WSYY Radio or MAGIC Radio?

[kfander]

WSYY Radio or MAGIC Radio?
By Michelle Anderson
Feb 27, 2008 - 6:37:29 PM

 
On November 19, 2007, Jim Talbott, owner of Millinocket radio station WSYY, discovered that tax-supported Millinocket Area Growth & Investment Council (MAGIC) filed an application with the FCC to acquire a radio station which will directly compete with WSYY, 94.9 FM and 1240 AM, which broadcasts throughout the Katahdin Region.

Since that time, he has dedicated a large portion of each of his 3-hour show on Monday through Thursday to discussing the ethical problems as well as possible illegality of a nonprofit organization using tax dollars to compete against a struggling private sector radio station owner.

MAGIC has been the source of controversy in the Katahdin Region for the past seven years, inspiring accusations of conflicts of interest of its executive director, Town Councilor Bruce McLean, who is a business partner with two different businessmen for whom he has gotten grants, illegal meetings between MAGIC co-founder Councilor Matthew A. Polstein and three other members of the Millinocket Town Council, and violations of the federal and state Freedom of Information laws by both co-founder Polstein and McLean.

Full Article: WSYY Radio or MAGIC Radio?

[mrsdb]

When I first read this article, I found it so interesting that I thought I would do a bit of research.  My research turned up this interesting post:

http://www.mainewoodscoalition.com/news/120903dcp.html

"RESTORE, founded in 1992, seeks to “restore” most of what the national environmentalist lobby calls the North Woods Eco-System to primitive, pre-civilization “primeval” conditions in a federally controlled wilderness. This includes 26 million contiguous acres extending from the eastern Maine coast across most of rural Maine, northern New Hampshire and Vermont, to the Adirondacks in upstate New York. RESTORE is not alone."

"Environmentalism is an ideological political movement driven by enormous funding. They are after nothing less than a cultural and political power grab for sweeping control across rural Maine. They must eliminate private property and the private economy if they are to attain their goals for “biodiversity-based” economics and massive wilderness restrictions to destroy civilized life and “restore” the “primeval” across tens of millions of acres.

That can be done only by government coercion, which they intend to impose by replacing our independent town meeting local government and the American form of government legally protecting the freedoms and rights of the individual, with a feudalist/socialist system controlled by an eco-bureaucracy that would make the current abuses from Augusta pale in comparison. That is why they want federal control; it is the meaning of a federal conservation area."

There were several other articles of interest as well, but this one had the most clues.  The ultimate goal of RESTORE is a 3.2 million acre national park closed to everything but hikers. 
See http://www.restore.org/Maine/map_tour.html

Since this group is willing to forward their agenda by any means necessary, information control will have it's role.  First it will be radio, then your newspapers. 

If you want to create change, you must vote out the incumbents in your local and state government and replace them with those you feel you can trust to stop this even if it means running for office yourself.
Make new town counselors sign contracts promising not to do business with these groups.

Mike Michaud, Susan Collins, Tom Allen and Olympia Snowe have proved several times over that they do not represent the people or Maine yet they continue to be re-elected.  Research the candidates before you vote or don't vote. 

[kfander]

Mrsdb, that is very good advice. Thank you for sharing it. Voting to reelect someone on the basis of their experience in government is counterproductive when our experience with them has been so dismal.

[mrsdb]

Kfander,
I did not tell you to vote for these people.  If you look up Collin's, Snowe's, Allen's  and Michaud's voting records for all the years/decades they have been in office, you would clearly see they are not representing you.  So why do they keep getting reelected? 
Because nobody is doing their homework before going to the polls. 

These elected officials need to be replaced.   Magic came to town and infiltrated your local government to pursue the agenda of Restore.  That is how these internationalists operate and use their tax exempt foundations to get their way.  They put their people in positions of power in all levels of our local, state and federal governments.

All TV channels, cable channels, major newspapers and most radio stations in America are owned  by just 5 corporations whose board members and CEOs are of the same ideology as the groups that want to steal our land and they even share the same board members.  They have control of information through these venues.  They count on you not doing your own research so they can keep their people in power.

RESTORE lobbies our US Congress for US taxpayer funded grants to fund their land stealing.  You are paying for your own demise by keeping these politicians in power.  The obviously answer is to replace these incumbents and that can be done by educating the voters.  If your candidate selection does not promise change, then the people who care about this the most, must step up and run for office, regardless of experience or skills.

