We all get news from a variety of sources - TV, radio, newspapers and magazines, friends and, gosh, even the Internet. Americans tend to be lazy about their news, accepting what they're told at face value. This is due, in part, to the amazing degree of uniformity among "legitimate" news sources the in United States.

Well, no more. From now on, you have to stay on your toes if you want to know what's what. Not only do you have to seek out the information yourself, you have to check it for accuracy - your "Bullshit Detector" should be on and turned all the way up, every waking moment. You can't trust anyone - and, really, you never could.

Time to wake up, America.

Below are various sources of information you won't usually encounter in the "masinstream" press. Some are considered "kooks" by those Guardians Of Knowledge; many are better sources than the so-called "professional" reporters of Big News. And, yes, some of these even try to *make* the news rather than report it accurately. But that's far more a problem with the likes of Time or Newsweek. Who can you trust?

Well, nobody, obviously.

SAMIZDAT - VAS IZ DAT??

Jim Cullen says that "SAMIZDAT were newsletters and journals that were clandestinely printed and distributed by dissidents in the Soviet Union. It has since come to mean any unofficial news or news out of the mainstream."

Matt Drudge

Megastories - see Out There News.

Out There News - see Megastories.

The Winds