Alternative News Today

Alternative stories hand-picked by me from my Sources page.

• Trump Gets PUMMELED During TODAY Show Interview; Matt Lauer Did NOT Hold Back (VIDEO)
• WATCH: Trump Threatens Saturday Night Live During Today Show Appearance
• Carrier Workers BLAST Trump: ‘He Lied His Ass Off’
• How Would Your 'Hairspray Live!' Character Combat Trump?
• The NYCLU Will Continue to Watch the NYPD, so Its Lawyers Don’t Institutionalize a Protester Prosecution Program
• So-So Social Media Privacy? State Legislators Should Reject New Model Bill and Stick With ACLU’s Gold Standard. 
• Stay in a Fair Hotel This Holiday Season and Support Working Families
• The Take Down of George Soros Has Begun
• U.S. Senate Admits The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence Is Here
• Abortion Rights in a Post- Roe v. Wade World
• Disinformation, Not Fake News, Got Trump Elected, and It Is Not Stopping
• After 8 years of Expanding Presidential War Powers, Obama Insists They Are Limited
• Trump Picks Climate Denier and 'Fossil Fuel Industry Puppet' to Head EPA (Video)
• Trump Is an Eerily Perfect Match With a Famous 14-Point Guide to Identify Fascist Leaders
• Michigan Election Officials Refuse to Recount Thousands of Ballots in State's Communities of Color
• Failed Paper Ballot Scanners in Detroit Put MI 'Recount' at Risk: 'BradCast' 12/6/2016
• The Tyranny at Standing Rock: The Government’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working
• What we knew about Donald Trump’s inner circle, when we knew it
• Groups Demand Arrest of 'War Mastermind' Kissinger at Nobel Peace Prize Forum
• Emboldened by Trump, Ohio GOP Pass Extreme Attack on Abortion Rights
• With Eye to Trump, Obama Outlines How Best to Wage America's Endless War
• Dems Plan to Grill Tillerson on Exxon's Climate Fraud
• Anonymous Gives Morton County Sheriff’s Deputies Who Terrorized Protesters At Hotel 48 Hours To Turn Themselves In
• Reporter Discovers Wi-fi Named 'N*gger Genocide' At Texas A&M White Nationalist Event 
• Here's Another Way To Get Merrick Garland On SCOTUS (Updated)
• Why Obama, Biden, and Senate Democrats should be plotting a Jan. 3 Garland SCOTUS confirmation
• From Climate Change to Nuclear War, Noam Chomsky Warns of Literal Threats to Our Survival
• Sanders: GOP blocked 'Trump proposal' to lower drug prices
• Sen. Collins Signals GOP Wall On Obamacare and Medicare Is Cracking
• 6 million part-time workers want full-time hours
• 10,000 Snow Geese Die After Landing on Toxic Mining Waters in Montana
• Stop Perpetuating The Myth Of Voter Fraud To Distract From The Reality Of Massive Voter Suppression
• More False Claims About Fracking
• ‘We’ve Got to Start Talking About How Are We Going to Build an Alternative’
• Another tomato grower loses claim regarding 2008 outbreak
• There’s One Simple Reason Why Republicans Benefit Most From the Structure of Our Government
• Republicans Damn Sure Won’t Admit the Truth About the Electoral College
• Crosscheck Is Not Just Crooked, It’s Criminal
• The FBI is investigating me because I tweeted a joke about fake news
• Time Magazine Goes FULL Stupid For ‘Person Of The Year’ Pick (VIDEO)
• Chuck Todd Tweets Out Just Trump’s Name to Make a Point
• Cold War 2.0: A New Wave Of McCarthyites & Anti-Russian Propaganda Emerge In Response To ‘Fake News’
• State of Texas Health Dept. Now Spreading Falsehoods About Cancer to Scare Women Out of Having Abortions
• Sorry, Conservatives, Trump's Illiberalism Is on You.
• Trump's Master Bait and Switch Strategy: immigration, jobs, and cleaning up the swamp
• Hundreds of thousands of workers walk out for $15 and a union
• http://www.politifact.com/
• Five Questions You Should Ask about Secretary of Education Nominee Betsy DeVos
• Jury Awards $93 Million in Federal Fraud Case Against Allied Home Mortgage
• CNN panel tears into Jeffrey Lord for jaw-dropping claim that ‘there are no people of color’ in America
• Keith Olbermann: ‘We’ve elected a sh*tty businessman’ — and here’s how we’ll all pay for his mistakes
• How Conservatives Out-Intellectualized Progressives
• Right Wing Round-Up - 12/7/16
• B.S. Detector And The Rise Of ‘Fake News’ Detection Software
• Wash Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
• Enormous, Humongous $42.6 Billion October Trade Deficit Is Unbalanced
• Revealed: The Trump Administration's Energy Plan
• A Trump Nation in an ALEC Land
• Doxxing: The New Threat To Your Online Safety
• Two juveniles charged with starting wildfire that killed 14 people
• Obama under mounting pressure to disclose Russia's role in US election
• Why Steve Bannon wants to destroy secularism
• Water Protector Blind After Tear Gas Attack
• We did it again! November is hottest on record
• Break Free and Lead, or Resign: A Letter to Bernie Sanders
• The Fake News That Will Take Us to War With China (Video)
• Obama and the Supreme Court Just Made it Easier for the FBI to Hack Your Computer
• Surprise: Trump’s Adviser on Wall Street Regulations Is a Longtime Swamp Dweller
• UnKoch My Campus: Opposing Billionaires' Efforts to Infiltrate Higher Education
• Before the Holiday Feast: New Data on Pesticides on Food Raises Safety Questions
• Cable Networks Silent After 'Significant' Pipeline Spill Just 200 Miles from Standing Rock
• Thousands of world leaders will meet under one roof this January. Here's how you can get involved.
• The Oakland fire tragedy and the housing crisis in America
• 120,000 coal miners face loss of retirement benefits
• THE KGB HAD NOTHING ON VERIZON
• Just How Overvalued Is The Market? Here Are 20 Metrics To Help You Decide

