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NEWSBUD: The new alternative media

Introducing Newsbud: Where Media Integrity Matters
Corbett • 01/16/2016
https://www.corbettreport.com/introducing-newsbud-where-media-integrity-matters/

A Message from Sibel Edmonds- Founder, NEWSBUD:
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/01/17/newsbud-where-media-integrity-matters-join-our-campaign-for-a-100-people-funded...

James Corbett talks to Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins and Pepe Escobar about NEWSBUD, a new media venture to take the alternative media to the next level. In this conversation they discuss who is involved with the project, what they hope to achieve with it, and how it will be funded.

Join the NEWSBUD Email List to keep up to date about the project!!!
The Countdown- February 14, 2016-Valentine’s Day
http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2016/01/17/newsbud-where-media-integrity-matters-join-our-campaign-for-a-100-people-funded...

Mark Crispin Miller on Election Theft, 9/11, and the Silence of the Left

A talk given by Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU, at the Left Forum at John Jay College in New York City, May 31, 2015.

In this talk, Miller speaks about the collaboration of supposedly 'left' media and activists in the placing of tremendous obstacles around the discussion of topics such as election theft and 9/11, and their great reluctance even to investigate such topics for themselves. 'They don't want to go there,' says Miller. It's as though these issues are, 'in a bad part of town, and they would never go there.'

Miller further argues that the widespread employment of the term 'conspiracy theory' to thwart the questioning of just about any official story is 'probably the most effective propaganda drive in American history, maybe even world history.'

(Introduced by Les Jamieson.)

DemocracyNow and the "Progressive" Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders For Imperialism and War

"Democracy Now" and the "Progressive" Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders For Imperialism and War

by Finian Cunningham

(Note: this analysis of the alternative media is of great value to 9/11 truthers, as the same misinformation or censoring of the news by the alternative media that is presented here was also accomplished concerning 9/11. And yet the alternative media always gets a pass by the progressives, because, I guess, it is seemingly antiwar. But I blame the alternative media for the fact that 9/11 truth really has never spread like it should have. It has an obligation and responsibility to present the evidence that the official story of 9/11 was a lie, and they failed, for some reason that has never been made completely clear)
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31874

The major Western mainstream media outlets have been running a “shock and awe” propaganda offensive against the Syrian government of President Bashar Al Assad for nearly 16 months. The misinformation has been unrelenting, monolithic, unverified, one-sided and, frankly, increasingly preposterous.

Kurt Haskell: Looks Like I'll Be A Witness For The Defense In The Underwear Bomber Case

...I realize that some may not agree with me and may attempt to harm me. Nevertheless, I will speak the truth and not be intimidated. I will do this for the common good of all of the citizens of the United States. It is not often that I quote a passage from the bible, but I think it is appropriate here:

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." ---Kurt Haskell

Looks Like I'll Be A Witness For The Defense In The Underwear Bomber Case
by Kurt Haskell - Thursday Oct 6, 2011
http://haskellfamily.blogspot.com/2011/10/looks-like-ill-be-witness-for-defense.html

So-Called Alternative Media Are a Bunch of Wannabe MSM Cowards

I could not download the story with all of the videos and all, so go to the link for best reading and viewing. This story is sort of going viral. Hope it gets the attention of the people in the alternative media censoring the news about Kevin Bracken and 9/11 truth in general. They need to be exposed and criticized, POLITELY, or something like that!

http://theintelhub.com/2010/11/03/so-called-alternative-media-are-a-bunch-of-wannabe-msm-cowards/

So-Called Alternative Media Are a Bunch of Wannabe MSM Cowards
November 3, 2010 by Shepard
Filed under Constitution and Politics, Intel Hub Featured Articles, Propaganda
11 Comments
Eric Blair
Activist Post

September 11th is indisputably the greatest crime in modern history. Everyone agrees that it has been the catalyst to excuse everything that has taken place in America since: wars, illegal surveillance, and torture, most notably.

It is the story of the century and it is still not to be questioned by the leading so-called alternative news websites that have reached mainstream levels of viewership. 9/11 is the stinky fart in the newsroom, where everyone with half-a-brain knows who cut the cheese, but because the boss is the culprit they’re afraid to be ridiculed or fired for speaking out. It’s authentic cowardice in the first degree.

