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If you’re supposed to be working for the propagandists, then why do I have to go to so much trouble to find your content?

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I'm confused. Didn't Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland confirm to Congress this week that the US has 28 bio labs in Ukraine? And didn't the World "Covid doesn't spread through humans" Health Organization asked Ukraine to destroy the pathogens? And didn't the US outsource Corona research to China? Then WTF is Alex talking about? Can he take his head out of his arse and do some investigative journalism for a change? If I just wanted snark I'd listen to Jen Psakis pressers. For free

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At this point, I only know two things for certain.

My government and their media outlets lie to me constantly and their agenda has nothing to do with my personal security or well-being.

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Now if we can just convince the 50% still wearing masks, alone in their cars.

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Don't count on it.

But at least the masks make it easier to identify the neurotics.

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Or the enemy?

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Yes, RR. I was shopping a few hours ago and it takes a lot of self control not to ask the single shopper or better yet mom and kids in their masks- why are you wearing those? But I like the identification routine. It’s good to know.

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Dad & I went to lunch today. We arrived at the restaurant and Dad asked me, "Do we need masks to go inside?"

I said, If we do, we're leaving immediately--and I'll tell them that I won't do business with crazy people.

I have no idea if we're still required to wear masks here--because I won't wear one. Today we walked into the restaurant and no one said a word.

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Unsung hero right here ^^

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We also know that Victoria Nuland thinks there's something dangerous in those biolabs that the Russians absolutely MUST NOT get their hands on.

Alex, you've addressed everything except that giant elephant in the room. Care to comment? If it weren't for her, I'd find your explanations to be totally believable. But you haven't addressed this key point. Please do so.

Thanks,

Kim G

Roma Sur, Mexico City

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Marco Rubio went straight into "and if anything bad happens, the bad guys did it." mode.

Not terribly convincing.

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I agree. The way see stammered when she first started to answer Rubio's question was a major tell for me. And she could have easily said NO and nothing else.

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Sorry. Nuland is much like the rest of the staff, a political operative. Likely she was aware that DTRA had funding some labs but was completely unaware of what those labs were doing. She was creating cover just in case. These officials have a terrible time saying they don't know something.

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This could be more disinformation on her side. It is hard to believe she didn't know what she was saying and the reaction. Just points out you can't trust any of the lying sons of bitches.

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Why is she so concerned is question for sure…

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Pointless. They will never get it.

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Bought some white feathers on eBay. Gonna start handing them out.

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The only person on Fox News that I believe right now is Tucker Carlson. Everyone else is content to follow the government line and apparently wants WWIII.

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Looks like Col Douglas MacGregor has been “disappeared” by the network.

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Wasn't he on Tucker Monday. Can't have him on ever night. And Tucker only one with balls enough to Buck the narrative.

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He should be on every night if he’s the only one telling the truth.

Otherwise we’re stuck with Jennifer Griffin, who pretends to be a journalist, while her Twitter feed is Biden Admin talking points.

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I mute the TV every time she comes on. She's just a Pentagon sock puppet.

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Yesterday, she linked to a long thread by Jen Psaki that was the usual basket of lies…she said “read this thread.”

Even if every word were true, that’s not journalism.

Tucker slaughtered her last night for half an hour, without ever mentioning her by name.

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It’s called Critical Thinking and it seems to be in short supply nowadays.

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What’s this “critical thinking” concept you speak of Kim p? Perhaps it perished a few decades ago along with cousins common sense and good manners?

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Who?

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Yeah and they keep putting on Lt Col? Davis who is a defeatist pos, saying the war is lost and stoking fear of Russian escalation when it is Russia who should fear OUR escalation.

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I do not sleep well at night knowing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are in charge of the White House!

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Especially Hannity. He has turned into a corporate/government shill.

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I lived in Atlanta early to mid-90s when Sean was on radio there. Not a fan then (l listened to his competition, Neil Bortz), and not a fan now. Show is mostly boring.

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Hannity doesn't let most people finish talking before he interrupts, sometimes with a totally different topic. Can't watch him anymore.

