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  • M21Sep PNB Strategic Planning Cttee meeting decides to decide to start discussing a discussion of a strategic plan – at the next meeting
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  • June/July digest – not least about a dish best served cold, Pacifica suing John Carlo Vernile, former ED
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  • Within the hour, Facebook inexplicably deleted the post about the PNB, zombies, & Karen
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  • Referenda station results: approx. absolute numbers
  • NES Penaloza fails to disclose station referenda numbers, & the raw data. Why?
  • Breakers get broken: Pacifica partisans get 66.0% listener-members, 65.2% staff-members
  • Referenda results delayed, & no observation of ballot opening
  • Breakers ready to launch victory advert contract with Chrysler!
  • Screwed? Counting underway, 2 yards apart, results due this weekend: whither?
  • More than 18 months of multiple waves of illness? Fed COVID-19 ‘plan’ for the people, dated 13Mar2020
  • Screwed? 1-in-13 purged from the listener elector roll, WBAI culled by 30%, whilst KPFT grows by 21% – update on the Th5Mar PNB figures
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  • WBAI treasurer’s Feb-Mar2020 report to the WBAI LSB, W11Mar2020
  • Is Pacifica about to get screwed?!? KPFA voting overperforming by ~70%, WBAI underperforming by ~29%
  • The danger! The danger!
  • ED Brazon spreads the calm
  • How is it KPFA last paid property tax on 3Apr2013?!? Where’s the transparency? Where’s the accountability?
  • Tom Livingston pops up again – as interim CEO of The Real News after Paul Jay & Sharmini Peries are disappeared
  • Fed judge Paul Engelmayer, Pacifica, & Pamela Geller – Fed court, NYC, 3pm, M21Oct2019
  • “My guess is that there is big money and powerful people behind Vernile and Quincy McCoy” – temporary Pacifica Chair, Alex Steinberg
  • PNB motions/TRO court hearing moved from F18Oct to M21Oct2019 – Tom Hillgardner
  • Protest & solidarity continues in Berkeley, W16Oct2019
  • IEW Vernile already came into the job with ‘Pacifica Across America’: Quincy McCoy at the Sa17Aug2019 KPFA LSB
  • WBAI Treasurer R Paul Martin’s W9Oct2019 report
  • WBAI statements at NY City Hall, Tu15Oct2019
  • Can this be true? Has PNB reversed Wrecker Vernile’s wrecking? Will he resign in disgust?
  • How can conflict of interest by-law 13 disenfranchise 3 of the 4 WBAI directors? 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖 – 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩?
  • Breakers try to disenfranchise 3 of 4 WBAI directors: alleged conflict of interest. Ford Greene legal opinion to PNB Vice-Chair Sabrina Jacobs, F11Oct2019. Page 3 of 3
  • Breakers try to disenfranchise 3 of 4 WBAI directors: alleged conflict of interest. Ford Greene legal opinion to PNB Vice-Chair Sabrina Jacobs, F11Oct2019. Page 2 of 3
  • Breakers try to disenfranchise 3 of 4 WBAI directors: alleged conflict of interest. Ford Greene legal opinion to PNB Vice-Chair Sabrina Jacobs, F11Oct2019. Page 1 of 3
  • “Wake up before our buildings are sold!” – ex-Chair Grace Aaron, W9Oct2019
  • Video of WBAI Local Station Board, W9Oct2019
  • Video of KPFA peeps supporting WBAI: Pacifica solidarians reject the breakers’ move
  • After invasion, “found the station office in shambles” – sworn testimony
  • Tracy Rosenberg: IED Vernile had turned up with “Foundation board members”
  • Pause, & reflect on how disputes & station financial performance have been addressed in the past
  • Red Wave statement condemning WBAI lockout, M7Oct2019
  • Success! Judge grants restraining order until F18Oct against Dictator Vernile & Breakers Co., M7Oct2019. 3 of 3
  • Success! Judge grants restraining order until F18Oct against Dictator Vernile & Breakers Co., M7Oct2019. 2 of 3
  • Success! Judge grants restraining order until F18Oct against Dictator Vernile & Breakers Co., M7Oct2019. 1 of 3
  • Vernile and breakers propagandise pseudo-plan in “peaceful, informed dialogue”. M7Oct2019 letter
  • The cowardly letter sent by Vernile: he didn’t even have the guts to sign it
  • WBAI staff all laid off: meeting called this Saturday, 1pm ET
  • WBAI station manager Reimers’ email to staff, 9.49am ET, M7Oct2019
  • 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙋 𝘼𝙏 𝙒𝘽𝘼𝙄! IED John Vernile, without authorisation, closes station, turns it into relay. His letter to all Pacifica directors
  • John Vernile, Prince Harry, & Charlotte Church? And Quincy McCoy?
