News Sources

Here are the best sources I've found for news.  I invite you to scroll down to read how to understand this list. -- Aaron

Economy (mostly)
  • The Automatic Earth - updates daily around 7:00 a.m. EDT, great summary of important news items that are difficult to find elsewhere.
  • Zero Hedge - looking at new that impacts the macro economy, updated throughout the day
  • Peak Prosperity (Chris Martenson)- YouTube - almost daily updates of the economic impact of the crisis and prepping
  • George Gammon - YouTube - newer investor looking at Fed and macro
  • la Repubblica (open in Chrome for automatic translation into English) - Fascinating, it is like looking into the future, seeing what is going on there

Health (mostly)
Federal Reserve News
  1. Danielle DiMartino Booth (@DiMartinoBooth) / Twitter
  2. David Wessel (@davidmwessel) / Twitter
  3. Luke Gromen (@LukeGromen) / Twitter

COMMENTARY

Keep in mind, that news sources are collections of individuals, and depending on the corporation or organization, the organization may be selecting the assignments (which is bias) and then each reporter does not understand how the world works, so they report only what they think is relevant (which is also bias).

An attempt to understand what is going on is made here on the Interactive Media Bias Chart, which is well worth 30 minutes or more just exploring (it is a 100 slide slideshow).  You'll notice that each media source, for example Reuters and AP, each article analysed feel somewhere different on the chart, so again, there is bias in that because whoever is putting down those scores does not understand the how the world works.  Note, there are many, many sources that are not on here, and if one thinks of their most trusted sources, you may find they are not in this chart.

This brings it down to the individual reporters.  For example, when someone speaks the absolute whole honest truth, one can typically pick up on that, well, if one is able to suspend all disbelief and try to see things through their eyes.  For example, the things said by Nouriel Roubini, Noam Chomsky, Vandana Shiva, Edward Snowdon, Richard Wolff, and others are spot on, appear entirely truthful, and are mutually consistent. That said, most of them are still depending upon civilization for their livelihoods, so they still have to struggle against a bias.

Ones further out, not quite very top tier, would be Steve Keen, Nicole Foss, David Korowicz, Albert Bates, Jim Kunstler, Justin Amash, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dennis Kucinich, Jeff Gibbs, Michael Moore, Raul Ilgari (The Automatic Earth), Daniel Ivandjiiski (Zero Hedge), Max Keiser, Naomi Klein, Ron Paul and others.

One's even more trustworthy are those that have absolutely nothing, and that have had everything taken from them, this includes, unfortunately, mostly those in prison, generally political prisoners (feel free to search online for their names), such as Julian Assange, and most especially those labelled by law as, well, dangers to society.

A similar group is those that who feel totally independent from civilization for their work; this might include those who have no one depending on them, have no particular desires, who perhaps are terminal with absolutely no possibility of help from civilization; and even those who are in that same camp as having no strong incentive to refrain their speech.  This seems uncommon, as most seem to cling to believes, rather than probabilities, regarding government, religion, reality, etc.

And even then, keep in mind, that what people can report is limited to their experience, so in most cases, uncut, unedited video is better than most reporters; if in 360 degrees, that is better; if from multiple angles, that is better, and even then, we are limited in our ability to perceive everything, and to process it; so there is a outer boundary, so to speak, of how accurate and media can be; which brings it back to trying to make everything in the cosmos internally consistent within one's own mind.

In many cases, the best reporters are either do not know they are reporters (scientists) or are deceased (writers in the past, all the way back to history and pre-history).  Ofttimes, they are not considered reporters, so in understanding the world, they are often overlooked.

This is a great challenge, for there is a great ... um ... continuum, shall we say, regarding how well humans perceive the world; and it is difficult to know for sure who perceives it better.  I feel like, having studied the world for much of my life, I'm at least clear enough to create an article like this, that at least points in the direction of truth, even if only for this moment when you read these words




202004252231 ***** Mentioned by Noam Chomsky *****



Aaron Wayne Wissner, 202003151700 EDT; updated 20200405; updated 202004252134 UTC; minor addition 202004280334 UTC

Update: 202005171835 UTC -- I recommend: Stephen Hawking, Daniel Quinn, Vandana Shiva, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Jared Diamond, pattrice jones, David Korowicz, Tolstoy, MLK Jr, Mark Sundeen, Jane Goodall, Jesus of Nazareth, Buddha, Nassim Taleb, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Elom Musk, Michael Hudson, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Darwin, Gandhi, Nouriel Roubini, Richard Wolff, Edward Snowdon, Albert Bates, Raul Ilgari, Max Tegmark, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Yuval Noah Harari, Neill DeGrasse Tyson, Daniel Ivandjiiski, Milton Mills, Nicole Foss, Amy Goodman, George Carlin; Chris Hedges and others.   (Yes, I'm aware that it is primarily a list of English speaking white "American" men; so I do indeed welcome some help broadening my horizons  :-)

Update: 202005171838 UTC --

aristotle - politics


***david hume
karl marx
adam smith
grahm chian
noam chomsky
bertrand russell
eugene debs
rosa luxenberg
karl liebnecht
randolf bourne
ralph nader
herbert markuza
mark anna / hannah?

frankin henry giddings

manufacturing consent

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