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much for your support. So last hour, we got a
text about some ridiculous topic that the NPR station was
airing on one of their programs about democrats are going
to try to grow facial hair in order to get
people to vote for them. This is I guess also
in addition to the cursing and getting themselves arrested. I
guess it's not their policies, it's not their positions that
people are rejecting. It's the lack of facial hair that
turns people off, apparently, according to NPR. Speaking of NPR
Stacy Matthews writing over at legal insurrection dot com. For decades,
Republicans have argued that its supporters of NPR and PBS
were so fond of keeping their purported news organizations operational,
then they should have no problem forking over the donations
needed to keep them going. As it turns out, that
is what is happening. As I predicted this would happen,
because of course it would. When you cut the government
funding that has been propping up NPR and PBS, now
your listeners don't have an excuse not to donate. This
happened decades ago also when the funding levels were reduced
and they said, oh my gosh, we're going to go
out of business, we're going to go off air, and
all of this, and in fact it led to an
increase in listeners support. So the New York Times reports
that in the aftermath of NPR and PBS losing their
federal funding thanks to the GOP controlled Congress, donations from
private citizens have exploded at unprecedented levels. The number of
new donors has surged to over one hundred and twenty
thousand in a roughly ninety day period. Here's the New
York Times quote. Over the last three months, as the
prospect of the cuts intensified, roughly one hundred twenty thousand
new donors have contributed an estimated twenty million in annual revenue.
That's according to Michael hayblic Hyplick. He Hippilick anyway, Michael
as the president and chief executive of the Contributor Development Partnership.
That's a firm that analyzes public media fundraising data. But
that's an exciting workplace. Overall, donations committed to public media
for the year or about seventy million dollars higher than
they were last year now, and Stacey points out that
these are not just one time donors. These are what
they call sustaining members, so they you know, they're they're
making donations over the course of the whole year, so
they've signed up for like an auto draft thing. Now,
all that being said, they're going to have to get
a lot more donations if they're going to replace all
the money that was cut, because they're going to need
to raise somewhere in the neighborhood of like five hundred
and fifty million dollars a year to make up for
what they no longer will be getting from taxpayers. Sort
of kind of proves the point that if there's a
strong enough market for something, consumers will make it happen,
and that neither PBS nor NPR need public funding to survive.
She's exactly right. And you know that's not to say
some outlets are gonna are are not going to be pinched,
Yes they will. Some stations in some cities will I
don't know, problem, maybe they go off air, maybe they
have to cut back on their their staff. I saw
I saw Tommy Tomlinson. He used to be in a
columnist for the Charlotte Observer, and he was doing work
over at w FAE, the public radio affiliate here, and
they they let him go. But I don't know, like
I don't know what the nature of his deal was,
because he did. I think he did like a show,
like a once a week show or something like that.
I mean, look, they've got they have a news department
over across the street over there, and their reporters do
some really good work. They cover you know, government meetings
and stuff. But there's a lot of I mean, there's
a lot of staff in NPR stations. There's a lot
of staff. And I make this joke all the time.
You know, you listen to any of these programs that
are coming from the National Network, which, by the way,
the local affiliates have to pay for those. See and
I've explained this relationship before, like Limbaugh's show was the
only show that radio stations had to pay for because
he could charge right because it was the tent pole
in the ratings. You know, it's like everybody was under
his his tent and everybody else gives you their their
shows for free. And the idea there is that they
sell advertising on their show, and they control most of
that inventory, so they can then sell to national products
and services and then the local affiliates that carry the program.
We would get the program for free, but we would
also get a couple of spots that we could sell.
That's the model, and it's in television. It's radio obviously
NPR and what's the other one, American Public Radio APR,
I think, or American Public Media APM something like that.