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Loved The Neal Boortz show.

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I love Tucker. No one is allowed to speak in my house when Tucker’s on.

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Sadly, me too. I told my husband last night"I honestly don't know how Tucker is still on the air". His shows are like an audio Substack.

The biolabs are a real story. I don't know what the story is, but this must be pursued. Dr.Malone had an interesting post that I only scanned, and Glenn Greenwald has a lengthy post that, again, I only scanned. They are both on my Saturday list.

No matter the real story behind Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the human suffering is real. Innocent Ukrainians and Russians are suffering. The Ukrainian children break my heart. Why is there no adult available to push for real negotiations?

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The bio-weapons labs, we must use precise language. They are real as admitted by the Deep State. We can assume they were working on illegal weapons.

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Joe, I have some reading to do on these labs, so my use of bio labs as descriptor is intentional and precise. I have not seen evidence that the labs currently were producing biowepons. I may change my language with more evidence.

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Fair enough. Good luck trying to find the truth. For myself, I assume the worse, because that is what we've learned over the past two years.

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Tucker raises interesting issues but carefully hedges his opinions. Lately he has been walking back some of his earlier willingness to ignore the basic immorality of Putin killing Ukrainians simply because they disagree with him. Tucker is useful if you can get past his adolescent and frequently obnoxious behavior.

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I prefer someone who raises questions rather then telling me what he thinks it means - especially if he doesn't know for certain. And I get ya on his behavior. But I'm willing to look past that for someone who's not afraid to buck the narrative.

I gotta think he's under a lot of pressure. Not only going against the MSM, but also his own network. Of course, this entire episode just drives home the fact that Fox is the MSM.

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I love him.

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You can now add a third revelation (h/t The Blaze) that the government has actually been bribing news outlets to publish their propaganda with our tax dollars. Every outlet, including bloggers, is now under suspicion for “pay to say.”

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Mar 12, 2022·edited Mar 12, 2022

Wow, when I was in school we learned that if someone paid a media outlet to report a story or endorse anything, they had to display a notice ("Sponsored by" or "This message brought to you by XXX" or "Paid content" or something!). If it was in a newspaper, same thing -- or it was placed on the editorial page. None of them did that, and I believe failing to do so is a violation of Federal Communications Commission rules. I hope some lawyers put together HUGE class action lawsuits against the MSM news outlets that will bankrupt them out of business.

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Wow,I have not heard about this. All so scary. Please share the story of you can. Thanks

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This is the story:

Exclusive: The federal government paid hundreds of media companies to advertise the COVID-19 vaccines while those same outlets provided positive coverage of the vaccines - TheBlaze

https://www.theblaze.com/news/review-the-federal-government-paid-media-companies-to-advertise-for-the-vaccines

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Thanks for sending, will read and not be surprised at any level of corruption by our MSM.

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I read that article this morning and was surprised that I wasn't surprised. WSJ not mentioned, but NY Post was. As these two share the same owner, I have questions.

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Thank you!!!! It’s not like our media and government singled out Covid to lie about. I’m 39 and my entire adult life has consisted of a lying government and lying media. The only difference was people were much happier and opportunity abounded and there was more peace from January 2017 until March 2020 when the media convinced the public to go coocoo for Covid.

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I'm 69 and had to register for Vietnam so the lying goes way back. At least to Wilson.

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How about the lying in 1933? "Russians Hungry, But Not Starving" by Walter Duranty reporting on the "famine" in Ukraine.

Rush Limbaugh said several times that after he read an article in the NY Times he would say, "I wonder if that's true?"

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Yes he did and he was right. Though I would add that that is true for anything in the news from anybody. No one can be without bias. Simply impossible. Those who realize this can do better at limiting it but can not eliminated it. So for anything, we should wonder as Rush did, “I wonder how much of that is true?”. If it is a matter of importance or interest, then dig deeper, or as Alex stated, “check it out”.

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I do love my kids though

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I believe it.

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And we should care if Putin invades Russia.

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We should care. What we should do is the question.

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That much 👆👆👆, we can all agree on!

