running dogg wrote in :

I believe that God saw the advent of American Shortwave Radio (this is
intended to be humor) ergo the destruction of The Tower of Babel with the
ensuing language variants. We are at least protected from the confusion
of American shortwave radio in that many people are incapable of
understanding it. (I speak English and even I have trouble at times ;-)

With the Internet and American web sites, one can go to the many online
translation sites that do entire pages. Lunatic web sites also offer
individuals the ability to print material that is offered, cementing the
lunacy of these sites and American views. Unless one has a tape deck
ready, much of the Shortwave lunacy is not reproducible, except from the
memories of the listeners. Unfortunately, many of the Shortwave lunatics
also have web sites.

I do enjoy listening to much of what is said, though I give much of it
the same seriousness as I do "Coast to Coast AM" with Art Bell. Even
Steve Quayle has had his interesting days. When I first started listening
to his show, it was shocking, yet one failed prediction after another has
allowed me the ability to use the show as background chatter without
taking it seriously. I am especially impressed by Steve's segue from
current events to prediction, as if the listening audience won't see the
correlation. After the tsunami, Steve predicted more such events and
earthquakes, and even occasionally has a guest on his show professing to
be an expert in seismology. Fortunately Steve's guest is more objective
than he, and often fails to provide predictions suitable for
exploitation.

Of the BBC, RFPI, and the Radio Netherlands, they always seem to stray
into the same old issues, the U.S. is bad, homosexuality, prostitution,
the environment, euthanasia from the supportive perspective, and
legalized drugs. These are issues that I simply do not wish to hear, as
they emulate so many of the mainstream issues.

Regards,

Dr. Artaud



Two points:

Many more people have SW radios than have satellite TV.

People around the world are able to hear American kook SW, and form
their opinions of Americans from hosts like Jackie.

To the rest of the world, Americans must seem crazy or evil or both. I
wonder how many non Americans listen to American kook SW to hear "the
real story" as to how Americans "really" feel. To these people,
Americans are the most evil people on the planet, who hate everybody
who is even slightly different from them, and who are out to violently
subjugate the world. Keep that in mind the next time you hear Arab
conspiracy ranting, or thinly veiled America hate from Europe.

§ Dr. Artaud § wrote:

running dogg wrote in :

I believe that God saw the advent of American Shortwave Radio (this is
intended to be humor) ergo the destruction of The Tower of Babel with the
ensuing language variants. We are at least protected from the confusion
of American shortwave radio in that many people are incapable of
understanding it. (I speak English and even I have trouble at times ;-)

With the Internet and American web sites, one can go to the many online
translation sites that do entire pages. Lunatic web sites also offer
individuals the ability to print material that is offered, cementing the
lunacy of these sites and American views. Unless one has a tape deck
ready, much of the Shortwave lunacy is not reproducible, except from the
memories of the listeners. Unfortunately, many of the Shortwave lunatics
also have web sites.

And the SW kooks frequently refer to their web sites. On top of that, a
casual Google user searching for "religious" websites may inadvertantly
stumble across a kook site and if he/she has a SW radio handy be
inspired to tune in.

I do enjoy listening to much of what is said, though I give much of it
the same seriousness as I do "Coast to Coast AM" with Art Bell. Even
Steve Quayle has had his interesting days. When I first started listening
to his show, it was shocking, yet one failed prediction after another has
allowed me the ability to use the show as background chatter without
taking it seriously. I am especially impressed by Steve's segue from
current events to prediction, as if the listening audience won't see the
correlation. After the tsunami, Steve predicted more such events and
earthquakes, and even occasionally has a guest on his show professing to
be an expert in seismology. Fortunately Steve's guest is more objective
than he, and often fails to provide predictions suitable for
exploitation.

I really don't bother listening to much of the kook broadcasts, as I
find many of them to be quite hateful towards practically anybody and
everybody, as you've found out. The prediction stuff is occasionally
interesting, although regular listening will reveal that they repeat the
same stuff, just change dates and locations. This can be quite boring.