There's plenty more from where these came.

You Are Being Played By Those Crying "Fake News!"

Yes, you are being played. Especially those of you who are upset about Hillary losing the election.

The main-stream media is crying wolf, or more accurately crying "Fake News!" Making mountains out of mole hills. Most of us know this already.

For the most part they are blaming Russia or people in the Baltic states, which makes my B*s*t meter ping at maximum.

They are trying to blame Facebook and Google, attempting to shame them and other social media outlets into censoring users. Facebook and Google do not create the content, they are merely the medium.

You don't see gun manufacturers and gun store owners going to jail because people used their guns to commit crimes do you? So why should Google and Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or even 4chan be held responsible for any of their content?

There are some other more realistic reasons behind this outcry about "fake news:"

For instance, some Establishment Democrats would like to distract the public from the way they treated Bernie Sanders during the primary. Bernie could have won the election, based on the primary polling numbers.

Some Establishment Republicans and Democrats would like to reign-in and have complete control over communication on the Internet for their own ends.

The Establishment would love to over-regulate media on the Internet to make it less appealing to the public.

Obviously the corporate owners of the main-stream media want to vilify if not completely destroy the alternative Internet media, because they refuse to accept that their main-stream content is stale white bread at best, and at worst, completely deceptive and literally, physically unhealthy corporate propaganda for humans and the environment.

So when you hear on CNN's Reliable Sources, stories about fake news and all its chicanery, think about who is really being served by whining about it.

All you need to do is verify a story with at least two other sources from different or opposing perspectives to weed out the false reporting, which for the most part is just troll humor.

The best part about this is you can find out who the main-stream corporate cronies are who are trying to pass themselves off as alternative media by looking for reporting on "fake news."

How News Was Spun About The Nevada Democratic Convention

You can easily tell bias when a news outlets says "Hillary Wins State X, Bernie Claims Victory in State Y" or "Bernie Wins State X, Hillary Claims Victory in State Y."

The real hardcore gas-lighting of the public can be found in direct insinuations, or even more clever tacit insinuations such as playing the victim or expressing fear from a group you just deliberately incited into a rage.

Here is a table of stark differences between fact and false propaganda.

