Ryan Merkley is Canadian and lives in Toronto. A foreigner spewing propaganda to Americans using our tax dollars is election interference. Fire him and delete NPR. Maybe we should take over Canada while we’re at it…
I contacted PBS two weeks ago and warned that the "news" division was destroying the PBS many of us grew up with: Macneil-Lehrer, among other excellent programs. It was like talking to a wall.
If NPR and PBS continue to spew hate speech and praise mediocrity as excellence, by their own logic they should be cancelled. You'd think they'd be able to see the train coming into focus. One can't expect tax payers to continue to pay for lies, omissions, and unbalanced depictions of life in America. I've loved many, many programs on PBS. I'm appalled that standards and commitments to quality have disappeared absolutely.
I believe that our neighbouring nations are Mexico and Canada. No threats on their horizons. Do you mean our neighbours in the Middle East or our neighbours in Eastern Europe....?
While the leaders of nations are busy playing poker, the game that controls all, a game of chess, plays out in global currency exchange and trade markets. We are independent nations and cultures in appearance only.
Actually it does. If countries aren’t going to reel in their leftist views and cut out ties to China the only answer left is to be conquered. Canada is a decade behind/slow with its NATO 2% obligation and Trudeau says it’ll take a decade to catch up. Not to mention the 100 billion trade deficit owed to the US. A tariff here will make even more difficult for Canada to get even so it might just make sense to become the 51,-54/55 states. Looking at it as a bad thing is reductionist. Canada bet on the wrong country getting cozy with China and now they can’t get rid of them. Your problem is definitely a national security problem being a country that borders the US. You also have become the country that washes money with huge laundering operations going on with countries like Iran and terrorists organizations like Hamas. If you show little interest in fixing it or are too slow in the arrests and people fleeing arrest I could see Canada being annexed. Do I believe it’ll happen? No. But it very well could if you don’t get in line.
Two or three years ago, whenever the truckers rolled into Ottawa, I watched the indie journalists, live-streaming in the bitter cold. Bless their hearts!
Then, a few months later, I was on a tour in Europe. I met a nice Canadian couple. I told them, "Canada is a beautiful place with lovely people. Too bad about your lunatic prime minister."
They were aghast! They told me the truckers were rioting in Ottawa!
HUH? I watched! It was more like a street fair.
Turns out this nice Canadian couple watched "reporting" from the CBC.
Well, that was not at all the impression we garnered from watching their epic voyage across the Canadian states cheered on by thousands lining their route every step of the way!
The commission did and then the courts also deemed it "unconstitutional" and violated the charger rights of Canadians- which the asshole liberals immediately appealed, with taxpayer dollars of course.
But the cut has to be to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the conduit for funds for both NPR and PBS. All federal subsidies to NPR and PBS should cease effective January 20, 2025. These entities should move to a subscription model if they wish to continue operation. Why should our tax dollars subsidize entertainment and news when there are thousands of outlets available?
When there were only 3 TV networks I understood why PBS. I personally have donated and helped raise money for my local PBS station (stopped when liberal bent became insufferable). I love Masterpiece Theatre. I can't understand the why of radio stations. But I cannot support regular taxpayers supporting my viewing habits.
Yes they do have some good shows. Subscription model is a good idea. Need to trim the fat in government in a big way and this seems like low hanging fruit.
I watch some of PBS (NOVA, NATURE, etc.) and adore Masterpiece. I’m wary of some of those science programs. I’ve learned to see who’s making them and possible agendas. The CRISPR documentary was cool but now I am suspicious of this cutting edge gene shite. Something evil lies within it.
The "Science Guy" is a mechanical engineer who's never engineered anything other than his career as a television personality who's for sale to the highest bidder.
I met him years ago at a cocktail reception. He's dumb as dirt, and very arrogant. When I pointed that out to him he got so angry that I started laughing. That made him even more angry.
Did you see he was one of the recent recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Along with other "defenders of freedom" like Hillary, Soros, and Bono. Disgusting.
Amen, Rosie. All of it. Raze. Every. Single. Institution.
Theyre all going to play "DOGE ball". Fine, then let them know up front its really The Department of Elimination.
IMO Its not enough to drain the swamp. We must break the State in order to restore the Republic. This is about much more than just cost cutting, regulatory slashing and bloat elimination.
This started over 100 years ago with Wilson. These are his exact words:
“We are not bound to adhere to the doctrines of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. We are as free as they were to make or unmake governments.”
Trump should do a mental rotation, turning their logic on its head, and say:
"We are not bound to adhere to the doctrines of the founders of the Administrative State".
We The People should be free to undo "government" and break the bureaucratic statism that has beat down our spirit for over a hundred years. It should be made clear the foundation of the Swamp is the STATE....therefore it must be broken.
Only then can we restore the Republic and balance out the 3 branches of government our Founders intended. This is about reminding the career bureaucrats they answer to the people through their elected representatives.
Banding together at the local level is key. They're our neighborhoods and they're worth fighting for.
I lived in CA until my family had to become refugees by moving to Florida, during the plandemic, in order to to escape totalitarianism.
Moved there at the beginning of the c19 verwy, verwy scarwy whyruss panic because I didn't want my kids to be surrounded in a spirit of fear. I also consider myself to be a fighter beings as I was maybe 1 in 1000 who actually resisted in any meaningful way. So did my wife. She has more balls than 99.99% of men. Not to mention spending nearly $100k and raising over $4 mil in capital for lawsuits to end the insane mandates.
