By Martin Armstrong - December 21, 2025

I met a former senior guy at the NY Daily News or NY Post. I do not recall which. He told me how it works. The government calls you and says they have a favor. Kill some story or spin it a certain way. If you do not, they come after you personally with tax audits you name it. That is how they control the media.

They control YouTube, Facebook, and Wikipedia. Schools will not allow students to use Wikipedia as a source because it is not reliable and amounts to government controlled propaganda. I an others can provide the evidence that I was a whistleblower but it means nothing. Mainstream media will NEVER tell the truth. This is the world of FAKE NEWS that we live in. They, and some podcast platforms, are there to support the government narrative no matter how absurd it may be. We say that with COVID.

Michael Hastings, an American investigative journalist and contributing editor to Rolling Stone magazine. In early 2013, Hastings was actively working on a story about the National Security Agency (NSA) and was in contact with Edward Snowden’s legal team and associates. He exchanged emails with Snowden’s lawyer, Ben Wizner of the ACLU, about making contact with Snowden shortly after Snowden’s identity was revealed in June 2013. In the early morning hours of June 18, 2013, Hastings died in a single-car crash in Los Angeles. His Mercedes-Benz C250 Coupe ran head-on into a palm tree at high speed, erupted in flames, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The 2010-2013 Mercedes-Benz C250 is potentially vulnerable to remote hacking, He was 33 years old.

The crash was highly unusual. Witnesses reported . . .

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