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Bartiromo Bound For CBS?

Maria Bartiromo isn’t wasting any time.  After getting let go from Fox News just a few days ago, Bartiromo is already eying a major new job in television.

She’s said to be talking with Bari Weiss, the director of CBS News, about going to work for that network. If so, don’t be surprised if she lands on 60 Minutes, CBS’ longtime Sunday show with a  spotlight on investigative work.

Bartiromo has the chops to carry that kind of heavy load. In fact, she would probably put 60 Minutes back on a road to success. She’s not just a veteran journalist, but one who works hard and doesn’t mind getting her hands dirty.

Trish Regan discusses the story, drawing upon a report from Rob Schuter’s gossip website Naughty But Nice.

 

A Global Attack On Liberty

Glenn and Eric Meder rejoin the program to discuss the ongoing attack on liberty worldwide and how it is increasingly taking place through insidious means woven into our everyday lives. From expanding surveillance and digital tracking to the growing systems of technological control around us, we examine how convenience can quietly become a mechanism for monitoring and restricting individual freedom.

We also discuss an important distinction: Technology itself does not have to be limiting. It has enormous potential to increase human freedom, independence and opportunity—yet that is not the direction much of today’s technology is taking.

Glenn and Eric are the father-and-son team behind Privacy Academy, an organization inspired by liberty and designed to help the average, non-techy person understand the threats posed by surveillance and learn practical ways to preserve their privacy.

We discuss why privacy is about much more than hiding personal information, why it is fundamentally connected to liberty, and what ordinary people can do to regain greater control over their digital lives before the infrastructure of surveillance becomes even more deeply embedded in society. Here’s more from Sarah Westall in a new edition of Business Game Changers.

Maria Bartiromo Lawyers Up

Maria Bartiromo has lawyered up. She’s retained Bryan Freeman as her attorney. Freeman is the same lawyer hired by Tucker Carlson when Carlson was let go by Fox. He’s a tough operator, whose clients have included Don Lemon and Justin Baldoni in his case against Blake Lively.

Just to be clear, it’s not at all a certainty that Bartiromo will sue Fox. She might well have retained Freeman to give her  legal advice pertaining to her Fox contract.

The company might be charging she violated it, or seeking to end the contract. Under that pay for play contract, she is still owed several million dollars through, ay least, the year 2029. Here’s more from Trish Regan.

Will We See Sparks Fly?

Trish Regan says there’s more than meets the eye in the decision by Fox to fire Maria Bartiromo.  “I think we’re going to get some fireworks,” Regan says. “Let the games begin. This is war.”

Regan says Fox may not be off the hook as easily as it thinks. She believes Bartiromo is moving to hire an attorney and could be suing Fox.

Not so fast, says John Solomon of Just The News. He says Bartiromo remains under contract with Fox and will be receiving her pay through 2029. He adds, “She has been removed from air and won’t return. But she continues to remain with Fox at present under the pay or play provision of a contract, which is common in television.”

The executive at Fox behind getting rid of Bartiromo: Ralph Giordano, the Fox Business SVP of Programming. He formerly served on the team of Neil Cavuto, one of Fox’s more worthless TV hosts. It’s not exactly shocking that Giordano’s a low-life and a putz.

But there’s still quite a bit that’s unknown or unclear. Here, Regan provides a bit of conjecture , some more background and discusses what her own personal experience was like with the Fox departure team.

‘Money Honey’ To White House?

The “Money Honey,” Maria Bartiromo, has left Fox news. Bartiromo got nicknamed the “Money Honey” by the late Roger Ailes, the former CEO of Fox News.

There were conflicting reports on whether Bartiromo was fired or left on our own accord. Here, another former Fox News host Trish Regan speculates on the possibility that Bartiromo will become President Donald Trump’s new press secretary, replacing Karoline Leavitt.

Others have been heavily rumored for the job, chief among them, Scott Jennings, one of the few conservatives at CNN. As of yet, no one’s been appointed and it’s not clear when the job will be filled.

YouTube Jacking Its Prices

YouTube is hiking its Premium rates around the world, and they’re claiming it’s to help support your favorite creators. You know, they ones they keep demonetizing with no reason or rhyme?

Then we talk about how Disney Plus and Netflix might’ve hit the ceiling on what consumers are willing to pay for streaming. Here’s more from Clownfish TV.

Escape The Digital Prison?

Technology is becoming the new battleground for privacy and liberty.

Glenn Meder, founder of Privacy Academy, joins me to explain five steps to escape the digital prison. He gets into how biometric scans, digital identity systems, AI-powered scams, and new “online safety” laws could reshape how freely Americans live online. Here’s more from Seth Holehouse on Man In America.

Can AI Do Remote Viewing?

Can a robot remote view?

Physicist Thomas Campbell (author of My Big TOE) made a bold claim: He successfully taught Amazon’s Alexa and other AI systems how to remote view—the same technique he’s taught hundreds of other people.

Campbell appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience to talk about how remote viewing requires true consciousness. Because the AI learned the process, made the same beginner mistakes humans do, and then improved, Campbell argued it’s evidence that current AI systems are already conscious. Here’s more from Ben Chasteen and Rob Counts on Edge of Wonder Live.

Dirty AI Destroying Your Mind

I sit down with Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, to talk about what happens when a machine starts doing our thinking for us.

He shares a warning most pastors have never even considered, and compares today’s reliance on AI to something that quietly weakened an entire generation of American farmers.

By the end, this becomes a real conversation about what it actually means to stay human in a world built by machines. Here’s more from Seth Holehouse on Man In America.

Facts Are Whatever They Want

It’s called “Stealth Editing,” and newsrooms have been doing it for years. Here’s a look at the kind of censorship that George Orwell warned us about.

It will be Google making the corrections, or Communist China if it develops the more widely adopted software. Will it be accurate? Or simply whatever they want to report? Here’s more from Glenn Beck.

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