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Love you Alex, but the funniest part of this post is that you think the times has only been torching their credibility for two years. They’ve been a tool of the political establishment for a much longer period of time.

I’m sure they were actual journalists at some point, but it was before my time.

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I was going to post the same thing, couldn't agree more. Credibility was long gone well before COVID. You could argue about when exactly it was lost but "mainstream media" just been full on propaganda at least since Trump won the nomination.

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I’m 39. My first experience I remember with blatant media narrative that made no actual sense was the Iraq war. The media went literally insane with Trump, but all I’ve ever known is a biased, lying, controlled media. They ALL war monger and most think their role in society is propoganda arm of the DNC. I’ve never known a trustworthy American media, at least not as an adult.

Alex seems convinced it was “just Covid.” Um no, it was long before Covid.

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Covering up for the Kennedy family.

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I’m not sure I follow. You mean JFK stealing the election with people in the graveyards of Chicago voting for him? It’s interesting, that was well before I was born, but I always thought it was the root reason people, probably accurately, say Democrats have lots of dead voters who vote for them in elections, but still many more people have no idea about the JFK election.

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While I’d like that to be true, he still buys some evident msm lines hook, line, and sinker. Hopefully he’s waking up. I see a slow realization on Ukraine, or more importantly our reaction, but I think he still leans towards being manipulated rather than skeptical at first........ it’ll be interesting to see.

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See “The Gray Lady Winked”, Ashley Rindsberg, for history of NYT deceit and loving every Marx-offshoot event since its founding.

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Is VB hour long interview wit Tucker was really interesting

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Absolutely -- WWII comes to minds...

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Unless you are in your 90s, it was long before everyone's time. Walter Duranty got the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and they haven't given it back yet.

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Bingo. Alex is like the battered wife who believes here spouse when he says, "I'm sorry. I'll never do it again." The media lied to him NON-STOP for two years, and now he believes them about Ukraine, bio-weapons and US foreign policy is blameless, it's all Putin's fault.

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It’s an outlier that Alex covers mRNA vaccines aggressively at all. Maybe he had some reporting issue / personal beef with Pfiizer.

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Yeah the NYT loved Stalin and denied the Holocaust.

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And for three years the Times assured us that Trump/Russia collusion was real.

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As Project Veritas tapes with NYT investigative reporter Matthew Rosenberg, who tells the undercover that the Pee tape was fake and they knew it and that Jan. 6 was an FBI operation...just not in print of course.

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That struck me, too. Alex has a huge blind spot about the total failure of the NYT, most abhorently during the Trump administration, mouthpiece of the Deep State/FBI.

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Poorly disguised dig.

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I appreciate your opinions, even if I don't always agree. And that's ok. We'll never be able to agree on everything. My logic is simple. If the govt is trying to cover up something, there's likely "there, there". They deleted files previously on the govt website related to the labs. We have historical info on Obama going in 2005. We know Ukraine became a client state of the US after 2014. We know from the Anthrax attack that the US develops BWs, even on our own soil. Ergo it is likely there are BW labs in Ukraine.

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Oh, just paid up for a full year's subscription as well. Keep up the good work Alex.

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It's definitely worth it.

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The labs exist. They are discussed on the Dept. Of State website. The question is biowepons and US oversight.

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I found the following statement very curious: "I promise you that the frontline war reporters on the ground in Ukraine really are putting their lives on the line to get to the truth." Really? Maybe they THINK they're reporting the truth, but what truth are they really able to tell? And how much of the truth will their employers EVER allowed to be told? And the reports on the ground of what is unfolding don't touch the larger truth of the long history of Ukraine being caught between European powers to the west (i.e., Germany) and the Russia behemoth to the east. America has had its fingers all over Ukraine for a very long time. Saying that the reporters who work for the media industry that you otherwise say consistently lies to the public to serve corporate/government interests are NOW telling the truth is equivalent to saying, Oh, you know, big pharma and their government puppets have lied to us for years, but are NOW telling the truth about covid. Riiight...

