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Here is another reason why I think the U.S.A. is still the greatest country in the world.

Free radio express

For the occasional radio broadcaster we offer this great deal to get you on the air.

Send us $50 and a one hour audio file of your program.

We’ll play your program on our 7490 transmitter at the next best time available on our schedule.

We’ll run your show on our 5130 transmitter, at no extra cost, at the best next time available.

We’ll send you an email message when your program will air.

This is a great deal for those programmers who wish to get on the air from time to time.

I recently took advantage of this deal from WBCQ The Planet, and I was able to put something on international short-wave radio. My programme was nothing special, it was only music, but it was aired on a real radio station. It is something I never could have done in Canada. One reason is because there is not a single radio station (AM, FM, or SW) in Canada that I know of that leases air time to the public. The main reason is the Canadian Radio-televison and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).  

About Us

The CRTC is an administrative tribunal that regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest.

Unlike all radio stations in Canada, WBCQ is not restrained by the repressive CRTC that requires radio and television stations in Canada to be CRTC approved and licenced before a station may be permitted to broadcast.

Canadian content requirements for music on Canadian radio

Radio plays an important role in introducing listeners to new music and artists. CRTC policies and regulations ensure that Canadian works are played on Canadian radio stations.

The CRTC licenses seven general types of radio stations:

Commercial station
Campus station
Community station
Ethnic station
Native station
CBC / Radio Canada
Other not-for-profit stations

Each licensed station is required to devote a percentage of its weekly music broadcasting to Canadian content. The required amount of Canadian content depends both on the type of radio station and the type of music it broadcasts: Popular Music (Category 2) or Special Interest Music (Category 3).

Unlike radio stations in Canada, WBCQ will broadcast almost anything its programmers want to broadcast.

Free Speech On The Airwaves

WBCQ strongly supports the United States of America’s constitutional right to free speech. Programs aired by WBCQ’s clients are not censored in any way.

WBCQ believes that it’s programmers have the right to express themselves on the airwaves in any way they seem fit. This is why you will find a diverse mix of music, talk, commentary, spiritual, religious, and commercial programming on WBCQ. WBCQ only restricts programming content if the programmer directly advocates harming other human beings based on their race, creed, or national origin.

In Canada, the CRTC tells broadcasters what to broadcast to Canadians, and tries to completely control what broadcasting Canadians receive.

Content Made by Canadians

One of our goals is to ensure that Canadian broadcasting content meets the needs and interests of Canadians by delivering compelling, high-quality Canadian-made creative content from diverse sources on a variety of platforms.

Among other things, we engage in public processes that generate content policies, encourage linguistic duality, support public affairs programming, and support broadcasting for Canada’s diverse communities. We also support the maintenance and development of Canadian talent by ensuring that Canadian artists can create content for both Canadian and global audiences, that they can gain financial support, and that they can promote their creations.

Other ongoing activities related to content made by Canadians include:

Analyzing various broadcasting licence applications from the perspective of content made by Canadians

Issuing Canadian Program Certification to independent Canadian program producers for TV productions that use mainly Canadian crews and talents

Monitoring the programming and financial performance of broadcasters to ensure they comply with regulations and licence conditions

Getting my programme on WBCQ was easy and reasonably affordable for me. I created what I wanted. Nothing in my programme, absolutely nothing, complied with CRTC regulations. WBCQ aired my programme on international short-wave radio. The time I bought was mine to do with however I wanted. No censorship. My getting on the radio with WBCQ, and my listening to short-wave radio, is my way of telling the Socialist, Communist, Fascist, Racist CRTC to go to Hell.

I support short-wave radio. I support WBCQ. I support freedom. I support abolishing the CRTC.

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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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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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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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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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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

If you are like me, you may be concerned about the lack of online privacy. What one searches for online, where ones goes online, what one clicks on online, all these things, and more, are usually tracked.

Selecting "Do Not Track", blocking "pop-ups", and not accepting “cookies” in your browser options does little to protect your privacy. However, there are a few easy ways you can make it harder to be tracked online. It is about protecting one’s privacy. Privacy is worth protecting, especially online.

StartPage

StartPage gives you the best of two worlds: Google search results, with complete privacy protection.

Privacy Badger

Privacy Badger is a browser add-on that stops advertisers and other third-party trackers from secretly tracking where you go and what pages you look at on the web.  If an advertiser seems to be tracking you across multiple websites without your permission, Privacy Badger automatically blocks that advertiser from loading any more content in your browser.  To the advertiser, it's like you suddenly disappeared.

HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox, Chrome, and Opera extension that encrypts your communications with many major websites, making your browsing more secure.

Opera

Fast, secure, easy-to-use browser…now with a built-in ad blocker, battery saver and free VPN.

Free, unlimited, no subscription required

Enhanced online privacy should be available to everyone. Our free VPN is built right into the Opera browser. You don’t have to download VPN extensions or sign up and pay for VPN services.

Works out of the box

To activate the free VPN in Opera, go to the browser settings and check the Enable VPN box in the Privacy and security section. You’ll see a button in the browser address field where you can adjust VPN preferences, turn the feature off and on, as well as see stats on data used.

Alternatively, you can choose to use the VPN feature in private windows only. Just open a private window, hit the VPN button in the address field and just click ‘Enable’.

Reduces online tracking

With the free VPN turned on, Opera will replace your IP address with a virtual IP address, so it’s harder for sites to track your location and identify your computer. It will also block many tracking cookies.

Shields your browsing in public networks

Airports, cafés, event venues - we all sometimes surf on public Wi-Fi. Using the browser VPN feature, you can shield your activity from being sniffed by other users on these networks.

Firefox

Seriously Private Browsing

The most powerful private browsing mode with added tracking protection.

Private Browsing

Firefox blocks online trackers while you browse and won’t remember your history after you’re done.

Tracking Protection

Some ads have hidden trackers that follow you online. Rude. We know. That’s why our powerful tool stops them cold.

Private Browsing now includes Tracking Protection, which actively blocks domains and sites that are known to track users.

Be sure to select the options in your browser regarding collection of data and use that increase your privacy.

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