Gone are the Days of True Journalism

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       George Sontag

      "I’m terribly concerned that when you talk about The New York Times these days, when you talk about The Washington Post these days, we’re not talking about The New York Times of 50 years ago. We are not talking about The Washington Post of 50 years ago." 

                                                                                       - Ted Koppel

      Today, there exists only a handful of major mainstream media networks and they are all controlled by a very small group of corporations and the people that run them. Think about that: 90-95% of the information we see is given to us by them, and nobody else. In Washington and beyond, the press has evolved from being part of the solution to being a major part of the problem and that problem is the difference, between what actually happened, and what the MSNBC, or CNN, or New York Times, etc, say happened.  
                                                      But what about the truth?

      "Fake grassroots movements funded by political, corporate, or other special interests very effectively manipulate and distort media messages."                                                                                    - Former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson

      This "Western Media" has historically touted itself

initially as the opposite of the news as used to be broadcast in the Soviet Bloc, or China, or "Third World" in general, which was branded as "state-controlled," "propaganda," and therefore false. They claim that they are the only independent, objective, and fair media. Nothing could be further from the truth. The media is used by the corporate, political, and intelligence world. They are sold stories, and present fake narratives on various global events for a number of different reasons. They cater only to their agenda shaping public opinion by passing on half-truths and outright lies to the public. It is systemic mass deception. One might then even call the media, in Orwell's words, "objectively pro-fascist," functioning much in the manner of the old Pravda and Izvesti of the Soviet Union. They have become what they claim the others were. In this information era dismantling that falsehood and exposing its lies can be done, not by taking in news offered only by these corporate conglomerates, but by researching other sources from around the world and using critical analytical thinking to come to a truthful conclusion.

       Gone are the days when just turning on the national news to get to the “truth.” With six companies controlling most everything the Western world consumes in regard to media employing hundreds of channels, websites, news outlets, newspapers, and magazines, making up ninety percent of all media is being controlled by very few people—giving Americans the illusion of choice.


      Gone are the days of true journalism. The content you see is only there because you have been “allowed” to see it. All of these things can be used to influence your views on the world. The information you see can be manipulated to shape your thoughts and understanding. Instead of silencing your opinions, they may simply be… altered. This silent propaganda is the cause of the majority of our nations’ problems. This is what is causing the division in our country.


      The good news is that more and more people across the globe are starting to wake up to all of the misinformation being spread on a daily basis, and that includes the agenda of those behind it. Even a decade ago, the mass populace was not as aware that all is not as it seems, and as a result of this mass awakening, our perception, our thoughts, our collective consciousness is beginning to shift. Many intelligent people no longer see the world the way it has been presented to us, and they are starting to wake up to all of the propaganda that surrounds us and that is creating big problems for the global elite. The very first step to changing a problem is to first recognize that problem, and we are still in that process. The more people recognize what’s really happening in our world, the more people will take a stand and do whatever they can to change it. This is happening now, in several different ways, and it starts with you and me.

Communist Socialism, The Democratic Party, and The Media

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       Zeno Potas

      A recent shock to moderate Democrats was a national poll just taken that stated 47% of it’s members prefer Socialist Communism rather than our current republican system. Forty-Seven percent!!! We need no further proof that today’s “Democratic” party is NOT the ones of our grandfathers nor even our fathers. It is a party bent on changing our country, our Constitution, and our way of life...and not for the better.

      Led by the international Socialist elite they have taken almost complete control of our nations' media which includes newspapers, television, films, and social media platforms. We have discovered a scientific study that concluded Google, considered a simple search engine, was instrumental in swaying between 2-10 million votes during the last election towards the Clinton campaign! A chilling finding for America that we will be speaking of in the near future. Propaganda and manipulation are nothing new, of course. But whereas in the past they worked like carpet bombing, now they are becoming precision-guided munitions.

