The place where I analyze the agendas going on behind the various news headlines we see in the media……
As mentioned in one of my old write ups, Alternative News Headlines – or, how to herd a very large group of people onto the worst probable future timeline (yeah, it’s quite a mouthful ;D) in my opinion, many of those gloom and doom alternative news websites seem as if they’re trying to deliberately steer people into having a very pessimistic, hopeless, fearful and disempowered mindsets. Always talking about everything that’s wrong and ugly in the world………..while never offering solutions. It winds the reader up, then leaves them hanging on the line feeling hopeless and frustrated, sometimes retreating into themselves or seeking out distractions and diversions because what can we do, right? It’s so much bigger than us, so beyond us.
I’m all for being informed, but as noted in various places around my site I think there’s a fine line between being informed and aware…….and then absorbing up mass amounts of useless information about things that have nothing to do with us and which we truly can do nothing about. There are many things we can do something about, in our own individual ways. But in my opinion, much of what we see in both the alternative “truth” websites and the mainstream “matrix” websites is stuff we truly can’t do anything about. So in that regard both types of news media are actually two sides of the same coin. I’m sorry, but I can’t stop what foreign governments are doing. That’s a bit beyond me. !!! I can’t stop people from partaking in illegal activities involving the exploitation and abuse of humans and animals. I’m not Superwoman, who can fly around the planet and stop everybody from doing what I consider to be bad things before they have the chance to do them.
However……
It doesn’t need to be that false two choice dichotomy of either A) burying one’s head in the sand in oblivious denial, the new age end of the spectrum who believe that you can never acknowledge anything negative, ever, or B) indiscriminately absorbing up mass amounts of information everyday under the mistaken belief that “Hey! I’m informed! I know what’s going on!”…..no matter how useless and redundant or beyond our control it may all be. There should ideally be that third choice middle ground. Awareness, coupled with knowledge. So, what does that involve?
It means you’re aware of what’s going on out there in the world, you’re facing it and aren’t being oblivious, but…..you control your reactions to it, and selectively choose what you’re going to ingest, based on what you are able to do within the constraints of your personal life situation. Or to paraphrase what my boyfriend once said, once you’re awake you don’t keep carrying the alarm clock with you for the rest of the day. It’s a great analogy. Once you’re awake, you’re awake. You don’t need to keep having your alarm clock going off in your ear for the next 14 hours. You’re up! Now, shut it off and get moving! So once you become aware of what sort of stuff is really going on out there under the radar of the well oiled and controlled matrix society, then you know. And you can take action based on what you are personally able to do and handle within your own personal reality/realm….throwing the rest away.
So with all that in mind, below will be an ever-growing list of news stories that I come across which strike me as being very obvious in their agendas and/or attempts to push stuff on us that we can do nothing about, with personal opinion summaries for readers’ consideration. It’s intended to be a sampling, not a comprehensive coverage of every obnoxious news headline out there. If that were the case, then I’d have to tend to this write up 24/7 due to the sheer number in existence. ;D Important note: A big part of my commentary/mindset stems from things I’ve talked about all around my site, in articles and in my book, and so the mentality that I describe may be a bit foreign to newbies who’ve never read my previous stuff. Timelines and probable futures, where we put our thoughts and mindset, empowerment, no fear – all things I’ve talked about, and things that will come into play in the following commentaries. So if you’re familiar with my other writings then you’ll understand where I’m coming from, you’ll probably have read some of my various anecdotal experiences that show that this particular mindset has validity. And it’s all just my opinion, as others may feel differently. Just food for thought in case people haven’t considered these points of view….
“The subtle negative message about homeschooling.“
This is kind of an older one, from the end of last year but I only just remembered about it today (October 27th). It’ll be a verbatim re-post from something I posted to a message board forum last year, to save me the time. But the post in question had to do with the Colorado school shootings that occurred around December 9, 2007, and how I noticed that it was mentioned not once, but twice in the article that the shooter was homeschooled, as if trying to convey a not-so-subtle message about homeschooled kids:
“An interesting tidbit with the Colorado shooting………in the Yahoo news story I just found, where they reveal the supposed identity of the shooter of at least one of the churches, they emphasize not once, but two times in the article that he was home schooled in a strict Christian family. It’s interesting because they’re obviously trying to establish a link between home schooled kids being unstable loonies that just might flip out and go shoot things up.
