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I just got back from a long trip overseas, it dawned on me while listening to YouTube, and I'm talking about the same YouTube I listened to in the United States, that there were no damn ads, I watched a real estate video today that was 8 minutes, and it interrupted three times for ads. At this point, if it's the same ad over and over again, I go out of my way to go to their YouTube channel and thumbs down it.

I remember a time when the news was too boring to watch. now it's like a reality show or a talk show with an agenda. it's grown into networks greed for money and salaciousness to drive revenue. it is primarily funded by a nonprofit organization called CPB (corporate public broadcasting) which gets federal funds and then disperses them to the stations. The CPB was formed by LBJ. and if LBJ did it, then that should tell you something about who has been in control of the news stations for 55 years! the same exact people in control of it now, only they don't rely on federal funding anymore (since July). That's when NPR and PBS went down basically. so the stations that were established like CNN, FOX, ABC, CBS were grown by the same funding as PBS and NPR. when trump signed that bill this year, he killed any hope of successful truthful unbiased news.

I came across this news post in my feed today. This situation is in Virginia, although, I live in Tennessee and can see this happening here too. No one gives a shit about fire and emergency services anymore.

https://wcyb.com/news/local/dante-volunteer-fire-department-officially-dissolved-lawsuit-dropped

In summary, that county's administrator had this rural volunteer fire department shut down due to mismanagement and lack of certification. I wholeheartedly agree with that part, but instead of reforming a fire department/station and restoring fire services to that community, the county administrator decides to bulldoze the building for a new Dollar General store, leaving that community with less resources and relying on surrounding agencies.

There is a somewhat similar crooked situation in this rural community of Tennessee with a corrupt volunteer fire department that fails to be investigated, disciplined, or dissolved by the state or county. It is still continuing to operate with unsafe equipment and corrupt leadership with county leaders turning a blind eye. The area is 20 or more minutes from the nearest ambulance, and despite pleas to establish a first responder program for the area, those pleas go ignored.