Plus we're actively engaged in our school district, community/county where we push back and hold bureaucrats accountable. In fact my wife is on the school board and I started a group called Dissident Dad's to fight the insane progressive ideology.
I'm not sure I need a horse whipping....just saying. What are you doing Jenny?...:)
why is a depiction of the birth if jesus a problem, even in France? US also has separation of church and state, but this has gone way to far in many cases as liberals think/paint everything as religious, to support their ideologies.
Religion for many years owned the State and countries. This is why after the Revolution this law was passed.
So many wars if not most were because of Religion.
Our Town has a huge castle it was a Protestant Town. The River Rhone and Gardon separate us from the next Town which also has a Castle (not in our State) which is Catholic.
I look at the USA and see that even though you do have separation of Church and State it is being abused. The right wing nutcase Johnson (leader of the House) should not be able to spout religion in his position.
I clearly see that as the USA implodes there will be wars of religion..AIPAC Zionists + Evangelicals (who support them against the other people. THIS is why we fight here.
In the United States, the First Amendment's free exercise clause is intended to prohibit a state church like the Church of England. It has nothing to do with how publicly-funded institutions choose to celebrate or acknowledge Christian holidays or whether or not a Governor can order a statue of the Ten Commandments placed in his State House as a symbol of ethical virtue.
A creche installed in a public building for the Christmas holiday is "disgusting [sic] behaviour"?
Please stay in Europe. You belong there. Maybe you should move to Brussels or another EU seat so you can warm your sub-zero soul next to the furnace of totalitarianism.
Listened (I was a captive audience in a car) to an entire program on NPR of a multitude of stations around the country boohooing that they will have their stations pulled out from under their arses. That the world will end and people will get no truth. Granted, a few that serve wide spread towns in remote Alaska or such should probably exist but they all think every buck will disappear on January 21 from every station. Why should I pay for more gaslighting and propoganda. Areas should make sure their own citizens have a stake in it.
Yes Sir Rex, The lure of the GATES Foundation $$$ + Big Pharma $$ ad dollars was too much.. just a sad state of affairs, we have to chop them off at the knees, financially… I dropped PBS and National Geographic about four years ago.. About the time I started seeing the likes of deluded fools like Peter Hotez promoting the Poison jab.. As well as his promoting the medical insanity of childhood vaccines.. Couldn't stomach watching it…
Hotez being on Trump's staff is a bad sign.. completely incongruous with RFK Junior as director of the HHS… we shall see if the mass murder continues shortly, if this administration allows, the Bird flu plandemic, bio weapon to be promoted.. we will then know it's just business as usual…
Much like the one ring and the spirit of Sauron, this will endure. It will not be destroyed because too many powerful people want to keep it and use it themselves, “for good.”
I was embarrassed for the CBC’s Matt Galloway this morning attempting to deal with the mis/dis topic. Nothing of substance that would be convincing to the undecided. Just follow the ‘trusted’ sources. I want to trust just as much as the next person but don’t treat me like a moron. There are intense situations where orders have to be followed but after the fact, when we are trying to understand in order to do better, let it be based on facts. Not everything is as it appears on the surface.
Komrade Krystia, should she be the one to pick up the poisoned chalice of the LIberal PArty leadership, will lose in the 2025 election, and lose so badly she will never return to politics. A la Kim Campbell.
Like grandfather, like granddaughter - her grandfather was publisher of a Ukrainian language Nazi newspaper in Lvov in WW2. Her mother erected a monument to the Galician Brigade in Edmonton. The Galician Brigade was an actual Nazi unit, which massacred POles, Jews, Roma, in Ukraine in WW2 in collaboration with the SS. Note also Komrade Krystia owns a Kondo in Kyiv - this should tell you all you need to know about who she is.
Attention needs to be turned to Aspen, too. Anyone know how aspens grow? What appear to be individual trees are actually clones of a single massive organism connected by a vast subterranean root system.
When I made this connection I decided the choice of name and location for the institute was not accidental, but coded language for how it operates: bringing together individuals and groups who appear independent but are in fact connected and coordinated beneath the surface. Time to dig and sever and uproot. The “tabletop exercise” episode in 2020 should be basis enough, not mention these Soviet nomenklatura wannabes like Merkley.
> A September letter sent to [Judith] Miller in jail, which played a role in her decision to testify, showed Libby's literary side.
> "You went to jail in summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover ...," he wrote. "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life.
Like so many public services, when it grows to a point that it loses it's original mission, to actually inform the public in this case, it becomes an "institution" in it's own right and seeks to feed itself by whatever means necessary to stay alive, these survival activities may or may not have any resemblance to what it is actually supposed to be doing.
Many years ago I was a frequent listener. They tended toward liberal positions but tried to represent multiple sides of issues. When they veered into one sided ranting and DEI championship they lost me. Currently there are many good podcasts which replace NPR’s function, many of which are free. The multitude gives me good choices of information. When it comes to NPR I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
The entire corporation for public broadcasting needs to be defunded by the government. As one commenter pointed out, NPR and PBS are under their umbrella.
It's just so transparently obvious at this point that the disinformation grift is an attempt by media figures and mediocre academics to retain informational control eroded by technological succession and resuscitate their status as reliable arbiters of Truth™.