“Now, here’s the connection…..maybe about two weeks ago or so I was reading an article on Rense.com I believe, talking about how many conservative Christian parents in California are pulling their kids out of public schools and home schooling them in light of new legislation to push gay/lesbian studies, stuff that would make it mandatory to teach kids to accept homosexuality, something that many parents believe has no business being on the curriculum in a public school, and all that jazz. The article went on to say that these Christian churches are handing out how-to instructions to teach parents how to go about home schooling their kids in protest of the homosexuality curriculum. The article made it seem like kids were being pulled out of school en masse, enough so that it’s going to hurt the schools financially and put up flags.
“I read that and had the distinct thought, “I wonder how long the powers that be are going to allow home schooling to be legal.” ‘Cause you know that’s the next thing to go – parents having options in terms of how their children are being raised and taught. If their aim is to turn this world into something akin to “1984,” then home schooling where parents are in charge of what’s going into their kids’ minds……..and bodies………(ie, vaccinations, etc.) is going to have to go, I mean, you can see this one coming…..”
The link to the original article no longer works, although I copied and pasted the article text into the above post, so I’ll excerpt the relevent parts of the story here:
“COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The gunman believed to have killed four people at a megachurch and a missionary training school had been thrown out of the school a few years ago and had been sending it hate mail, police said in court papers Monday.
“The gunman was identified as Matthew Murray, 24, who was home-schooled in what a friend said was a deeply religious Christian household. Murray’s father is a neurologist and a leading multiple-sclerosis researcher.
[…..] “Authorities searched the Murray house on a quiet street in Englewood on Monday for guns, ammunition and computers. No one was home when a reporter visited the split-level brick home early Monday. Murray’s father, Ronald S. Murray, is chief executive of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center in Englewood. Matthew Murray lived there along with a brother, Christopher, 21, a student at Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla. A neighbor, Cody Askeland, 19, said the brothers were home-schooled, describing the whole family as “very, very religious.”
So, you can see the link to the homeschooling thing. If it was mentioned just once, okay, that’s fine. But twice made me raise my eyebrows, especially in light of my other thoughts at the time about homeschooling becoming a target down the line. Something to keep an eye on in news stories, see if it keeps coming up…..
AMPED UP DRAMA! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
When I was rewriting/editing and adding on to the section below called “International Randomness” and mentioning how this obsession with reporting on every little bit of international minutia may actually be a quirk of just the U.S. and not other countries, I realized another related point worth mentioning….the way in which the U.S. media in general typically amps everything up into HIGH DRAMA!!!! This point was made in Michael Moore’s documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” with the segment concerning his visit to Windsor, Ontario Canada. Windsor is across the lake from Detroit, so both cities face each other, and yet apparently they may as well be on different planets. The city of Windsor was clean and neat, crime was low, there were practically no shootings, unlike Detroit, and life was calm and relaxed. People left their front doors unlocked, everybody was mellow and friendly (they appeared to be in the movie, anyway, you never know though with Michael Moore and his selective reporting! ;D) and most importantly, while visiting a pub, Michael Moore noted the stark contrast between the Canadian news playing on the TV there versus the U.S.‘s televised news. If I’m remembering the movie correctly, he even featured a montage of U.S. news clips to illustrate the “AMPED UP!” negativity that tries to get everybody in this country in a fearful state. His conclusion was that because Canada’s news media doesn’t behave in the same way, people there are calmer, and crime is therefore lower. I don’t know if that correlation is the reason for their cleaner, reduced-crime cities (I suspect it’s just one of several contributing factors), but, there’s no doubt that the U.S. media is just ridiculous. I’ve relayed stories around my site though of my experiences with dealing with the TV/news here, and how I can’t even stand to hear it going in the background, let alone actually own a TV and actively watch that stuff, so, I won’t retread over all that here. Just wanted to bring up this point to keep in mind for all those who still watch the U.S. news. The news is apparently NOT like that in other countries. (on a side note, watch the way the U.S. media amps up hurricane/tropical storm coverage in particular, with dramatic words that way over exaggerate the storms. If a storm is a category 5, then okay, use the dramatic lingo. But if it’s a tropical storm/category 1? Then spare the use of words like “FEROCIOUS!” and other exaggerating adjectives. A good example would be this Yahoo article regarding hurricane Ike which tries to squeeze in as many “!!!” adjectives as possible within the title and first paragraph:
“Deadly Ike rakes Cuba, could hit Havana head-on
CAMAGUEY, Cuba – Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, tearing off roofs and sending waves crashing into buildings. Ike made landfall as a fearsome Category-3 hurricane late Sunday night after raking the Bahamas and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed 319 people. It has since been downgraded to a category 2 storm with 105 mile-per-hour winds.
