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All ‘Jews’ today are the Khazars converts and Edomites some call them the Khazarian Mafia KM hellbent on a World Government as was the ruling Jewish class in the times of Jesus Herod was an Edomite after Esau Malachi 1: 3 Romans 9:13 not Jacob Israel These Jew Fraudsters believe themelves to be Israelites Hebrews or from the royal tribe of Judah claim the Bible Consignor gives themselves mandate to rule the whole world Psalm 2: 6-9 Psalm 2: 10-11 Deuteronomy 20: 10-14 Deuteronomy 20 : 12-17 Isaiah 60: 5 60: 10-11 60:12 60: 14-16 Psalm 2: 8 and a Judahite or descendent of the Tribe of Judah most of the apostles were Israelites only one of them was Jewish Judas The first time Jews are Mentioned in the Bible is in II Kings 16: 6105: 44 111: 6 Jesus was a Galilean or resident of Galilee Matthew 26:69 John 7:41 and then only in translations revised in the eighteenth century where we find Israel was at war with the Jews and drave the Jews from elathane The ‘Jews’ in ‘Jesus’ time were Edomites/Turkic Edom or Edomite had BEEN translated by Greek and Latin into Ioudaios and Iudaeus meaning a Judean or person living in Judea The original King James version of the Bible 1611 translated IDUMAEANS-Judean into Iewes The first Jews were Dog’s Collar Was So Tight That His Head Was Swollen Several Times Its Normal Size December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Sadly this is yet another story of extreme animal neglect that proves once again how cruel some pet owners can be When the staff at British Columbia SPCA were alerted of a dog that was mistreated for so long they never assumed the situation could be so severe The collar on the animal’s neck was so tight that it led for his head to swell several times its normal size On top of that he suffered from massive infection because the collar got embedded into the tissue The sight was one of the most disturbing they have ever seen Once the collar was removed using bolt cutters the rescuers and the vets realized the situation was even worse than they assumed The poor dog had an exposed trachea and jugular vein and had to be rushed into surgery right away Everyone was hoping for the best and provided the animal with extensive care but sadly he died two days later The chief prevention and enforcement officer for the BS SPCA Marcie Moriarty spoke of the case saying: “This kind of appalling neglect and cruelty is sickening and absolutely unacceptable in our society” The owners responsible of the dog’s suffering and passing were later identified as Anderson Joe and Melissa Tooshley of Duncan They were both charged with animal cruelty The public was hoping to see these cruel people behind bars but that didn’t happen Anderson got away with serving jail time and Tooshey received a one-year-suspended sentence Both are banned from owning a pet ever again Source Article from Related Posts Dog shot 17 times with ear cut off survives and gets a new lease on life as a proud therapy dog When Maggie one of the bravest dogs we’ve ever heard of was found tied down Fighter jets dispatched three times following suspicious activity in Gaza Israeli fighter jets were sent to fly over the Gaza Strip on Saturday after suspicious Futures Take Another Leg Lower After China’s Global Times Accuses US Of Backpedaling In Trade Talks Late last Wednesday with hours left until the Thanksgiving holiday Trump signed the controversial Hong PGampE Smart Meters Pulse Harmful RF 10K-190K Times Daily with Peak Power 25X What’s Stated in Safety Data By BN Frank Californians were having problems with Pacific Gas amp Electric PGampE long before Hits: 9 What Everyone is Missing About the Afghanistan Papers December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ TMU Op-Ed — If you need more proof that lawmakers in the US couldn’t care less about America’s woeful commitment to human rights abroad—or even care about the public who vote them into office—look no further than the recent Afghanistan papers and the reaction to the publications from Congress According to the Washington Post the outlet had obtained 2000 pages of notes from interviews with more than 400 generals diplomats and other officials directly involved in the war The documents showed that US officials were lying about the progress being made in Afghanistan lacked a basic understanding of Afghanistan were hiding unmistakable evidence that the war had become unwinnable and wasted close to 1 trillion in the process Barely a few hours following the Post’s publication Congress rewarded the Pentagon for its stellar efforts with a 22 billion budget increase How can we as a society justify this One stand-out statistic—among the many concerning ones—is the fact that before the US invasion the Taliban had almost completely put to bed Afghanistan’s illicit opium trade Since the US invasion combined with 9 billion in US funding for anti-opium programs the Taliban is not only stronger than it ever was but sits cemented in a country that now supplies 80 percent of the world’s opium I can’t help but think this was done on purpose Still it would be worth re-thinking our outrage over the Afghanistan papers and determining what exactly it is we are outraged about Are we simply angry because top US officials lied to us about the fact they weren’t winning the war making it a less worthwhile venture If the US were winning the war spending 1 trillion in the process killing record numbers of civilians ramping up night raids to terrorize local populations committing war crimes left right and center would that suddenly make it all okay As long as the war is being won right The truth is like most wars the US finds itself prosecuting this was yet another war based entirely on lies and misconceptions—right from the outset As Marjorie Cohn professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and president of the National Lawyers Guild famously said: “The UN Charter is a treaty ratified by the United States and thus part of US law Under the charter a country can use armed force against another country only in self-defense or when the Security Council approves Neither of those conditions was met before the United States invaded Afghanistan The Taliban did not attack us on 9/11 Nineteen men—15 from Saudi Arabia—did and there was no imminent threat that Afghanistan would attack the US or another UN member country The council did not authorize the United States or any other country to use military force against Afghanistan The US war in Afghanistan is illegal” If that was the case in 2001 how this war has continued for close to another two decades begins to beggar belief In that time the consequences for the Afghan civilian population has been catastrophic In February of 2010 a NATO night raid conducted in a village in the Paktia province of Afghanistan left seven civilians dead including two pregnant women NATO tried to spin the raid as an attack on a compound festering with “militant activity” but this quickly fell apart thanks to a British reporter Jerome Starkey who had already reported that this was a false narrative The compound actually belonged to an anti-Taliban policeman trained by the United States At the time the family had gathered to celebrate the naming of a newborn son In order to cover the tracks of their reckless decision to execute unarmed civilians the American troops used knives to dig out the bullets from the bodies of the pregnant women killed This is the kind of activity that trillions of dollars of US taxpayer money has been paying for on a regular basis More than 775000 troops have served in Afghanistan with 2300 US personnel deaths Not to mention that the US has not been fighting there alone and has had assistance not just from NATO but from so-called peaceful states like New Zealand as well who have been accused of committing war crimes too Yes we should be outraged that officials lied about the prospects of success But we should primarily be disturbed that they first and foremost lie in order to push our countries into these wars in the first place killing countless innocent civilians over and over again We can’t let this recent publication obscure itself into nothingness The recent reaction from Congress is a giant middle finger designed to tell you that a there will never be anything you can do about it and b they simply don’t care how you feel Democracy at its finest from the world’s leading propagator of democratic values By Darius Shahtahmasebi |
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TheMindUnleashedcom Source Article from Related Posts Ripping the heart out of Labour’s heartlands: How Johnson snatched working-class towns from under Corbyn’s nose Go to any working-class community and you’ll find old-fashioned Labour supporters speak of the Thatcher IMF working towards banning cash payments As the Federal Government moves to ban cash transactions above 10000 there’s a theory gaining Three NHS workers die suddenly while working for same ‘toxic’ ambulance trust Could 5G be related Ambulance dispatcher Luke Wright and paramedics Christopher Gill and Richard Grimes all died suddenly Rudy Giuliani’s son makes 95000 working as sports liaison for the White House From the it’s not news dept D-Trump has plenty of suspicious characters Hits: 8 Columbine High School Shooter Dylan Klebold Was Jewish Dreading Family Passover Seder December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ “Jewish gunmen Klebold approached her and asked if she believed in God The News article says she replied by saying “Yes I believe in God” The gunman did nothing more and Valeen survived The article says Valeen was saying “Oh my God oh my God don’t let me die” when one of the gunmen Klebold asked her if she believed in God She said “yes” and was then asked why She said “Because I believe and my parents brought me up that way” read more Jewish News Cleveland 2/24/2016 Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold revealed he was Jewish when he mentioned dreading a family Passover seder creating a tense moment with his fellow shooter his mother said Klebold and Eric Harris had openly admired Adolf Hitler They opened fire on students and teachers at the high school in Colorado on the Nazi leader’s birthday in 1999 killing 12 classmates and a teacher and wounding 23 people before taking their own lives Klebold’s mother Sue confirmed to radio host Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” last week that she is Jewish and her now ex-husband Klebold’s father is Lutheran She said her son had not wanted to attend the family’s seder which took place weeks before the shooting Read more: Join The Fight Today! Camelot Daily is one of a few independent news agencies willing to expose the ‘synagogue of Satan’s SOS assault on civilization More people than ever are receiving our message However SOS controlled monopolies such as Google Facebook Twitter etc “96 of the World’s Media” have eviscerated our advertising revenues using government subsidized unconstitutional Maoist like schizophrenic censorship It’s noteworthy to mention that Israeli scientists discovered 999 of Ashkenazi Jews have a 40 chance of developing schizophrenia certainly not the type of people you want creating policies that effect the whole world and yet social media giant Facebook 800lb search engine gorilla Google and the web’s most ubiquitous discussion network Disqus are all controlled by individuals who may be schizophrenic The Camelot team humbly ask our readers from around the world to support us by sharing our articles supporting our advertisers purchasing one of our liberty themed t-shirts at: TreasonTeescom and by donating to Camelot at PayPalMe/silvanusmedia or to donate bitcoin copy and paste the following Bitcoin Wallet Address: Thank You! Camelot Daily’s independent SOS exposing news journalism requires a great deal of time and money However we care about those who are awake and opposed to the SOS’s goal of exterminating all human life on earth If everyone who reads and likes our reporting help us Camelot Daily will become more effective at defeating the SOS For as little as 5 you can support Camelot – and it only takes a minute Thank you Follow us on Gab Subscribe to our Blog Subscribe to our BitChute Source Article from Related Posts Yemenis Know Firsthand the Extremist Underpinnings of the Pensacola Shooter SANA’A YEMEN — The attack on US Naval base in Florida exemplifies the harsh reality Twitter SUSPENDS Journalists who Report on Pensacola Shooter’s ‘Jihadist’ Motivation Twitter has begun suspending journalists who expose the jihadist motives behind Pensacola shooter Mohammed Alshamrami Saudi Arabia distances itself from US military base shooter RIYADH Saudi Arabia AFP — Saudi Arabia sought to distance itself Saturday from a student Beto O’Rourke Claims Trump’s ‘Smirk’ Gave ‘Green Light’ To El Paso Shooter Democrat presidential nominee Beto O’Rourke has blamed President Donald Trump’s “sht eating smirk” for “giving Hits: 10 Donald Trump Contributed ‘Generously’ To The Communist Terrorist Mafia Freemason Linked ADL December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ ADL Terrorist and Mafia connected and Defending a Pedophile Rapist and Murderer From Its Inception read more Jewish Founded B’Nai B’rith’s Link To Freemasonry read more Time 3/20/2016 This week thousands of people have gathered in Washington DC for what has become one of the largest gatherings on the political calendar: the AIPAC Policy Conference Dedicated to a strong US-Israel relationship the American Israel Public Affairs Committee invites the leading presidential candidates to address its conference each election year This one is no different except that one of those candidates is Donald Trump In light of Trump’s penchant to slander minorities slur refugees dismiss First Amendment protections and cheer on violence some in the Jewish community have said that Trump should not be invited to speak or that attendees should walk out during his remarks in protest This is not surprising as the Jewish community has long placed a premium on promoting values of tolerance and building a pluralistic and more diverse society—values that seem at odds with Trump’s message on the campaign trail Read more: Join The Fight Today! Camelot Daily is one of a few independent news agencies willing to expose the ‘synagogue of Satan’s SOS assault on civilization More people than ever are receiving our message However SOS controlled monopolies such as Google Facebook Twitter etc “96 of the World’s Media” have eviscerated our advertising revenues using government subsidized unconstitutional Maoist like schizophrenic censorship It’s noteworthy to mention that Israeli scientists discovered 999 of Ashkenazi Jews have a 40 chance of developing schizophrenia certainly not the type of people you want creating policies that effect the whole world and yet social media giant Facebook 800lb search engine gorilla Google and the web’s most ubiquitous discussion network Disqus are all controlled by individuals who may be schizophrenic The Camelot team humbly ask our readers from around the world to support us by sharing our articles supporting our advertisers purchasing one of our liberty themed t-shirts at: TreasonTeescom and by donating to Camelot at PayPalMe/silvanusmedia or to donate bitcoin copy and paste the following Bitcoin Wallet Address: Thank You! Camelot Daily’s independent SOS exposing news journalism requires a great deal of time and money However we care about those who are awake and opposed to the SOS’s goal of exterminating all human life on earth If everyone who reads and likes our reporting help us Camelot Daily will become more effective at defeating the SOS For as little as 5 you can support Camelot – and it only takes a minute Thank you Follow us on Gab Subscribe to our Blog Subscribe to our BitChute Source Article from Related Posts Trump Signs anti-Semitism Executive Order as Hanukkah Comes Early at White House Move will penalize colleges that allow anti-Semitism on campus with the definition including certain types of criticism of Israel that some see as potentially curtailing free speech Trump Signs anti-Semitism Executive Order as Hanukkah Comes Early at White House Move will penalize Despite Sanctions and Protests Israel Knows Trump Still Wants Negotiations With Iran Despite Sanctions and Protests Israel Knows Trump Still Wants Negotiations With Iran Source Article from Trump hosts pastor who says ‘Jews are going to hell’ at White House Hanukkah party Trump hosts pastor who says ‘Jews are going to hell’ at White House Hanukkah party Trump: Boris Johnson MASSIVE Win ‘Harbinger for What’s Coming’ in 2020 President Trump has declared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s historic victory in the UK election Hits: 11 10 arrested in Bnei Brak during protests against new Shabbat buses December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Several dozen ultra-Orthodox protesters rallied in the religious town of Bnei Brak Saturday to demonstrate against new bus services operating in central Israel on Shabbat Protesters attempted to block the main Jabotinsky Road connecting the cities of Ramat Gan and Petah Tikva and some clashed with police Six demonstrators were arrested for public disorder and assaulting policemen during the protests Three others were arrested in protests on Friday bringing the total number of arrests over the weekend to 10 Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Saturday was the fourth week since the Tel Aviv municipality introduced public transportation on Shabbat for the first time in cooperation with several other major municipalities in the Gush Dan area Similar protests were held last weekend Channel 12 news reported that posters distributed throughout Bnei Brak in recent days had called on residents to “go out all of us to carry the cry of Shabbat which is being desecrated openly Our Holy Shabbat will not be forsaken!” A survey released Monday found that the Israeli public largely supports the introduction of public transport on Saturdays Among Israeli Jews 71 percent are in favor of transportation on weekends including 94 of secular Israelis said the Hiddush advocacy group behind the poll Other groups that support the measure were traditional Jews who said they were “not so religious” at 82 and traditional Jews who were “close to religion” at 59 Ninety-seven percent of ultra-Orthodox Jews oppose weekend transportation programs as do 73 of “religious” Jews the survey said Among Blue and White voters 95 support it for Yisrael Beytenu 96 and Likud 68 The survey was conducted at the end of November and queried 600 Israeli Jews from across the religious spectrum The study follows the Tel Aviv municipality’s groundbreaking public transportation initiative which was launched in the city and surrounding communities on November 22 The program dubbed “We move on weekends” has so far proved overwhelmingly popular with buses overflowing in its first weekend and the city ramping up the number and size of buses to keep up with demand Some 10000 people made use of the service in each of its initial weekends In Israel buses and trains do not generally run in Jewish-majority cities on Friday night and Saturday before sundown The practice was born of an agreement reached between the ultra-Orthodox community and Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion before the formation of the state Public transportation on Shabbat is strongly opposed by the Orthodox establishment while secular Israelis have long chafed at their restricted mobility during the weekend The Tel Aviv program services several surrounding communities including Ramat Hasharon Givatayim and Kiryat Ono The routes which cover some 300 kilometers 186 miles in total and include 500 bus stops do not enter primarily Orthodox neighborhoods Other Israeli cities recently announced their intention to begin providing public transportation on Saturdays including Tel Aviv suburbs Ramat Gan and Ganei Tikva Earlier this year a free Saturday bus line was launched in the northern town of Tiberias This week the coastal city of Bat Yam decided against joining neighboring the surrounding cities in offering public transportation to its residents on Shabbat Source Article from Related Posts ‘Israel’ Bombs Gaza After Anti-settlement Protests Across 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Madrid urged officials from almost 200 countries to recognize the “overall balance” of the latest draft agreements hammered out overnight “We must show the outside world that we deliver” she said as officials prepared to hunker down for further negotiations Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up But observers and environmental groups expressed outrage at the current proposals saying they risked undoing or stalling on commitments made in the 2015 Paris climate accord “I’ve been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991 but never have I seen the almost total disconnection we’ve seen here … in Madrid between what the science requires and the people of the world demand and what the climate negotiators are delivering” said Alden Meyer a climate policy special at the Union of Concerned Scientists Meyer said the current drafts didn’t reflect urgent warnings from scientists that greenhouse gas emissions need to fall sharply and soon in order to keep global warming to 15 degrees Celsius 27 Fahrenheit by the end of the century By most calculations temperatures have already risen 1 degree Celsius since pre-industrial times and efforts so far put the world on course for a 3-4 degree