{"id":307539,"date":"2017-05-10T19:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T18:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=307539"},"modified":"2017-05-11T03:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:12:39","slug":"major-media-organize-rig-web-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/major-media-organize-rig-web-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Media Organize to Rig Web-Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The New York Times, as Robert Parry has pointed out, \u201cCheers the Rise of Censorship\u201d<\/span><\/a>, but only<\/i> of censorship of any allegations that expose the fraudulence of the NYT\u2019s allegations. The Washington Post, Google, the TV networks, and practically all of the famous providers of \u2018news\u2019, have joined forces in order to block from the internet any statements that contradict, or especially any evidence that disproves, what they collectively define to be \u2019true\u2019; and, while they do this, they add a lie: that their sole aim<\/i> in doing this rigging of web-search results is to prevent \u2018misinformation\u2019 from polluting your mind. They use as an excuse the existence of some flagrantly fabricated reports on obscure websites, but if the mainstream press can ban reports such as those, then they can also ban real news reports, which expose the mainstream\u2019s own lies. In other words: they are implementing their collective power to block you<\/b> from being able to know that they\u2019re systematically<\/span><\/a> lying. Will the public trust them with this power?<\/span><\/p>\n

Parry says that if this effort by them is allowed to proceed, then we shall be fully in the Brave New World,<\/i> of 1984<\/i> \u2014 and, of course, he is correct in that, which means that everyone should unsubscribe and not pay a cent to all of the \u2019news\u2019 media that are trying to block the public from having access to evidence and allegations that contradict what these bullies in the \u2018news\u2019 media pump as being their mutually-agreed-upon \u2018truth\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this a religion that they\u2019re proselytizing, or is it the press in a democracy? Is what these people are trying to impose, upon the public, in accord with the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Consider the Amendment carefully:<\/span><\/p>\n

Amendment I<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no \u201cfree exercise\u201d at all, if this religion \u2014 this faith in the infallibility of some allegedly inerrant scripture (in this case: whatever these \u2019news\u2019media are saying) \u2014 is being imposed<\/i>. Is the First Amendment intended to protect the right of the owners of the press, these people who own<\/i> the media; or is it instead intended to protect the right of the public to have access<\/i> to all sides of every public issue so that they will be able to vote in elections in an honestly informed way, which may have some falsehoods in it (because perfection does not exist in any societal enterprise), but which has been selected by each voter instead of imposed upon<\/i> the voter (canonized as \u2018holy scripture\u2019, even if not overtly<\/i> alleged to be such)? And, is this \u201cthe press\u201d intended to be some portion<\/i> of the press, that is somehow rightfully empowered to crush all the rest<\/i>? Is what America\u2019s mainstream \u2018news\u2019media are trying to do here, not only a flagrant violation of their most solemn responsibility to the public whom they are supposed<\/i> to be serving, but also a form of real treachery against the nation itself?<\/span><\/p>\n

What happens if a portion of the press bullies the rest of the press and blocks their ability to report \u2018inconvenient truths\u2019? (This is what\u2019s now being put into place, by the effort to prevent discordant allegations and evidence from being carried on the internet.) If Congress were to pass a law to prohibit that bullying, would doing this support the aim and spirit of the First Amendment, or instead violate it? You decide \u2014 and then, once you decide, maybe contact your Senators and Representative to outlaw<\/i> any such bullying. How many politicians would allege that the First Amendment protects the right of some media-owners to block news-reports from other media-owners? It wouldn\u2019t fly.<\/span><\/p>\n

The passion that the owners of the regular \u2018news\u2019 media (who prohibited the publication of the evidence that George W. Bush was lying about \u2018WMD in Iraq\u2019 in order to invade<\/span><\/a>) have to deceive the public, is getting out of control, now. Their arrogance is running away with them. Why? Could it possibly be because more and more Americans are coming to distrust<\/i> the American press<\/span><\/a>? Are the presslords becoming desperate now?<\/span><\/p>\n

They want you not to know<\/i> that they are lying<\/span><\/a> when they allege that clear and convincing evidence has been presented that Bashar al-Assad perpetrated a sarin gas attack on April 4th \u2014 and not to know that President Trump was lying when he bombed Syria saying that clear evidence had been presented to him showing this to have been proven.<\/span><\/p>\n

They want you not to know that they lied<\/span><\/a> when saying that Assad was behind the 21 August 2013 sarin gas attack which was Obama\u2019s \u201cred line\u201d to invade Syria, and which was actually perpetrated by the \u2018rebels\u2019 (Al Qaeda allies in Syria) whom Obama was backing to overthrow Assad<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They want you not to know that in February 2014 the Obama regime perpetrated a coup that overthrew the democratically elected President of Ukraine and replaced his government by a racist-fascist, rabidly Russian-hating, regime, right on Russia\u2019s borders, to place U.S. missiles there against Russia<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They want you not to know that Obama\u2019s sanctions against Russia for accepting Crimea back into Russia, of which Crimea had been for hundreds of years a part until the Soviet dictator arbitrarily transferred it to Ukraine in 1954, are punishing Russia when the actual villain in the entire affair was Obama himself<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

They want to force you to believe what they publish to be reality, and that what you are reading here and in the linked-to sources here, is merely \u2018fake news\u2019. If it is news of any<\/i> type, it is real history, because those media-bullies didn\u2019t report it when it was<\/b> news. Instead, they hid it from you. Now, after-the-fact, it has become history, but when it was news, it was being hidden from you, and they would have called it \u2018fake news\u2019 if they had mentioned it at all<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you trust those \u2018news\u2019 media? If so, why? And what will be the end-result of their success in what they are doing, if not World War III and nuclear annihilation?<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of them (such as \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d) pretend<\/span><\/a> to be \u2018progressive\u2019, even while pumping lies for the aristocracy<\/span><\/a>. Their audience are deceived into thinking that the main source of funding for such sites is these poor idealists themselves, so they donate, not imagining that billionaires are actually the main funding-source behind such \u2018news\u2019 sites.<\/span><\/p>\n

The aristocrats who got Hitler into power were no more obsessed to control the world than are America\u2019s aristocracy today; and, this time, the results could be even worse<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is deadly serious. But to America\u2019s aristocrats, it\u2019s only a game that they are dead-set on \u2018winning\u2019<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

FULL DISCLOSURE: Google has threatened one of my publishers<\/span><\/a>, which depressed him, but he ultimately decided that truth is more important than \u2018success\u2019. Another<\/span><\/a>, which happens to be in Germany, likewise resists, and is also being forced, by both Google and Facebook<\/span><\/a>, to beg for donations from readers, in order to be able to keep going. And those are just two examples. This operation by the major media and its advertisers, etc., is what today calls itself \u2018the free press\u2019, in \u2018the free world\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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