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W6LG has Cancer in his Blood, Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Rocketdyne
I have acute myeloid leukemia also called AML and thyroid disease from exposure to radiation and chemicals. I have not worked around either of these hazards. My only exposure I believe occurred while living as a youngster in the San Fernando Valley.
I was in the hospital 5 times last year and 1 time so far this year. I have had 20 transfusions. I have had 7 rounds of chemo that have made me very ill. I think the medical bills last year were greater than $500,000 and this year may be even higher. I do have Kaiser so much of that has been covered.
For those who donate blood, thank you. I have had 20 units of blood so far. Just last week I had to have another unit because my HGB was below the threshold value of 7.2 with RBC, WBC and ANC also being dangerously low again. My blood is tested twice a week. Blood is drawn from a PICC line in my right arm.
What happened at the Santa Susana Field Lab? LA's Nuclear Secret | From KNBC in Los Angeles:
"During its history, there were several nuclear accidents at the Santa Susana Field Lab. Some experts believe the 1959 partial meltdown at SSFL could be the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, surpassing the radiation released during the Three Mile Island accident.
What caused the nuclear accident at the Santa Susana Field Lab in 1959? Poor environmental and safety practices resulted in radioactive fires at the hot lab and at least four of the reactors suffered significant accidents, including the 1959 partial nuclear meltdown."
There was no containment building around the reactor. I knew of two boys in my neighbor who lived across the street from each other who died from cancer at about the same time after the meltdown.
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ANTI-LGBT, ANTI-LGBTQ, ANTI-LGBTQ+ Alliance Defending Freedom Right Wing Religious Group SUING Transgender Athletes
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A Far-Right Group Used Fake Claims to Win Anti-LGBTQ+ Lawsuits, According to a New Report
The Alliance Defending Freedom appears to have founded companies and staged fake weddings to claim their clients’ religious rights were being violated.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a far-right Christian group at the forefront of recent anti-LGBTQ+ business lawsuits in the U.S., founded companies and staged fake weddings to claim their clients’ religious rights were being violated, according to a new investigation in the Washington Post.
The ADF has for many years represented conservative clients who claim anti-discrimination laws violate their religious rights, and scored a major victory in 303 Creative v. Elenis this summer when the Supreme Court ruled that a web designer could not be compelled to create a wedding site for a gay couple, even if they provided the same service for straight couples. In their arguments to the Court, ADF attorneys cited several of their previous victories on behalf of wedding vendors like Masterpiece Cakeshop who demanded the right to refuse service to LGBTQ+ customers. But in its investigation, Post reporters found that not only did many of those clients leave the wedding industry entirely after their lawsuits were over, some of them did not even have such a business until the ADF established one on their behalf.
According to the Post’s report, ADF lawyers signed off on incorporation documents and drafted policy frameworks for several new companies, which in turn were used as justification to bring lawsuits challenging local nondiscrimination statutes. To promote some of the lawsuits, the ADF distributed “videos and images of plaintiffs photographing women in bridal gowns,” reporters found, which were fabricated at “staged events featuring ADF employees.”
One such client was Chelsey Nelson, a Louisville woman who claimed she had always wanted to be a wedding photographer. The Post reported that ADF lawyers approached Nelson in 2018 and founded a business in her name a month before filing suit against the city. Nelson has since moved to Florida, leading city attorneys to ask to have the case thrown out; although the ADF claimed in a court filing earlier this year that Nelson was still somehow open to bookings in Louisville and had photographed two weddings this summer, reporters noted that one of those events was for a family member and neither took place in Louisville.
Another ADF case concerned two Minnesota videographers who said they refused to film same-sex weddings. Although the ADF cited the case in their eventual 303 Creative petitions, Minnesota officials claim that the group withdrew the case to avoid handing over evidence that would have revealed the videographers did not actually have a viable business, according to the Post. The judge overseeing the case agreed to throw it out, writing that the ADF had “conjured up” the case as a “smoke and mirrors case or controversy from the beginning.”
ADF senior counsel Jonathan Scruggs claimed in an interview with the Post that all of the organization’s clients are legitimate, and that “sometimes in the natural progression of people’s businesses, they happen to close.”
Despite the Supreme Court’s decision earlier this year, the ADF’s 303 Creative case appears to have similarly spurious foundations, according to recent reporting. While the plaintiff claimed to have been approached by two gay men in 2016 about creating a wedding site for them, no evidence was ever presented that this actually took place; a report by the New Republic found that the couple in question did not actually exist and that one of the men in question was already married to a woman. Still, the decision holds, and has already had trickle-down effects on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.S. One justice of the peace in Texas began refusing to sign marriage certificates for LGBTQ+ couples just two weeks later.
