Critical Thinking Question. Where Do ConCeners Get Their News From?

[FastTadpole]

(08-02-2010 11:35 PM)nik Wrote:  "same with much of beforeitsnews but they tend to spit out a lot of stuff without a thorough checked out totally"

I guess that is the trade off with being very up to date; but even if it is so ( I personally have no complaint with their site), it is nevertheless useful because one can see what is being released by the press and "thoroughly check it out" as best possible oneself.. as far as the internet allows anyhow.

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Alan Watts' website is good for lots of pertinent links to current developments

Agreed a very up to date aggregator, just check the post in context above. my twitter and digg networks feed me good stuff too. You need to pick through it a bit and I highlight the best (8%) when time permits.

http://digg.com/users/FastTadpole/friends/submissions

You can go beyond the internet and give them a call. I often email or call the writer if I have a question about something important. Don't hesitate, their contact info is often posted within the article use it.

[nik]

(08-03-2010 12:06 AM)FastTadpole Wrote:  Don't hesitate, their contact info is often posted within the article use it.

I am not hesitating. i do contact people if I feel like it but tbh i am not really in an activisty sort of headspace.I contacted Henry Makow a while back, for example.

Spent a while today on the facebook "march for honour" page reading the Bio's of the killed soldiers, the comments from their friends and families and general comments made on the newsfeed. You don't need to be logged in nor even have a facebook for this. Unfortunately the matrix is still firmly in place.

[hilly7]

You know, really this deserves a pin.

[Melchor]

(08-03-2010 05:11 AM)hilly7 Wrote:  You know, really this deserves a pin.

[h3rm35]

I typically use for general info (in order of most often visited):
1. Globalresearch.ca
2. Informationclearinghouse.info
3. inteldaily.com
4. theregister.co.uk
by the time I get through those, most other sites have repeats of what I've already read.

on any given day, however, I'm on 10-20 other sites with more specific focus. my news link folder has more than 60 sites that I'll check out monthly, at the minimum.

[Gunky]

dprogram.net

[capmtripps]

a cereal box, where else?

[FastTadpole]

May or may not have been mentioned.


My twitter, digg and facebook networks are good. I usually find a few related phrased and search the fuck out of it when doing research on multiple engines and on archive.org, and in caches. I talk to a few alt journalists. Mostly I connect my own dots - no need replicating and regurgitating. ConCen forum archives are fabulous. I check out medical journals, university repositories, books on the tracker, speech transcripts. I like talking to people that have dedicated their lives on a focused topic and learn on their curve. They are forthcoming if you offer something in return, in my case it is web promotion for the most part.

As far as sites, I tend to go back to a few I suppose.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/
http://www.gc.ca/
http://mirrors.wordsforgood.org/educate-yourself.org/
http://publicintelligence.net/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://cybersage.net/
http://news.slashdot.org/
http://nauresistance.org/
http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/
http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/
http://67.20.81.143/
http://www.scribd.com/
http://www.globalistagenda.org/
http://celticrebel.wordpress.com/
http://deadlinelive.info/
http://freemantv.whynotnews.eu/
http://www.projectcensored.org/
http://www.opensecrets.org/
http://ccla.org/
http://www.freedomadvocates.org/
http://imf.org/
http://alberta.ca/
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
http://www.climateaudit.org/
http://www.naturalnews.com/
http://bishophill.squarespace.com/
http://beforeitsnews.com/
http://www.php.net/
http://www.ifamericansknew.com/
http://www.dannyshine.blogspot.com/
http://anticultist.wordpress.com/
http://axiomatica.org/
http://educate-yourself.org/

I also read the local paper and I'm sure there is more

[Dunamis]

The only MSM site I sue regularly is http://www.independent.co.uk/ - the website for the Independent Newspaper, the only paper I will ever buy here in the UK too.

Otherwise I use a WIDE variety of sources, ranging from simple blog sites right up to main newspaper and TV news sites, even a little Al Jazeera and Russia Today.

[buffy]

Shortwave and Internet

[ZeroCenter]

From the gut... i.e. intuition.

[FastTadpole]

Ears to the ground is always best, and yes a little personal reflection is good as opposed to rationalization, pure logic, a mind so open your brain falls out, going solely with the gut instinct or getting lost in left brained cognition - they all play a role and work best in tandem. A balanced thought matrix using genorous portions of your left AND right brain thinking combined with the 3rd brain while cutting through the wayward baseless speculative and in consideration of motives on all sides while taking in both objective and personal experience is the approach I tend to favour.


Recently on the ConCen tracker I got curious and pulled some random stats from the radio show content and the popularity which thereof.

C2CAM regularly gets ~300+ DLs
Alex Jones still gets ~100+ DLs

For some other personalities that have a decent amount of uploads (not all inclusive by any stretch):

Mike Rivero has 300+ shows up getting about 35 DLs per episode
Alan Watt at 150+ lectures and podcasts gets about ~100 DLs/upload (~50 for Cutting Through the Matrix)
Freeman Fly at 100+ Uploads has consistently siphoned off 100+ torrent copies
There are 400+ Jack Blood Shows up and they get ~45 DLs
Rense Radio 100+ Ups; Avg ~100 DLs
Celtic Rebel 50+ Ups; Avg ~60 DLs
John Stadtmiller 70+ Ups; Avg ~75 DLs
Bill Cooper 90+ Ups; Avg ~120 DLs
Steel on Steel with John Loeffler; 70+ Ups; Avg ~55
Gary Bell - A View from Space; 150+ Ups; Avg ~200

There are as many as 1300 Alex Jones episodes/films/shouting clips up on the tracker.

I also could not help but notice there were more than 500 BBC shows/films/radio broadcasts. There has been a lot of BBC stuff of late getting downloaded in the 100+ neighbourhood in copies.

[ZeroCenter]

Yep, proof we still have a lot of "growing up" as a people... still addicted to the cult-of-personality.
But without the personal experience, how can we ever grow beyond it?
Or move from:
garbage in/garbage out
to
love and peace in/love and peace out.

[hardline]

From seeing the links you guys are posting.Now I understand why most of you are so misinformed.
You do it to yourselves on purpose.

[thokling]

(02-12-2013 12:23 AM)hardline Wrote:  From seeing the links you guys are posting.Now I understand why most of you are so misinformed.
You do it to yourselves on purpose.

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Fortunately, as was noted, there are plenty of sources for any single topic of information. The trick is to figure out which ones rely on which others, find the ultimate sources of data, and work sideways to correlate other independent sources of information with them.