How 'free' is the free press in North America?
Sixteen months after the New York Post broke the story that a Hunter Biden laptop full of incriminating videos and emails was discovered in a Delaware repair shop, the New York Times has finally admitted that the laptop contents were genuine, based on extensive checking with the recipients of the emails on the laptop.
The videos showed President Biden's son Hunter smoking crack cocaine and having sex with high-priced hookers. The emails detailed Biden's questionable business dealings in Ukraine and China, including kickbacks for 'the big guy.'
It should have got the New York Post a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism.
Instead, 50 former intelligence officials wrote a letter saying the laptop could have been "Russian dis-information." They didn't say it was Russian dis-information, just that it could be. They gave no evidence whatsoever to support this claim.
The Liberal press in America then moved into high gear painting this as another attempt by Russia to control the outcome of the election. Twitter de-platformed the New York Post, and prevented Twitter users from linking to the New York Post story. Facebook also blocked the story. Canada's mainstream media parroted the US liberal press narrative.
Polls have since found that 10 percent of Democratic voters would have changed their vote if they had known about the contents of the laptop. So burying the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop by the mainstream press and the tech giants changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election.
Maybe you hate Donald Trump so much you're glad the mainstream liberal media buried the most important story of the 2020 election. But I would ask you to reflect on this: If the US media could distort and bury a story that big, what else have they hidden from you?
Pfizer was required to submit data on vaccine side-effects to the CDC and the FDA. They tried to keep that information secret. In fact, they petitioned to keep it secret for 76 years!
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Request, we now have safety data from the first 90 days of vaccinations, up to the end of February 2021. During that 90-day period there were 42,000 adverse events and 1,223 deaths following vaccination.
One of the central principles of medicine is informed consent. Before you have a surgery, or take any medication, there is an ethical and legal requirement that you be informed of any and all risks in advance. Anyone who was vaccinated in the past year was denied informed consent, in that information on the shockingly high levels of vaccine side-effects observed prior to February 28th, 2021, was not released to the public at the time it first became available. Indeed, Pfizer has only released the data now because the courts forced them to do so.
The level of vaccine side-effects reported in the Pfizer data was shockingly high. But the FDA and the CDC sat on the information. They only revealed it because the courts forced them to.
Dr John Campbell was a strong advocate for vaccination in his various videos. His sense of betrayal is obvious in this video where he details the Pfizer data. Epidemiologist Chris Martenson was less surprised by the Pfizer data, but he was also outraged that the regulatory authorities would try to hide such important information.
Even now, most of the mainstream press in North America has tried to ignore or minimize this hugely important story on the suppression of information about vaccine side-effects.
I could go through dozens of other examples of stories that have been distorted, censored, or suppressed, and we only find out the truth long after the fact. It is increasingly clear to me that we have to talk about the 'free press' in North America in the past tense.
Why is all this important? Because the mainstream press in North American is pretty much all in favour of escalating the war in Ukraine, even though any wider war would multiply the chances of the world stumbling into a nuclear Armageddon.
If you want to get anything close to a true perspective on what's happening in Ukraine, you need to look to alternative sources. Below are some of my favourites. Be aware, they often disagree with each other, so a range of sources is advised.
Zerohedge.com is great at covering stories the mainstream avoids. Like this one, about how Ukraine has banned 11 opposition political parties and as well as shutting down opposition TV stations.
TomLuongo.me gives thoughtful big-picture analyses of geopolitical issues. Tom has strong opinions I often disagree with, but he argues them well. Like here.
The Saker.is, written by a Russian-American, has long provided insightful perspectives on US-Russian relations.
Bernard at Moonofalabama.org provides great coverage of issues not covered well in the mainstream - including now the war in Ukraine.
If you go onto rumble.com and search 'RT,' you'll get videos from the Russian English-language TV Network. Call it propaganda if you like, but I think it's really important in all situations of conflict to know how the opposite side sees the world.
I also have found good information presented by Alex and Alexander at the Duran, with the caveat their videos are sometimes overly long. (Search "The Duran" on Youtube.)
One of my favorite news sources is Gonzalo Lira. Gonzalo is a Chilean who spent many years living in the US before marrying a Ukrainian woman and moving to Ukraine several years ago. He's now trapped in Kharkiv, Ukraine, almost on the front lines of the war in a city under siege.
Gonzalo is smart, well-informed, very open, and with a wicked sense of humour. If you want to know what it's like to live in a war zone, he's your guy. He presents a very different picture of the war than we are given in the West. (Just go onto Youtube and search "Gonzalo Lira.")
I suggest you start with one of Lira's older videos, like this one:
Then you'll understand how much the stress of war has started to dismantle Gonzalo, as you'll see in today's very long video. I do hope he manages to stay ahead of the Ukrainian secret police in days to come - I've gotten to really like the man.
PS: How could I forget Paul Watson’s savage humour at Summit.news, like here:
Watson also provides a quick reality check for the Reddit Warriors wanting to race off and fight for Ukraine:
https://summit.news/2022/03/21/what-happened-to-people-who-volunteered-to-fight-for-ukraine/
Then there’s this fascinating poll showing far greater support for escalating the war among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed. (Maybe vaccination destroys your ability for critical thought; do you suppose that’s why the powers that be were so hot to get everyone vaccinated?)
Joe Rogan today is reminding people that not long ago, Ukraine was considered the most corrupt country in Europe.
Tucker Carlson remains one of the few American mainstream media presenters willing to report on the war with some balance, even if he has to fall all over himself saying a dozen times or more how he supports Ukraine.
In a previous post, I mentioned that the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily see the situation in Ukraine the way the West does - India, for instance, does not.
Perhaps reality is starting to break through the propaganda cheerleading for a wider war. Let’s hope so.
Great, thanks for those links! I have absolutely no faith in the mainstream press/media anymore after seeing its blatant bias and tunnel vision ignorance during these past two years, with regard to its coverage of the pandemic, vaccinations and mandates, the freedom convoy, etc. I wouldn’t believe anything MSM says about the Ukraine situation.
https://www.facebook.com/loveclassiccinema/videos/296462782526049/