Monthly Archives: January 2015

Anonymous Irony

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Fred Stiening

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/01/09/anonymous-hacking-group-who-are-they/21509877/ In order to ensure the “sacred right to express opinions in any way”, they will begin shutting down Islamist web sites. Back in the day, this was similar to the problem of celebrating free speech in America then the … Continue reading →

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Is Fidel Castro dead?

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Fred Stiening

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/world/fidel-castro-death-rumors-sweep-internet-no-sign-cuba-article-1.2072492 The exodus from South Florida as Cuban refugees flee the United States to return “home” will be quite the event.

Posted in Collapse of America | 3 Comments

Non-Privacy Policy

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

I despise Supermarkets that demand you use “frequent shopper” loyalty cards to get their bogus “discounts” – effectively a surcharge if you refuse to allow your purchases to be recorded into “big data” for whatever future purpose. I have started … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Individual Liberty, Privacy, Unauthorized Food | 1 Comment

What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Up is down. Slavery is freedom.

Posted in Collapse of America | 6 Comments

Randall Bloomquist has had enough

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Randall Bloomquist is a radio consultant type guy. I don’t know much about him other than a vague memory of reading something he wrote and not thinking much of it – it was a lot of spin that was fact … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Barack Obama, Premiere (IHeart), Radio Biz, Westwood One | 1 Comment

Pushing Buttons

Posted on January 8, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Back in 1939, as World War II was breaking out in Europe, the National Association of broadcasters (NAB) was having a crucial meeting. FDR was preparing for war, and radio feared government takeover of the radio business. In response, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio Biz | 9 Comments

Ideas on “saving” AM radio

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Rush Limbaugh breathed another 25 years into AM radio, but time is running out. Other than getting rid of Rush, the FCC can’t agree on how to “save” a technology whose time has come and gone. The FCC’s Republican member … Continue reading →

Posted in Radio Biz, The FCC | 17 Comments

We’re just here to help – let us in or we’ll kill you

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Fred Stiening

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/03/justice/new-york-chamberlain-death/ The connection here is WUUA-FM in Glen Spey, New York is an all Ukranian radio station that shares its licensee name with the office Stephen Demchuk quoted in the story. Another officer shot and killed the man who told … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Individual Liberty, Privacy | 4 Comments

How I spent Festivus

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Fred Stiening

Every radio station web site has now been visited if it was over 320 days old. Going into the shopping season, there were around 1,000 radio stations without any indication of a web site at all – some had not … Continue reading →

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