  • 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔! 𝙀𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙉𝘽 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩
  • LSB voting, 13 days to go: can the 3.8-5.5% listener-member turnouts at 20Sep reach the required 10%?
  • Putting the cart before the horse. Why’s there no public record of the Foundation having a Secretary, the only person authorised to receive this by-laws petition? Has the petition been validated, not least that c. 465 signatories are members in good standing? – open letter to Pacifica IED John Vernile
  • Is PNB Director Robin Collier undermining Pacifica by setting up Association of Affiliates, a non-profit, Tu24Sep?
  • Pacifica affiliate rejects proposed new Pacifica constitution – why provoke the affiliates into becoming Bostonians?
  • The breaker faction make their move. Intro to their seven Sep2019 docs
  • Pacifica release their latest fundraiser premium . . . after the bloodletting, the rancour . . .
  • Foundation for the Jewish Community, FJC, FY2019 auditor’s report
  • Bios of the six directors at-large and the three alternates
  • The breaker faction’s complete set of new by-laws: a new Pacifica constitution, refounding the Foundation
  • ‘Comparison of Current and New Bylaws’ – suppressing member participation is ignored
  • ‘FAQs’ – missing what’s important
  • ‘A New Structure for Pacifica. Executive Summary’ – the complete set of new by-laws
  • ‘Introduction’: sweetness and light, the public face of the breaker faction
  • Petition is for dissolving Pacifica, not for new by-laws – Franck faction mobilise hypocritically
  • The breaker faction make their move. Intro to their seven Sep2019 docs
  • First Maxie, now Grace: Grace Aaron deposed as Chair of the Pacifica Board, Th5Sep
  • Peter Franck, ‘Plan B: a “friendly divorce” to save the stations’, 23Sep2018
  • Peter Franck, ‘Plan A’, a consensus structural change, 23Sep2018
  • Peter Franck, ‘Pacifica at a crossroads’, 23Sep2018
  • Carol Spooner, ‘Time for an amicable divorce at Pacifica?’, open letter to PNB, 5Aug2012
  • Nicole Sawaya, ‘Letter to Lew Hill’, 23Sep2008
  • “the goal of these behind the scene machinations is not the revival of WBAI but its dismantling” – Pacifica directors sound the alarm
  • Station listener-membership to split the $67k FJC quarterly interest charge?
  • Pacifica membership, 30June2016 – c. 30June2019
  • Californian station chauvinism raises its destructive head – again
  • Can Pacifica cope with young peeps? The Red Wave slate for the WBAI Local Station Board
  • Pacifica’s strategic plan: Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, ‘The Comedy of Terrors’ allegory
  • The main Facebook group, ‘Pacifica Radiowaves – past, present and future of Pacifica Radio’
  • Pacifica Financial Recovery Plan – 28Feb2012, not today
  • Ever wondered what those disembodied voices look like?
  • How did Maxie miss this talent?
  • Open letter to Pacifica Executive Director John Vernile: what’s your plan? why’s Maxie gone?
  • Administrative measures, not open discussion – the Pacifica way
  • Remembering that Pacifica has lost its sense of humour: Twit Wit Radio
  • FJC getting award from Marc Hand – one year ago
  • John Carlo Vernile, Pacifica’s new corporate careerist ED – & previous premiums vendor to KPFK
  • Maxie Jackson, Pacifica, & the politics of technique – a tragedy for both
  • Grace Aaron leaks name of new iED, John Farneal (sp.) – then Pacifica splices the audiofile in failed coverup
  • Underwriting section of FJC loan contract drives Pacifica’s urgency for an advertising policy
  • Pacifica COULD have, & CAN publish the FJC loan contract: the confidentiality clause only consists in FJC’s name & street address!
