I like talk radio. I want to listen to NPR. Many of your topics are good. But almost all of them are heavily slanted left, anti-Trump, anti-conservative, pro-Ukraine War, etc. I want to hear your side but I also want to hear the other side. It is bad media, bad for USA, and super-boring radio to feature only one side of an issue as if there is no other side at all. Indeed, most issues have several sides all worthy of discussion. Your shows would gain listeners and respect if you provided real balance. ABN
UPDATE: A good example of how bad NPR can be happened a few days ago. I was driving and a show came on NPR about how American evangelicals were supporting Trump in large numbers. One commentator was some journo who has been reporting on religion in USA for forty years; the other was some college professor of religious studies. I forget who the host was. The entire program entailed describing how evangelicals had a psychological need to be accepted and heard and that’s why they support Trump. If I am remembering correctly the speakers implied if not stated outright that evangelicals had that need because they were uneducated and lacked sophistication. I found the program extremely irritating because all three of the supposedly educated and sophisticated speakers never onceconsidered that evangelicals might like Trump’s policies because they are good policies. My sense of those three speakers is they themselves are small-minded, incurious, and selfish in how they waste airtime by telling only one side of a potentially great story. Such a waste. It was a very good topic. Next time, get some people who are able to sympathize with evangelicals and who understand Trump’s policies as they are and not as NPR frames them all the time. To be clear, I am 100% willing to listen to all positions on all topics, including what amounts to NPR propaganda, but I really really want to hear all sides. Forty years he’s been a religion journo and many years she’s been a college religion prof and they both just cooed at each other over NPR lefty banalities the entire time. The host was no better. ABN
Ursula is pushing leftist ‘soft’ totalitarianism, wrapped in smarmy ‘morality’. What she wants is to control European minds by controlling what they can say and hear. At this juncture, as AI advances rapidly and security controls become increasingly omnipotent, we must insist on free speech, unrestricted free speech. Restricting speech based on bogus claims of ‘misinformation’ or ‘hate speech’ or whatever Ursula doesn’t like, serves only the totalitarians. With free speech on as many platforms as possible, the citizens of the West will constitute the only repository of information that can compete with AI. ABN
An interesting report from the U.K reflects British government officials who feel their legal position against ‘free speech’ in Great Britain is now part of the negotiations for President Trump’s tariffs. Essentially, the tariff discussion is encompassing more than just tariffs; if the nation does not support traditional freedoms and liberty, they could face stronger tariffs from the USA.
The messenger for this dynamic is not coincidentally Vice President JD Vance, who aligns closely with the tech platforms. The tech control agents are bitterly opposed to President Trump’s tariff position, and this nuance is quite possibly a way to give the tech platforms an ancillary benefit, vis-a-vis free speech support.
The tech industry is facing pressure from the EU and British government to censor and control information content on their platforms. By adding the importance of free speech to the leverage of tariff pressure, President Trump gives both Main Street companies and American Tech Titans something important to their business interests. This is both a smart and righteous approach.
This is an interesting take. If money and business wants it, it will happen. I am optimistic for free speech in the high-tech future. Notice how Jordan has crashed and burned with his anti-free speech pro-psychopath nonsense. How can you make ridiculous assertions when so many are able to answer? And by now, who is willing to not be able to answer? ABN
Denis may have some details wrong but the gist is correct, far as I know. I visit X to find random info or get insights from people like Denis. Pro-tip — if you want to enjoy X without seeing any ads, just follow a bunch of conspiracy theorists. Money is everywhere and affects everything and thus should always be a consideration when assessing any information. ABN
Bangor Publishing Company — the company that owns both the Bangor Daily News (BDN) and a lesser-known marketing agency — has received more than $2.4 million from state agencies since Gov. Janet Mills (D) took office in 2019, according to a review of contracts filed with Maine’s procurement office.
The payments to Bangor Publishing Company are not regularly disclosed by the company’s newspaper arm but are available publicly via the state’s vendor payment disclosures and its procurement record websites.
State financial records show that payments made to either Bangor Publishing Company, Pulse Marketing Agency, or Pulse Marketing LLC began almost immediately after Gov. Mills entered office and totaled more than $2.4 million as of fiscal year 2024.
The Maine Wire’s review of those contracts sheds new light on the murky and ethically questionable dynamics that arise when a newspaper company is simultaneously reporting on state government and profiting from lucrative contracts with state agencies.