These people seriously believe that as information gatekeepers, it's their responsibility to manage the public's perceptions and emotions, and that almost anything contrary to establishment narratives qualifies as "disinformation."
In my opinion they know they are corrupt, biased, censors. They have no interest in being even remotely fair to political opponents. You see it in their most basic decisions; Burisma WASN'T meaningful? Hunter's laptop revelations were NOT meaningful? The easy way to prove their corruption is to simply reverse the politicians involved. A Trump son's laptop, outlining all manner of crime and corruption, would have been "dubious" to them? A Trump relative with a million dollar, no show, "board" job within an important, internationally sensitive, context? You'd have to be delusional to imagine those stories wouldn't have been front page material for months.
Stop listening to NPR 20 years ago…the noisy sound and programs caused nausea, except for the “Car Talk” one. They were funny and usually had relevant social commentary.
I enjoyed “What do you Know.” And Prairie Home Companion was usually entertaining. I liked “All Things Considered” 40 years ago…but since 2010 it’s been to the left of DPRK News.
On my long drive to work I listened to NPR until I thought, who are these people when it discussed how those needing surgery should check to see which hospital performed that surgery the most with good results and go there. That was enough knowing that most, at that time (22 years ago), got health insurance thru their employer. The affordability was based on 'in-network' plans where choosing hospitals was cost prohibited.
I had put up with NPR's nasty tone when a network break was required to bring a national address from Bush43 - but the 'choose your hospital' was the final straw.
When Biden dropped his plans to appoint Nina Jankowicz as "Disinformation czar", people rejoiced. This was premature.
I have said from the beginning that the plan was to outsource the censorship function, as putting this activity in ostensibly private hands insulates it from unwanted election results and pesky FOIA suits.
Sort of like how Sheriff Buford could, on the one hand, claim to be The Law In Dis Heah County when it came to arresting civil rights protesters on any pretext, and at the same time just a private citizen exercising his God-given constitutional rights when appearing before the local White Citizens Council meeting.
So true! We’ve made some gains in the censorship battles (thanks in part to those intrepid journalists) but the war against the deep state/WEF is hardly over.
How many people are on mind numbing drugs just for anxiety– legit or not. I can’t help but think about the warning about “soma” from Aldous Huxley:
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
They don't even need to use a drug - they just needed to pile on the despair and loneliness. Humans are social animals, if you put them in an ideological box and tell them that propagandists and internet hate-mongers are their new family, they're likely to sign up voluntarily.
Yes, this is a new paradigm to watch, not just in the free speech zone. The turning over of unpopular attempts by the government to control the public and trample civil liberties to private companies, which the government then directs, or with which it collaborates or comprises a “community of interest” primarily behind the scenes.
Whitney Webb talks about this a lot in the case of Palantir, Peter Thiel’s demon box, being the private successor to DARPA’s Total Information Awareness project that was nixed when it was exposed. Her general theory is that we are being set up to be dominated and controlled by just such public-private “partnerships”.
The Twitter Files is even more illuminating when seen as a part of this larger project.
Serious question: where did Jankowicz come from? Who got her the job? Who mentored her? Did she have any government experience before being named to head the Disinformation Governance Board? She acted like a Tumblerina,singing Mary Poppins parody songs, but someone had to hire her, someone had to recommend her. What's that backstory?
Far as I can tell, her status as "disinformation expert" is self-proclaimed, basically a function of her willingness and ability to recite PMC conventional wisdom with a straight face, to use the latest jargon and buzzwords, to sound condescending and authoritative.
Annoying as hell that NPR is government funded and employs leftist authoritarians who openly support censorship of rational opinion. If anything should be defunded it’s NPR.
I so enjoy their shows but I think it needs to be a subscription model, not subsidized by the government to the tune of 535 million a year, not including grants and tax breaks. That should all go away.
I realized that NPR was just a propaganda arm of the federal government years ago. I literally protested in front of their headquarters in 2016.
National Propaganda Radio.
One interesting data point: They take HUGE money from a company that is, lb-for-lb, the most ruthless/vicious student loan company in the nation...and a non-profit as well (ECMC Group). They make their living defeating student loan borrowers in bankruptcy court (a friend of mine estimates they spent at least $300,000 to quash his $5000 bankruptcy case). They also purchase bankruptcy for-profit colleges, ironically. They hire family members of congressmen who were key in getting the right of bankruptcy removed from student loans.
And their coverage of the student loan issue, predictably, has always been heinous.
Democracy is surely safe if they solicited the opinions of the Spare to the Hereditary Figurehead, the Duke of Sussex. He's never made a single bad decision yet, and he looked stunning dressed up in that Nazi uniform!
With ubiquitous access to news of all varieties, what purpose does NPR serve, I mean, other than providing jobs for newsreaders with names that aren't intended to sound satirical but do?
Not surprising since NPR is essentially a subsidiary of the Bill & Melinda Gates pharma hedge fund as they provide so much of the funding for NPR, and pharma loves censorship!
They are a non-profit in Minneapolis in the student loan industry. Their "niche" is defeating borrowers in bankruptcy court. They also are a guarantor of the older style, FFELP student loans. They have, in recent years, become a purchaser of bankrupt for-profit colleges.
I was actually referring to NPR as being the money laundering entity, but now that you ask, it is true that ECMC has somehow amassed hundreds of millions, that they keep in offshore bank accounts in Central America (I'm guessing Panama)...
