Trevor Dailey's Weblog

The irony of the location of the Job Fair did not escape my attention. It was held in East London. Once the industrial engine that helped drive the London economy for many decades it is now rusting out. Outside employers looking for workers held a Job Fair just a block away from the closed McCormick and Kellogg factories that have been empty for years. Just these two factories once employed hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people at a time, and both operated successfully for many decades. The last of many and various types of manufactures that once clustered in the area since the early 1900s. (Dominon Office & Store Fitting, Middlesex Mills, McCormick's, Kellogg’s, EMCO, Ruggles, Kelvinator, Supersilk, Hunts Mill, Club House Foods, Coca Cola).

Some people, including so-called economists, argue the economy has changed, and this is why manufacturing has declined in the province of Ontario. They use phrases like, “shifting economy”. Things have shifted, but not much in manufacturing. People still need the basics of food and clothing, and the luxuries of computer devices to be produced. Mass production enables more people to obtain more of the things they want, and in so doing, provides jobs for thousands of workers. It has been the political situation that has gone away from capitalism and into socialism that has mostly caused the profound decline in manufacturing jobs in the province of Ontario and the City of London.

Capitalism includes:

Private Property

Profit Motive

Freedom of Contract

Competition

Free Enterprise

No one is raising private money to restore and renovate the vacant factories so that they may be attractive to new manufacturers who will bring jobs. They are not finding ways to attract new business to East London. The City Of London is not lowering property taxes, eliminating over regulation, and offering these incentives for new owners to restore and renovate the vacant (many historic) buildings in London. The City is concerned with increasing taxes, increasing regulation, and spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars, probably one billion dollars, on a Communist social engineering Bus Rapid Transit scheme.

The financial records show that during the First World War London’s prosperity remained unbroken.

In 1922, with a population of 60,000 people, London ranked 6th in manufacturing output in all of Canada.

One London factory in 1922 produced more than all of London’s industry in 1871.

The City of London established the Town Planning Commission in 1922.

“Report On Town Planning Survey Of The City Of London” by Town Planning Consultant, Thomas Adams was completed April - May 1922. Main considerations for attracting business of 158 manufactures and 83 wholesale distributors surveyed were:

Labour facilities

More disposition of city to appreciate industry

Room for expansion

Railway facilities

Power supply

After her death in 1934, the City of London challenged Elsie Perrin Williams' Last Will And Testament in Provincial Court and succeeded in robbing her $1, 000,000 trust fund to spend on City projects.

The London Street Railway (L.S.R.) began on January 23, 1875, under an agreement with the City of London, and while the L.S.R. was privately owned, the L.S.R. fell under the complete oppressive control of the City.

In 1940, the City of London abolished street cars, and an all bus system was established. In 1941, the City of London removed street car tracks along Richmond Street, Dundas Street, and Oxford Street.

In the 1960s and the 1970s, city planning increased considerably.

At least three manufactures did not come to London in 1962 apparently because of City Hall red tape.

In 1974, City Council approved the plan for a bus mall on Dundas Street. Dundas Street from Adelaide Street to Elizabeth Street was closed to car traffic that was diverted to King Street and Queens Avenue. This road closure destroyed the economy of this area within a couple of years. The disastrous busway that the City spent hundreds of thousands of dollars constructing was removed in a few years, but the area's economy never fully recovered. Phase I of the London Urban Transportation Study published in 1974 had recommended that the Dundas Street busway plan be extended from downtown to Quebec Street.

Since its last failed attempts at this scheme in 1980 and 2008, the City in 2018 has succeeded in forcing thorough its Dundas Street "Flex Street" that is only a few blocks from the almost identical busway mall fiasco location of 1974.

The lack of adequate sewer facilities was given as an obstruction to industry coming to London in 1978.

In 1999, 45% of London's sewers were 30 to 50 years old, 18% were 50 to 80 years old, and 8% were over 80 years old.