Of the BBC, RFPI, and the Radio Netherlands, they always seem to stray
into the same old issues, the U.S. is bad, homosexuality, prostitution,
the environment, euthanasia from the supportive perspective, and
legalized drugs. These are issues that I simply do not wish to hear, as
they emulate so many of the mainstream issues.

RFPI is no longer on the air to my knowledge. When they DID exist, they
were a direct outgrowth of the 1960s US New Left (hippies) and strongly
reflected the preoccupations of baby boomer socialism. Radio Netherlands
and the BBC are just reflections of their peoples, who are further left
than most Americans. Radio Netherlands has become more of a commentary
service than a real news analysis service, and their commentary is
pretty far left for most Americans to stomach. The BBC is useful mostly
for its news department, which isn't the gold standard it used to be but
is still pretty good. The rest of their programming isn't worth
listening to for the most part. Radio Havana's news department
occasionally drags in blockbuster revelations before the rest of the
media either on SW or domestic US gets wind of it. They were the first
ones talking about the questionable past of that Negroponte guy, for
example. The rest of their news is of entertainment or shock value only.
Unlike the kooks, you never know what RHC is gonna say, which keeps it
interesting. A couple months back they were insisting that the US Army
was going to flatten Ramadi like it did Fallujah-an assault that never
materialized. As for the rest of RHC's stuff, save Arnie Coro and Cuban
jazz, it's a joke, and not worth it.


Regards,

Dr. Artaud



Two points:

Many more people have SW radios than have satellite TV.

People around the world are able to hear American kook SW, and form
their opinions of Americans from hosts like Jackie.

To the rest of the world, Americans must seem crazy or evil or both. I
wonder how many non Americans listen to American kook SW to hear "the
real story" as to how Americans "really" feel. To these people,
Americans are the most evil people on the planet, who hate everybody
who is even slightly different from them, and who are out to violently
subjugate the world. Keep that in mind the next time you hear Arab
conspiracy ranting, or thinly veiled America hate from Europe.


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D. Martin wrote:

If you're offended by somehing you hear, turn the dial. Darren
http://hometown.aol.com/darren1965co...e/profile.html


I can do that quite easily. But how many people in the Third World
eagerly tune in to this stuff every night for the inside scoop on what
they think is the "real America"?


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God Invented the Universe.There is Electricity flowing all throughout
the Universe.God Invented Fire and in the movie,Quest for Fire,God sent
those crazy guys on the Quest for Fire.
cuhulin

Anybody can predict Earthquakes.I predict another big Earthquake is
going to hit somewhere in the World in the next ten months.We will see
if I am right.
cuhulin

Homos,sexuality,euthanasia,drugs.All of that and much more was (and
still is) going on in Europe and Asia thousands of years before the
first Humans ever came to this Continent we call North
Ameica.Prostitution is the oldest profession in the World and even wayyy
back then whatever kinds of drugs they has was legal and there were
homos and sexuality too.Those crazy *******s over there were doing it
thousands,yey,millions of years ago.
cuhulin

The implication that 3rd worlders are too stupid to discern, bothers
me. The varitable babylon of voices is not exclusive to america.
Chattering nonsense is universal. Channel-changing ability is a fine
art. Darren

As far as entertainment value, along the lines of the original post, some of
these kooks can be fairly entertaining.

Alex Jones is kinda interesting - in small doses. He flits from one
subject to another in a crazed manner, always eventually landing on the
Vildebergers or NWO theme.

Pastor Pete Peters - now there's a boring mother****er. He is as dull as he
is dull-witted. And with the underlying current of bigotry and religious
intolerance, there's really no redeeming value.

Bro. Stair - what a clown! This is great kook radio. The guy is dumber
than a bag of hammers. Last night he was talking about how he would give
you a free shortwave radio, a "KK1102" I think he said, for a "donation" of
$80 or more. "It's got so many features upon it, I can't even talk about
it" he said!

Greg

Greg wrote:

Pastor Pete Peters - now there's a boring mother****er. He is as dull as he
is dull-witted. And with the underlying current of bigotry and religious
intolerance, there's really no redeeming value.


HEY! Stop insulting hammers! At least a hammer is a useful tool!

--
Former professional electron wrangler.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

Hammer? Let me go and find that link I saw the other day.
cuhulin