Some Clarity on Reality the Media Intentionally Confuses

The mass media is basically propaganda. It is a tool of global corporations and the interests of their owners to influence public policy and elections. Currently the corporate media is just involved in spin and propaganda. How dishonest is the media, well we know that Donna Brazile, the head of the DNC, gave debate questions to Hillary Clinton while working for CNN. and that other reporters asked Clinton's people if they wanted to edit or change their stories. While that is not illegal, it is certainly dishonest and is a form of election tampering; but, nobody seems to care.

The Trump Russia Connection - Corporatists Politicians on the left are attempting to claim that there was improper collusion between Trump and Putin. The media claims that if Trump's team ever spoke to anyone to Russia some law was violated. This is simply not true. The truth is that politicians regularly meet with foreign officials. I personally have met with government representatives from China, Israel, Singapore and other nations while working for the government. The media often discusses how "Russia hacked the election without ever defining hacking. Lets talk about that for a minute.

The term hacking is when you go online and "hack" into someone else's account. To hack an election would therefore be to hack the voting machines and according to the 50 states involved and our intelligence agencies, NO voting machines were hacked. This was further evidenced by the recounts which found no hacking. What does this mean, it means the election was NOT hacked. Now some have claimed that because RT (Russia's version of BBC America) spoke positively about Trump as compared to Clinton that this somehow was illegal or improper. IT IS NOT. In fact the BBC did the opposite, disparaging Trump and praising Clinton. Foreign countries have concerns over American policies.

Another approach the media has taken is to claim that Trump has a Russia connection because he sold units in his building to Russians. What a shock. People from all over the world bought properties in Trump's properties. That is how developers make their money, by selling properties and that is also not illegal or suspicious. The truth is that Trump has NO properties in Russia.

The whole narrative is garbage. As for claims that Russia hacked the DNC servers, also garbage. Lets start with the fact that the DNC has refused to turn over their servers to the FBI to even be examined. This is an important point, how can the media make claims without any proof only the self serving statements by a company that worked for the DNC?

Did Obama Wiretap Trump Tower? - So President Trump tweeted that Obama had Trump tower wiretapped. The media prefers to play verbiage games rather than address the issue. Lets start with this point, after the election President Obama came out and instructed the intelligence agencies to investigate any Trump Russia connections and any Russian influence on the election. He also stated he wanted the report prior to his leaving office.

Many in the media have claimed that Trump was not "wiretapped" and while this is technically true it is also insincere. Phones are not technically "wiretapped" this is because cell phones are instead intercepted as they are transmitted over the airwaves and are not carried over physical telephone lines anymore.

So what do we now know. We know that conversations inside Trump Tower were recorded by the government under Obama. We know that there are transcripts and recordings of some of those conversations and we know that it is illegal to record said conversations without a warrant or permission from a FISA court. The defense used by the media to this is to say that the recordings were "incidental" to other investigations. Huh? We committed surveillance illegally on Americans in America; but, it was an accident. That is patently stupid. It also came out today that Trump himself was recorded during this surveillance; but, again that seems to have been another accident. Who buys this garbage?

Whether you like Trump or hate him, we should not accept what the media spins. I will say it again. Six companies own 90% of all the mas media in the United States. We do not have an independent media, we have a corporate controlled media that is globalist and represents globalist rather than American interests. We need to break up the big media giants using anti-trust laws so that a variety of voices can be heard.

You Have To Keep an Eye on Politicians Making Investing Decisions

We are continuing to see a couple hundred views per day. I do hope that those who enjoy my ramblings would be kind enough to send others here to check out the site. I am currently considering posting on YouTube. I would probably make videos with no pictures of me, just illustrative pictures and a voice recording.

I don't have a problem with public speaking, I am just not sure if I want my face on the internet. The truth is that blogging began dying out just as I started this blog. The chance of getting heard is greater on YouTube than it is on blogger. Two things I do not like about vlogging are the facts that it forces one to act faster and it's focus on images. I prefer the written word; but, if the words are not heard it does not matter and format determines distribution. I don't monetize this site, it pays nothing; but, being more widely distributed would be nice. I seek to cause conversation, not agreement.

Let's talk about pensions, how you are played and how money is stolen from others because of you. That is a head scratcher isn't it. Here is an article, you have to read it to get the joke.

The Mercury News - U.S.-Mexico border wall fight: California considers divesting from companies involved in the project.  The Mercury News is the newspaper for San Jose, a very liberal tech area. People in that area are really in favor of immigration, especially tech people, it keeps wages down. The article talks about how the state legislature wants to make a law telling the pension funds that they cannot invest in any company that helps build the wall between the United States and Canada.

While you ponder how you feel about the wall, you miss the point. While you ponder whether people should or should not buy stock in companies that you think should change their policies or who they contract with. While you ponder these things that are irrelevant, you miss the point. You miss the trick, start by knowing politicians are fraudsters and everything they say is for another reason, their priorities are not what you think, their priorities are them.

