Conspiracy Theorist vs. Coincidence Theorist and The Importance of Alternative Media
January 29, 2014Alen Mischael Vukelić
The impact and significance of
alternative media continues to grow every day. Critics from the
mainstream like to discard it as an outlet for conspiracy theories and
amateur journalism. Is it really this simple?
Or is the mainstream media
becoming aware of this fast-growing underground movement that seems to
start threatening their very existence? What is conspiracy and what is
coincidence? And which alternative media project is the boldest so far?
Conspiracy Theorist vs. Coincidence Theorist and The Importance of Alternative Media
I’ve had great difficulties to start
writing this article, having in mind all the accusations and
misunderstandings which might result from it. After a couple of days, I
finally have the right mindset and vocabulary to put this thing into
motion.
Originally, I wanted to jump right into
the topic that I’m going to talk about later, but I came to the
conclusion that I will have to write a lengthy introduction to give you
the whole story to it.
Going underground
I could start with Adam and Eve, but I
will skip this part, and go straight to the year 2010, where – I guess
some time in October – my wife and I were watching a sort of documentary
called “Zeitgeist”. It was the initiation to a series of investigations
we started making on the Internet without having any particular idea of
what we were actually doing.
I’d say it was pure curiosity for a
world we didn’t even know it existed. We started watching endless
streams of other movies and documentaries related to everything what
questioned the reality which we knew for so long.
And after maybe a year, it was the first
time that I – consciously – encountered that people who were unaware of
this material had a name for people who were investigating this sort of
material – conspiracy theorists.
Light bulbs and helmets
The first time I heard it, I had to
laugh about it, since I couldn’t see any connection between the stuff I
was reading about and the name that these topics were given.
For instance, I was really into
investigating those low-energy consuming new light bulbs that are now
mandatory in most of the western world, and I found out that they
contain mercury, and if this kind of bulb got accidentally broken you
would have no chance of avoiding to breathe in this toxic chemical.
The other thing was that these same
bulbs are thrown across all dumps of this planet, further contaminating
our environment. In one interview,
a European commissioner who was involved in the mandatory usage of
those bulbs said that it was true that they were toxic, but the chance
of breaking such a bulb was very low he said.
This was his whole statement to an issue
like that. At the same time, people all over the world are increasingly
encouraged to wear helmets on bicycles to avoid head injuries.
While checking out the Internet on this subject, I found many sources
reporting how the industry was pushing for the new bulbs to become
mandatory for an one and only reason – they cost up to ten times the
amount of the old bulbs.
Lobbyists got this whole thing through by selling it to the governments in an environmentally interesting package
called ‘low-energy consumption bulbs’. I’ve read certain reports
claiming that Europe might be able to reduce the consumption of
electricity by around 2-3 %, which – surprisingly – hasn’t materialized
yet.
Even if it were true, are the other risk
factors for health and environment outweighing the electricity bill?
Well, while investigating those things, I learned that we who make such
unnecessary and insulting claims are called – conspiracy theorists (the
new heretics).
How to print your own money and charge somebody interest on it
One of the first things I learned in this new area was that the Federal Reserve Bank of America
is as federal as the delivery company FedEx, and that this central bank
was initially capitalized and established by very wealthy and
influential people in 1913. They were given the power to create (to
print) money and charge interest on it.
So that, in fact, all governments borrow money from ‘their’ central bank, and the people have to pay that same money back with interest to the ones who created that money out of – nothing. A really easy way to make money, isn’t it?
I must say this was quite a shock to me,
because I became aware of the enormous power that this brings. You
might say that entire countries have to work to pay back their loans
with interest to people they have never heard of in their lives
(especially through the petrodollar system).
This is a rather huge topic, and I will
try to break it down just to the essential part, but I would definitely
encourage you to read about it. There are also many documentaries out
there like the mentioned “Zeitgeist” series which can give you an insight into the world of central banking and money-creation.
Well, to cut it short, there is in fact
no need for interest, if the people or their representatives, the
government, own their central bank, interest becomes unnecessary, and business banks can abandon the whole interest system and hand out loans just increased for their handling costs.
The fact is that every corporation,
company, every single person, is working for bankers who don’t need to
do anything but create money out of nothing and to charge you interest
on it, for something that every nation should own in the first place –
the power to create money. Imagine if you could buy your house without interest? Your car, your clothes – everything.
You pay your debt through work, the government through inflation
The bankers are always using the excuse
called – inflation, meaning that we have to pay interest to meet the
rate of annual inflation, while, in fact, they know very well that
inflation exists because of their massive gains made from interest.