They create content usually out of like Chicago and New York, right,
and then you have to you have to pay them
for airing those programs. So like local hosts, they I
think there's Mike Collins, right, I think he's the only
one over there. I think that it's the only local
show that's actually done versus us. We're live and local
from five am until eight pm. Now, so you like
there is a way to make that that radio model work.
I'm sure Public Radio will figure it out at some point.
And also they've got the McDonald's money. Joan Kroc. Ray Kroc,
the the guy who stole McDonald's from the McDonald's brothers.
I'll never forgive Michael Keaton for that. But you know
when he when when he died, she got all of
the wealth. And then when she died she donated like
a billion dollars to uh, to public radio or something,
so like, you guys, you guys got money. Okay, This
story out of Seattle, the climate activists are very upset
at the Blue Angels, the US Navy Blue Angels air show.
They're very upset. They call it wasteful, burning a lot
of you know, fuel and stuff just to fly around
and try to make people love their country. How dare they?
Seattle climate activists to protesting and upcoming US Navy Blue
Angels air show, claiming the jets pollute the environment. Also,
a woman in Seattle filed a lawsuit against against the
Blue Angels, I guess the US Navy, claiming that the
military jets killed her cat. Killed her cat. The cat
was old and it was already kind of sickly. The
Blue Angels the elite military flight demonstration team consisting of
one hundred and forty active duty sailors and marines, now
in their seventy ninth year. The squadron has been performing
at Seattle Seafair Festival since nineteen seventy two. The Air
Show Climate Action Coalition, that's what they're called, the Air
Show Climate Action Coalition, the ACAC or the AKAK. They
put up a billboard in Seattle this week declaring say
no to Blue Angels. It's a very persuasive campaign, guys.
I'm sure it's going to work. The coalition, made up
of members from local climate groups as well as the
radical global climate group Extinction Rebellion, is planning to march
Oh that'll do it, and hold a rally on August
second to protest the Blue Angels air Show that weekend.
The billboard depicts people with hands over their ears and
others raising their fists in protest of the jets, So
it's like literally shaking your fist at the sky. That's
the image that the Okay, they say the jets cause
war trauma and pollution, war trauma. Just planes flying around
produces war trauma. Okay, and then there's the cat all right.
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at Pete Calener, where I have this massage from It's
all a distraction who says the Blue Angels should fly
crop dusters over Seattle and release a bunch of xanax.
Those people need to chill. Ah. That would be funny.
That would be funny. This is from Ann in rock Hill.
Our local PBS is promoting donations and the spokesperson claimed
that it was important to contribute to continue quote independent journalism. Yes,
I have heard them say the same on our public
radio station here too. Independent journalism. As you say, don't
pee on my boots and tell me it's raining there
I getting my money. No, that's yeah. I saw one clip.
I think it was in Stacy Matthews piece. Actually I
think she had a linked in her piece over at
legal insurrection dot com and it was, you know, one
of these because they're all doing their fund drives and stuff,
and they have been leaning in on the whole you know,
defunding thing and using it to drive more donations, you know,
existential threat to you know, your favorite radio station, all
of that and this this so this guy is doing
this employee. I think it was out of like Denver
and he's, you know, doing a like a video appealing
to people to donate, and and the tweet says when
they send this thing out the video, the tweet says
something like join the resistance. Like what is that? The
independent journalism joining the resistance? Right, or as I call it,
the resistanans. This is from somebody on the text line Pete.
I just want to know how are all the activists?
How are all the activists getting to the protest by airplane? No,
they're probably local. They probably just they probably take mass Yeah,
probably mass transit or bicycles. Yes, they probably ride bicycles
because they care more than you. So you got the
Air Show Climate Action Coalition, which is sort of like
an ad hoc activist group. I guess like they it's
like they're just like pull. It's like an all star team.
You know. You get all these existing eco warrior groups,
and so you just collect some from each team and
you put them together into this Air Show Climate Action
Coalition so they can go protest the air show specifically.