What Happened	What The Mainstream Media Says Happened
Nevada Democratic Convention: The Videos You Need to See	Sanders issues defiant statement under pressure over ruckus
Nina Turner Tells Us What Happened at Nevada Democratic Convention	DNC head: ‘No excuse for what happened in Nevada’
Nevada Dem Party Commits Election Fraud & Files Smear Complaint Against Sanders. FIGHT BACK BERNIE	Sanders issues belligerent statement after followers threaten to kill NV party chair
Sanders Statement on Nevada (official, full statement)	DNC chair rips Sanders' response
Only about 17 percent show up to vote in Kentucky primary The headline was changed to say 20% at this time	It's going to stay messy
Democratic Establishment Steals Nevada Caucus Win From Bernie Sanders	Sanders under fire after Nevada convention
[ Local ] KLAS8(CBS) Las Vegas: Nevada Democratic convention abruptly ends amid security concerns	Bernie Sanders Facing Pressure Over Supporters’ Actions in Nevada
	Nevada Democrats accused Bernie Sanders’s campaign of inciting violence. And Sanders is hitting back.

The Fourth Estate

The End of Mainstream Media

Wikipedia

Fourth Estate

The Main-Stream Media. Here's a site called the 4th Estate. It's last known post was January 31, 2013

Wikipedia

Fifth Estate

The Alternative Media

Mint Press News (09/17/2014

How The Mainstream Media Lost All Credibility & Why It’s Too Late To Save It

It's evident that The Press is losing traction with its audience.

Christian Post (09/16/2015)

An Insider's Look Behind the Mainstream Media's Crumbling Facade of Power

Personal account of a magazine publishing employee.

Intelligence^2 (10/27/2009)

GOOD RIDDANCE TO MAINSTREAM MEDIA

A collection of articles debating reasons for the demise of the mainstream media

Empire Dusk (08/21/2008)

The Biggest Show On Earth brought to you by Industrial Oligarchs

In the 5th to the last paragraph, I predict the demise of the Mainstream Media. I feel quite vindicated.

The printing press was invented around 1440. I'm just throwing it out there as my interpretation of the birth of the Fourth Estate, but it's debatable. The moniker was said to have been used first in 1787.

When Salon reported the suspension of CNN Reporter Elise Labott for a Tweet. I was inspired to create this post. It seems more frequently that Mainstream Media pulls more dirt over itself. They've become terrified sycophants to the rich and powerful.

CNN apparently has fallen out of favor of the Republican candidates, especially the Trump campaign. At a rally Noah Gray was threatened when he almost strayed off the reservation to cover a protester. The mantle of retribution for the mistreatment of reporters is the virility of the Internet.

In a 2011 Rolling Stone interview, Keith Olbermann describes the self-destructive nature of Corporate Media:

They form together in a massive id and they do whatever they want. In a corporate setting, there's nothing to stop Rupert Murdoch or Disney from doing whatever the hell they want with the news.

The Daily Kos brought up Keith Olbermann in a post titled "Is Comcast Quietly Suffocating MSNBC" January 15th of 2015, Just a few short months later, Ed Schultz was fired, Schultz changed his mind about the Keystone XL Pipeline in March of 2014

With the bulk of mainstream media owned by multinational corporations that spend millions if not billions of dollars on politicians, mainstream journalists find them selves in the middle, being crushed into submission, forced into fawning flattery and asking only softball questions to preserve their careers.

Politicians can now treat reporters badly with impunity. Sally Kohn at the Daily Beast asked "Rope-Ghazi: What Difference Does It Make?" If the reporters can be certain of their future income by crowd-funding their own podcasts and blogs, they might start raising the stakes with their questions.

Being fired from the mainstream media will actually give you more street cred.

COM: Politics and Media Out Of Control

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Politico

Exclusive: Carson claimed West Point 'scholarship' but never applied

This is where it all started. It was assumed that Ben Carson actually received a scholarship, but in reality he said he was only offered a scholarship.

USA Today

Carson caught in tempest over his claim of a West Point scholarship

The original headline was "Ben Carson admits fabricating West Point story, report says" Interesting that USA Today felt the need to change their own headline.

The Washington Post

Ben Carson defends his telling of an informal offer from West Point

Here it's explained that Ben Carson was offered a scholarship but didn't take it.

The Washington Post

Ben Carson’s ‘West Point’ story isn’t totally accurate. Here’s why that could be a problem.

Here the author states "Ben Carson's admission Friday to Politico that he had not been offered and accepted a full scholarship to West Point could be a major problem for a presidential candidate whose appeal is almost entirely built on his remarkable personal story."

The Daily Caller

Five Serious Questions About Politico’s Hit On Ben Carson’s West Point Story

The Daily Caller has earned itself space on my list of sources. Politico never made it.