I could go on and on about this company, and how they ruin student loan borrowers. Here are a couple of posts I did about them on Facebook a few years ago:
One Key point: Buck McKeon was the KEY Congressman who got bankruptcy taken away from federal student loans in 1998. His son, James McKeon, is now a highly paid executive at ECMC...
In fact, going back to his days as a Junior Senator in the 70's, Biden deserves more credit than any other living, serving politician in this country for the student loan scam. He weaponized the loans.
In answer to my and some commenters’ questions, the Corporation for Public broadcasting gets 535million per year from the federal government, not counting tax breaks and grants- all of that should go bye- bye in my opinion.
Anyone promoted by the witch who described the “First Amendment as the number 1 challenge” to obviously denying everyone their Right to Freedom of Speech, deserves the same type of reformation that Alex was given in “Clockwork Orange.” In fact, PBS should be given a group discount on the process. And, yes, easy first up for DOGE altho I think the IRS is the initial target!
Evil motherf&#kers. Here’s to not having one more penny of my taxes going to that damned lunatic asylum. The great reporters will find work elsewhere, but the leeches won’t (maybe)
It’s just a damned college station for kids who couldn’t grow up and get real jobs.
One of my brothers from college won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at a prestigious paper in the Northwest but lost his job and had to recreate his career to make money in the 21st century.
My roommate was a bureau chief for THE weekly newsmagazine in America but now has a successful career in Silicon Valley.
Time for these jerks to grow up, stop sucking off the public teat, and make an honest buck.
Attention Elon & Vivek: Here's your first budget cut.
Ryan Merkley is Canadian and lives in Toronto. A foreigner spewing propaganda to Americans using our tax dollars is election interference. Fire him and delete NPR. Maybe we should take over Canada while we’re at it…
I contacted PBS two weeks ago and warned that the "news" division was destroying the PBS many of us grew up with: Macneil-Lehrer, among other excellent programs. It was like talking to a wall.
If NPR and PBS continue to spew hate speech and praise mediocrity as excellence, by their own logic they should be cancelled. You'd think they'd be able to see the train coming into focus. One can't expect tax payers to continue to pay for lies, omissions, and unbalanced depictions of life in America. I've loved many, many programs on PBS. I'm appalled that standards and commitments to quality have disappeared absolutely.
And Harry of Sussex is British.
Harry of Sussex is Hollywood. Acquired citizenship through marriage.
Harry Markle
Sorry Yuri, "MAGA" does not mean Make America Bigger".
You are correct. It means make America better.
But
Maybe it includes defending our neighboring nations from enemy takeover …
I believe that our neighbouring nations are Mexico and Canada. No threats on their horizons. Do you mean our neighbours in the Middle East or our neighbours in Eastern Europe....?
Our neighbours on a tiny island across the Pacific ocean maybe.
While the leaders of nations are busy playing poker, the game that controls all, a game of chess, plays out in global currency exchange and trade markets. We are independent nations and cultures in appearance only.
Actually it does. If countries aren’t going to reel in their leftist views and cut out ties to China the only answer left is to be conquered. Canada is a decade behind/slow with its NATO 2% obligation and Trudeau says it’ll take a decade to catch up. Not to mention the 100 billion trade deficit owed to the US. A tariff here will make even more difficult for Canada to get even so it might just make sense to become the 51,-54/55 states. Looking at it as a bad thing is reductionist. Canada bet on the wrong country getting cozy with China and now they can’t get rid of them. Your problem is definitely a national security problem being a country that borders the US. You also have become the country that washes money with huge laundering operations going on with countries like Iran and terrorists organizations like Hamas. If you show little interest in fixing it or are too slow in the arrests and people fleeing arrest I could see Canada being annexed. Do I believe it’ll happen? No. But it very well could if you don’t get in line.
We could all wear Canadian tuxedos on our march to take them over.
Two or three years ago, whenever the truckers rolled into Ottawa, I watched the indie journalists, live-streaming in the bitter cold. Bless their hearts!
Then, a few months later, I was on a tour in Europe. I met a nice Canadian couple. I told them, "Canada is a beautiful place with lovely people. Too bad about your lunatic prime minister."
They were aghast! They told me the truckers were rioting in Ottawa!
HUH? I watched! It was more like a street fair.
Turns out this nice Canadian couple watched "reporting" from the CBC.
Maybe in Ontario and eastern Canada. I’m a "boomer" in Alberta, and haven’t watched CBC in years, and neither have my friends.
Alberta is most like a red state in the US.
It’s just state media isn’t it? Like the BBC.
It's not even state media. It's DNC radio. Let them pay for it.
"most people were against the trucker protests"
Well, that was not at all the impression we garnered from watching their epic voyage across the Canadian states cheered on by thousands lining their route every step of the way!
Yeah, it depended on who you were listening to. If it was CBC or Trudeau, they were a "fringe group with unacceptable ideas."
I am a 'boomer' please do STOP labelling a whole generation (who fought against Vietnam) boomers.
Whare you doing?
Dont think being pro or con Vietnam denotes a boomer.
When WWII forces came home, they started a generation of births referred to as the "baby boomer" years, as our population swelled.
With you as fellow boomer from the first wave.
The commission did and then the courts also deemed it "unconstitutional" and violated the charger rights of Canadians- which the asshole liberals immediately appealed, with taxpayer dollars of course.