A recent article on Disquiet Reservations called out specific “alternative” news sites for their cowardly unwillingness to mention 9/11 at all costs. The story they refused to cover happened last week in Australia, where the country’s top Union official, Kevin Bracken, caused international uproar when he was attacked for claiming on a national radio show that “the official story of 9/11 does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.” Of course, on the surface this doesn’t seem like a big story, but what is a huge story is that when the Herald Sun posted an online poll about it, an astounding majority (76.79%) agreed with Bracken, as reported by Excavator:

The Herald Su

Alternative Media and Ahamadinejad's Speech. Total Silence! Total Censorship.

I have just perused some of the most popular "alternative" media sites this Saturday morning to see what is being written about Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN this week.
Seems like complete avoidance.
Censorship is a better word.
While the msm at least covered the story, the alternative media has avoided the story, hoping it would go away. They are, it seems, under strict guidelines to not mention 9/11 truth or any of the evidence that conflicts with the official story of 9/11.

I looked at Alternet, CommonDreams, Truthout, DemocracyNow, Counterpunch, antiwar.com.
I did see a small mention of the speech on DemocracyNow, as part of their news rundown. No details.
I didn't see anything on antiwar.com's listing of headlines around the world that normally would have had information about the speech.

Why Muslims in the West won’t Speak out on 9/11 and False Flag Terror

Nick Kollerstrom wrote a book proving the London 7/7 bombings were an inside job. Now 7/7 is the stick they use to bash Muslims with in the UK the way they use 9/11 in the US. So the British Muslim media are lining up to report on his research, right? Not yet. In fact, they won’t touch it.

Kevin Barrett is an American Muslim personality in the 9/11 Truth movement. Kevin noted how few Muslims in the US were supporting 9/11 Truth, and wondered why. I said they felt other Americans would just peg them as paranoid Arabs who think the CIA is behind everything. Muslims in the West are busy just trying to assimilate and be accepted.

Dave Aossey is a third-generation Lebanese writer. When we asked his take on it, he said most people in the Middle East still believe in the American dream. If you ask them where they’d go if they could live anywhere they liked, they will say the United States. It’s not true that Arabs hate the US at all -- on the contrary!

Counterpunch to End Censorship of 9/11 truth???

Just noticed this advertisement in Counterpunch.org for its print edition.  Sort of a shocking headline, and it got my attention because Counterpunch has never presented any 9/11 truth at all, ever.  In fact, I remember Alexander Cockburn of Counterpunch being downright insulting of the entire 9/11 movement.  Like almost all other alternative media, Counterpunch has felt the need, for some still unknown reason, to censor the most proven and well documented evidence provided by the 9/11 truth movement proving the official 9/11 story to be untrue. 

And yet, here is this ad.  Seems odd to me, but I will not again pay the $35 to get the print edition and find that the truth is censored on this media outlet like so many others.  My money is better spent on organizations that support the truth, no matter how unappealing.

If any of you do get this print edition, please tell us where they are going with this ad.

CounterPunch Print Edition Exclusive!

CommonDreams.org Finally (Mistakenly?) Presents Some 9/11 Truth

This is very surprising.
Common Dreams, a progressive internet website, has censored EVERYTHING relating to 9/11 Truth except a few mentions in which it mocked the whole 9/11 movement. (I was immediately banned from the comment section after just one innocuous comment, and remain banned after a couple of years).
But here we see in CommonDreams.org an article criticizing NPR for using Phillip Zelikow as a spokesman for focusing on Trust in Government.
Zelikow was the oversear of the 9/11 Commission, and used his power to ensure that the truth was ignored or avoided whereever possible.
And in this article, that was mentioned.
Here is an excerpt:

"What surprised me was what Ms. Hansen, and thus NPR, did not tell us about Mr. Zelikow. He was a neocon who worked very closely with Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, and Carl Rove in the Bush administration. He was one of the primary authors of what has been called the Bush Doctrine -- the right of our country to make preemptive war on other countries in contradiction of international law and our own Constitution. During the Bush administration Zelikow defended the many lies that they told about the reasons for attacking Iraq. And he was put in charge of the 9/11 Commission, the committee that was supposed to tell the world what really happened on 9/11. He ran that committee so that the official version of events could not be questioned. He did not allow witnesses to testify who had seen and heard things that cast the official version into doubt. The commission totally ignored facts that made the official version untenable and it neglected to even mention that World Trade Center tower #7, not stuck by an airplane, also mysteriously collapsed that day."

This is either a big mistake, or things are changing.
I hope it is the latter.

