- Key articles on origins of Covid-19, gain-of-function research and biolabs by Shannon Murray from U.S. Right to Know. Murray writes "This reading list is a work in progress. We will update it."
- Study: Up To 95 Percent of Serious Adverse Reactions To Drugs Go Under-Reported by Arjun Walia from The Pulse.
- What Happens When Doctors Buck Government Narrative on COVID? from Children's Health Defense. (Note: A synopsis says the following: "On the latest episode of “Doctors and Scientists,” host Brian Hooker interviews Dr. Alvin Moss, director of the West Virginia University Center for Health Ethics and Law, on the threats medical professionals and scientists face when they stray from the mainstream narrative on COVID and vaccines.")
- NBA Player Says COVID Vaccine Caused Blood Clots, But Team Officials Told Him to ‘Keep Quiet’ by Megan Redshaw from Children's Health Defense.
- Why the Mainstream Media Remains Silent on the JFK Records Deadline by Jacob G. Hornberger from The Future of Freedom Foundation.
- Pandora Papers reveal offshore finances of the global elite currying influence in U.S. by Anna Massoglia from Open Secrets.
- Democrats Join Republicans To Sabotage The Left featuring Jimmy Dore from his channel on YouTube (11:22) illustrating, as he often does, the fake democracy which we have in the USA.
Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower that mainstream media is fawning over, stands to earn millions of dollars for picking the 'right' side of the political establishment
- 💥It Takes A Lot Of Education To Keep Us This Stupid by Australian Caitlin Johnstone with her American husband, Tim Foley, also reading the script (but you may miss supporting examples, illustrations, etc.)--from her weblog. This is a best post.
- Open mind more valuable than mere diploma, a cartoon and article published in Global Times,
a major Chinese news publication. My reaction: Like my professor used
to say, "you shouldn't have an open mind such that your brains fall
out." I interpreted this to mean, based on his other statements, that he
wanted us to question fundamental assumptions supporting any opinions.
- Best Laid Plans… Washington’s Zero-Sum Mindset Alienates Allies from Strategic Culture Foundation.
- Colour Revolutions Fade Away by Patrick Armstrong from Strategic Culture Foundation.
- EU Faces Migrant Backlash After Sanctioning Belarus by Bernhard, a German independent blogger, from his weblog Moon of Alabama.
- US Marines on Taiwan: Major Provocation, But Not News by Brian Berletic from New Eastern Outlook.
- The New American Leadership: Biden Tells the World What He Wants It to Know by Philip Giraldi from Strategic Culture Foundation. 💥My brief commentary follows: I disagree with the conclusion of his article as expressed in the last paragraph:So, the myth of America trudges on with some new labels attached but otherwise pretty much the same. Many would argue that it is time for a reboot, to return to constitutionalism, small government and an end to pointless foreign wars and interventions. But to do that would pit individuals and small groups against some very powerful interests, i.e. the defense industry, big pharma, and government itself, which sees its natural role as one of growth. It is an unbalanced struggle, but it must be won if the United States of America is to survive with some basic freedoms intact into the 22nd century.It is in the nature of capitalism to grow small businesses into giant monopolies, and to evolve into imperialist nations like the formerly "Great" Britain, Nazi Germany, Italy, Japan, and the new de-facto US/British/Zionist Empire. Giraldi is reluctant to acknowledge this inherent historical tendency, but he seems to imply this fact in the second to the last sentence in this paragraph. However, in the following sentence he reaffirms his loyalty to capitalism and essentially negates the observation contained in the preceding sentence. The only antidote to the illness of capitalism is socialism.
- Debunking CIA and MI6 Syria narratives – one by one by Vanessa Beeley from her weblog The Wall Will Fall.
- Pakistan is facing an existential crisis and opinion piece by Erum Haider from Al Jazeera.
- Will COP26 in Glasgow deliver? Sam Carana from his weblog Arctic News.
The following post is selected by Brad Fredricks (and any of his reactions and commentaries for this website):
- CNN Won’t Say If It’s Running Undisclosed PR for a Gulf Dictatorship by Gabe Levine-Drizin and Adam Johnson from their weblog The Column on Substack. My commentary follows:
Long ago I ran global marketing for VICE. While you
won't read much about my brief period there, many of the modern portions
of VICE came from my plans and strategy. VICE News, for instance, was
the result of discovering that Wikipedia, at the time the largest free
web traffic driver online, would only use VICE stories as reference
links if VICE was a news media outlet.
Previous
to this, I had been chatting about a news show with Trace Crutchfield,
our infield reporter who was every-bit American Anchorman, about his
ideas around creating a daily news show roundup, as well, it seemed like
a great way to report on untold stories.
Moving
forwards, VICE wholeheartedly embraced the direction when they
realized the financial windfall to come of free web traffic by being a
media reference source on Wikipedia. Previously, I had to pay for web traffic.
All of this to say, I decided to leave VICE after I sat in an editorial meeting with the now Chief Creative Officer, Eddy
Moretti. In the meeting Eddy let it be known that we had to edit out comments from one of the shows due to it potentially offending a sponsor. One could understand not biting the hand that feeds them, but this was also a giant red flag.
VICE has a department called Virtue, founded by Spencer Baim, now VICE's Chief Brand Officer. Spencers department, Virtue, was tasked with taking the commercial wants of VICE advertisers and turning them into content. This was no big issue as VICE was not a news outlet at the time, just an influential magazine for irreverent youth (male skateboarders-bro types).
When you work in a media outlet you begin to see the relationship between the editorial department, marketing, and sales. The subtext should be clear, there is no magazine without the advertisers, who genuinely influenced the news and information released.
Knowing my history, it seems more than likely to me that CNN is engaged in undeclared brand-sponsored advertising hidden as news. It happens. It is how companies like VICE, and probably CNN, make money.
Fundamentally these are the same behaviors in two different media outlets, except that at least VICE was not slinging propaganda for a dictator, at least that I know of.