LAL Live Part 1: Censorship, CNN, and The Federal Reserve + Give Us a Pulitzer (NPS June 16)

Norm opens the first hour imploring citizens to vote for and to demand a return to common sense, citing the obvious upside-down character of the United States' governing structures across the country. 

He then asks listeners to call in and help him understand what the Connecticut Post reported on with respect to the New Fairfield Volunteer Fire Department's announcement of an internal investigation pursuant to alleged "offensive" posts to social media by one of the department's firefighters. 

But what were the posts? What was the content of the speech? And how condescending can the Connecticut Post be? Publish the content of the posts! Allow the readers to determine for themselves whether the speech in question was indeed offensive, or whether the story itself is yet another mere reflection of woke culture run amok. 

Norm then whines about CNN and how unlikely it is to course correct in any meaningful way after its termination of Chris Cuomo and the rumored looming exit of Mr. Potato aka Brian Stelter, and of course after the deafeningly quiet exit of former President of CNN, Jeff Zucker. Will the new overlord make good on his promise to eliminate the comingling of news reporting and ideological biases? Best wishes, Chris Licht. We'll wait for CNN to show and prove. 

A caller from earlier this week posed a question about the role of the Federal Reserve and posited that the overwhelming majority of Americans have no idea what it is, what it does, not to mention that it is not a formal body of our federal government. So, Norm takes an opportunity to shed light on the federal reserve, its role in regulating the American economy, the partisan divide on economic policy in America today, and the staying power of those appointed to the Board of the Federal Reserve. Is it time for an overhaul?

Norm then takes a moment to applaud Law and Legitimacy for breaking a story that Forbes finally picked up regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission and its apparently corrupt behavior with respect to the regulation of digital assets and cryptocurrency. 

Specifically, Law and Legitimacy hosted Jimmy Vallee—Managing Partner of Valhil Capital and proponent of Ripple and XRP—to discuss the disparate treatment between Etherium and Ripple by the SEC to the latter's extreme detriment. How detrimental? Bigger than Enron in terms of the financial loss to Ripple investors. 

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