For WIDER GRAPHICS: https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-special-message-to-top-administrators.html
>>> For Wilmington, NC's BEST JOURNALIST , Three TOP Administrators at Harvard University , and a NUT-BALL Protestant Minister I've known since 2011:
To: bschachtman@whqr.org, president@harvard.edu, provostsoffice@harvard.edu, william_meyer@harvard.edu, stjudes@stjudesmcc.org
Bcc: kevin.maurer@gmail.com
Gentlemen,
First, I want the Harvard Administrators to know that I don't expect to include them in any more MASS emailings, as I don't think I'm making my points to THEM well, there. I DID see that it APPEARS TRUE that Thomas S. Kenan III and the William R. Kenan, Jr, Charitable Trust really DID cut Harvard off from millions of dollars per year since Harvard, of course, teaches Scientific Truth -- except in their Divinity School -- where crass, impossible superstitions RULE and are studied rigorously. MOST WARS result from differing superstitions being fought over to the DEATH.
When the Rockefellers and their Foundations got completely OUT of fossil fuels about 2003, the Kenan Family DOUBLED DOWN and consolidated much into controlling EXXON-MOBIL, Kenan Advantage Group (which keeps getting bought and sold as it grows more enormous), the American Petroleum Association, and it was Kenan Family Lawyers and Lobbyists who actually WROTE the Law creating the original NAFTA -- in partnership with George W. Bush's Family.
BECAUSE Bush deliberately DESTROYED the economy and we entered "The Great Recession", new President Obama was having enough trouble rescuing the economy, he had no time/energy to argue against the worst of NAFTA, which was PARTLY written to make it EASY for Kenan Transport to gobble up the much larger Advantage Group trucking, and nearly INSTANTLY becoming the largest trucking company in North America, and supplying every COSTCO in the "Lower 48" with gasoline.
So, you SEE why Craig Jelinek, the long-time CEO of KAG, personally kicked me out of membership -- and that was done via phone (paper followed), from the Offices of New Hanover County Commissioners -- yes, the call came from the Wilmington COSTCO Manager on a phone that traced to County Offices. Maybe THAT is why the County Commissioners keep BLOCKING my emails -- while City Council Members (excepting Salette Andrews), NEVER block them!!!
https://theweathercontinues.blogspot.com/2022/06/costco-partnered-with-new-hanover.html
So, YES, it is outrageous how the US Government continues to HARASS ME because I won't LIE for THEM and their GOD-DAMNED JESUS IDOL!!! Hitler said all NAZIS must be Christians. I know that is not true, but Trump & the MAGA crowd intend to ENFORCE THAT.
Last night, lots of my Readers found & read this old posting -- which I have not mentioned in blog or elsewhere for many years:
TO BE CLEAR, within it, at the time I wrote it, I was afraid to mention that my past employer I was referring to was Patrick Lee Stansbury of Pentagon Publishing, Inc. of Snellville, GA -- and Patrick died October 28, 2024. See this posting from FEBRUARY 28, 2025!!!:
Feb 28, 2025 — Patrick Lee Stansbury, age 73 of Snellville, Georgia, passed away Monday, October 28, 2024.There are no services planned at this time.
I believe that Michael Massicott, Patrick's Executive V.P., is now running the company -- and LAST NIGHT, Mike BLOCKED ME from contacting him via his Secured Server Form, or at least it disappeared from this page, but the email address and phone number DO WORK!!!
https://www.collegiatepubs.com/contact
. . . actually SHOWED ME how the CIA had CHANGED THE CONTENT of my email en route to him!!!
And I was TOTALLY SERIOUS when I reported not only that Alyson Books Publisher Don Weise told me that ALL WRITERS destroy ALL COPIES (including all drafts), of a piece when giving it to the Publisher on a memory stick -- and I needed to DO THAT before delivering my final draft to him in Manhattan.
