff Aligned With Establishment Agendas Why do mainstream media reporters within ostensibly free democracies act just like state media propagandists? Why are they so reliably pro-establishment, all throughout every mainstream outlet? Why do they so consistently marginalize any idea that doesn’t fit within the extremely narrow Overton window of acceptable opinion?Why […]
The West Slips Down Another Step
The West Slips Down Another Step There is much on the Internet these days about documents allegedly hacked by Anonymous; these documents belong to the “Integrity Initiative” and describe a multi-country effort, funded by London and Washington, to counter “Russian propaganda” and “fake news”. Since the initial story broke, a good deal of confusion has been laid down: Wikileaks […]
Fact-checking the second volume of the U.S. National Climate Assessment
Fact-checking the second volume of the U.S. National Climate Assessment This recently-issued study (the “Assessment”) was seized on by the media as proof of the massive damage the US will suffer if nothing is done about climate change. The Assessment’s conclusions are based largely on speculative model projections that aren’t amenable to checking, but it […]
The Perils of Banning “Fake News”
The Perils of Banning “Fake News” When the printing press was invented in the mid-1400s, Europe faced radical and unprecedented changes. Ultimately revolutionizing the circulation of information, the printing press dislodged the monopoly of information and ideas. As Gutenberg reformed the printing system around 1440, the technology quickly expanded. According to some accounts, there were […]
Who I Am, Where I Stand, And What I’m Trying To Do Here
Who I Am, Where I Stand, And What I’m Trying To Do Here Every so often I like to write an article describing exactly what I’m about in the interests of transparency, and for the benefit of any new followers who aren’t quite sure what they’re looking at here. It’s a good exercise for me […]
Smear Slander Rinse and Repeat
Smear Slander Rinse and Repeat Frans Masereel Montmartre 1925 The way ‘news’ is reported through known outlets changes so fast hardly a soul notices that news as we once knew it no longer exists. This is due to a large extent to the advent of the internet in general, and social media in particular. On […]
Competing Mortgage Headlines: Rates Barely Move vs Rates Surge Lower on Powell
Competing Mortgage Headlines: Rates Barely Move vs Rates Surge Lower on Powell Freddie Mac says “mortgage rates barely move” but Mortgage News Daily says “rates surge lower” Mortgage News Daily and Freddie Mac offer conflicting reports on the bond market reaction Jerome Powell’s speech yesterday. Mortgage News Daily says Mortgage Rates Surge Lower Mortgage rates […]
The Guardian Faceplants As Manafort’s Passport Stamps Don’t Match “Fabricated” Assange Story
The Guardian Faceplants As Manafort’s Passport Stamps Don’t Match “Fabricated” Assange Story Further evidence that The Guardian “entirely fabricated” a report that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort visited Julian Assange in 2013, 2015 and the spring of 2016; his passports… The Washington Times reports that Manafort’s three passports reveal just two visits to England in 2010 and 2012, which […]
MSM Is Like Big Pharma: The Rewards Of Malpractice Outweigh The Penalties
MSM Is Like Big Pharma: The Rewards Of Malpractice Outweigh The Penalties “As part of the plea bargain, Purdue agreed to pay the federal government $600 million and 27 states $20 million. The three executives agreed to $34.5 million in fines but avoided jail-time. By contrast, Purdue has earned an estimated $31 billion in total […]
Canada’s Treacherous “Faustian Bargain”
Canada’s Treacherous “Faustian Bargain” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it seems, adheres to the principle of globalism, according to which the world is borderless, and the idea of sovereign nation-states is both reactionary and obsolete. In this borderless world, the governing body is the unelected, untransparent, unaccountable and deeply corrupt United Nations and its agencies, […]
Seriously Crazy Idea: Trump Proposes US State-Run News Agency
Seriously Crazy Idea: Trump Proposes US State-Run News Agency Trump is blasting CNN again today. OK, but his alleged “solution” is seriously crazy. Here are some counter-Tweets that I agree with: oat on Twitter “@realDonaldTrump Holy Christ. You’re advocating for a state-run press. This is possibly the most dangerous idea you’ve floated. And… twitter.com Claude […]
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn Photo Source Edwardx | CC BY 2.0 The BBC spreads fake news. We all know that. From the uncritical parroting of the British government’s Iraqi weapons of mass destruction claims to the unchallenged lies spouted by […]