Publish

The Washington Post on ‘Lunatic’ 9/11 ‘Conspiracy Theorists’

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24952.htm

By Jeremy R. Hammond
March 9, 2010 "Information Clearing House" -- An editorial in the Washington Post yesterday slammed Japanese member of parliament Yukihisa Fujita because he "seems to think that America's rendering of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, is a gigantic hoax." His "ideas" about the terrorist attacks "are too bizarre, half-baked and intellectually bogus to merit serious discussion."

Fujita, the editorial added, is a member of "the lunatic fringe" who "have spawned a thriving subculture of conspiracy theorists at home and abroad", and "his views, rooted as they are in profound distrust of the United States, seem to reflect a strain of anti-American thought". The piece closes by suggesting that the "fact-averse" Fujita should be removed from office.

How Big Brother Controls "Alternative" Media

How the Big Brother controls “alternative” media
By Matthew D. Jarvie | Dissecting the New Age
August 14, 2009

http://www.wariscrime.com/2009/08/14/news/how-the-big-brother-controls-%e2%80%9calternative%e2%80%9d-media/

CNP members from L to R: (Top) Jack McLamb, Dr. Stanley Monteith, Cliff Kincaid, Paul Craig Roberts, (Bottom) Dr. Jerome Corsi, Larry Pratt, Dr. Michael Coffman, Bob Barr.

Pictured above is just a few of the more popular names — especially among followers of the “alternative” media — who are members of the ultra-secret Council for National Policy (CNP). If you have never heard of this organization before, don’t be surprised because it’s almost never mentioned by the media, and especially not by those “big names” in the alternative media who regularly feature CNP members as guests on their show.

MEET THE TRUTH Interview With Dr. Bob Bowman And Dr. Kevin Barrett 8/02/09

Hello Truthseekers and Truthtellers,
A short interview I did With Dr. Bob Bowman and Dr. Kevin Barrett in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8/02/09. Dr. Bob Bowman was here on his 2009 Patriots Tour and Take A Stand For 9/11 Truth (ts911t.org) was a sponsor for the event. I sent literature and information to all the major TV stations for 3 years now for speaking events I've organized and they still don't come to hear great truthtellers.We have to become the media that informs the people. I'm no expert at interviewing but at least I'm doing it and it will be watched by hundreds if not thousands in the West Allis, Wisconsin local access media.In time I will get better. My program MEET THE TRUTH is shown twice a week for a month and then I produce a new show. Here's a youtube of the short interview I did just before Dr. Bowman's speech. We had about 75 people in attendance for Dr. Bowman's speech. Thanks Dr. Bob Bowman and Dr. Kevin Barrett for all you do to bring out the truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX6ggDewuas

Take Care Matt

Prime Activism Opportunity: Personal Democracy Forum in NYC next week!

[ I want to strongly encourage everyone who can make it to this to attend, I would go in a flash if I had the money to fly in from the west coast and attend]

http://personaldemocracy.com/pdf-conference/personal-democracy-forum-conference

PdF Conference 2009, June 29 -30

The Personal Democracy Forum is the world's largest and best known conference on the intersection of technology and politics. For the sixth year, more than 1,000 top opinion makers, political practitioners, technologists and journalists will come together to network, exchange ideas, and explore how technology and the Internet are changing politics, democracy, and society.

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Speakers include everyone from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Craig Newmark to Rachel Sklar (Fmr. HuffPo) to Frank RIch (NYTimes) to Ana Marie Cox (Air America) to Baratunde Thurston (The Onion). The speakers list is quite extensive, please check it out.

Russ Baker, Author of "Family of Secrets" Says He Will Investigate ANY Issue, Deeply (Any Ideas)?

Russ Baker, author of the extremely probing and revealing Bush family expose, "Family of Secrets"
has a non-profit news organization called "Who What Why, the Real News Project" http://whowhatwhy.com/

On a recent interview by Alex Jones, Baker stated, "We need financial support to... investigate any news story, deeply."

May I suggest that those who are so inclined write Mr. Baker a clear, concise letter explaining why a new 9/11
investigation is warranted, and how big of a story this is? Including a financial pledge for ""Who What Why" wouldn't hurt, either.

He pulled NO punches in "Family of Secrets", and claims to be non-biased politically.
This may be the reporter who could finally cut through the mainstream media crap.

Contact him at: http://whowhatwhy.com/contact/
and let's find out.

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