I'm probably on that list. I am a vocal antagonist again this administration. I'm not easy to lie to and I ask too many questions. I love going to the shooting range, value strong pro democratic elections and disageee vehemently with the citizen's united decision, as corporations are not people. Mmm oh, I also believe in a strong separation of church and state, as did the Founders. I think that checks all of their "terrorist" boxes.
Thanks for this important information and context. You are doing an important public service by revealing this sleazy memo and the complicity of the mainstream media.
"For months I’ve wondered why hair-raising developments around Trump’s NSPM-7 haven’t generated any mainstream media interest."
Yep. It feels kind of insane to keep screaming about this and have journalists who are supposedly dedicated to shining a light into the dark places stare on blandly without so much as blinking. I'm genuinely baffled. I said during Trump's first term that, in spite of all their public antagonism and theatrics, the media and Trump couldn't really be analyzed as enemies, they had to be analyzed as one and the same - they played off each other and needed to be performatively outraged by the other to generate the attention both sought.
This now is similar, but feels much deeper and darker. They still engage in the performative outrage, and if Trump wants to say anything particularly vile (e.g. calling Somalis "garbage"), they will still gleefully report on it. But they are careful now to avoid any actual exposure or critique of the real policies. The theatrics have become the totality of their substance. I don't know if this is because of billionaire/corporate ownership and control, because they are scared of being targeted, or simply because it is so damn easy to generate a viral headline from an offensive tweet, but so hard to do real investigative journalism.
I don't know if it really matters why, I don't have a solution in any case. But thank you for continuing to shine the light.
"For months I’ve wondered why hair-raising developments around Trump’s NSPM-7 haven’t generated any mainstream media interest."
I think we know why. The mainstream media is owned by, and shares interests with, those in political power. The on-the-ground journalists will lose their jobs (or be pressed up against the wall to submit a "resignation") if they step too much outside of the sanctioned line. On rare occasion, a journalist does exactly that.
It's been this way for a long time, but it just keeps getting worse.
A quote from Albert Einstein in 1949:
"Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
(- from Einstein's essay "Why Socialism?")
Uncle Albert would certainly be on the NSPM-7 list.
Thank you Jack Horner from the UK. .................
The following inocuous comment by @jennystokes was blocked by substack in the UK due to age based "online safety legislation." Substack demanded that I verified my identity before reading it. This the dark future we feared.
I wonder if using the FBI tip line to report ICE activity as witnessed domestic terrorism and “un-American” activity gets you a cash reward or just on their list of potential domestic terrorists
The legacy media thinking we can’t handle the truth. I’m so grateful for your perspective Ken. And for trusting the brains we were given at birth will suffice us to draw our own conclusions.
Appreciate you publishing the full memo Ken. But really, with Alina Habba resigning and our president whining about weak Europeans etc. - how are these over worked news readers and document summarizing reporters supposed to report to us great unwashed masses while navigating the seismic changes in the media landscape. You bet there will be a bunch of coverage about the president's campaign style rally at, yes no joke, Mount Airy Lodge casino in the Poconos with its world famous champagne glass hot tubs. But thanks for trusting us Ken to read and think about the source material while providing your analysis.
The essence of the Trump administration is top-down assertion of power. The so-called groups that are named don't get down to the only thing that constitute a crime, individuals doing something that is criminal, whether alone or in a group of such individuals.
Nothing that Bondi says identifies anyone in particular, instead showing animus toward a category such as "anti-Americanism" that is so vague as to be meaningless. There is no definition given to tell us exactly what is meant by the term.
If there is anything characteristic of what the founders intended in the design of our political system, it is the value of the individual, calling on individuals to be active politically and responsible for what they say and do.
Trumpism is bigotry spread widely to include not just race but phantoms like "anti-Americanism" with a heavy dose of anger driving it. What Trump does best is express how much he dislikes this or that person or group, the latter being most outrageous because he takes the example of a individual he doesn't like and expands the animus to a group such as from Ilan Omar to Somalis.
How this can be thought to be popular in a country that is composed of so many different groups all of which interact with each other, where one group after another has arrived in the US and then established a living that is not in isolation from others is hard to fathom.
Anyone who has worked with or lived with members of other groups knows perfectly well that you cannot lump people together in any meaningful way. One MUST take people one at a time, doing so invariably proves that the good and the bad can be found regardless of some, usually visual, commonality.
