Severe Financial Crisis Due to Delinquent Investments

Since late September of last year, I have been grappling with a financial crisis that's nothing short of epic for a person with my income history. From last May through July, I was able to create, with the help of a business specializing in this, a total line of credit on business credit cards in excess of $145,000. Most of the cards had a 0% interest rate through July 2024. I had my choice to use this for my own business purposes, or to invest in one or more of approximately 20 companies with which they had an affiliation. I opted to invest in two of the affiliated companies because dividends are real money, not credit that has to be paid back, eventually with interest.

I signed contracts with these companies. One of them promised the first dividend of $4,000 within 60 days. Furthermore, the contract said if they went 90 days without a payment, they would be in default by their own terms and also liable for any legal expenses. The second company guaranteed a full payback on investment within two years, with a 50-50 revenue split thereafter, but verbally promised several times that I would almost certainly be making money after 5 months.

As of late March 2024, I have not received a single red cent from either company. I am now in debt to the tune of $120,000. Furthermore, interest on most of the cards begins in July.

This is a dilemma I cannot get out of without serious help. I have set up a support page on GiveSendGo with more details. In addition to outright contributions, there are several options from buying out my investments in these firms, to financing my enrollment in proven investment or contracting programs averaging an income of $75K a year or more. That income level I consider a bare minimum for any hope of getting out of this mess.

Right now, I am at the point where without assistance, I have to chose between paying my mobile home park fee and paying the monthly minimum on the card with the highest balance. Not both.

Please visit my support page at givesendgo.com/jeffs_bad_investments. If you are part of the business or investing community please spread the word about this campaign. Thank you.

Oliver Anthony and the Future Orientation of Folk Music

As a folk and Americana DJ who dates back to 1978, conventional wisdom would dictate that you can't predict the life expectancy of a new trend when it is only a week old. But it may already be safe to declare that the days of folk music being dominated by leftists, Communists, and atheists has officially ended.

For decades, the dismal impact folk music was having on American culture and media, and its corresponding financial returns, inspired the late Utah Phillips to rhetorically ask, "How do you make a million dollars in folk music?" His answer: "Spend two million." 

I think the reason for such futility is now obvious. The ability of leftists, Communists, and atheists to truly connect with the struggles, joys, and values of average Americans has always been quite limited.

The incubation of this dominant folk music orientation could not have been more odious and inorganic. When you really trace it back, it would not have existed without the University experience of the late 1950's and '60's. A large number of Marxist professors infiltrated these institutions after World War II, joined by their patriarch-hating, feminist counterparts in the 1970's. They determined the curriculum, the culture, and the policies.

As any adult knows, university life is a far cry from real life. Until our youth get out of the classroom, pay their own bills, and experience how the world really works, they are very impressionable, and to a large degree, believe everything they are taught. King Solomon and Vladimir Lenin didn't have much in common. But both realized the importance of training up a child in the way he should go so that when he is old, he will not depart from it. Furthermore, who financed these professors and their activist groups? Often, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the CIA's MK Ultra. Hardly the prime demographic of folk music, wouldn't you say?

Fast forward to earlier this month, August 2023. An independent artist suddenly emerges, not out of the most bureaucratic, privileged, collectivist, over-priced, and wealthy institution in western society. This artist, an aspiring farmer living off the grid, emerged from a remote part of Virginia, eking out a living on his own. He is not a Communist. He believes strongly in American free enterprise and meritocracy. He is not an atheist. He's a Bible believing Christian with traditional values. And yes, he is a male. And it's just him and his dobro guitar.

When Oliver Anthony performed at his local farmer's market back in June, twenty patrons shuffled by to watch him. A few days ago, he returned for a repeat performance. It caused a traffic jam with well over a thousand descending on the market. Back in the '80's and 90's, it took a lot of work to get a thousand people to show up for a folk concert. But for this gentleman, it was no work at all because he was a true, overnight sensation.  
 
At this post-covid point in history, people are waking up. The red pill realities of who we truly are, and the reason the rulers of this world want us weak, deceived, and prematurely dead, is hitting many quite hard. 