  • Has FJC sold the $3.265m loan? Is the owner the Marty & Dorothy Silverman Foundation – or have they in turn sold it on?
  • The Maxie Jackson Mystery
  • FY2017 auditor refuses to declare that the statements are materially accurate
  • Leak of $3.7m loan contract with the Foundation for the Jewish Community, FJC
  • 2019 LSB elections are another pseudo-election: no public evidence that the elector rolls are materially accurate
  • Nominal 2018 LSB pseudo-elections
  • Pacifica’s $3.7m loan contract with the Foundation for the Jewish Community, FJC, & other docs leaked W26June2019
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  • 2023 delegates’ pseudo-elections results, Th12Oct – in an accessible form, unlike the NES’ webpage! Breakers now run 3 LSB’s, so big by-laws changes in 2024
  • R Paul Martin says ED Wells is pushing Pacifica into the embrace of Bank of America – a sweetheart facilitator of fossil-fuel financing. ‘The Great Green Investment Investigation’ report, Tu26Sep2023
  • All quora met, so no extension! – but the figures are way, way down. Analysis of the NES’ membership & voting data – the 7 tables, Th14Sep, W20Sep, M25Sep, W27Sep, F29Sep, Sa30Sep (2 no.) [placeholder post]
  • Pacifica’s membership down 27% in two years, to 31 252 … down 67% on 2004’s 95 581
  • Questions put to ED Steph ‘The Breeze’, F25Aug2023 Pacifica Listener Forum
  • Despite the devastating news delivered by ED Steph ‘The Breeze’ to the Tu8Aug2023 PNB Finance Cttee, with almost $300k in the bank, . . .
  • Rob’s just joshing – it’s only CA law that makes him say, “An organization that is listed as delinquent is not in good standing and is prohibited from engaging in conduct for which registration is required, including soliciting or disbursing charitable funds” – 3July2023 CA Attorney General letter to Pacifica
  • Sagurton, Dingeman, Rhodes & Salaam sleepwalk WBAI into the grave, doing the work of the breakers. Thank you for your lack of leadership
  • 10 topics: Pacifica forbidden by CA law to operate since c. Aug2022 … CPB bid will not just fail but antagonise … directors violating CA Corporations Code since 23Sep2022 by not hiring CFO … directors will violate CA Government Code by missing 30June deadline for FY2022 audit … FY2022 revenue crashed 22%, $1.97m loss – with KPFA’s $566k loss being x1.5 WBAI’s & 82% KPFK’s … FY2023 thru Feb2023 only lost $40k – but losses at KPFA $213k, WBAI $159k, KPFK $149k … FJC quarterly payments missed 31Dec & 31Mar: loan sold to MDSF? … $110k EIDL balloon interest payments due by c. Mar2024 … WBAI, inter-division balances, & a rational write-off policy … PNB needs to discipline Jim Dingeman for being a dictator
  • You’re right, the constitution says the President can’t be the head of the Supreme Court, but the motion is for him to only be the interim head of the Supreme Court . . . & you’re right, the constitution says the President can’t replace Congress, but the motion is for him to only be the interim replacement of Congress. So with no objection, there’s no need to even have a vote – come to think of it, we can even skip the election & let the President choose the result. The farcical W3May2023 PNB Elections Cttee – with the missing audio
  • kpftx says “Not Recorded”, so here it is: audio of the laughable M13Mar2023 PNB Strategic Planning Cttee . . . Jim goes all Dolores
  • Walking 5 miles, in a straight line, wonder where they’re headed? Brasília, 2pm-6.30pm local. A revealing map
  • Lawrence Reyes died today
  • Lawrence Reyes, video of the W19Aug2015 KPFK LSB
  • Meeting for Lawrence Reyes, 5.30pm PT, Friday 30 December 2022
  • Grandpa Simpson escapes from the Happy Valley Retirement Home, & ends up elected temporary Chair of the W28Dec2022 KPFK Finance Cttee
  • Yet another one without audio, but here it is: Th15Dec2022 PNB
  • Notice of re-post: augmented analyses of 30Nov meets, WBAI Finance Cttee & PNB Strategic Planning Cttee
  • ED Steph refuses to disclose that the Feds seized $305k of Pacifica’s cash – and the directors & treasurers collude, not mentioning it either. What is wrong with these people? Weird, or truly creepy? Tu13Dec2022 PNB Finance Cttee
