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Korean Sex, the Atlantic magazine, and Ted Koppel: What visitors wanted to read in 2013

January 2, 2014 by wpfixit

My 2013 statistics for my blog, natethayer.wordpress.com (now moved to www.nate-thayer.com), have been summarized and broken down. They provide for interesting, sometimes disturbing, sometimes humorous, sometimes enlightening,and to me, fascinating insight into how and why people decide to visit an online site, via what social media networks, from where the readers live, and what topics […]

Filed Under: Atlantic Magazine, Bloggers, Free People, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Internet, Internet Freedom, Internet Journalism, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Social Media, Ted Koppel, Writers Tagged With: free speech, Freelance Journalism, Internet Journalism, Journalism, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Social Media

GRATITUDE: Thoughts on being born free

November 20, 2013 by wpfixit

    GRATITUDE By Nate Thayer November 21, 2013 I am, I think, most grateful in life for being born a free person. I know many–many of whom are my friends–who were not. No government, no authority is less flawed than me.  And no person is more flawed than I. For the most part, the […]

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Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered: Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians

October 28, 2013 by wpfixit

Lighting the darkness: FULRO’s jungle Christians      Vietnam Era Renegade Army Discovered By Nate Thayer (This story appeared in the Phnom Penh Post and  as the cover story in the Far Eastern Economic Review.  I discovered, in the remote Northeastern Cambodian jungles along the Ho Chi Minh trail along the Vietnamese border, an army literally lost […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Free People, Free Speach, FULRO, Montagnards Vietnam, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, U.S. Asian Policy Tagged With: Cambodia, FULRO, Journalism, Montagnards, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, U.S. Asian Policy, Vietnam War

The Childhood Education of a Cantankerous Journalist

October 28, 2013 by wpfixit

The Early Education of a Future Cantankerous Journalist: 7th grade English class papers from a 12 year old By Nate Thayer October 28, 2013 I recently moved several hundred boxes of books, papers, and various possessions I have acquired through my decidedly nomadic, itinerant life from a storage unit into the basement of my new […]

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How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan

October 6, 2013 by wpfixit

How Hordes of U.S. Republican Party Apparatchik’s Toppled the Mongolian Communist Descendants of Genghis Khan Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with the Mongolian Voter” was the single largest printed and most widely distributed document in Mongolian History, and Crucial to Overthrowing History’s Second Longest Ruling Communist Government Without Shedding a Drop of Blood: The  “Contract with Mongolia.” From the archives […]

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A letter to a young Cambodian-2013: Reflections on a toxic political culture

June 26, 2013 by wpfixit

Cambodia-2013: Reflections on a toxic political culture A letter to a young Cambodian If Cambodia is not careful, they will be relegated to selling roadside trinkets along the highway as the rest of properly organized Asia zooms through without stopping  between Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City By Nate Thayer June 26, 2013 Alright I just expelled […]

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I’m leaving, on a jet plane–Edward’s excellent spy adventure

June 24, 2013 by wpfixit

I’m leaving, on a jet plane: Edward’s excellent spy adventure A young whistleblower named Ed Was wanted by agents, so fled. Abbetted by hackers He’s off to Caracas For Snowden, red’s better than dead! From the limerick Tweeting Mick Twister By Nate Thayer June 24, 2013 It is a journalists worst nightmare. Tricked by international spies […]

Filed Under: Edward Snowden, Free People, Humor, Internet Freedom, Internet Journalism, Media, Nate Thayer, NSA, Spies Tagged With: Edward Snowden, free speech, Journalism, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, NSA, NSA spy scandal, Spies

A Peak In the Public Mailbox: Debate on state of journalism runs from supportive to, well, very not–with a dash of the amusing and odd.

April 14, 2013 by wpfixit

A Peak Into the Public Mailbox: Debate on state of journalism runs from very supportive to, well, very not–with an entertaining dash of the amusing and odd. Maybe the North Korean Ministry of Agitation and Propaganda are on to Something By Nate Thayer April 13, 2013 In the last few weeks I can’t help but […]

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Robot Sex Poll Reveals How I Got Invited–Then Uninvited–As Guest on Huffington Post Live TV Show

April 11, 2013 by wpfixit

Robot Sex Poll Reveals Huffington Post Uses Slavery Economic Business Model to Convince Writers to Work for No Pay: “You Should be Grateful to be Our “House Negro” or You’d be Picking Cotton in the Fields With the Rest of  the Slaves” Or How I Got Invited–Then Uninvited– to be a Guest on the Huff […]

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Why I am a Journalist: Continued….From a Daughter in Exile From her Own History

March 21, 2013 by wpfixit

Why I am a Journalist: Continued… From a Daughter in Exile From her Own History Dear Mr. Thayer, I truly enjoy your many articles and writing that you have posted on your website.  Growing up in the States and being around the Khmer community, I constantly remember old folks and even my grandfather blaming the […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Free People, Free Speach, Human Rights, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pol Pot, Ta Mok Tagged With: Cambodia, free speech, Human Rights, Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Pol Pot

Unpaid Newspaper Blogger Says Enough: New No Pay Contract Now Demands All Rights to Photos, Writing Forever

March 20, 2013 by wpfixit

Unpaid Newspaper Blogger Refuses to Sign New No Pay Contract After New Demand of All Rights of  Her Writing and Photos in Perpetuity: Several of the Papers 28 Bloggers Have Joined Her Refusing to Sign Today’s Contract. Blogs Removed From Paper’s Website By Nate Thayer March 20, 2013 This morning,  28 unpaid bloggers for a […]

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Thoughts on the Death of Mass Murderer Ieng Sary:Cambodian Political Culture and North Korea

March 14, 2013 by wpfixit

Thoughts on the Death of Mass Murderer Ieng Sary: The Khmer Rouge and North Korea It is the Cambodian Political Culture which Should be Indicted By Nate Thayer (c)Nate Thayer. All rights reserved. No republication in whole or part without express written permission from the author Pol Pot’s brother in law, Khmer Rouge foreign minister […]

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