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Post by SlappyD on Aug 16, 2019 19:13:07 GMT -8
That's nice, I guess. I'm just a newcomer trying to be fair with what little I know.
FWIW what anyone can read in the pinned locked thread argues board members are within their rights to look at your participation with suspicion. It's more than a little concerning you can't see this yourself.
Once you described this as an illness. I'd echo the idea already floated that being involved with toxic people for so long it's hard for you to understand why people not in a toxic environment are upset with you. And why you act as if showing up on the board after so long is no big deal. Maybe you learned inconsistent patterns from being at KBOO?
Something to think about.
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Post by SlappyD on Aug 16, 2019 19:19:50 GMT -8
Wow. Posted on the KBOO Blog on the website; Dear KBOO Community: By mutual agreement, our long-term Volunteer Coordinator, Ani Hanes decided to leave her position at KBOO. This is a mutual confidential agreement so I cannot say much- but I am available to listen and happy to meet with anyone in the KBOO community. As you know, our amazing staff is understandably impacted and exhausted from the past few months. I encourage you to support our staff by allowing me to listen to your concerns instead of our staff so they can take their time to process. As you know, volunteers are the back-bone of KBOO and it's the strength and diversity of the community that fuels our resilience. We are so grateful to BreAna Loranger, a volunteer at KBOO for over 17 years and who has been filling in as Volunteer Coordinator. They will keep us going as the interim Volunteer Coordinator - ensuring that KBOO continues to create learning and broadcasting opportunities for our community. We thank Ani for her many years of dedicated support to KBOO volunteer and membership community. She welcomed thousands of volunteers to KBOO during her tenure at KBOO and wish her the best of everything. One more note: On October 6th from 1-4pm Celeste Carey and I will be hosting a healing circle. We hope to hold one every month thereafter. The invitation will be going out soon. How much of this is because Mitchell ramped up her "bulldog act" and it backfired?
And if it's connected to Portland Indy media being offline for almost 2 weeks? And if anyone contacted Fitch? And what does this mean for Mitchell and Annie's so called programs? They're both Tweeting like crazy as if nothing's wrong...
So many questions....
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Post by AOPD on Aug 16, 2019 19:40:04 GMT -8
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Post by wandering on Aug 16, 2019 19:50:35 GMT -8
Has the volunteer page had a makeover? Or have I not noticed this? There's clear procedures and more transparency about what volunteering does. Apart from being Ani's buttmonkey. kboo.fm/get-involved-volunteerFuck, the station might actually be able to save itself. If it's not to dependent on Ani's back room deals.
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Post by lurk3r on Aug 16, 2019 20:03:01 GMT -8
The notice of Ani's quit/firing(lol) is not Aug 1 as the website suggests. Cache show it like this on Aug 13: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cXUJHcrhUjIJ:https://kboo.fm/blog/74648+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=ubuntuYET ANOTHER STAFF UPDATE Published date: Thursday, August 1, 2019 - 2:14pm Dear KBOO Community: Volunteer Coordinator Update: In July, the board of directors made a unanimous recommendation to resolve the situation. The two options were conveyed during an in-person meeting with the union in July. We should have an answer within the week. In the meantime, we are fortunate that BreAna Loranger, will be filling in (again and Thank you ) beginning today. BreAna is a long-time volunteer with amazing people and radio skills. Volunteer Orientations will resume this month and next. Must have been updated Aug 14. Now it's "Change is not easy but it's part of life...." ? Are they going to keep adding to the page with no date like dorks? Ani may be gone, but the stupid remains. FUCK THAT BITCH AND HER PSYCHO STALKER WIFE AND CREW More thoughts tomorrow. More drinking now.
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Post by The Real Ed Kraus on Aug 17, 2019 6:38:06 GMT -8
Awww SlappyD,
Monitoring this blog now and then has been a bit of Shadenfreude. If watching the troubles of others is illness, then all the anonymous folks who post here are ill as well.