  • Feds seize $305k from KPFA bank account. 10 positions to be laid off (4 of the ~31 FTE). Audio of Th8Dec2022 PNB
  • Feds seize $305k KPFA bank account: court ensures Vernile gets his money. Also 10 positions to be laid off (4 of the ~31 FTE)
  • “Something’s happened today”, says Teresa Allen gravely. What? Audio of the Th1Dec2022 PNB – another recording not yet in the Pacifica meetings archive
  • Not Giving Tuesday, but Taking Wednesday – taking one’s sanity. Audios of three Pacifica meetings, two not yet in the meetings archive – W30Nov2022
  • Upcoming posts – 10 of them [placeholder post]
  • 10mths into the job, ED Steph doesn’t know who’s in charge of Pacifica’s social media – obviously no-one, meaning it’s her. And Steph effectively says it’s not her job to ensure there’s national fundraising – it’s up to the GM’s. Th17Nov2022 PNB [a placeholder post]
  • Audio of the Th10Nov2022 PNB – including another hot mic After Party. Also Mike Davis
  • KPFK shooting into repeater station orbit: current annualised rate of loss-making is $1.28m, up $165k on the August FY2023 budget … total revenue now down 15%, covering only 85% of personnel costs, 55% of operating costs, & 42% of total costs
  • The last time Pacifica had audited net assets? 10yrs ago, 30Sep2012 . . . So, yes, zombie public charity
  • NETA not replaced by a certified public accountant: clueless
  • Sleepwalking into the chainsaw: Chapter 11 . . . “we’re, you know, in a, you know, near Chapter 11 situation throughout the whole network”, director Dingeman, W28Sep WBAI Finance Cttee
  • NETA left 8 days early, Th22Sep, replaced by Markisha Venzant-Sampson. The Queen is dead, long live the Queen! . . . Meanwhile, without chopping KPFA’s ~31 FTE staff, Pacifica is sleepwalking into the chainsaw. So, impose a network development plan, using centralised control to destroy the fiefdoms! Solidarity!
  • KPFA LSB: living the dream
  • Louise may have died, but Nurse Ratched lives on!
  • Seems Berthold’s on his way out – no prob, Volunteer Alex becomes not just interim general manager but interim executive director as well, a win-win . . . cometh the moment, cometh the man
  • The post-NETA new beginning: Pacifica to recruit CFO from Mariana or Samoa, even Guantanamo! A triumph for inclusion – and dirt-bottom wages
  • Here’s looking at you, baby! . . . Geil!
  • Milosz: Pacifica’s reality
  • Apparent CPB noticing violations: Dec2021
  • Apparent CPB noticing violations: Nov2021
  • Apparent CPB noticing violations: Oct2021
  • Pacifica, Plato, & the new ED
  • Phone number’s disclosed, so Chair Beth von Gunten agrees new one for M27Dec PNB Development Task Force. But why keep the public out? And why no minutes for over 1½yrs? More worryingly, why do the inner circle invitees collude in the anti-Pacifican behaviour? Why don’t they elect a new Chair? Don’t they care?
  • 7-21Dec KPFK fund-drive, hourly pledges up $5.21 on the last drive. Daily gross proceeds up ~$98, a drive total of ~$1 463. Gross proceeds rate, only ~58% of the ~$8 044 daily expenses. Can the PNB wait until the seating of the new breaker directors in January?
  • Why is director von Gunten et al. jeopardising any Pacifica application for CPB money? And why is this tolerated? Public comment at the Su19Dec2021 KPFK LSB
  • More joy: monthly lists of apparent CPB violations, per the declarations at pacifica.org & kpftx.org . . . Pacifica has four short months to be fully compliant
  • You’ve got your damn report now, so just S T O P ! ! !
  • Latest misnoticing of proposed by-laws amendments. PNB Chair Alex Steinberg finds himself unable to read – Su12Dec KPFK Delegates Assembly
  • FY2021, only KPFA made an unaudited net income after adjusting for windfalls, per Sep2021 monthlies
  • Th18Nov PNB & Miquel Calçada chat about the KPFK crisis . . . the directors excel themselves – again. Audiofile of a meeting that’ll never reach the Pacifica meetings archive
  • Today KPFK is losing money at a rate of ~$3 500 a day, ~$105k a month, ~$1.26m a year, as per the docs. Why does no-one publicly recognise the scale, the urgency?
