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* Are We Critical Thinkers?

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This AGE OF INFORMATION is harming our ability to be critical thinkers. In Finland and Denmark they start teaching media literacy to grade schoolers. Why aren’t we doing that here? If we all become MEDIA LITERATE—able to recognize media tactics and methods—we safeguard our brainpower, as well as our rights and freedoms. 

News departments don’t have time for context or complexity. Corporate-owned media expects their audience to believe what’s being broadcast is the truth—but it can only be a sliver of reality. 

That sliver of reality is easily massaged into one frame or another.

And information is missing so people who get their news from corporate-owned media are turning into a sub-class whose emotions are regularly manipulated. Here’s one potent example. For many years, big pharma has hired “influencers” to be in all social media spaces where children gather in order to normalize gender confusion—to  make it rad, cool and edgy. Gender confusion did not arise naturally. (See Jennifer Bilek for the facts and history) Big Pharma’s psychopathic marketing causes tragic harms but nets billions in drug sales and profits. The vultures are circling.

Causing gender confusion in children is Age of Information warfare and a crime against humanity. And the news never reports any of it—because those who are heavily invested in big pharma also own the dinosaur media. We all need to understand this. Learn everything you can about Blackrock and Larry Fink.

To become a critical thinker, try this. Observe how TV is made for one minute. Notice all the moving parts: edit cuts, camera changes, close-ups, wide shots, rapid pacing, zooms, voiceover narration, aerial drone footage, etc. The screen jumps every few seconds—that’s by design. It’s been proven that the illusion of action overwhelms our rational faculties and puts our minds into a state of hypnosis, making us receptive to advertisers and propaganda.

Fear baiting. Many news stories contain the words “could”, “studies suggest” and “experts are concerned”. Since anything could happen but is not happening now, why foment fear? Because anxious, worried people are easier to direct.

Corporate-owned media hammers their “official” narratives day in and day out—climate crisis, immigration, Trump, far right extremist bogeymen—and drops them into the airwaves with dizzying frequency—which is by design. Their misinformation treadmill produces rage, confusion, exhaustion. Best if we are worn down by Trump news than informed about devious legislation like Bill C-8 removing our rights and free speech and advancing the globalist agenda of digital IDs, one world banking, and the bio-tech surveillance state. Power is shifting to the dark side so fast it will make Trump look like a silly buffoon. The 1% care about grabbing more for themselves, not the farce of Left/Right politics which keep us plebs preoccupied. 

Want to know more about the hot mess of this Age of Information, keep reading.

Sam Cooper from TheBureau news : “Influence from various sources is making its way into your TV news.” In this informative interview with Jason James of Brave New Normal about propaganda, “This is how the sausage is made. And the sausage is rotten.”

GASLIGHTING is another well-worn tactic used by unscrupulous media.

The movie Gaslighting is a classic; it illustrates how devious persuasion is used to undermine a person’s critical faculties. The goal is to make someone unsure of what they believe and implant false beliefs for the benefit of someone with bad intent.

Another facet of this hot mess is the PSYOP, which is short for psychological operation.

THE OVERTON WINDOW. You may see this phrase but not understand what it means in terms of the way media manipulates what we know and believe. Here’s a primer.

Wikipedia page: In the early 1990s, Overton described a spectrum from “more free” to “less free” with regard to governmental intervention, which he presented graphically on a vertical axis to avoid comparison with the left-right political spectrum.[6] As the spectrum moves or expands, an idea at a given location on the scale may become more or less politically acceptable. Overton claimed that politicians typically act freely only within the “window” of those seen as acceptable.

* WHAT’S ENDING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM?

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Top notch CBC journalists—Trish Wood, Marianne Klowak, and Rodney Palmer—spill the beans. All three retired in disgust.

To understand what’s happened to journalism, we can point to the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), a global news brokerage claiming to combat misinformation and fake news. TNI was formed in 2019 because public trust in media was only 29%. A shotgun wedding transpired between all legacy media and all big tech, including Facebook and Google. The motive was information control. When COVID hit, the vaccine failed and public trust sank even lower. The TNI propaganda machine went into overdrive pushing “misinformation” paranoia. They needed people to stay obedient, fearful, and arguing among ourselves. Instead, many of us turned to researchers, ethical scientists, medical activists and citizen journalists who had the facts.

How TNI works: editors and reporters send news stories to TNI for approval before the information can be released. If TNI doesn’t approve, the story is red-penned and sent back. When they don’t like the expert a reporter is quoting, the reporter is told to use their in-house expert instead. Do you notice that TV news presenters all say the exact same message, same phrases, same sentences, all at the same time? That’s not “trustworthy”, it’s Orwell’s Ministry of Truth: you only know what we tell you.

