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Laken Riley, Open Borders, and the Epstein List

  Laken Riley, Open Borders, and the Epstein List The enigma of phantom updates DONALD JEFFRIES One reason why my books on hidden history have proven popular is because I discuss forgotten incidents and people. Mining those memory holes produces some significant gems. What’s frustrating is the inability to find updates on important stories. It’s as if the stories themselves have been slain, left forever frozen in time. In a December 8, 1954 television interview with Longines Chronoscope, which is still available on YouTube, Admiral Richard Byrd spoke of “an area as big as the United States, that’s never been seen by human beings. And that’s beyond the pole, on the other side of the South Pole….And I think it’s quite astonishing that there should be an area as big as that unexplored.” Those questioning him on this early panel show, set the template for our modern “journalists,” by quickly changing the subject. None of these representatives of a supposed “free press” found that statement

The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

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  The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect or, Why idiots continue to trust the media when they are demonstrably wrong about everything THE CORBETT REPORT by James Corbett corbettreport.com Have you ever seen a news story about something you yourself have gone through? Or read a magazine article about a subject you happen to be familiar with? If so, then you've likely experienced what most people have felt in that situation: anger and bemusement. "How could that idiot reporter bungle the story so badly?! This isn't accurate at all!" As it turns out, journalists often get the most basic facts of the story wrong and freelancers on a deadline tend to falter when they have to summarize in a few paragraphs what others have spent decades researching. This isn't surprising. In fact, it's to be expected. After all, overworked "reporters" and freelance writers usually aren't experts in whatever arcane subject their editor has assigned them this week. They're just