  • Important correction: two of the Oct2021 proposed by-laws amendments only trigger a members’ referendum if either of them is approved by both the PNB & three or more LSB’s. Erroneous public comment, Su17Oct2021 KPFK LSB
  • KPFK’s new station manager, Miquel Calçada, deserves a public statement from ED Lydia Brazon on what’s expected of him – in FY2022, what loss will be acceptable? will it be OK if audience simply doesn’t fall? will it be OK if membership only falls 5%? … or doesn’t it matter what happens? Public comment at Su19Sep2021 KPFK LSB
  • Important correction: a separate staff referendum is required by sections 5342(d) & 5033, California Corporations Code. Shockingly, Pacifica is a public benefit non-profit corp, not a mutual benefit one
  • The directors need to get a grip: instructing ED Brazon to devise & publish plans, & to ensure their implementation by the station managers. Public comment at Su12Sep2021 KPFK LSB
  • KPFT’s broadcast licence extended thru 1Aug2029, granted Th22July
  • 6 things that won’t be said at the Tu20July PNB Audit Cttee: an apology for breaking state law, pensions audit fiasco, liquidity gibberish, covenant gibberish, net current liabilities concealment … & a motion to remove Chair Rosin
  • Anti-breakers, you’re politically bankrupt, accept reality. But will a new defender of Pacifica arise? Fat chance
  • Breakers, you lost, accept reality: California Corporations Code Section 7813(f)
  • Three station FCC licences expire this year: KPFT 1Aug, KPFA 1Dec, KPFK 1Dec
  • 38 stop 6 820
  • 2021 by-laws referenda vote: quantitative analysis of NES Peñaloza’s report to the Th8July PNB, & a prediction
  • FY2020 auditor’s report published – but not by Pacifica … they say it’s “completed”, so why not publish it, as required by law? … “they were submitted to the AG today”, said PNB Chair Alex Steinberg to the W30June PNB Coordinating Cttee … & the closed discussion for the PNB closed session
  • Referenda voting ends W7July at 11.59pm EST according to NES Peñaloza – not EDT! … so 12.59am EDT Th8July, 11.59pm CDT W7July, 10.59pm MDT W7July, & 9.59pm PDT W7July
  • Vote ‘YES!’, just take your medicine … you know you have to, says Christina ‘Nurse Ratched’ Huggins, KPFA LSB Chair … well done, that wasn’t difficult, was it?
  • FY2020 audit fiasco intensifies: Pacifica said things were sent when they weren’t … auditor’s report “was completed”, but it isn’t … & claims “the due date of August 16” whereas AG says “No. The statute does not provide for an extension of time”
  • Breaking the law to comply with the law – and PNB Chair Alex Steinberg chooses not to apologise for the sorry tale of the FY2020 audit … the pressure of a threatened CA Attorney General investigation: 30June was never about the CPB
  • . . . looks like it’s all over: NES Peñaloza tells Director Sagurton that both referendum quora have been reached – with over 10 days to go
  • CPB big bucks Community Service Grant Program closed on W19May – so why this PNB & NETA talk about some 30June deadline? . . . Earliest CSG payment is now Oct2022, the month when FJC must be paid $3.165m
  • FJC loan extended 18mths – now what?
  • FJC loan expiring Friday, Monday’s private emergency PNB meeting cancelled with five hours to go … oh … and why? And the M29Mar PNB Audit Cttee skirts the FJC elephant
  • Emergency Th25Feb2021 PNB on the $3.265m loan, from the Foundation for the Jewish Community, falling due F2Apr2021: problem? what problem?