So this is how politicians can bait the media with ambiguous statements, then turn around and attack the media, pointing at the media's sloppy false inferences,

Did this really happen? Was it intentional? There's no way to prove it, but the media is at fault for not doing its homework anyway.

Either way the damage is done to the candidate. The graphics popping up all over the Internet that are mocking the candidate, possibly for something he never did or said, won't go away anytime soon.

News outlets must answer not only for parroting the original story, but now changing their own headlines after the fact to cover up their laziness.

The schadenfreude and groupthink of the media needs to be checked.

Couldn't resist posting more alternative news

The Humanist: It Could Happen Here: Paraguay’s Draconian Abortion Laws and the U.S.’s Slippery Slope

The Intercept: Apple and Google just attended a confidential Spy Summit in a remote English mansion.

Alternet: Elizabeth Warren Is Winning: How the Progressive Icon is Remaking Politics — Without Running For President

Alternet: This Receptionist Lives In Fear Due To Anti-Abortion Terrorism -- And She's Far From Alone

Center for Public Integrity: Obamacare exchanges help, but confused consumers are still spending too much

Common Dreams: 'Badass Left-Winger' Rebukes Gossip-Style News Ahead of Campaign Kick-Off

Counter Current: Forged Drug Test Results May Free Tens of Thousands From Prison

Counter Punch: The Liberal Apologies for Obama’s Ugly Reign

Daily Kos: Republican dilemma: Is the Pope infallible or just a nice guy with an opinion

EcoWatch: Which Country Will Be First to Go Completely Underwater Due to Climate Change?

Food Safety News: ProPublica Study Dishes on Cruise Ship Food Safety Problems

Global Research: America’s National Public Radio (NPR) Is Ready for the “Good” Kind of Capitalism

HNGN: Florida Woman Released from Jail After Finally Agreeing to Have Her Son Circumcised

Liberal America: Texas Cops Storm Elderly Man’s House, Break His Hip, Then Leave Without Calling Ambulance

Media Matters: On Reliable Sources, Bruce Bartlett Explains How Conservatives Are "Brainwashing" Themselves With Fox News And Other Right-Wing Media

Mint Press News: Media CEOs Dominate Ranks Of Top-Paid Executives

Mother Jones: Is PTSD Contagious?

ProPublica: Congress to Consider Scaling Down Group Homes for Troubled Children

Raw Story: Watch this activist politely destroy CNN for racism: ‘Whiteness gets nuance and blackness doesn’t’

PR Watch: In Search for Truth, CMD Files Public Records Lawsuit Against Scott Walker

The lonlely hours

Two in the morning is a dark time. I somehow manage to wake up at that time most nights.

Television gives me a terrible headache but I can’t sleep. I don’t want to think about anything, but inevitably I think about losing everything when I lost my job in June of 2001.

People I thought were my friends completely abandoned me. They avoided me like the plague. They’ll do that if they think you need them. If that’s what friends do, then I guess I was terribly misinformed by the Bible.

So anyway, it’s about two hours before the newspaper hits the porch, and another two to three hours after that until sunrise. I turn on the radio and listen to National Public Radio (http://www.npr.org) (NPR) on our local public broadcasting station.

NPR broadcasts the BBC (http://www.bbc.com) radio overnight and follows with Morning Edition. The news one hears from these sources is often avoided or distorted by other U.S. News outlets, so it’s interesting to listen and then compare with local news to find the dissemblance.

Now I’m going to bed earlier because I finally found legitimacy on the airwaves in the middle of the night. The drone of news from around the world at first put me back to sleep right away, but I began to see local consequences of the global events reported by the BBC.

These late night broadcasts inspired me to start new websites; www.empiredusk.com and www.atheistinsurgency.com, the latter which was registered this morning and is not up yet.

So sometimes I fall asleep right away, and other times I’m enthralled by what I hear. Like this morning for instance, there was a report about American pension plans (they call schemes) that bought too many mortgages from lenders, not realizing that the mortgages were the new precarious flexible rate, interest only mortgages.

Too many blue chip funds on Wall Street are teetering on financial foundations infused by mortgages that were sold to people who can’t afford to make payments; and during a time gas prices are going back up.

But on the local news, we hear that the economy is doing just fine.

I’m glad I have no 401K or investments.