Question Corporate Media’s Version of Events Comments for Question Corporate Media’s Version of Events at , comment 1 to 4 out of 4 comments Fri, 20 Dec 2013 17:46:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 ... Indeed: The media should be questioned, including what is printed in this publication. I beg you to question the validity of the the Boston Globe Tweet. - Clarisa Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:44:45 +0100 ... P.S. Everything you want to know and learn is on the internet. Use it. - TurtleLiker Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:35:31 +0100 ... Not sure why the time stamp of the tweet is incorrect, but that controlled explosion (a suspected bomb)was supposed to take place about an hour after the attack, and it was called off. But where are these tweets referring to a "drill"? You claim there were "witnesses" (as in the plural) were reassured via loudspeaker that it was only a drill. How many other people were at this event? Why is this coach the only person record making this claim? Is it not possible he was mistaken or misquoted? All footage I've personally seen of police bomb squads were taken after the bombs already went off. And I also don't recall seeing the crowd elbow-to-elbow with bomb-sniffing dogs walking about. That entire paragraph seems to be entirely attributed to one person's recollection of a traumatic, chaotic event. It's true that in recent years the FBI has been prodding potential "radicals" into conducting terrorist plots by supplying these "radicals" with fake explosives, and there's a strong case to be made that these tactics are clear cases of entrapment. But this stuff isn't a secret. I recall reading about these activities in Rolling Stone magazine a few years back and hearing about in via other "mainstream" sources. Trevor Aaronson recently appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss his book and this issue. And where are all these "false flag" attacks? Try looking up the "Gulf of Tonkin incident" on wikipedia and take note of what happened on August 2, 1964. The actual culprits behind the Reichstag fire is another topic still in dispute. Last I checked, we never invaded Cuba. I'll concede that it is troubling that the major networks all seem to air the same stories in the same order. But what, with the exception of breaking news details of recent events like Sandy Hook as one example, what have mainstream news outlets gotten wrong lately? Have we really gotten to the point where the public should expect nothing less than long-form investigative pieces to help explain why tweets with incorrect time stamps haven't made the front page? And if you ask me, a lot of this hysteria goes back to Iraq. Some say the mainstream media let us down and were not critical and objective enough in the run-up to the war. But after Colin Powell addressed the U.N. and made the yellow cake claims, I distinctly remember seeing news stories airing on the major networks reporting that the yellow cake claims came from forged documents. Anyone who was surprised when we eventually discovered that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction was simply NOT PAYING ATTENTION. I'm not saying that we shouldn't question what we read and see, but does anyone else find it troubling that every time a major news event pops up, we have people standing by to toot the "The government faked it to further their agenda!" horn? Anyone else find it ironic that, according to the conspiracy theorists, the Sandy Hook massacre was faked by the government so they could sway public opinion about guns, only to see congress put together the weakest gun control bill possible? And while the CT crowd was scrambling this past week to find "evidence" of crisis actors ( i.e. trolling Facebook for pics of people that kinda look bombing victims) at the scene in Boston, the Senate prevented Congress from even taking a vote on expanding background checks. I remember reading that at the of the war, Eisenhower made troops tour liberated concentration camps and invited journalists to help document what the Nazi's had done to prevent the Germans from dismissing accusations of genocide as American propaganda. Today, we live in a world with not only 24/7 news coverage/outlets, but just about everybody is walking around with 1080i cameras on their phones. And they use them. A lot. But despite the fact that this is common knowledge, we have a lot of people among us who genuinely believe the government is faking all these crazy events to push some agenda. Knowing this, we need to ask: How crazy do you have to be to believe that the government would not recognize the risk of being caught/exposed by faking a school shooting or a hijacked plane crashing into a building on live TV, with everybody watching, all so they could NOT PASS some weak gun control bill (one that failed in part because a few democratic senators in red states wanted to keep their jobs)? I don't know what's more exhausting: following that logic or debunking it? But if an incorrect tweet time and one person's confused interview is all that separates reality from rabbit hole, I think it's clear evidence that this country is in the middle of a nervous breakdown that's nowhere close to rock bottom. - TurtleLiker Sun, 21 Apr 2013 01:28:30 +0100 ... The tweet from the Boston Globe was 2 hours AFTER the bomb...(UTC time) Many packages had to be searched as people dropped what they were carrying and ran...a natural event in response to the blast. The 'homogeneous messaging' is getting worse... but that's another natural expectation when 6 corporations control 90% of the media. (In 1983 there were apparently 50 companies with the same amount of control.) False-Flag accusations get you labeled as a wing-nut and mostly ignored. It also seriously degrades the publisher of the article. You would serve your country better by promoting rights granted by the Constitution, which is the basis for all of our laws. Alternately, promote Buy Local to reduce the stranglehold of corporate america. We're on a terrible course in this country. The fascists in charge want us arguing about Gay Marriage, Abortion, and Gun Control while they take everything else away from us and spend us into oblivion making campaign promises that are never intended to be kept. They do all they can to stay in power, and all too often that involves stealing from some to give to another. That can be labeled as wing-nut conspiracy theory as well, but sadly it is glaringly obvious. Some politicians may indeed have 'good intentions' but these intentions are rarely realized, instead they morph into the insidious, corrupt environment that we find ourselves in today. We need to quit bickering about party, and take action ourselves. What if everyone reading this that is obviously fed up with trash news called their cable/dish company today and demanded a la carte access? Would they begin to take notice? The simple fact is that how WE spend our money is the real motivator of change... quit spending your money on big business activities: - this means DROPPING cable/dish and dropping all of your big-6 controlled newspaper/magazine subscriptions - this means NOT being a 99% protestor carrying an iPhone and working on your iPad purchased from the biggest company in the world that has kids working in their Chinese factories - this means not EVER shopping at Walmart, Target, Amazon or other big box store to potentially save a few dollars - shop at your local small business stores instead (there are many still struggling to survive) - Plant a garden, walk or ride bike to do errands, NEVER drink from plastic bottles...a 'green' person drinking anything from a plastic bottle is not really green at all. (Do you recycle 100% of all you can 100% of the time... really?) - this also means voting against every single incumbent that has been in office overseeing this disastrous last few decades - this means every Federal, State, County, Local officials. Run for office or school board or volunteer. If you don't do these things, then nothing will change. If you DO these things, we will have some positive change. And the more people that we get to participate in these non-party-affiliated activities the more change we will make. The phrase stands strong today as ever: money talks - bullshit walks. As long as the vast majority of Middle/Lower class Americans willingly give their hard earned money to these big corporations and longtime politicians, the worse we will become. - Patriot Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:46:58 +0100