Just Right 540 - January 25, 2017

Up the poll on the state of the city

I think anyone over the age of 18 years may do whatever drugs he or she wants with the conditions that: one does not violate the rights of others, one does not do or bring drugs around me, and government does not force me to help someone who willing messed up his or her life. I am fed up with the taxpayer paid for free used needles being discarded all over the place in London, even when there are used needle drop boxes in public parks, on city streets, and in public washrooms. Have you ever walked into a public washroom to find someone shooting up?

Campbell Memorial Park at 380 Dundas Street, a few blocks from where I live, has long been a place where addicts go to shoot up, and frequently overdose. The park property once had a house that was home to William Saunders, a hard working self-taught scientist, and his family who contributed greatly to medicine and agriculture. There was once a plaque at the site commemorating Saunders and his achievements. That plaque has been removed. Instead there is a some kind of monument in the park to city vagrants who have died. There should be a statue of William Saunders there. Plaque Text:

Born in England, Saunders came to Canada in 1848 and became a manufacturing chemist. A recognized expert in scientific agriculture, he was appointed Director of the new Experimental Farms Branch of the federal Department of Agriculture in 1886. There he originated many promising varieties of fruit and grain and commenced the research which led to the development of Marquis wheat by his son, Charles. Charter member of the Royal Society of Canada and President (1906-07), he was a distinguished member of many learned societies and author of many seminal articles, papers and reports. He died at London.

I am tired of the attitude that drug addicts are victims, and that we all need to provide for these drug addicted underprivileged. I am sick of the free needles, and I object to buying an addict’s drugs. Could it be the reason London has such a drug problem because it gives away so many free needles that addicts from outside of London are coming here?

I have been unemployed more times than I can remember for long periods of time. The last was almost three years. I am unemployed now. I live in a cramped, cluttered, one room, run down hole of a downtown apartment that costs me far more in rent than it is worth. I receive no government relief of any kind. I live frugally off of my savings from working and my line of credit. I have never done drugs (including weed). I rarely drink. I do not get drunk. I do not blame anyone else for my troubles or my mistakes. I earn the help I get. An addict’s drug problem is not my problem. It is their choice. It is their responsibility.

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I am not one who is interested in streaming the audio of a short-wave broadcaster over the Internet. That is not what I have a short-wave radio receiver for. Once it is streamed online, it is not radio anymore. However, in this case, I will make an exception:

On this page you can listen to and control a short-wave receiver located at the amateur radio club ETGD at the University of Twente [the Netherlands]. In contrast to other web-controlled receivers, this receiver can be tuned by multiple users simultaneously, thanks to the use of Software-Defined Radio.

This site, which in 2008 was the very first WebSDR site ever, was finally reactivated in July 2012 after an interruption of more than 1.5 years

If you live in another part of the world, and you would like to tune into the radio signals in the European area, this is the next best thing to being there with your own radio receiver. One can direct entry a frequency to listen to, or one can move the “needle” around listening to transmissions. Frequency range covers the entire short-wave spectrum (1MHz to 30MHz).

I like to direct entry the three frequencies for the National Research Council (NRC) short wave station broadcasts (CHU) that amazingly travel from Canada to the Netherlands. There are also a lot of interesting and entertaining short-wave radio broadcasts one can tune into using the site; including the mysterious "buzzer station" from Russia, 4625 kHz (night), the Russian "pip", 5488 kHz (day),  3758 kHz (night), and the Russian "Squeaky Wheel", 3828 kHz (night).

A WebSDR is a Software-Defined Radio receiver connected to the internet, allowing many listeners to listen and tune it simultaneously. SDR technology makes it possible that all listeners tune independently, and thus listen to different signals; this is in contrast to the many classical receivers that are already available via the internet.

A current and automatically updated list of other WebSDR sites.

Worldwide short-wave KiwiSDR radio receiver map. Similar to WebSDR.

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Clicking the results of an Internet search, I went to a page, and after a few seconds, I was blocked from viewing the page. A message told me, basically, my browser’s ad blocker was costing them ad revenue so I needed to disable my ad blocker to continue. I had never seen such a thing before, and so I quickly left the page.  

As one may already know, browsers like Firefox and Opera have built-in ad blockers. The point of having an ad blocker is to block ads because ads can be really annoying. My choice of browser when watching YouTube is Opera with its free and unlimited Virtual Private Network (VPN) option that when activated keeps those irritating ads from playing.   