These huge loads of money are being
spent on real goods like houses and properties, which make prices rise
indefinitely, which in return is called ‘economic growth’, which in
return is eating up the public debt through inflation.
I
know this sounds complicated to someone who hasn’t done research on it,
but believe me one thing – it isn’t. People in power love to make you
believe that it is something that you cannot understand while it is, in
fact, the opposite.
The system is relatively easy to
understand; it is just camouflaged behind an impressive scenery of board
of directors and huge buildings and seals that make you think that you
can’t possibly understand what this whole thing is about. Or – like some
say: “They surely know what they are doing!” or “I would certainly know
if they scammed us! ”
Oh yes my friends, they know what they
are doing, and no, you wouldn’t know about it, because these guys are
genius in what they are doing. You work for them, because everything you
buy during your lifetime has an interest on it – in some way or
another.
Gambling debt becomes public debt
Like in the recent economic meltdown of 2008, they have made you pay their shopping spree of the years preceding the event by turning all losses into public debt – genius. Imagine you would spend all of your money and the money of everybody you know, and in the end you would make them pay the whole cost of it without you ever getting punished for that.
Please do some research on this, and find out how the people of Iceland refused to incorporate the gambling debts of their bankers into their public debt – successfully.
I understand that this is a very
simplified version of what actually happens in an economic system;
however important is to know that financial institutions live a parasitic life.
Credit cards
are another great example, where banks get a percentage on all goods
and services purchased with ‘their’ card, and which allows them to
charge everyone involved down the whole food chain – from manufacturer,
seller, and buyer – they all pay all sorts of fees for what? For
transferring their money from one place to another?
Why should they make interest on
everything that is happening around the world? We could easily turn off
this system and pay just the actual prices of any goods and services.
Banks good be just as independent as they are now, and serve the people
for achieving their goals and not the goals of the bankers. If it
weren’t true, then why on earth is banking the most profitable business on this planet?
Searching for truth? Don’t be ridiculous.
Well, the reaction to my research was
very good in my immediate surroundings, but I could see that other
people had difficulties in investigating this stuff without being called
– conspiracy theorists.
I believe this term was coined not by
ordinary people, but by people in power to give those who are doing
these researches a hard time, to make them look ridiculous, foolish, or
outright crazy. I would even call it a modern witch hunt, because
witches were burnt for knowing things they shouldn’t know.
It has been like this for eons, people
who question the system are considered a threat, and people in power
will do everything to prevent them of having any authority among people,
and the best way to do it is to make them look ridiculous. It is a
complete nonsense to believe that there is such a thing as a homogeneous
mass of people believing the same thing among questioners (conspiracy
theorists).
Moon landing, JFK, and alien invasion
The first thing that I get asked
sometimes is if I question the moon landing or the JFK assassination and
other conspiracy ‘classics’. I must say: I don’t know, because I
haven’t researched them – they simply don’t interest me.
I don’t care if we’ve been on the moon,
because it doesn’t mean much to me, the thing with the light bulb is
much more important to me, because it affects my health here and now,
and affects the environment that nourishes me and the people I live
with.
Was JFK shot by Lee Harvey or by some
intelligence service – I don’t know. Are there aliens out there? I
haven’t seen any, but I have seen people on the Internet claiming that
they have. Are they lying? I don’t know, but I believe that it is quite
possible that there is more life out there in this universe – after all –
it’s really huge.
However, none of that interests me in
particular, and I can’t speak from my own experience. But have I seen
corruption and lobbyists? Yes, I have, because I was a business owner
for almost 15 years, and I can confirm that it functions like that. Do I
need to have a good connection to influential people and the local
industry to become even a mayor – absolutely.
Coincidence theorists
I like the newly coined expression that is used among questioners for people who don’t question anything – coincidence theorists.
The coincidence theorist believes that everything that happens is –
coincidence. He or she believes that the industry never uses money and
power to influence politicians to do something for them.
They believe that judges are honest
people who never make mistakes, and if they do, then it’s a –
coincidence. Researchers are honest and integral people whose only aim
is to do good for humanity, to improve mankind with technologies we have
never seen before.
They believe that they work in
conjunction with the industry to help us to achieve – whatever we want
to achieve – with their products and innovations. Those are selfless
people, working for the common good, for their country, flag, and
history. Sometimes, there do happen mistakes, but never on purpose, and
never for their own personal gain.
Which medicine does a pharma industry shareholder like best?