I don't know why you would need to do that, right, Like,
why not just have all of the groups joined together
and just be their own groups still? Because anyway they
don't want the air show there. And then there was
the cat. The Blue Angels are facing criticism and a lawsuit,
apparently from a Seattle woman who blames the noisy air
show for the death of her sickly, elderly cat. Lauren
Ann Lombardy filed a lawsuit against Blue Angels officers in
federal court last week, claiming that her beloved family member
was terrorized by the Blue Angels. She called it quote
state sanctioned acoustic torture. The lawsuit claims the noise. Look,
if that's the case, then my dishwasher is acoustic torture
because my cat seems completely terrified every time the cycles
change or there's some noise difference inside that machine when
it's running. The lawsuit claim maybe I could, maybe I
could sue Whirlpool for acoustic torture. Okay, now I'm interested
in this case. I'm gonna be following this now. The
lawsuit claims the noise of the low flying fighter jets
spurred panic attacks in the cat. How would you even know?
How would you even know the cat's having a panic attack?
Wouldn't it just look like the zumis right? Cat was? Okay?
The cat was in critical condition due to her worsening
congestive heart disease, and ultimately led to her euthanasia last year,
last August. She also is accusing the Blue Angels of
unconstitutionally blocking her profanity laced comments criticizing the US Navy
squadron on its Instagram page. So now you have a
constitutional right to curse on the Navy's Instagram page. That's
what she's Okay, that's her argument. She is seeking a
court order to unblock her account and to prohibit the
Blue Angels from blocking any other accounts on the basis
of viewpoints. Well, see, that's the thing. It's not really
it's not based on a viewpoint. It's based on your
potty mouth or potty fingers, which actually sounds grosser for
some reason. But yeah, it would be based on your behavior,
not your viewpoint. Your behavior is what they were blocking
because you obviously cannot express yourself in a civil way.
So anyway, all right, now, I don't care about this
lawsuit anymore. I am not going to really sue Whirlpool.
I'm not gonna because I like just my cat does
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I think they are, they would still be. If so,
wouldn't tax considerations for donors still be considered public funding? Hmmm,
because you can make a donation and then you know,
take it as a as a write off or a
deduction for charitable giving. But I don't know, because I
think partly, like you know, liberals donate far less than
conservatives do, and so I mean just in general, like
that's the that's the thing. So I don't know if
they're donating enough to actually get like just more than
the standard deduction. So I don't know if that, I
wouldn't count that as taxpayer funded. So China apparently a
bunch of hackers launched a cyber attack as commis do.
Three China linked hacking groups are among those responsible for
a sweeping cyber attack against users of popular Microsoft server
software that has already impacted dozens of organizations across the globe.
This is from the Washington Post. Federal investigators believe multiple
US government agencies are among the early victims of the
ongoing cyber exploitation campaign, though the full scope is not
yet clear. This is according to two US officials with
knowledge of the matter. Microsoft confirmed in a blog post
last week that three Chinese hacking groups are involved in
the f One is called Violet Typhoon, another is called
Linen Typhoon, and the other is called storm Dash twenty
six oh three. I don't know what any of those
names mean. I'm not clear. I assume Violet Typhoon and
Linen Typhoon must be related or no is to the
Chinese names. Do they put the surname at the front
of the names anyway. At least two US federal agencies
are among the roughly one hundred suspected victims of the
hacks thus far. Both people were granted anonymity to discuss it.
