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O’Keefe Rises From The Grave

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You can’t keep a good man down for long. James O’Keefe is proving as much, rising up from the ashes to announce his new venture — the O’Keefe Media Project.

We wish him the best of luck. Hopefully, one of his first assignments will be to expose the CIA shills on the board of directors at Project Veritas who forced O’Keefe from the non-profit organization he had founded and nourished along for so many years.

The ouster was so reminiscent of Glenn Greenwald getting booted from The Intercept, which he had also co-founded. This leads us to believe the CIA is no longer simply meddling with the affairs of foreign nations, but now pushing its own globalist agenda to eliminate freedoms and U.S. Constitutional protections in the United States.

Both the CIA and its decrepit “law enforcement” counterpart, the FBI, need to be seriously dressed down and restrained. These agencies no longer serve the American people. They simply do whatever benefits the corrupt Deep State.

The O’Keefe Media Group — OMG is the shorthand — will be trying to put thousands of cameras into the hands of citizen journalists. That’s what James O’Keefe tells Charlie Kirk in an interview announcing the new venture.

O’Keefe owns OMG, so there’s no phony board of directors he has to appease. Steve Bannon gives us more details in a followup chat with O’Keefe.

The Rise Of Citizen Journalists

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Tim Pool is part of what some call the new media, citizen journalists who work for themselves. Increasingly, such journalists cover things the mainstream media miss.

Pool, who leans left and supported Bernie Sanders, reports whatever he sees on his news channel TimCast. When the media jumped on a video of a grinning Covington High School kid wearing a Trump hat, claiming he was taunting a Native American man, Pool was skeptical. He found a longer clip of the encounter on YouTube and used that to show that the Native American elder approached the kids as they waited for a bus, not the other way around, as had been claimed. There was no evidence that the kids were racist.

In this edition of his blog, John Stossel reports Pool is part of a new wave of independent journalists and thinkers–leftists, centrists, libertarians and conservatives–who use the new media to get the word out. “I’m glad that gives us more options,” he says. Here’s more.