Pharma industries have no interest in
selling drugs to make profits for themselves; they do that to help
people get well as soon as possible. They have absolutely no interest in
doctors having many patients, in fact; they want to prevent that by
giving you the best medicine they can think of.
And what would be the best medicine from
a shareholder’s point of view? I have found numerous stories on how the
pharma industry is actively preventing the research and promotion of
remedies that might actually work or be free of any charge.
But of course, there is no system or
intent behind this – those are isolated instances, better called
coincidences that just happen. It’s funny how conspiracy theorists are –
many times – called naïve. What would you call this what I was just
talking about?
The end of the world as you know it
I understand that this whole subject is
awful and unpleasant to a lot of people because it literally tears down
everything one believes in, the whole structure, the root of one’s life,
and to accept that, is not easy.
I encounter this on forums and social
media discussions; people react violently to those kinds of topics,
because they are unable to face the amount of lies that they have
received over the years. And I understand that – completely – because it
was a pretty painful experience for me too.
There was a lot of anger and denial
before being able to face it its entirety – this ongoing deception we
were fed to from little on. And yes, to step out of the mass and to
stand alone is not easy at all, to see the reactions of people who don’t
know exactly what you are talking about and so on.
But all in all, I have to say that
people do understand better and better every day, that their awareness
of these kinds of subjects keeps rising, and I could almost say there is
a sense of ‘mainstream’ getting into this truth-movement, forming a new
crossover of very sane people, a sort of
‘by-coincidence-conspiricy-theorists’, who will transcend this gap
between people – eventually.
The problem of you and I
The bottom-line is to understand that
there are no real coincidences in the sense of how people see it; people
who have power are using it – as simple as that. Do you use your power?
And now imagine that you have much, much more power than you can ever
imagine.
I know what you are going to say now:
are all people bad that are in power? No! The problem is, in fact – you
and I. I have spoken with many people during those years, and many said
to me: “Somehow I can understand that they (people in power) are doing
it, because – after all – who wouldn’t? Wouldn’t you do the same?”
This is what they asked me. And there I
realized it isn’t their fault; it’s ours, from all of us, because we
don’t understand it is wrong to act in a way that benefits only a
minority and has no benefits for the majority whatsoever. The truth is,
we were made to collaborate by our very nature.
If you start researching, you will find
out that Darwin was wrong (what most scientists know anyway). His
observations in the survival of the fittest – which, in fact, was just a
small part of his work, completely overvalued and misused to initiate
competition among people – has overseen the crucial factor of harmony
and collaboration, which is ubiquitous in all of nature.
Since nature is not ‘part’, but a whole
called – nature, which sustains itself perfectly, which takes care of
every aspect, even of the tiniest recipient of this universal play of
energy and light.
It’s easier to cope with aliens than myself
Let me stress another thing here before
finally going over to the actual topic I was going to write about; the
fact; that most so-called truthseekers are wasting their time on
insignificant facts and topics, which have very little actual influence
on their lives.
I don’t say this just to give this
article a proper balance – no – I really believe to spend your time
reading ‘predictions’ of WW3, alien invasions, or Obama being born
I-don’t-know-where, a complete waste of time, because of one simple
reason: You can’t influence it.
As far as I’m concerned, this is a great
hiding place for not doing anything, but to criticize something that is
completely out of reach and – in fact – insignificant – to your
everyday life. None of that you will be able to prevent if you don’t
change yourself first (like WW3).
By hating the Chinese or Arabs you will
not contribute to world peace – that’s for sure. It’s just so convenient
to have an outside enemy to give him all the negativity and hatred that
you have in yourself – not very helpful at all.
Solutions are unpopular – you have to actually do something
My own little goal is to find solutions,
especially for things I can influence, those that are mostly very
challenging to implement in my daily life; things that make me think: My
God am I really doing this? And when I change one of those things, then
I know I have contributed something to the common good as well –
without really doing anything outside my yard.
So naturally I like people who offer
solutions and not just discussions, because it is boring just to talk
about things without doing them. And so now finally I will catch up with
my original article which I started writing first, but figured that
it’s impossible to go into this thing without telling you all of this
first.
Since the inception of this project,
that I’m going to talk about, I was having my eyes closely on it for one
very reason – it offered solutions and action – here and now.
Is it important who does something or what is being done?
Many people, be it mainstream or
alternative media, complain about low quality, biased media content,
with bad presenters, and corporate controlled topics and outputs. Well,
and now when finally someone decided to do something about it, started a
crowdfunding campaign ‘to take on the mainstream media’, all I can hear
is criticism.