Do you invest any hope in Pierre P?
Thanks for the perspective
Years..
PP supports any war the US wants us to support. INcluding any random mass murder events.
Incredibly dumb comment.
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You better start fighting for it.
What Country? You are savages.
Jenny - That would would be all countries but France, eh? Just can't suppress your Gallic arrogance, can you?
I am not French. I live here and I am disgusted with Macron and the EU.
Funny how the Americans can only use one word for Europeans.........Arrogant.
That is correct. Get in a snowball fight with Canadians and find out!
But the cut has to be to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is the conduit for funds for both NPR and PBS. All federal subsidies to NPR and PBS should cease effective January 20, 2025. These entities should move to a subscription model if they wish to continue operation. Why should our tax dollars subsidize entertainment and news when there are thousands of outlets available?
I've been wondering this for 40 years. . .
When there were only 3 TV networks I understood why PBS. I personally have donated and helped raise money for my local PBS station (stopped when liberal bent became insufferable). I love Masterpiece Theatre. I can't understand the why of radio stations. But I cannot support regular taxpayers supporting my viewing habits.
Yes they do have some good shows. Subscription model is a good idea. Need to trim the fat in government in a big way and this seems like low hanging fruit.
I watch some of PBS (NOVA, NATURE, etc.) and adore Masterpiece. I’m wary of some of those science programs. I’ve learned to see who’s making them and possible agendas. The CRISPR documentary was cool but now I am suspicious of this cutting edge gene shite. Something evil lies within it.
My favorite was Bill Nye crowing about how wonderful GMO foods are. He knew this because he had just taken a very scientific tour of…..Monsanto.
The "Science Guy" is a mechanical engineer who's never engineered anything other than his career as a television personality who's for sale to the highest bidder.
I met him years ago at a cocktail reception. He's dumb as dirt, and very arrogant. When I pointed that out to him he got so angry that I started laughing. That made him even more angry.
Did you see he was one of the recent recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom? Along with other "defenders of freedom" like Hillary, Soros, and Bono. Disgusting.
Agree. I like PBS. I’d pay for that. But I won’t pay for NPR. Never ever.
That cut should have happened under Reagan when he disappeared the Fairness Doctrine.
Couldn't have said this better.
Thanks for making the distinction.
Amen, Rosie. All of it. Raze. Every. Single. Institution.
Theyre all going to play "DOGE ball". Fine, then let them know up front its really The Department of Elimination.
IMO Its not enough to drain the swamp. We must break the State in order to restore the Republic. This is about much more than just cost cutting, regulatory slashing and bloat elimination.
This started over 100 years ago with Wilson. These are his exact words:
“We are not bound to adhere to the doctrines of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. We are as free as they were to make or unmake governments.”
Trump should do a mental rotation, turning their logic on its head, and say:
"We are not bound to adhere to the doctrines of the founders of the Administrative State".
We The People should be free to undo "government" and break the bureaucratic statism that has beat down our spirit for over a hundred years. It should be made clear the foundation of the Swamp is the STATE....therefore it must be broken.
Only then can we restore the Republic and balance out the 3 branches of government our Founders intended. This is about reminding the career bureaucrats they answer to the people through their elected representatives.
Bring out the BullDOGErs and chainsaws!!!
Great comment, Ryan! I think they could use your help!
How are you going to do this.............you can comment here with your imagination BUT when are you going to get off your fat arses?
Banding together at the local level is key. They're our neighborhoods and they're worth fighting for.
I lived in CA until my family had to become refugees by moving to Florida, during the plandemic, in order to to escape totalitarianism.
Moved there at the beginning of the c19 verwy, verwy scarwy whyruss panic because I didn't want my kids to be surrounded in a spirit of fear. I also consider myself to be a fighter beings as I was maybe 1 in 1000 who actually resisted in any meaningful way. So did my wife. She has more balls than 99.99% of men. Not to mention spending nearly $100k and raising over $4 mil in capital for lawsuits to end the insane mandates.
Plus we're actively engaged in our school district, community/county where we push back and hold bureaucrats accountable. In fact my wife is on the school board and I started a group called Dissident Dad's to fight the insane progressive ideology.
I'm not sure I need a horse whipping....just saying. What are you doing Jenny?...:)
I am here in France. Small Community with a far right Mayor.
We have in France a Law which says: Separation of Church and State.
Meanwhile our FN Mayor is going against the constitution by placing a Creche (Xmas) in the local Town Hall....against the Law.
He has been fined by the Head of our State but refuses to move it. So we the taxpayers will probably pay more for this disgusting behaviour.
This might not mean much to you in the US but like you we also fight.
why is a depiction of the birth if jesus a problem, even in France? US also has separation of church and state, but this has gone way to far in many cases as liberals think/paint everything as religious, to support their ideologies.
good luck in your town.
Richard. You need to read European History.
Religion for many years owned the State and countries. This is why after the Revolution this law was passed.
So many wars if not most were because of Religion.
Our Town has a huge castle it was a Protestant Town. The River Rhone and Gardon separate us from the next Town which also has a Castle (not in our State) which is Catholic.
I look at the USA and see that even though you do have separation of Church and State it is being abused. The right wing nutcase Johnson (leader of the House) should not be able to spout religion in his position.
I clearly see that as the USA implodes there will be wars of religion..AIPAC Zionists + Evangelicals (who support them against the other people. THIS is why we fight here.
