[grc] Wow

Wed Oct 9 12:08:20 PDT 2019

Thanks for the link.  That post is now Wikidata item Q70229711[1] and is 
cited in the Wikipedia article on WBAI as the source for saying, "They 
began broadcasting from 4 Times Square on May 31, 2018."[2]


       Spencer Graves


[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70229711


[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBAI#Turmoil_and_change


On 2019-10-09 14:15, Doug McVay via grc wrote:
> It was written up on Pacifica's blog, though that mostly just reprints
> Tom's email. Also FYI, American University is in DC, not Philly. According
> to the email they borrowed WPFW's backup transmitter.
> https://pacificanetwork.org/wbai-on-the-air-from-times-square/
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:45 AM Spencer Graves via grc <
> grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
>
>>         Does anyone have substantive documentation that WBAI has been
>> broadcasting from 4 Times Square since 2018-05-31?
>>
>>
>>         I ask, because the Wikipedia article on WBAI says they have
>> "tentative plans for a new transmitter at 4 Times Square."  I have an
>> email from Ursula Ruedenberg dated 2018-05-31 describing what they did
>> to avoid going off the air:  Fed Ex lost their new transmitter, and Tom
>> Livingston drove to American University in Philadelphia and recruited a
>> team "to carry the two heavy pieces [of a loaned transmitter] up the
>> stairs through a campus building to" his car, because "a crew had dug a
>> trench across the driveway to the transmitter site."  I might try
>> quoting this email in a note for that Wikipedia article, but Wikipedia
>> does not normally accept emails like this as documentation.  However, it
>> would be better if I had something more public and superficially
>> credible than an email to a list serve.
>>
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Spencer Graves
>>
>>
>> On 2019-10-09 06:03, Carolyn Birden via grc wrote:
>>> Bad news on two fronts!
>>> Thanks for the correction.
>>> Carolyn
>>>
>>>> On Oct 9, 2019Wednesday, at 4:09 AM, Tracy Rosenberg <
>> tracy at media-alliance.org> wrote:
>>>> No Carolyn. It is John Crigler's law firm, which means it is costing a
>> fortune. This is the lawyer. Just an associate.
>> https://www.foster.com/people-kara-steger <
>> https://www.foster.com/people-kara-steger>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 12:59 AM Carolyn Birden via grc <
>> grc at maillist.peak.org <mailto:grc at maillist.peak.org>> wrote:
>>>> Who represented Pacifica in NY court?  Was it Dan Siegel’s brother, who
>> has appeared in the
>>>> past in that capacity?
>>>>
>>>> Carolyn Birden
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 9, 2019Wednesday, at 1:17 AM, Tim Požár via grc <
>> grc at maillist.peak.org <mailto:grc at maillist.peak.org>> wrote:
>>>>> The NY State verdict will be struck down.  Pacific has the licenses and
>>>>> state government can't tell a federally licensed station what to do
>> with
>>>>> the station.  I expect an appeal tomorrow if not already submitted
>> today.
>>>>> Tim
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/8/19 5:39 PM, Ann Garrison via grc wrote:
>>>>>> I keep checking the website and the taker-overs are still in control
>> of
>>>>>> it.  I'm in a noisy place on my phone where I can't turn the stream
>> on, so
>>>>>> I'm not sure whether they're still in control of the airwaves but I
>> imagine
>>>>>> so. This is entertaining if nothing else.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, 5:33 PM Jim Ellinger via grc <
>> grc at maillist.peak.org <mailto:grc at maillist.peak.org>>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wow.
>>>>>>>> Democracy Now! this morning said that a lawsuit has been filed and
>> that
>>>>>>>> local programming has been reinstated for the time being.
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>>>
>>> Carolyn Morra Birden
>>> 212 932 2422
>>>
>>> “First they came for the journalists.  After that we don’t know what
>> they did.”
>>>        (Gideon Lichfield, after Niemoller)
>>>
>>> WHERE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA HAVE YOU SEEN (OR NOT) THESE STORIES?
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyamU2dvvtU&feature=youtu.be
>>>
>>>