The only thing stopping you from taking action is you.  If you try and enroll your community in your idea, you  just might win, but nothing will happen in your favor if you do not try.   Liberty is not free, it must be vigilantly guarded and that requires effort.  If nobody wants to put in the effort, you will get what you deserve.  If you want help in educating the voters, all you have to do is get your message out to the right people.

http://www.restoretherepublic.com

[mrsdb]

RESTORE intends to depress the North woods economy and force people to relocate. That is their intended purpose regardless of what they are saying.   That is why they won't answer your questions and why people are moving away.  They need to be stopped at the funding level by voting out the people who are working with them.

[kfander]

Kfander,
I did not tell you to vote for these people.

What makes you think I did?

I don't know if you're being rhetorical or personal but, if the latter, I'll suggest that you don't know enough about me to know what I have or have not done, or said, over the past several years.

You might want to wade through the Editor's Desk of the Magic City Morning Star. While I agree with most, if not all that you've said thus far, please don't make assumptions.

[kfander]

This forum is about educating the public, and giving the public the opportunity to educate themselves and others, as is the Magic City Morning Star, which was established in 2002.

[mrsdb]

I am not being personal.  I apologize for any upset I may have unintentionally caused from my posts. I am speaking of all Mainers. I find this problem very distressing and am looking for a solution.  I grew up in E. Millinocket and have lived in southern Maine since becoming an adult.  I have never heard of MAGIC.  Even my family has never mentioned it to me.  That tells me that Maine people in general are uninformed to the real problems we face.  If we are relying on main stream media (as my family seems to be doing) to obtain our information we will continue to be subjected by these problems especially when it is time to vote.

[mrsdb]

This forum is about educating the public, and giving the public the opportunity to educate themselves and others, as is the Magic City Morning Star, which was established in 2002.

I stumbled onto your website a while back while looking for news from home.  I lost the link and then found it again last night.  I am grateful that MCMS exists and does not appear to be compromised as so many other news sites seem to be.  Are you in print?

[kfander]

Mrsdb, thank you for clarifying that. Your posts have been contributory and helpful, and I'm pleased to have you here. I just wanted to clear up any misunderstanding that there might have been.

One problem with educating the public is that the other side owns the government schools and, as you have pointed out, most avenues of media.

MAGIC has indeed gone after the newspapers. For a year or two, they had their own newspaper, called the Community Press, paid for largely by taxpayer funds and operated by one of their minions, Lisa Pelkey; who now spreads that same sort of propaganda through the Lincoln News, which employed her after she ran the MAGIC newspaper into the ground and things didn't work out well for her at her subsequent job.

The publisher of the Bangor Daily is on the board of the Nature Conservancy, which is also known for publishing more than its share of propaganda, most particularly in recent years.

For a year, my wife and I published a print monthly, All Maine Matters, but one sad fact that we encountered was that those who did not support the environmentalist/preservationist agenda were nevertheless too afraid to advertise in a publication that was willing to take them on, or to ignore the economic boycott of the MAGIC group and their supporters. After eleven months. we could no longer afford to publish.

As the publisher of the Magic City Morning Star, they spent time from their council seat, during what was billed as an economic development workshop, discussing ways in which they could put us out of business; and we've been threatened with lawsuits more times than I can remember.

To bring it back on topic, now WSYY Radio is going through much the same, although they had even more time and money invested than we did. Fortunately, they also have a louder voice.

[Freedom]

You are so right, mrsdb. A big part of the problem around here is that, in general, a lot of people have been unaware of what MAGIC has really been up to. As you mentioned, they rely on the print media- which has been controlled by MAGIC for some time now. I do think the last laugh will be on MAGIC since they seem to think that people are ignorant so they can do as they please and get away with it. The truth is that people have been misinformed- until the truth started coming out here and now on the radio. Now, they are asking questions and demanding truthful answers. What remains to be seen is if we can all stand together and stop this train wreck before it finishes off the town. 

[Silentwalker]

I don't think they intend to finish off Millinocket, they just want to replace those that live here with others who will not interfere and will think like them.  They want retirees and second home owners.....hence the school consolidation.  Parents go where their kids are.  Don't forget this is the "GATEWAY", thanks to Matt Polstein, who made this decision all by himself and signed us up for it.