Websites have already found a way around pop-up blockers with those maddening email sign-up pop-ups, so I suppose it was just a matter of time before websites would find a way to try to force viewers to disable their ad blockers that are decreasing their revenue from advertisers.

From what I have read, this blocking of ad blockers has been around for a couple of years now, but this is the first I have seen of it. According to one source, blocking ad blockers may be backfiring.

UPDATE: I am encountering this more and more on news media websites (see image below).

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My Eton Solarlink FR600 radio receiver is old, discontinued, obsolete, but it still works. I have a random length long electrical copper wire aerial attached to the now broken aerial rod, and I have received signals from thousands of miles away. Some of those signals have been interesting, like time signals, and the VOA radiogram, and some have been strange, like the so-called Cuban Numbers Station. However, there is a signal I have not yet heard, one that is both interesting and strange to me: MDZhB, or simply, “The Buzzer”, broadcast 24 hours per day, seven days per week on 4625 kHz. The ghostly radio station no one claims to run.

Many hours in total I have spent listening for this signal through the static and noise, but I have not yet been able to confirm I have received the signal. I have fallen asleep to the drone of static noise on my receiver monitoring the frequency. I tune into this frequency to listen to something whose true purpose is a mystery. I just know that it is there, and as long as it is there, I will continue to listen for it.

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WBCQ is a international shortwave broadcast station located in Monticello, Maine, USA. We broadcast on 7.490 MHz, 9.330 MHz, 5.130 MHz, and 3.265 MHz. We’ve been bringing access to the airwaves for people like you since 1998.

Free speech radio WBCQ international shortwave suffered a fire in its main transmitter building on December 10th. The building was saved but our main 50 kilowatt transmitter completely burned up inside and is a total loss.

We are dedicated to the cause of free speech radio and have been for 19 years. There was no insurance and we have limited funds. We need to replace this transmitter to insure there is at least one free radio station broadcasting programs of individuals wishing to express their free speech rights to the world.

At least $20000 is required to buy a used transmitter and have it shipped to the radio station in Maine. We are on a reduced power backup transmitter and need to return to full 50KW power as soon as possible.

Thank You.

WBCQ Transmitter Fire (update)

We lost one of our transmitters in a fire on Dec. 10th. However, it is one of five 50KW transmitters on site. We have moved 7490 to transmitter #3 which is capable of super modulation and a great signal. All other transmitters are working well at WBCQ.

We will be replacing the fire damaged transmitter with a new unit. As WBCQ is run more or less as a public service to free speech radio, your financial support is welcome. We have a go fund me site if you wish to help.

Please continue to support free speech radio.

Thanks,
Allan Weiner

WBCQ The Planet
274 Britton Road
Monticello, Maine 04760
USA

Allan Weiner of WBCQ talks about the fire during his short-wave radio show.

Allan Weiner Worldwide - 2017/12/15

WBCQ receives no government money. WBCQ relies only on donations and money from leased air time to pay for its operation. Donations to the radio station may be made by Credit Card, Paypal, and Bitcoin via the “Donate” link on the WBCQ main page. A cheque (check) or money order, payable in US funds, may be mailed to the address above. Inquires regarding getting a radio show on the air can be made through the WBCQ contact page.

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POT ROAST OF BEEF

4 pounds chuck, round or rump of beef
1/4 cup flour
3 tablespoons fat
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup water

Dredge meat with flour and brown on all sides in hot fat. Season with salt and pepper. Add water, cover and cook slowly until tender, 3 to 4 hours. As the liquid cooks away add more, as needed. Serve with brown gravy and vegetables. Makes 8 portions.

Variations—1. Add uncooked pared potatoes, carrots, green beans, celery and onions just long enough before serving to cook them. They may be whole, quartered or sliced.

2. Use tomatoes or tomato juice in place of water.
3. After browning, pour 1/4 cup horse-radish over meat.
4. Before cooking, cut slits in the meat and insert stuffed
olives, pushing them into the meat.

