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FBI War on Terror tactics on trial in Domestic Terrorism case

August 7, 2017 by wpfixit

The conspiracy between the FBI and unreliable informants to prosecute the War on Terrorism  By Nate Thayer August 7, 2017 Lake City, Florida When Ken Parker, a leader of the extreme right wing National Socialist Movement, walked into a barbershop in Jacksonville, Florida on June 23 for his regular haircut, his barber said, “The FBI […]

Filed Under: FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, Nate Thayer, Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK, U.S. domestic terrorism, White Nationalist, White Supremacism Tagged With: Charles Newcomb, David Moran, FBI, FBI informants, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Joe Moore, Joseph Veryl Moore, Ku Klux Klan, Nate Thayer, Thomas Driver, Traditionalist American Knights of the KKK, War on Terrorism

My Purple Grandmother

July 13, 2017 by wpfixit

New York City Cabbies and my Purple Grandmother By Nate Thayer July 13, 2017 In 1972, when I was 12, I lived in New York City on Manhattan’s upper east side. My great-grandmother, who always dressed in flowing all purple dresses, purple shoes, and a purple hat, came for a visit from her house on […]

Filed Under: Nate Thayer Tagged With: Dogs, Grandmothers, Mrs John Alden Carpenter, Nate Thayer

Notes on Love and Courage: Thoughts on a very good man

May 18, 2017 by wpfixit

Remembering Ivor Leclerc By Nate Thayer May 18, 2017 While perusing through my files and papers I came across a handwritten copy of an eulogy I delivered at the memorial service in May 1999 for my step father, Ivor Leclerc, held at the National Cathedral Church in Washington D.C. I found stapled to my handwritten three […]

Filed Under: Ivor Leclerc, Love, Nate Thayer, Racism, Writers Tagged With: Ivor Leclerc, Nate Thayer, Notes on Love and Courage

The #Savopoulos murders: My very brief career as a true-crime journalist

June 2, 2015 by wpfixit

It is not true-crime reporting I have issues with; it is the readers of true crime stories who appear disproportionately a few fruit loops short of a nutritious breakfast By Nate Thayer June 2, 2015 I am not a crime reporter–unless you include mass murder by government and war crimes by tin-pot despots. However, last […]

Filed Under: Internet Journalism, Jordan Wallace, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Savopoulos murders, U.S.crime Tagged With: Jordan Wallace, Nate Thayer, savapoulos murders, savvas savapoulos

‘We are the World! Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson?’: Excerpts from ‘Sympathy for the Devil’

March 10, 2015 by wpfixit

‘We are the World!’  After threatening to assassinate American civilians, the Khmer Rouge leader continued: “Why don’t we join hands in national reconciliation. Join together! We are with you, the West!” he said, growing increasingly animated, half breaking into song. “‘We are the World!’ Who is that singer? Johnny Jackson? Like he says, ‘We are […]

Filed Under: Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Sympathy for the Devil, Sympathy for the Devil book, Sympathy for the Devil by Nate Thayer, Sympathy for the Devil: A Journalists memoir from Inside Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, U.S. Khmer Rouge Tagged With: Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, sympathy for the devil: A journalists memoir inside Pol Pot's Cambodia

My dog, Lamont: The early months of a storied mutt

March 8, 2015 by wpfixit

Rare Picture and Documents from my Pal, Lamont’s Hardscrabble Youth By Nate Thayer March 8, 2015 My pal, Lamont, the renowned international peacemaker, Respected Thinker, and Hollywood-like heart-throb, had a little known hard-scrabble youth. Recently unearthed rare documents and photos give new insight into Lamont’s early formative weeks in a foreign land which shaped his […]

Filed Under: Dogs, Lamont, Nate Thayer, Uncategorized Tagged With: Dogs, Lamont, Nate Thayer

I Left My Mind in Iraq: the Taboo of Mental Illness

February 27, 2015 by wpfixit

Or how to respond to people who have gone crazy  By Nate Thayer February 27, 2015 In April, 2003 communist Vietnamese soldiers attacked my farm in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Specifically, a three-man Vietnamese mortar team set up their 81 millimeter mortar position by my barn and they did what mortar teams do: they were […]