It is expected to tear across almost the entire length of Cuba, then enter the Gulf of Mexico with Texas and Louisiana among the likely targets.”
Deadly, rakes, hit, head-on, roared, tearing, crashing, fearsome, tear, targets………come on now, that’s just over the top. And this follow up Yahoo headline:
CAMAGUEY, Cuba – Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, blowing homes to rubble and sending waves crashing over apartment buildings. Some 900,000 Cubans evacuated, and forecasters said it could hit Louisiana or Texas later this week.”
Deadly, smashes, roared, blowing, rubble, crashing. sigh.
Even me who knows better felt my stomach clench up when I read this, succumbing to alarm. Again, it would be one thing if they’re describing a category 5 hurricane like those in the past that have truly wreaked some havoc, but we’re talking about a category 2 storm at the time. It’s an average hurricane, basically, during the peak of hurricane season, in the Caribbean, which is exactly the normal spot where hurricanes hit. Now….the thing these stories are not mentioning is that the reason the last few storms have been so devastating to Haiti in particular is because Haiti clear cut away most of their trees. (scroll down about 1/4 of the way down, or do a search once you click on the page on the word “forest” to bring you directly to the photo image and corresponding commentary.) So they don’t have enough trees left to hold their soil in place, which has resulted in mudslides and flooding that would otherwise not have happened. But for the uninformed reader, they’re going to come away from these articles thinking that the reason for all this high drama devastation is due to the storms themselves. No. At the time havoc was being wreaked in Haiti, we’re talking about tropical storm. But when you chop down literally almost all of your tree cover, destroying what was once an island paradise, then yeah, when even a tropical storm comes along (never mind a hurricane) you’re going to be in some serious trouble. So, the whole thing is just skewed, and I’m just a wee bit tired of seeing these articles with their over-the-top thesaurus abusing language. It’s like, here’s an idea……….how about reporting on what’s happening in a neutral way, doing what professional journalism is supposed to be doing, versus trying to manipulate readers with exagerrating language. Now imagine that. !
From Fox News – Bigfoot may have been found.
Update: Turns out it was indeed a hoax/ploy. Not surprising. At the time we were watching the Fox News vid, I told my boyfriend that the guy speaking to the camera was talking in a very strange way. Speaking too slowly, with too many pauses between words, and WAY too much eye blinking going on, like he’s lying. (People who are confident in what they’re relaying tend to speak with conviction. Slow, paused speech can typically indicate somebody who’s trying to concoct their next statement……stalling, and buying time basically. The frequent eye blinking ties into the way that people who are lying often times don’t want to make direct, sustained eye contact.) My boyfriend agreed, and was suspicious as well, but pointed out that sometimes people are nervous when speaking on camera. Which is very true, I mean, I wouldn’t exactly be an ace speaker on camera in front of millions. So, it was a case of “wait and see.” Well, turns out body language never lies. ;D
(btw……….can’t stand the way the woman on Fox news in the above clip talks. What’s WRONG with these newscaster people?? Can’t these women talk normally, and sound like an actual feminine female?!?!!? Couldn’t even finish watching her aggressive, obnoxious, male-imitating “MACK!MACK!MACK!” way of speaking during the final moments of the clip, had to turn it off. Sorry. Just needed to get that off my chest.)