Nick Fuentes, proud to be a racist, has a Mexican and Italian background. Emotion drives him as it always does with racists. They are hard put to name any individual of the group they despise that exemplifies the things that make them despise the group. They have minds from which logic has departed.
Trumpism is fishing for groups to despise and has no examples of individuals to offer that are not, like the example of Omar, absurd. Our government, charged with looking after us for the good of all, has been turned into a posse out to get us. 3 years of this insanity to go.
Corporate media became useless to me a few years ago. If not for independent journalists, I’d be in the dark. Thank you as always, Ken. True story: I offered to gift a subscription to you and Sarah Kendzior to three r/l friends. Their response: “We already spend too much time reading the NYT and WaPo and have no time for anyone else. Thanks anyway.”
Corporate media is a total joke. A sick joke played on everyone. And the fact that so many people still trust their fake reporting is astounding, and sickening. Thank goodness there are still SOME REAL JOURNALISTS.. but far too few.
Corporate media never holds the presidents of either party to account the way independent media does. They’ll “dip their toe in the water” with some light critique here and there, but nothing too critical.
To me, that just shows that corporate media is basically the propaganda arm of the government. They work together to lie to the American people. They work together to withhold stories - withhold the truth - to the American people. Just as bad.
As you say, Ken, they have their higher-ups cherry picking parts of these stories, deciding which parts are “important.” Or, as often is the case, they don’t even cover many of the important stories I’m seeing you cover, or BP or TYT cover.
Corporate media is grossly negligent in their duty to hold power to account.
I'm probably on that list. I am a vocal antagonist again this administration. I'm not easy to lie to and I ask too many questions. I love going to the shooting range, value strong pro democratic elections and disageee vehemently with the citizen's united decision, as corporations are not people. Mmm oh, I also believe in a strong separation of church and state, as did the Founders. I think that checks all of their "terrorist" boxes.
I’m a middle aged grandmother type who keeps chickens and bakes cookies, and I pretty much assume I check their boxes as well.
Every American Citizen is on that least.
Thanks for this important information and context. You are doing an important public service by revealing this sleazy memo and the complicity of the mainstream media.
"For months I’ve wondered why hair-raising developments around Trump’s NSPM-7 haven’t generated any mainstream media interest."
Yep. It feels kind of insane to keep screaming about this and have journalists who are supposedly dedicated to shining a light into the dark places stare on blandly without so much as blinking. I'm genuinely baffled. I said during Trump's first term that, in spite of all their public antagonism and theatrics, the media and Trump couldn't really be analyzed as enemies, they had to be analyzed as one and the same - they played off each other and needed to be performatively outraged by the other to generate the attention both sought.
This now is similar, but feels much deeper and darker. They still engage in the performative outrage, and if Trump wants to say anything particularly vile (e.g. calling Somalis "garbage"), they will still gleefully report on it. But they are careful now to avoid any actual exposure or critique of the real policies. The theatrics have become the totality of their substance. I don't know if this is because of billionaire/corporate ownership and control, because they are scared of being targeted, or simply because it is so damn easy to generate a viral headline from an offensive tweet, but so hard to do real investigative journalism.
I don't know if it really matters why, I don't have a solution in any case. But thank you for continuing to shine the light.
"For months I’ve wondered why hair-raising developments around Trump’s NSPM-7 haven’t generated any mainstream media interest."
I think we know why. The mainstream media is owned by, and shares interests with, those in political power. The on-the-ground journalists will lose their jobs (or be pressed up against the wall to submit a "resignation") if they step too much outside of the sanctioned line. On rare occasion, a journalist does exactly that.
It's been this way for a long time, but it just keeps getting worse.
A quote from Albert Einstein in 1949:
"Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
(- from Einstein's essay "Why Socialism?")
Uncle Albert would certainly be on the NSPM-7 list.
Rest assure, they'll be hooting and hollering plenty when this all ends up biting them in the ass and one of their own is black bagged.
"Hey Mister. Cut your grass and keep your cat out of my yard or I will lie about you to the Feds!'
Oh dear me, such an old tactic but it works.
No-one is safe.
Thank you Jack Horner from the UK. .................
The following inocuous comment by @jennystokes was blocked by substack in the UK due to age based "online safety legislation." Substack demanded that I verified my identity before reading it. This the dark future we feared.
I wonder if using the FBI tip line to report ICE activity as witnessed domestic terrorism and “un-American” activity gets you a cash reward or just on their list of potential domestic terrorists
All these ICE terrorists are on a list somewhere.