Filed Under: Iraq, Iraq war, Journalism, mental illness, Nate Thayer Tagged With: Chris Kyle, Health insurance, Iraq, Iraq War, mental illness, Nate Thayer

Why not to bloviate when you aren’t a war hero: How O’Reilly doesn’t factor

February 20, 2015 by wpfixit

Under Fire: A comparative study of the not-war-hero, me, and my anti-doppelgänger Bill O’Reilly: How to actually get shot at and not be an idiot By Nate Thayer February 20, 2014 O’Reilly interviews a Boston Globe photographer who was at the finish line when the Boston Marathon bombs were detonated (well sort of because he doesn’t let […]

Filed Under: Bill O'Reilly, Journalism, Journalistic Ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, War correspondent Tagged With: Bill O'Rielly, Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, War Correspondent

North Korea launches global effort to stop Sony movie: Shopkeepers arrested, film banned

January 29, 2015 by wpfixit

Shopkeepers arrested, film banned as North Korea launches a global effort to stop Sony movie at center of cyber attack  Governments feel pressure on Interview This story appeared today in Asia Times online. You can read full story at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/SEA-01-290115.html By Bertil Lintner in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Nate Thayer in Washington   January 29, 2015 […]

Filed Under: Burma, Cambodia, Cambodia censorship, Media, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, North Korea, North Korea "The Interview", North Korea Sony, U.S. North Korea Tagged With: North Korea "The Interview", North Korea Sony, North Korea Sony cyber attack

American spy chief secret meeting with head of North Korean cyber warfare

January 9, 2015 by wpfixit

Kim Yong Chol: The man behind North Korea’s Cyber warfare. U.S. top spy James Clapper has “extraordinarily unfriendly” secret meeting with North Korean chief cyber warrior shortly before Sony attack By Nate Thayer January 9, 2015 Ten days before the attack on the Sony movie depicting the assassination of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s head […]

Filed Under: Afghanistan, Alex Tigchelaar, Animal Abuse, Anonymous, AP North Korea, Arthur Torsone, Associated Press, Associated Press North Korea, Blog Nate Thayer, James Clapper, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-un, Kim Yong Chol, Matthew Miller North Korea, Nate Thayer, North Korea, North Korea arms trafficking, North Korea crime, North Korea Internet, North Korea sanctions, North Korea Spy, North Korean covert operations, U.S. North Korea, U.S. North Korea policy Tagged With: James Clapper North Korea, Kim Yong Chol, Nate Thayer, Reconnaissance General Bureau, U.S. North Korea

Should the Associated Press be registered foreign agents of North Korea?

January 5, 2015 by wpfixit

Lawyer Joshua Stanton: Do U.S. laws require AP register as North Korean foreign agents?  By Nate Thayer December 5, 2015 From the blog of North Korean watcher and former U.S. military JAG officer, lawyer Josh Stanton: http://freekorea.us/2015/01/05/the-ap-should-release-its-mou-or-register-as-a-n-korean-propagandist/ see Mr. Stanton’s work where he has walked point on the AP coverage of North Korea since the […]

Filed Under: AP North Korea, Associated Press North Korea, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, North Korea AP Tagged With: AP North Korea, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, North Korea Media, North Korean propaganda, One Free Korea

Peeking into backrooms of big media defending bad reporting: AP & Washington Examiner

December 31, 2014 by wpfixit

Elite Media defend PR shilling for one another  By Nate Thayer December 31, 2014 Yesterday, I was forwarded an email sent to my editor from the Washington Examiner newspaper requesting comment on a story we wrote on December 24 called “The Associated Press in North Korea: A Potemkin News Bureau?” The problem was the Examiner had […]

Filed Under: AP North Korea, Associated Press, Big Media, Media, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, NKNews.org, Washington Examiner Tagged With: AP North Korea, AP Propaganda, Associated Press, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Washington Examiner

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