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I applaud the brave war reporters who are trying to get at the truth in Ukraine - the honest ones. But even Alex has to admit that those war reporters aren't being given access to the biolabs. So how do they have any clue what was going on in those labs? They were leftover Soviet labs? Okay. How long does it take to dismantle a lab? 30 years? Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

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Couldn't agree more with this comment. Our government has been doing disgraceful things, boycotts, embargos, funding jihadists etc. There is a contemporary nazi movement in the Ukraine, after all our government has always preferred nazis to communists. And Victoria Nuland one of the perpetrators of the 2014 successful effort to interfere in the Ukrainian election admitted a few days ago tht the US has many bio warfare labs in the Ukraine, after all we were funding Wuhan so why not in the Ukraine.

I'm not going to unsubscribe alex, but I am very disappointed, but who am I. Just a

terribly concerned citizen about my country and the abuse that it delivers to the rest of the world, while not taking care of the people in this country.

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Now I wonder how many other places in the world the U.S. has "biolabs" and what they are up to. Is this why St. Fauci disappeared - to engage in more coverups?

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The “Russian behemoth” can barely handle Ukraine. NATO would make mincemeat out of the Russian forces if they had the balls to do it. NATO should have told Russia that they will not tolerate further violations of the Budapest Memorandum. America, France, UK, and Russia guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity if they gave up the nuclear weapons the Soviets left behind. We failed to honor our word. That’s bad enough but so are the implications to nuclear proliferation. It shows that the only way to guarantee your safety is to have nukes. Foolish decisions by cowardly “leaders” got us here.

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Let the “race for nukes” begin.

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You are correct about the fact that they lost our trust. However, I do not think a single person here doubts anything relating to the invasion and I believe we all think it's a horror. We are specifically skeptical of the government walking back Nuland's statement. Why should I believe that at all? The reporters are squawking like parrots repeating the government's walkback without bothering to ask what in the world she was talking about. That is THEIR job, but they refuse to do it.

The war correspondents are fine and are greatly appreciated.

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“ I do not think a single person here doubts anything relating to the invasion and I believe we all think it's a horror.” Me. I have doubts. The maternity hospital? Photoshopped psychops. There’s a lot of propaganda designed to gain American sympathies so we’ll start WW3.

https://technofog.substack.com/p/ukraine-maternity-hospital-shelling?s=r

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I’d like to personally thank the woke idiots at every mainstream media organization for completely pulling the veil off of our deep state controlled media machine, that was carefully crafted by maniacal sociopaths over decades. The genie is not only out of the bottle, but he took up residence on the moon, so good luck getting him back in there. Those guys risking their lives would be well-served to start a Substack. I personally don’t know a single serious person who takes anything the NYT has to say on subject seriously.

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This, right here! There are a still a few completely brainwashed individuals who can't give up their addiction to their favorite mainstream reporter, but for the rest of us, Toto has pulled back the curtain, and the people behind it aren't some amiable old carnival tricksters.

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Now do: "Bomber Gap", "Missile Gap", "Babies in Incubators", "WMD in Iraq", "Operation Northwoods", "Tonkin Gulf", and "We're Winning the War in Vietnam."

Just going with history, if the US is engaged in a conflict, the media is almost surely cheerleading it.

Only later on do we find out what specifically the Uniparty Warmonger Administration was lying about at the time. After all the money is made, checks are cashed, dividends paid, new billionaires created, and all the people are dead.

COVID was just the first time in recent memory that our "health" agencies started acting as corruptly as Defense/Industrial over the past 60 years. (Assuming we ignore AIDS, and Tuskeegee, of course - they appear to be "practice runs" for COVID19).

And of course the media acted as little shill puppets for our Oligarchy class. And still are. Minus the right-wing-fringe-group Epoch Times, which is now daring to report facts. Maybe because they didn't get their "vaccine promotion check" from HHS.

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Eyes wide open. Kudos.

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What on earth was the Victoria Nuland testimony about? Anyone know? That was a bizarre exchange with Marco Rubio

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To get out in front.

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Marco Rubio thought he was going to get a simple "no" answer to that question. Which is why he didn't have any follow up.