Blah blah blah. The attacks allowed hackers to extract cryptographic
keys from servers run by Microsoft clients. Those keys, in turn,
would let them install anything, including back doors that they
could use to return only versions of share Point that
are hosted by the customer, not those in the cloud
are vulnerable. Right, So if you use share Point and
you're using the cloud, apparently that's fine. That if you're
hosting it, you're not fine. Microsoft issued effective patches for
the last of the exposed versions. While installing the patches
should prevent new intrusions, customers also need to change the
machine's digital keys, apply anti malware software, and hunt for
any breaches that have already occurred. That's all from the
Washington post ed Morrissey at hotair dot com. He notes
the irony, which is that Microsoft and Google have ben
over backwards in their dealings with the tricoms to access
their market, the China market. Both have long partnered with
state linked firms to help China build out its cyber infrastructure,
and in doing so also helped Xixinping build systems that
censor and spy on its citizens, even with China's hackers
using that infrastructure to target the US government. Since at
least twenty fifteen, Google had been backing away from China
for the last few years. They had bailed on the
as at twenty ten they classed with China over censorship,
but then they came back in around twenty seventeen twenty
eighteen to offer a chi coom controlled search app as
well as an AI project, but Google's employees protested and
they forced an end to both of those projects after
a public backlash. Yeah, to help the communists with their
AI research and to control the search results. Right, because
if you like, this is one of the tests. If
you want to know if your search engine is compromised,
or your social media platform, your AI assistant whatever, ask
it about Tianaman Square, what happened to Tianaman Square and
if the if the response is you know, not about
the protest of the Chinese government, but instead bounces back
as something else, or in some cases I've seen it
says we are unable to process that request. That means
the try cooms of control over your your platform, Morris.
He goes on to say, we have had a decade
now of cyber warfare aimed at our national security infrastructure
by China. It has not stopped, nor will it ever stop,
not even if we normalize trade and offer tariff free
access to our markets. That's because Xijenping is not interested
in profitable and friendly relations with US. He wants to
destroy American power and seize control of global commerce on
his own terms. This latest hack or a cyber attack
should make this very clear to everyone. But then again,
it should have been clear all along. I mean, they
are Kamis, and rule number one with kamis they lie.
I added that part, that's my rule. But it's true.
The only question now is whether the corporate quizzlings in
the West will realize it or whether they will continue
to collaborate with China to the destruction of all others
and the oppression of China's people. Meanwhile, Washington Post also
reporting that Chinese authorities blocked a US based Wells Fargo
banker from returning home and separately sentenced a Japanese executive
to more than three years in prison for espionage. According
to the Washington Post, the Wells Fargo executive, named Mao
chen Yu, was not detained, but she has been ordered
not to leave China. That's according to the bank. Wells
Fargo has suspended travel by its executives to China. Many
Japanese companies have already been limiting travel to China and
have been withdrawing family members of managers stationed there. One
of Ed Morrissey's colleagues David Strom at hot air dot com.
He points out that China's modernization has been driven by
its acceptance into the World Trade Organization back in two
thousand and one, and for twenty five years, China has
undergone increasing integration into the global economy. But politically it
has only modernized in the sense that the technical tools
it uses to implement totalitarian rule have become more sophisticated,
and as it has grown in economic power, it has
flexed its totalitarian muscle against foreigners doing business in China.
Wells Fargo's a major player in China. Maybe they are
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got a message. It's a peat mail from Richard who says,
I live on Jonas Ridge. Two fighters fly low over
my house about once a week or so on their
way to topography flight training through Lynville Gorge. It can
be extremely loud. That woman in Seattle needs to understand
that that is the sound of freedom the Blue Angels,
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It's probably right, That's probably right. The Department of Homeland
Security is flooding the Zone in New York City with
ice officers after the city council blocked federal law enforcement
agencies from opening an office in the city jail. Tom Homan,
the borders are made this announcement. The other day, he
joined the Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noman other Trump administration
officials to deliver this message. They went down to one
World Trade Center after an off duty federal Customs officer
was shot by an illegal alien in an attempted robbery
the other weekend, Holman said, quote, you don't want to
let us in the jails to arrest a bad guy
in the safety and security of a jail. You want
to release him into the street, which makes it unsafe
for the alien because anything can happen in an on
street arrest. So what are we going to do. We're
going to put more agents in New York City to
look for that bad guy. So sanctuary cities get exactly
what they don't want, more agents in the community. This
is the thing I do not understand why the demo
don't get this right. When when you say we're a
sanctuary city and we're not going to cooperate with ice,
you're going to then get more of this activity. The
alleged shooter entered the country illegally in twenty twenty three,
during then President Joe Biden's tenure, when it was you know,
Ali Ali Oxen free and he had been arrested and
released and then arrested again, and then released, and then
arrested again and then released and then arrested again for
a fourth time. Four times this guy got arrested since
twenty twenty three, she blamed Christy Nooman blamed the shooting
on New York sanctuary city policies that limit the city's
cooperation with immigration enforcement and Mayor Eric Adams for not
changing the policies despite what people believe is a good
relationship with the Trump administration. Now, Adams says like not
my fault, much like our sheriff here is not my fault.
