Fred Waterer

"Lay down your weapons or face certain death"

This is probably the first time VOA has broadcast such a message to its audience.

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Thanks to everyone for reading my Olympics stuff over the last three weeks.

But a particular thanks to those at CBC Sports and CBC Olympics for allowing me to return to my favorite event and for treating me much better than I deserved. Just a first-class group there.

The BBC World Service must be defended not defunded - Index on Censorship Index and other organisations call on the UK government to provide clarity over public broadcaster's funding at a critical time

"Following the US Government’s move to defund Voice of America and Radio Free Europe (RFE/RL) ... if the World Service were to similarly lose its funding, the public interest information space upon which democracy depends would surely be in ... jeopardy."

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/the-...

aged poorly

From the inimatable LindellTV ...

"Under the @JoeBiden administration, Lake says VOA reporters were not allowed to cover Iranian opposition leaders"

But see this 2024 interview with Reza Pahlavi "in collaboration with VOA's Persian Service"

www.voanews.com/a/iran-exile...

WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump."

TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."

Deer My Friends

Yesturday I went to Home Depoh to get some bbq brickettes so me and my family could enjoy a nice Family Day bbq dureen my 14 weak Christmas brake and I was outrajed to find the store closed and I am going to look into why werkers get Family Day off when I need brickettes.

Premair

A fun thing to do is look at Amazon’s price history tool.

Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%

But last year we all got a $200 election bribe...er...dividend check.

Is the Deep State in the room with you, Kari?

Without missing a beat? Only several of VOA's 48 language services are barely operational. Kari Lake has left nearly all staff on paid admin leave for the past 11 months despite a federal judge ordering her to bring them back. See: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/202...

Where is her costume? With her blankie?

WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏

From @swradiogram.bsky.social 436 on WINB at 0330 UT on 9265 khz 14 Feb-- all images but this week's painting made it

Behold, REAL caricature by a living, human being, @tealcartoons.bsky.social!! You know, in case you forgot after being bombarded with AI "caricature." Please give him a follow - it's been a disheartening few weeks as an artist. 🫠💔

Kari and her creepy filters.

"'we're shrinking down some of the excess we don't need'"

I.e., 44 of 49 VOA language services, and most of VOA's news coverage in any language.

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Music Man for Africa Sunday Feature BBC Radio 3 http://www.shortwaveology.net Public Radio Producer Shortwave Maven

Need something warm to listen to on this bitter cold day? Check out Music Man for Africa, tracing the life of Leo Sarkisian--master field recordist, self-taught ethnomusicologist, ambassador and producer of the very popular Music Time in Africa for Voice of America--
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BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | Kentucky’s Real People Radio WMMT radio in Kentucky reaches some of the least heard communities in America

Happy World Radio Day! @mariamargaronis.bsky.social and I made you a present!

www.bbc.com/audio/play/p...

#wmmt #kentucky #appalachia #radio #communityradio

When VOA French to Africa Fell Silent and Lives Felt the VoidVoice of America journalist Roger Muntu speaks with veteran broadcaster Claude Porsella, former ... When VOA French to Africa Fell Silent and Lives Felt the Void

Voice of America journalist Roger Muntu speaks with Claude Porsella, former director of VOA’s French to Africa Service, about VOA’s historic mission across Africa and the impact of its sudden shutdown on audiences who rely on independent, life-saving information. #SaveVOA #PressFreedom

Congrats? lol

YESSSS!!!!

Tune in the Friday night (UTC Saturday) Shortwave Radiogram ...

0330-0400 UTC on 9265 kHz from WINB Pennsylvania.

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During the Saturday 2300-2330 UTC broadcast, 9455 kHz from WRMI Florida, here are three of the MFSK64 images that were decoded via an SDR in South Australia (16000 km).

A Canadian treasure. Those of us in Toronto and Southern Ontario got to see her years before she became "famous". Brilliantly funny in whatever she did.

So much for the VOA Firewall, then.

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YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

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The next broadcast of Shortwave Radiogram is later this evening, Monday 0800-0830 UTC, on 5850 kHz from WRMI in Okeechobee, FL.

Digital Modes celebrates Canadian provinces.

He was very funny in Trailer Park Boys.

Journalist Town Hall on Authoritarianism & Defending the Free Press | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Journalists rarely make themselves the story. Our job is to report what’s happening in our communities, interview sources, verify facts and hold power to account so the public can make informed decisions. But on Tuesday night, journalists from across the United States did something unusual: they told their own stories.

Reporters, editors and media workers speak directly about "the rise of authoritarianism in the United States and the growing attacks on press freedom." Watch the video here.