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Did you watch it? It looked coordinated to me. He jumped right in with the leading question that any leak would be by Russia. He did not look stunned by her answer.

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I dunno. He had time to come up with that while she was rambling on. He could've come up with a better follow-up if it was coordinated. That 2nd question was like asking Jen Psaki, "If US oil prices rise, will it be Russia's fault?"

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Good point.

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It's hard to look stunned when you already know the truth.

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Right.

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Marco, to my disappointment, seems to be an useful idiot. Irma below (or above when this comment is stacked) has the link I recommend you read.

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We trust you Alex (on things that you have expertise) but on the rest of it you're just one of us that may or may not have the correct opinion due to lack of knowledge or whatever. So don't take it personally, we're here to learn and confirm we're not crazy thinking differently than the sheeple (at least that's why I'm here)

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So, we know from the anthrax attacks after 9/11 that the US government was absolutely developing biological and chemical weapons. Their justification was that their intentions were not bad. We also know the US was working with the Chinese to manipulate coronavirus strains. Fast forward to today and our government is insisting it doesn't develop biological weapons....and we are supposed to believe this?

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Look at the origins of Lyme disease - across the Sound from Plum Island’s biolab. Or the diseases for ticks they were working on that were dropped on Cuba. Book, “Bitten”. OF COURSE this is not new. The govt just isn’t as successful at handing the decentralized communication platforms that constantly pop up today

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Wake me up when you actually skewer Biden for something.

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Another thing, we learn for the second time that Vicky Nuland has no business anywhere near our foreign policy.

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Did you see her hands? She was nervously twiddling with that pen with a deer in the headlights look on her face.

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Frankly, what surprised me was that she did not lie. Everyone lies to Congress. Why didn't she?

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Worried about prosecution if lab leak occurs or is documented.

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I like hearing your viewpoint. I have learned to get many, and to "trust" none. I do find you a bit arrogant at times, or at least you sound arrogant.

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+1

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Diverted my monthly NY Times subscription to Substack and the Informed Consent Action Network. I sleep real well.

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Most of the news I see coming from Ukraine is coming directly from the ukranian govt so i genuinely don't know which journalists you're talking about.

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There are some honest war reporters on the ground but even their reports get run through the media spin machine 90% of the time. Just choosing what to report and not to report is bias.

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All i know is that right now all the info coming out of Ukraine is from the ukranian govt. They have complete control of the info space. And they've been caught spreading disinformation repeatedly in their desperate attempt to drag the rest of the world into war. Which look i get why they need the help. But i don't trust them at all.

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The only person on Fox that I believe right now is Tucker Carlson. Seems like everyone else is toeing the Government line on Ukraine.

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And Gutfield--who is being excoriated for suggesting that an "off ramp" may have to be offered Putin to stop the bloodletting

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Yes but the thing is that usually i can cobble together a semblance of the truth from a wide swathe of media, both domestic and international, from left and right etc. But this time is different. I can't think of any event in my lifetime where I've had less of a grasp of conditions on the ground

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I had to laugh out loud (Thanks!!)at your last sentence. Just as long as you don’t take yourself too seriously.

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I was and just had to Thank You for the belly laugh. BTW you also make me smarter.

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Sudarsan Raghavan https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/sudarsan-raghavan/. He is definitely there. I don't subscribe to WP, so cannot read what he actually writes there, but he is definitely a trustworthy war reporter with a lot of experience. Not sure if he has access to the places of most interest (such as Mariupol that is under siege and very little information trickles out of there even on unofficial channels).

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His reporting is entirely human interest stories. Like the rest of the media. All of the actual war reporting has either come directly from or entirely based on ukranian authorities.

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You might be right on his choices of topics. I do wonder how anyone can report on this without knowing Russian and/or Ukrainian. I follow the news of different sources in Russian and in my native language (which is pretty much in line with the Western narrative, but we do have some experienced war correspondents but I have yet to read anything detailed/analytical from them). As for American news outlets, I would not trust any of the main-stream ones as my only source.

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