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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • ‘FAQs’ – missing what’s important
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  • ‘Introduction’: sweetness and light, the public face of the breaker faction
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  • Peter Franck, ‘Plan A’, a consensus structural change, 23Sep2018
  • Peter Franck, ‘Pacifica at a crossroads’, 23Sep2018
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  • Nicole Sawaya, ‘Letter to Lew Hill’, 23Sep2008
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  • The main Facebook group, ‘Pacifica Radiowaves – past, present and future of Pacifica Radio’
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  • Remembering that Pacifica has lost its sense of humour: Twit Wit Radio
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  • John Carlo Vernile, Pacifica’s new corporate careerist ED – & previous premiums vendor to KPFK
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  • Grace Aaron leaks name of new iED, John Farneal (sp.) – then Pacifica splices the audiofile in failed coverup
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  • The Maxie Jackson Mystery
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  • 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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  • 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 $1.3m, up $219k on the August FY2023 budget … total revenue now down 20%, covering only 80% of personnel costs, 51% of operating costs, & 40% 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 . . .
  • Posted Jan2019
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