  • Diamonds are the eggs laid by the Devil – in PacificaWorld, it’s windfalls: putting off hard decisions. ED Brazon announces $1.2m Paycheck Protection Program decision, Th28Jan2021 PNB
  • Pacifica gets $1m+, praps $1.2m – ED Brazon announces Paycheck Protection Program decision, Th28Jan2021 PNB
  • PNB great-grandparents start the year excelling themselves: 94mins after the meeting was due to start, agenda still not agreed
  • Beyond 31Dec2020, only the *very* occasional post will be made
  • Pacifica Safety Net pamper supporters, offering special premium! PSN, ever the practical, know their market
  • Absurdly named Pacifica Safety Net, launched Tu15Dec: latest breaker tag-team, Gendelman-Goldmacher-Huggins-Alderson. PSN sue Pacifica directors for misfeasance, malfeasance, negligence, unlawful conduct, & gross dereliction of fiduciary duty
  • Breakers excel themselves: 𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧/𝙃𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨/𝙏𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙚𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥. Scum. Beneath contempt
  • Donny Tee exposes election shenanigans plaguing Pacifica
  • No need to worry about the light, & The Lazarus Project – the M16Nov PNB Development Task Force
  • WBAI Radio Cttee goes all Brechtian, evaluating the call-in listeners. And “don’t tempt fate, ladies”
  • ED applicants listen in to the PNB & are deeply impressed: “Alex, shut the fuck up!” … PowerPoint … “I have come to understand that nobody really gives a shit” … the Gitmo White Noise Unit … “Sandra … her nasty mouth … vile” – and, oh yes, DeWayne DeVictim. The Th22Oct PNB plumbs a new nadir
  • FJC collude with the breakers, reducing the PNB majority once again to reacting. FJC allegedly offer to director Jan Goodman a 12-mth extension of the $3.265m loan
  • One year ago, Pacifica was shafted by the fifth columnist breakers, with the lockout at WBAI
  • . . . He is risen! . . . Trump 2.0 . . . phoenix politics = #4moreyears = death of CPB = drowning of Pacifica
  • The politics of walking into a chainsaw . . . from Lake Travis to this . . .
  • . . . the sniffles think they can win against THIS?
  • . . . guess going herd has its advantages . . .
  • PNB & ED refuse to tell us how FJC will be paid its $3.265m by 2Apr2021, 6 months away
  • M21Sep PNB Strategic Planning Cttee meeting decides to decide to start discussing a discussion of a strategic plan – at the next meeting
  • Station financial data, to 30June – the Tu11Aug PNB Finance Cttee
  • June/July digest – not least about a dish best served cold, Pacifica suing John Carlo Vernile, former ED
  • WBAI treasurer’s 8July monthly report
  • One year ago the FJC loan documents were leaked – respect to those responsible
  • Two-stage emergency plan; & signal-swap to release cash. Response to remarks by Mr Burton
  • Surprise, surprise, FY2018 draft auditor’s report isn’t ready . . . M8June PNB Audit Cttee cancelled, to be held F12June, otherwise Tu16June, or . . .
  • Facebook has designated this blog as spam, banning any FB post linking to it – and there seems to be no appeal. Hail Sugar Mountain!
  • Within the hour, Facebook inexplicably deleted the post about the PNB, zombies, & Karen
  • Two months down, ten to go, yet the zombies keep shuffling on to the abyss – but where is Pacifica’s Karen? . . . will tonite’s PNB instruct ED Brazon to identify the options for paying $3.265m to FJC by 31Mar2021?
  • Pacifica to lose its CPB music licence this Sunday, 31May – unless it pays $137 506
  • The pulped CDC sector guidelines – Trump goes for herd infection, whilst South Korea starts ‘social distancing in daily life’
  • Is the Bleach House really keeping Amerika great? . . . Once Upon a Virus . . .
  • 58 318 = COVID-19 = Vietnam
  • Chris Albertson died one year ago
  • PacificoroniaWorld goes a lil more coronia: but why hasn’t WBAI’s x5 a week ‘Going Viral’ gone network?
  • Happy birthday! FJC, looking forward (NYC pun) to their $3.265m from Pacifica, is 25 years old today!
  • Pacifica now has 365 days to pay FJC its $3.265m – unless FJC (or the current owner of the loan) decides otherwise
  • Referenda station results: approx. absolute numbers
  • NES Penaloza fails to disclose station referenda numbers, & the raw data. Why?
  • Breakers get broken: Pacifica partisans get 66.0% listener-members, 65.2% staff-members
  • Referenda results delayed, & no observation of ballot opening
  • Breakers ready to launch victory advert contract with Chrysler!
  • Screwed? Counting underway, 2 yards apart, results due this weekend: whither?
