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The Report Of The Week: A short-wave obsession

The Report Of The Week is a YouTube channel created by an eccentric and clever young man. In this video, he talks about his “obsession” with short-wave radio listening.

Not only is he obsessed with listening to short-wave radio, but he leases air-time for his own short-wave radio show broadcasting on WRMI, Radio Miami International and WBCQ The Planet.

Thursday 2000 UTC – 7780 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – Eastern North America

Thursday 2100 UTC – 7490 kHz – WBCQ 50 kW – Eastern North America

Thursday 2300 UTC – 9955 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – South America

Friday 0000 UTC – 7730 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – Western North America

Friday 0100 UTC – 9455 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – Central America

Friday 0100 UTC – 9395 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – North America

Friday 0100 UTC – 7780 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – Eastern North America

Friday 0100 UTC – 5950 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – Test transmission to Florida

Friday 0100 UTC – 5850 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – North America

Sunday 2100 UTC – 9395 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – North America

Sunday 2100 UTC – 7780 kHz – WRMI 100 kW – North America

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The errosion of due process of law

At the base of all law is: justice. At the base of our system of justice is (a) the presumption of innocence (no person is to be treated as though she/he is guilty until proven guilty by a proper evaluation of the facts and law by a competent authority), and (b) competent authorities that ensure that, when allegations are made, they are subjected to a due process before anyone concludes, says, or implies that the accused is guilty.

SOURCE: Freedom Party Of Ontario's 2018 election Platform

On January 25, 2018, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown stepped down from his position as Party Leader because of anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct by two women brought forth only in the news media.

The Liberal government of Ontario has introduced legislation that pressures employers and universities to cut ties with anyone about whom an allegation of harrassment or assault is made, without due process. Universities and employers - neither of whom have the proper training or regulation to ensure due process - are essentially required to conduct investigations that ought rightly to be conducted by police or other governmental investigatory bodies. Their findings are then judged in the “court of public opinion”. In practice, to avoid reputational harm, the university/employer is intimidated into expelling/dismissing a student/employee whether or not there is any compelling evidence to back up the allegation(s) made about him/her.

SOURCE: Freedom Party Of Ontario's 2018 election Platform

All three parties in the Ontario Legislature, the Liberals, the PCs, and the NDP, support this legislation, and by giving their support to it, support the rapid errosion of due process of law.

You’re gonna pay for the hand that you done
Now the rain’s gonna burn like the sun
The Devil’s risin’ on you
That crop won’t ever come

SOURCE: Extreme Music Production: Crop Won't Ever Come

Patrick Brown is now defending himself publicly against these accusations, but whatever the outcome, his political career is likely over, even if the accusations are found to not be backed up by the evidence.

For all the other moments #MeToo has wrought, the Patrick Brown story is seminal: A political leader is cut down like a sapling in the forest in a matter of hours, and none of his colleagues, in and outside of the Ontario Conservative party, and including the Ontario premier and the prime minister of Canada, have one word to say in the defence of fair play or the presumption of innocence.

Let it be perfectly clear.

The point is not what Brown allegedly did.

The point is that purely on the say-so of two women who claim he sexually assaulted them another prominent man has been ruined.

Whatever the merits of their accusations — and how is anyone to know? — the mere act of making them to a journalist was enough. This is all it takes now.

It means that every man in the world is vulnerable, not because he has necessarily misconducted himself, but because a woman may say he has.

SOURCE:  Christie Blatchford: What happened to Brown is fundamentally wrong. Every man in the world is now vulnerable 

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Freedom Party Of Ontario and the Pre-Budget 2018 Consultations

If Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s response had not been audio recorded, I doubt many would believe it happened.

On February 1, 2018, Freedom Party of Ontario leader Paul McKeever testified at the Oshawa hearing of Finance Minister Charles Sousa’s Pre-Budget 2018 Consultations. McKeever was the second of approximately 36 speakers. McKeever identified 4 ways not to balance the Ontario budget. Although the speakers were to give back-to-back submissions limited to 3 minutes each, and although the entire consultation was scheduled to last only 90 minutes, Finance Minister Charles Sousa felt the need to respond to McKeever’s submissions immediately after he made them. Sousa spoke for 7 minutes. This is the transcript of his response to Paul McKeever, delivered in front of all attendees. NOTE: Sousa apparently mis-heard the Master of Ceremonies when McKeever was introduced because, in the close of his response to McKeever, he referred to Freedom Party’s as the “Green party”, and said that we were doing “good work”.

This recording includes both McKeever’s oral submissions and the Finance Minister’s response.

Prepared Text of Freedom Party of Ontario’s Submissions to the Finance Minister Charles Sousa (2018 Budget Consultations)

Transcript of  Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa's Response to Paul McKeever’s Pre-Budget Submissions

Freedom Party Of Ontario

UPDATE:

Liberals break key promise, Ontario will run deficit

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