I did NOT trust him and copied that HUGE FILE FOLDER onto another memory stick that I hid in my office -- and IN FACT when I got back to Stone Mountain, my computer (which had been turned off the whole time), was MISSING THE CONTENTS , but still had the empty FILE FOLDER'S name and in the correct position.
I didn't tell him or my CORRUPT AGENT , Cynthia Zigmund of Second City Publishing, about that -- HA!!! They assumed I'd deleted the thing first, myself.
REMEMBERING Edith Love, a BEST FRIEND since my freshman year at Denison:
>>> The OTHER extraordinary thing is that there REALLY WERE TWO INTERNETS, and when publication was CANCELED, I and my known-to-them friends saw my book disappear from Alyson's website in January 2010, but OTHERS, even ME, when I used a library computer, saw it shown for sale UNTIL A MONTH AFTER ITS SUPPOSED RELEASE IN APRIL OF 2010.
I bet I have all the SECRETS of what the NAZIS in the USA have done to put TRUMP/MUSK/PUTIN and their SICK, FAKE-CHRISTIAN ILK into Power -- and we can GET THEM OUT !!!
Let me rest a few days -- and in the meantime, confront Thomas S. Kenan III over this -- he personally FUCKED ME as much as my Mother and siblings, who are celebrating my brother Michael William Kenan's daughter Taylor Ann Kenan's WEDDING OF YESTERDAY -- which they REFUSED to tell me when and where it was, but I got my Mother to spill the beans when I promised not to harass them over their EXTREME HATRED OF ME before tomorrow, which is MIKE'S 69th Birthday -- HA!!!
OK, moving on:
I include Rev. John McLaughlin because no matter how much I tease him about LEADING WORSHIP of the DEVIL (Jesus, the Christian Idol), he still seems to LIKE ME, and is QUITE CUTE as well!!!
Ben Schachtman (an Ashkenazi Jew given over to copious body tattoos), finally, today, in his rather lengthy preamble to his weekly "Sunday Edition" newsletter, addresses the Trump Administration's attack on Public Broadcasting. I don't see this published anywhere else, and Ben does not include his preambles when he posts the bulk of those missives -- see link at bottom.
Hey folks –Well, it’s been a busy week, so I’m going to keep this edition of the newsletter relatively brief. (Yes, I know, with me the word “relatively” is doing a lot of work here.) I do want to say something here about the Trump administration’s recently announced plans to claw back roughly a billion dollars, which Congress had approved to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). As most of you know, that’s the nonprofit – created by Congress in 1967 – which helps fund PBS, NPR, and local public media affiliates, like WHQR. We have a whole page dedicated to the nuts and bolts of why CPB funding is important, what it would mean, logistically, to lose it, and what we – and you – can do in response. And we welcome questions and comments about this, as well. Now, while I’ve already heard plenty of support in the wake of Trump’s attacks on public media, I know there is a fair amount of schadenfreude, mostly right of center, when it comes to ‘defunding NPR,’ occasionally crossing over into gleeful vitriol. I’ve seen it in the comment section, read it in emails, and heard it in private conversations. “Better polish your CV,” was the unsolicited professional development advice I received in a message last week. Some would like to see CPB’s funding directed differently, some would like to see it reduced, and some just can’t abide their tax dollars going to a media outlet – especially one with which they find ideological differences. Some actually like NPR – or, at least, find it valuable as part of a portfolio of news sources – but think it would be better in the long run if it were uncoupled from public funding. It is hard, perhaps obviously, not to take some things in these conversations personally. When Trump tweets in all-caps that NPR journalists are “RADICAL LEFT ‘MONSTERS’ who have “BADLY HURT OUR COUNTRY” I can shrug it off as political theater, an arena where Trump excels – if nothing else, I can say I’ve been called far worse, to my face. But the funding issue hits home. We are, after all, talking about funding that helps put a roof over the heads of my colleagues, of whom I am quite fond. And, yes, we are talking about my own livelihood, as well. That said, it’s still my job to listen to people, even when I don’t agree with them. (Trump’s call to defund public media is a real acid test of that journalistic ethos.) So