Celsius rise by 2100 with potentially devastating consequences particularly for vulnerable developing countries “The planet is on fire and our window of escape is getting harder and harder to reach the longer we fail to act” Meyer said Growing concern about climate change has been reflected in mass protests staged around the world over the past year often by young activists concerned about the future they and their children might face as the planet heats up Demonstrations took place inside and outside the venue of the talks in the Spanish capital with Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg one of the most prominent voices calling for urgent action to curb emissions Some countries said it was time to heed those demands “We have the science We have the collective will to deliver enshrined in the Paris agreement And now it is time to step up” said Ola Elvestuen Norway’s environment minister “A weak encouragement will not be understood by the outside world” he said “It will send a message that we are not listening to science” Among the countries pushing back against agreeing new measures to help poor countries and set new emissions cutting targets was the United States which under US President Donald Trump announced it is pulling out of the Paris accord “I’ve just heard the comments of many others here today on the need to include an expansive additional language on gaps and needs” said Kimberly Carnahan a State Department official representing the United States at the talks “We don’t support such language and we would not think that it would lead to the balance of this text but rather take us quite far in the other direction” she said Small island nations which fear disappearing beneath the waves over the coming decades as global warming leads to sea level rise bristled at the US position “Decisions should be made by countries that are going to be bound by those decisions and not by parties who are not going to be bound by the Paris agreement” said Ian Fry ambassador for climate change of the Pacific state of Tuvalu Harjeet Singh of the humanitarian group Action Aid said the European Union would also shoulder blame if the talks in Madrid fail to make progress “It does a lot of sweet talking but it doesn’t really help people so it is as good as taking the line of the United States” he said Schmidt the talks’ chairwoman said that the latest drafts attempt to provide “a sensible and workable solution” on rules for international carbon markets one of the key issues left over from last year’s meeting in Katowice Poland Also at stake is a system for channeling money to help poor countries cope with the economic impact of climate change which is predicted to devastate fisheries and agriculture in some parts of the world Source Article from Related Posts Key takeaway from Ukraine peace talks in Paris is that Zelensky’s best friend is Putin It would be difficult to exaggerate the weakness of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s position He ‘An impatient old man’: NK diplomat criticizes Trump over faltering bilateral talks “Trump doesn’t know much about our country” said Kim Yong Chol a senior diplomat involved WATCH: Naomi Klein talks climate justice Palestine and white supremacy Naomi Klein spoke about climate justice white supremacy and Palestinian rights in an online conversation ‘Plan B’: Build a WALL amp carry on living if peace talks over eastern Ukraine fail says Zelensky aide As leaders of France Germany Russia and Ukraine brace for the closely-watched ‘Normandy Four’ summit Hits: 9 El Al plane grounded after striking electric pole in Las Vegas December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ An El Al plane was grounded in Las Vegas after one of its wings clipped an electric pole on Friday The wing of the aircraft a Boeing 787 Dreamliner sustained significant damage Images of the plane showed a large hole in the wing An initial investigation indicated the damage was apparently due to the airport employee responsible for towing the plane refusing to wait for someone to direct him with the wing striking the pole as he towed the plane the Ynet news site reported Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up The damage to the pole caused a brief power outage El Al said it informed passengers the return flight from Las Vegas to Tel Aviv was cancelled and apologized for “any inconvenience” caused תיעוד נוסף של מטוס הדרימליינר 787-9 של אל- על בלאס וגאס ynetalerts pictwittercom/4SY4pQVYDB — איתי בלומנטל ItayBlumental December 14 2019 The incident was the second in recent months in which damage to a Dreamliner led to a flight being cancelled after travelers were stuck in New York over the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah in October when part of a 787 was damaged while luggage was being loaded onto the plane El Al launched direct flights to Las Vegas in May making it the seventh city in North America to which the airline has nonstop service Source Article from Related Posts Las Vegas Approves Paying for Parking Tickets with Food Donations but Feeding the Homeless is Outlawed Isaac Davis Staff Writer Waking TimesGovernment certainly does love to portray itself as the hero 5 Unanswered Questions that Still Remain 2 Years After the Vegas Shooting By Matt Agorist It has been exactly two years since Stephen Paddock allegedly busted out TSA Is Testing Face Recognition At Airport Security Checkpoints In Las Vegas Now American Airlines has started using facial recognition technology on passengers at boarding gates part of TSA Launches Facial Recognition Pilot at Las Vegas Airport The Transportation Security Administration will conduct a short term proof of concept in Hits: 9 Johnson takes victory lap in traditional Labour areas that powered crushing win December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ LONDON AP — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited northern England on Saturday to thank voters and newly elected Conservative Party lawmakers in the working class heartland that turned its back on the opposition Labour Party in this week’s election and helped give him an 80-seat majority Speaking in Sedgefield — the constituency once held by Labour former prime minister Tony Blair — Johnson acknowledged the seismic shift that helped sweep him to victory in Thursday’s election “I know that people may have been breaking the voting habits of generations to vote for us” he told supporters “And I want the people of the northeast to know that we in the Conservative Party and I will repay your trust” Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up In a victory speech outside 10 Downing Street on Friday Johnson called for an end to the acrimony that has festered throughout the country since the divisive 2016 Brexit referendum and urged Britain to “let the healing begin” Johnson’s campaign mantra to “get Brexit done” and widespread unease with the leadership style and socialist policies of opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn combined to give the ruling Conservatives 365 seats in the House of Commons its best performance since party icon Margaret Thatcher’s last victory in 1987 Labour slumped to 203 seats its worst showing since 1935 While Johnson was on a victory lap Saturday Corbyn — who has pledged to stand down next year — was under fire from within his own party Former lawmaker Helen Goodman one of many Labour legislators to lose their seat in northern England told BBC radio that “the biggest factor was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader” Another former Labour lawmaker criticized the election campaign more broadly as muddled Anna Turley told the BBC that the party put forward an overwhelming number of policies and voters “just didn’t believe we were the party that could deliver on any of it” Armed with his hefty new majority Johnson is set to start the process next week of pushing Brexit legislation through Parliament to ensure Britain leaves the EU by the January 31 deadline Once he’s passed that hurdle — breaking three years of parliamentary deadlock — he has to seal a trade deal with the bloc by the end of 2020 “We’ve just been going over the timetable we can definitely get it in before Christmas and we’re out on Jan 31” Johnson said While Johnson’s large majority means he has relatively clear air ahead on Brexit he faces turbulence over renewed calls for a referendum on Scottish independence following the strong election showing of the Scottish National Party The front page of Saturday’s edition of The Scotsman newspaper featured photos of Johnson and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon and the headline: “Two landslides One collision course” Johnson owes his success in part to traditionally Labour-voting working class constituencies in northern England that backed the Conservatives because of the party’s promise to deliver Brexit During the 2016 referendum many of those communities voted to leave the EU because of concerns that immigrants were taking their jobs and neglect by the central government in London In Sedgefield he paid tribute to his new lawmakers who turned those concerns into a big election victory “Thank you for your wonderful achievement in transforming our party transforming the political map of this country” he said Source Article from Related Posts “The Victory of Syria over Global Terrorism Will Benefit Humanity”: Vanessa Beeley on Syria War Mark Taliano: Why is the truth about Syria important Vanessa Beeley: It is important because Christian Zionists celebrate another victory under Trump reversal on settlements policy On Monday November 18 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Trump Administration What could a Bernie Sanders victory mean for Palestine Ali Abunimah Power Suits 22 November 2019 During Wednesday’s Democratic presidential primary debate Senator Bernie Victory: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Police Can’t Force You to Tell Them Your Password By Andrew Crocker The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a forceful opinion today holding that the Hits: 8 13-year-old boy arrested over killing of Barnard College freshman December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ NEW YORK AP — A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday in the stabbing death of a Barnard College freshman who was approached in a park by as many as three youths as she ventured from her New York City campus on the eve of final exams The arrest of such a young suspect added another tragic element to the slaying of 18-year-old Tessa Majors a case that has troubled city and campus leaders The boy was arrested on charges including felony murder City Corporation Counsel James E Johnson said in a statement The teen appeared Friday in family court and is being held in a juvenile detention facility He is due back in court Tuesday Charges will not be formalized until a future court hearing Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Rodney Harrison the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives said on Twitter that one arrest had been made in the killing and “this remains an active investigation” At Friday’s hearing Detective Vincent Signoretti testified that the 13-year-old boy said his two friends grabbed Majors put her in a chokehold and robbed her The New York Times reported The detective testified that the teen said he did not stab Majors — the boy watched his friend slash her with a knife and saw feathers flying out from her coat’s stuffing A 13-year-old suspect has been arrested after the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old college freshman Tessa Rane Majors just blocks from her Manhattan campus a source says https://tco/CNUxuj52c8 pictwittercom/yZyp7Fkvt9 — CNN Breaking News cnnbrk December 13 2019 The boy whose name has not been made public is among just a handful of people in their early teens to be charged with murder in the city in recent years He will be tried as a juvenile delinquent in family court The teen’s lawyer Hannah Kaplan of the Legal Aid Society said police didn’t have evidence beyond the statement from her client who she said hadn’t been arrested before “There is no allegation my client touched the complainant in this case” Kaplan said “He was merely present when this took place” The attackers are all believed to attend a middle school near the park police have said The president of Barnard College said Majors was stabbed during an armed robbery Authorities on Thursday questioned two people who were later released police said Majors from Charlottesville Virginia played in a rock band in New York and had told an editor from a newspaper internship in high school that she planned to take journalism classes in college Flowers and candles were left at a makeshift campus memorial and her family said in a statement Friday that they “are devastated by the senseless loss of our beautiful and talented Tess” Majors was walking in Manhattan’s Morningside Park which is located down a staircase from street level just before 7 pm Wednesday when she was confronted and stabbed during a struggle Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said She staggered up the stairway to a nearby street where she was spotted by a campus security guard who called 911 Harrison said Majors died at a hospital Investigators recovered a knife Thursday but were not certain whether it was connected to Majors’ death Police have since increased patrols around the park and campus which is part of the Ivy League’s Columbia University Mayor Bill de Blasio told WNYC Radio that he was “absolutely confident that any individuals involved in this terrible heinous attack will be brought to justice and will be brought to justice quickly” Under state law the teen can only be tried as an adult if he is charged with intentional murder Juveniles convicted in New York state’s family courts can be sent to detention facilities until they are 21 in many cases and are often released after that It’s increasingly rare for young teens to be charged with murder in New York City where the annual homicide total has plunged to below 300 in recent years Last year just two people 14 or younger were charged according to police records: a 13-year-old girl in a December 16 2018 killing in Queens and a 14-year-old in the fatal September 21 2018 shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Brooklyn Police suspect both killings were gang related In the early 1990s when the city averaged nearly 2000 homicides a year several dozen 13-year-olds faced murder charges Majors was killed just as the semester at all-women’s Barnard College was winding down with final exams set to begin Friday followed by a month break She sang and played bass guitar in the rock band Patient 0 After her first New York show in October Majors wrote on Instagram: “Safe to say the first NYC show went well ” Her Instagram account also offered glimpses into Majors’ personality and her move from Virginia to the big city from farewells to the “ville” to posts about college life Majors graduated high school in May from the private St Anne’s-Belfield School in Charlottesville where Head of School David Lourie said she was “a shining light in our community a good friend respected classmate trusted teammate and creative and passionate musician” Her father Inman Majors is the author of six novels and an English professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg Virginia “We are thankful for the incredible outpouring of love and support we have received from across the country” the family statement said “We would also like to express our appreciation for the efforts of the men and women of the NYPD who continue to work diligently on this case” Source Article from Related Posts Iron Man is now a black teen girl: Forced diversity is killing Marvel amp DC comics but anti-SJW writers are fighting back Race swaps amp hipster comicsIn autumn 2014 readers of American Superhero comics came across something NATO is “Brain Dead” Institutionalized Killing as the “New Normal” The two-day London NATO conference just ended – and calling it a NATO “crisis” is Seemingly killing PM’s immunity hopes Liberman says cases must go to court Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman said Monday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s indictments must be The Killing Fields Of American Health Care The Killing Fields Of American Health Care Hell is empty And all the devils are Hits: 4 Why are foreign lawmakers aiding Israel’s attacks on Palestinian rights December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday which effectively allows Palestine activism to be targeted as discriminatory toward Jews under the Civil Rights Act alarmed many observers for its potential to threaten free speech around Israel Yet the order is only the latest legal development this month to threaten the rights of Palestinians and their allies abroad The National Assembly France’s lower house of parliament agreed on Dec 3 by 154 votes to 72 to adopt the working definition of anti-Semitism put forward by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA Three days later the US House of Representatives approved HR 326 226 votes to 188 with 2 present a bill that commits to promoting the two-state solution and reviving previous US-led peace efforts in the region The two resolutions which appear to be unrelated at first glance have ostensibly good intentions With anti-Semitic attacks sharply rising in France and across Europe the National Assembly has turned to the IHRA definition to help institutionalize its fight against racism toward Jews In Washington Congressional representatives hoped to offset the Trump administration’s open backing of Israel’s settler policies by re-centering what they regard as a fairer solution to the conflict Both bills however are cause for serious concern Since its release in 2016 the IHRA definition has been heavily criticized for including various criticisms of Israel as examples of anti-Semitic acts six of its 11 examples explicitly relate to Israel The National Assembly even emphasized in its resolution that “Criticizing the very existence of Israel as a collective of Jewish citizens is tantamount to hatred of the Jewish community as a whole … Such abuses increasingly make anti-Zionism ‘one of the contemporary forms of anti-Semitism’” Israeli officials including Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan and Blue and White head Benny Gantz praised the decision The resolution insists that this position does not inhibit the right to criticize Israeli government policies — but that’s precisely what it does It portrays the Israeli state and the Jewish diaspora as a homogenous unit inferring that any criticism of the former must be viewed first and foremost with suspicion if not hostility It views Zionism as the only legitimate framework for exercising Jewish self-determination while ignoring the dissenting views of anti-Zionist and non-Zionist Israelis and Jews worldwide And it dismisses the right of Palestinians — those who are citizens of Israel for starters — to question why the state should privilege Jewish citizens instead of enshrining equal rights for all HR 326 meanwhile reflects the classic bias embedded in US policy toward the region For example one of its preambles claims that “for more than 20 years Presidents of the United States from both political parties and Israeli Prime Ministers have supported reaching a two-state solution” emphasis mine Not only did Congress willfully ignore that Netanyahu Israel’s leader for the past decade has done everything possible to thwart a Palestinian state it didn’t even bother to mention the Palestinian Authority — the only actor that has actually worked to have that state recognized albeit imprudently and futilely — as a partner in the project Moreover despite paying lip service to Palestinian self-determination half of the resolution’s preambles were spent regurgitating the United States’s “unwavering” support for Israel without mentioning the word “occupation” once A late amendment to the text even reiterated America’s “ironclad commitments” to the 2016 Memorandum of Understanding signed by President Obama which grants Israel 38 billion in military funds per year from 2019 to 2028 The line was a clear response to the growing debate within the Democratic party around conditioning funds to Israel: rather than question their complicity in the status quo the House affirmed that they would maintain it While these resolutions do not yet carry substantial policy weight they do have very troubling implications for Palestinian rights activism First they reassure Israel that its foreign allies will not act to prevent its annexationist ambitions or its worsening oppression of Palestinians if anything they will eagerly protect Israel’s impunity The French resolution does this by undermining opposition to Israel’s policies and dismissing any critique of Israel’s ideological foundations as being motivated by malice instead of human rights The American resolution also helps Israel by keeping legislators detached from the realities on the ground preserving the myth that the two-state solution is still viable and that Israeli leaders are interested in achieving it Second the resolutions deliver a chilling message that as far as the French and American governments are concerned Palestinians are not entitled to political agency as a people fighting for justice and human rights The first resolution essentially labels Palestinians as inherent anti-Semites for daring to call out the devastating harms that Zionism has wrought on them The second resolution which brazenly portrays the US and Israel as partners on the same side of the negotiating table treats Palestinians simply as the “other” party to be dealt with rather than as a nation that deserves freedom and respect Taken together the two resolutions illustrate the extent to which Israel is trying to strip Palestinians of their humanity in the eyes of foreign governments — and sadly those governments appear happy to amplify this agenda on Israel’s behalf Trump’s new executive order the latest in a rising wave of anti-BDS and anti-Palestinian measures worldwide portends more of these dangerous moves to come And yet even in the face of these harrowing attacks there is still resistance A public letter to the French parliament signed by 129 Jewish and Israeli academics rejected its conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib joined by the rest of “the Squad” in opposition to HR 326 delivered a stirring speech on the House floor while wearing a keffiyah the traditional Palestinian scarf A new policy platform “Freedom is the Future” is rallying Palestinian voices in the run-up to the 2020 elections The pressures from the top may be intensifying but so too is the fight from the bottom lt!