The pension fund in question is not owned by the state, it is owned by the people that have paid into the pension, the pensioners. The state does NOT own the pension, it is not their money. A pension is like a bank account, it is forced savings by you and for you in lieu of getting paid more money now. Politicians in California want to tell the pension fund where they can and cannot invest; but, are the willing to pay the pension fund if it loses money because of these investments? NO, they are not. Remember how we have been told every public pension in the country is bankrupt, they are not, now the politicians want to force investment decisions that might hurt the pensions even more with the state being responsible. If the state dictates how the pensions invest, the state takes on legal responsibility for the pensions wins and losses.

The game you are witnessing is not about border walls, it is not about Trump, it is about stealing pension money, directing where it goes and being paid for such help. I have not written about pensions in a while and some of my newer readers may not understand what I am talking about. For them, find the tag at the bottom of this post which says "pension fraud", if you click it you should see all the other posts about this subject. Basically, everything you believe about the state of public pensions is a lie, they are in a great place. I know that is hard to believe; but, remember the media lies to take care of corporate interests. Read the posts.

Pension are being robbed because that is where the money is in the eyes of Wall Street. Thieves do not rob Fort Know, they rob the local bank that is not as savvy or well protected. That is the reason the biggest crooks in the past 20 years are stealing from pensions and 401k's. Read the posts about Elliot Broidy and the CIM Group, read the posts and understand that all the politicians involved benefited from helping developers in their cities.

I have noticed that the new readers are focused on politics. the pension fraud threads are politics and money and propaganda.

I Have Passed 100,000 Hits

Blogs have come and gone; but, this one has the rare honor of having received over 100,000 hits. The first post may have received only 2 hits. Bloggers are not the thing anymore, now people post videos. I am considering doing the same and switching over to vlogging. If you have an opinion on the matter, let me know your thoughts. Thank you and be well.

Smart Objects and Dumb Politicians

MSN - In the future, devices will think for you.  In the future we will see the "internet of things" where every object has it's own internet address. I told you about this years ago when the internet increased it's number of available individual IP addresses. Think about it this way, think about how everything you buy has an individual barcode. Well, now everything will be connected to the internet that has a barcode, so that it can be tracked and monitored, just like you are.

MSN - Pirelli's smart and stylish connected tires are here. Even your tires can tattletale on you now.

The Gazette - New technology, $10,000 reward aimed at finding Fort Carson soldier's killer from 1987.  We can even tell what you look like from your DNA, past, present and future.

WND - Pat Buchanan - Is McCain hijacking Trump's foreign policy?  To start with, I don't like the source of this article; but, I don't like the Washington Post either. Pat however was in government and was important in decision making so it is worth knowing what he has to say.  The takeaway from this article is that John McCain called Rand Paul a Russian agent for disagreeing with him on a policy, you can find the video on YouTube. It seems the only response that politicians who have sold themselves out to the moneyed interests can do is call people Russian agents.

Thank You Twitterer

This blog is now getting about 200 hits a day. Still small in the scheme of things; but, ten times as many as five years ago. After noticing the increase I began looking at traffic sources and it seems that someone linked to it on twitter. Now, I do not use twitter; but, obviously someone read something and linked to my blog that does. If anyone comes here from twitter, please direct me to the account that linked to me.

What Happens if Trump Fails?

It is fun to watch the media response to Trump. If nothing else he is a catalyst that causes people to expose themselves. Trump is neither Satan nor savior. He is a reflection of your hopes and fears. People we cannot control make us question whether or not we believe in control and when we think we have the right to control others or societal decisions.

People are sheep, they follow a herd instinct and seek to avoid confrontation or pain. They have no intent and do what they feel benefits them. We count on the rams to lead the pack and know better which fights we can win and which fights we cannot.

The job of the sheepdog is to keep the sheep together and fight off predators to protect them. Not all dogs become good sheepdogs, only the ones that like being around sheep. The shepherds job is to do what is best for the sheep and make them as happy as possible until they need a haircut.

The bible says that a time will come when the shepherds will be bad shepherds and not care about the sheep because they are hired men and the sheep are not theirs. You do not have to be a Christian to understand this analogy about leaders. Our leaders are bad shepherds and Trump is merely exploiting their failure. Our leaders have not worked in our best interests and have not looked out for their sheep.

Whether Trump succeeds or fails doesn't matter. People can see that the system no longer works for them, Trump and Sanders were merely the latest expression of that feeling. It does not matter how the media tells people that life is better when the people in most of this country have only seen things get worse for the past 40 years, you cannot convince things are getting better, the lies don' work anymore.

If the people who have been getting worse off for the last 40 years are not helped, whether by Trump or not, they will only get more extreme. Trump has appeased them for the moment as they are patient and hard working. If Trump does not make them better off we are going to see real extremism. That is what you get when people have no hope. The exact same would have been true if Sanders had one and been prevented from helping them. Sanders and Trump were talking to the same audience.

A war is coming between the rich and the poor and the rich know it. They plan to eliminate the middle class from the west and raise the income of the people from the third world. That has been the plan since the 1970s and I have posted links to their own documents showing that. They don't explain their reasons; but, they explain where we have been headed and why mostly.

