Category Archives: ANFSCD

If every try to grow food again, I will utilize a drip irrigation system.

I just ran across this dude within the last week as I’ve been trying to keep up with news of the Israel-U.S.-Iran war. He runs an outfit called 21st Century Wire. I don’t know him but he seems to live in my neck of the woods. Perhaps I’ll run across him on the trail. From his website:

21st Century Wire serves a niche audience which we firmly believe is not being catered for by the wider western corporate and state-funded media market. After over a decade of interacting and consulting with our learning community, we are keenly aware that they are much more inquisitive than traditional legacy media readers, and more aligned with independent content creators, as opposed to mainstream ones. Hence, we know that our audience expects this website to challenge the prevailing narrative and mainstream orthodoxy. Aside from the independent media remit, our number one intention here is to push the envelope and get the reader thinking, talking and hopefully inspire them to take on a more active role themselves, perhaps by creating their own website or information portal on social media. This may be by using free blog software, creating your own podcast,  Youtube channel, or just by utilizing social networks like Facebook or Twitter and others. We actively encourage this.

We oppose internet censorship and regulation in all its forms, especially through opaque regimes of control, run by elite committees comprised of ‘experts’ drawn from the Silicon Valley, corporate media, foundation and government-affiliated persons. We believe that such efforts are highly politicized and employ narrow subjective methods of regulation designed to target and silence independent media, while allowing mainstream corporate media to produce ever increasing amounts of fake news and propaganda. Such measures can only lead to a restriction of free speech and expression at a time in history when those freedoms are more important than ever to preserve. Censorship and regulation also interfere in the marketplace of ideas and deprive readers and members of the public to make up their own mind and conduct their own research based on the merits of the information and not on the arbitrary criticism and smears being applied by corporate or state-funded gatekeepers.

The purpose of our website is to educate, promote learning on geopolitical and social issues, as well as provide much-needed independent commentary, news reporting, including criticisms and critiques of larger corporate and foundation-funded media outlets and their coverage of global events. We also aim to deliver a consistent stream of independent research on subjects and views that are generally not covered in the corporate-owned and foundation-funded media spheres. In this way, we are helping to re-balance the discourse by giving a platform to alternative views and narratives which are largely absent from the corporate mainstream media and state-affiliated media outlets.

Jimmy Dore is a professional comedian. His show below examines the headline question. You’ll not hear any of this in the mainstream media, but it deserves your attention. Dore’s guest is an alleged lawyer, Lionel, who’s actually funnier than Dore in this instance. As someone baptized and confirmed as a Catholic (plus eight years in parochial school), I got several good laughs out of the last five minutes of the show.

I doubt many Trump supporters saw his recent post telling many of them he doesn’t want their support anymore. He’ll find out in 2026 (mid-term elections) how many Trumpsters he’s alienated. Time will tell if the Epstein story has legs or not. Nicholas J. Fuentes predicts this Trump post will lead to his downfall. Larry C. Johnson outlines why the Epstein story isn’t a hoax.

We live in interesting times.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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I’m increasingly distrustful of the mainstream (aka legacy) media. Ownership of it is in the hands of surprisingly few people. This makes reported news susceptible to manipulation by folks that have an agenda that may be at odds with your desire for “just the facts.”

In 1976, when the U.S had only three or four national over-the-air TV stations and no Internet, 72% of Americans trusted mass media. A Gallup poll found that in 2023, only 32% of Americans had a “great deal” or a “fair amount” of trust in the mass media. A larger percentage—39%—had “none at all.” In view of AI or CGI-generated imaging, it’s getting hard to believe anything you don’t see with your own eyes.