– Get Our Weekly Newsletter Sign up –gt Source Article from Related Posts Pity that reference to human rights sometimes serves as basis to interfere in other states’ domestic issues – Hungarian FM to RT Budapest is committed to upholding human rights the Hungarian foreign minister said adding that unfortunately Human Rights In Chile And At Chile-Controlled COP25: Attack Children Medics amp Civil Society Human Rights In Chile And At Chile-Controlled COP25: Attack Children Medics amp Civil Society Above Secretary Devos Denies Students’ Rights To Full Debt Cancellation Secretary Devos Denies Students’ Rights To Full Debt Cancellation Above Photo: CafeCreditcom/Flickr Students Project on Predatory Human Rights and Belt and Road BRI: China’s Strategic Xinjiang Economic Corridor Over recent weeks the mass media has highlighted large-scale human rights violations carried out by Hits: 2 Destroyed by appeasing his enemies: The Shakespearean tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ There is a distinctly Shakespearean air to the political demise of UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn which took place appropriately enough on Friday the 13th of December 2019 or you could say 15 March would have been even more appropriate “There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune Omitted all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries” the great bard wrote in ‘Julius Caesar’ Jeremy Corbyn was never in a stronger position than on the morning of the day after the general election of June 2017 Against all the odds and punditocracy predictions he had taken Labour to the brink of a stunning victory The 40 percent of the vote Labour attained in that election represented the biggest increase in the share of the popular vote the party had achieved in over 70 years But fatally Corbyn didn’t take the tide at the flood He should have used the moment to move swiftly and decisively against his ‘centrist’ enemies in the party who had done so much to undermine him Instead he held out an olive branch to them They repaid his magnanimity by plotting the downfall which came to a head so spectacularly this week 52 of voters—174 million people— voted to leave the EU in 2016 many of them Labour votersThey had absolutely no idea why they were being asked by Labour to vote again And they were right 2nd ref was always an establishment stitch up to reverse a result they didn’t like — Matt Kennard DCKennard December 13 2019 Phase One of the plan was to get Labour to sign up to an electorally suicidal shift on Brexit Labour did so well in 2017 largely because it gave a clear manifesto commitment to respect the result of the 2016 referendum But great pressure was exerted on Corbyn to agree to a change in policy and pledge Labour to support a second referendum Years earlier Corbyn had quite rightly attacked the EU for making the Irish vote again after they had rejected the Lisbon Treaty But asking Labour Leavers to vote again on whether to leave the EU is precisely what Corbyn was doing in the 2019 general election It’s true that others were constructing his political coffin but it’s also true that Corbyn handed them the nails The irony lost on most Right-leaning commenters that identify Labour as the hard-Left is that it is the Right-wing of the party that supported Remain If Labour were actually hard-Left it would have backed Leave — Tris Stock TrisStock December 13 2019 Phase Two of the plan to ‘Get Corbyn’ was to promote a narrative that Labour under his leadership was absolutely awash with anti-Semitism Corbyn’s enemies wanted us to believe that Labour a party which always prided itself on its anti-racist credentials and which had a Jewish leader as recently as 2015 was in fact a racist party Incredibly this audacious campaign succeeded because Corbyn failed to call it out The level of actual anti-Semitism in Labour was tiny but the Labour leader accepted the narrative that there was a big problem to deal with The result of his continually going on the back-foot was that he and his party were denounced as ‘anti-Semitic’ on an almost hourly basis Chris Williamson a loyal Corbyn ally was thrown under the bus on trumped-up charges But this appeasement only led to the campaign being ratcheted up still further Also on rtcom Labour’s failure to realise this was a 2nd Brexit referendum hands Britain to Boris Corbyn paid a very heavy price for the mistakes he made in the period 2017-19 The party’s backtracking on Brexit saw them haemorrhage support in their traditional pro-Leave Northern heartlands and lose working-class seats in the election that they had held for generations Labour lost Blyth Valley for the first time ever Wrexham in North Wales went Conservative for the first time ever Great Grimsby was lost by Labour for the first time in 74 years 71 percent of voters there had voted Leave in 2016 Yet Labour was asking them to vote again next year How absurd I see phase 2 of the coup against Corbyn is already in full swing aided by the complicit mediaThe right of the party vociferous in playing down Brexit as the main factor for defeat and are championing a “centrist” direction in policy amp leaderLol — Albert Trigg alberttrigg December 13 2019 Bearing in mind all the hope of real meaningful change that Corbyn had inspired in the first years of his Labour leadership it is shattering to contemplate how it all went horribly wrong How Shakespearean that Corbyn a lifelong Eurosceptic should be politically destroyed by agreeing a pivot towards Remain – which he must have known was quite crazy How Shakespearean that Corbyn a veteran supporter of Palestinian rights should be so submissive in the face of what the great Israeli journalist Gideon Levy described as a ‘contract’ taken out on him by the ‘Israeli propaganda machine’ Also on rtcom Ripping the heart out of Labour’s heartlands: How Johnson snatched working-class towns from under Corbyn’s nose Corbyn’s failure to hit back forcefully – or indeed hit back at all – against the smear campaigns of his enemies was praised by some as signs of his Zen-like calm but to millions of others it looked like weakness In last week’s leaders’ debate Boris Johnson labelled Corbyn a supporter of the IRA Corbyn said nothing in response For all his decency it’s undeniable that Corbyn – when he got to the brink of power – treated his enemies much better than he did his friends That sadly will be his epitaph A golden opportunity for the left in Britain has been squandered “Men at some times are masters of their fates The fault Dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings” Also on rtcom ‘Disappointed’ Corbyn vows to lead Labour party through ‘process of reflection’ but not into next election Follow Neil Clark NeilClark66 Think your friends would be 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Source Article from Related Posts Gassed to death: Bhopal tragedy is hard for India to live down even after 35 years There were men women and children thousands of them bursting through the gates of the Laughter Over the Left Shoulder at Russia’s Tragedy The recent appearance in some Western media sources of insults jokes and unfounded accusations in The Switch from Comedy to Tragedy for Ukraine’s President Zelensky Rapprochement with Putin youtube twitter facebook rss Source Article from Blain: We’re Heading Towards A Tragedy That Will Widen The Divisions Between East And West Blain’s Morning Porridge submitted by Bill Blain I’m wondering if the political breakdown we’re currently Hits: 8 Can an ‘Asian NATO’ deter Chinese ambitions in the Indo-Pacific December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Like the actual NATO the Quad – the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between the United States Japan Australia and India – is also led by the US although its inception could be traced to an idea in 2007 by the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe who sought to expand the scope of Japan’s trilateral strategic dialogue involving Australia and the US to include India Although at the time New Delhi was still in the early stages of a reorientation away from its non-aligned past towards more robust strategic partnerships with the US and Japan it seemed enthused with the idea and in 2007 India invited Australia and Japan along with Singapore to participate in the Indo-US combined naval exercise Malabar India amp China could find a 21st-century purpose for the aircraft carrier Back then China apparently alerted by the development issued a demarche to all the four members of the Quad That seemed to cause the desired effect Australia Japan and Singapore were dropped from Malabar and Australia quietly withdrew from the dialogue India also dismissed appeals from Japan and the US to revive the Quad ostensibly in the hope of improving ties with China and overall support for the Quad seemed to have declined A decade later the Quad is seeing a resurgence This time India sought to revive the group after major differences with China over issues like China’s Belt and Road initiative which goes through territory disputed by India China’s support for Pakistan and Sino-India border clashes at Doklam Japan was reinvited to take part in Malabar and most recently the first-ever meeting of the four foreign ministers hosted by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in September 2019 thus elevating the Quad from a forum for senior government officials to ministerial-level dialogue Is China counting on US allies’ reluctance As the US proclaims shared values amongst the four states for a free and open Indo-Pacific and a reaffirmation of the Quad’s commitment to common values and cooperation India and Australia seem reluctant to antagonize China all the way For instance the issue of joint patrols in the South China Sea a key initiative by the US and a move that would surely be regarded as a direct challenge to China’s position in the region has not gained traction with both New Delhi and Canberra India has consistently rejected US proposals for joint patrols while Australia which is delicately balancing its economic interests with Beijing China received 34 percent of Australia’s total exports in 2016 and its alliance partnership with the United States has been evasive Which is perhaps why the Chinese response to the Quad has been relatively subdued in contrast to how it stamped its feet in 2007 Instead of a confrontation Beijing has signaled its intent to improve relations with India by hosting an informal summit between Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping at Wuhan in 2018 A second informal summit was held at Mamallapuram India in October 2019 Sino-India relations seem to be on an even keel for now And although the Quad together with the Malabar series of exercises and other combined wargames between the partners provides New Delhi with additional leverage to deal with an assertive China India has taken care to “walk slowly” with the Quad to avoid overtly antagonizing Beijing Hallmarks of a budding military alliance Discussions at the September ministerial meeting reportedly revolved around the Quad’s collective efforts to advance a free and open Indo-Pacific and also touched on counterterrorism humanitarian assistance disaster relief maritime security cooperation and cybersecurity These are important developments and a precursor to enhanced military cooperation between the partners New Delhi ‘keenly watches’ over Chinese ships sailing across Indian Ocean – Navy chief The other major development has been a strategic logistics support agreement between India and Australia likely to be signed during the forthcoming visit of the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to New Delhi in January 2020 and a similar agreement between India and Japan in advanced stages of negotiations Significantly India and the US have had a logistics sharing arrangement since 2018 All these agreements will allow the countries to use each other’s military bases for logistics support including food water and fuel Clearly the extent and depth of political engagements and alignment amongst the Quad states over military cooperation and keeping the Indo-Pacific region free from Chinese domination has reached unprecedented levels But will this evolving ‘Asian NATO’ deter China from its assertive stance in the region All it takes is a careless escalation Clearly China is conscious of these realities and perhaps confident of its ties with India and Australia which explains their muted response to the Quad But progress under the Quad particularly in terms of building military compatibility a key element in any security alliance has been significant Any escalation of regional tensions involving India and China or interference by an emboldened China in India’s region of influence in the Indian Ocean or in the South Pacific in Australia’s backyard could drive both countries closer to the Quad And when that happens the Quad or the ‘Asian NATO’ could present a formidable deterrent to China By Shishir Upadhyaya former Indian Naval Intelligence Officer PhD Like this story Share it with a friend! Source Article from Related Posts Pentagon Test Fires 2nd INF-Banned Missile Over Pacific Ocean A week after Russia’s President Putin said he is ready to extend the New START NATO Wants to Become the Atlantic-Pacific Alliance by Thierry Meyssan NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed the Lowy Institute in Sydney on August 7 2019 A Giant Floating Machine is Now Cleaning Up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Elias Marat The Mind Unleashed Waking TimesIn a historical first a massive floating device designed The “Blob” Returns: Gigantic Heat Anomaly in Pacific Ocean to Wreak Havoc on Wildlife Elias Marat The Mind Unleashed Waking TimesHuge stretches of the Pacific Ocean extending from Hawaii Hits: 2 NATO all about values but pay up! Pentagon boss reprimands US allies – or should that be vassals December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ “There can’t be any free riders There can’t be any discount plans We’re all in this together” Esper said on Friday at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations referring to nineteen NATO members who are still failing to spend two percent of their gross domestic product on “defense” In reality however free-riding on the massive US military apparatus is precisely what NATO is about Its first secretary-general articulated the alliance’s purpose as keeping “the Russians out the Americans in and the Germans down” and by golly that’s precisely what NATO has done throughout the Cold War Also on rtcom London fog: NATO strong or empire in crisis Trouble is even after the Soviet Union dissolved and robbed it of every reason for continued existence in 1989 NATO kept going seeking reasons to stick around in “humanitarian interventions” and regime-change operations There was to be no “peace dividend” only endless increases in military spending that delivered ever diminishing returns Even though the US spends 35 percent of its GDP on “defense” the Pentagon does not actually “defend” the country Instead it maintains a network of bases around the globe in an attempt to coerce rather than persuade the rest of the world to bend the knee “Much of the world looks to the United States as the global security partner of choice Not only because of our superior military capabilities and equipment but also because of our values” Esper claimed on Friday Yet just in the past several months NATO ally Turkey has been doing its own thing without so much as consulting others – and France caught flak for daring to point that out as dysfunctional Also on rtcom Indispensable or obsolete Reheated Cold War rhetoric can’t patch fractured NATO that lacks sense of purpose amp vision for future Ironically France and Turkey are two NATO countries that still maintain militaries capable of independent operations while everyone else has pretty much left theirs to atrophy At best they can muster a few squadrons of airplanes a tank regiment signal company or a logistics train here and there – but everyone expects the Americans to do all of the actual fighting if and when that becomes necessary Not that it ever will be but that’s where much of that “defense” budget actually goes: so that various “centers for excellence” can churn out propaganda hyping the phantom menace of Russia or China The official Washington doesn’t actually mind this state of affairs as it keeps “allies” safely dependent on the US and both unable and unwilling to go off the metaphorical reservation Ideally Germany and other “delinquent” NATO members wouldn’t really spend the required 2 percent at home but buying weapons and maintenance plans from the US or at least paying for the privilege of hosting US troops on their soil Also on rtcom US may demand ‘allies’ pay 150 for privilege of hosting troops Besides the Pentagon’s problem is not the lack of funding – its 2020 budget approved by Congress is close to 730 billion for crying out loud – but the way that money is spent The US has a fascination with complicated and expensive weapons systems whose makers deliberately spread production across US territory to make them cancellation-proof Needless to say this is hardly cost-efficient and results in such epic fiascos as the F-35 The much-hyped stealth fighter has eaten up all other aircraft designs delivers subpar performance across the board and will only cost 15 trillion over the program’s lifetime Then there is more mundane stuff like special coffee mugs that cost 1200 apiece because nobody bothered to get the copyright for 3D-printing replacement handles Seriously Also on rtcom NATO at 70: Sclerotic amp bureaucratic zombie should be pensioned off This is why Esper – who used to be an executive at missile-maker Raytheon before taking over at the Pentagon – and his boss President Donald Trump need “allies” to pony up more cash The military-industrial complex must be fed What amounts to a demand for tribute from vassals is then disguised in politically correct phrasing however “Our alliances are not transactional ones Rather they are rooted in mutual respect common values and a shared willingness to fight for them” Esper said in the same speech on Friday in which he berated “free riders” What values might those be he did not specify Perhaps we could ask the Kurds who were used as cannon fodder against Islamic State IS formerly ISIS terrorists only for Esper to say that the US “nowhere at no point in time” promised them statehood or even protection from fellow NATO ally Turkey On paper NATO is an alliance of equals with decisions being reached by consensus In practice the word of the US carries far more weight than that of say a thousand times smaller Montenegro – which became a member not for its minuscule military but because that guaranteed NATO ownership of the Adriatic Far worse than Esper’s hypocrisy is the fact that NATO is neither about values nor the money but all about “entangling alliances” and the idea of global hegemony that America’s founders cautioned against and would recoil from in horror were they to witness it today Also on rtcom Macron saying NATO is ‘brain dead’ may be right but he didn’t exactly break any news here By Nebojsa Malic senior writer at RT Source Article from Related Posts How Tel Aviv’s Pussycat strip club became a Jewish values center TEL AVIV JTA — For years the round mirrored building overlooking the Tel Aviv Marina America is becoming very communist Americans Have Shifted Dramatically on What Values Matter Most Americans Have Shifted Dramatically on What Values Matter Most Source Article from Political Correctness Is A Threat To American Values Says Tulsi Gabbard Tulsi Gabbard’s latest campaign ad is targeting the issue of political correctness The Democratic presidential Are Abortion amp Gay Rights American Values By Patrick J Buchanan “What are these “values” of which politicians incessantly talk Are they immutable Or do they Hits: 6 Labour has been waging a culture war against its own base for decades fixating on liberalism instead by George Galloway December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Ten years later they had their biggest ever election win sweeping Mr Churchill the War Leader from office My point is not merely to put in scale what happened in the British general election but also to