      Old school Democrats are cautiously beginning to speak out but to be too bold in dissent on the left risks political shunning. Just ask Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) - -Lipinski, is one of the few remaining conservative Democrats in Congress. He is battling for his political life. Powerful interests are lined up against him. Outside spending groups are forming to advocate his defeat. National political figures have endorsed his opponent, a candidate far more in line with liberal orthodoxy. “There are people who just want me to follow in line and vote however the party says … We have gotten to a point where everything is black and white. You are either for something in theory or against something in theory.”

      The ‘Walk Away” movement is inspiring many moderate Democrats and many who are “people of color” to stand up and speak up for true American values. It’s a shame many of these want to remain anonymous. It only proves the previous point. Here are a few examples:

• “My departure from the Democratic Party was part of a gradual process that took more than a decade to solidify. Disillusionment in the early 2000s caused me to shift from self-identifying as a Democrat to referring to myself as an Independent.”

• “The Democratic Party I see today is very different from the one I knew and worked for in my younger years. Instead of seeking support from the center of the political spectrum it has moved ever leftward, embracing positions that leave millions of Americans feeling left out. Few Democrats now have any more interest in bipartisanship, instead preaching to the choir in fundraising emails or on MSNBC about how Republican actions are evil and cruel.”

• “After years of voting for the Democratic Party based upon indoctrination and relying on what others said, I began to investigate all of the promises they had made and not kept. At the same time, I researched the Republican Party and what they had done to advance the cause for African-Americans. I saw that the values of the party lined up with my beliefs." - Clarence Henderson, a participant in the Feb. 1, 1960, sit-in at a Greensboro, N.C.

• “I spent almost two-thirds of my adult life in the party into which I had been born. Like others around me, I believed the Republicans were the party of the rich and the Democrats were the party of the working class. My party affiliation was a no-brainer. After attending college and studying politics, history, and law, under ideological driven professors, I became even more persuaded by the rightness and soundness of my allegiance to the Democrats. Intellectually, I knew the histories of the two parties and how the Republican Party had been the party of Abraham Lincoln and how it had fought for anti-lynching laws and integration. However, like many other college educated Americans, I bought into the myth known as the Southern Strategy, whereby the two parties switched places. The Democrats became the party of civil rights and the Republicans the party of racism, a perception I now know to be false.” - Carol M. Swain is a former professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and a James Madison scholar at Princeton University.

      I have great concern about the Democratic Party's Socialist vision for America and its unethical alliance with the mainstream media. It’s a partnership that enables leftist politicians to use nonstop attacks and criticisms of anyone or any policy in order to deceive voters about those of us who are Independent or are aligned with the Republican Party. It is a party that has allowed itself to be overrun and taken over by its most radical elements. The new Democrats show a disdain for America and its people. Its leaders are willing to argue against due-process rights, the presumption of innocence, the first and second amendments to the Constitution, and the rule of law. Equally frightening is that high-ranking Democrats have encouraged their constituents to confront and harass Republicans at every encounter, while the latter go about their daily business. The behavior is reminiscent of the NAZI brownshirts. This is dangerous and un-American, and we know it won’t end well.

Doing Something Wrong - Eroding the Constitution.

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       M. Richard Maxson

      Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is a constitutionalist. He believes that the Founding Fathers meant what they said and said what they meant. They laid down basic truths that serve a vital role in sustaining the republic, a nation established on the idea that the government exists to serve the people—not the other way around. He believes that our founders chose to believe that the people could govern themselves prudently, without destroying the civil liberties their ancestors had won, and without subjecting political minorities to arbitrary power.

      Today, as he sits on the nation’s highest court, he is troubled by what he sees as an attack on the country and the constitution by Leftist forces that would like to see that constitution replaced or modified of it’s original intent. He sees the lower courts filled with “activist” judges that do not interpret the Founders meaning in the constitution, as they should, but rather how they would “like” it to be. He wrote, “American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education. This overweening addiction to the courtroom as the place to debate social policy is bad for the country and bad for the judiciary.”

