The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV at least -implied- a followup on that whole End Fossil Fuels thing, since we are still technically in Climate Week. He's disappointed that EFF didn't do the same. They never did come back on newsradio to say something to the effect of, well Joe Biden didn't do X, Y or Z, so now we get to tell people, don't vote for him next year. It's not atypical for TSV to observe that those activist types who berate the general population for its lack of courage fail to demonstrate any on their own part. Was that all just political hype that PR people for EFF behind the scenes went to program directors for newsradio stations to say, listen, we need you to cover our movement, and place the microphone next to people therein who have -very important things- to say about next year's election. TSV doesn't think he necessarily scared them off by proclaiming that they'll regret taking his President away from him if it came to that. TSV is only so small, and is not likely to have exacted the kind of crickets we heard from EFF after Biden went back to Washington. But now TSV gets to turn page to the subject of BBC 4 LW. While he agrees that the BBC needs to stay on longwave to keep people informed both of emergencies but also current events, he doesn't particularly approve of the nibbling around the edges that pro-longwave is trying to use to convince the BBC to stay on longwave. Stuff like, well if you end transmissions or take down the transmitter, it'll cause heating service problems for homes in the area, or maybe precipitate an accidental nuclear attack. It's the same lack of courage TSV saw with EFF, that pro-longwave isn't willing to take the bull by the horns and encourage both licensed and extra-licensed amateurs to do a 'pirate' syndication after the cutoff date, or at least threaten to do so leading up to the cutoff. Though TSV generally encourages amateurs of all stripes to keep it within the law, the situation with BBC longwave he sees as requiring civil disobedience. What he means by pirate syndication is about syndicating BBC 4 from a web stream to a transmission on the longwave frequency, maybe numerously (and surreptitiously) so that some level of comparable coverage is achieved. TSV says to do this after the cutoff, but not yet until then. If Ofcom comes after them for it, TSV thinks the amateurs may have a case in their own defense at least socially, if not legally. Either syndication or for towns and cities to file lawsuits to get BBC 4 back on longwave or stay on longwave. There are options, and they don't involve what TSV sees as immature and immaterial and ultimately uneffective stunts he seeing going on right now.

The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV is no fool. He can see End Fossil Fuels for what it really is, and no, he knows full well it's -not- about ending fossil fuels -or- global warming. It's about ending Joe Biden, what with the defamations he's heard from them, and it makes him concerned about the state of democracy. If EFF succeeds in ending Joe Biden, TSV will not recognize his country four years from now. Otherwise, he wonders why they made AOC into their keynote speaker when they should be demonstrating outside -her- offices as much as Joe Biden's. This comes two days after Bernie delivered an exaggerated albeit well meaning speech at the UAW rallies. TSV sees it as impossible for a reasonable person not to see the apparent biases in these events, and it's only Tuesday. What he just glimpsed on the fronts of the journalistically depraved newspapers was mention of this being Climate Week, but apparently he doesn't see anyone feeling free to stand for ending climate change it whatever way suits them. Instead they have to lockstep to a charismatic corps of leaders who can never be wrong. So what's happening next week? Is it going to be Issue Y Week, and if so, will the same people make the same kinds of corner-the-other-person demands they're doing this week? TSV wonders, because here's an example. An apparent hipster-ish voice on the radio TSV hears as saying something to the effect of, we demand that Joe Biden declare a global climate emergency at the UN general assembly. And let's see he does do that. All TSV sees them saying is, well he only declared an emergency because -we- said he should, so therefore he really doesn't mean it. That's a very handy way TSV sees them as moving the goal posts, and how Biden is always wrong. TSV will monitor the rest of this week for further defamations and stunts, and he will get me the Happy Bachelor to respond accordingly where and when necessary. He hasn't yet decided whether he'll vote for Biden again or maybe write in Liz Cheney, but still he will serve notice. If the anti-Biden progressives take his President away from him, he'll see to it that they'll deeply regret it.