  • More than 18 months of multiple waves of illness? Fed COVID-19 ‘plan’ for the people, dated 13Mar2020
  • Screwed? 1-in-13 purged from the listener elector roll, WBAI culled by 30%, whilst KPFT grows by 21% – update on the Th5Mar PNB figures
  • In Rikers, only some are good men
  • WBAI treasurer’s Feb-Mar2020 report to the WBAI LSB, W11Mar2020
  • Is Pacifica about to get screwed?!? KPFA voting overperforming by ~70%, WBAI underperforming by ~29%
  • The danger! The danger!
  • ED Brazon spreads the calm
  • How is it KPFA last paid property tax on 3Apr2013?!? Where’s the transparency? Where’s the accountability?
  • Tom Livingston pops up again – as interim CEO of The Real News after Paul Jay & Sharmini Peries are disappeared
  • Fed judge Paul Engelmayer, Pacifica, & Pamela Geller – Fed court, NYC, 3pm, M21Oct2019
  • “My guess is that there is big money and powerful people behind Vernile and Quincy McCoy” – temporary Pacifica Chair, Alex Steinberg
  • PNB motions/TRO court hearing moved from F18Oct to M21Oct2019 – Tom Hillgardner
  • Protest & solidarity continues in Berkeley, W16Oct2019
  • IEW Vernile already came into the job with ‘Pacifica Across America’: Quincy McCoy at the Sa17Aug2019 KPFA LSB
  • WBAI Treasurer R Paul Martin’s W9Oct2019 report
  • WBAI statements at NY City Hall, Tu15Oct2019
  • Can this be true? Has PNB reversed Wrecker Vernile’s wrecking? Will he resign in disgust?
  • How can conflict of interest by-law 13 disenfranchise 3 of the 4 WBAI directors? 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖 – 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩?
  • Breakers try to disenfranchise 3 of 4 WBAI directors: alleged conflict of interest. Ford Greene legal opinion to PNB Vice-Chair Sabrina Jacobs, F11Oct2019. Page 3 of 3
  • Breakers try to disenfranchise 3 of 4 WBAI directors: alleged conflict of interest. Ford Greene legal opinion to PNB Vice-Chair Sabrina Jacobs, F11Oct2019. Page 2 of 3
  • Breakers try to disenfranchise 3 of 4 WBAI directors: alleged conflict of interest. Ford Greene legal opinion to PNB Vice-Chair Sabrina Jacobs, F11Oct2019. Page 1 of 3
  • “Wake up before our buildings are sold!” – ex-Chair Grace Aaron, W9Oct2019
  • Video of WBAI Local Station Board, W9Oct2019
  • Video of KPFA peeps supporting WBAI: Pacifica solidarians reject the breakers’ move
  • After invasion, “found the station office in shambles” – sworn testimony
  • Tracy Rosenberg: IED Vernile had turned up with “Foundation board members”
  • Pause, & reflect on how disputes & station financial performance have been addressed in the past
  • Red Wave statement condemning WBAI lockout, M7Oct2019
  • Success! Judge grants restraining order until F18Oct against Dictator Vernile & Breakers Co., M7Oct2019. 3 of 3
  • Success! Judge grants restraining order until F18Oct against Dictator Vernile & Breakers Co., M7Oct2019. 2 of 3
  • Success! Judge grants restraining order until F18Oct against Dictator Vernile & Breakers Co., M7Oct2019. 1 of 3
  • Vernile and breakers propagandise pseudo-plan in “peaceful, informed dialogue”. M7Oct2019 letter
  • The cowardly letter sent by Vernile: he didn’t even have the guts to sign it
  • WBAI staff all laid off: meeting called this Saturday, 1pm ET
  • WBAI station manager Reimers’ email to staff, 9.49am ET, M7Oct2019
  • 𝘾𝙊𝙐𝙋 𝘼𝙏 𝙒𝘽𝘼𝙄! IED John Vernile, without authorisation, closes station, turns it into relay. His letter to all Pacifica directors
  • John Vernile, Prince Harry, & Charlotte Church? And Quincy McCoy?
  • 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗔! 𝙀𝙣𝙙 𝙋𝙉𝘽 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨: 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙬𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙮 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙋𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩
  • LSB voting, 13 days to go: can the 3.8-5.5% listener-member turnouts at 20Sep reach the required 10%?
