@StarGate
The whole William Cooper debacle sounds VERY suspicious. But having a shoot out with the police (or whatever that was, if that's what REALLY happen) also sounds a little off. I know that "news stories" often contain information of "variable truthfulness." (I.E. lies, 1/2 truths, truth without context, and just random bits of true stuff)
With Monteith, I don't know. I don't think that was foul play. He had been on the radio (and later internet) for a long time, and he was older (well over 80 when he died). I listened to him for a number of years, and had noticed that his voice had started to sound less and less strong. In addition sometimes he'd have others host his show for what he himself said was due to health issues. That's why I think that was more old age/health issues than suspicious circumstances.
But I agree with you
@StarGate, it does seem like "alternative news" sources are harder to access. They are still there, if you know where to look. But then there is a certain point where their is little else new to learn. I remember a quote from an alternative news source of how the speaker learned that the "search for esoteric knowledge" is just that: a SEARCH. After a point, the sources repeat themselves, have nothing more to really say, or make you pay lots of money to say...
exactly what you heard 3 years ago for free.
I remember when I first started reading this stuff. even just typing the key words in google/yahoo/YouTube/google videos/Vimeo would bring up a ton of sites, and many of the more informative ones were at or near the top of the list. I highly suspect that some of the first websites available in the 1995/96/97 period when the internet was first getting started WERE conspiracy websites -- what better way of distributing alternative facts than in a brand new medium?
When I do those same searches now, most are ones I've already seen, some are repeats of things I've already seen, many of the ones I remember are not there any more, and a lot of the ones that are they have their own TV shows. Naturally the TV shows are things have been rehashed hundreds of times and pretty sanitized by the time they broadcast.
I don't know if that's because a lot of the alternative news has be co-opted by the very things they were reporting against,
OR the old sites could not keep up with the technology, and their sites became obsolete,
OR their previous outlets got hacked
OR the hosts just got tired and moved on to new stuff.
Two examples:
Fritz Springmeier: had a lot of interesting and compelling stuff. He's still around, but most of what he does now is repeat what he's said for the last few decades.
Dante Fortson: I heard him because I was listening to him as a guest on another alt site (Future Man radio, I think. Also no longer an independent site, but many items can be found on youtube). Both the hosts and guest leaned to more conservatively Christian views, but the topic was about ufos/nephilim. Dante was really into that at the time, and the Future Man show did shows on that topic and other related items. From the show I learned that Dante Fortson had his own site, and I bookmarked it, and used it for future visits.
However later (couple years? several months?), the Fortson site was completely unusable. My antivirus program wouldn't even let me access it without a disclaimer. Not too long after that I found Dante Fortson on youtube with much of the same content that was on the site. Some of it is still there.
THEN, Fortson completely shifted gears. His current focus is on Black Hebrews. If you were to do a search of him now, the ufos/nephilim topics come VERY low on the list of topics he now discusses. He still holds some of his views, but in his own words, he's moved on to something he thinks is more important.