Oh boy, this again. How the heathen rage.
In the United States, the First Amendment's free exercise clause is intended to prohibit a state church like the Church of England. It has nothing to do with how publicly-funded institutions choose to celebrate or acknowledge Christian holidays or whether or not a Governor can order a statue of the Ten Commandments placed in his State House as a symbol of ethical virtue.
A creche installed in a public building for the Christmas holiday is "disgusting [sic] behaviour"?
Please stay in Europe. You belong there. Maybe you should move to Brussels or another EU seat so you can warm your sub-zero soul next to the furnace of totalitarianism.
Ho onderful to hear this naive rant.
Happy to be a heathen by the way!
Bravo Ryan! You NAILED IT!!
Spot on! If NPR has decided to only speak to a niche social group, should they continue to be funded by tax dollars?
They don't even speak to Democrats anymore.
They speak only to/for the limousine liberal clique within what used to be the Democrats.
Definitely not. Subscription service model or go away completely.
Listened (I was a captive audience in a car) to an entire program on NPR of a multitude of stations around the country boohooing that they will have their stations pulled out from under their arses. That the world will end and people will get no truth. Granted, a few that serve wide spread towns in remote Alaska or such should probably exist but they all think every buck will disappear on January 21 from every station. Why should I pay for more gaslighting and propoganda. Areas should make sure their own citizens have a stake in it.
In Canada, CBC broadcasts in remote areas so that even if you live way back in the bush, you can still get proper propaganda jus like everyone else!
Absolutely, Fire all employees and cut off financing to NPR and PBS while they are at it..
Yes Sir Rex, The lure of the GATES Foundation $$$ + Big Pharma $$ ad dollars was too much.. just a sad state of affairs, we have to chop them off at the knees, financially… I dropped PBS and National Geographic about four years ago.. About the time I started seeing the likes of deluded fools like Peter Hotez promoting the Poison jab.. As well as his promoting the medical insanity of childhood vaccines.. Couldn't stomach watching it…
Hotez being on Trump's staff is a bad sign.. completely incongruous with RFK Junior as director of the HHS… we shall see if the mass murder continues shortly, if this administration allows, the Bird flu plandemic, bio weapon to be promoted.. we will then know it's just business as usual…
What position is Hotez getting in Trump Admin? I couldn't find anything in an internet search. Gotta link?
Hotez is getting an adviser position.. I'll go back and look for the link..
seriously. someone here with enough weight on X should share out as much of this as possible.
Completely agree!!! I think it might be already on the list as I’ve heard them talk about it. Not sure what they’ll do without government funding…
Much like the one ring and the spirit of Sauron, this will endure. It will not be destroyed because too many powerful people want to keep it and use it themselves, “for good.”
Attention Pam Bondi, here's your first investigation.
Jankowicz them all.
Ooooh! A new verb!
Well done!
Excellent suggestion!!
Nice!
I do miss Scary Poppins tho.
Probably the best nickname in the last 10 years
I was embarrassed for the CBC’s Matt Galloway this morning attempting to deal with the mis/dis topic. Nothing of substance that would be convincing to the undecided. Just follow the ‘trusted’ sources. I want to trust just as much as the next person but don’t treat me like a moron. There are intense situations where orders have to be followed but after the fact, when we are trying to understand in order to do better, let it be based on facts. Not everything is as it appears on the surface.
Komrade Krystia, should she be the one to pick up the poisoned chalice of the LIberal PArty leadership, will lose in the 2025 election, and lose so badly she will never return to politics. A la Kim Campbell.
Like grandfather, like granddaughter - her grandfather was publisher of a Ukrainian language Nazi newspaper in Lvov in WW2. Her mother erected a monument to the Galician Brigade in Edmonton. The Galician Brigade was an actual Nazi unit, which massacred POles, Jews, Roma, in Ukraine in WW2 in collaboration with the SS. Note also Komrade Krystia owns a Kondo in Kyiv - this should tell you all you need to know about who she is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Waffen_Grenadier_Division_of_the_SS_(1st_Galician)
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/edmonton-jewish-councils-call-to-remove-nazi-linked-monuments
Notice how the Edmonton Journal article omits a key fact - who paid for the monument. It was Chrystia Freeland's mom.
Bob, dear Bob, don’t you KNOW that they are?
Time to disband this hate group.
Attention needs to be turned to Aspen, too. Anyone know how aspens grow? What appear to be individual trees are actually clones of a single massive organism connected by a vast subterranean root system.
When I made this connection I decided the choice of name and location for the institute was not accidental, but coded language for how it operates: bringing together individuals and groups who appear independent but are in fact connected and coordinated beneath the surface. Time to dig and sever and uproot. The “tabletop exercise” episode in 2020 should be basis enough, not mention these Soviet nomenklatura wannabes like Merkley.
Very deep comment. I like the connection. Similar to a fungus although Aspen sounds so nice, beautiful and majestic…
BAM!!!
Are you Scooter Libby?
> A September letter sent to [Judith] Miller in jail, which played a role in her decision to testify, showed Libby's literary side.
> "You went to jail in summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover ...," he wrote. "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life.
I'm hoping the NPR is on DOGE teams' chopping block. NPR have outlived the usefulness they once had.
Like so many public services, when it grows to a point that it loses it's original mission, to actually inform the public in this case, it becomes an "institution" in it's own right and seeks to feed itself by whatever means necessary to stay alive, these survival activities may or may not have any resemblance to what it is actually supposed to be doing.