Nothing beats some sordid soap opera-y level drama that people can cluck cluck and gossip about, right? ;) Latest case in point: John Edwards having to admit publicly this week (august 2008) that he had an affair. After he had already supposedly confessed to his family….two years ago. There are several things going on with this story. On a minor surface level it’s open season for moralizing and tsk’ing and clucking and gossiping about it all, typical soap opera drama distraction that the public seems to relish. Anything to take their minds off real things that matter to the welfare of the planet. (You see this “tsk tsk!” moralizing finger pointing going on with celebs too. Our media is out of control with tailing celebrities’ every move and being right there in their faces every time they screw up in some way, putting it on all the magazine covers, internet blogs and news sites so everybody can sit back and go “tsk tsk!” and criticize. A way to feel superior.) But then there’s the conspiracy angle to this John Edwards story, which I’ll get to in a moment.
On the one hand I’m sitting here thinking, Who cares?? This should never have been made public, especially if his family already knows and they’ve all resolved it and moved on. Why is this now our business?? But on the other hand I realize that a lot of people feel that this should be our business because these guys are running for public office, presenting themselves a certain way, so, it should be exposed if they’re liars and cheats.
Um, call me weird, but, I naturally assume that ANY mainstream politician is anything what the public believes they are. “Liar” isn’t even the half of it. How about, this reality and the mainstream people in charge of it may not be real, at least, not in the way people believe it is? It’s all a farce, in more ways than people can begin to imagine. Anybody who’s read the rest of my site knows my views on the political system and voting. (to say I’m a conspiracy theorist is an understatement! ;D I’m the fringe of the fringe.) But, I guess this is all a different story for a different write up.
It’s very interesting though that the woman in question waited until two years later, when John Edwards was maneuvering himself politically, to come forward and blow the lid on their past affair. After she’d already moved on to another dude whom she had a baby with. Says to me that the whole thing was intended as a future insurance black mail set up from the get-go, a card up the sleeve….just in case. Which leads to the other aspect of this headline, and those like them….secondary read-between-the-lines intrigue indicating that certain “stuff” is in charge, and dictates who gets to move where on the big chessboard.
Breaking news! emergencies that really aren’t (just trying to desperately yank your attention all around onto random stuff)
Osama bin Laden’s former driver found guilty of terror!
Kind of ties into the previous two, with regards to both pointless brain clutter and international randomness. But this headline was given an actual red white and black breaking news “banner” across the entire top of CNN’s website, the equivelant of screaming from the rooftops you could say. A military jury in Guatanamo Bay finds bin Laden’s former driver guilty of terrorism conspiracy? Call me ignornant, but to this story I say………………….who cares?!! This impacts my life….how exactly?? This doesn’t deserve a huge breaking news, screaming from the rooftops banner. Come on now. But you the reader will see the big bold headline and feel the “urgency!” behind the large letters and words trying to yank your attention around onto stuff that they’re telling you is sooooo important….and meanwhile, lose a little bit o’ loosh energy in the process.
Okay, maybe some people are going to take issue with this, but I’m just not getting the point of stories which chronicle random catastrophes and happenings around the world that don’t directly affect anybody elsewhere. Something like the tsunami? That was a big deal. That’s international happenings worth reporting, because it affected people around the world. Something like a half million people dead in nine countries, with a wave that went around the globe twice caused by an earthquake so powerful it may have knocked the planet slightly off kilter. But villagers in India stampeding each other because somebody thought there was a mudslide? No. A rock slide killing people in a shantytown in Cairo? No. But, that’s just my opinion. (And what’s weird is this obsession with international minutia may just be a weird quirk with the U.S. only, from what I gather. For instance, back when hurricane Katrina had most of New Orleans – a major American city that even foreign tourists go out of their way to visit – under multiple feet of water, it really wasn’t being reported on in England, for example, from what I was told on a message board by some British guys. They said they only saw small, short blurbs mentioning the situation in New Orleans on their television news, but, that was it. And even then the whole thing was being skimmed over and played down. They had no idea the situation was as bad as it was until seeing the AP newswire pictures and articles posted by Americans like me. Then it was like o_0 Who knew!! So yes, international minutia randomness may actually just be some weird quirk of just the U.S., I don’t know.)
