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Dragnetting The Independent Media! All Hands On Deck!
by Katherine Frisk, The International Reporter:
Remember Fake News? Remember little Miss Melissa Zimdars who took up her pen and began to write? Remember how her list of Fake News sites went viral in November 2016?
Many people in Independent Media were most disappointed that they had not made it onto the original list and decided that they would just have to work harder telling the truth. Some of them to their relief, were added at a later date. Some even emailed little Miss Zim and asked to be added. If anything it became a badge of honour as opposed to the attempt to discredit them, especially amongst their readers and followers who have remained faithful and supportive for many years.
In the lead were 21st Century Wire, who has done incredible work in the last year covering the war in Syria.
Zero Hedge, the to go place for real news on the economy and international politics.
Breitbart and Steve Bannon who is now in the White House.
Natural News that over the years has exposed the criminality of genetically modified seeds and the patents that go with them as well as the dangers of vaccines that cause autism.
Veterans Today who has persistently and tenaciously exposed 9/11 as being an inside job along with being one of the few sites that has consistently supported the Palestinians.
And of course Infowars and Alex Jones….
Little Miss Zimdars achieved the exact opposite of her ambitions. If anything she gave Independent Media a wider audience than they already had. Mocking Bird CIA controlled propaganda media that has had the news in a vice grip in recent years, was suddenly challenged.
All of these sites, whether you agree or disagree with them, which is your prerogative, believe in two things. Freedom of speech and telling the truth as best they see it and interpret it. My personal view is to read everyone, listen to everyone with an open mind and then when I have looked at all sides, come to my own conclusions.
It has been my experience that I often learn more from those I disagree with for the simple reason that it helps me to consolidate my own views and why I have come to certain conclusions. If I did not read widely and watch news shows often way off the grid, I would, like most people in western societies, believe that the news feeds I was being fed were truthful, honest and accurate reporting. Which if we look at the facts on the ground, in many cases, clearly have not been.
He stood up in the Ukraine Parliament and said that their children would be going to school, but the children in eastern Ukraine would be holed up in underground bunkers while he grad rocket shelled them.
This closed the chapter for me on any possibility of a civilized, intelligent and equitable agreement between Kiev and Donbass. Clearly the man was not interested in a political settlement, but rather on genocide.
A similar situation occurred in Gaza in 2012 and 2014, as well as the no compromise attitude of Tel Aviv towards an independent Palestinian State, their Apartheid policies and increased illegal occupation in the last 70 years of land on the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
But you will never see open discussions about the facts on the ground about either country in any Main Stream outlet in the west. The same can be said about the tragedy that is Syria and Iraq today. For any real information you have to look beyond the alphabet soup TV stations and the print media.
Hot on the heel of little Miss Zim came The Duran who also decided to make a list of Fake News sites. Those in the Independent Media immediately recognized that this list was the real one! Some of the names on the list include Buzzfeed, CNN, Politico, New York Times and Reuters, the go to place for quick copy and paste headlines.
But Independent Media should have seen it coming. A major backlash has begun.
Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen with their Jigsaw puzzle pieces, Movements.org and the monopolistic Google , have been tweaking the algorithms so that anything that they consider to be “fake news” is well hidden and difficult to find whilst their agenda is prominent in the first few pages of any Internet search. No doubt further censorship was discussed at Bilderberg this year.
Net neutrality does not exist, so much for all the sacrifices made byAaron Swartz who tragically took his own life due to inordinate and out of proportion legal pressure because he believed in freedom of information whilst others want to with hold it.