The entire Facebook thing is so funny, I'm still smiling today. Some folks catch a small inconsistency then spend the rest of their lives obsessing on it. It's really simple. I said "I don't do Facebook" but I do have one Facebook page, and I did have another somewhere I don't even have the password for anymore. I defy anyone to go to any Facebook page and find me posting, at all. I don't use Facebook. Facebook is a fucked up corporate Big Brother that is used to abuse privacy the same way the government isn't supposed to. However, some idiots still use Facebook as their primary web presence, and I'll go look at a page now and then when that's the only way to get info I need. I don't log in. If that makes me someone who can't be trusted by "the mods", then that's just fine with me.
I was part of KBOO. It was one of the worst experiences of my adult life. I also met some really fine people and had some good times. While being rather publicly involved in some controversies before leaving for good, I met with a lot of people to figure out who was who, and what was what. That got some folks on this board really butthurt. Again, whatever.
So. There you have it. Since everyone on this board is so paranoid and meets in secret to rehash thing from years ago, we won't meet, we won't do anything together, and your individual opinion and collective judgements simply don't matter to me. But at least you should know the facts of the level of paranoia on this board. A lot like ... wait for it ... KBOO.
Two things astonish me lately. First, that someone went to the board meeting and that they were admonished here as if some top secret reality would be compromised. Second, that no one reacted for days to the info that Ani, the Queen Bee of hatred and abuse at KBOO was on the way out. What a strange experience this has been, both before 2013, during, and even to this day.
Ed
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Post by lurk3r on Aug 17, 2019 18:04:28 GMT -8
"Monitoring this blog now and then has been a bit of Shadenfreude. If watching the troubles of others is illness, then all the anonymous folks who post here are ill as well."
Fuck you, Ed. That's not what he said. He was talking about your bipolar sorry/not sorry schizo act.
But thanks for demonstrating the whole "so damaged can't figure out why people don't trust you" thing. By your logic Willamette Week, Portland Tribune AND the FCC are "ill" as well.
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Post by KBOOkabob on Aug 25, 2019 19:26:44 GMT -8
The corporate HR person that was hired, a certain Miss Rupert, was photographed and overheard at PK Restaurant, more than a month ago, attempting to dig out decades-old information about Ani. So this is public information, and it is not a matter of me breaking the confidentiality of the investigation. The Investigator herself did that! To add to that now-public information: this HR expert then posted on her LinkedIn profile that she had been conducting an 18-year investigation. - "Miss Rupert, was photographed"...and we can see this photograph where TM?
- "overheard" - ah, a photo but no recording. Shabby work.
- A LinkedIn profile...and the link to that profile is what? How about a screen shot? No? Really, just fucking inept.
- "an 18-year investigation?" -- even during the years Ani's personal friends ran the board and approved the budget? OK sure. Let's see the checks sent to this "high-priced" consultant (that nobody ever noticed was on the KBOO payroll FOR 18 YEARS). A high-priced consultant that survived, hidden, for 18 years, when countless station mangers were run off -- AND WHEN THE STAFF COLLECTIVE RAN THE STATION. The staff were such good managers they never knew about this investigator getting a big paycheck year after year after year. Sure, that seems plausible.
This is as hopeless a task as fact-checking Trump.
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Post by The Real Ed Kraus on Aug 27, 2019 16:38:57 GMT -8
So ... in theory there was a BOD meeting last night Aug 26th. Anyone go (even if wearing an elaborate costume)?
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Post by lurk3r on Sept 4, 2019 16:21:51 GMT -8
The corporate HR person that was hired, a certain Miss Rupert, was photographed and overheard at PK Restaurant, more than a month ago, attempting to dig out decades-old information about Ani. So this is public information, and it is not a matter of me breaking the confidentiality of the investigation. The Investigator herself did that! To add to that now-public information: this HR expert then posted on her LinkedIn profile that she had been conducting an 18-year investigation. - "Miss Rupert, was photographed"...and we can see this photograph where TM?
- "overheard" - ah, a photo but no recording. Shabby work.
- A LinkedIn profile...and the link to that profile is what? How about a screen shot? No? Really, just fucking inept.