Many years ago I was a frequent listener. They tended toward liberal positions but tried to represent multiple sides of issues. When they veered into one sided ranting and DEI championship they lost me. Currently there are many good podcasts which replace NPR’s function, many of which are free. The multitude gives me good choices of information. When it comes to NPR I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
The entire corporation for public broadcasting needs to be defunded by the government. As one commenter pointed out, NPR and PBS are under their umbrella.
They were a primary brainwasher for me in my yonder years
It's just so transparently obvious at this point that the disinformation grift is an attempt by media figures and mediocre academics to retain informational control eroded by technological succession and resuscitate their status as reliable arbiters of Truth™.
These people seriously believe that as information gatekeepers, it's their responsibility to manage the public's perceptions and emotions, and that almost anything contrary to establishment narratives qualifies as "disinformation."
In my opinion they know they are corrupt, biased, censors. They have no interest in being even remotely fair to political opponents. You see it in their most basic decisions; Burisma WASN'T meaningful? Hunter's laptop revelations were NOT meaningful? The easy way to prove their corruption is to simply reverse the politicians involved. A Trump son's laptop, outlining all manner of crime and corruption, would have been "dubious" to them? A Trump relative with a million dollar, no show, "board" job within an important, internationally sensitive, context? You'd have to be delusional to imagine those stories wouldn't have been front page material for months.
The statement using the phrase 'disconnected centers of power' says this pretty much out loud.
Yep They know whose team they are on —-and it isn’t the “public’s”
Thank you, Matt. It is critically important that these little censorship tyrants keep having the painful light of transparency heaped upon them.
Stop listening to NPR 20 years ago…the noisy sound and programs caused nausea, except for the “Car Talk” one. They were funny and usually had relevant social commentary.
Click and Clack ?
Yup! Don't forget their law firm, Dewey, Cheatem & Howe! RIP Tom Magliozzi and his famous "Dawdge Daht"! Miss those guys... :(
Even Garrison Keillor got Me-Tooed by them. That's rich.
I enjoyed “What do you Know.” And Prairie Home Companion was usually entertaining. I liked “All Things Considered” 40 years ago…but since 2010 it’s been to the left of DPRK News.
Same song...different news coverage...Would be interesting to listen to a random hour of ATC from 30 years ago vs. today...
25 years here. I don’t miss the baby talk.
I learned a lot about car repair from that show. Always consider the motor mounts!
I miss car talk Funny and smart and helpful —- That was such a lure into the trap
On my long drive to work I listened to NPR until I thought, who are these people when it discussed how those needing surgery should check to see which hospital performed that surgery the most with good results and go there. That was enough knowing that most, at that time (22 years ago), got health insurance thru their employer. The affordability was based on 'in-network' plans where choosing hospitals was cost prohibited.
I had put up with NPR's nasty tone when a network break was required to bring a national address from Bush43 - but the 'choose your hospital' was the final straw.
Hammer hard and cracks begin to appear from which leaks, drip drip drip.
Soon the flood is undeniable.
All from a hammer.
Racket News is a sledgehammer.
https://youtu.be/OJWJE0x7T4Q?si=oEbIO9OIuUvpbS7F
A brief explanation please
You said Racket News is a sledgehammer. I agree, and thought the video would go along nicely with what you said.
When Biden dropped his plans to appoint Nina Jankowicz as "Disinformation czar", people rejoiced. This was premature.
I have said from the beginning that the plan was to outsource the censorship function, as putting this activity in ostensibly private hands insulates it from unwanted election results and pesky FOIA suits.
Sort of like how Sheriff Buford could, on the one hand, claim to be The Law In Dis Heah County when it came to arresting civil rights protesters on any pretext, and at the same time just a private citizen exercising his God-given constitutional rights when appearing before the local White Citizens Council meeting.
So true! We’ve made some gains in the censorship battles (thanks in part to those intrepid journalists) but the war against the deep state/WEF is hardly over.
How many people are on mind numbing drugs just for anxiety– legit or not. I can’t help but think about the warning about “soma” from Aldous Huxley:
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
They don't even need to use a drug - they just needed to pile on the despair and loneliness. Humans are social animals, if you put them in an ideological box and tell them that propagandists and internet hate-mongers are their new family, they're likely to sign up voluntarily.
And to think that "soma's" performance exceeded expectation with the gadflies in Hollywood.
Yes, this is a new paradigm to watch, not just in the free speech zone. The turning over of unpopular attempts by the government to control the public and trample civil liberties to private companies, which the government then directs, or with which it collaborates or comprises a “community of interest” primarily behind the scenes.
Whitney Webb talks about this a lot in the case of Palantir, Peter Thiel’s demon box, being the private successor to DARPA’s Total Information Awareness project that was nixed when it was exposed. Her general theory is that we are being set up to be dominated and controlled by just such public-private “partnerships”.
The Twitter Files is even more illuminating when seen as a part of this larger project.
Serious question: where did Jankowicz come from? Who got her the job? Who mentored her? Did she have any government experience before being named to head the Disinformation Governance Board? She acted like a Tumblerina,singing Mary Poppins parody songs, but someone had to hire her, someone had to recommend her. What's that backstory?
Another WEF trainee, maybe?
Or some other Three Letter Agency. Maybe they recruited her on Tumblr?
