I've often used reports from Democracy Now as a reference in my blogs and reports. While I find much to admire about the mission of Democracy Now, I also have similar questions to those presented in the "Dishonesty Now" report I posted above. Special thanks to my friend who sent it to me. There seems to be certain stories promoted and others completely omitted that don't necessarily point to a progressive agenda overall. Their points about suspect reporting regarding White Hats in Syria or NATO funding are spot on.
The problem with our culture right now is that virtually no one can earn a living through journalism without taking a handout or making a compromise. There is a system in place to ensure you have to take money from someone bigger and more influential. And you more than likely aren't comfortable with those faustian bargains but if it's between starving and having no influence or doing 'some' good and keeping your family fed...well, it's easy to see how good organizations get compromised.
Did that happen to Democracy Now? I don't know. I think the people there are good at heart, by and large. I don't agree with all the criticisms in Dishonesty Now, but they definitely bring up good points about what is wrong, systemically.
We need to find new ways to fund investigative journalism independent of the Federal Reserve system. Bitcoin and similarly modeled cryptocurrency are one way to do that. Since Bitcoin can be exchanged for nearly any other currency globally, it's a good option to step out of the rigged markets of Wall Street and their ability to hack our banking. It also allows journalists to travel freely and have an easily, and cheaply 'exchangeable' currency without a lot of bank 'delays'. The notion that it's only used by drug dealers and money launderers points more to the 'official' banking system than it does to Bitcoin. What currency do you think is being traded for drugs and humans globally by and large?
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/330781-drug-smuggling-hsbc-crimes/
Remember what happened with the Standing Rock Veterans fundraising? It took far longer to release the funds because of a 'banking delay'. You see, when you are doing something that stands in the way of 'bankers' they will use whatever means they have to stop you. Ending your monetary flow is the fastest method.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/13/standing-rock-veterans-police-arrest-north-dakota
Be smart. Get familiar with Bitcoin or create a new currency just for these things. There are literally hundreds of Cryptocurrencies available. The only thing that makes one more 'legitimate' than another is the quality of their blockchain (code/technology) and how many people agree to use it. It's a faith based currency rooted in the integrity of the underlying 'decentralized' code. That is a key aspect. Decentralized is what all these systems need to be going forward. We've seen what centralizing our information and communications gets us.
This is one way to restore integrity to independent investigative journalism until the hinge-pin of corrupt banking is removed.
They weave their lies skillfully.
You clued me into that Democracy Now thing too. I need to do a blog about piecing together truth from random pieces of 'perception'. I'm certain often times the lies are being fed to some of them (like Democracy Now) and there is a tendency to accept data from certain parties on faith, without thinking much about how THEY got their information. Especially if 'funding' is tied to those information 'sources'.
Lots of disinformation games too. So we have people who are 'swept up' in that combined with the intentional spreading of disinformation. People don't understand how it easy it is for them to seed data to different groups in a very targeted way. They've made divide & conquer very high-tech. If more people understood the underlying technology behind our "reality tunnels" (Internet Routing/Call Routing) they'd be really pissed off.
So I try to focus less on the people who are giving the information and more on what pieces of information seem most accurate in the mix. Because no one has 100% of the pieces or all of the truth, from what I can tell. We just have to live and learn. Make the best effort to bring 'objective truth' to the best of our ability and keep building on that.
It's a big network map. But I keep tracing back each 'node' and finding the 'eye' isn't that difficult to locate. It's just too complicated on the surface for most people to grasp. But even that surface level complication is a huge smoke screen. The eye of this storm is easier to locate than people realize. It's accepting that reality that's difficult because it forces one to question everything they've thought was true.
For example, the MSM would have you believe this whole surveillance mess is super complicated. It's not. I've demonstrated that. It's matter of accepting the data and sorting it out independently. No one will understand it until they research it themselves. This problem could be reversed in a very short span of time if the right people would remove some hinge pins. Luckily, these 'hinge pins' aren't going to put up a fight, violently. The people behind this are malicious and psychological in nature. But beyond that, they won't fight. They'd rather get the entire world into a fight while they sit back and continue doing what they are doing, unchecked.
I fairly certain I don't understand the breadth and depth of the signals manipulation in our reality tunnels, whether it be electronic, ideological, philosophical, chemical, or what have you. I do see the results. That two very similar people, under roughly the same conditions, can come to such wildly different conclusions, demonstrates that we have been led into perceptual ghettos. Most of the people do not have the awareness to recognize this, so, here we remain, mired in this torpor of psychological slavery.
Most aren't going to research anything themselves. I wonder what the popular conception of research actually is. I've, personally, been trying to come up with a way to profit from creating an incentive for engagement with knowledge by the public. I've, so far come up empty, except that I know that mammals like shiny, tasty, sexy things, not necessarily all at once or in that order. I think that the truth and freedom are shiny, tasty, and sexy, but I know That I'm an outlier in these respects.
What is the draw? What is the reward that keeps the listeners coming back to things like DemocracyNow! I can't say I ever really enjoyed listening. It's more like I knew there was something wrong, and it was good to hear the little truth they tell, even if heavily redacted. Their failures in accurately reporting global warming were what finally made me look at them, rather than look to them. I discovered Susan Lindauer later. 9/11 busted my faith in DN! wide open. At one point I heard Goodman duck the subject of Indira Singh on PTech and the 9/11 software. This is, to me, the most bald and bleeding abrasion, to do with 9/11 that I had seen up to that point, worse than WTC7. The first time I ran across Sibel Edmonds was on DN! She has since distinguished herself separate from them, to her credit.
There are also the inconsistencies in Noam Chomsky, as heavily supported by DN!
https://www.corbettreport.com/episode-045-ptech-and-the-911-software/