illustrate the famous truth that there is no “final victory” and no “final defeat” either It’s never over Ripping the heart out of Labour’s heartlands: How Johnson snatched working-class towns from under Corbyn’s nose I consistently predicted on RT and everywhere that Labour seats would go down like dominoes that Labour would lose dozens maybe scores of seats throughout the Midlands the north-west and north-east of England and in Wales All my expectations came to pass as counting continued into a real-life Friday the 13th for Labour It was Brexit of course – only the foolhardy deny their own electorate on such a matter and so brazenly and for so long – but not only Brexit In former premier Harold MacMillan’s words “it’s never one damned thing it’s one damned thing after another” Labour’s defiance of its own supporters behind its ‘red-wall’ – seats in some cases it had held for a hundred years seemed to put the tin-hat on things for the British industrial and post industrial heartlands For American readers imagine Michigan Connecticut and Pennsylvania And that’s after many years of amused bemused tolerance of an increasingly metropolitan liberal Labour Party – which regularly parachuted in such liberals in Labour livery into what were until now safe Labour seats So for example that well known coal-miner Tony Blair dropped in for a while as the MP for the mining town of Sedgefield with his fancy London Barrister ways… Because these kinds of faces of Labour had no connection to industry itself – they probably thought Swarfega was a Balearic island – they saw their task as not to rage against the dying of the mining and manufacturing light but to persuade their people to go quietly into that good night Close the pit open a heritage park shut the factory put up a shopping mall in its stead Where once were 40-hour blue collar union jobs with decent pay the gig-economy would have to suffice It’s “flexible” don’t you know… Labour’s descent into the snake-pit of identity politics began a long time ago I should know I was there Under the influence of the ‘Euro-Communists’ an ideological breakaway from Moscow in the 1980s it was imagined that the working class – and thus its class interests – had withered away and that new “communities” many of them imagined would have to be the building blocks for Labour political power Also on rtcom ‘Irresistible force of Scottish independence meets immovable object of BoJo majority’: Alex Salmond on Tory ‘wipeout’ in Scotland It’s rather as if someone persuaded you that there was something called a “football community” which could be dealt with collectively But members of the football community – people like myself who are football crazy – have nothing in common with each other In fact as fans of rival teams we oftentimes hate each other Political “offers” to such an imagined community can therefore often exacerbate divisions as well as angering those who think football is 22 fools running around chasing a pig’s bladder Transpose this thus: If you are a white heterosexual married man or woman with kids seeing your supposed party endlessly fixating about race gender sexual politics and the wonders of liberalism the EU and all that jazz-hands might well begin to make you feel well left out Labour’s failure to realise this was a 2nd Brexit referendum hands Britain to Boris If you are a lady of a certain age you might feel a bit left out at your party worshiping at the altar of youth a ‘Youthquake’ may for you be a distant memory When your party picks as its plum-policy free nationalised broadband you may momentarily wonder what they are talking about If you live beyond the ‘red wall’ you may just wonder why almost ALL of the top leaders of a party depending on Northern voters had virtually adjoining constituencies in North London London left-wing politics should be imagined as a hot-house where only the most exotic political flowers bloom Nice for a visit but with not much in common with the colder climate to which you are returning home I have long proselytized for the view confirmed amply in the election that for decades Labour has been conducting a kind of culture war against its own voting base Instead of country and patriotism the party worshipped the supra-nationalism of the EU More comfortable with the flag of Bolivia or Venezuela than with their own country’s flag More interested in the human rights of the criminal than with their victims Endlessly looking for small minority blocs to patronize careless that over-identification with one bloc may come at the price of alienation from another much larger Boris Johnson just went through Labour’s ‘red wall’ like a knife through butter It will be neither quick nor easy to rebuild There was no Youthquake – only a Brexitquake Damage is clearly extensive and considerable There is no word yet of the number of casualties but there will clearly be many The Labour Party itself is merely the first of them If you like this story share it with a friend! Subscribe to RT newsletter to get stories the mainstream media won’t tell you Source Article from Related Posts Waging War Against The Rule of Law An Analysis 21 November 2019 by Lawrence Davidson Part I—An Embarrassingly Hard Moment There is US Waging Wars on Multiple Fronts: Cold Wars Hot Wars Economic Wars Propaganda Wars … Supported by both hawkish wings of its war party the US is waging hot wars cold The US is Waging a Quiet Scientific War Against Iran Science diplomacy has long been recognized as one of the most powerful reconciliation tools and Waging War on Iran without Turkey Is Turkey Sleeping with the Enemy The Russia -Turkey -Iran “Triple Entente” Note to readers: please click the share buttons above Author’s Note and Update Recent Hits: 3 Another typical week in the Palestinian territories… December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Soldiers Abduct Seven Palestinians Injure Many And Attack Three Journalists Israeli soldiers abducted on Wednesday at dawn seven Palestinians from several parts of the occupied West Bank after the army invaded and searched many homes and injured many others in addition to attacking journalists and confiscating two cars In Ramallah governorate in central West Bank the soldiers abducted five Palestinians … Read More… Source Article from Related Posts The G7 summit was typical Trump on display on the world stage refusing to be boxed in by anyone on anything The G7 summit was typical Trump on display on the world stage refusing to be Rand Paul “One Of The Typical Things You Find About Socialism Is People Wind Up Eating Their Pets” Email Us For general inquiries and advertising email: Admin at BlacklistedNewscom Article New highly efficient thin-film solar cell generates more energy than typical solar panels Natural News Scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have just Researchers have determined that a typical high-fat western diet promotes the spread of prostate cancer Natural News People who are overweight or obese are more likely to Hits: 4 Rudy Giuliani Can Barely Contain Himself Over His Ukraine Findings December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Rudy Giuliani Can Barely Contain Himself Over His Ukraine Findings Source Article from Related Posts Key takeaway from Ukraine peace talks in Paris is that Zelensky’s best friend is Putin It would be difficult to exaggerate the weakness of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s position He Putin amp Zelensky meet: Lasting peace in Ukraine closer but still far away PARIS – At first the omens were bad A chaotic Monday in the French capital Ted Cruz: Ukraine Desperately Wanted Hillary to Win 2016 Election Sen Ted Cruz says Ukraine “blatantly interfered” in the 2016 US presidential election in favor Normandy Four summit on Ukraine’s future: What’s at stake Virtual carte-blanche to ZelenskyVolodymyr Zelensky has the biggest interest of them all By handing him Hits: 4 Trump Signs anti-Semitism Executive Order as Hanukkah Comes Early at White House Move will penalize colleges that allow anti-Semitism on campus with the definition including certain types of criticism of Israel that some see as potentially curtailing free speech December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Trump Signs anti-Semitism Executive Order as Hanukkah Comes Early at White House Move will penalize colleges that allow anti-Semitism on campus with the definition including certain types of criticism of Israel that some see as potentially curtailing free speech Source Article from Related Posts Donald Trump Contributed ‘Generously’ To The Communist Terrorist Mafia Freemason Linked ADL ADL Terrorist and Mafia connected and Defending a Pedophile Rapist and Murderer From Its Inception Despite Sanctions and Protests Israel Knows Trump Still Wants Negotiations With Iran Despite Sanctions and Protests Israel Knows Trump Still Wants Negotiations With Iran Source Article from Trump hosts pastor who says ‘Jews are going to hell’ at White House Hanukkah party Trump hosts pastor who says ‘Jews are going to hell’ at White House Hanukkah party Trump: Boris Johnson MASSIVE Win ‘Harbinger for What’s Coming’ in 2020 President Trump has declared British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s historic victory in the UK election Hits: 3 Despite Sanctions and Protests Israel Knows Trump Still Wants Negotiations With Iran December 15th 2019 Jesus Christ ✝ Despite Sanctions and Protests Israel Knows Trump Still Wants Negotiations With Iran Source Article from Related Posts Donald Trump Contributed ‘Generously’ To The Communist Terrorist Mafia Freemason Linked ADL ADL Terrorist and Mafia connected and Defending a Pedophile Rapist and Murderer From Its Inception Trump Signs anti-Semitism Executive Order as Hanukkah Comes Early at White House Move will penalize colleges that allow anti-Semitism on campus with the definition including certain types of criticism of Israel that some see as potentially curtailing free speech Trump Signs anti-Semitism Executive Order as Hanukkah Comes Early at White 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Generational Issue “With all this KABC etc news when are we gonna just sit back and accept the fact that in another generation perhaps sooner AM Radio is a thing of the past just like adding machines and dial telephones It is a fact that eventually all good things pass into history and from where I sit it’s easier to just say ‘thanks for all the good you did’ and let ’em pass calmly into history as we now enter the age of Peyronie commercials which is the funniest tv commercials ever I haven’t laughed so hard in years!” – Rich Brother Robbin Sad for KABC “Thanks for printing my emails You should also know that your following is great I get deluged with emails every time I get printed in your blog It is really sad about KABC From first to worst” – Pat Duffy The Motorman “Thanks Don for the nice stories today All the best” – Leon Kaplan Timing is Everything “KABC is still using the supposed phone calls to the station with the ‘I Love Love Love John amp Jillian’ stuff That and the statement made by Drew Hayes regarding the proud tradition of the station blahblahblah leads me to believe that Howard Stern was right when he said that on the ladder of showbiz radio is only one rung higher than circus clowns The statement by Mr Hayes is simply insulting to any and every reader How was he not the first one shown the door” – Gary Gibson Salute to Peter TildenBlessings to Peter Tilden who is such a remarkable survivor of crazy LA radio virtually always took my calls and laughed at my silly humor We often disagreed on issues but I felt that he was fair and reasonable to people – Andrew Schermerhorn El Paso Dead “Saw the Marty Robbins story Sunday on his passing Marty and I were great friends I introduced him on stage several times over the years mostly when I was in San Diego doing morning drive at KSON We always laughed about his song El Paso being our ‘Number 2’ song like Rock music’s Iron Butterfly’s In A Gadda Da Vida because of the length of the songs gave us time to use the toilet Marty did not do many interviews but I was backstage at the CMA Awards in 1982 working on a Westwood One Network special I just needed a quick sound bite He was cool about it even though he was about to go on stage to be inducted into the Hall of Fame After the recording I congratulated him and ask him if he was excited He told me: ‘Jim it’s a dream but to me when they give this to you it on means you’ll be dead soon’ We laughed and hugged as they pulled him away to get his honor Sadly less than three months later he passed away Good guygreat talent!!” – Jim Duncan Pat Evans’ Semi-Retirement “Some of my fondest radio memories include following Pat Evans on the air at KRTH He taught young-me so much about the nuance of word and timing I like to think I taught him a thing or two about women :” – Keri Tombazian Teaching a Better Idea “I don’t know if you’re interested in any more responses to Cooper Rummell’s story however it should be noted to anyone like me who worked many years in the radio industry While I was doing traffic reporting on KNX/1070 many years ago I came to the conclusion that the industry was no longer in my best interest After some time of reflection and soul searching I rebranded myself and became an elementary school librarian in Canoga Park It turned out to be the greatest decision I had ever made I received more satisfaction from helping young children learn to read than I ever could have received in radio After a decade of being treated like a rockstar by kids of many ages I realized it was my true calling To Cooper Rummell yes there is a great world after radio!” – Jeffrey Leonard Joe Smith Jock “Thanks for remembering Joe Smith especially his KFWB radio days I was one of his listeners back in my youth In fact I was a member of the ‘Joe Smith What Are You Some Kind of a Nut on KFWB Club’ or the JSWAYSKOANOKFwBC for short As far as I know I’m still a member in good standing since the attached Very Official Membership card has no expiration date” – Don McCulloch Radio Deluxe Holiday Music “Just a note to you that KUSC is following in KOST’s footsteps and has a special channel for continuous Christmas music It is called the Christmas Spirit Channel The channel has Classical Christmas music of all kinds and is only available on the KUSC website and its mobile app The main channel will have Christmas programming of its own till Christmas Day Go to kuscorg for more details” – Dan Ramos Joshua Tree Top 40 Battles “Just wanted to mention KCBQ and KGB do not hold the mold on Top 40 battles in our nation from 1962 to probably 1980 or later There was always two Top 40 stations going at each other with good signals and good air staffs I know I was involved by listening at first to the KACY and KUDU Ventura battles not to forget KIST-Santa Barbara thrown in I was in grade school junior high and high school in Santa Barbara in those days and the radio was great Later after Vietnam for the whole year of 1970 I was working in Monterey at KMBY 1971 mornings Our battle was with KDON-Salinas The person mentioning KCBQ and KGB makes it sound like that was the only battle of Top 40 radio in the USA from the mid 60’s till it ended Wrong There were many other battles all across our nation and it was fun AM had the stronghold till FM Stereo came along and slowly took it away from AM Then we had two FM’s going at it playing the same playlist in the same towns that before had two AM’s Bill Drake with Boss radio was good but he wasn’t the only Top 40 radio on the air Let’s give credit to our brothers and sisters that were busting their asses making 110000 a month that were doing great radio too all over our nation To me and all the other radio people I knew it was never a job I loved it and could hardly wait to get back to the station to work My ex-wife used to say ‘Why don’t you get a cot down there so you won’t have to come home’ Some days it would have been betterLOL I had 42 years in radio and loved every year of it Too bad consolidation screwed it all up it will never be the same Who really has lost with five or so companies owning everything The listener! And that’s sad When I was on the air the listener came first after all isn’t that why we were there in the first place” – Phillip Davies Monterey Connection “The former KMBY in Monterey where an inordinate number of radio people cut their teeth including Robert W Morgan and Bobby Ocean among many others is now K-SURF and the poor thing now being donated to a nonprofit is actually on 1240 kHz and not 1260 Its 1 kw has a great signal due to grounding in the salt water of Monterey Bay carrying as far as Point Arena to the north in the daytime and it certainly had more potential than recent owners have been able to realize Running an Oldies format from Los Angeles 250 miles away on it was not the brightest idea in my opinion speaking as a former pd there I grew up in Carmel listening to KMBY when it was still a CBS station running Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter radio programs It’s the oldest radio station in the Monterey Bay Area having begun in 1935 as KDON and its outstanding Gavin award-winning general manager during all its glory years Galyn “Doc” Hammond died not too long ago – as did Don Hofmann its longtime pd before moving on to KJOY KVI KDAY and KSFO in no particular order Five consecutive KMBY pds later worked for Gene Autry’s Golden West Broadcasters: Robert W Morgan Don Hofmann myself Frank Colbourn and Phil Davies Scotty Johnson Morgan called himself Mark Carroll at KMBY because the station already had a Bob Morgan when he arrived and he chose the pseudonym in tribute to Roger Carroll he once told me and Bobby Ocean was then known as Radio Ray Ferrell” – Eric Norberg KSPN Clapper “Holiday greetings from the North Bay outpost! Great to hear the Weekend Warrior is coming back To put it another way: Clap off Clap on! Doc Clapper!” – Ira Lawson 1971 Radio Highlights “That reprint of the 1971 night numbers on this week’s Nostalgia column is interesting to me from several standpoints 1 Dodgers baseball dominating on the radio 221 of what the 2 station had in ratings in an era when television only carried away games and sometimes not all of those 2 How far KABC has fallen in the four decades since 3 Only two FMs in the top ten and those were the ‘historic’ FM formats of Beautiful Music KJOI and Classical KFAC 4 Not one but two all-News stations and both highly rated even at night 5 Four contemporary music stations in the top ten remembering that KMPC was more Top 40 at night with Roger Carroll and KGFJ was Soul with a lot of crossover hits 6 No sign yet of 1027 which had only changed ownership and call letters from KRHM to KKDJ right before this book in April It would take less than two years for it to appear in the top ten as well at least at night How this business has changed” – KM Richards Demise of OC Weekly “Is the LA Weekly owned by the same corporation as the OC Weekly Is the LA Weekly next to fall How soon before the print version of the LA Times ends I wouldn’t miss it too much though It went from a thick enjoyable multi-faceted publication to a now barely 20-page agenda driven rag” – Steve Chang Venice Fly Jock Grounds His Career December 13 2019 Tom Joyner former morning man at KKBT the BEAT is broadcasting his last show this morning We haven’t been able to listen to him in LA since the middle aughts but he has been active in syndication mostly on over 100 Urban stations around the country Tom is really a giant in the broadcast industry and his syndication deal opened the door to others in the world of Urban and rampb radio He is in the Radio Hall of Fame and has been awarded the NAB Marconi the NAACP Image Award and received many honorary doctorate degrees While at KKBT in 2006 Tom was the keynote speaker at Tuskegee University Tom is an alumnus of Tuskegee and a four-time Billboard magazine award-winner He is the founder of REACH Media Inc the Tom Joyner Foundation where he had raised over 65 million and BlackAmericaWebcom Oprah recently called the show to congratulate him on his upcoming retirement after 25 years in radio syndication This week he was overpowered with calls from President Bill Clinton Lionel Richie and Magic Johnson among many others If you never heard Joyner you might remember his life flying between Dallas and Chicago every day doing his morning drive program at KKDA-Dallas and an afternoon show at WGCI-Chicago It was calculated during his time commuting he traveled eight million miles In today’s radio world and voicetracking his two-station commute would be silly but it worked at the time He has led voter registration initiatives brought awareness to health disparities and more An advocate for education the Tom Joyner Foundation a charitable 501c3 non-profit organization was started in 1998 for the sake of African-American students in need at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the nation KKBT received headlines when the station participated in a huge radio promotion called Tom Joyner’s Cash Call with one caller to his morning drive show winning 1 million Hear Ache KROQ’s Kat Corbett was featured in the current issue of LA Weekly … KEIB’s Rush Limbaugh made an appearance on Fox amp Friends last week to announce that sales for his “Stand Up for Betsy Ross!” merchandise have surpassed 5 million dollars All proceeds benefit The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation which provides financial assistance to military heroes and their families as well as first responders … Mark