      Justice Gorsuch, who is proponent of originalism which means that judges should attempt to interpret the words of the Constitution as they were understood at the time they were written, says the only thing a judge should consider, “Is this law true to the Constitution?” The rejection of this line of thinking permits jurists to interpret the Constitution in novel and creative or even destructive ways, according to their own ideologies. It permits them to adapt a meaning in the text that they wish had been there to fortify contemporary societal attitudes. They are not there to wish and this “we are above the mere words on the paper" attitude is a violation of their duty as jurists’ There is a deeper and more long lasting impact of their decisions that raise the question whether we are still living in America, where "we the people" are supposed to decide what kind of society we want, NOT have our betters impose their notions on us. He wrote. “If you’re going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you’re probably doing something wrong.” Many of the lower court justices ARE doing something wrong.

The Founders Warned of a Poisonous Two Party System

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       M. Richard Maxson

      When George Washington became President of the United States in 1789, there were no political parties. Political parties first emerged during Washington’s first term in office with the Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist Party in 1791 and in the following year, the formation of the Anti-Federalist Party or Democratic-Republicans under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson. The two political parties formulated their differing views of how government ought to operate in the new republic.

      By 1796, President George Washington was so distressed by the way America was splitting into two political factions that he devoted much of his Farewell Address to warning his countrymen, "in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party" over the spirit of the nation. He acknowledged that it was natural for people with common interests to organize into competing groups. But passionate loyalty to political parties too often fueled "the most horrid enormities" — vengefulness, dissension, and repression.” he stated, “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.” John Adams agreed. He said, "There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."

      The 1800 presidential election was extraordinarily bitter. Jefferson, who like President Trump was not expected to win, successfully challenged the Federalist incumbent, John Adams. Federalists were enraged at losing the White House, and there was real fear, as there was in 2016, that party hatred would ignite into violence. Fortunately, the transfer of the White House was peaceful, and Jefferson's address is remembered for his famous plea for unity: "We are all Republicans. We are all Federalists." Toxic partisanship sickens a society, George Washington warned. "It agitates the community" and "kindles the animosity of one part against another." Tens of millions of Americans agree with him.

      As is evident today, Democrats or Republicans, and their rivalry has lately grown more poisonous and hateful than at any time in memory. The Founding Fathers were right, unity doesn't stand a chance when American politics are dominated by an unhinged two-party duopoly. This dominance is why there is no third political party in the United States, but examining the figures there should be. 

       According to the Pew Research Center, 38 percent of US adults call themselves independents, significantly more than those who are Democrats (31 percent) or Republicans (26 percent). Quite a few voters, it would seem, share George Washington's aversion to partisanship. The "people's house" was designed to reflect the public's loyalties, preferences, and passions. In a nation where more than 1 of every 4 registered voters explicitly rejects a party affiliation, there ought to be scores of independents serving in the House.

      Unfortunately today, with the power of the Internet to inflame widespread rage and contempt, and to micro-examine and destroy one’s opponent, the continuation of this entrenched two party system is inevitable. A third party challenge, such as that of Ross Perot, is inconceivable. A third party candidate would be drawn and quartered by the Leftist corporate bureaucracy that control our entire media. They have an agenda and a third candidate is not part of their plans.

The Nightmares of My Youth Have Come True

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       M. Richard Maxson

      My first writing many decades ago was for a school assignment. It was a comparison of Communist goals and how much they were beginning to take shape in our country. My teacher kept me after to inform me, physically, how wrong I was. But was I?

      On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr. of Florida read a list of 45 Communist goals into the Congressional Record. These are the pertinent ones we will use for today’s discussion.

• Capture one or both of the political parties in the U.S. [Note: In his book, "Reagan’s War," Peter Schweizer demonstrates the astonishing degree to which Communists and communist sympathizers have penetrated the Democratic Party.

• Discredit the American founding fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man. Old white racists.

• Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

• Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of "the big picture."

• Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American Communists were told to "eliminate all historical sculpture from parks and buildings."  
• Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

• Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

• Support any Democratic Socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture – education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
• Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the Progressive line in textbooks.

• Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state"

• Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

• Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and TV by presenting homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural and healthy."

• Infiltrate the press. Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

• Gain control of key positions in radio, TV & motion pictures.