Far as I can tell, her status as "disinformation expert" is self-proclaimed, basically a function of her willingness and ability to recite PMC conventional wisdom with a straight face, to use the latest jargon and buzzwords, to sound condescending and authoritative.
Annoying as hell that NPR is government funded and employs leftist authoritarians who openly support censorship of rational opinion. If anything should be defunded it’s NPR.
And PBS- the entire corporation for public broadcasting needs to be defunded by the government
Keep Masterpiece Theatre!
I so enjoy their shows but I think it needs to be a subscription model, not subsidized by the government to the tune of 535 million a year, not including grants and tax breaks. That should all go away.
How do you de fund a non profit?
If money is coming in from the government it is illegal.
I think what we should be calling for is the application of the law.
Not sure what you mean. Government funded many not for profits. Also not paying taxes is a government subsidy.
Correct
I'm all twisted here.
I will stick to the subject.
Is NPR directly funded with tax dollars ?
Perhaps the worst they have done was to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop. Obvious election interference.
I realized that NPR was just a propaganda arm of the federal government years ago. I literally protested in front of their headquarters in 2016.
National Propaganda Radio.
One interesting data point: They take HUGE money from a company that is, lb-for-lb, the most ruthless/vicious student loan company in the nation...and a non-profit as well (ECMC Group). They make their living defeating student loan borrowers in bankruptcy court (a friend of mine estimates they spent at least $300,000 to quash his $5000 bankruptcy case). They also purchase bankruptcy for-profit colleges, ironically. They hire family members of congressmen who were key in getting the right of bankruptcy removed from student loans.
And their coverage of the student loan issue, predictably, has always been heinous.
It just sickens me.
Good for you for protesting.
Democracy is surely safe if they solicited the opinions of the Spare to the Hereditary Figurehead, the Duke of Sussex. He's never made a single bad decision yet, and he looked stunning dressed up in that Nazi uniform!
With ubiquitous access to news of all varieties, what purpose does NPR serve, I mean, other than providing jobs for newsreaders with names that aren't intended to sound satirical but do?
Plus his choice of life partner was superb…such an unselfish and talented woman.
Hahahaha Dang straight She’s a selfless saint !
So talented. My entire neighborhood signed up for Netflix just to watch her new series.
Not surprising since NPR is essentially a subsidiary of the Bill & Melinda Gates pharma hedge fund as they provide so much of the funding for NPR, and pharma loves censorship!
Also the ECMC Foundation, which is literally the most ruthless and vicious student loan company in the nation. They mention them at least once/hour.
Total money laundering cesspool for the obscenely wealthy.
But, but...Equality is the Goal, Equity is the Strategy.
Massive amounts of equity...
I am not familiar with ECMC Foundation. What is it and how do they help launder money?
They are a non-profit in Minneapolis in the student loan industry. Their "niche" is defeating borrowers in bankruptcy court. They also are a guarantor of the older style, FFELP student loans. They have, in recent years, become a purchaser of bankrupt for-profit colleges.
I was actually referring to NPR as being the money laundering entity, but now that you ask, it is true that ECMC has somehow amassed hundreds of millions, that they keep in offshore bank accounts in Central America (I'm guessing Panama)...
I could go on and on about this company, and how they ruin student loan borrowers. Here are a couple of posts I did about them on Facebook a few years ago:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sljgroup/posts/10159147697001702/
I actually put a Viking Curse Pole in front of their headquarters once (A "Nidstang Pole"): :-)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sljgroup/posts/10157467958111702/
One Key point: Buck McKeon was the KEY Congressman who got bankruptcy taken away from federal student loans in 1998. His son, James McKeon, is now a highly paid executive at ECMC...
Credit Card Joe was also instrumental in blocking student debt relief from bankruptcy:
businessinsider.com/biden-made-it-harder-to-discharge-student-debt-through-bankruptcy-2022-5?op=1
Yes he was!
In fact, going back to his days as a Junior Senator in the 70's, Biden deserves more credit than any other living, serving politician in this country for the student loan scam. He weaponized the loans.
In answer to my and some commenters’ questions, the Corporation for Public broadcasting gets 535million per year from the federal government, not counting tax breaks and grants- all of that should go bye- bye in my opinion.
Anyone promoted by the witch who described the “First Amendment as the number 1 challenge” to obviously denying everyone their Right to Freedom of Speech, deserves the same type of reformation that Alex was given in “Clockwork Orange.” In fact, PBS should be given a group discount on the process. And, yes, easy first up for DOGE altho I think the IRS is the initial target!
Thank you so much for covering this, Matt.
Every one of these scumbags who enthusiastically joined with the government to suppress free speech should be named and shamed.
Evil motherf&#kers. Here’s to not having one more penny of my taxes going to that damned lunatic asylum. The great reporters will find work elsewhere, but the leeches won’t (maybe)
It’s just a damned college station for kids who couldn’t grow up and get real jobs.
One of my brothers from college won a Pulitzer Prize for his work at a prestigious paper in the Northwest but lost his job and had to recreate his career to make money in the 21st century.
My roommate was a bureau chief for THE weekly newsmagazine in America but now has a successful career in Silicon Valley.
Time for these jerks to grow up, stop sucking off the public teat, and make an honest buck.
Tell us how you really feel! I love it- great comment
I got my clarity from my dad - he was a no-nonsense, straight-shooting orthodontist.