I have used websites such as these as an alternative to Judicial Courts for Claims against fellow citizens and companies for anti-social behavior and behavior correction purposes since the early 2000s.

All of those situations were related to my own personal experiences only in my own microcosm. I had no understanding of what was going on in the macrocosim due to a fully corrupt media system.

I have tried to understand the media passively and actively since a s student exchange trip to the Soviet Union in July/August 1987. On that trip I was able to speak German to folks who didn't speak English. I was able to connect to folks there in ways I could not connect with to many of my own countrymen. I was unable to answer questions about homelessness nor our obsessions with bombs and war. These people were just like me. We weren't "monitored" in our interactions. There were German tourists travling in the Soviet Union because they couldn't get visas into the US? What was that about? That had be really wondering what was really going on.

On that trip I was able to see our propaganda machine from the outside looking in. I can remember climbing on the bus a few days into the trip. When I took the first step from the ground to the bus I was like "wow". What did I just see and hear.

When the main-stream-media starts to "make up news", we're all screwed in the long run. Making the news becomes intoxicating. Unfortuantely it also creates openings and gaps and black mail opportunities so vast, that very little can be used to keep negative forces in society in crosscheck.

The media, like banking, was and is a sacred service that was designed for balance, with very specific groups charged with it's care. Those folks got overrun as the Technology Age rose, and all of a sudden, the media as an aggregate became an unenlighted group clueless of the true requirements of their own trade.

That is being unwound now. The top level media folks who were held captive or holding others captive are now free to speak. Let's see what they have to say and share, understanding they are now being kept in check by a small but might group of alternative media outlets who won't take B/S for an answer anymore.

Let's keep the pace up. There are tough waters ahead, but with a unified global media set on truth as opposed to fictional storytelling we can sail right through them.