There is Something Wrong with the Independent Media

When one considers the monstrous nature of these events and crimes, it is almost "understandable" as to why they would go to such lengths to not only suppress them in the mainstream national media (which they have done quite successfully)... but also in the independent media to as great an extent as they are able to get away with. We see far fewer reports and articles on this subject in the independent media that such stories would normally merit: That is undeniable fact. The few stories we do see, are generally ignored.

These acts cannot be fully suppressed (as the many links at the end of this article show); we have far too many people on the scene reporting on their own experiences with videos, photos, and multiple witnesses. What can be "successfully" done is not publish or sufficiently spotlight the few articles that are written on it. They can be buried and barely seen; and they can be attempted to be somewhat marginalized by the use of paid shills in the "comments" area. These are usually not direct attacks, because these things cannot be plausibly defended without looking absurd and "suspicious". But the common method is to misdirect whenever possible and change the subject by inference; and to use the infamous "Whack Attack": A bizarre and "crazy" sounding comment posted without any merit designed to lead those who reads it think the supporters of the particular subject are "inferior". It is important to note, that these comments do not fit the profile for usual ones, on any subject: They expect us to believe half-literate and "crazy" people come onto the site and only post on these particular threads. But the most common method of all to deal with "unwanted" news reports is to simply ignore them as much as possible; as that is the age-old general strategy when the topic cannot be plausibly debunked.  

The import of these issues and news events are self-evident: In a "real world", these stories would have "legs" for many months: They usually do not, and always to a lesser degree than is deserved by the circumstance; not even in the independent media, let alone the mainstream.   

We recently have had a marvelous example of truly superb speech making, something rare today in America. Senator Bernie Sanders made an amazing speech, full of important and meaningful data, on the floor of the Senate. Yet, surprisingly, this speech was hardly noticed in the "Progressive" independent media at all. 

What it did, was categorically list and illustrate what is happening to our society. It shows the remarkable major change we are facing, changes of tremendous import we haven't seen since the 1930's. Besides the obvious swipes at the desires for more and more tax cuts for the wealthy, perhaps the most important thing it does, is encapsulate just how terrible, and dangerous, these changes in the Distribution of Wealth has become in America, which is clearly a suppressed subject not only in the Mainstream Media.. but also in the so-called independent media.

It also touches on very important other issues, that the oligarchy would wish remain hidden: Such as the fact, that "Exxon-Mobile" made over 19 Billion Dollars in pure profit last year, and paid zero in Federal taxes. When one hears that, they start to understand that this is not about "free market capitalism", not about "socialism verses capitalism" (the favorite framing lie of the oligarchy), not even about "a new world order" as many people now believe is "behind the curtain". But instead it is about Simple Crime and Corruption: The real "curtain" that is being hidden behind the endless conspiracy theories, each more exotic than the next. Another interesting point brought out in the speech is the destruction of our manufacturing sector; most of it going to China... a Communist country. This is an embarrassment for those "Conservatives" who support the off-shoring of our manufacturing jobs, while simultaneously yelling "Socialism!" when any protections to the economy or statutes to govern the out-of-control financial sector are put forward.

The second suppressed "punch" in Senator Bernie's repertoire was in regards to the Federal Reserve being forced to divulge who it gave the "2009 / 2010 Bank Bail Out" money to. In the linked article, it shows how over two years ago, Ben Bernanke the head of the Federal Reserve (actually a private institution backed by cartels of large and foreign banks and not a government agency at all), refused the Senator's request to know where the money spent in the Bail-Out went, in front of cameras . "The Wall Street Reform Act" was then later passed, with the Sanders Amendment included that forced the "Fed" to comply to these very simple demands for transparency. In the article and it's links to the Federal Reserve site, we can see who did receive the money, and it is quite astounding. Corporate America, not just American Banks who claimed to be teetering on the edge of collapse, received a surprising part of it. "Mc Donalds", "General Electric", "Verizon", and even the Japanese car company "Toyoda" (who never pays any U.S. corporate taxes), received the largess. Foreign banks; some of which were not even at risk of failing, were also loaned large amounts at very low or no interest.

Also in the article, Senator Sanders calls for investigations regarding evidence that many of the Banks who received zero-interest loans, used this money instead to speculate and even buy Treasury Bills, which the American people have to pay Interest on. Not only did they refuse to use this taxpayer money to brace-up the economy disasterously shaken by the banks' own failures and immoral and illegal practices, and help people from losing their homes (...at risk in the first place, only because of an economy directly impacted by these banker's own policies), but they actually used it to defraud the American taxpayers out of even more money.

We also see that these same bankers are actually making more money now than they did then, that amazingly, many Profited from "the tanking of the economy" And when we consider that all the many home mortgage Foreclosures allowed these banks to take over hundreds of thousands of homes "free and clear"... it becomes clear that this "Financial Crisis" actually benefited them greatly and personally, while virtually destroying the economy of the nation and creating the worst Unemployment since the Great Depression.

"Not newsworthy"?

These two very recent stories about Senator Sanders and what is going on with America, were deemed "too dangerous"; like live dynamite... and are being suppressed. But the point of this article is this: That not only were they suppressed or marginalized to "Page 5" bare mentions in the mainstream media and totally ignored by TV news (as we have grown accustomed to), but they have also, surprisingly, been mostly ignored and under-reported by the vast majority of the "independent" press as well (so far anyway).

When we are shown proofs that clearly illustrate the most pressing issues and problems we face, they should be reported on and discussed as widely as possible, not deliberately suppressed and ignored. This is the problem we face today: That without an effective and honest independent media our causes are utterly lost. It is as simple as that.

The "Radicalization" of Non-Violent Dissent

We are seeing something change in America: That the notion of political dissent is no longer worthy and healthy... and is instead "dangerous" and "threatening". The below linked recent articles (the one about gas wells being barely mentioned in the independent media as well), illustrate how the U.S. government now "feels" about dissent: They apparently consider it a direct threat to their existence, and are treating it as such, even when the dissent is actually against oil and gas corporations and not the government itself (although, as with the BP Gulf Disaster, these two are increasingly, and openly, appearing to really be the same "entity"). We can lament this as it being "not the America I was raised in": But doing something collectively to denounce and fight this growing trend, would be much more effective. These people in the corporate and financial worlds can only get away with what we allow them to get away with via apathy; and when such major sea changes go un-remarked, it is clear that more, and worse, is yet to come.   

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