Thomason read the big NY Times story on former Clippers announcer Ralph Lawler Jeff Schimmel former morning show producer for a number of LARP has partnered with Vicki from Real Housewives of Orange County for a new podcast that launches in January “Our distributor is Westwood One and we’re thrilled that they shared our belief that this awesome podcast will be super entertaining and informative and will create an avalanche of downloads” emailed Jeff “Thanks to Kelli Hurley at WWO and my buddy Gary Bernstein for the introduction!” … Saul Levine’s Mount Wilson FM Broadcasters is donating its Northern California radio properties to a non-profit according to Inside Radio Oldies “1260 K-Surf” KNRY and Classical “K-Mozart” KIDD both licensed to Monterey are being donated as a charitable gift to Foresthill CA-based Balanced Radio Foundation Also included in the deal is a pair of Monterey-licensed translators: K294CA at 1067 which rebroadcasts KIDD and K240EV at 959 which simulcasts KNRY KFI Once Again Feeds Underprivileged Children December 12 2019 Another story about celebrating the holidays by giving to others KFI completed its 9th annual PastaThon raising over 435000 and 109000 pounds of pasta The fundraising event helps feed local children in need Money raised from the event will benefit Caterina’s Club a charitable organization that feeds 25000 underprivileged children five days a week in over 30 cities throughout Southern California During the 17-hour live broadcast on December 6 all KFI AM 640 on-air personalities including Bill Handel Jennifer Jones Lee Gary Hoffmann Shannon Farren John Kobylt Ken Chiampou and Tim Conway Jr were on site at the Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove encouraging listeners to donate money along with pasta and pasta sauce to help feed underprivileged children that live in motels without access to a kitchen left: ‘Grinch’ Handel and Chef Bruno founder of Caterina’s Club and owner of the Anaheim White House restaurantOver the past 9 years the KFI PastaThon has raised close to 28 million dollars and over 500 thousand pounds of pasta and sauce “Year after year we are honored to join our listeners in support of Chef Bruno Serato and his outstanding organization Caterina’s Club as they feed thousands of children in Southern California and help end the cycle of poverty” said KFI pd Robin Bertolucci “KFI is so honored to be a part of the Southern California community and their generosity and spirit of giving inspires all of us And special thanks to our partners Smart amp Final and Barilla for their support” right: John amp Ken flank execs from Smart amp Final Evans Makes a Pivot Pat Evans long-time radio professional has decided to call it a career The former voice of Fox Sports Radio Yahoo Sports The Bill Press Show and on-air personality on countless great radio stations across the country said recently “I am humbled surprised and excited at the opportunity to finally ignore the ‘snooze’ button! I am truly thankful to have crossed paths during my 49-year career with legendary programmers incredibly talented personalities and the usual suspects that permeate our business”The Southern California native had a long career in LA Radio Pat’s stops in the Southland include: KKDJ 1974 KIQQ 1975 KEZY 1976 KHJ 1979 KHTZ 1979-80 KRTH 1982-85 Before arriving in Los Angeles Pat worked at KIST-Santa Barbara KDON-Salinas and KXKX-Denver At KEZY he was Beaver Stevens At KHJ he worked as Terry Foster and later as Terry Moreno He served as the imaging voice of “K-Earth” for many years In the 1980s he worked at KSFX KSFO and KYA-San Francisco before returning to LA at K-Earth In the early 1990s Pat moved to Boca Raton where he worked mornings at WSHE-Ft Lauderdale “While I couldn’t possibly thank everyone a special nod to the late Rick Carroll Andrew Ashwood Bobby Rich and Bob Hamilton each of whom believed in my talent Big thanks to IHeart San Antonio for giving me a place to hang my hat for 22 years! Not really retiring just not going to the terrestrial location every day” Still available of course at peproductionssbcglobalnet In 1967 Dick Clark called Vic Gee of KBLA we know him best as Jim Carson from a long career at K-EARTH We asked Jim how he got the American Bandstand call I have no idea other than the fact that Charlie O’ Donnell lived in Burbank in the late 60’s amp would have lunch with Humble Harve and Bruce Wendell who was our PD back in the day We would go around the corner from KBLA on San Fernando Road and have breakfast or lunch He was a great guy and very supportive of me in my radio venture Roger Nadel Joins Mr Master December 11 2019 It didn’t take long for Roger Nadel to land on his feet Mr Master the leading provider of workflow optimization software for the radio industry has hired Roger as the Executive Director of Affiliate Sales Nadel will be responsible for enhancing the affiliation strategy for Mr Master’s Automation Import Manager AIM software and servicing its 3500 affiliates Roger will be based at the company headquarters in Agoura Hills “We are very excited to add Roger’s expertise to the Mr Master family He is an advocate for radio with a successful track record of helping stations monetize their inventory and maximize resources – which perfectly aligns with who we are and our business objectives” said Stu Jacob president of Mr Master Nadel was most recently the svp/Affiliate Services for iHeartMedia’s Total Traffic Network An industry veteran Nadel’s experience includes spending more than 25 years at CBS Radio and more than a decade managing KFWB KMPC and in Detroit WWJ-AM and WYST-FM He also served as executive editor of RampR Oh Boy Jerry Naylor former dj at KLAC and a forty-five year veteran of the entertainment industry died on December 5 He was 80 years old Jerry began his successful career as a singer with his own Country/Rockabilly group in 1954 at age 15 In 1956 Jerry became a member of the San Angelo Texas based rock group The Cavaliers Jerry was born on a small farm in the rural community of Chalk Mountain Texas on March 6 1939 He began a dual career in broadcasting in 1954 working as a teenage dj on KPEP-San Angelo In his early years Jerry became the lead singer of the Crickets after the tragic 1959 death of HollyIn 1965 the Crickets broke up and Jerry signed a multiple-performance contract with the popular ABC-Television network music variety show Shindig He had a single on the Easy Listening chart But For Love that peaked at 5 This recording garnered Jerry four Grammy nominations Cashbox Magazine acclaimed Naylor as one of the Top Forty Male Vocalists of 1970” In 2000 Jerry was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame Alice Child Star Dies Philip McKeon a familiar face behind the scenes at KFWB for ten years has died after battling a longtime illness He was 55 The elder brother of Facts of Life actress Nancy McKeon Philip is best known for his role as Tommy Hyatt on Alice in which he starred opposite Linda Lavin from 1976-1985 The CBS sitcom was based on Martin Scorsese’s 1974 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore Following his time at KFWB he moved to Wimberly Texas where he hosted his own radio show and relocated to be closer to family LA Times ad December 11 1965 from David Grudt’s personal collection Another Newspaper Bites the Dust December 10 2019 One of the reasons LARadio launched in the mid-90s was because of the paucity of radio news The LA Times used to have several writers who covered Southland radio No longer Even the termination of the live and local staff at KABC hasn’t mustered any notice from the Times The Herald Examiner claimed the largest afternoon-newspaper circulation in the country but it went under in late 1989 It has now gotten worse OC Weekly a free weekly paper serving communities in Orange County and Long Beach has shuttered after 24 years in print “Adios Motherf—-ers!” OC Weekly’s tweet said “For the last quarter century we’ve tried to bring good stories to Orange County It’s been fun but now we’re done” The Weekly was founded in 1995 It had a circulation of 45000 and reached more than 503000 active readers Over the years the publication has gone through multiple owners trying to figure out the revenue model that would work They had their last round of cuts last October With the closing of the publication there is no severance for the now unemployed staff Julie Wick of the LA Times wrote: “The loss of OC Weekly’s irreverent aggressive original coverage is a tragedy in its own right” Hear Ache LA Times headlined Joe Smith’s obituary “Record executive of rock ‘n roll era” … Former news anchor at KNX KABC and KFWB Dave Williams read our Sunday column in which we reposted his account of being fired from Merlin Media in Chicago after 89 days with no explanation “Just thought I’d bring you up to date: This was eight years ago and I still can’t get an explanation” Dave is killing it in mornings at KLIF-Dallas I am constantly amazed when radio execs shut down Aren’t we in the communications business We seem to do it the worst … The Weekend Warrior show with Dr Robert Clapper is back on KSPN … Richard Turnage traffic guru had a letter posted in the Saturday LA Times Sports section: “Congratulations to the Los Angeles Angels who made the big announcement they’re moving to Anaheim” Morning Teams Much press has been written about the morning KROQ team of Kevin amp Bean They did it so well for almost 30 years LARadio historian Jim Hilliker found a photo of another morning team that also did it so well It is a snapshot taken of KFI’s Lohman amp Barkley at the 50th anniversary of Mrs Knott’s Chicken Dinner Restaurant at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park not far from the KFI tower and transmitter building “I was there with my mother and my future wife Laura Pederson to see Al and Roger do their morning radio show in person We had a great time that day” emailed Jim Paul Rodrigues former morning man at KKBT The ‘Beat’ in 1989 was photographed last week attending the funeral for Superman impersonator Holiday Prank Pulled on Kevin amp Bean December 9 2019 One of my favorite holiday traditions is the annual gift that KROQ’s Kevin amp Bean would present to longtime sidekick Lisa May Before the morning show shut down for the holiday break the pair’s gift to Lisa was a call to QVC and whatever the next product offering was that was their gift to her Lisa is retiring from her current KLOS morning show this week and moving to the desert She remembered her favorite holiday surprise “My friend Laura Marchand pretended to be the QVC operator” emailed Lisa “We had set-up the joke with the morning show producer I believe it was Jay Tilles at that time Laura told them this tv monitor was worth something like 4000 And Kevin immediately wanted to break the whole ‘we’ll buy whatever’s on the screen’ deal while Bean argued that they had to honor the deal At the peak of the fight Laura yelled out ‘asshats asshats!’ That was the word that Jimmy Kimmel was trying to introduce into the lexicon It was hilarious and they had absolutely no clue what was happening Laura did this Southern accent and was the perfect mix of someone who’s reading the description of an item but isn’t really sure about what it is Listeners remembered that for years!” Hear Ache The lead story in the Sunday LA Times featured a devastating portrait of the toxic culture that apparently still persists at CBS In the detailed account of the struggle with discrimination and retaliation allegations up popped the name of LARP Gary Miller Gary was featured on the midday KSPN show with D’Marco Farr in 2005-06 Gary was quoted in the article supporting a former colleague who is embroiled in the messy story … Former KTWV personality Jamie Worlds was in a four-car accident last week “In the fast lane I was car 1 and three cars behind me bunched up Note to self buy a dashcam! I see the doctor in the morning I’m really hurting like for real and my attorney is down the street and I’m driving a shittiest little rental that was the only one left!” Jamie wrote on her Facebook page … Didja know that Howard Stern Comes Again is being named the No 1 bestselling nonfiction book of 2019 on Apple Books … ESPN’s First and Last host Jason Fitz will be soon heard on KSPN … Robin Thicke was featured in an LA Times profile on his comeback after crossings ‘Lines’ His appearance on The Masked Singer prompted the story He was accused of ripping off Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give It Up and was ordered to pay 7 million The verdict dealt with the issue of inability to distinguish between homage and plagiarism Robin has a new song and is getting airplay on Urban AC KJLH Congrats to ex-KIQQer Gary Butterworth’s 27 years of marriage XTRA/KOST ad appeared in the LA Times in late 1969 from David Grudt’s personal collection Nostalgia Sunday – 8 Years Ago Today Merlin Made Dave Williams Disappear December 8 2011 Dave Williams came to town in 2001 to anchor morning drive at KABC with his former Sacramento partner Amy Lewis Their show was wedged in between Ken Minyard’s departure from mornings after nearly 30 years and Ken’s return to KABC a year later Over the decades it’s been tough to get an opportunity to work morning drive in Los Angeles All the spots tended to be occupied by successful teams who stayed and stayed When Dave and Amy arrived for instance Howard Stern had occupied mornings at KLSX since July of 1991 Kevin amp Bean were in their 12th year at KROQ At KNX Tom Haule and Linda Nunez had occupied their morning chairs for close to a decade Mark amp Kim took over morning drive at KOST over 15 years before At KFI Bill Handel had been in morning drive for nine years Rick Dees had recently celebrated 20 years at KIIS in the morning At KLOS Mark amp Brian had been holding down mornings since 1987 For the next almost decade after leaving KABC Dave worked at KNX twice KFWB and again at KABC from 2009-10 Earlier this year Dave got an opportunity to work at Randy Michaels’ new all-News operation in Chicago We loved reading his Facebook entries about how he had fallen in love with the Windy City And then abruptly after three months he was let go Dave provides some insight into what happened: “I fell head-over-heels in love with Chicago and its people loved my job and every single person I worked with at Merlin Media It was the first startup of my long career I couldn’t wait to get to work every morning Ten or twelve hours later I returned to my high-rise condo overlooking the Chicago River feeling like an overnight rock star who had finally arrived after chasing the dream for four decades I was so excited I couldn’t sleep at night and didn’t want to It was like being a teenaged jock again During my three months with Merlin Media I was praised daily My colleagues liked me program director Andy Friedman told me that I sounded even better than he hoped I would He said the ‘kids’ in the news room looked up to me as a leader and enjoyed my company He told me he planned to eventually give me a big contract more responsibility and a title probably ‘head writer’ Walter Sabo called me a ‘world-class newscaster’ Randy Michaels hugged me and thanked me for ‘Showing us the way’ Then with no official nor private criticism of my work without any warning whatever 89 days after my official start with Merlin Media exactly one day shy of the AFTRA contract probationary period Andy Friedman my long-time friend who had wooed me hired me moved me across the country and greeted me like a brother fired me without explanation even though I asked him for one four times on the spot Since then I have written several times to Andy Randy and Walter asking for an explanation What did I do wrong Crickets Randy and Walter have no need for dignity or friends They have lawyers I miss Andy and will wait for him” Signed Dave Williams Overheard “Some incredibly windy weather tonight perfect for landing a house on a witch which is convenient because I think Ann Coulter is still in town Gary Moore KLOS “If anyone wants to donate 5 I’ll autograph a John amp Ken picture” Tim Conway Jr KFI at a recent station remote ““We already have this controversy with the BCS We’re not allowed to know We don’t know the process with the voting” Dan Patrick KLAC “Every Breath You Take by The Police was written by Sting in the same room where Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond novels” Gary Bryan K-EARTH “MrSkincom is doing the Lord’s work 365 days a year and you can’t believe how great this website is You’ll never get off the Internet once you discover it” Bean KROQ “Hooters Hotel will be auctioned off in a bankruptcy sale by February 17th We’ll keep you abreast of the developments” Ira Sternberg “You know Facebook is going to die when your parents and grandparents are on there” Peter Tilden KABC “Rod Blagojevich looks like a Cabbage Patch doll” Rush Limbaugh KFI “We’ll go with a super group – the Power Station – from 1985 where the recipe is 20 Robert Palmer 40 Duran Duran and 40 Chic” Andy Chanley 1003/The Sound “Monday Night Football has dropped consideration of Susan Sarandon singing Are You Ready for Some Football” Brian Phelps Mark amp Brian KLOS “Playing what we want means never keeping score but JACK/fm is ahead” JACK/fm liner “Herman Cain suggesting that he has suspended his campaign might mean he will be back If that’s what he’s thinking he’s so delusional he actually thinks if he sits on the sidelines for a couple of weeks and the media leaves him alone the world will beg him to come back He still thinks he can come back” Bill Carroll KFI Red Eye Radio Blinks Cumulus Media Networks announced veteran broadcasters Gary McNamara and Eric Harley as the new hosts of Red Eye Radio replacing Doug McIntyre Currently airing on 80 stations with McNamara the new hosts are no strangers to overnight programming having entertained listeners across the country with their show The Midnight Radio Network for the past six years McIntyre will remain within the Cumulus portfolio in a new role And with Terri-Rae Elmer’s departure from KFI wondering if she will have a new role with Doug at KABC in the mornings She has been with KFI since 1983 Hear Ache Larry King told his guests on his Dinner with King special on Sunday that he wants to be frozen when he dies King said “I want to be frozen in the hope that they’ll find whatever I died of and they’ll bring me back” … Latest from former KGO-San Francisco host and former KLAC host Gil Gross from his Facebook page: “Probably about time I said somethinganything First of all your love and friendship are amazing especially at a time when so many of you are so angry at the loss of an institution that was part of your lives long before I was Second it has not escaped the broadcast industry that there is now a hole in the heart of Bay Area radio and that is not a situation that will last for long” Final Kenny Sargent continues to add affiliates to his national Sunday night motorsports radio show SpeedFreaks New are WHBQ in Memphis and KTWO-Springfield Missouri … Condolences to KFI’s George Noory on the passing of his father who was 88 … When I reached out to Jack Swanson former KGO exec for a comment on the Bay Area station he was vacationing in Rarotonga LARP Rewind: December 8 On this day in 1990 following the August death of Jerry Garcia the remaining members of the Grateful Dead decided to call it quits On this day in 1982 Marty Robbins died at 57 following a heart attack Sixteen of his 94 country hits went to number one including Singin’ The Blues A White Sport Coat El Paso which also topped the Hot 100 Don’t Worry Devil Woman and a sequel El Paso City On this day in 1980 John Lennon returning to the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan following a recording session with his wife Yoko Ono was shot dead by Mark David Chapman Lennon was 40 On this day in 1977 Peter Goldmark inventor of the long-playing record LP died in a New York car crash at 71 On this day in 1940 the Bears beat the Redskins in the first NFL championship game heard on radio Red Barber broadcast the game to 120 Mutual Network stations The score was 73-0 the most decisive victory in NFL history Sinéad O’Connor is 55 today Born in Dublin as a teenager she sang in Ton Ton Macoute a band named after the bogeyman of Haitian mythology In 1985 after her mother died she moved to London and began recording Her first hit Nothing Compares 2 U was written by Prince and topped the chart in 17 countries in 1990 Her latest single How About I Be Me amp You Be You is the title track of an album to be released in February 2012 Summer Breeze Summer of 1971 ARB nighttime 12 numbers: 7pm to Mid: 1 KFI 184 Dodger baseball 2 KABC 83 3 KHJ 67 4 KMPC 61 5 KRLA 38 6 KJOI 35 7 KFWB 31 8 KNX 30 9 KGFJ 28 10 KFAC/fm 26 Funnie Email Thursday We GET Email… KGO Archives “I’ve been listening to recent shows from the archives on KGO-San Francisco’s website This past Thursday morning at about 4:53 am they ran a promo for Sundays They listed their entire Sunday line-up from God Talk in the morning to Bill Wattenberg in the evening Then came a classic and prescient tag line: ‘That’s a KGO Sunday News Talk and You ‘Cause that’s the way we roll Within hours most of those names and voices were dropped from the station THAT’S the way they roll” – Jared Kliger KGO Firings “Can you imagine working someplace and being given 5 minutes to pack your crap and get out Is it appropriate to call the Dickey’s department heads Dick-heads Just asking” – Jack Hayes Imus in the Morning “Tom Bernstein’s idea about putting Don Imus in prime time morning at KABC is