Getting Around the Obstacles

 This is a place to talk about things that don't seem to fit elsewhere.   It is something I wish was not necessary.

In the Soviet Union, the state run newspaper was named "Pravda" which translates as 'truth".  Of course it did not present actual truth.  It only presented the government sanctioned narrative.

What has happened in this country over the last few decades is that instead of government ownership of the means of information, patterned after communism, we have government control of the means of information, which aligns with actual definition of fascism.

While advocacy journalism became a thing decades ago and the pursuit of objectivity was jettisoned, we started to see stories that shaded the truth in ways that cannot be attributed to mere human failings, there was an agenda.   That trend reached an apex with the Russia Collusion narrative that we now know was a hoax.  

A few journalists along the way have fallen from grace when their phony stories got exposed.  The alternative media was born perhaps when Dan Rather's forged military documents got thoroughly exposed by a guy who knew Adobe well enough to spot the flaws.   But as time has passed, the same internet that allowed for such independent analysis and reporting is being used to block the checks and balance created by ordinary citizens with a keyboard.

So we have our own version of Pravda, only it operates under titles like "MSNBC", "The New York Times" or "The Associated Press" and its censors come with names like "Google", "Facebook" and "Twitter".

Those of us who tried on occasion to call attention to overlooked information on social media have increasingly found that honest debate is rare, and certain topics will be shadow banned or blocked, and use of a few key words can lead to de-platforming.

So, folks turn elsewhere out of necessity.

I don't claim to be anything other than a guy who does a lot of digging when he has a question and thinks too much.   

Whatever I put on this site will be presented honestly.  I will try to find sources that are trustworthy if a question needs to be addressed, and when it is possible I will refer to sources that are backed with documents that can be looked at or data that can be looked into.   

Once upon a time folks printed pamphlets and distributed them by hand in the streets to get ideas out.  If free speech means anything at all, it means the right to ask pointed questions of government and to call out lies when they are presented as truth.   

So this is just a way to get around the barriers with an idea from time to time.