First because ‘world renown conspiracy
theorist’ David Icke is involved, and second because ‘it’s just stupid’
(good argument). What is this? Are you serious? You are dismissing such
an important project, because you don’t really like the people that are
involved?
Tell me, who would satisfy your
criteria? And are we in the position to choose arrogantly or should we
grab the possibility that is right here in front of us? I tell you
something what I believe: If it helped the project to succeed, I think
anyone working on this thing would do whatever it takes. This is my
personal view on this, that those people came together to do something
real in their lives.
It’s just ignorant to see it as a David
Icke project – because it isn’t. There are so many people involved, it’s
impossible to mention them, but if you know the alternative media, then
you know that many other names are working on this thing. I see so many
hardcore conspiracy theorists – with their McDonald’s hamburgers – worrying about alien invasions, complaining David Icke not to be the ‘real deal’.
I mean come on, get out of your sofa,
stretch your butt muscles and start doing something about real issues
which you can actually influence right now! If you don’t agree with
David Icke, then throw him out and take over the TV station, do
something, anything!
This station is reality
I can really understand the frustration
on The People’s Voice TV station when they say: we did our job, now you
do you yours (by donating some money), because this is really everything
you have to do. Give a few bucks every month for a project which can
have a real impact on the media landscape for relatively little money.
I have seen it before so many times,
that when it comes down to action then everybody hides in their mouse
holes, hoping somebody else is going to do the job for them, and then
when the storm is over (which I hope won’t happen) they come back, out
of their holes, preaching their same-old lines of what should be done in
the future, blah, blah.
Here it is, a vivid project, in front of your eyes, ready to start off, and all you have to do is contribute some of your crystallized energy (cash).
Before arguing – test the content yourself
I think anyone complaining about the
station hasn’t seen one single show, because if he did, he’d know they
work on 30 in-house productions of which almost half are already on air,
dealing with all sorts of topics, from health to Internet tips, and
yes, also classified and forbidden subjects, which our brains are
sometimes still unable to process.
In that sense, I hope you will take some
of your precious time and tune into this new television to give it a
fair judgment without pre-chewed media classifications and prejudices a
la ‘conspiracy’, ‘David Icke’, and others.
Do your own research, and don’t let
others tell you what to think. It’s ignorant to penalize hundreds of
people who work on this project and thousands who have given their money
to support this thing by disliking one single person.
Who do I support? The project.
I hope David Icke is not going to be
angry with me, because I’m using him as an example. Maybe someone
doesn’t like Luke Rudkowski from WeAreChange,
who is working on that project; maybe someone doesn’t like Max Igan,
who is working on that project, maybe someone doesn’t like Russel Brand,
who gave his support to this project, and so on. But is this important
after all?
Or is it important what this station can
do for all of us? I hope you see what I mean. Listen, I’m not an
utopian; I have been in business for many years, and I know this thing
can be gone tomorrow, but all what I want to know for myself is: Have I
done everything that is in my power to support something that I wished
for so long? My answer is yes – I have done everything.
I could go on with this forever, but I won’t because this is not what this article was going to be about.
Here is the point where I originally started – no joke.
The People’s Voice – a 24/7 alternative media TV station
This article is going to be one of my
all-time favourites, because it reflects what I believe to be a truly
important and unique moment in the time of mass-media. There isn’t, in
fact, any event which could come even close to what is happening right
now on The People’s Voice TV station. I say this bluntly and directly as
it only can be.
This project is exactly what I have
always dreamed of something to be – in terms of engagement, vision,
connectedness, timeliness, and purpose. All of these essential qualities
for a magnificent undertaking, brought together under one hood, to do
the right thing at the perfectly right time.
Enough
I’m probably not the only one who is
completely fed up with this current mainstream media system, which
serves nothing but itself and those who finance it.
Since I stopped watching television over
three years ago, my perception of basically everything that is
happening – be it locally or globally – has changed so drastically,
almost impossible to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it by
oneself.
Sometimes, when I look back at my
endless years of watching national TV news; I feel embarrassed by the
quantity of lies and bias which I was made to listen to. It’s a kind of
feeling of being cheated by someone for decades, eventually waking up
under a cold shower.
It is an extremely embarrassing moment
when you realize that you’ve believed all this nonsense that they have
fed you over the years. I guess this is the main problem for people who
still refuse to see what it is all about – to recognize consciously that
everything you’ve been listening to, is nothing but a constructed
reality by those who had an interest to construct it for you.
Politics and corporations are using the media to sell their product regardless of the outcome of their doings.