>> https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2019/10/07/wbai-shuts-its-door-progressive-politics-radio-station-new-york-city
>>> NYPD making fake news:
>>>
>> https://www.mediachannel.org/edits-to-wikipedia-pages-on-bell-garner-diallo-traced-to-1-police-plaza/
>>>
>> https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/labour-party-revokes-electronic-intifada-press-pass?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=1baebbdd9a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-1baebbdd9a-299202642
>>>
>> https://sfbayview.com/2019/09/election-interference-2016-paper-trails-suggest-fraud-in-democratic-primaries/
>>>
>> https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/24/i-dont-think-billionaires-should-exist-sanders-proposes-wealth-tax-slash-fortunes?cd-origin=rss&utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email
>>>
>> https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/26/1888059/-Here-is-the-full-unclassified-whistleblower-complaint-detailing-Donald-Trump-s-illegal-behavior?detail=emaildksc
>>> http://beyondchron.org/a-gi-rebellion-when-soldiers-said-no-to-war/
>>>
>>> https://wagingpeaceinvietnam.com/exhibit
>>>
>>> You and I are the “we” in “We the People”
>>>
>>> They hang the man and flog the woman
>>> That steal the goose from off the common,
>>> But let the greater villain loose
>>> That steals the common from the goose.
>>>                    —English folk poem, circa 1764
>>>
>>> A WIN FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESSES:
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.openculture.com/2019/09/libraries-archivists-are-digitizing-480000-books.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
>>>
>> https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Malcolm-X-on-Zionism--1964-.html?soid=1109359583686&aid=taq-JEAV244
>>> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52152.htm
>>>
>>> Regime change begins at home:
>>>
>> https://www.tomsteyer.com/dnc-speech-video/?utm_campaign=recap&utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_term=20190824_tomsteyer.com_imp__&utm_content=6721875http://www.informationclearin
>>> ghouse.info/52034.htm
>>>
>>>
>> https://truthout.org/articles/how-can-we-celebrate-freedom-while-kids-are-in-concentration-camps/
>>> Democratic conspiracy against Assange:
>>> https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/20/ship-a20.html
>>>
>>> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52024.htm
>>>
>>> About that primacy of the individual conscience doctrine:
>>>
>> https://citaty.net/citaty/793843-chris-hedges-we-now-live-in-a-nation-where-doctors-destroy-heal/
>>> That First Amendment, yet again:
>>>
>>>
>> https://www.sdnyblog.com/in-dismissing-dnc-case-judge-koeltl-emphasizes-first-amendment-right-to-publish-material-stolen-by-others/
>>> Another mass murder to consider:
>>>
>> https://www.globalresearch.ca/seeking-justice-911-heroes-interview-new-york-area-fire-commissioner-christopher-gioia/5685609
>>>
>> https://mailchi.mp/pen/newsroom-reporting-practices-revealed?e=6c4edf706a
>>> https://youtu.be/guCTCzPGVJs   a compilation of clips about the case
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/BaLDXxhzI-o and interview from Montpelier, VT with
>>> DeeDee Halleck
>>>
>>>
>> https://elections.pacifica.org/wordpress/wbai-candidate-statements/wbai-listener-statements/
>>> Grow your “false flags” file:
>>>
>> http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1305235/baf2600f84/544254393/49c88ee045/
>> https://www.globalresearch.ca/what-we-should-have-learned-israels-attack-uss-liberty/5680016
>>> Do somethings:
>>>
>> https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/holocaust-survivors-canadian/?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=f2d1f2bd7b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_26_12_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-f2d1f2bd7b-398557609&mc_cid=f2d1f2bd7b&mc_eid=31a41b10d8
>>> https://www.changetheterms.org/terms
>>>
>>> Smile: it won’t mess up your hair.
>>> "These last three years have certainly separated the wheat from the
>> shaft for me.
>>> I no longer listen to NPR.” (Comment on Joe Lauria’s article in
>> Consortium News)
>> https://consortiumnews.com/2019/10/08/the-new-yorkers-partisan-attempt-to-refute-its-claim-of-partisan-disinformation-on-biden-and-ukraine/
>>>
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