As Sarah Posner, a journalist who covers Christian conservatism, noted on MSNBC this week, the ADF benefited heavily from the Supreme Court’s swift conservative shift during the Trump administration, particularly after the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, who was a paid speaker at ADF events on at least five occasions between 2011 and 2020. ADF lawyers have also helped propel the country’s tidal wave of anti-trans bills since 2021, and work alongside far-right organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the American College of Pediatrics to legitimize and advance a broader anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.
“Owing to ADF’s efforts, it is now an article of faith both on the Christian right and on the high court that a secular government will ‘force’ Christians to do things against their will in order to advance the interests of LGBTQ people,” Posner wrote. “We are just beginning to see how much this myth will justify when Christian nationalists seize both political and judicial power.”
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Republican EXPLODES In Bigoted Rage When Questioned On Student's Death
Republican Senator from Oklahoma, Tom Woods, calls LGBTQ community "filth" when questioned about death of gender-fluid student Nex Benedict in outrageous outburst. Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
During a legislative forum in Oklahoma on Friday sponsored by the Tahlequah Area Chamber of Commerce, Sen. Tom Woods, R-Westville, commented on the death of 16-year-old nonbinary student Nex Benedict following an attack that took place on February 7 at Owasso High School, saying, "I represent a constituency that doesn't want that filth in Oklahoma," meaning gender fluidity, not apparent murder.
Joined by other area lawmakers in addressing the tragic event that is still under investigation, Woods said in an earlier statement that his "heart goes out, in that scenario, if that is the case," in reference to allegations that brute force on the part of three older girls who ganged up on Benedict in a bathroom at the school and banged their head against the floor may have caused them to black out and, ultimately, die in a local hospital a day later.
According to reporting by The Daily Press, Woods' comments came after a woman in attendance at the forum asked, "Why does the legislature have such an obsession with the LGBTQ citizens of Oklahoma and what people do in their personal lives and how they raise their children?” To which he responded with the above, along with, "We are a Republican state and I’m going to vote my district, and I’m going to vote my values," emphasizing the moral and Christian fortitude of the Republican way of life in Oklahoma that he aims to represent. "
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Conservatives PANIC After Top Secret Video Leaks | Hasanabi reacts
A Right Wing Grifter and friend of Ben Shapiro gets humiliated by a leaked video, that shows a "different" side of him.
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George Carlin's Grim Warning Has Turned Into Reality
Legendary comedian George Carlin saw the rise of Donald Trump and the beliefs that he represents coming into power from a mile away. Rick Strom breaks it down.
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Trump Supporters STUN With Full-Blown Dictatorship Delusion On Camera
Donald Trump supporters reveal their terrifying true opinions on Trump's public dictatorship fantasy at rally. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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Republican voters know Trump isn't joking with his "dictator" remarks — it's why they love him –
"Stupid or evil?
It's the perennial question that haunts those of us who support democracy when gazing upon the red-hatted minions of Donald Trump, who are working to destroy it. The everyday Republican voters who issue ungrammatical and fact-averse defenses of their beloved orange demagogue are a forever mystery.
Are they really just too stupid to know that backing Trump means ending democracy? Or are they fascists who long for an American Reich, where all the people who made them feel bad for being racist will be made to suffer?
On one hand, Trump supporters do sound like a bunch of morons, leading credence to the "stupid" theory. On the other hand, it's impossible to believe anyone could think a guy who attempted a coup is safe for democracy. Most Republicans hold down jobs and manage to dress and feed themselves, suggesting they aren't so brain-dead as to miss that Trump cannot wait to be a fascist dictator."
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Why Stores Are Removing Self Checkout Stands
Recently, a whole wave of different retailers started pulling out self checkout stands such as Costco, Walmart, Kroger this year.
With all the talk of breakthrough technology today in AI, it seems a bit odd why these companies would be ditching self checkouts in exchange for humans?
Image recognition keeps getting better while humans can make mistakes, call in sick, but companies are still adding people back in the mix.
What is it that this new technology is missing out on that self-checkout kiosks simply don’t cut it?
Let’s take a look at retailers' failed self-checkout experiment and why self-checkout might be disappearing at a store near you.
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Meta sued over forcing users to pay to stop tracking
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Meta is required to get users’ consent in Europe in order to show them targeted ads. For this reason, Meta has to provide European users with a way to opt out of behavioral advertising or face fines totalling $100,000 a day.
Behavioral advertising are ads tailored to someone’s browsing habits and other online behavior. A profile of the user is built up over time, as they work their way around the web. Tracking users in this was was ruled as a break of GDPR regulations, so Meta had to find a way out.
Meta’s solution was to charge users for an ad-free experience. The choice for European users was keep using Facebook for free or pay to enjoy the platform without personalized ads. In order to enjoy your fundamental rights under EU law, Meta is essentially now proposing that users pay up to $275 per year.