We must ask, what will censorship accomplish? If they manage to end free speech, what then?  

TNI ended Marianne Klowak’s career. On the Trish Wood is Critical podcast (episode 159), Klowak said, “A number of stories that I put forward were blocked…it seemed to me as a journalist who’d been there 34 years, it’s like the rules had changed so quickly that it left me dizzy.” A scrupulous and trusted reporter, Klowak “had a show all put together about the vaccine injured, with interviewed experts who said the vaccine was a problem, and the CBC brass killed it. I took my concerns to the managing editor and senior executives but they didn’t care. Worse, CBC took the stance that anybody saying the vaccines were a problem was lying.” 

Before Trish Wood retired, she hosted The Fifth Estate and did award-winning investigative reporting for over 20 years. Talking with veteran reporter Rodney Palmer (episode 158), Wood said, “This generation of new journalists aren’t trained to think outside the box. It’s not in a real journalist’s DNA to promote anything as ‘safe and effective’. The media no longer report fairly on things that require debate.”

Palmer was less diplomatic: “I had to stop listening to the CBC. I got a sore throat from screaming at the radio while I was alone in my car, because I know things to be true and they were saying the opposite and it was bloody dangerous! What we’re hearing is propaganda and false messaging on behalf of the government.”

TNI is protecting globalist plans from exposure–with help from a stable of lazy, well-paid imbeciles who no longer care about honesty or integrity. Luckily, trusted citizen journalists have our backs. Get to know some of them in this article. And a few more under the Research Links page.

* What Would Ma Murray Think?

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by B. H. Link (local professional writing under a pseudonym)

Some of us grew up in homes where grownups faithfully watched the evening news, read the daily city newspaper, and never thought to doubt how much was true. My dear mum spoke admiringly of “Peter” (Mansbridge, a former CBC news anchor) on a first-name basis; he was her trusted source for all things political. We later scoffed at those who would believe the ‘crazy talk’ on sources like U.S. Fox News. We felt informed about news events. Occasionally we’d come across people with ‘out there’ ideas, and an offhand dismissal seemed reasonable.

Little did we know.

Onward we venture into 2025 amid news from almost-endless sources worldwide. Strangely, free speech doesn’t feel very free anymore and we are too-often careful, even fearful, about voicing independent thoughts. Paradoxically it’s both easier and harder to find information AND to discern what appears to be true. With humility and courage we might question: What seems to be true? Who benefits from this message? Who funded this source? What kind of evidence is offered to support these ideas? Is it biased opinion, or an attempt to present more than one side for balance? What perspectives are being withheld, disparaged or dismissed, and why?

Media influence on our lives is HUGE; we can think we hold independent beliefs without realizing how some have been carefully fed to us over time. Simple slogans repeated strategically is a proven psychological manipulation technique. Accompanied by fear, even more powerful. Our attention is drawn to the ‘latest thing’; meanwhile far-reaching events occur behind the scenes and few notice.

The media was long considered an important check against those who might abuse power. Yet today reporters, announcers, editors and more from conventional media now cooperate with, and are generously funded by, governments and big corporations. Particularly Big Pharma. So a new term was coined: “censorship industrial complex”.

Rodney Palmer (now at Talk Nation Radio) is one of several whistleblowing journalists who testified at the National Citizens Inquiry (NCI). Referring to CBC misrepresentation of the Ottawa Freedom Convoy, he stated, “They took an exceptional moment to decide they would not be journalists, that instead they would be public health messengers … and the result is that Canada’s national broadcaster has morphed into a state broadcaster. And I worked in countries where there were state broadcasters – China, Syria, Malawi, North Korea – it’s promoting government policy without question, while censoring, belittling and shaming learned Canadians who dare to object and inform us of the truth. Bad journalism is incompetence but propaganda is a betrayal. And that’s what CBC has done, it betrayed us all.”   

Strong words. It’s worth questioning why we see no mention of the NCI on TV news, in the Sun or Province, or even in the BRLN. It was only an unprecedented citizen-funded, volunteer-organized inquiry with hundreds of witnesses exposing harmful and ongoing impacts of the Canadian Covid 19 response. Significant and relevant are understatements. And the MSM silence is deafening.

See for yourself: nationalcitizensinquiry.ca    

 (article courtesy of Connecting the Dots newsletter, January 2025)