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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 08:56:10 -0600, wrote:

Is there interesting programming available via shortwave?

No, actually it is pretty much crap. Mostly news and stupid culture
type programs. Very boring.

Is my idea
sound? What good receivers are worth looking at?

No. Stick with cable tv.

It helps when you say something like [sarcasm mode: ON] or
[OFF] in your posts, so people know you're not serious...

FW

CW wrote:


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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Frank Dresser wrote:



I know that I have to sit in front of my reciever to hear the news
clearly, and I've got a Yaesu.

Try headphones. you will be amazed how much more you understand.

Every so often a "classic" pair of headphones (not the "ear bud" things
but the big, enclosed type) comes up for sale at a local thrift store.
Next time I see a pair I'll grab them.


. A couple are mildly interesting, such as Alex
Jones,


Jones is boring. Every show is so predictable. It all revolves around his
primary belief that no one in the government ever has or ever will do
anything that was not designed to screw the American people.

Yeah, but most of the rest is worse. A lot of domestic SW is at the Hal
Turner level of smarts.

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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CW wrote:


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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Frank Dresser wrote:



I know that I have to sit in front of my reciever to hear the news
clearly, and I've got a Yaesu.

Try headphones. you will be amazed how much more you understand.

Every so often a "classic" pair of headphones (not the "ear bud"
things
but the big, enclosed type) comes up for sale at a local thrift store.
Next time I see a pair I'll grab them.


. A couple are mildly interesting, such as Alex
Jones,


Jones is boring. Every show is so predictable. It all revolves
around his
primary belief that no one in the government ever has or ever will
do
anything that was not designed to screw the American people.

Yeah, but most of the rest is worse. A lot of domestic SW is at the
Hal
Turner level of smarts.


Well, I'll say international shortwave was better years ago. Back in
the days when they had the radio hobby related programs.

I won't say domestic SW is boring, but I will say it's a matter of
taste. And knowing the backround of some conspiracy theories,
especially the Unified Conspiracy therory, makes it more interesting.

Frank Dresser

Frank Dresser wrote:


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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CW wrote:


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
...
Frank Dresser wrote:



I know that I have to sit in front of my reciever to hear the news
clearly, and I've got a Yaesu.

Try headphones. you will be amazed how much more you understand.

Every so often a "classic" pair of headphones (not the "ear bud"
things
but the big, enclosed type) comes up for sale at a local thrift store.
Next time I see a pair I'll grab them.


. A couple are mildly interesting, such as Alex
Jones,


Jones is boring. Every show is so predictable. It all revolves
around his
primary belief that no one in the government ever has or ever will
do
anything that was not designed to screw the American people.

Yeah, but most of the rest is worse. A lot of domestic SW is at the
Hal
Turner level of smarts.


Well, I'll say international shortwave was better years ago. Back in
the days when they had the radio hobby related programs.

That's true, but most of today's SW listeners aren't hams (unlike back
then) and wouldn't appreciate that content.

I won't say domestic SW is boring, but I will say it's a matter of
taste. And knowing the backround of some conspiracy theories,
especially the Unified Conspiracy therory, makes it more interesting.

My favorite is David Icke. No other major conspiracy theorist has the
"the ruling class are shapeshifting extraterrestrials" idea. Most
conspiracists just repeat each other, which is why everybody on WWCR
sounds the same. Icke has come up with new stuff, which takes a certain
level of smarts and guts.


Frank Dresser

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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My favorite is David Icke. No other major conspiracy theorist has the
"the ruling class are shapeshifting extraterrestrials" idea. Most
conspiracists just repeat each other, which is why everybody on WWCR
sounds the same. Icke has come up with new stuff, which takes a
certain
level of smarts and guts.


Alex Jones dances around that one. He's said "George Bush has pointy
green eeeeeaaars. Didja ever notice that? I saw them on TV. I swear I
saw pointy greeeeeen eeeaaars."

Alex swings between being a rational sort of populist libertarian and
the king of kooks.

Anyway, I don't think the idea of shape shifting extraterrestrials is
totally David Icke's. The idea that the aliens are demons controlled by
Satan is very old. I don't know where the idea that the aliens are the
result of mixing genetic material from humans, reptiles and insects by
the people of Atlantis, but I don't think David Icke puts in those
terms.

It goes against human nature for a large conspiracy to hang together.
If all the large conspiracies are hanging together, it stands to reason
that the conspirators are something other than human. Aliens, demons,
humans under Satan's control. It's all the same basic idea.

And that's the subtext uniting Alex Jones, the Jerimiah 33-3 guy, James
Lloyd, Pastor David J. Smith, Texe Marrs and a few others. Although any
of them will disagree with the others on the exact details of the
conspiracy.

Frank Dresser