(02-03-2026, 07:27 AM)putnam6 Wrote: I can't rememeber who clued me in on the Smith Mundt Act, back on ATS, but they knew thier shit.

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Indeed.
My husband was just saying that repealing that abomination would go a long way to restoring sanity to daily events.

(02-03-2026, 07:22 AM)andy06shake Wrote: If you ask me, the real enemy of the people is the super-rich.

And that's not down to envy but an imbalance.

It's not even wealth itself that's the real conundrum.

But how it's accumulated and used.

And a lot of those super-rich people own a lot of the mainstream media, so...

And a lot of those super-rich are heavily involved in the MSM:  actors and sports figures among the richest.

(02-04-2026, 04:49 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: Indeed.
My husband was just saying that repealing that abomination would go a long way to restoring sanity to daily events.

I absolutely agree... and I remember being ridiculed when I surmised that abuse would be the first effect it would manifest... that it would become a "trading commodity" to sell your "mouth piece" to the government...

But I was much more obnoxious back then.

(02-04-2026, 04:51 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: And a lot of those super-rich are heavily involved in the MSM:  actors and sports figures among the richest.

This is true, but it's a safe bet the likes of Tyson Fury(No 3 on the sports list) are not running the world or influencing much.

https://www.forbes.com/lists/athletes/

I mean, nice fella, but not very bright...

Im thinking more people like Ellison, Bezos, Gates, Musk, Thiel etc. 

But yeah im sure there are people from the acting and sports professions that tick the same box.

If only they were just serving the state. They serve the masters who control the state. Those ostensibly in power are mere puppets and servants of those who really control things. The MSM is now simply a propaganda arm of those powers. Most people still watch or read some form of MSM news and I doubt many truly question what they’re being told. 

if our news is controlled and everything else around us is controlled or managed, then we exist in a glass prison. It’s just difficult to see its shape.

(02-04-2026, 05:03 PM)andy06shake Wrote: Im thinking more people like Ellison, Bezos, Gates, Musk, Thiel etc. 

But yeah im sure there are people from the acting and sports professions that tick the same box.

Let's see.
That Billie Eilish person, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Don Lemon, late night show "comedians",  Robert DeNiro, the NBA, Rosie O'Donnell....that's off the top of my head.

Make music, make movies, play your sport, inform us and make us laugh.
We do NOT give a rat's ass what you think about politics.

(02-04-2026, 05:24 PM)ARM1968 Wrote: if our news is controlled and everything else around us is controlled or managed, then we exist in a glass prison. It’s just difficult to see its shape.

Well, many of us do see the lies and hypocrisy.

I have to figure far too many lack the critical thinking skills needed to see what is really happening...versus what is being reported.

(02-04-2026, 06:53 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: Let's see.
That Billie Eilish person, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Don Lemon, late night show "comedians",  Robert DeNiro, the NBA, Rosie O'Donnell....that's off the top of my head.

Make music, make movies, play your sport, inform us and make us laugh.
We do NOT give a rat's ass what you think about politics.

As long as we think about what we are told...

(02-04-2026, 06:53 PM)DontTreadOnMe Wrote: Let's see.
That Billie Eilish person, Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen, Don Lemon, late night show "comedians",  Robert DeNiro, the NBA, Rosie O'Donnell....that's off the top of my head.

Seriously wouldn't be surprised if they were NOC's mate - Hollywood is teeming with them and a veritable hotbed for 'recruitment'.

There's also some truly crazy CIA 'USAID' antics being exposed in this presentation and looks like they just won a 'fake news award' lol.

Quote:And the winner is..


USAID for funding over 6,200 journalists across 707 media outlets and 279 media NGOs, including nine out of ten media outlets in Ukraine!

That’s right, in their report lamenting the gutting of USAID by DOGE early last year, Reporters Without Borders accidentally let the cat out of the bag by admitting:

“According to a USAID fact sheet which has since been taken offline, in 2023, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists, assisted 707 non-state news outlets, and supported 279 media-sector civil society organizations dedicated to strengthening independent media. The 2025 foreign aid budget included $268,376,000 allocated by Congress to support ‘independent media and the free flow of information.'”

What? Those poor “independent media” outlets that were being funded to spread CIA-sanctioned fake news in countries on the State Department hit list are now going to have to somehow make do without Uncle Sam making it rain to the tune of a QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS!! Oh, the humanity.

The 9th Annual Fake News Awards

Amazing how easy a ride the corporate media is giving Bill Gates recently on revelations about his close association with child rapist Jeffrey Epstein.

It's almost as if the corporate media is openly for sale and Gates has openly bribed them to ask softball questions.

May also explain how this got swept under the rug (not many folks ever heard of it) and he never got any pushback for lying about this.

Quote:Bill Gates bankrolled select media outlets to the tune of $319 million, including the UK’s Guardian and the BBC.

Documents have been obtained that suggest that billionaires Bill and Melinda Gates have donated hundreds of millions of dollars to select media outlets worldwide to support the kind of journalism they approve of.

The documents, obtained by MintPress News, revealed that a staggering $319 million (€267 million) has been given to a range of high-profile media outlets from the Gates’ Foundation, including $12.9 million to the UK’s Guardian, and $3.6 million to the UK’s national broadcaster, the BBC. The Daily Telegraph also received $3.4 million in direct funding.

Alan MacLeod of MintPress News, said that the information was obtained through a review of over 30,000 individual grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s website database. Beneficiaries of sums of money from the Foundation included the UK’s Guardian, BBC, CNN, NBC, NPR, the Atlantic, New York Public Radio, PBS, and others

Link

The origin of this quote is debatable but it does describe exactly what Gates is doing.

Quote:"Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations."

Link

Also thought this article was an excellent one as it includes some amazing foresight on 'corporate fact-checkers'.. especially considering French Philosopher Guy Debord wrote this back in the 1980's.

Quote:• "In a society subjugated by the economy, where “everything that was once directly lived has faded into representation,” [b]such professionals do not exist to provide us the truth — they exist to serve the state and media through lies and distortions spun into what appears as true. If the “experts” lose influence, it will be because the public has learned and can articulate that their job is to systematically lie."

Guy Debord’s Warning of “The Role of the Expert”: A Philosophical Perspective on the Rise of Fact-Checking