       Was I wrong? Not according to people who know what Socialist Communism really is. We spoke with a Russian immigrant, a woman in her eighties, Svetlana. She was heartbroken. The fear and horror was evident in her eyes as she talked about her experiences as a young person growing up in the USSR. “I left the Soviet Union to escape communism, socialism, Marxism — whatever you want to call it,” she recalled. “America was and still is the only place in the world you are truly free, and you are losing it. Now the evil is coming here; it is all around us, especially where I live in California. These people are ignorant, they have no historical knowledge, and they are very dangerous. The ideology is seductive to America’s naive youth and always ends up with people dead.”

      Many of us have been saying the same thing for a while now, warning the younger generations of the historical dangers of “Progressivism.”(a.k.a. Communist Socialism) These truths are well worth revisiting today in order to gain insights into the thinking and strategies of much of our so-called Progressive elite. You don’t have to look very hard to validate concerns that today’s Democratic Party is really a neo-Bolshevik party in disguise. The very troubling fact is that, with a couple of decades of indoctrination, there are so many followers of Progressivism in positions of power in our country today.

Find That Truth

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       George Sontag

      Why has so much journalism succumbed to propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the MSM so often a mouthpiece of corporate power? Why do the New York Times and the Washington Post deceive their readers? Why is the truth being turned upside down and inside out by journalists? Why are these young journalists not taught to understand media agendas and to challenge the agenda driven fake objectivity? These are urgent questions that need to be examined in order to put upright America’s slanted media. The short answer is that they would be fired or forced out as so many have been. Tow the leftist corporate line or be gone.

      That being said, it’s clear that not every single thing we see in the mainstream western media is a lie, but it seems that much of it is or at least has corporate and political bias’ behind it, especially when it comes to major global events like war and terrorism and a president they do not want. America’s global propaganda operations include Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia, along with Radio and TV Marti aimed at Cuba, and Middle East broadcasting networks. Moreover, the United States operates a vast network of news agencies that work, officially and unofficially, to promote the interests of the American ruling class all over the world. This is why we here, at The American Constitutionalist, constantly ask our followers to read news from outside the sphere of western influence in order to make a decision for yourselves, not blindly believe what you are being told.

      It’s unfortunate that our world has been plagued by political agendas, and that the infiltration of media has become out of control. Further, it’s disturbing to think that only a handful of corporations run and control mainstream media. The fact that the main source of information and so-called ‘truth’ about our world, and what’s happening on it for Americans, is a television screen with with news from corporations with multiple agendas who dictate government policy. In many cases, what western media says is the complete opposite of what other countries report. We’ve seen this recently concerning Russia and the United States and NATO, ISIS, Europe and the United States and we see it with many other topics as well such as the mysterious political assassinations that happen right here on our soil and elsewhere.

      The bottom line is that each of us is grossly ignorant about the world in which we live. Westerners have gross ignorance about how the world operates by the elites who seek to control our lives because most of us are too busy to get beyond five second soundbites. Nothing's wrong with that ignorance, but we are stupid if we believe that a politician or political party can produce a better life than that which is obtained through peaceable, voluntary exchange of true facts with our fellow man anywhere on earth. Soren Kierkegaard wrote, “Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.” The truth will not be denied. The truth always wins. To the extent that we align ourselves with it, we thrive. To the extent that we deny it, we suffer. To American Patriots, to our readers, we say - use your critical analytical thinking and find that truth.

Too Many Questions - The Epstein Assassination

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       Zeno Potas

      With the dismissal with prejudice of the DNC lawsuit against WikiLeaks and the bombshell lawsuit filed two weeks ago outlining the connection of the DNC and Seth Rich’s assassination we have been waiting to hear of the mysterious death of Julian Assange but “the men in the shadows” struck elsewhere first.