  • Putting the cart before the horse. Why’s there no public record of the Foundation having a Secretary, the only person authorised to receive this by-laws petition? Has the petition been validated, not least that c. 465 signatories are members in good standing? – open letter to Pacifica IED John Vernile
  • Is PNB Director Robin Collier undermining Pacifica by setting up Association of Affiliates, a non-profit, Tu24Sep?
  • Pacifica affiliate rejects proposed new Pacifica constitution – why provoke the affiliates into becoming Bostonians?
  • The breaker faction make their move. Intro to their seven Sep2019 docs
  • Pacifica release their latest fundraiser premium . . . after the bloodletting, the rancour . . .
  • Foundation for the Jewish Community, FJC, FY2019 auditor’s report
  • Bios of the six directors at-large and the three alternates
  • The breaker faction’s complete set of new by-laws: a new Pacifica constitution, refounding the Foundation
  • ‘Comparison of Current and New Bylaws’ – suppressing member participation is ignored
  • ‘FAQs’ – missing what’s important
  • ‘A New Structure for Pacifica. Executive Summary’ – the complete set of new by-laws
  • ‘Introduction’: sweetness and light, the public face of the breaker faction
  • Petition is for dissolving Pacifica, not for new by-laws – Franck faction mobilise hypocritically
  • The breaker faction make their move. Intro to their seven Sep2019 docs
  • First Maxie, now Grace: Grace Aaron deposed as Chair of the Pacifica Board, Th5Sep
  • Peter Franck, ‘Plan B: a “friendly divorce” to save the stations’, 23Sep2018
  • Peter Franck, ‘Plan A’, a consensus structural change, 23Sep2018
  • Peter Franck, ‘Pacifica at a crossroads’, 23Sep2018
  • Carol Spooner, ‘Time for an amicable divorce at Pacifica?’, open letter to PNB, 5Aug2012
  • Nicole Sawaya, ‘Letter to Lew Hill’, 23Sep2008
  • “the goal of these behind the scene machinations is not the revival of WBAI but its dismantling” – Pacifica directors sound the alarm
  • Station listener-membership to split the $67k FJC quarterly interest charge?
  • Pacifica membership, 30June2016 – c. 30June2019
  • Californian station chauvinism raises its destructive head – again
  • Can Pacifica cope with young peeps? The Red Wave slate for the WBAI Local Station Board
  • Pacifica’s strategic plan: Peter Lorre, Vincent Price, ‘The Comedy of Terrors’ allegory
  • The main Facebook group, ‘Pacifica Radiowaves – past, present and future of Pacifica Radio’
  • Pacifica Financial Recovery Plan – 28Feb2012, not today
  • Ever wondered what those disembodied voices look like?
  • How did Maxie miss this talent?
  • Open letter to Pacifica Executive Director John Vernile: what’s your plan? why’s Maxie gone?
  • Administrative measures, not open discussion – the Pacifica way
  • Remembering that Pacifica has lost its sense of humour: Twit Wit Radio
  • FJC getting award from Marc Hand – one year ago
  • John Carlo Vernile, Pacifica’s new corporate careerist ED – & previous premiums vendor to KPFK
  • Maxie Jackson, Pacifica, & the politics of technique – a tragedy for both
  • Grace Aaron leaks name of new iED, John Farneal (sp.) – then Pacifica splices the audiofile in failed coverup
  • Underwriting section of FJC loan contract drives Pacifica’s urgency for an advertising policy
  • Pacifica COULD have, & CAN publish the FJC loan contract: the confidentiality clause only consists in FJC’s name & street address!
  • Has FJC sold the $3.265m loan? Is the owner the Marty & Dorothy Silverman Foundation – or have they in turn sold it on?
  • The Maxie Jackson Mystery
  • FY2017 auditor refuses to declare that the statements are materially accurate
  • Leak of $3.7m loan contract with the Foundation for the Jewish Community, FJC
  • 2019 LSB elections are another pseudo-election: no public evidence that the elector rolls are materially accurate
  • Nominal 2018 LSB pseudo-elections
  • Pacifica’s $3.7m loan contract with the Foundation for the Jewish Community, FJC, & other docs leaked W26June2019
  • The money
  • . . . the Godot page . . .
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