If you learn nothing more than the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – a predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – infiltrated the entire media industry around the time of World War II, never left and only improved and expanded into new media such as social media, then this entire effort is worth it.

I had my own watershed moment in a Journalism 101 class taught by a secretly religious, overtly vegetarian, just-as-lispy-as-me adjunct professor at a big city junior college fighting to keep its organic roots amongst a growing steel and concrete dystopian bog that screamed, “for the people!” while whispering so softly, “for the few.”

The class covered, in part, how media was co-opted for wartime propaganda. That deep burn of disloyalty and distrust sunk to my core and has guided me away from participant into critic ever since, like sprinting for life from a climate change arsonist brush fire in an unmanaged California forest.

I can see clearly now the brain-wash-ing has gone. I can see all the prop-a-ganda in my way.

If CIA can co-opt journalism to spread lies, I can co-opt Johnny’s Nash’s song to expose them. This is war. All is fair in an information war.

OK, enough waxing poetic. The real crux of this site is to snapshot, parse and expose stupid, dangerous and insidious lies that these intelligence agencies posing as news and information and fact check sites post.

This site is not complete, nor will ever attempt to be so. This site is pretty regional to the West Coast and top level national items with a couple of shining examples in other locales here and there.

There is a good chance some of the criticism will not be accepted by some of whatever little audience sits down here. That’s cool. Give me the counterpoint, don’t just complain.

The (non-exhaustive) list of principles that will guide me here; extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, equality of ridicule, Occam’s Razor, validate sources, validate math, seek to disprove popular beliefs and avoid confirmation bias.

This site will highlight others who allegedly / apparently do not follow those principles themselves. While I will not provide commentary on all posts, I may on some. I hope to live up to all of these principles in my work.

A Nihilist believes in nothing other than destruction. A journalist communicates information – with supposed flatness. A Journihilist communicates destruction without a set of beliefs. They are brainless zombie parrots of the apocalypse and deserve all of the scorn and hatred those afflicted by their actions endure in kind.

Journalism is dead. We are living in its funeral pyre. From its ashes will rise a new information structure, firstly pure and genuine. Next, accepted and exploited. Then corrupted and abused. And so on.