This is the city council that did it. He said
he wants to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration, but
he blamed the left leaning city council for not letting him.
He said he welcomes more ICE agents in the city
if they're going to help the city go after quote,
dangerous people like the alleged shooter, But he said that
if it's going to be to go after everyday individuals
who are trying to complete the path, who are trying
to be a citizen. I don't think we should do that, Okay,
So what does that mean, complete the path, trying to
be a citizen. Well, if they're on the path to citizenship,
then they would be allowed to be here, right, they'd
be in that process, that naturalization process. Now, if you're
just saying that they're on the path and that that
just means that they're an illegal alien here. But they haven't,
you know, murdered anybody, they haven't been arrested for anything.
They're not dangerous, right, then you're okay with them. Keeping
is that the path you're talking about? Is this the path,
the pathway to citizenship or a pathway to amnesty? Have
you heard this? Representative Maria Alvira Salazar, Republican out of
Florida is sponsoring immigration legislation that they're calling it the
Dignity Act, and it envisions a healthy budget for modernizing
border infrastructure and funding for ICE. It requires companies to
use the Everify system to ensure everybody hired has legal status.
The legislation would immediately discourage illegal employers and laborers from
seeking each other out. Those are good provisions, according to
the editors at National review. However, those good provisions are
fatally undermined in the rest of the bill. Taken as
a whole, this latest attempt at comprehensive immigration reform is
a cure worse than the disease. Supporters of the act
claim the bill does not offer amnesty to millions of
illegal immigrants. By that, they mean it does not offer
full citizenship. But the bill does offer a form of
legal resident status to millions of illegal immigrants. This is
the core of amnesty, a promise that the normal consequence
of an infraction will be stopped and the object of
the infraction, the ability to live in work in the US,
is gained. Right. That's you don't suffer any of the negative.
You get what you wanted. Passing this bill would be
the first official step towards creating a permanent resident under
class with a perpetually renewable legal status that falls short
of citizenship. It is the kind of arrangement that the
Republican Party was founded to oppose because it undermines free
and fair competition in the labor market. Stop helping, Representative
salaz Are, please, you're not helping. The American Republic does
not want and is not fit for a racialized under class.
Such an arrangement would be a powerful magnet for entering
the country illegally. Come one, come all, lay low for
seven years, then watch as your children and children's children
live as American citizens. You yourself may qualify for a
future legal status once our political class has established the
precedent that dignity calls for nothing less. Yeah, it's just
a matter of time, because then it's like, well, these
people are being taken advantage of now, and so we
need to just you know, they have none any crimes,
and so we need to just give them full citizenship.
In the twenty years that Congress has been trying to
make a version of amnesty now plus enforcement sometime in
the future, they've been trying to make this sound like
a good deal. It never sounds like a good deal.
The rest of the world has already moved on. Border
infrastructure is hardening almost everywhere, according to studies of satellite
images and the evidence from the border crossings of the
world data set. Democratic publics want a system that is fair,
that works for the long term interest, and they are
forcing their governments to respond with measures of restriction and control.
Stop helping Salazar all right. That'll do it for this episode.
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