ROAST BEEF WITH YORKSHIRE PUDDING

In preparing beef for roasting, trim it carefully then skewer and tie it into shape. Rub the lean parts with drippings and rub the whole with salt, pepper and flour.

Place the standing or rolled rib roast fat side up in an open roasting pan. Then the roast will baste itself. Insert meat thermometer so that bulb reaches the center of the largest muscle, taking care that it does not rest on the fat or bone. Roast in a slow oven (300-350° F.) or, if a brown crust is wanted, start in hot oven (500° F.) for 20 minutes, then reduce to 300° F. until done as desired. The thermometer will read 140° F. for rare, 160° F. for medium, 170° F. for well done. The time per pound needed is 18-22 minutes for rare; 22-25 for medium and 27-30 for well done. For making gravy, see page 314.

MADE GRAVY

2 small onions
1 carrot
Small piece of lean beef, size of egg or 1 beef cube or 1 teaspoon beef extract
Butter or other fat
Flour
Pepper
Salt
Catchup

Cut up onions and carrot, place them with the lean beef or extract in a stew-pan with the fat and brown all together. Add enough water to cover the mixture and stir slowly until the vegetables are cooked. Strain, thicken with flour, using two tablespoons to each cup of liquid, and add pepper, salt and catchup. Color brown with caramel or vegetable flavoring if necessary.

Yorkshire Pudding

1 cup flour
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 eggs

Put flour, salt, milk and eggs together in a bowl. Beat well with a rotary egg-beater. Pour drippings to the depth of one inch in to a shallow pan. Have the drippings hot and pour in the mixture quickly. Bake for one-half hour in a hot oven (400°-425°F.). The pudding may then be placed under the trivet that holds the roast beef and left for about fifteen minutes to catch the gravy that flows from the roast. If a trivet is not used, cut the pudding into squares and lay them around the roast in the pan. Serve the pudding with the beef.

BEEF STEW WITH DUMPLINGS

1/4 pounds shank, neck, plate, flank, rump or brisket
1/4 cup flour
1 1/2  teaspoons salt
1/4  teaspoon pepper
1 small onion
1/3 cup cubed carrots
1/3 cup cubed turnips
4 cups potatoes, cut in quarters

Wipe meat, remove from bone, cut in cubes of about one and one-half inch. Mix flour with salt and pepper and dredge the cubes of meat with it. Cut some of the fat from the meat and heat in a frying-pan. When part of the fat has tried out, add the cubes of meat and brown the surface, stirring constantly to prevent burning. Put this meat, with the melted fat in which it was browned, into the stew-kettle. Add enough boiling water to cover the meat or a pint of tomatoes, stewed and strained, and simmer until the meat is tender (about three hours)

The carrots and turnips are to be added during the last hour of cooking, and the potatoes twenty minutes before serving time. Fifteen minutes before serving time, add the dumplings to the stew.

Dumplings—No. 1.

2 cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon salt
4 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 egg, well beaten
3 tablespoons melted butter or other shortening
Milk (about 2/3 cup)

Sift dry ingredients together. Add egg, melted shortening and enough milk to make a moist, stiff batter. Drop by teaspoons into boiling liquid. Cover very closely and cook for 18 minutes. Makes 2 dozen dumplings.

These dumplings may be steamed in another kettle, as in following recipe.

No. 2.

2 cups flour
4 teaspoons baking-powder
1 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup milk
1/2 tablespoon fat

Sift together the dry ingredients and rub in the fat. Add enough milk to moisten the flour, but do not make the mixture too wet. Roll out the dough on a board, making it about one inch thick, and cut with a biscuit cutter. Put the pieces on a plate in a steamer and steam twenty to thirty minutes. It is better not to steam the dumplings over the stew, as the rapid boiling required reduces the gravy too much. These dumplings may be cooked on top of the stew, as in the recipe above, but they will be lighter if steamed.

BEEF GOULASH

3 pounds beef chuck
Vinegar
Summer savory
1/3 cup fat
1 teaspoon salt
1/2  teaspoon paprika
8 onions

Cook the onions slowly in the fat. Cut the beef into cubes or slices and sprinkle with vinegar and a little savory. Add the salt and paprika. Add the cooked onions, cover tightly, and simmer for about two hours. The liquid may be increased just before serving by the addition of a little beef stock, or cream, either sweet or sour.

