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Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by actuator »

digitalsankhara wrote: post #64
noneeeed wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the cuts to BBC funding that Cameron introduced was for the World Service. They removed main funding from the Foreign Office, it is now funded from the BBCs general budget. I hadn't realised that they had been topping it up with additional funding from the FO.

Either did I until writing my post! Perhaps they are having second thoughts.

or might be that cutting the funding keeps the taxpayers happy as you can announce it but you can always discretely top it up.

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by topynate »

mariojv wrote: post #10

What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict? Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be: 1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which giv…

Shortwave with plenty of spare batteries. Disregard solar power – you won't be going outside or even near the windows for some time.

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by freeflight »

codedokode wrote: post #45
freeflight wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How can you be sure they are not true? During these last 30 years there's been 3 different referenda about Crimea, all with roughly the same outcomes. > Also, those so called "referenda" did not conform to Ukrainian laws. US independence did also not conform to British laws, the existence of Kurdistan is not conform with Iraqi or Syrian national laws, Catalonian independence would not be conform with Spanish law, yet…

Russian government has a long history of meddling with elections, non-admission of candidates, falsifying results, for example [1] or [2]. Therefore they cannot be trusted, especially in this case. You cannot compare US war for independence with Crimea occupation because in US it was an internal movement to become idependent from a metropoly, but in Ukraine the events that occured were caused by Russian military inte…

> their president wasn't overthrown, because he has left the country himself

So it would only count as a regime change if he stayed to get killed by an angry mob?

> that doesn't give Russia a right to annex territories

But states and their parliaments very much have a right not to acknowledge a new central government that came to power trough violence.

The Crimean state parliament did not recognize the new Ukrainian government, thus held a referendum what to do about the situation [0]

Said state parliament was voted in power by the people of Crimea before anything in Kyiv even escalated.

You acting like that doesn't matter, so you can regurgitate "Russian annexation!" does not only deny the Crimean state parliament agency, it very casually denies the Crimean people, as represented by the state parliament, their own representation.

So unless you have evidence how Russia replaced the whole state parliament, how Russia actually meddled in the referendum, that long you are spreading disinformation when you keep calling the situation as annexation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by tyingq »

mariojv wrote: post #10

What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict? Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be: 1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which giv…

>2. Communicate with other regional survivors.

For the US, CB radio might be the best bet here, based on likelihood that some number of other locals might have one and be trying to use it. And "where to scavenge for one" is pretty straightforward.

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by hackerfromthefu »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #68

“DX”ing is a niche radio hobby, I’ve definitely fallen into it from time to time. The aim is to hear geographically distant stations - so it’s all about radio propagation throughout the day and that differs seasonally too. These days you can cheat, there are directories of SDR radios available for free online - in a couple of clicks you can explore the RF spectrum as heard from most populated locations in the world.…

Can you expand on the chinese sponsored english language content? How do you know and what kinds of topics?

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by severino »

aix1 wrote: post #71
avh02 wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the difference is that western media generally can and do publish at least some critical pieces. The same can't be said in Russia right now. It's a whole different level.

And, just to be clear, "can't be said of Russia right now" really means "publishing information that disagrees with the official line is punishable by up to 15 years in prison". https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/03/04/i-vse-ravno-15-l... Translation: https://novayagazeta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2022/03/04/i...

The same happens in the "free" and "democratic" EU too (which I belong to):

https://www.la.lv/par-dezinformaciju-un-krievijas-agresijas-...

Translation:

https://www-la-lv.translate.goog/par-dezinformaciju-un-kriev...

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by severino »

codedokode wrote: post #19
xster wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think referenda make much of a difference. 96% of Crimea ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum ) voted to join Russia and 96% of Luhansk ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Donbas_status_referendums ) voted to leave Ukraine after the 2014 overthrow. Nothing much came out of it except 14,000 being killed in Donbas as result https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Russo-Ukrain.…

These number are provided by Russian government. How can you be sure that they are true? Also, those so called "referenda" did not conform to Ukrainian laws.

> Also, those so called "referenda" did not conform to Ukrainian laws.

Yet Ukraine had no intention at all to organize a "real" referenda under their laws. Instead, they preferred to keep on bombing those rebel regions in Eastern Ukraine. Now, they ask Russia to stop doing the very same thing.

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by Lascaille »

topynate wrote: post #93
mariojv wrote: post #10

What is the best type of radio, or best type of radios, to have in the event of a protracted, possibly nuclear conflict? Ready.gov suggests a hand crank or NOAA weather radio. Specifically, I suppose some good goals would be: 1. Receive instructions from any functioning local or state government. This would require that the local government know which type of radio the populace is likely to be listening on, which giv…

Shortwave with plenty of spare batteries. Disregard solar power – you won't be going outside or even near the windows for some time.

>Disregard solar power

Wires exist

Re: BBC resurrects shortwave broadcasts as Russia blocks news of Ukraine invasion

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Post by topynate »

Lascaille wrote: post #99
topynate wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shortwave with plenty of spare batteries. Disregard solar power – you won't be going outside or even near the windows for some time.

>Disregard solar power Wires exist

So does overpressure.
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