Let's have a list of the names.
Everyone has a neighbour. Do you know your neighbour?
Is this neighbour working? Is he/she suddenly having more money?
Who is this neighbour who comes and goes during the night and morning?
There are a multitudes of questions?
Is there a list of persons who work for ICE? Probably not.
Take notice if you live in a community.
Here we go again.
The legacy media thinking we can’t handle the truth. I’m so grateful for your perspective Ken. And for trusting the brains we were given at birth will suffice us to draw our own conclusions.
No question, Ken leaks are the best of all!
:)
Appreciate you publishing the full memo Ken. But really, with Alina Habba resigning and our president whining about weak Europeans etc. - how are these over worked news readers and document summarizing reporters supposed to report to us great unwashed masses while navigating the seismic changes in the media landscape. You bet there will be a bunch of coverage about the president's campaign style rally at, yes no joke, Mount Airy Lodge casino in the Poconos with its world famous champagne glass hot tubs. But thanks for trusting us Ken to read and think about the source material while providing your analysis.
The essence of the Trump administration is top-down assertion of power. The so-called groups that are named don't get down to the only thing that constitute a crime, individuals doing something that is criminal, whether alone or in a group of such individuals.
Nothing that Bondi says identifies anyone in particular, instead showing animus toward a category such as "anti-Americanism" that is so vague as to be meaningless. There is no definition given to tell us exactly what is meant by the term.
If there is anything characteristic of what the founders intended in the design of our political system, it is the value of the individual, calling on individuals to be active politically and responsible for what they say and do.
Trumpism is bigotry spread widely to include not just race but phantoms like "anti-Americanism" with a heavy dose of anger driving it. What Trump does best is express how much he dislikes this or that person or group, the latter being most outrageous because he takes the example of a individual he doesn't like and expands the animus to a group such as from Ilan Omar to Somalis.
How this can be thought to be popular in a country that is composed of so many different groups all of which interact with each other, where one group after another has arrived in the US and then established a living that is not in isolation from others is hard to fathom.
Anyone who has worked with or lived with members of other groups knows perfectly well that you cannot lump people together in any meaningful way. One MUST take people one at a time, doing so invariably proves that the good and the bad can be found regardless of some, usually visual, commonality.
Nick Fuentes, proud to be a racist, has a Mexican and Italian background. Emotion drives him as it always does with racists. They are hard put to name any individual of the group they despise that exemplifies the things that make them despise the group. They have minds from which logic has departed.
Trumpism is fishing for groups to despise and has no examples of individuals to offer that are not, like the example of Omar, absurd. Our government, charged with looking after us for the good of all, has been turned into a posse out to get us. 3 years of this insanity to go.
"The essence of the Trump administration is top-down assertion of power. "
And that is the long arc of "Conservative" ideology and their historical master project.
Corporate media became useless to me a few years ago. If not for independent journalists, I’d be in the dark. Thank you as always, Ken. True story: I offered to gift a subscription to you and Sarah Kendzior to three r/l friends. Their response: “We already spend too much time reading the NYT and WaPo and have no time for anyone else. Thanks anyway.”
I have NO time for this: I have written endlessly.
Protest outside MSM.
Why do you not do this?
Corporate media is a total joke. A sick joke played on everyone. And the fact that so many people still trust their fake reporting is astounding, and sickening. Thank goodness there are still SOME REAL JOURNALISTS.. but far too few.
Corporate media never holds the presidents of either party to account the way independent media does. They’ll “dip their toe in the water” with some light critique here and there, but nothing too critical.
To me, that just shows that corporate media is basically the propaganda arm of the government. They work together to lie to the American people. They work together to withhold stories - withhold the truth - to the American people. Just as bad.
As you say, Ken, they have their higher-ups cherry picking parts of these stories, deciding which parts are “important.” Or, as often is the case, they don’t even cover many of the important stories I’m seeing you cover, or BP or TYT cover.
Corporate media is grossly negligent in their duty to hold power to account.
It is strange that nobody in the mainstream is talking about this. There must be some kind of memo from the top telling them not to...?
I can't see how donors benefit. What's going on?
i think they're just oblivious
Drudge linked to it for two days straight.
Yes, I'm talking about corporate media
It's been a while, Ken. Starting to worry about you. Did you get a knock on the door by two men in black? Hope you're OK.