If one believes in consolidation of power than one believes in eliminating the middle class. Take your time with that, read it until you get it.

Too big to fail is the same as to big to be influenced or told what to do. That is the banks. The banks are bad shepherds, yet, they control the world. The banks fear the law, government, democracy changing the rules of the game because we might ask that everyone benefits from this world that we all share. They don't want to share.

The "left" is fighting over what they stand for, big donors or the little guy. The "right" is fighting over the exact same thing and Trump promised to take care of the little guy rather than the establishment. That is why the "left" establishment is going after Trump, they are fighting over the corporate money with the establishment "right".

I was watching a news show earlier where the talking head said that Trumps healthcare plan was being written to placate his large corporate donors. He didn't have any. He spent of what Hillary spent and most of it came from him. He didn't solicit donations that was news for months and was used by the corporate media to prove he wasn't serious. I wrote about this a year ago while it was happening and named names.

I'm sorry, what is the point. The point is that the people in charge are not getting it. The sheep are looking for a good shepherd and don't like or trust any that have come in the last 40 years, they will not go back and trust them again if Trump fails, they will just get mean. The left has nothing to offer the middle class, the right has nothing to offer the middle class, keep proving that. Trump and Sanders were merely mirrors.

The Corporate Media, Their Inability to be Be Objective or Truthfull and Trump's Taxes

All day the corporate mainstream media has blared out that Rachel Maddow was going to show Trump's taxes tonight, they even had a countdown clock. Ms. Maddow is on MSNBC which is owned by Comcast. They own NBC, Telemundo and television stations in Latin America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, the Philippines, Turkey and channels that are distributed to Russia and Eastern Europe. They own even more but I didn't want to bore the reader. The point is they are a very large multinational corporation that is dedicated to globalism.

So Rachel Maddow made a big deal about releasing Trump's tax returns tonight and then when she did it showed nothing of import. We'll get back to that in a second. Her hyping the release was picked up on by multiple news outlets, she trolled the media that she is owned by. And what was the earthshattering news she delivered? That Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005, which was roughly a 25% effective tax rate. For every dollar he made, he paid 24 cents in taxes. Comcast in 2008 paid a 20% effective rate and in 2009 paid a 15% effective tax rate. Comcast makes about $80 billion a year in revenue.

This post is not about tax reform or Trump's taxes, it's about the media. So after releasing Trump's tax return with all this lead up and bull, even Maddow knew she had sold fake news, a nothing story. After releasing this bombshell revelation she said that it was possible that Trump's people had sent it to her news source and that it didn't who what his deductions were, only how much the total was, which is your effective tax rate. If you deduct for your house mortgage it is the exact same thing.

While Hillary Clinton claimed that Trump paid nothing in taxes, that was clearly wrong; but, don't worry the Clinton Global Initiative probably didn't pay any taxes as they claimed to be a charity. I don't like the Clintons. Don't feel bad, I didn't like the Bushes or Obama either. I think they are all globalist crooks. I would love to know what the Clinton Global Initiative paid in 2005 or what Rachel Maddow paid in taxes last year.

What we witnessed tonight was a corporate media shill taking out their credibility completely and even the people at CNBC, which is owned by the same people that own her, Here is the opinion piece from CNBC - Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow. A few days ago I posted a link to an article by Matt Taibbi where he wrote about how the media was self destructing because they will promote any anti-Trump rumor that comes their way. A YouTube comedian and political commentator made the same point a couple of days ago. I have been saying this since Trump entered the race.

It gets even worse for Ms. Maddow. Many are ridiculing her from her own mainstream corporate media. The corporate media is destroying itself and they cannot stop themselves. When this last presidential election began I said I was going to focus on the media and all the media ended up being about Trump. And all the media proved itself to be propaganda. Propaganda against Sander and then against Trump. From day one, they were called "populists" by the elitists.

I am going to explain to my readers how the game is played at higher levels. Let's say that Trump did let Rachel Maddow get his tax return because he knew the person he sent them to, that gave them to Maddow, was going to give them to her rather than, I don't know FOX or ABC or the New York Times. After reading it, why did she make a big deal about it and have nothing to show for it? Why intentionally kill your own credibility? The media is killing itself and that is dangerous. It is an outgrowth of how they became whores and sold themselves out for money. We are left with FOX and that is a globalist corporate whore too. We do have the independent media on the internet; but, the biggest of them are dogmatic and blind to other opinions.

Here is some heavy duty History analysis, and I have a degree in that. There used to be two types of societies, there were those who appreciated and honored their elders and history. There were also societies where the elderly or non providers were left to die. There was a group in Papua New Guinea's recent past that used to bury elderly people when they could no longer do anything for themselves, they buried them alive and convinced themselves that their elderly were already dead. I met some of them, I met them through a missionary who was the first to interact with them. It was wild.

UPDATE:

I wrote the above last night and when I woke up today I began reading the news. There was an article in the Huffington Post which attempted to show how courageous and what a good report Maddow had done. The corporate medial lacks any sense of introspection. The Huffington Post is owned by AOL which is owned by Verizon.