Bailing Out Big Media?
The creaking, decrepit mastodons of the Big Media are soliciting our sympathy — and our money. We must save them, they say, from extinction. For our own good, of...
About: William F. Jasper
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Elites Push Government-funded “Public” Media
The Aspen Institute hosted its annual Forum On Communications And Society (FOCAS) August 15–18 in Aspen, Colorado, exploring the theme of "News Cities: The Next Generation of Healthy Informed...
Only $5.6 Million to Create One $47,000/Year Job!
They're from the government and they're here to help us ... for a price — a very big price. ...
Pixie Dust, Treason, & Spies
“Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama will try to jump-start economic links this week as Russia’s president travels to Silicon Valley and Washington, building on improved political ties after the...
Facebook: Are You Interfacing with the Russian Mafia & KGB?
Andrey Ternovskiy, one of Russia's wunderkind Internet entrepreneurs, is being courted by venture capitalists the world over. To get access to cash he needn't leave Moscow, but he doesn't...
Repealing ObamaCare
Repealing ObamaCare is not an option — it is absolutely essential. It is absolutely essential, that is, if the United States of America is to survive as a constitutional...
Vicky Pelaez: Agent of Influence Posing as Journalist
On July 8, Vicky Pelaez disembarked from a charter jet flight in Vienna, Austria — accompanied by U.S. Marshals. Pelaez was the only non-Russian among the ten spies deported...
“Breathing Pixie Dust” Investing in Russia
"Maybe I'm breathing the same pixie dust, but there's real momentum for this," says Esther Dyson, in a June 25 online article for Foreign Policy magazine reporting on Russian...
Obama’s Russia Adviser Michael McFaul and the Russian Spies
The mainstream media have been quick to write off the recent Russian spy scandal as an inconsequential matter, a case of the gang that couldn't shoot straight. These were...
Singing With the Spies: Putin’s Image Makers Strike Again
What's next for Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin? A guest appearance as a celebrity contestant on Dancing With the Stars? If so, there are sure to be plenty of...
Russian Spy Case Shows Danger Of Amnesty for Illegal Aliens
It turns out that Vicky Pelaez, the Peruvian journalist expelled from the United States on July 8 along with nine Russians, obtained her U.S. citizenship by taking advantage of...
Spy Escape in Cyprus Highlights Russia’s Growing Clout in Mediterranean
The recent easy escape and disappearance of Russian spy "Christopher R. Metsos" may draw more attention to Russia's beefed up presence of intelligence operatives throughout the Mediterranean. Metsos, the...
Why the Rush to Send Russian Agents Back?
Why did the United States government spend years — and, undoubtedly millions of dollars — tracking and monitoring a network of Russian deep cover sleeper agents and then release...
Headed for Recovery … or the “Cliff-edge Around the Corner”?
After a meeting with his economic team and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on June 29, President Obama announced "the economy is strengthening" and "we are into recovery." The...
IMF as Global Fed: G20’s Agenda Behind the Agenda
The recently concluded economic summit (June 26-27) of leaders of the G8 and G20 nations in Toronto was, according to most media coverage, an untidy row among those calling...
Russia, China Spies Belie “End of the Cold War”
Barack and Dmitry. The photo-op lunch couldn't have been chummier: The U.S. and Russian presidents enjoying cheeseburgers and fries together at Ray's Hell Burger, a local burger joint in...
Judge Smacks Down Obama Oil Ban as “Misleading,” “Confused,” “Capricious.”
Federal Judge Martin Feldman issued an injunction on June 22 ordering Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Obama administration not to enforce a federal moratorium on all drilling on...
Jobs: Too Many Riding, Too Few Pulling
The one thing that economists seem to agree on is that any economic recovery will be an uphill battle for some time to come. But if you’ve ever pulled...
MSNBC’s Matthews: Fear Mongering Over “New Right”
For weeks MSNBC's Chris Matthews had been hyping and hawking his new soon-to-be-unveiled "documentary" on the Tea Party movement and the "New Right": On his own MSNBC nightly program,...
Time to Audit the Fed
The timing of the sellout by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could not have been more politically auspicious — or more suspicious. For months the Senator had been denouncing the...