      Following a mass document dump of more than 2,000 documents implicating many persons that have surrounded the Clintons’ and other high officials both here and abroad, Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier accused of molesting dozens of underage girls, died early Saturday morning inside his Manhattan jail cell. The unsealed papers - which made international news on Friday - implicated a number of high-profile people in politics and finance in sex scandals. These high-profile are likely breathing a sigh of relief today as Mr. Epstein will no longer be able to turn on them.

      We have read reports for years, although we have not verified them, of an international sex trafficking ring for the rich and powerful. During the past presidential election stories surfaced about the involvement of the Clintons’. Although they denied the rumors it is curious that Bill Clinton himself visited Mr. Epstein’s “island” more than 25 times.

      How could Jeffrey Epstein have killed himself? The answer is – he couldn’t. First we examine the conditions of his captivity from a witness, who himself, was incarcerated in the exact facility. The following account is from a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan. “There’s no way that man could have killed himself. I’ve done too much time in those units. It’s an impossibility. Between the floor and the ceiling is like eight or nine feet. There’s no way for you to connect to anything. You have sheets, but they’re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen. When you’re on suicide watch, they put you in this white smock, a straight jacket. They know a person cannot be injurious to themselves. The clothing they give you is a jump-in uniform. Everything is a dark brown color. Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars. They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death.”

 

      An associate who had seen the disgraced financier on several occasions during his incarceration at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, also claims that the normally reserved Epstein seemed to be in good spirits. “There was no indication that he might try to take his own life. From what I saw, he was finally starting to adjust to prison. I think he was comforted by the rigidity of his new life,” the source told DailyMail.

      Jeffrey Epstein told prison guards and fellow inmates that he believed someone had tried to kill him in the weeks before his death, a source has revealed to DailyMail. The first attempt on his life was on July 24 when Epstein was rushed to hospital under police guard after he was discovered semi-conscious on the floor of his prison cell in the fetal position with injuries to his neck. Cameron Lindsay, a former warden, told NBC News, “The fact he was able to either commit suicide or somebody got to him – who knows what happened because so little information here – it is amazing.” The death comes two weeks after the 66-year-old was placed on suicide watch.

 

      Under the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s policy regarding inmates on suicide watch, prisoners on suicide watch are to be kept under “direct, continuous observation.” There would not have been a way for Epstein to commit suicide because while on suicide watch, one does not have clothes, bed sheets, or shoelaces. Inmates on suicide watch only have a smock and a hole in the ground for using the restroom. While under suicide watch the two MCC guards are supposed to make separate checks on prisoners every 30 minutes. However, this procedure wasn’t followed the night that Epstein died. Reports state that due to cell maintenance the constant surveillance was not happening and a mysterious camera malfunction has prevented any footage of Epstein’s alleged suicide from being captured. Epstein wouldn’t have been able to commit suicide if he truly was being watched continuously, which means foul play is likely involved. The decision to remove Epstein, who was possibly the most high-profile inmate in the federal jail system, from suicide watch has both baffled and outraged former wardens and veterans of the federal prison system alike. “For them to pull him off suicide watch is shocking,” stated Cameron Lindsay, a former warden. “For someone this high-profile, with these allegations and this many victims, who has had a suicide attempt in the last few weeks, you can take absolutely no chances. You leave him on suicide watch until he's out of there.”

      The reports from MSM claiming that Epstein hung himself which we can see are categorically FALSE. Even if Epstein didn’t commit suicide (because let’s be honest, nobody believes Epstein actually committed suicide), if he was being watched continuously like he was supposed to be, according to the prison protocol, how did it takes hours for guards to realize he was dead? Epstein’s body was cold to touch which means he had been dead for at least 4 hours, and if he had hung himself, one of the TWO cameras in his cell would have alerted the officers monitoring them. The reports being pushed through MSM are contradictory to that which the sources and the EMS recording states.

      Why did a mysterious camera malfunction prevented any footage of Epstein’s alleged suicide from being captured? How did Epstein die if guards were watching or checking on him continuously? If not, why? If they were watching and checking on him according to protocol and he did commit suicide, why had he been dead for hours? The answer has to be that this was an assassination but we will never know the truth because that is the way it works. The "men in the shadows" have struck again.