- "an 18-year investigation?" -- even during the years Ani's personal friends ran the board and approved the budget? OK sure. Let's see the checks sent to this "high-priced" consultant (that nobody ever noticed was on the KBOO payroll FOR 18 YEARS). A high-priced consultant that survived, hidden, for 18 years, when countless station mangers were run off -- AND WHEN THE STAFF COLLECTIVE RAN THE STATION. The staff were such good managers they never knew about this investigator getting a big paycheck year after year after year. Sure, that seems plausible.
This is as hopeless a task as fact-checking Trump.
You have to understand KBOTs(TM/Ani's cult) are simple creatures:
Theresa rants.
They believe everything she says.
Critical thinking skills are for "corporatists" or something.
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Post by The Real Theresa Mitchell on Sept 6, 2019 17:25:47 GMT -8
So ... in theory there was a BOD meeting last night Aug 26th. Anyone go (even if wearing an elaborate costume)?
No, Ed , no one was dumb enough to go to the meeting and admit to criticizing the Ani/Mitchell gang online.
You have this strange idea that if just enough people show up in person at these meetings to object to the crazy, things will magically change.
Mitchel can still whip up mobs of 200 to 500 people with histrionic lies. No one who has the power to stop her, actually tries to stop her. Or they're afraid to. The only non KBOTS who show up are board members who HAVE to show up. (maybe people who quietly lurk in the background)
You haven't figured this out yet?
This woman harassed an employee out of a job and never suffered consequences. There would be no win to standing up and calling Mitchell out in person. You know what would have worked years ago? If someone who had access to member contacts had helped promote the blog and forum back in 2013. Then people who understandably didn't feel safe on other platforms could add their voices. You could have used one of your three Facebook accounts as a burner...
But you ever helped with that. Instead you're still bitching about people not sharing their "real identities". Haven't you figured out the people who founded this forum have connections to ARA and anti cult groups? Do you really NEED to know who they were?
Like the name? See how easy it is to claim to be a "real person"?
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Post by The Real Ed Kraus on Sept 6, 2019 21:15:41 GMT -8
Dear God, lurk3r, you're really butthurt.
No, Ed , no one was dumb enough to go to the meeting and admit to criticizing the Ani/Mitchell gang online.
You don't get humor, do you?
You have this strange idea that if just enough people show up in person at these meetings to object to the crazy, things will magically change.
Nope. Just curious if someone had a good story to tell. Someone went to a previous meeting, and shared. Just asking.
Mitchel can still whip up mobs of 200 to 500 people with histrionic lies. No one who has the power to stop her, actually tries to stop her. Or they're afraid to. The only non KBOTS who show up are board members who HAVE to show up. (maybe people who quietly lurk in the background)
You haven't figured this out yet?
Uhhh. Duhh. That was MY analysis. Dig it out of the archives.
This woman harassed an employee out of a job and never suffered consequences. There would be no win to standing up and calling Mitchell out in person. You know what would have worked years ago? If someone who had access to member contacts had helped promote the blog and forum back in 2013. Then people who understandably didn't feel safe on other platforms could add their voices. You could have used one of your three Facebook accounts as a burner...
Sure. KBOO was all my fault. It's such a scandal that I have a life other than KBOO to live.
But you ever helped with that. Instead you're still bitching about people not sharing their "real identities". Haven't you figured out the people who founded this forum have connections to ARA and anti cult groups? Do you really NEED to know who they were?
Whatever. I've been out in the the open with my criticism of KBOO then and now. There have been literally NO consequences. I'm not sure nor do I want to know what power KBOO has over you. Really. Like the name? See how easy it is to claim to be a "real person"?
Boy that was clever. See how you fooled me? Don't worry. I really have no idea who you are, so your secret is safe. If anyone cares, my emails are publicly available in multiple places. I really won't reply to facebook though.
Too bad I deleted my "official profile" as I might have been able to format this for more readability and dramatic effect. Oh well.
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Post by The Real Theresa Mitchelll on Sept 9, 2019 16:23:20 GMT -8
Huh. Skimmed through didn't see anything like an apology in there for fukking around with Hadrian. Oh well.
Ed has terminal lack of self awareness/gullibility. For instance, he upvoted this comment on the Tribune article:
I'll assume this guy is acting in more or less good faith and is ignorant about the racist source of "false flag" propaganda. I've highlighted the troublesome parts.
