As many people do, I read news on the Web. I don’t have time to read everything offered by most of the news agencies. Nor would I trust their instincts about what is news and what is just a story. I read a few because they seem to have a knack for picking up on stuff which is very popular with journalists around the world, so I’ll know what they are lying about today: BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and a couple of local TV station websites. Just so I know what the controlled opposition has to say, I check Drudge Report, too. Fox News websites usually exhibit such poor design, I just don’t bother.
Then I check a few news aggregation sites. Most of them give ample room to conspiracy theories, and I want to keep an eye on what the alternative news hounds want us to believe. But because so many of them are just another form of controlled opposition, it isn’t quite so easy to pick and choose whom to trust. A few you should obviously never trust is the likes of Alex Jones, anyone who gives space to Sorcha Faal, Greg Palast and others of that ilk.
What’s left is still a pretty broad selection, and I am sure I haven’t found all the decent ones, but I have discarded a few who finally revealed their colors as untrustworthy. In general, I would say to anyone who wants me to read their site, these are some of the tests I use.
1. If you embrace the official reports for 9/11, you are either abysmally ignorant of physics or intellectually dishonest. Either way, it causes me to doubt you know enough to talk about anything at all. We can debate all year what did happen, but we should all see easily what did not happen, and burning jet fuel did not bring down the towers.
2. If you can’t bring yourself to talk about how Israel’s government is creating serious problems for the rest of the world, you need to stop talking about those problems. This is not about Jews nor the Holocaust, but about a ruling elite who are too obviously psychopaths, the same ones ruling the US.
3. If you promote political involvement in the US election process, you aren’t smart enough to advise me on anything useful. Stick with trading recipes or dog grooming tips, something safe.
4. If you believe we are now recovering from a recession, or will soon do so, you don’t understand economics. Okay, maybe you are a professional liar about economics, but either way, no one should trust you. If you believe the financiers and bankers aren’t at fault for the mortgage crash, you must be one of them.
5. I don’t care where Obama was born, nor who his father actually was. But if you take him seriously, and believe he is going to do anything good at all for the citizens of the US, or any other country, you are more dangerous than he is. There is no way I will take you seriously about anything. Tell me the sky is blue and I’ll look outside the make sure. You might as well tell me unicorns fly and fart rainbows.
6. If you are utterly certain the world’s ruling elite are all one unified group of evil psychopaths, you need to go back to school. They are there, and awfully intelligent, and psychopaths, with all their secrets and powers, but they are hardly united. Nor will they ever be united. The Jesuits do not rule the world, but they probably would like doing so, and do rule parts of it. The Masons might have been pretty fearsome at one time, but their direct influence is dying. Folks still use their organization to mask evil, but the bulk of the Masons are just weirdos. The CFR, Bilderbergers, Trilaterals, Club of Rome, and similar folks are the snotty elite of olden times, but their grip is tenuous. They don’t actually control their own thugs. The CIA, Mossad, MI6 and similar agencies are pretending to serve some of the others, but actually have their own agenda. All of them are horrifically evil, and we could blame them for 99% of all human misery today, but that is in part because they are not united. How it is they compete without destroying each other outright is anybody’s guess, but they aren’t all one thing.
7. If you trust me to tell you what really matters, you are crazier than I am.
Good one. I’m with you on all seven points, but I’m just not articulate as you are. Which ultimately means I must be crazier than you are, since you are telling me what I can’t articulate (re: point 7).
The point is not articulating, but putting too much trust in those who may be nothing more than articulate liars. Since I have certainly messed up here several times, you should add a pinch of salt when reading my stuff. I don’t take myself that seriously.