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Donald Trump’s Anti-American War on Free Speech

February 27, 2016 by wpfixit

“I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re going to open up those libel laws. So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The […]

Filed Under: Donald Trump, Donald Trump Presidential Candidate, U.S. Elections, U.S. presidential race Tagged With: donald trump, Free Press, free speech, Trump lawsuits

American Hero: “Hate group” Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps

March 22, 2014 by wpfixit

“Most Hated Family in America”: Unlikely Hero’s for Free People Hate group leader Fred Phelps made American freedom stronger 2500 years ago, Prophet Jeremiah in the old testament of the Christian bible, threw in his two cents on journalism: “For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we […]

Filed Under: Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist Church, Free Speach, Nate Thayer, Religious Extremism, Westboro Baptist Church Contact numbers Tagged With: Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist Church, free speech, Nate Thayer, Westboro Baptist Church

“She pissed off the Queen, now she’s dead ”Why Brits Are Loopier Than Americans Re: Fruitcake Conspiracy Theories?

February 24, 2014 by wpfixit

Why Are The Brits Even More Loopy Than Americans When it Comes to Fruitcake Conspiracy Theories? By Nate Thayer February 24, 2013 Some may recall that in December 2012 a couple of radio disc jockey pranksters in Australia called the London hospital where the pregnant Princess whatever-her-name-is was staying having taken ill with tummy troubles. […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, British royal family, Conspiracy Theories, Free Speech, Humor, Internet, Internet Freedom, Internet Journalism, Internet media ethics, Journalistic Ethics, Media, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog Tagged With: British Royal family, Conspiracy theories, free speech, Internet Journalism, Journalism ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Social Media

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

Corporate Power, ABC TV and Ted Koppel tried to censor the free speech of a free man in a free country. Fuck that.

December 10, 2013 by wpfixit

Corporate power tried to steal my life work. ABC  TV and Ted Koppel tried to censor the free speech of a free man in a free country. Fuck that. Discuss freedom. I would like to define this discussion, where it belongs: The power of corporate thugs using their money to put their jackboot on the […]

Filed Under: #paythemusican, #Paythewriter, ABC News, Atlantic Magazine, Blog Nate Thayer, Cambodia, Corruption, Free Speach, Freedom of speech, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Internet media ethics, Journalistic Ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Pay the Writer, Ted Koppel, Writers Tagged With: ABC News, Cambodia, free speech, Freelance Journalism, Internet Journalism, Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Ted Koppel

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Free People, Free Speach, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog Tagged With: Critical thinking, free speech, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Free People, Free Speech, Humor, Nate Thayer, U.S. Asian Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Republican Party Mongolia Tagged With: free speech, Mongolia, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, Newt Gingrich "Contract with Mongolia", U.S. Asian Policy, U.S. Politics, U.S. Republican Party Mongolia

Pyongyang Porn: “Some readers may find the book objectionable” @NKNewsorg

August 23, 2013 by wpfixit

Excerpts from Pyongyang Porn “Some readers may find the book objectionable” BY NATE THAYER , AUGUST 23, 2013 For the full story, go to NKNews.org at http://www.nknews.org/2013/08/pyongyang-porn/ , the news organization that comprehensively provides quality journalism on all North Korea. Below are excerpts……. Artwork by NK News illustrator Cammy Smithwick   Mhari Yi, who moved to Edinburgh to attend Napier University […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Humor, Internet Freedom, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong-un, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, NK News, NKNews.org, North Korea, North Korean Porn, North Korean Sex, Pyongyang Porn, Sex Tagged With: free speech, Humor, Journalism, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, North Korea, North Korea Media, North Korean propaganda, North Korean Sex, Pyongyang Porn, sex

Has the news biz come to this? Freelance journalists required to sign document forbidding writing anything negative about employers or advertisers?

August 21, 2013 by wpfixit

Has the state of the news biz come to this? Freelance journalists required to sign document forbidding writing anything negative about employers or advertisers before being payed unlivable wage. Freelance journalist not only asked to work for unlivable wages, but now required to sign away constitutional rights and fundamental ethical journalistic obligations, forbidden to say or […]

Filed Under: #Paythewriter, Blog Nate Thayer, Freelance Journalism, Freelance Journalist, Freelancers Rights, Internet media ethics, Journalism, Journalistic Ethics, Media, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog Tagged With: free speech, Freelance Journalism, Internet Journalism, Journalism, Journalism ethics, Media Ethics, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog

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 […]

Filed Under: Cambodia, Cambodia coup, Corruption, Free People, Free Speach, Free Speech, Freedom of speech, Human Rights, Hun Sen, Journalism, Khmer Rouge, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, organized crime, Pol Pot Tagged With: Cambodia, Cambodian elections, Corruption, free speech, Human Rights, Hun Sen, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog

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

Canadian Sex Advice Columnist Weighs in on Atlantic Kerfuffle Over Pay the Writer

June 3, 2013 by wpfixit

Prominent Canadian Sex Advice Columnist and Very, Very Good Bad Girl Weighs in on Atlantic Kerfuffle Over Pay the Writer  By Nate Thayer June 2, 2013 Yesterday I received a very supportive message from an esteemed colleague in the international press corps, which was deeply appreciated. In addition to being a renowned, nationally syndicated Canadian […]

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