[Shawnski]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Too true.

It's a corrupt system built on a rigged election process.

There's no point comparing dicks, there's only a Dime's worth of Difference.

Looks like a good read. The other recommended book from that author is End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate
which also looks good. Our "media" is quickly consolidating into a very few hands, which is definitely not good. A push to have journalists licensed is just another way of keeping the message "clean".

Heck, you probably didn't realize that YouTube just hired "super flaggers"

Google has given roughly 200 people and organizations, including a British police unit, the ability to “flag” up to 20 YouTube videos at once to be reviewed for violating the site’s guidelines

Not just individual videos, but already some YouTube channels, with years of videos have been taken down.

Let's go another direction. The US has recently passed a propaganda bill.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA) allows for materials produced by the State Department and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) to be released within U.S. borders and strikes down a long-time ban on the dissemination of such material in the country.[14][15][16]

So basically the US gov't can lie to you... legally. And since they do have control over licensing of the airwaves, they control the mainstream media. Now the media, not wanting competition (see the licensing and YouTube issues above, let alone other issues) are A-OK with this, where do you turn?

I have noted that I like Ben Swann, a former Fox affiliate journalist from Ohio who does seem to be on the ball, and willing to look at issues objectively.

One of his recent videos (podcast actually) goes into how the same person who tarnished Ron Paul inaccurately over his newsletters (and you need to hear him out on THAT one) is the same propagandist (James Kurchick) who was pre-tweeting that an RT (Russian television station) "surprise" was going to happen just before the recent RT anchor Liz Wahl quit live.

Now I know most people have a TLR mentality here, so adding this is likely moot, but it goes over the whole issue in his last Friday's program... Regardless of your leanings... listen to it. And tell me this doesn't hit home with our current Russian "issue" and the previously noted media, err, government controls?



Any civilized conversation on this is welcome.