Telamon wrote:

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dxAce wrote:

** U S A. Rumors have reached us about imminent
drastic cuts in the output of
VOA, RFE/RL and possibly other IBB outlets, on
shortwave, as of Feb. 1. If you
find your favorite, or any such frequencies
missing, that may be why. Please
report your monitoring results on this (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

With all that is going on in the world I would not expect VOA to cut
back on anything.

I wonder if this is the work of the same morons who think that Eminem
will sway terrorists from killing us. The oppressed Muslim masses don't
need to hear news and shows from the American viewpoint; they need to
hear RAP MUSIC! Brilliant! With geniuses like this running the "winning
hearts and minds" op, we're surely doomed. They'll listen to Snoop Dogg
and be newly energized to blow us up, secure in the knowledge that
America is indeed degenerate and evil.

I say that if the incompetent federal government can't effectively
represent America's interests on shortwave, then private individuals
need to step up to the plate and work on broadcasting American views to
our enemies. We need to rent transmitters, produce programs, and get
those programs translated into the major languages of the Middle East,
including Arabic, Farsi (Iran), Urdu (Pakistan), Pashto, Dari
(Afghanistan), and the tribal dialects of the Hindu Kush where Osama
hides out. Most of these languages have speakers in the US.

When our enemies can more readily hear news from the Netherlands than
from the US, the US has a big problem.