worth trying It could work If he appeals to the New York listener would LA love Don Imus ” – Roger Carroll Ideas for KABC “KABC: Oddly enough given your ratings story I have begun listening to KABC more than ever If I’m going to listen to radio that evening I flip KABC on at 7 for John Phillips – he’s really good I used to listen mostly to Tim Conway Jr but lately he’s been getting on my remaining radio nerve with his constant bashing- it’s not that I disagree with him about say the Kardashian family but he beats it to death It gets boring really fast John Phillips by contrast is alive alert and lively and knows when to move on I still listen to George Noory on KFI often whenever he has a good guest on because he is the only person I know of who does long form interviews and will have a guest on for several hours instead of a bare few minutes I always listen when he has a genuine scientist on But lately he’s had too many people who clearly are walking wounded or just have a book/website to sell and their craziness is pitiable rather than entertaining So I like Doug McIntyre who is as sharp as they come I don’t agree with everything he says and I think he gets angry and querulous a little too often but he’s so smart and alive Don Imus and then Peter Tilden in the early morning are good too but they both have an excess of interruptions for commercials and whatnot However by that time I’m sleepy anyway I don’t listen to either KABC or KFI during the day they’re both a vast wasteland of political posturing by commentators who think they’re reporters but are actually entertainers – entertainers who don’t entertain me At those times I go back to 1003 The Sound or blessed silence On another subject I quite like the email notification of a new column that you do I would be happy to pay a subscription if you decide to continue it past the New Year” – Janice Jacobson Culver City Future of KABC “I wonder if KABC790 is next on the list to dismantle and restart Talk about a nose-dive Their situation is unsustainable and must change” – Herb Redholtz West Covina Email Saturday 1272019 KABC is Dead to Me “Headline is the text What else needs be said” – John Hindsill Heartbroken “I was heartbroken to read about KABC It was one of the best places I was ever privileged to work Ken Minyard Michael Jackson Ray Briem Toni Grant the personalities that dominated talk radio Vin Scully and the Dodgers It was live and local In 1988 I was the general sales manager and we billed 40 million dollars on a 5000 watt directional signal People in New York assumed KABC was a 50KW clear I’d just change the subject Nothing on radio beats live local talentYou you know what’s interesting is that my other long-time alma mater K-EARTH is doing great Why Because they have kept the format intact but made smart changes They still play the hits in a tight rotation they have a newer sounding but ‘live’ airstaff They have kept the contesting which lets you put the listeners on the air telling you how much they love the station! And they have kept Gary Bryan who is like a great quarterback I love listening to K-EARTH who knew I would like Journey ” – Pat Duffy former general manager at K-EARTH Lackluster Content Coming to KABC “In your epitaph on KABC you wrote – ‘Every time a KABC listener died there was no one to replace them’ It seems the same problem with their talent Going to a programming lineup of mostly syndicated content will see them lose the one redeeming factor in their otherwise lackluster content: Local LA focus and culture And another once great radio station dies along with its listeners” – Pat Veling More KABC “Crum-U-Lus strikes again” – Mike Butts George Green’s Thoughts on KABC “KABC is too cluttered They should pick an older demographic45-65 Program old Sell the older demo No News! No room for KABC to compete against News stations There are some older motion picture and television personalities who would love to try radio ‘Friends of …’ would be the title of the various shows being heard” – George Green long-time general manager at KABC Motorman Out at KABC “I just heard the morning show at KABC announce the changes coming in the new year I guess if nobody is listening you might as well let everybody go but the fact that there will only be one local show in the lineup is a bit alarming I guess if we have a local emergency they will be unable to cover the story Since 870 and 1150 have been beating 790 in the ratings consistently I suppose stacking the station with an all right-of-center lineup makes some sense but Armstrong amp Getty has always seemed like a regional show I heard them when I was visiting smaller markets and seems odd as a replacement for a local morning show Adding Michael Savage to the station gives me a real choice as to who I won’t be listening to on radio in 2020 I see you updated the post to say that Leon Kaplan the Motorman is out as well It’s strange because in recent weeks they have been really promoting his show hard using the Ghostbusters theme song if there’s something strange underneath your hood who you gonna callLeon Kaplan As far as promotion for their station has been going I can’t understand why they would play supposedly real recorded phone calls of listeners telling how much they love the station’s on-air talent right before the top of the hour news The only people hearing these atta-boy phone calls are the handful of listeners they already have” – Gary Gibson Personnel Questions Drew Hayes at KABC is I-n-s-a-n-e to fire Leon Kaplan! That’s like firing Vin Scully Peter Tilden is also a loyal KABC institution who doesn’t deserve this” – Andrew Schermerhorn ’Tis the Season Giving “It’s the way of radio – Merry Christmas You’re fired Brutal” – Keri Tombazian Keep Your Eye on the BallShocked and sad to see KABC’s fate It’s easy to say ‘KABC had to do something’ – but this looks like they’ve totally given up I heard the news and punched up 790 this morning After everyone else was talking about the shooting in Pensacola they were talking about ‘what you’re watching on tv’ I guess that company doesn’t like the kid! – Dave Mason Can KABC Stop the Free Fall “Regarding the KABC shakeup I think it’s a little too late They are so far buried in the ratings cellar that no amount of shuffling at this point matters There is a point of no return There is a lesson here for many media outlets One that comes to mind is CNN which has now dropped to its lowest ratings ever and doesn’t even get a million viewers in prime-time No effort is made to attract a wider audience but instead they double down on their failed programming Getting back to KABC many of us in the audience have been screaming about their programming for at least a decade or more However there was a sense of arrogance amongst the management who convinced themselves that they were the experts However no management over the years were able to stop the free fall I think the listeners knew exactly what needed to be done but this never figured into the equation It is sad but it was predictable I guarantee that the latest changes will have no effect on the ratings and the eventual end will be a sale or a format change Shuffling the chairs on the Titanic made no difference It still sank” – Steve Chang Venice KABC Thinking “The only real surprise about the station is that they kept John Phillips I mean why bother Local spot sales I guess if they have any From time to time lately when I see the call letters in the ratings rundowns it jars my memory of Michael Jackson Any info on how he is doing I suspect what he is doing is not much of anything You know kinda like me I would like to drop him an email if I had contact info We got along nicely during the brief time he contributed to KNX” – Ed Pyle K-Earth Praise “Finally got in the mood to sample KRTH a total musical masterpiece for the power demos in this day and age visors off boys and girls! Also that was a great article on Bill Drake Hard to believe it’s been 11 years since he passed and the beat goes on! Winking smile” – Rich Brother Robbin Programming Leaders “Thanks for the extended coverage on Bill Drake’s passing His thoughts and policies still make sense for 2020 radio but in a lot of ways the bar has been raised by the competition Bill Drake Buzz Bennett Chuck Blore – amazing names in our business who made things happen I think you’ll be hard pressed to find someone in our business in this day and age who have a ‘plan’ and get the time to work it But we can always hope I had the good fortune of working with some who walked the halls with Bill Drake and can fully understand their passion and drive for the industry Please keep up the good work Visionaries get inspiration from people like you” – Dave Mason Baugh and PTSD “A few days ago one of your subscribers Jeff Baugh went on a long rant asserting that only combat veterans are allowed to claim PTSD Curiously some researchers at the RAND Corporation – a well-known think tank in Santa Monica – say the opposite: Combat veterans and survivors of violence natural disasters and terrorism have often experienced disturbing events that may lead to psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder PTSD RAND research has evaluated the delivery of post-deployment mental health care to combat veterans examined the treatment capacity of health care systems in response to PTSD and estimated the costs of providing quality mental health care to all affected individuals The research document is free for the public to download and read Mr Baugh may want to temper his outburst against other survivors of PTSD” – Daniel O’Donnell Santa Monica Daily Deluge “I must tell you…when going thru the almost endless list of emails including end-of-year statements bills ‘see the attached information on your winnings from fill-in-the-blank’ how much I enjoy seeing your LARadio postings! Seriously Each one provides a nice break from the usual deluge of crap we get daily Please keep posting we appreciate it! And hopefully KC and I can meet you again in Avila Beach for coffee” – Larry “Supermouth”Huffman Siciliano Story “I’ve been a DTV subscriber since 1994 and a Sunday Ticket viewer every year until this year The reason I’m not viewing this season is the greed of ATT However Andrew Siciliano does a fantastic job every week He must keep track of sometimes ten games at once and he keeps us hooked for the full seven hours I’ve also viewed the Red Zone from the NFL and that’s solid but Sunday Ticket with Andrew is better Hopefully ATT will come to the realization that greed is NOT a good thing” – Fred Wallin Sports Overnight America Al Jarvis TV Work “I liked the email from Larry Huffman recently about Al Jarvis A few years back I typed out a seven-page outline with as much information as I could find on Jarvis’ career in broadcasting However I did not have any information about his later television dance programs so I’ll have to add that to my outline soon I only knew about his Channel 13 KLAC/tv daily program which gave Betty White her big break on the air in the late-1940s in Hollywood Several years ago I downloaded this advertisement from 1960 which I found on eBay It is for the Let’s Dance program on Wednesdays on channel 7 with Al and Marilyn Jarvis This may bring back some fond memories for some of your readers” – Jim Hilliker Monterey Early Calls “KM Richards mentioned Bill and Ann Wallace’s station in Santa Paula on your Saturday November 30 post That brought back memories KQIQ was my first paying job in radio in the late 60s I had heard the station from home in Woodland Hills and decided to drive out and visit one weekend Ron Foster was the pd at the time He handed me some old teletype copy and had me write my very short resume on the back The next week Bill called and wanted to interview me I drove back out and he and Ann offered me a weekend job saying ‘We wanted to get you first so we could teach you all the bad habits you’ll ever need’ With an offer like that who could refuse When the Santa Paula River flooded in 1968 I was on the air in a sand bagged building for 18 hours straight Phones and power never did go out Fire Department brought me a cheese and mustard sandwich Fun times I eventually left there to work as a gofer for the engineering and programming departments at KBLA then on the air after the station became KBBQ in Burbank That is another story” – Steve Hafen Van Dyke with Drake “You wrote ‘Charlie Van Dyke worked for Bill Drake in Boston San Francisco and at KHJ The veteran Boss Jock tells the Drake story’ Charlie also worked at CKLW-Detroit and KGB-San Diego for Drake years before he went to WRKO in 1979” – Norm Garr Don LaFontaine – Saturday Smile The Randy Thomas video recently featured on LARadiocom reminded me of this commercial – Brian Perez KABC Moves to Syndication December 6 2019 At one time KABC was the leader in Talk Radio Copied by many radio entities Envied by most As the years and decades progressed the fortunes of KABC seemed to age with many ownership changes Audio outlets expanded AM radio began to sound like your grandfather’s radio Younger demographics disappeared Every time a KABC listener died there was no one to replace themWell it has gotten worse with virtually everyone goneAs of January 1: Jillian Barberie goneDr Drew Pinsky goneLeeann Tweeden gonePeter Tilden gone Leon Kaplan the Motorman gone Armstrong amp Getty an iHeart show syndicated from Sacramento’s KSTE will now cover KABC morning drive succeeding Jillian Barberie and John Phillips Barberie has been with the station since 2014 recently sharing her battle with breast cancer on air over the past year She tweeted: “Just when I thought this past year couldn’t get any worse it did I have to laugh at this point Although I did have a good cry too I need a movie distraction Suggestions” Phillips moves to middays from noon until 3 replacing Dr Drew Pinsky and Leeann Tweeden Phillips will be preceded by Larry O’Connor who continues from 10 am – noon originating from Cumulus’ WMAL-Washington DC Westwood One’s Ben Shapiro stays in afternoon drive while Michael Savage also from Westwood One takes over for Peter Tilden in the evening slot “KABC has a proud history as one of the first ‘all-talk’ radio stations in the United States With these great additions to our lineup KABC will offer our audience even more of the content that they love featuring outstanding local and nationally recognized talent” said Drew Hayes station gm KABC will continue as the flagship for University of Southern California football and basketball The Nielsen ratings for December reported KABC was in 38th place with a 06 share Not Wilde About Rita’s Firing Essay by Alan Oda LARadio senior correspondent I was very disappointed Rita Wilde and her colleagues weekender Ken Anthony v/o talent Frankie DiVita and board op Mike Vogel were recently let go by KLOS Rita is a legend and deserves better There was a storm of responses about the departure of Rita and her now-former KLOS colleagues Much of the comments came from former listeners of the late lamented Classic Rocker The Sound / 1003 KSWD which disappeared about two 2 years ago Besides the many comments distressed over the dismissal of Rita there were many complaints about KLOS and how once again the big corporations don’t care about local radio I’m going to risk being redundant and reiterate what I’ve said earlier on social media: – Unlike many other LA radio stations KLOS is not owned by a big media corporation The station was purchased in April by the Meruelo Group a local company that also owns KPWR Power 106 KDAY and most recently KLII Cali 939 Additionally KWHY-TV channel 22 and KBEH-TV channel 63 are part of Meruelo Media Though they do have multiple outlets here in Southern California they do not have hundreds of stations across the country There’s always been the opinion that local radio would benefit with more local ownership Meruelo is an example of a locally-owned entity another example is Saul Levine’s Mt Wilson Broadcasters owners of KKGO Go Country 105 and KSUR K-Surf – It’s argued for anyone to be successful with a commercial format ie music / personalities supported by commercials versus syndicated or bartered programming any group needs four 4 stations in a major market like LA so the stations can be sold to advertisers as a cluster – I don’t know if Meruelo is in debt but they did pay 8275 million for Power 106 35 million for KLLI and 43 million for KLOS within the past two 2 years Some budget trimming I think was inevitable – As for Steve Jonesy’s Juke Box I’d like to see that program succeed because it’s original LA-based programming Unfortunately I’ve learned the ratings are not what KLOS was hoping for which is one major reason the Juke Box has been cut down to one 1 day a week – KLOS is not The Sound every time I turn on the radio I wish I could turn to 1003 and hear their selection of music and the deejays who I’d enjoyed over the years But KLOS is a locally owned station playing rock-and-roll with live personalities at least during the weekday so I feel I need to give it a chance I’m assuming Keith Cunningham the program director will hear your opinion He’s not bound to someone back East calling the shots I do plead that Rita Wilde and her colleagues return to the LA airwaves much sooner than later I’m hoping we’re seeing a deconstruction / reconstruction of local radio and not the beginning of the end Another Casey Kasem Countdown Jean Kasen the widow of deceased tv actor and radio personality Casey Kasem filed a joint request with his three children Kerry Julie and Mike to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on Monday December 2 in Santa Monica Superior Court The lawsuit claimed that Jean’s neglect and physical abuse led to the actors death in 2014 The terms of the dismissal agreement have not been revealed by the family’s attorney Kerri Kasem released a statement through her spokesman earlier this week indicating that she was “distraught and heartbroken over her family and lawyers’ decision to force her into a settlement” Jean and Casey Kasem had been married for 34 years Kasem died back in 2012 at the age of 82 Radio Wars Todd Williams senior marketing consultant with Uniradio read Rich Brother Robbin’s story scroll down to Wednesday’s column of one radio war between KCBQ and KGB with a great deal of interest He was lucky enough at 11 and 12 years old to be listing to this battle as it all unfolded “It set the standards for me that I expect all radio to this day to live by I know it’s no longer the case but it’s what I still strive to meet every day” Williams expressed much thanks to Buzz Bennett and Rich “I can’t say enough for how much gratitude I have So lucky to have become good friends with Rich years later and also luck to have started at KCBQ while still in high school in 1975 That high standard that Buzz and Rich set years earlier at the Q was still the expectation through all my time at the Q till I left in 1980” Joe Smith Man of Many Seasons Dies December 5 2019 Joe Smith former president and chief executive of the Capitol-EMI record label produced World Cup USA 1994 He was also a dj at KFWB in 1961 Joe died December 2 at the age of 91 As the former prexy of Warner Bros Elektra and Capitol Records he has donated recorded interviews with more than 200 top musicians to the Library of Congress Smith’s archives comprising 238 hours of interviews taped over the course of two years served as the basis for the exec’s book Off the Record published by Warner Books in 1988 Joe was also an accomplished pianist Earl McDaniel remembered introducing Joe in Japan in 1947 Joe started as a dj in Boston before becoming a weekender at Channel 98 He left KFWB in August 1961 refusing to cross the picket line Only Joe and Ted Quillin did not return to KFWB after the strike He commented on leaving his on-air career: “I felt an insecurity in the talent end of the business The emphasis had shifted from individual personalities to a station’s sound” Born in 1928 Joe rose through the ranks of Warner Bros Music beginning in 1961 when he was national promotion manager He was responsible for signing and developing the careers of such artists as the Grateful Dead James Taylor and Jimi Hendrix By 1966 he was gm of the label At Capitol he helped revive the career of Bonnie Raitt He has served as president and ceo of Warner / AMEX Cable’s sports entertainment In 1975 Joe was made Elektra / Asylum Records chairman of the board In 1993 he became executive producer of entertainment activities for World Cup USA 1994 – the world’s soccer championship Nicole Sandler has a wonderful story about Smith that she shared on Facebook: When I moved to Los Angeles in 1987 my dad told me how he went to college Boston University with a guy named Joe Smith who was at the time president of Capitol Records From 1990-94 I was producer of the Mark amp Brian radio show at KLOS We hit 1 about a year into my tenure One morning the guys were ruminating over the fact that the Big Boy statue that sat out in front of the Bob’s Big Boy restaurant on La Cienega Blvd resembled Elvis with whom they had an obsession So one morning we got in the Mark amp Brian-mobile drove up to road to said restaurant and ‘stole’ the statue Yes I cleared it with the restaurant first who for some reason never demanded it back It became the ‘Elvis-Bob’ who accomplished all sorts of amazing feats like being catapulted across the Caesar’s Palace fountains during a live broadcast with Evel Knievel and Tom Jones looking on and ‘jumping’ out of an airplane to become skydiving Bob along with other adventures Well one day the guys decided that Elvis always