Most of the mainstream media (aka legacy media) consumed in the U.S. originates from a handful of companies. From a 2021 essay by Helen Johnson:

In 1983 there were 50 dominant media corporations. Today there are five. These five conglomerates own about 90 percent of the media in the United States, including newspapers, magazines, book publishers, motion picture studios and radio and television stations. As of 2020, the five media giants are AT&T (Time Warner, CNN, HBO), Comcast (NBC Universal, Telemundo, Universal Pictures), Disney (ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Marvel Studios), News Corp (Fox News, Wall Street Journal, New York Post) and ViacomCBS (CBS, Paramount Pictures).

Alternative Media for Your Consideration (not for local news, sports, weather)

By no means do I endorse or agree with everything you see or hear at these sites.

• Tucker Carlson on X (news, opinion, politics, interviews)
• RamzPaul on Rumble (news, cultural commentary, nationalism)
• The Dan Bongino Show on Rumble (politics, news, opinion)
• Michael Farris’ podcast “Coffee and a Mike” (interviews)
• “Redacted” with Natali and Clayton Morris on Rumble (news, cultural commentary)
• Jeffrey Prather’s “The Prather Point” on Rumble (preparedness, Deep State exposure, communitarianism)
• The Epoch Times (U.S. and international news, lifestyle, health, Falun Gong)
• The Unz Review (cultural commentary, economics, literature, politics, conspiracy)
• Catherine Austin Fitts at Solari.com (for personal finance and investing, banking, government)
• RT at RT.com (news and commentary from a Russian viewpoint)
• O’Keefe Media Group (citizen journalism, expose wrongdoing)
• Democracy Now! at http://www.democracynow.org or on YouTube (independent global news)
• Paul Craig Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org (opinion, politics, cultural decay)
• Al Jazeera at aljazeera.com (international news organization based in Qatar)
• Lew Rockwell at LewRockwell.com (news and opinion)
• Alex Jones at Infowars.com (news, opinion, health, politics, economics, conspiracy, vitamins)
• Vox Popoli at voxday.net (philosophy, economics, politics, books, Arktoons, socio-sexual hierarchy, Christianity, classic literature)
• Russell Brand on Rumble.com (news, social commentary, iconoclasm, politics)
• Glenn Greenwald on Rumble.com (mostly politics)
• Stew Peters Network on Rumble.com (social commentary, news)
• Karl Denninger, The Market Ticker at market-ticker.org (finance and politics)
• The Joe Rogan Experience at Spotify.com (long-form interviews with comics, entertainers, politicians, scientists, etc.
• The Chris Hedges Report at The Real News Network (TheRealNews.com) or YouTube, or ChrisHedges.substack.com (wide-ranging interviews, essays)
• The Real News Network at TheRealNews.com (journalism “advancing the cause of a more just, equal, and livable planet”);
• Elijah Schaffer’s “Slightly Offensive” channel at Rumble.com (social commentary, interviews)
• Censored.tv (Comedy and cultural commentary; some free content, much behind paywall)
• Louder With Crowder podcast (Steven Crowder: comedy, news, politics)
• Judging Freedom (Andrew Napolitano) on YouTube (law and politics)
• The Jimmy Dore Show on Rumble.com (comedy, news, politics)
• Timcast IRL (Tim Pool) podcast or YouTube (news, politics, culture)
• Matt Taibbi at http://www.racket.news and the podcast America This Week (news, opinion, cancel culture, culture war)

I’d like to know if you agree or disagree with these choices, or if you’d add any.

Paul Craig Roberts writes that most folk in the West don’t have an accurate view of many historical events because honest journalism is suppressed by the mainstream media. He implies that most of us have no factual understanding of the following events:

• The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
• The Gulf of Tonkin incident
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act
• The Soviet Collapse
• 9/11
• Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction”
• The overthrow and murder of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
• The Maidan Revolution of 2014
• The Ukrainian-Russian conflict
• The Israeli genocide of Palestine
• The 2020 US presidential election
• The current legal charges against Trump

Off the top of my head, I would add:

• Pearl Harbor and the U.S. entry in to WWII
• The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty
• The truth about Abraham Lincoln

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: ANFSCD = And Now For Something Completely Different