BEEF LOAF

1 1/2 pounds chopped beef
2 eggs
1/4 cups bread-crumbs
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 teaspoons salt
Additional seasonings to suit, such as chopped celery or onion, poultry seasoning, a dash of thyme, savory, sage, etc.

Chop the meat. Mix it thoroughly with one unbeaten egg, bread-crumbs, chopped parsley, pepper and salt. Turn into a bread pan until almost filled. Press a hollow with spoon and drop an egg into the opening. Season, cover egg and continue to fill pan. Bake 40 minutes in hot oven (400° F.), basting every 8-10 minutes with stock or butter in hot water. Garnish with parsley or watercress and serve hot with mushroom sauce or onion sauce. It is simple to serve cold with horse-radish sauce.

BROWN SAUCE

No. 2—In making brown sauce for a roast, the simplest way is to use the fat and juice of the roast. Add two tablespoons of flour to two tablespoons of the hot drippings, stir and cook well. Then add one cup of boiling water, stir well to avoid lumps, and season to taste with salt and pepper. If liked, add a tablespoon or two of catchup or a flavoring of Worcestershire or other sauce.

MUSHROOM SAUCE

4 tablespoons fat
4 tablespoons flour
2 cups stock
1 cup mushrooms, fresh or canned
Salt and pepper

Make a brown sauce of the fat, flour and stock. Add one cup mushrooms and cook until hot. If mushrooms are over-cooked they will become tough. Three or four minutes is sufficient for those that have been canned and five or six minutes for fresh ones.

This sauce is used with any kind of roasted, broiled or braised meat, particularly with beef.

ONION SAUCE

1/2 cup minced onion
3 tablespoons fat
3 tablespoons flour
1 1/2  cups beef stock
1 tablespoon minced parsley

Cook the onion with the fat until slightly browned. Stir in the flour, then add the stock and parsley, stirring constantly. Serve with beef.

HAMBURG STEAK

2 pounds chopped beef
1/4 pound suet
Butter
Onion-juice Flour
Salt and pepper

Have the butcher chop the beef and suet together twice. Press it into a flat steak about three-fourths of an inch thick, sprinkle with salt, pepper, a little onion-juice and flour. Broil on a fine wire broiler or sauté in a little fat. Spread with butter and serve on a hot dish. This steak is sometimes shaped into small, thin, flatcakes. When it is sautéd, a gravy may be made by thickening the juices in the pan, to which a little water has been added. Two tablespoons of melted butter and one tablespoon minced onion mixed with the meat and seasonings improves Hamburg steak.

BAKED HAMBURG STEAK

1/4 pounds chopped beef
2 cups bread soaked in milk
1 small onion, minced
1 tablespoon butter or other fat
2 eggs
4 hard-cooked eggs
1 cup tomatoes
1/2 cup sliced onion
Salt, pepper, ginger

Have the meat put through the grinder twice. Add the bread, the onion, seasonings to taste and the two uncooked eggs, well-beaten. Arrange the hard-cooked eggs end to end across the middle of the meat and roll the meat mixture around them. Place the roll in a baking-pan, pour over it a sauce composed of the tomatoes, sliced onions, butter or other fat and water, and bake in moderate oven (350°-375° F.) for about two hours, basting frequently with sauce. In serving, slice the roll crosswise. The hard-cooked eggs may be omitted.

BEEF BALLS

1 1/2 pounds beef from the shank
1/3  cup bread-crumbs
3 tablespoons soft fat
1 cup stock
1 egg
Flour
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon lemon-juice
Nutmeg

Put the meat twice through a food-chopper, add bread-crumbs, salt, pepper, lemon-juice, a little nutmeg and the beaten egg. Shape into balls lightly and let them stand for half an hour or more to become firm, then roll them in flour and brown them in the frying-pan with the fat. Take out the meat balls, add to the fat a tablespoon of flour and a cup of stock. Season well, put the meat balls into this mixture, cover the frying-pan closely and simmer for an hour and a half.

