Note above the reaction of Aiden to my pointing out that the Epoch Times has probably the most detailed regular commentaries on details of the US Presidential election. It has published a lot stuff that the mainstream media has tried to ignore or debunk, obviously largely to support the political preferences of those controlling its organisations. Aiden seems a good illustration of the quote "Illiteracy in the 21st Century is not people who cannot read and write. It is those who resist unlearning the lies they have been brainwashed to believe."

He obviously does not want to watch alternative news sites which sometimes cover different news and views than mainstream sources. Just tries to push the allegations sometimes made by "powers that be" trying to discourage people from even looking at sites that sometimes publish information that exposes what may be wrong with their own. Then Aiden's attitudes, including trying to label me as a "brainwashed moron" has demonstrated well that is what he is himself. Meanwhile has not provided any examples to expose lies he claims the Epoch Times tells or to prove mainstream news views are "the truth" when they differ from those of alternative sources.

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The Epoch Times is a far-right international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the Falun Gong Chinese religious movement.

The performance arts group Shen Yun and the media organization The Epoch Times are the major outreach organizations of Falun Gong. Both promote the spiritual and political teachings of Falun Gong. They and a variety of other organizations such as New Tang Dynasty Television (NTD) operate as extensions of Falun Gong. These extensions promote the religious movement and its teachings.

In the case of The Epoch Times, they also promote conspiracy theories and far-right politics in both Europe and the United States. Particularly during the 2016 United States presidential election, The Epoch Times has been promoting conspiracy theories and extreme right-wing political views.

Falun Gong melds traditional Taoist principles with occasionally bizarre pronouncements from its Chinese-born founder and leader, Li Hongzhi. Among other pronouncements, Li has claimed that aliens started invading human minds in the beginning of the 20th century, leading to mass corruption and the invention of computers. He has also denounced feminism and homosexuality and claimed he can walk through walls and levitate. But the central tenet of the group’s wide-ranging belief system is its fierce opposition to communism.

In 2000, Li founded Epoch Times to disseminate Falun Gong talking points to American readers. Six years later he launched Shen Yun as another vehicle to promote his teachings to mainstream Western audiences. Over the years Shen Yun and Epoch Times, while nominally separate organizations, have operated in tandem in Falun Gong's ongoing PR campaign against the Chinese government, taking directions from Li.

In June 2015 after Donald Trump descended on a golden escalator to announce his presidential candidacy, proclaiming that he "beat China all the time." In Trump, Falun Gong saw more than just an ally—it saw a saviour. As a former Epoch Times editor told NBC News, the group's leaders "believe that Trump was sent by heaven to destroy the communist party."

Falun Gong extensions have also been active in promoting the European alt-right.

The Epoch Times : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times

Falun Gong : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong

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This is interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Gong#Demography

Demography

Prior to July 1999, official estimates placed the number of Falun Gong practitioners at 70 million nationwide, rivaling membership in the Communist Party.[12][111][112][113][114] By the time of the persecution on 22 July 1999, most Chinese government numbers said the population of Falun Gong was between 2 and 3 million,[97][115] though some publications maintained an estimate of 40 million.[88][85] Most Falun Gong estimates in the same period placed the total number of practitioners in China at 70 to 80 million.[35][88][116] Other sources have estimated the Falun Gong population in China to have peaked between 10 and 70 million practitioners.[117][118] The number of Falun Gong practitioners still practicing in China today is difficult to confirm, though some sources estimate that tens of millions continue to practice privately.[17][119]

Demographic surveys conducted in China in 1998 found a population that was mostly female and elderly. Of 34,351 Falun Gong practitioners surveyed, 27% were male and 73% female. Only 38% were under 50 years old.[120] Falun Gong attracted a range of other individuals, from young college students to bureaucrats, intellectuals and Party officials.[121][122] Surveys in China from the 1990s found that between 23 and 40% of practitioners held university degrees at the college or graduate level—several times higher than the general population.[61]

Falun Gong is practiced by tens, and possibly hundreds of thousands outside China,[20] with the largest communities found in Taiwan and North American cities with large Chinese populations, such as New York and Toronto. Demographic surveys by Palmer and Ownby in these communities found that 90% of practitioners are ethnic Chinese. The average age was approximately 40.[123] Among survey respondents, 56% were female and 44% male; 80% were married. The surveys found the respondents to be highly educated: 9% held PhDs, 34% had master's degrees, and 24% had a bachelor's degree.[12

I am well aware of the background of the Falun Gong as Banjo Patterson has given some details above. However, is important to look at articles published by various organisations on their own merits. Not just dismiss them because you disapprove of some other policies and actions of the organisation. Shoul try and check all sides of stories on contentious issues.

The Falun Gong , which has long been persecuted by the Chinese Communist party at least has been performing a useful service as a leading whistleblower on way the CCP has been covertly extending its influence in Western countries. It has also through the Epoch Times lately been a leader exposing details of the Presidential election fraud in the US. Meanwhile the US mainstream media, Google, Twitter and Facebook have been censoring some stuff the Democrat camp would not like. Including while trying to dismiss the headlines as "Baseless allegations" or "fake news". Is important to note most mainstream media outlets have refused to run in full recent important speeches by Donald Trump. Meanwhile, I presume they have given little or any coverage of the footage in a recent speech by Joe Biden where he announced " We have just pulled the biggest electoral fraud in American history" or similar.

Note Trump is ahead of Biden in Electoral College votes without those of the six "swing states" ie 232 against 227. Are plenty of indications he would have easily won all without all the various ways of cheating which favoured Biden. Despite courts finding excuses to not even consider allegations of these, it appears there are still ways for Trump to retain office. Whatever you think of him, the sort of precedent it would set with Trump being deposed due to obvious election rigging is totally unacceptable. Awareness of this rigging is widespread and increasing. Including helped by "Stop the Steal" rallies in every state capital city and Washington DC on Saturdays since the election. These have received little coverage in mainstream media.

mox,
Donald Trump himself is the one who famously dismissed the verified truth as "fake news" because it didn't suit his agenda.

If you object to the term "baseless allegations" then how do you think allegations that have no supporting evidence should be described?

Which do you think is more like to be accurate: a publication that investigates and debunks allegations or a publication that publishes all those that suit its agenda?

Although lots of allegations of election rigging have been made, there is no actual evidence of it. Literally everything that appeared to be evidence of fraud was found not to be.

The brainwashed aren't those who believe the evidence, but those who cling to debunked beliefs despite the evidence.

Mox,

Biden won the popular vote and the Electoral College vote by landslides.

No proof of any fraud, except that one case of a Trump supporter voting for his dead mother. One case out of 155 million votes. Actually that's amazing.

End of.

Joe