First of all, a liberal left organization by definition does not give a platform to Holocaust denying Nazi trash(Google this guy. Not hard to find). That should be written down somewhere as an immutable rule of running a left liberal organization.
Second, the staff was doing no such thing. Ani Haines was probably panicking because a few more google searches would drag up Theresa Mitchell's connection to Barrett through Captain May, Ghost Troop and the idiotic 9/11 Truth Alliance. It's even in a thread here:
Subject: [ghosttroop] HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPTAIN MAY ! ! ! To: "Portland Nuclear Inquest" <Portland-Nuclear-Inquest@...>, "Captain Eric H. May" <captainmay@...>, "CSM Lee Neadow" <sgtlee6@...>, "GhostTroopGroup" <GhostTroop@...>, "GhostTroopIllinois" <GhostTroopIllinois@...>, "GhostTroopTexas" <GhostTroopTexas@...>, "GhostTroopWashingtonDC" <GhostTroopWashingtonDC@...> Cc: "Dr. James Fetzer" <jfetzer@...>, "Dr. Kevin Barrett" <kbarrett@...>, "Lenny Bloom" <lennybloom@...>, "Leon Smith" <leon@...>, "Eric Hancox" <erichancox@...>, "Melinda Pillsbury-Foster" <themelinda@...>, "pepe" <cfv_butte@...>, "Percy" <artist2@...>, "Theresa Mitchell" <polemics17@...>
Barrett is one name highlighted. The other is another loon Mitchell and friends worked with. This guy has been sued by the Sandy Hook families for targeted harassment:
Where do you think Mitchell got the idea she could get away with this shit?
That is why Ani acted. She wasn't "listening" to anyone. She was cynically protecting their brand of "radical feminists fighting for justice and smashing racism/patriarchy" or whatever.
And of course its remains the top of schadenfreude Ani "smash the patriarchy" Haines was kicked out for sexual harassment(probably).
-Not Theresa Mitchell
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Post by The Real Ed Kraus on Sept 9, 2019 20:10:28 GMT -8
Huh. Skimmed through didn't see anything like an apology in there for fukking around with Hadrian. Oh well.
I've got no idea what you're going on about now. Hadrian is an interesting, complicated, talented, and quite self absorbed person. I still like him but don't think he's ever been effective.
Ed has terminal lack of self awareness/gullibility. For instance, he upvoted this comment on the Tribune article: Well, whomever you are. Thank you for pointing that out. I don't know if late at night I clicked the wrong thing, or if my Disqus account has been hacked. But I was able to log in and remove that upvote. Go figure.
As a Jew who grew up with friends who are children of survivors, who has hosted survivor friends for decades at seders, thanksgiving, etc, and who just buried a family friend who hid from the Nazis while her entire family was transported ... and who has been searching for family lost in the Holocaust, who have new friendships with local Muslims who have been harassed since 911, I'm not going to approve crazy shit like that.
One of the things at KBOO that drove me crazy was that they would allow programming that was nakedly anti semetic, and then when some sort of anti semetic act would happen in town people associated with KBOO would pretend that they should lead an effort to fight this. As if the Jewish community needs the help of KBOO. What a joke.
I did witness things at programming committee meetings that were blatantly anti semetic, openly racist, insensitive, and awful in general. While trying to make some difference, I came to the conclusion no child of mine would ever interact with, or be allowed to volunteer at KBOO. I still hold these views.
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Post by Uramor on Sept 10, 2019 8:05:07 GMT -8
Anyone suggesting gathering all the facts refuting TM/Ani and co. resistance grifting lies-- and ties to right wing polical grifters over the decades -- and putting them in one accessable place was not a game changer is fooling themselves. In 2013 KBOO stated bleeding out support forcing Ani to relie on big begs. In spite of the founders anonymity, media outlets took them seriously because the facts check out. Spin it how you want. But without changing the game those cool new peeps running for the board would never have lasted long enough. On topic: Theresa deleted her blog after Ani was quit-canned. It's up again: t.co/pMcaeJoGFu?amp=1
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