let me say two things. First, scrapping CPB won’t destroy NPR. The mothership, as we call it, won’t fall out of the sky. It won’t be the end of WHQR, either. It will be damaging, and it will take work – and your help – to adjust, but we’ll keep doing our jobs. However, defunding CPB could easily bankrupt smaller rural stations, like those in news deserts where people have few options to get important news and information. These stations aren’t the thing most conservatives I talk to are mad about, and if they go under, they will, tragically, be collateral damage in a culture war that didn’t really involve them. Second, I know some reasonable people simply disagree about how much, or whether, taxpayer money should go to NPR, PBS, and public media stations. There are fair-minded criticisms of how NPR – and WHQR – handle particular stories and approach the news in general. I have those conversations all the time. But, in my humble opinion, Trump’s call to defund CPB is not that. In the past, Trump sought a toxic but symbiotic relationship with the press – in his view, newsrooms got endless and highly engaging content, and he got the attention and megaphone he needed – but he’s grown increasingly aggressive in his attempts to use the executive branch to quash criticism of his administration. (Despite that, dramatically fewer people are hearing about Trump’s attacks on the press; last month, Poynter found that only half as many people are tuned into the administration’s relationship with the media compared to 2017.) Trump’s attacks on CBS and 60 Minutes, the Des Moines Register, and the Associated Press, his attempts to intimidate Big Law into compliance, and even his interest in the reshaping of social media apps like Facebook and X – these are all of a piece. (Which warranted NPR’s recent “State of the First Amendment” series.) The courts may eventually side with Trump’s administration, and some will certainly rejoice as Trump “owns the libs.” But it’s hard to believe these attempts to bend free speech to his will are calculated altruistically or patriotically with the long-term good of the nation in mind. Now, many presidents have had contentious relationships with the press, especially when scandal was engulfing them (I think of Nixon or Clinton). The Committee to Protect Journalists was critical of Obama’s attempts to stifle investigative reporting, and many free-speech advocates, including the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, objected to some of Biden’s attempts to control posts on Facebook and elsewhere about Covid and the 2020 election. However, Trump looks willing and eager to outstrip Obama and Biden in scale and scope. Setting a few snide missives aside, much of the criticism of NPR and WHQR that I hear is honest and earnest. It often comes from people who feel we could be more balanced, more representative of the conservative half of the country, more ecumenical, so to speak. Most will admit that critical coverage of the Trump administration is fair, especially when it’s not just coming from NPR but also The Atlantic, The National Review, Reason Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal editorial board. Frequently, they’ll follow up this admission by adding we allow too much bandwidth for stories about Trump, or voice frustration that we whiffed on stories like Biden’s decline or the DNC’s rush to anoint Harris. (I’ll note the criticism I get from the progressive left, about our coverage of issues like Israel’s war, trans rights, abortion, etc., while it represents a smaller demographic, comes from the same basic place: wanting to be heard.) These are not folks who, generally speaking, see us as the enemy of the people. They’re usually quite clear that they would like us to do ‘a better job.’ But it’s uncommon that they tell me they want to see us destroyed, financially crippled, unable to do our jobs, or just unemployed. They are not asking us to bend the knee, to anyone. Just the opposite, in fact. In any case, time to get back to work. Thanks, as always, for reading and sharing your thoughts, and for your support. |
-Ben Schachtman, News Director Bschachtman@whqr.org Looking for past Sunday Edition essays? Find them here. |
Ben Schachtman got it for his EATING SKILLS!!! Unfortunately, he does NOT EAT HOT DOGS, although I'd like to get Ben's BEST FRIEND and Wilmington's TOP CIA AGENT Kevin Maurer to AT LEAST let me EAT HIS!!!
Scott
.