wanted to be on Capitol Records so we figured he should sit atop Hollywood’s famed Capitol Records building As far as the listeners were concerned we just loaded Elvis-Bob into the MampB mobile and drove over to Capitol Records to place him on his much-deserved perch What they didn’t know was that after the idea was hatched I called Joe Smith’s office I mentioned that I was Mark amp Brian’s producer and also Allan Sandler’s daughter With that he agreed to meet with me I went up to his office He asked tons of questions about my dad and then listened to our crazy idea to put Elvis-Bob on the Capitol Building roof He laughingly told me to go for it! So we loaded up the car and with the cell-phone remote backpack we broadcast live as we somehow cut Bob’s base to fit him in the elevators then take him up the final couple of flights of stairs to the roof I’m guessing a tape from that broadcast exists somewhere perhaps in the Mark amp Brian 25 Years archive Anyway Elvis Bob took his rightful place on top of the Capitol Records building and stayed there for a week or so back in the early ’90s because Joe Smith was a great guy with a sense of humor! RIP Joe Smith Say hi to my dad for me! Wanted! Does anyone out there have a photograph of the lobby of 1313 North Vine Street It was the home to both KHJ-TV and KNXT at the time Thanks in advance – Jhani Kaye On Sundays Andrew Siciliano Turns Red December 4 2019 If you are a fan of NFL Football you’ll love the front page of the LA Times Sports section along with another inside half-page yesterday that featured Andrew Siciliano Andrew joined Mychal Thompson for a midday show at KSPN in the summer of 2009 before leaving the all-Sports station in late 2010 Since 2005 he has been the host of DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Red Zone Andrew also serves as a host for NFL Total Access on the NFL Network “We’ve raised a generation of young fans that has a hard time sitting still for one game at a time” said Siciliano 45 “We didn’t create America’s short attention span but we came along at the right time” Every Sunday Andrew simultaneously monitors every football game during the day and he narrates the most exciting and interesting moments Andrew talks about the timing of the Red Zone in the Times article: “We came along at the right time We came along when everyone was getting a smartphone and a tablet and can’t keep focused on just one thing” When Siciliano was laid off by Fox Sports Radio Los Angeles Times sports columnist Diane Pucin said that Siciliano “had found the perfect blend of high-energy red-bullish enthusiasm with some actual knowledge and reporting” Humbly acknowledging the complement Siciliano challenged the generally held view that Southern California is not sports-friendly “You have some of the best franchises in the country – the Lakers the Dodgers and the Angels You have the top college programs in the country – USC football UCLA basketball Six million fans go to baseball games throughout the summer almost nine million every year … half of the members of the baseball all-star team claim Southern California as their home” said Siciliano “This is ‘the’ sports town Just because people don’t scream and throw things like they do in New York and other cities doesn’t mean there’s no passion among the fans – we have sports fans with class here” Andrew first decided to give radio a try at the age of 18 “I was at Syracuse University I was going to be a writer – but I fell into campus radio Then again it’s really not that much of a stretch from print to radio it requires some of the same ability” He was able to cover football basketball lacrosse and other sports “I was very fortunate to be given the opportunity to have this experience” Radio Story Rich Brother Robbin is one of great Top 40 personalities of the 60s and 70s He remembered the competitive wars between two Top 40 stations “Man what a contest” wrote Rich “In San Diego KCBQ was killing KGB when Buzz Bennett and I came into KGB in the summer ’69 We went to Double-Cash KGB and clobbered KCBQ within two months Buzz had quit KGB due to a number of broken promises made by Bill Drake and yeah we sure as hell got even” Rich always thinks of President Kennedy when he thinks of this episode: “JFK had once brilliantly said when someone had asked if he was gonna hit back at some asshole who’d recently dumped on him: ‘No man don’t get mad get even’ We sure as hell got even with Drake and Co with KCBQ We forced ‘em out of top 40 into Ron Jacob’s AOR thing And that was that” Do you have a competitive radio story Hear Ache Former America’s Got Talent judge Howard Stern is blasting the show’s creator and judge Simon Cowell for NBC’s firing of Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough from the competition series bluntly stating that Cowell “orchestrated” the explosive situation … One of the most played holiday songs on KOST is A Holly Jolly Christmas by Burl Ives Strange to think that the 270-pound Ives died 24 years ago … Rita Wilde was one of the part-timers who lost her job at KLOS Social media is blowing up about her firing … If you love In the Still of the Night by the Five Satins you’ll love the opening and closing of The Irishmen … Dr Laura Schlessinger has a fun feature with listeners calling in with a corny joke “Did you hear about the man who was bad with numbers like three Some people are good and some people are bad” Bomp creation by Norm Epstein thanks to Kevin Gershan for artwork After Four Decades Bill Wright Hangs Up His Headphones December 3 2019 After 43 years in the business of radio Bill Wright Reitler has retired from full time work Bill was part of the successful Bill and Sylvia Show mornings on KBIG Bill was born in Santa Monica and became involved with radio in high school and then in college at the University of California San Diego where he received his BA degree in communications He was a frequent guest lecturer at radio schools Prior to his time at KBIG Bill started at KPFK in 1976 followed by KWIZ KYMS KBIG and KWVE “I’ll keep a presence in voice-over but look forward to the next chapter in life which will include our first grandchild in March” Bill posted on Facebook “The last 20 years have been spent as Senior Producer for Ambassador Advertising Agency and they were fantastic and challenging I did a little of everything from writing to production to voicing to account management BreakPoint Life Issues Precepts with Kay Arthur and Grace to You were just a few of the clients it was my privilege to serve Bill taught at Fullerton College and the Academy of Radio Broadcasting in Huntington Beach And there were some great voice-over years sprinkled in there as well “I had the opportunity to enjoy a great variety of different jobs along the way having served as Production Director Program Director Morning Co-Host News Engineer and Ops Manager and of course DJ All in Southern California which is kind of miraculous in this business God is good!” Bill has been married to his wife Debi for 37 years and they are parents to three grown children It was around Thanksgiving when Bill announced his retirement “I did fine financially nothing too outrageous But if you define wealth as I do as a wealth of friends colleagues family and fellow believers I’m one of the richest guys around Not to paint a picture without challenges and a few problems we all have those But we seem to soldier on throughout it all Let’s keep doing that” Bill ended his retirement announcement with “And it’s off to go fishing!” Randy Thomas Steve Harvey Almost Didn’t Make Radio Part of His Legacy December 2 2019 Steve Harvey is heard in morning drive locally on KJLH The show comes to the Southland via syndication but his radio career almost didn’t happen “A lot of people ask how did I go from radio to tv Well radio almost didn’t happen” Harvey posted on Twitter last week The comic legend recalled the time he was doing a stand-up concert in Chicago in 1994 when he was asked to fill in for famed WGCI radio personality Doug Banks Atlanta Black Star reports “I was supposed to just be a guest I got there early he got sick and they said ‘Well go on in and announce your show’ Then I told a couple jokes” Harvey said “And then the phone rang … me and the caller had some banter on-air Went to a commercial break general manager of the station came in and said ‘Hey have you done radio before’ I said ‘Yeah yeah All the time’ Never done s–t before” Harvey was then asked to sit in for the rest of the morning The following day when the general manager asked if he ever considered a career in radio Harvey replied NO “I said ‘How much does it pay’ And then he told me and then I said ‘Nah I don’t want to do radio man I make a lot of money out here’” Harvey recalled He and the general manager then talked about how much it would take to make him join the team but when Harvey quoted his price the gm made clear that wasn’t in the budget However before Harvey could exit the building he was called back to the office “The general manager says ‘My boss said they’ll pay you that much money’ I said ‘Cool I’ll do radio tomorrow’” Harvey said “That was my first radio gig at WGCI Chicago” And the rest as they say… is history Wink Martindale is one busy guy Email Saturday 11302019 Time Travel with One of the 11-10 Men I thoroughly enjoyed your recent column re the KRLA change from Music to Talk back in the day As one of the original ‘11-10 Men’ I recalled with great fondness the year I was the 6-9AM morning guy 1961 John Barrett was station manager and Jim Washburne was pd and did afternoon drive Bob Eubanks as the all-night jock preceded me from midnight till 6 am And far too many times I’d oversleep! My arrival at 6:30…6:45…once even 7 o’clock to relieve him didn’t go over too well! Had I not been enjoying growing popularity hosting The POP Dance Party on tv I’d likely have been fired ASAP Fortunately Bob and I went on to enjoy some success as network game show producers/hosts and laughingly we had long since put those days behind us Others with whom I had the pleasure of sharing the KRLA mike were recognizable names like Sam Riddle Jimmy O’Neill Roy Elwell Dick Moreland and Frosty Harris to name a few KRLA 1961 –the beginning of a great musical decade along with the addition of LA’s SECOND rock ’n roll powerhouse to join KFWB ‘Color Radio Channel 98’ I read and enjoy your LARadio column daily” – Wink Martindale Not Wilde About Rita’s Dismissal “KLOS has been dead to me since they fired Jim Ladd Now with Rita Wilde being axed I have even less reason to tune in if that’s even possible LA Rock radio is dead” – Bob Whitmore Scoop on Coop “While I’ve never met Cooper Rummell I think he was one terrific radio reporter He gathered facts wrote coherently and tightly and delivered in a really great natural style He was good We listeners are the less for his departure He was one of the top three street reporters there” – Warren Cereghino McCormick Addendum “I should have added that Cooper Rummell sounds like a fine young man who made a tough decision and serves as an example to others who may now volunteer for worthy causes as well But it should be pointed out that the SAG AFTRA Health Fund offers mental health counseling through Beacon Health Options You have a few hoops to jump through but the coverage is there I know because the therapy helped me get off of pain pills along with the back surgery that was totally covered The pension plan is so solid I regret the several years in my career that I worked at non AFTRA stations” – Bob McCormick Touched by Rummell’s Story “I was touched by Cooper Rummell’s story It is not unfamiliar to me When I began at KNX at the age of 31 I was overwhelmed and subjected to quite a bit of criticism To be honest my grammar needed some improvement and I was told all about it in a very direct way It was like boot camp in the newsroom and the outside reporting offered a variety of stomach-turning events I once slipped in a person’s brain tissue at the scene of a car wreck on the 210 I was at the epicenter of the Loma Prieta earthquake near Santa Cruz when it hit I was chastised by the people who wanted more descriptive language when I described the flash of a dead burn victim as looking like an overdone artichoke Inside as an anchor was no easier The World Trade Center bombing I and II the Murrah Federal building bombing in Oklahoma City the shooting at LAX and 33 years of floods and fires It never leaves your memory but you find a way to live with it Here’s my way: I’ve come to define news as a notable departure from the norm a plane crash instead of a safe landing or a car wreck instead of a clogged freeway Because news is not a measure of the way things normally are I have been able to sort through the cruelty and mayhem of a typical day’s content and use it to underscore my belief that people are basically good It’s the stuff we report that is the anomaly and that’s why we report it I know it’s the long way around the block to get to an optimistic conclusion but it’s worked for me As for Cooper’s plans to find a way to tell more uplifting and positive stories I wish him all the best I’ve never met Cooper and I have no firsthand knowledge of the exact circumstances that led to his departure But I hope he is moving toward his dream instead of from it” – Tom Haule Rummell Responses “Thank you for highlighting the compassion with which many LARP’s have reacted to Cooper Rummell’s story I’m going to ignore the self-righteous and utterly disgusting attitudes some so-called professionals have exhibited toward a truly human reaction to the news beat Cooper covered I’m grateful that Diane Thompson spoke up too I remember when Adrienne Alpert was nearly killed by being parked in a such a deadly spot Did those Neanderthals witness her near immolation and painful recovery” – Julie T Byers Cooper Responds to Brian Perez “Thank you for the kind words and the encouragement I’ve been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from people like yourself I’m hoping this is the start of a necessary ongoing conversation about mental health and journalism Since the article was released I’ve been contacted by a number of people in the industry who want to help in various capacities It will be exciting to see what is accomplished in this field in the months to come I’m so sorry you’ve had to deal with the mental toll of the world of breaking news and hope there is a way to effect positive change in the industry I grew up at Saddleback Church and am a huge fan of Daily Hope I know my dad views it as an honor to be part of Pastor Rick’s radio ministry I love your station and the work that you do to spread the good news! Keep on fighting the good fight and using the airwaves for His glory Anyways thanks again for reaching out and I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving!” – Cooper Rummell K-EARTH Success “Great to see K-Earth solidly on top in the ratings It was a great place to work Apparently it still is” – Steve Fredericks Liddick former K-Earth News Director Author of But First This Message: A Quirky Journey in Broadcasting Need for a Plan B “After reading the current story about Cooper Rummell and recent stories on Ellen K and Kathy Kiernan it appears anyone who is considering a career in radio broadcasting need to have a plan B in case it doesn’t work out Mr Rummell appears to have a good head on his shoulders and was smart to leave the news industry behind Kathy was lucky that she had three decades of work under her belt and was able to retire quickly from an industry who didn’t want her expertise Ellen K had worked with Rick Dees and Ryan Seacrest before her current morning assignment with KOST She is doing well because she is a known quantity and was able to adapt to being a single host Since Ellen K has veterinarian experience from her college years I was wondering if she could go back to that profession should she need to leave radio She would be a hit with customers who would know her from radio I bet she would be very successful She would be dealing with cats and dogs no cows need apply It will be interesting to see how long it would take to be re-qualified as a veterinarian with her existing credits I wish all these people all the best in any future endeavors” – Dan Ramos Joshua Tree Grieger Counter “I was an intern at Magic 106 and for a few months Power 106 during my days as a student at UCLA I had the opportunity too took with some truly wonderful people who I will always remember both in front of the microphone and behind the scenes One of my favorite things to do was to hang out in the engineering office and talk with the station’s engineering staff Tom Koza and Terry Grieger Their knowledge of stations was like having a walking encyclopedia of radio not only from the technical perspective but formats and personalities The two helped me repair and build things for KLA the UCLA student station where I was a dj and student engineer that help allowed me to repair the main broadcast board and add the ability to take and record telephone calls from the KLA studios for later airing Over the years I stayed in touch with Tom but had lost touch with Terry Until a fateful day visiting The Sound now KKLQ 1003 FM … turns out that Terry was the chief engineer for the station Programmer Dave Beasing knew this but made it a surprise to me for the visit A very pleasant surprise Terry and I caught up over the next few years He told me of his living in the transmitter area of one of his previous stations other projects he was working on the state of HD Radio which was the reason I was able to truly keep in touch When the analog and digital HD signals got out of sync I was one of the first to notice so I could give Terry a heads up and he would re-set the system After The Sound changed owners and formats Terry moved on to become the senior Director of Engineering for Meruelo Media meaning he was back in charge of Power 106 and proving that the radio world really is a small world at times In early November Beasing wrote to tell me that Terry had suffered a bad stroke while en route to a transmitter on Mount Wilson Last week came the news that Grieger passed away on November 18th Another one of radio’s good guys the unassuming Grieger had worked on the technical sound of many Los Angeles stations Memories of him and his work can be found on LARadiocom as Don Barrett did an extensive interview with him back in 2006 and printed highlights and reader tributes after his death” – Richard Wagoner Daily Breeze Call Letter History “That ad reminded me of the history of the first station I programmed in Santa Paula As KSPA it was purchased by Bill and Anne Wallace in 1965 from Frank James who also owned 25 of KNOB here in LA which later became KSKQ and is today’s KLAX They programmed Country music until 1969 when KUDU in Ventura switched to that format KUDU picked up the KBBQ call letters when 1500 Burbank became KROQ The Wallaces had changed calls to KQIQ by then When KUDU improved their signal and killed them in the ratings they installed a soft contemporary/MOR format playing three songs in a row in every set as ‘Triple Play Radio’ KGIL was quite obviously the model for that format which lasted until 1975 when the Wallaces affiliated with NBC’s News and Information Service as KAAP When I arrived in 1978 after NBC pulled the plug on NIS we resurrected the ‘triple play’ formatics but not the on-air identifier as the first true Adult Contemporary station in the market I still remember the first song we played on the new format it was Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty which was a big current hit that summer Thanks for what the late Gary Owens would call a ‘memory flogger’” – KM Richards Scully for All Ages “I thought you might be interested in the following item The other Bob O’Brien posted a note on Facebook that today November 29 is Vin Scully’s 92nd birthday and one of his followers posted this link to an about Vin article written by David J Halberstam One more reason to be thankful on this Thanksgiving weekend Hope yours was wonderful” – Bob O’Brien Early Bandstand “I was on YouTube and found this video posted in June of this year Apparently if I’m reading all the comments correctly this is one of ONLY three filmed kinescopes that exist of American Bandstand with Dick Clark from the 1950s The show was seen live Monday through Friday afternoons on the east coast on the ABC-TV network The program in 1957 was seen coast-to-coast via 67 ABC affiliates including KABC-TV 7 in Los Angeles This film is from the show’s first year on ABC from December 18 1957 Anyway since I was only 2 at the time in 1957 and Dick Clark was the same age as my father 28 in 1957 I find all this very interesting to watch This 45-minute film has all the songs the teens were dancing to some commercials for the soft-drink 7-Up and the look of 1950s television Sorry the sound is a bit muddy or low And all the teenagers who give their age on the program look so much older to me I guess that’s the way people looked back then Ha ha To me as a music fan with an interest in television history it is fun to hear songs when they were brand new like At the Hop by Danny and the Juniors De De Dinah by Frankie Avalon Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms and April Love by Pat Boone So I’ll put the link if you care to watch it I had never seen as much continuous footage from American Bandstand during the 1950s days from Philadelphia as I’ve seen in this 45-minute video Enjoy” – Jim Hilliker Monterey Where in the World is Aron Bender “A couple of weeks ago and I see others have also