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Category: Systemic Lies

Our hidden history. Photo of the White City at the Chicago World's Fair.
December 7, 2025 The Cranky Creative

History is a lie — uncovering a lost global civilization

What if everything you learned about history was wrong? Is official history a lie? Did we inherit a majestic past only to be taught “we built it”? In my recent

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NASA bloopers showing astronauts on wires, combined with a composite image of a CGI globe and missing Apollo 11 tape boxes.
November 9, 2025 The Cranky Creative

NASA bloopers: wire fails, lost evidence, and CGI globes

After taking aim at processed food in my last post on “The Foodening,” I felt the need to aim a little higher… about 200 miles above Earth, to be precise.

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Watch "The Foodening: How We All Got Cheerily Poisoned," from Probably Alexandra
November 4, 2025 The Cranky Creative

The brands you trust are poisoning your food (for profit)

Stop blaming yourself for being sick. We are living in a rigged game, and the playing field is literally your dinner plate. As devoted Cranky readers know, I am highly

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Joe Rogan interviews Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience
January 23, 2025 The Cranky Creative

Facebook firing its ‘fact checkers’ is a win for truth

I’ve seen a lot of emotional posts from people upset that Meta has put an end to its “fact checking” on Facebook. What they don’t realize is that Facebook’s “fact

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why google is not your friend - the cranky creative blog
June 9, 2024 The Cranky Creative

Why Google is not your friend

(AKA, The Internet is neither free nor fair under Google) Remember when Google felt like a helpful search engine, a gateway to all the world’s knowledge? Now, it’s more of

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Big Brother looks upon citizens in George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, 1984
September 11, 2023 The Cranky Creative

Is Big Tech censoring The Cranky Creative blog?

You bet your free speech it is. I’ve noticed it for more than two years: Every time I publish a blog post saying something that goes against an approved mainstream

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