Integrity and credibility of media
It’s just amazing for me to see how they
have managed to use the authority of an ‘independent’ media reporting,
to bypass the people’s natural suspiciousness so successfully. As far as
I’m concerned, I believed everything they said; maybe I wouldn’t agree
on everything, but all in all, I thought that the information was
correct.
Thank God for the Internet, which makes
it possible to re-check almost every statement the media makes in less
than five minutes. Of course there are also many bad sources of
alternative media reports, but after a very short period of time, you
learn how to choose reliable sources.
What I like, in particular, in the
alternative media is that the line between spirituality and state has
been washed away without them ever really being aware of it. If you look
well, you see that almost all stations and platforms have little
problems with implementing all sort of topics into their stream without
losing any ‘credibility’ by doing so.
What comes to my mind is, that this
essential part of our very existence has naturally found its way back to
where it belongs to – to everything we do. It’s time to end this era of
media moguls and celebrity presenters who serve nothing but to promote
ideas they’ve been paid to promote.
Real journalism is long dead – if it had
ever existed, which I’ve started doubting simply because of the amount
of lies and inaccuracies that have been sold to us over the years.
I don’t think that this new TV station
is the answer to every problem, but it definitely is an honest attempt
to do something about this apathy among people who want to see a change
in the media landscape.
It’s so easy to criticize a project and
discard it as illusional or utopian and to hide inside the masses
screaming: “Idiots!” But isn’t it amazing that someone actually tries to
do something about – THIS?
What’s the deal, anyway?
I’ve learned that I don’t speak to
everyone, and that many people probably disagree, and don’t really see
any urgency in any of this; some just want a small tweak here and there
and keep the system in its core as it is.
Well, I think it should be much more
radical and the change far more fundamental than that, and this is what
this TV station does; they don’t rely on any history – because they have
none – and their motive is coherent: they are all fed up with the
system.
Glimpses of how instrumental alternative
media can be, has already been seen by numerous independent news
websites, which popped up in the last five years or so; there are real
journalists out there, working their a**** off to collect some real news
and real investigations on topics the mainstream media wouldn’t even
take a look at. And all that, with little money, cheap equipment, lots
of obstacles – and lots of ridicule.
No one would believe how little money
most of us enthusiasts make from this – because it’s mostly – none or
very little. And to tell you the truth, I believe it would be great if
people would get paid for what they do, like in any other job. Is it any
less important?
I don’t why, but when you do something
which is good for people in general, then there is a perception that
this work should be without charge. Good idea, but then everything
should be free of any cost, shouldn’t it?
Should alternative media have one huge platform?
Recently, I’ve watched a podcast from James Corbett where he speaks against some sort of centralized platform
for the alternative media, because he believes it would be vulnerable
to outside manipulation and that the journalists would have to conform
to some sort of agenda or compromise, since even two people can
sometimes hardly agree on something, still less four or more people.
I believe this station is something
completely different, because it grew organically and is not the product
of a balancing of interests. The presenters and journalists on TPV are
real people who have done all sorts of things in their past, which have
brought them together into one moment to do something, which goes beyond
their own interest – and this is what makes this project so unique.
I know they struggle to find a steady
financial income to stay on air, because all funding has come from the
viewers and other enthusiasts and supporters; and that they hope to get
more funds from advertisers, and that things will be difficult for some
time before reaching some sort of stability – all I can say is I hope
they’ll make it, because I think many aren’t really aware of how
precious this little station is, and that it has the potential to grow
into something we can’t even imagine right now.
Watch this station
What I definitely need to emphasize at
this point – again – is that anyone who claims this station to be just a
David Icke outlet, should sit down and watch two or three shows before
making a judgement – because this is what I did; I sat down and watched
several shows with a clean mind and what I saw really impressed me.
Straightforward, unbiased – and anyone
who thinks this is a conspiracy theory station – is also wrong. Again,
sit down and watch at least two shows and make your judgement
afterwards. From the shows I have seen so far, I would highlight:
Unleashing Creativity, Host: James Gordon Graham
There are of course many other shows
(like The Richie Allen Show, The Middle East Show, Wakey Wakey, WTF,
Hidden Science, Windows on the World ……..) which you can choose from to
get a glimpse of what they are doing. Most can be found on their youtube channel, but best is if you watch them live.
I want to finish with this on a high
note, because if you have come so far with me all the way to down here,
then I can only be thankful to you for taking your time and
understanding for this thing. I hope I was able to give you an insight
into a world that looked a bit strange
to you from outside, and that you will perhaps consider engaging in
this project with a much better understanding of this whole topic.
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