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
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.
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
UPDATE: CIA Director John Radcliffe on the Signal app flap:
Moreover, it is obvious that both CIA and Mossad can access Signal through backdoors. Probably many others as well. There is no guaranteed privacy online. 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
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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