(08-29-2017, 04:52 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote:

(08-23-2017, 12:34 PM)Adam2012 Wrote: It's the media! It's the media!

How have you allowed yourself to be totally influenced by a biased and corrupt media?

And which media? We live in a time in which more media sources, of all types, are available than at any time in human history.

Sadly too many people do allow the media to influence them. Especially when they're being told what they want to hear by their favorite stations.

There was a time when we could watch the news and trust what we were being told for the most part. The end of that started in the 80's when a news station was bought by a corporation and broadcast journalism turned into a ratings frenzy because higher ratings means more money. The nail was further driven into the coffin when the first all news station began broadcasting. All they do is share their opinions, they don't actually report the news.

IMO all media is corrupt to a degree. There is no such thing as 'fair and balanced' or 'the station you can trust.' I read from several different sites and try to find the truth somewhere in the middle.

I think it's possible that you can go back even further than the 1980's regarding the honesty of our news stations. The CIA was called out on this as far back as 1975 that they were using agents to manipulate the thoughts and ideas of American citizens by Congress. They had their toes stepped on to the point to where they wanted to no longer speak on the subject without getting into an executive session. 

The movie "The Network" came out in 1976. It has one of the most iconic speeches you'll ever hear from Peter Finch regarding any film that reflects ever so perfectly of how the media effects people then and now. It truly is hard and difficult to tell your [BLEEP] from your elbow these days. I don't watch FOX. I don't watch CNN. I don't watch CBS. I don't watch NBC. I try very, very hard to find independent journalists that read into these stories and pick apart every little detail from every single angle. Especially those who I know of that don't lean left nor right. 

I am a big fan of James Corbett from the Corbettreport. I also like High Impact Flix. Fair, brutally honest and unbiased when it comes to our politics to be sure. But it's truly difficult to figure out whose telling the honest to god truth. Since both sides will tell you the complete opposite from all major news outlets. You're mostly hearing their perfectly crafted version of "their" truth. But just because you can see it and hear it doesn't make it the truth by default. 

This is why the corporations that run our country, our banks, the world in a geopolitical sense or an economical sense are so, so good at what they do. They've been doing it for a very, very long time. And they've kept us all at each other's throats over everything and anything under the sun. Pretty crazy. But that's how it works. You see just how divided we are every four years during an election. That's all the proof you need. 

Which is sad really. You have a lot of multi millionaires running our country that are being backed by or have been backed by multi billionaire lobbyists, eugenists, economists and globalists for decades. And they're telling us what's good for us or what's best for us while draining us dry of our money every year via taxes or by squandering our future retirement funds. Meanwhile our education system shrinks on a public level and private level schooling or top quality colleges are astronomically expensive and when you do get there you have to worry about the stooges and cronies now in place as "professors" teaching your youth of the nation how to be pacified and worthless eaters that don't know how to critically analyze and think anymore. 

Sad indeed. But I personally think that this country has been put on notice since November 22nd, 1963. When something of that nature can be pulled off in broad daylight on nationally televised broadcasts and then be so hurried, rushed and buried by the media with little to no efforts made in the way and line of thinking. You've opened yourself up to be taken advantage of. Operation Northwoods was really an eye opening moment for me. Always keep an eye out for Psyops. And of course the mainstream downplays it all. If you even dare question the Government. If you even dare bring up the Shadow Government you're deemed a conspiracy theorist. Even though it's been proven over and over again with leaked information and hacked information that a lot of these "theories" are factual now.

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