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Okay, so, I wasn't going to submit these here because I've really had quite enough of politics for the year but it seems the mainstream media are having an absolute blackout on anything critical of Hillary, to the point of CNN has both coincidentally lost a sitting congressman's satellite feed immediately after mentioning wikileaks and tried to tell their viewers that even reading the wikileaks emails is illegal.
These two videos by Project Veritas Action, apparently with more to come, are the result of a year or so of actual investigative journalism and deserve coverage somewhere though. I don't personally care at all if you like Hillary or not but it's always better to know the truth than to stick your head in the sand, so here they are.
The first part in the series is titled Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies. It basically shows precisely what it says it does. Hidden cameras capture Scott Foval of Americans United for Change not so much admitting as bragging that they have operatives in numerous major cities that are actually trained in how best to incite violence at Trump rallies.
The second part of the series is again aptly titled Mass Voter Fraud. In this video Scott Foval is again captured going into minute detail on how not only go commit mass voter fraud but how to get away with it.
Scott Foval and Robert Creamer (also in the videos) are currently unemployed as a result of these videos. Whether Mrs. Clinton should be as well, that's for you to decide.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Hairyfeet on Thursday October 20 2016, @02:02PM
But do you think any of that would matter if the entire broadcast and cable media weren't tripping over themselves to kiss Hillary's ring? I mean you had several cases where Bernie's votes actually ran backwards in key counties during the DNC primary, you have a pile of emails where members of the DNC talk about how to fuck the guy over, you have Hillary LYING UNDER OATH to both the FBI and congress, oh and the head of the FBI pretending he doesn't know what the word negligence means.... and the mainstream media has completely ignored everything while looking for anything Trump might have possibly said to someone sometime in his past that looks bad.
At this point it isn't even House Of Cards level manipulation, its "who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?" levels of just blatant propaganda. Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally did more honest reporting in WWII than the major media outlets in the USA did in 2016.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday October 20 2016, @04:23PM
There's also the recent digging by Reddit into DNC/Clinton people trying to frame Assange for pedophelia. There's an awful lot of corruption being ignored by the media.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 20 2016, @07:47PM
There's an awful lot of corruption by the media being ignored.
FTFY
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:50PM
Also very true.
(Score: 1) by driven on Friday October 21 2016, @02:59AM
Here's an interesting video on how US presidential debates work. No follow-up questions allowed, pre-selected moderators, and a binding agreement covering what is allowed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NXhoP5bQ2M [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:34PM
Because the information is not widely spread through the population. The various channels of news that the vast majority of the people are tuned into are controlled! With the signal to noise ratio, along with bullshit news stories, people might hear of some things and be outraged but then it disappears into the noise. Also, we have no outlet for action that can possibly make an immediate difference (for most people).
I think the best way forward is to develop decentralized communications channels, and promote journalism through viewership (this can take multiple forms). With other avenues, such as basic income, people would be much more easily freed to pursue their interests, and we would probably see an explosion of citizen reporting. Just like we have seen on the various social media platforms, except decentralized which means you only share a unique hash (or whatever) to access content and there is no central authority which can filter it out.