reliable sources

… most likely missing in action.

I borrowed the following quote from the internet…

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. — Wikipedia

Wikipedia is full of such messages, and they pretty much say what this article of mine is all about. No amount of information is worth bothering with if it cannot be verified.

Whenever I want to check up on something, finding reliable sources that can verify the information I find, can be hard … very hard. The reason is of course that despite the increasing amount of information flowing in, or rather being thrown at us from all directions, the number of reliable sources is not increasing.

might as well try to catch the moon

What we're looking for, is real information – facts, preferably provided by trustworthy human beings.
Now, name some that claim to fit the terms listed below, that actually do…

reliable
Synonyms: reliable, dependable, responsible, trustworthy, trusty

… and I'll guarantee that you will end up with a pretty short list.

As most ordinary, decent people prefer to lay low, live peaceful lives and mind their own business, all the unreliable, undependable, irresponsible and anything but trustworthy people are left free to turn our world into a veritable dump – and they are working really hard at it.
No wonder the man-made world is in the process of becoming a “pretty boring” place, as there isn't much left that appeals to human intelligence.

This world is not on a fast-track to hell because we cannot feed a growing population, but rather because a growing part of the world population gets served anything but the truth to live by.

Knowing the truth tends to lead to more freedom of choice, and freedom of any kind for the majority of the world population is clearly not in the interest of those few who control, shape and (most of all) withold information.

Continuous economic growth for the very few, and to hell with all else, seems to be all you can find on the agenda for the ruling, lying and cheating, classes. You can regard that little bit of information as trustworthy, as it has been unintentionally leaked from pretty reliable sources – themselves.

no paranoia

I see no reason to become paranoid, or even worried, about all the negative forces that infiltrate and try to dirty down all good things in life. We cannot ignore the dirt that is being spread, but we do not have to support those who spread it.

The dirtbags may work hard on trying to control everything, and sell us everything – even our own souls. But, as they can only stay in control as long as their actions, and who they are, do not catch too much attention, their free ride to success is becoming increasingly hampered by potholes in the roads.

The bad guys may have managed to get most governing bodies and traditional media to work for them – mainly by paying off key personnel and/or replacing them with their own followers.
But, as fewer and fewer of us ordinary people pay much, if any, attention to what our governments and the official media want us to focus on or distract us with, our field of view opens up to reality … they have nothing of value to offer.

There's a flow of worthless shit being marketed through all channels imaginable, that we do not have to waste our time, our health or our hard-earned money on. Voting with our wallets every day of the week, is definitely more efficient than casting votes for some self-centered political party on election day.

More and more the dirtbags are being forced to do their shady work in the open, where more and more good, decent people can see who they are and the damage they are inflicting on our societies and the world as a whole.
Consequently, more and more people start to counteract the negative forces in every way possible. A positive attitude will get us far, and even what seems impossible at first, will, as a rule, just take a little longer to achieve.

So, no, I am neither paranoid about the present nor worried about the future. I am in fact rather optimistic on behalf of all conscious people on this earth.
Free souls know no boundary, and we neither need nor want official seals of approval. We only want the truth to prevail.

sincerely georg; sign

Hageland 06.jun.2015
last rev: 09.jun.2015

the internet?

Never in the history of man has so many had so little worth saying and so many places to say it.

The internet is overflowing with nonsense, and much of the nonsense is spread deliberately by people with an agenda – it pays to spread disinformation and confusion.

So, although the internet may be one of the few channels worth looking for credible information on these days, finding information that holds water can be a pretty timeconsuming task.

The internet is still fairly open and for the most part uncensored – at least in the western parts of the world. But of course, our on-line freedom is constantly under attack from those who want to “protect us from ourselves” and make sure we only get access to the “official versions of everything”. Not to mention how we are being targeted for marketing while surfing.
Such control is

unacceptable for those of us who cherish truth and privacy, and who neither trust the official nor any unofficial version of anything unless and until it has been verified through reliable sources.

traditional media?

Not much channeled through traditional media – TV, radio, and newspapers – is worth wasting time on, and it's the same all over the world.

The “news” and “information” some of these channels pretend to serve, is for the most part not worth shit even on a good day.
What is left out is usually more interesting, but of course harder to get access to.

Can hardly see people working in traditional media as anything but hired-in entertainers selling space for ads. For all I care they may just take turns to entertain each other, day in and day out, until they all die of old age or whatever. Entertainment doesn't need verification.

politicians and the bureaucracy?

Whether elected or hired into the governmental circles, most seem to be there primarily to serve themselves while doing as much damage as possible for the people they are meant to serve.

Come to think of it: in my country not even the elected ones are elected by anyone but themselves – an interesting form for “democracy”.

This is not at all surprising – has been like that for longer than I have lived.
Far from what I will call a “trustworthy and reliable” form for government though.

Again, entertainment doesn't need verification … and that is good since we cannot expect to ever get any from those circles – they are (self-)licensed to cheat and lie.

getting worse?

That things may go from bad to worse before starting to turn for the better, is as can be expected. What the bad guys can not control they will try to kill off and destroy, and the effects will be felt wider and wider as more people start to see what is going on and become harder to control.

That at least “ninety percent of everything is crap”, goes without saying – just look around. But, once you have figured that out for yourself, the future doesn't look so bad. It does after all mean that a minescule percentage of everything is not crap.

This notion gives us something of value to look for and build on in a world filled with crap, which means we can improve on the situation without having to start from scratch.
Verify that…