‘The best way to do it to say they’re lying, here’s the truth’ — Rubio on confronting the EU and UK on their censorship and phony ‘misinformation’ prosecutions. He makes very strong statements about protecting ordinary Americans from censorship at home and abroad. This is Rubio at his best. I hope he keeps going and delivers, which I believe he will. ABN
‘Mainstream newspapers and mainstream media report things as fact that are completely not true. Our approach to that is not to shut them down, not fine them. Our approach is to say they’re lying, here’s the truth.’ — Marco Rubio
(JTA) — President Donald Trump has selected a new special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, elevating a Miami businessman and fundraiser named Yehuda Kaploun to the role.
Kaploun is affiliated with Chabad, the Orthodox movement, and was a fundraiser and surrogate for Trump during last year’s campaign. He appeared with Trump at a ceremony in Florida to mark the one year anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.
The role, which requires Senate confirmation and was elevated in recent years to the ambassador level, is the United States’ top position related to fighting antisemitism and has responsibility primarily for what happens overseas. Kaploun, who initially got connected to Trump through Miriam and Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish Republican megadonors, offered a clear sense in the Mishpacha interview of where he believes the greatest threat to Jews lies.
He presented a grim view of antisemitism in the United States. “Our situation is similar to that of Jews in 1930s Germany, on the eve of Kristallnacht,” he said. “They, too, lived in peace and quiet until the ground shook under their feet. And in the United States, the ground is already shaking.”
Kaploun must be asked if he is a Jewish Supremacist during his confirmation hearing. He should also be required to completely and unambiguously disavow Jewish Supremacism wherever it occurs. Basic common sense demands at least this much from our representatives in the Senate. News and media figures should also follow this line of questioning when they speak with Kaploun. ABN
The police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms.
Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail.
Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
This ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’ exists in all Western countries and regions, not just USA. It is a major player in the war against Western civilization. ABN
I listen to NPR when driving and have come to hate it. It’s almost nothing but lefty propaganda. Sometimes, rarely, there is a good story. I hope the whole organization is either defunded and completely destroyed or reformed from top to bottom before they see another taxpayer penny. ABN
It’s possible Trump went after Massie to highlight how the system works. If so, it becomes more likely Trump himself will use the NSA database to expose the giant parasite, with all of its tendrils, which has infested USA. Trump knows he has only one term and we all know he will take one for team USA. ABN
Everyone knows the ‘force’ Carlson refers to is either CIA or Jewish Supremists or a combination of both. What they are hiding is Israel’s and CIA’s roles in the JFK killing and the Epstein espionage and blackmail racket. Carlson implies as much very strongly and gives a loud voice to those who already know. He seems to be doing his best to inform the public, to give them correct information. If Israel is perceived as playing a major if not the major role in the assassination of JFK, gigantic silos of bad information will implode across the world and especially in USA. Epstein videos, if released, would be even more graphic and explosive because they are closer in time and implicate many prominent people who are still alive. The big question today is how long can the powers that be continue hiding this information? The Bondi-Patel standstill alone is proof everyone is cowed, including Trump, or so it seems. Only a very powerful player can keep these lies going. But, the harder they come the harder they fall. ABN
Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said that Mahmoud Khalil could be the first of many green cards holders to be deported amid his widespread crackdown on legal and illegal immigrants.
President Trumpboasted about the arrest of Khalil earlier Monday, warning it was ‘the first of many to come’ – even though Khalil is a legal resident who has not been convicted of a crime.
Information war plays by KOBK (Kill-Or-Be-Killed) game theory rules. Kill-Or-Be-Killed in this case is silencing, or ‘killing’, pro-Palestinian information to benefit Israel and ostensibly Jews, though this argument/battle may turn against Jews and do them more harm than good, much as the argument/battle against ‘men in women’s sports’ has devastated the ‘trans women are women’ argument. We the people must understand that freedom of speech is our best weapon against Big Government suppression of reason itself as well as individual rights. I am not sure where I stand on the above case. Selectively prosecuting people to help Jews is not good because: 1) in today’s world, it is not helping them as much as in the past; and 2) why should Jews get so much special treatment when it comes to information? Jewish Supremists have been playing the KOBK information game for centuries, with frenetic intensity for the past 100 plus years. Most readers of this site know all that. What I am pointing our today is at the core of information at large, there is often a KOBK battle. Different sides fight over the information. Leftists who believe Anthropogenic Global Warming support electric car mandates, but then burn Tesla dealers to harm Musk, whom they perceive as being right-wing. It’s all a KOBK battle over information hegemony. I conclude this is a major reason why we must keep promoting good/correct information while destroying bad/incorrect information. ABN
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