The other towns north of here, are in BIG trouble.  If you look on the maps of Maine, most of those towns aren't even mentioned.  What happens when those who live there are told that the land has been bought and they have to leave?  What happens to their homes?  They can't sell them.  Where does the money come from for them to relocate?  THAT's going to be the big issue. 

Our government is making us homeless, and a burden to the state when there are no jobs, making sure there will be NO JOBS and giving away tax breaks to people who buy land and make it "wilderness area"...no people, no roads, etc.  The tax payers have higher taxes because of it.  When there are no longer millions of people in the north, the southern part of the state will be paying for it all.

The fact that most of the people in the north have had to move to find work, our children can't find jobs here so they've had to leave, making it less populated, which makes the voting process unfair because so many in the southern part of the state have never even been up here, nor have they any ideas that people do live in these areas, and a park sounds so nice. They have no idea the damage they do to the people up here.

The majority of the people live in the southern part of the state, and they are the ones who are MISINFORMED of what is really going on up here.  Not all of them are, mind you, but not enough to carry the vote.  It won't hit them till the tax bills start coming in unfortunately, unless there is another way to get the truth, the REAL truth out.  Media won't carry it.  We've tried.

[Roger Ek]

Todays' BDN has an announcement that government is taking 6.4 MILLION acres of Maine as critical lynx habitat.

[Silentwalker]

And yet.........there are homeless people everywhere!

[mrsdb]

To the citizens of communities in Maine who want to fight Magic/RESTORE;

There are several ways to educate your community.  One way is to have a public meeting.  You can print out and photocopy all your evidence on MAGIC and RESTORE, bios of the members and voting records of your government reps.  There is a ton of stuff on the Net that you can use. You can post fliers nears shopping areas or churches to announce your meeting.

Have people sign in so you know who is not at your meeting and then you can deliver the same info to those who did not show up. 

Share this information with everybody you know and ask them to do the same.

Set up your own committee (think tank) with phone numbers, to be available to answer questions from your meeting and create a plan of action.  Be careful who you invite and make sure there are no cell phones at your meetings.  FYI: unless you remove the battery from a cell phone, you are being listened to by NSA or anybody with the money to buy the information.  Since a Rockefeller is involved with RESTORE this is a possibility.

I volunteer with a national organization called Restore The Republic.  We have volunteers in every state. I know we have a few up in your area.

I am sure we have people in our group who will have better advice for you than I can offer.  We can also help get the word out through Maine and across the nation through Patriot Radio stations, websites and publications.

For more information, you can visit our site.  Members have deeper access to our information.  It's free to join. You can create a group for yourselves within "Maine" groups within this website and control who has access to it and use it to communicate with each other privately. Since only you know who is on your side, I recommend you set your group control to "invite only",  that way you can email the link to only the people you want in your group and know who they are.  Nobody else will have access to it.  I suggest that you ask someone from your numbers who you can trust not to be bribed or blackmailed to set it up and lead it.

I'll bring what I have learned of MAGIC/RESTORE to my next leadership call this Monday and let you know what comes of it.  Other then that, I would prefer not to discuss this in a public forum that the enemy has access to.

http://www.restoretherepublic.com

[BoogieNighter]

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Be careful who you invite and make sure there are no cell phones at your meetings.  FYI: unless you remove the battery from a cell phone, you are being listened to by NSA or anybody with the money to buy the information.  Since a Rockefeller is involved with RESTORE this is a possibility.

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Am I hearing this correctly?   Do you mean to say people can hear conversations via others' cell phones even if they are not connected  to someone else (dialing out)?

[BoogieNighter]

Ah.  I see what you are referring to.  It is possible in some cases- my bad.

I will say this- it is far easier technically to hack a website.  Any data you have on a website is MUCH more accessible.

[kfander]

There's only about a week left of the public comment period, so please take a few moments to write a letter to the FCC regarding MAGIC's bid to put WSYY out of business.

Audio Division, Media Bureau
Federal Communications Commission
Office of the Secretary
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

RE: File Number BNPED-20071022BQO

[michelle]

Letters need to be into the FCC by July 21.

[Chris]

YOu guys are a little late arent you? Magic already got the license.