The struggles of the working class in 2023 are far more MAGA than Marx. With Oliver Anthony, folk music is finally reflecting it. This turning point is long overdue.

Jeff's Election Season Editorials

Editorial - Comrade Healey
Editorial - Democrat for Diehl
Editorial - No Forgive and Forget

Folk Image Site Restored and Integrated into t1700.net

The entire vintage Folk Image website (1997-2004) has been restored and integrated into t1700.net. Around one and a half years ago, I decided to let the folkimage.com domain name expire to save an annual expense for a website that had not been active in well over a decade. But a little more than a week ago, I became enamored with the idea of restoring the whole thing and integrating it into the t1700.net domain.

The work took three days. The longest, most tedious part was changing perhaps more than a thousand links from folkimage.com to t1700.net/folkimage.com. I also updated to a currently functioning search engine and removed links to software that was no longer relevant.

You can now find a link to Folk Image on every page of t1700.net. All available two hour shows, specials, live events, and artist interviews are there for your enjoyment.     

Workarounds discovered: Liberty & Justice 1640 should return to its regular program schedule Tues. night 9/6

I thought of a workaround and after considering it for a couple days, I have decided to go with it. My personal desktop computer uses the same motherboard model that the Liberty & Justice automation computer uses. I can install it in the Liberty & Justice computer along with all the other hardware that was originally there. With that there should be no issues with activation or having to re-register the automation software.

This will cause some inconvenience as I will need to temporarily reshuffle the functions I normally do on my personal computer to other devices. But I'll live with it for a few weeks.

Expect the internet stream, normal audio processing, and regularly scheduled programming to return by 6 AM Eastern on September 7th.  

Worst possible timing: Motherboard of the Liberty & Justice computer suffers a BIOS update mishap. Regular programming suspended, possibly for weeks

The past three weeks have not been kind to Minimum Wage Media's PC work horses. First, a dish cloth got caught in the CPU pins of the motherboard in my personal desktop computer, ruining it probably for good. Then, as if all the fall out from that was not enough of an expense and inconvenience, the motherboard of the main Liberty & Justice computer underwent a USB-based flashed BIOS update while I forgot to remove a networking device that was still connected to the USB bus. The update took forever with mostly a blank screen. It finally proceeded normally. But after completion, the computer went dead instead of attempting a re-boot. It has not been able to power up since.

The motherboard is still under warranty, so the cheapest solution was to send it back to the manufacturer to have them re-set the BIOS. However, the complete process may take four weeks or more.

The timing could not have been worse. The Massachusetts Primary is on 9/6 with the general election in November. Without that computer, and the years of programming and maintenance that went into it, I was forced to suspend regular programming indefinitely. There will be no internet stream, no local input to the programing, and no audio processing. Only the terrestrial AM signal within 3 miles of Acme Park will remain. We will carry various networks - Infowars, GCN, Real America's Voice, RSBN, and Frank Speech - switching among them with no set schedule as I am able to do so. I am planning to carry President Trump's Wilkes-Barre rally live on Saturday and the Tele-rally on Labor Day evening (7 PM) featuring President Trump, Geoff Deihl, and Leah Allen. But mostly it will be all networks all the time by necessity.

Computers are finely tuned, unforgiving devices. If you would like to assist with a donation to help during this frustrating period, you can do so on our advertising page. I appreciate your support.       

Both FM signals (mini translators) have been shut down permanently

I have decided to permanently shut down our FM mini-translator signals at 87.9 and 97.9. Due to our New England winters, I cannot get an FM transmitter to last more than two years. Without proper antenna de-icing, multiple components fail and it is not an easy fix without a schematic. Buying new transmitters - yet again - and erecting antennas inside the only RF transparent building I own (a wooden shed) would not be worth the time or expense during this period of my life. All this and one additional factor weighed in my decision.

Of course, you can still hear the stations on their main AM frequencies of 1640 and 1710. A modification I made in their tuning systems last year has resulted in the best range ever for these two signals. They also broadcast in stereo using the Motorola C-Quam system on receivers from the late 1980's and early 1990's capable of decoding such analog-based multiplexing.

If you are more than 2.5 or 3 miles from the transmitters, your sole option remains the audio streams.