For today, a note about access to the Associated Press website, followed by links to donation pages for AP, National Public Radio, Consortium News, ScheerPost, and Popular Resistance; news and opinion is usually accessible by clicking on their names or initials below. (MEDIA 5-2-25 is HERE, or scroll down. YEMEN, UKRAINE and GAZA entries for today’s date are HERE, HERE and HERE, or scroll down.) — MCM
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AP, where were you? by MCM | x-ma911truthwalk.com For at least several minutes this morning, at least on my computer, reports from AP were inaccessible. This visitor got an odd message from something with the word “cloud” in its name, beginning “Bad gateway Error code 502.” Then that was replaced by a total whiteout, akin to a the white inside a cumulus cloud. This was annoying, as AP is usually one of my first stops. It’s possible this problem was unique to my situation, or it may be a hacker’s mischief. Who knows? I don’t recommend anyone clicking on the cloudy link. Perhaps AP itself will report on this.
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https://www.npr.org/donations/support. Link is from NPR. Visitors may want to consider making monetary donations to NPR in light of the Trump administration’s proposal to end federal funding. You may find yourself looking at a totally white screen (see above), but if you keep trying, the page may open. Click HERE for donations page.
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https://apnews.com/donate. Link is from AP. Visitors may want to consider making occasional or regular monetary donations to AP, a U.S. not-for-profit news agency founded in 1846 and once sustained by newspapers and other “member” organizations presumably including federal government agencies but now offering its reports for free to anyone with access to the Internet. Click HERE for donations page.
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https://consortiumnews.salsalabs.org/ClassicDonationPage1/index.html. Link is from Consortium News. CN has been around for going on three decades. It considers itself apart from the mainstream media, depicting the latter as reflecting “groupthink on issue after issue, often ignoring important factual information because it didn’t fit with what all the Important People knew to be true.” Paradoxically, as late as 2011 CN’s founder, former AP reporter Robert Parry, ridiculed 9/11 truthers as a bunch of lunatics (link to “The 9/11 ‘Truth’ Parlor Game” [January 2011] is HERE). Several people on its board don’t adhere to this now-absurd view, but CN itself has yet to venture into Truthland on the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Click HERE for donations page.
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https://scheerpost.networkforgood.com/projects/214779-scheerpost-donation-page. Link from ScheerPost. This “award-winning, independent news organization that focuses on progressive politics and human rights issues that the mainstream media misses” also reflects thoroughly mainstream skittishness on 9/11 truth: Nothing to see here, move along. It’s stated mission, HERE, of providing an “alternative understanding of what is going on in our world today” has not included shining light on fundamental truths of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and coverups thereof. Click HERE for donations page.
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https://popularresistance.org/donate/. Link is from Popular Resistance.
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Click HERE for donations page.
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