SOURCE: The American Woman's Cook Book, Culinary Arts Institute by Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., Chicago Illinois, 1939

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ROAST LOIN OF PORK

Wipe a five-pound loin of pork (little pig if possible); sprinkle with salt, pepper, powdered sage and dredge with flour. Place in dripping pan, surround with some of the fat cut in small cubes. Set to cook in a moderate oven* for four hours, basting every ten minutes for the first half hour and afterwards every fifteen minutes, with dripping in pan. Remove to serving platter, surround with Apple Rings and make a gravy same as for other roast meats.

PORK TENDERLOIN LYONNAISE

Wipe and split two large pork tenderloins in halves lengthwise; sprinkle with salt, pepper and dredge with flour. Melt two tablespoons each of Cottolene** and butter in an iron frying pan, and brown tenderloin richly on both sides in the hot fat. Remove to well-greased dripping pan and add to fat three onions thinly sliced; cook until delicately browned, stirring often. Sprinkle over onions two tablespoons flour, stir well. Put two tablespoons vinegar into one-half cup hot water, add slowly to onions, mix thoroughly. Lay tenderloins over onions, cover closely and cook in the oven until meat is tender. Dispose tenderloin on hot serving platter and pour over contents of frying pan. Vinegar may be omitted and more water added.

SOURCE: Unknown

*350° F. to 400° F.

**Cottolene is a discontinued brand of vegetable shortening that was produced for decades by The N.K. Fairbank Company.

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Has someone ever given you the advice that you should start your own You Tube channel and make some extra money?

There are people on You Tube who reportedly make incredible amounts of money just from people watching their videos. Millions of views from idle and easily amused people in many cases. However, money is money, and there is nothing wrong with someone honestly making money from posting even stupid videos if that is what a lot of people want to spend their time watching.

I don’t know exactly how money is made on You Tube, but I have an idea. I also know that the lure of easy money can attract swindlers. Here is a video I came across that claims to show how a You Tuber uses a way to scam You Tube and eliminate his You Tube competition.

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Freedom Party Of Ontario

Just Right Media: Minimum Wage

If you listen to short-wave radio, you have heard the extremely zealous evangelical Brother (Ralph Gordon) Stair of The Overcomer Ministry. Brother Stair claims himself to be a prophet of God, the end of the world is nigh, Jesus is returning, "that this is the last generation", etc.. He is all over short-wave radio at every hour of the day and night with his lengthy diatribes. It looks like the so-called “prophet” could be off short-wave radio as a result of the latest sexual assault charges against the 84-year-old Stair.

Although it has been stated on the air, through a strange sounding computer generated male voice:

Attention Overcomer Listeners: Due to legal difficulties, as of January 1st, 2018, the Overcomer Ministry will not be broadcasting on AM/FM radio and Shortwave. The Overcomer Broadcast will continue on satellite, telephone, and this website stream.

the broadcasts are still currently on short-wave radio. I am hearing them on short-wave radio, some are recordings of his earlier broadcasts from years ago, concluded by the sound of Stair's young voice. The broadcast repeats, playing for hours, and the computer generated male voice breaks in unexpectedly at random.

The SWLing Post wrote:

While I’ll certainly not miss Overcomer programming on shortwave, the numerous private broadcasters who had Overcomer as a primary client will feel the loss of revenue in no insignificant way. Indeed, I believe this could even lead to the closure of some private broadcasters this year.

The Overcomer Ministry may have provided revenue for private broadcasters, but this change might finally allow others to get on the air who will provide revenue. I doubt any short-wave station is going to go out of business because of The Overcomer Ministry leaving short-wave radio.

On his short-wave radio show, Allan Weiner of WBCQ gives his opinion regarding the arrest of Brother Stair.

Allan Weiner Worldwide - 2017/12/26

Stair is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law in spite of any one's opinion.

UPDATE: previously recorded Brother Stair programmes continue to be aired by WBCQ and WWCR on short-wave radio.

UPDATE: Stair has been released on bail, and has returned to short-wave radio.

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Brother Stair

Several radio stations pull S.C. preacher's program in light of sex assault charges

Women at South Carolina religious compound say preacher sexually assaulted them in the name of God