I the Happy Bachelor already did two base shares with the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV just a couple hours ago, but he's just now getting around to things he's wanted to say having been too occupied to do so for a while. But here he is talking about Danelo Cavalcante. It was on YouTube, which of course is visual, but he saw that local Philly news station there. Judging from the first half of the video, he didn't think they'd say anything he didn't already know. But then they got to the second half, and the red-haired presenter talked about how the investigation will still continue, because they want to ask him about things like what kind of help he could have gotten to stay on the loose for two weeks. The presenter mentioned that Cavalcante was used to living off the grid, e.g., having spent a month in the jungles of Brazil, so that helped TSV form a theoretical hypothesis. TSV believes Cavalcante is a Dark Amateur, in that he may have gotten help from a two-way that may have been in his backpack, and TSV thinks it's possible that Cavalcante used that two-way to tune into a clandestine numbers station associated with a transnat that itself may be associated with the "crink axis" (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea). Could Cavalcante be an actual spy? And if so, who/what was he spying on/for? That's not to say Cavalcante is necessarily a good spy. Look at Lee Harvey Oswald, TSV reminds us. Oswald tried to spy for both Cuba and the Soviet Union, and look how well that turned out. But there's no reason for TSV not to believe that someone with survival skills such as Cavalcante, an apparently twisted genius and supervillain to boot, couldn't also decode FSK, CW, FAX and other signals in the Amateur and Aero bands, in a sort of numbers chasing. Was he talking to the people who helped him? And were some of those people who helped him well out of the area, like possibly within the Crink Axis? Or maybe Crink has employed surreptitious AI to help out operatives in the field. Once TSV hears on audio about reps from the FCC and/or the CIA coming into Coventry County to the facility where Cavalcante is held for questioning, TSV's definitely going to think, aha (!), it's become international.

This is regarding the latest radio bulletin on audio, and maybe at least one previous one. The bulletin referred to a Spanish newspaper talking about the BBC, but the Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV disagrees that the BBC necessarily has a struggle for "relevance." In fact, the BBC World Service's reporting being second-to-none as a kind of utility station on shortwave TSV sees as a beacon in the darkness of misinformation and the cesspool of visual and of Tic-Toc-ish social media. Of course even though this is since the start of the war in Ukraine, TSV sees the BBC's problems having to do with -identity- more than with relevance. He sees the BBC trying to be both Reporters Without Borders and Clear Channel Communications. That's kind of like trying to be both inside -and- outside the house. It's one or the other. There's no such thing as a "little bit pregnant." TSV also believes the Spanish newspaper doesn't need to worry about the BBC as having to compete with "Rupert Murdock's empire," whose legal liability among other things, revealed that empire as instrumental in the January 6 riots. Just do regular reporting and tell the truth. Even though TSV still remembers when BBC Newshour tried to tell people in 2014 that nurses getting the ebola virus somehow means the precautions they needed to take not to get the virus were somehow not effective, TSV likes much better what's he's hearing from the BBC now, whether that's at least the bulletin and the first 30 seconds of Newshour, segments from Newsday, or when he gets to get Newsroom to play back for him again. That's the winner right there. No need to get into a race to the bottom with the Murdock Empire, which clearly seems headed for outright bankruptcy. TSV doubts Business Radio will indicate there will be any interested buyers, not even Carl Icahn, or that other activist investor who's name escapes him.

This is regarding the latest radio bulletin on audio, and maybe at least one previous one. The bulletin featured members of online discussion groups lamenting religious stations broadcasting on shortwave from the US to the rest of the world. TSV hears the bulletin say the members actually believe that radio listeners in Europe will somehow think US is just a bunch of religious fanatics. Who -says- these things (?) TSV wonders. After all people in Europe are smart enough to know that, no, Americans are not religious fanatics any more than they're a bunch of gun-toting cowboys. TSV credits the world's citizens for rejecting stereotypes, but the one thing he thinks is problematic is the phrase "secular humanism." He heard the lamenters also say that they believe there needs to be more "secular humanism" on shortwave, but he wonders what's so humanistic about secularism anyway? And by contrast, what's so inhumane about religion or being religious? Not only has he seen secularism contribute to the personal corruption of the 2010s that among other things caused him to lose his job and eventually lead to the pandemic, but TSV makes the point of listening to 1300 AM the gospel station near where we live after he's done hearing a given current bulletin. He always wants to hear the Hail Mary passage 9.30am where the serene lady announcer says, Mother Mary pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. He wants to hear this line at least twice, because he often sees it applying our still personally corrupt and immoral society, and he thinks, please pray that our sinner's society will overcome its sins and instead embrace righteousness and devotionism, amidst the details of said sins he's hearing on newsradio which he -needs- to know about. There's a lot to unpack for TSV in finding more devotional resources specifically on shortwave, but suffice it to say that his impression is that if it weren't for religiousness and religious programming on the radio, all we will have is the cesspool that is the Internet. That's how he thinks "secular humanism" is actually inconsistent with, as that rock song goes, the spirit of radio.