In the days before the connected news media, everybody lived their day-to-day lives just fine without knowing about every random detail happening on the other side of the planet. Yes, it’s great that our world is so connected nowadays, and I’ve talked about how I think the internet is probably the greatest modern invention in terms of its impact on the planet, but no, it doesn’t mean we actually need to know every little thing happening all around the world. And the reason I focus on the India stampede story in particular is because you have the million dollar shots of piles of dead bodies, screaming and wailing people mourning the loss of their loved ones, and I’m just left going, um…..why? Again, this doesn’t affect most anybody anywhere else, but they really want us to see these pics of dead bodies piled up and crying and screaming people anyway. And it’s all over the media too. But pretty much everybody who looks at that story is going to go, “uh, okay, wow, uh, that really sucks for them.” And that’s it. They’ll move on. There’s really no point, other than to add one more bit of negative clutter to your brain. (And another story I found today receiving prominent headline treatment, concerning a relative of a coach in China who was killed. Just more international randomness that they really want us to focus on, but which has no relevance to anything.)
This all ties back into an earlier point, about all the random pointless bits and blurbs that comprise most news stories, all under the guise of “being aware.” I know, it’s politically incorrect, and some reading this may think that I’m advocating having no empathy. That’s not the case at all….but I am of the opinion at this point in my life that our news media acts as an extension of the hyperdimensional stuff that runs the world, and uses these countless local/national/international tragedies to feed on the energy/loosh that is generated by all the people who read it and watch it. We benefit from a planet that’s connected up like never before, and so do “they,” in a different way……
CNN: “Featuring disturbing videos, headlines, and the worst that humanity has to offer!”
I first noticed this during the Katrina disaster in August of 2005, since that’s when I first started looking at cnn.com. CNN was running continual updates on their website of what was going on in New Orleans. And sandwiched in the middle of all the articles would be these descriptions of some horrible something or other……….then “Click here to see video!” o_0 What reminded me about it was another CNN video link this morning, “Bear attacks moose calf near helpless mom.” Uhhh…no, I think I’ll pass on clicking on that vid. o_0 Really. Or this gem from today, 8/7/08: “Owners cuddle, dress pets….then fry them.” !! Why would I want to watch something like that? But that’s CNN for you, and it’s the reason I stopped looking at that site months ago. Resumed looking at it this morning to find good examples for this piece, and saw the bear/moose link. CNN just has the most ridiculous headlines in general, stuff concerning the most horrendous atrocities being done to people and animals by various crazy people……stuff you can do nothing about, because it’s already happened…….and all these yucky vids that you the viewer are supposed to watch. For no apparent reason. Just because. It’s all very unbalanced because there are some amazing people out there in the world doing great things, every day, but you never hear about it. For sites like CNN it’s almost a mission of sorts to constantly report on the worst that humanity has to offer. Stories involving cannibalistic killings, dead bodies found stuffed in various places, severe child abuse/molestation/murder, animal torture, people locked away in dungeons and home prison cells, etc etc. The long list goes on and on of what I’ve seen the past few years. I think this is an agenda, to get us thinking shitty about ourselves as a species and only focused on depravity. To what ends? I don’t know, but I could certainly speculate. (this is why, despite its flaws, I’ll at least give “People” magazine kudos for regularly featuring stories of everyday people doing amazing things to help other people, animals or the world, balancing their banal celeb coverage and murder-mystery-of-the-week stories with feel-good inspiring stories that try to restore some faith in humanity.)
Hot dog eating contest results….and other bizarre distraction nonsense that makes it to the front page of all the major news media outlets.
Last year (2007) for several days straight the mainstream internet media kept featuring headlines chronicling what of all things but…..some hot dog eating contest results, and how the winner puked.
?!?!?
The first time I saw the headline I frowned to myself, like Okay, whatever. Who cares. Gross. Moving on. Then I saw it again. And again and again and again and again. !! For some really odd reason, the media thought it imperative that we the public keep hearing about this “news” for days on end. It’s important stuff I guess, covering the exploits of people who cram as many hot dogs into themselves as possible before throwing up. :S You know, especially when half the world is starving. So, why were they pushing this story on the news then? Distraction is one guess. Take our minds off news that does actually impact many people directly, such as the never ending illegal Iraq war, various NWO/police state laws being passed by Congress, etc. and so on. “Look over here at the hot dogs! Not over there at that other stuff!” Sometimes I do wonder though about these ludicrous stories that receive prominent attention on the front page headlines. It’s made me wonder if something is just testing to see who out there is even paying attention anymore. You know, a case of “um……is this really real?? just wondering……!”