been curious I contacted you why Aron Bender isn’t on KFI You answered me with a couple ideas The other night Tim Conway Jr brought up some info as how he Tim can’t say anything without station approval or sticking to station policy I think he did say some of the rumors were just that but since they were good friends he has the answer and maybe if one wrote to him he may reveal the answer I figure you might get a quicker response to quell the rumors as to listeners it may take a longer time to hear back Can you or has anyone close to LARadio have the answer” – Wil Jones On Kindness on Thanksgiving by Bob Hastings Director of Integrated Marketing Salem Media Group November 28 2019 In the past I’ve written at Thanksgiving about Gratitude and Joy This year my subject is Kindness The definition of kindness is “the quality of being friendly generous and considerate” One could write a lot about any of those words Kindness is about thinking of others first Kindness is being the opposite of selfish Kindness comes in many forms — helping others being polite using gentle words when your brain wants to shout Kindness is not random as some would say Kindness is intentional It is an action whether physical or spoken The world seethes with dissention hard edges dog-eat-dog my Sweetheart hates that expression! It is up to each one of us to rise above the “world” and be that better person we should/want/need to be Kindness is a way of living — giving unconditionally being gentle Steven Covey says we should seek first to understand That’s not always easy but it is a great mindset Understanding is a great step towards peace Finding commonality is key I heard a speaker once say that people most likely agree on about 80 of issues and once that is established the other 20 is easier to achieve I like that approach — it leads us back to kindness The old adage that if you’re down and out go do a kindness for someone rings true Don’t you always feel better about life when you lift another up When I was a Cub Scout we had a badge we wore — it was the face of a bear cub and you had to wear it upside down until you did something kind for another This holiday season go out and do intentional acts of kindness — make a pledge to do minimum one act of kindness each day and even chronicle in a journal or just on a piece of paper On New Year’s Eve take out that list and share it with others of a like mind — think of the joy you will share! If you start on Thanksgiving you’ll have 33 days of kindness behind you and who knows it could start a trend in your life for 2020 — Lord knows we’ll need it! Have a Happier Kinder Joyful Blessed Thanksgiving! – Bob Hastings Director of Integrated Marketing Salem Media Group K-EARTH on Top of the LARadio World November 27 2019 The November ’19 PPM Nielsen Audio ratings have been released K-EARTH remains on top with a steady 59 followed by an also unchanged KOST 52 Look out for KOST to get their annual holiday boost next month with their early all-Christmas music KIIS increased listeners to their highest ratings in a half year KNX was up enough to land in the Top 10 Ratings are 6 Mon-Sun from 6a-12mid: 1 KRTH Classic Hits 59 – 592 KOST AC 52 – 52 3 KBIG Hot AC 49 – 46 4 KLVE Spanish Contemporary 40 – 41 KTWV Rhythmic AC 45 – 416 KIIS Top 40/M 36 – 39 7 KCBS JACK/fm 38 – 368 KFI Talk 33 – 33 KLAX Regional Mexican 32 – 3310 KNX News 26 – 30 11 KRCD Spanish Adult Hits 32 – 2912 KLOS Classic Rock 32 – 2813 KPWR Top 40/R 25 – 27 KYSR Alternative 25 – 2715 KROQ Alternative 22 – 26 KRRL Urban 25 – 26 17 KAMP Top 40/M 24 – 2518 KKGO Country 26 – 24 KLYY Spanish Adult Hits 21 – 24 KXOL Spanish AC 22 – 2421 KSCA Regional Mexican 22 – 2222 KPCC News/Talk 24 – 2123 KBUE Regional Mexican 19 – 1924 KUSC Classical 17 – 1625 KDAY Rhythmic AC 13 – 15 KLLI Latin Urban 14 – 15 KSPN Sports 11 – 1528 KCRW Variety 12 – 14 KJLH Urban AC 15 – 14 KKLQ Christian Contemporary 21 – 1431 KLAC Sports 18 – 1332 KRLA Talk 13 – 1033 KEIB Talk 08 – 08 KWIZ Spanish Variety 07 – 0835 KFSH Christian Contemporary 05 – 07 KFWB Regional Spanish 06 – 07 KKJZ Jazz 08 – 0738 KABC Talk 07 – 0639 KCSN AAA 04 – 04 KDLD Regional Mexican 04 – 04 KKLA Religious 03 – 04 Rummell Rumbles “When I read Cooper Rummell’s story I immediately recognized my feelings” emailed KNX news anchor Rob Archer “The day I spent reporting on the Sandy Hook shooting was the turning point for me But I had hope that finally America would figure out what every other industrialized democracy has done and do something substantive about reducing the incidences of and the number of fatalities from mass shootings But no After that each time I had to report on another mass shooting I began to recognize we never would do anything about them and another part of me died I moved beyond anger beyond grief and now feel a dead resignation inside whenever the next one happens So I understand Cooper’s feelings entirely when he’s gotten up close to things like this and other scenes of human tragedy cruelty and carnage As the broadcaster representative on the Los Angeles Board of SAG-AFTRA I’ve raised this issue before It needs to be top of mind awareness and there’s going to be a renewed push on this issue We need to ensure our broadcast journalists on the front lines of our brutal and cruel society that they’ve got the resources to handle the things they see and experience and the union will be behind those efforts All our thanks to Cooper for making everyone see it” Former KNX news director Ed Pyle emailed: “I am definitely with Bob McCormick” Michael Castner has been in the trenches and wrote: “I know I’m a day late but after reading the column today I felt the need to chime in as well I have been absolutely blessed to work with KFI news director Chris Little and my mentor KNX pd Ken Charles in four markets Without Chris and Ken I wouldn’t have accomplished what I have in radio We all know news is a taxing job You are always on call If you are good you are always terrified that you missed something or got a fact wrong And yes if I screwed something up Chris and Ken would let me know And they didn’t put a bow on it I would expect nothing less I have seen things covering news that I wish I could forget One of the worst was trailing a coroner for a feature on his career I walked into a basement to see a young man who had taken his life with a shotgun His parents were just coming home to hear that their lives were changed forever The gruesome scene and the heartbreaking wailing will never leave me For the Steve Gregory‘s and Pete Demetriou’s of the world we thank you If this isn’t a line of work for you and you are a great storyteller there are now so many avenues to spread your wings” “Hi Cooper! I just read your story on LARadiocom” emailed Brian Perez “I’ve been here at KWAVE for almost 16 years starting as the news director and there were days when I came across the absolutely most gruesome stories one could imagine Not being a news station I picked and chose what I would cover in our 60-second newscasts While I avoided reading the worst of the stories on-air I still read them in the newsroom as I perused them you of course were actually on the ground covering them so I know it was worse for you I’m not at all putting myself in your shoes It’s amazing what humankind is capable of doing to each other Often I’d end some of my newscasts with an encouragement to people to hug their kids a little tighter that night Blessings to you in this new endeavor I’ve been a long-time fan of your dad’s work and find it ‘really cool’ that he’s the voice of Pastor Rick Warren’s Daily Hope which airs twice a day on KWAVE! Have a Happy Thanksgiving” KNXer Stephanie Roberts added: “I think stress is becoming a bigger factor for everyone on the news team as the number of bodies dwindles” And former news anchor Diane Thompson checks in from her new home in Tucson: “The news business especially in Los Angeles is ugly and not for the faint of heart but it’s part of the job My 34-plus years at KNX certainly included its challenges I’ve labeled my 18 years as morning drive reporter as ‘the dead body beat’ The Cerritos mid-air plane crash in 1986 kept me up all night My boyfriend at the time who later became my husband was a good listener and helped to talk me through the gruesome event which included burning homes and small chunks of human body parts scattered in the street After a week covering the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California I came home with a bad case of hives I was scared to get on an airplane or drive through an underpass after witnessing Adrienne Alpert get zapped by a massive jolt of electricity in Hollywood in 2000 I needed counseling for PTSD after that one Six months later I had to deal with guilt feelings for winning awards at Adrienne’s expense I remember covering my first family murder/suicide I hid inside the news van and wept as the coroner carried the body of a small child inside a body bag and placed it inside the coroner’s van And let’s not forget the LA riots the Northridge earthquake and all the various brush fires floods mudslides shootings and gruesome car crashes I remember a tv photog telling me at a deadly crash to move my foot because a stream of human blood was heading my way Yoga choir singing my cats and a ‘news junkie’ pastor who would leave encouraging phone messages helped me to cope with the ‘daily dose of death news’ But it was the thirteen years of producing the Hero of the Week that restored my soul I applaud Cooper Rummell for sharing his story and I hope he spends some time taking care of himself As always thanks for the platform! PS: Chris and I sold our house in Santa Clarita and moved to Tucson in late June We love it here!! PSS: If Bob McCormick thinks Pete Demetriou is not affected by the gruesome news he covers then Bob isn’t paying attention PSSS: Bob Sims once told me he didn’t like to hire anyone younger than 25 Having survived the all-news radio meat grinder I can see why KFI’s Jeff Baugh has the final response this morning Post Traumatic Stress Disorder my Ass!!! One covers a few fires floods shootings A few mangled dead bodies children abused so badly it’s beyond belief school children mowed down by an unstable person with a gun I could go on and on All of the above will question your own sanity and reveal if you can handle reporting these events This is however what you signed up for One should try and help those involved after the story Help survivors help those directly impacted by the events donate your time and energy do anything to help move forward If you feel bad or perhaps depressed maybe trouble sleeping Take a pill!! Take a nap!!! What you are NOT entitled to do is to connect yourself to PTSD!A few years ago I attended an event held by a couple of broadcast journalists I can’t remember their names which for me is a good thing The two went on and on about sheer terror of ‘Breaking News’ major events involving great human tragedy and how they had so much trouble and PTSD with the experience Really The termPost Traumatic Stress Disorder hit mainstream media during and right after the Viet Nam War War sucks! It is unfathomable to all A dark deep dank tunnel with no light at the end It turns otherwise nice young women and men into monsters! ‘Gee what happened to little Alice and Bobby they were so nice before they went away to War’ Some return somewhat normal from war and lead productive lives but they still have memoriesusually not good ones Members of the military that have fought in wars to protect us protect our Country protect our freedom are allowed to and certainly have earned the right to use the term PTSD Members of the press that are covering and have covered the wars are allowed to use the term PTSD Talk to Lara Logan Christiane Amanpour Read the writings of David Halberstam Morley Safer Kate Webb Read about Larry Burrows Read about Col David H Hackworth Better yet find Gary Sinise he knows a couple of people that served our country in uniform that are dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Get hold of me I’ll set up a meeting with my buddy and a fellow traffic reporter who was shot in the headin country and is helping OTHERS with PTSD!Sorry one can go through a lot of emotions covering news events and some might slow you down a step or make you puke butyou do not have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder! – Jeff Baugh Semper Fi from David Grudt’s personal LA Times ad collection that appeared on Thanksgiving Day 1965 John Tesh Returns Radio Hall of Fame Award November 26 2019 Strange story from Robert Feder in his Chicago media website He reports syndicated radio host and former K-FISH personality John Tesh has returned his recent Radio Hall of Fame award John was upset with the way his wife actress Connie Sellecca was treated at the November 8 event Each inductee gets to pick someone to present the award John picked his wife When her remarks exceeded the three-minute limit for presenters a producer cued music to play her off When that didn’t work they cut Sellecca’s microphone and turned out the lights in the ballroom according to Feder’s story Museum director Susy Schultz commented: “I could not apologize more Hers is a strong and important voice that should not be silenced She is a woman with a successful multi-faceted career and a keen business sense who has navigated the worlds of acting modeling television producing and digital broadcasting She is also a role model on how to juggle and weave together work faith and family” We’ll see if the apology was enough Photo courtesy of Robert Feder Shoe is Dropping For the past couple of months radio people all over the country have been caught in the termination tidal wave that we’ve come to expect as budgets for the New Year are approved KLOS has dropped all weekend and fill-in personalities including former KLOS pd from the early 90s Ken Anthony much beloved Rita Wilde Frankie DiVita and Mike Vogel Frankie responded on Facebook with: “My full-time voiceover business just became more full Here’s to a stellar 2020!” AllAccess listed the email address of the KLOS who departed: Ken Anthony at kanthonyallaccesscom Rita Wilde at ritawildemecom Frankie DiVita at frankiefrankiedivitacom and Mike Vogel at michaelvogelismcom Another talent caught in the tide KBIG MY/fm weekender Shelley Wade has ended her three-year run Rummell Reaction Cooper Rummell’s story yesterday prompted some responses Former KNX newsman Bob Sirkin wrote: “Cooper Rummell’s story is very inspiring Those of us who have long covered tragic events can relate to Cooper’s feelings I thank him for his selfless important work” Former KFWB/KNXer Bob McCormick had another perspective: “Sorry but PTS from ambulance chasing doesn’t cut it as an excuse unless he crossed the yellow tape to get a closer look at the carnage A soldier with a leg blown off by an IEDTHAT is trauma Maybe KNX should start giving stress tests And Pete Demetriou can run the training” Chris Bury thinks Cooper needs to “team up with Steve Gregory in some fashion…Amen!” Former KIQQ morning man Mike Butts emailed: “What a story from Cooper It must be stressful and he is right as stressful as it for those reporting the news seeing it on television could not compare to what our first responders see” Books written by Los Angeles Radio People: Howard Stern Nancy Plum Neil Ross Steve Fredericks Ken Davis Harvey Kern Dave Zorn Johnny Olson Hettie Lynne Hurtes Rob Archer Archives Fall 2019 : Passing Parade: Phil Jennrich Terry Grieger Art Gould Howard Lapides Ron Fairly Bruce Seratti Bob Kingley Gene Brodeur Lucky Pierre Bob Bunnell New night show at KRRL Real 923 Tribute for Joe McDonnell on his anniversary Lisa Bloom off the Rose New Cali Reggatae morning show Entercom explores mental health Roger Nadel has news Lisa Bowman is a sport Franken launches comeback on SiriusXM K-Frog welcomes Bugenske for mornings New look for PPB Where have all the VJs gone Angels annoucer has heart attack Noah Eagle new Clippers announcer State of News Radio in the desert Casey’s saga continues Kathy Kiernan’s farewell essay: Yolando Gaskins’ eclectic life K-EARTH’s Legendary Station of the Year award Angelica Vale joins Reggaeton y mas Wendy Williams receives Star Kevin Ross celebrates 10-years on the bench Howard Stern proposes Bob Kingsley steps down Meet KLOS’ Greg Beharrell Earl Trout tale Trip to town and a trip down the dial Fire escape RIPBean Who was that Masked Man Bob Eubank’s exerciser RadioHOF induction Simon T puts out fire Bean’s departure New mornings at KUSC Challenges at 885 Lisa May departs LARadio after 30-years Rita Wilde podcast Journalists and mental health issues Jeff Federman promoted to local Prexy Bill Dudley on the record Archives Summer 2019: Passing Parade: Humble Harve Reb Foster Gregg Hunter Roger Carroll Bo Leibowitz Cheryl Whitaker Dwight Case Murray Westgate Jim Newman Revenue changes for LA stations Jhani Kaye get MVP for May ratings leaders Radio Hall of Fame nominees Phrase that Pays NY Times word usage Buckets of Money Ashley Paige syndicates The Ranch Nick Cannon joins mornings at Power 106 Alan Oda to Japan LARPs in Heavy Hundred Gayle King new Queen of CBS Dave Beasing Has Another Sound in Him CorporateFM is a Must-See documentary Muhammad takes over programming at KJLH Osburn new boss at 885/fm Michael Jackson breaks up fight at 30000 feet Podcasting challenges Is KABC next to be sold Franken is frank Bob Ray inducted into Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Takes a bunch to tango these days Hollywood landscape on up and up Chris Hughes Out Earthquake king Popejoy is remembered Mookie Kaczor new pd at 885/fm Radio Hall of Fame voting begins David G Hall celebrates 30-years in business Andy Chanley new md at 885/fm Reggae and Mas moving to 939 KGIL reunion Kevin James’ internal Quiet Storm Carlucci on the move Dennis Prager lead story in LA Times Sluggo now at bat for KLOS Purely personal Archives April/May 2019: Passing Parade: Chuck Cecil Brad Messer LARPs win AllAccess Awards Series on Podcasting Bob McCormick exits California Bob Eubanks dazzles telling Beatles stories Ken Levine on podcasting Mark amp Brian reunite Past and present music intersect Mighty 1090 not so mighty Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Radio Station – Nothing J Cruz cruises to iHeart KLOS sold to Meruelo Ralph Lawler signing off Talaya’s Last Ride on The WAVE Looney thoughts on LARadio Steve Swenson to Tennessee NPR New days for KCRW Charlie Van Dyke reflections Dave Hull returns to radio Mark amp Brian reunite Money winners for 2018 Kat Corbett exits KROQ Jim Rondeau to Northwest Uncle Russ Perry Michael Simon’s essay on weekend news coverage Dan Patrick health scare Kevin Klein joins KROQ Fight on for ‘ol SC Emily Valdez new KNX anchor Erica Farber Woman of the Year Rick Dees’ cookbook Tim Conway Jr loses his father Thom Tran to MC Army event Dave Zorn’s book will make your heart go pitter-patt KXOS Movin’ to Meruelo George Green looks in rearview mirror Howard Stern doing what he does best Melinda Lee out of the kitchen and busier than ever Nathan Roberts comes out of retirement to join KNX K-SURF flashes back to the 80s Radio Santa Ana on the Air Gamble for New York Radio Personalities Archives 1st Quarter 2019: Passing Parade: Sylvia Chase Eva Ross Kilgore David Horowitz Richard Kimball Super Dave Osborne Harvey Mednick Bruce Williams Let’s Go Trippin’ with Dick Dale Larry Van Nuys jumps into the KSurf KABC shuffles line-up LARP who died in 2018 Art Laboe set for PPB honor luncheon Jaime Jarrin honored Marketing lesson from Fiji Water Girl Cindy Dole out styling Saul Levine essay on his 1051/fm beginnings How will a recession hurt the radio biz Update on KFI reporter Hanna Scott Series to preserve radio archives Golden Night 1000 homes on site of KLOS/KABC Video in cars Jimmy Steal to Chicago New head of Southern California Public Radio Celebrating Scott St James Laughs are on Phil Hendrie Afternooner like no other Art Laboe honored by Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters Wendy Williams show postponed indefinitely KNX vet Diane Thompson set to retire Delilah tells all Motown at 60 Martoni’s Steve Harvey and Mo’nique in kerfuffle It’s news to Steve Gregory Auspicious start for 885/fm Triplets 10-year anniversary How Pete Weber made the hockey team We Will Rock You Randy Keith is the piano man Triplets partner in hope History of Gary Theroux New news from Diane Thompson John Batchelor reveals he has cancer Bean announces in leaving KROQ morning show Actor Sal Mineo was a LARP Sky Daniels retires from 885/fm Ask Dr Ruth USC broadcast rights Buzzards return to Hinckley Ohio Nancy Plum’s new book Elaine Perkins perks up the news Podcast with Passion Archives 4th Quarter 2018: Classic win for K-EARTH Ellen K doubles down Rachel Maddow profile Imus lawsuit thrown out Jeff Baugh’s book Gary Thompson was at right place at the right time Don Elliot reports from NAB/RAB Radio Show Rocio Rivera gets more time at KFI Johnny Gunn’s new book gets dressed down New life for KNX/fm Passing Parade: Scott St James Hal Pickens Ed Crook John Lyle Campbell Mike Parker Dave Roberts Bill Dudley plays a record Invisible LARP RJ Curtis hits jackpot LA Times beats up Charley Steiner KBIG begins with Poole 93/KHJ gets benched Allie MacKay’s Journey Al Wisked Away by DallasWhat did music stations talk about during World Series Heaven is in Your Mind Brother John source material Gary Moore stands up for cancer Jillian Barberie diagnosed with breast cancer What’s in your berry bag Wolfman Flash! 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