(or this one in today’s internet news about moving KFC’s “secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices” from their corporate office to a new location, and the security measures and stress/tension that’s involved. I could only think after reading the opening paragraph….“You’re kidding, right?” !!! I thought that whole “Colonel Saunder’s Secret Recipe” thing was just gimmicky nonsense to make the public believe something about a product that’s not true so they’ll develop brand loyalty, and other marketing schemes they teach in Advertising 101. I mean, I’ve had KFC chicken. It tasted like greasy fast food to me. Seriously, what “11 herbs and spices”?? ;D)
Related to that idea is something I’ve talked about in various places called “dream logic.” You know how things can sometimes make perfect sense in a dream, until you awaken and realize it makes no sense at all. Two different realms, each with its own logic and assemblage point. Well, there’s sublevels within the land of the waking world as well. And the more aware and awake one becomes to this matrix reality, the more nonsensical one realizes everything is, until even the land of the waking world seems like a nonsensical dream. And so to that end we have front page news headlines excitedly pummeling us with blow by blow accounts of hot dog eating contests…and their gross aftermath. :/ Asleep in the waking world, indeed……….
(^^^^ above link is just one of a bezillion out there….) On the one hand I’m interested in these stories as it seems we’re witnessing the beginning stages of what may turn into a massive domino effect, leading to the downfall of the U.S. The mortgage/home foreclosure crisis, huge rise in homelessness and tent cities, gasoline at over $4 a gallon, oil at highest per barrell cost ever, supposed food/grain shortage crisis, companies shutting down and unemployment rising, etc. etc. etc. Lots of – manufactured and planned – elements converging and conspiring to take down the way of life that everybody’s accustomed to. But on the other hand I realize………………………….what happens to others isn’t what has to happen to me. I’ve already proven that for myself in a previous article when it comes to jobs and the job market, but the same goes for everything we’re surrounded by in life. Yes, these things are happening, and it’s “real”……..for others. But what happens to others is not what has to happen to us. It really can’t be emphasized enough! You’ll notice that manifestation, personal frequency and all the rest are never discussed in these news headlines. Of course not. That’s fringe spirituality and metaphysics, which doesn’t mix with the mainstream Powers That Be and the media they control. They have a version of reality they want you to believe and adhere to…..and it does not involve waking up and becoming aware and empowered. !! Manifestation, being in the flow, personal frequency and all the rest means that things will continually work out for you as you consistently draw to yourself exactly what you need, you’ll be in the right places at the right time, and always a step ahead of things, so that your set of personal experiences will be vastly different from others’. In my opinion the events we see converging at this time to throw society into a downward spiral has all been manfuctured, and it’s running on a planned schedule. And the more they try to push their manufactured agenda on us, the more awake we need to become.
From Yahoo News, August 3, 2008: Is another Bruce Ivins lurking in a biolab?
“WASHINGTON – There could be another Bruce Ivins lurking in a biodefense laboratory anywhere in America….”
I’m rolling my eyes and shaking my head from just the headline alone. Total fear mongering “What if” scenario. “What if” scenarios are the worst, especially when they concern something that’s completely out of your control, because they’re the most pointless. Deal with life as it comes…..don’t fret about a bunch of potential things that you actually have no control over. And you know what? There probably is another Bruce Ivins. In fact, there’s probably hundreds of them, a whole army of programmed sleeper agents just waiting to be triggered. mwwwaaahahahahahahaha! But you know what? I don’t care! There’s nothing I can do about it. I don’t have control over what others do. I can only control what I do and where my life is headed. And so what I can do is intend that in the event that something like this happens in the future, it won’t affect me. And do so with the full 100% confident knowing that my intent and lack of fear works, as it always has in the past. And if I’m meant to go down in a biowarfare attack, then so be it. I’ll be where I’m supposed to be when I finally do actually die. Stories like this though play on the general population’s fear/denial of death, and the pervasive victim mentality that has most convinced that they’re at the mercy of scary forces with no control over their own existence.
More to come!