However, organizations concerned about our privacy say that by doing this, Meta has changed the user’s choices from “yes or no” to “pay or okay.”
To put this into perspective, Meta’s annual revenue in 2022 was $120.18 Billion. If every user that visits Facebook daily (2.037 billion) forked out $275 per year, that would bring in roughly $560 Billion.
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NYC is Building Anti-Homeless Streets…
Hostile Architecture” has many purposes, but should it be used against NYC’s most vulnerable? There are examples of this type of design all over the city, some by private companies, and others by the city itself.
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Texas Republicans Go Too Far With Catastrophic School Board Mistake
Texas Republicans on the Texas Board of Education make devastating call to abandon teachers and students with latest textbook rejection in order to better accommodate religious teachings. John Iadarola and Yasmin Khan break it down on The Damage Report.
Read more here: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/msnbc/texas-science-textbooks-climate-change-rcna125841
Texas rejects science textbooks with too much information about climate change
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Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) and Caroline Aderholt, then-chief of staff at Concerned Women for America (CWA), at the Jan. 19, 2018, March for Life that CWA helped promote.
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Crusader Takes Over National Prayer Breakfast
Note: TYT emailed CWA Tuesday afternoon, sharing details about this report and requesting comment with a deadline of Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, CWA responded that it “just received” TYT’s email “and will correct your information.” TYT delayed publication to accommodate a response, but CWA has not responded to follow-up emails. This article will be updated in the event of a CWA response.
The new chair of the organization that runs the National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) is a long-time crusader against LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights and sits on the board of a national organization that lobbies for and promotes a range of far-right causes.
Caroline Aderholt – the wife of Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-AL) – has for years been a leader of the right-wing organization Concerned Women for America (CWA). She is now listed on the NPB Foundation website as the interim chair of its board.
The move came after the abrupt departure this summer of the NPB Foundation’s president, former Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR), who had publicly pledged transparency and openness for the new event. As TYT reported, Pryor was pressured by board member and longtime breakfast insider former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN) not to respond to TYT’s inquiries.
Started in 1953 by what’s now called the Fellowship Foundation, popularly known as The Family, the National Prayer Breakfast split earlier this year after multiple controversies. The original event, renamed the NPB Gathering, continues at the Washington Hilton, while the NPB Foundation was created to run the ostensibly new NPB on Capitol Hill.
Scaled down to just a few hundred guests, mostly from Congress, the new NPB was branded as a reboot to strip it of politics and the scandals of the original. But the new NPB guidelines were violated in its very first year. And as TYT reported, the NPB Foundation’s board consisted entirely of Family insiders, including Aderholt. Her assent to interim chair is now raising concerns that the board has dropped Pryor’s goal of keeping it free of politics.
Aderholt speaks openly about infusing her religious beliefs into every aspect of life, including politics. And leaders of The Family typically support governing through a religious, Christian lens.
CWA and its legislative action committee deploy lobbyists – who for years reported to Aderholt – to fight against LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights. Aderholt has publicly opposed the right to no-fault divorce. (NPB Foundation board members did not respond to TYT’s questions; auto-replies from Aderholt’s account said she had blocked TYT’s email address.)
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Senior Research Analyst RG Cravens told TYT that CWA has its roots in the anti-LGBTQ+ religious right of the 1970s. “It’s not a surprise CWA is integral to the National Prayer Breakfast and the controversy surrounding it,” Cravens said.
CWA has even flirted with election denial, pushing ostensible “voter-integrity” measures, which disenfranchise Black and low-income voters. Aderholt’s husband voted not to certify the election of Pres. Joe Biden and has sided with proponents of the false claim that it was stolen, including backing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as House speaker.
The SPLC also called CWA “a key promoter” of Project 2025, a far-right plan from the Heritage Foundation to replace Democratic personnel in executive branch agencies with conservatives if a Republican wins the 2024 presidential election. CWA is a past partner of the Heritage Foundation.
And CWA occasionally partners with Franklin Graham, one of the most prominent crusaders against LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights in the world.
Pryor had pledged that the new event would not accept funds, as the original did, from Graham, GOP megadonor Ronnie Cameron, or anyone on either extreme of the political spectrum. The new event spun off from the 70-year-old original after years of reporting about how its organizers used it to bolster right-wing networks around the world.
CWA has a record of promoting Graham’s events, and has joined his organizations in amicus curiae briefs on right-wing hot-button issues. On social media, CWA has boosted Graham posts, such as one in 2021 celebrating a legal victory for Catholic adoption agencies that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people.
As Pryor told TYT in January, Graham and Cameron were not donors to the 2023 NPB, “for this breakfast, at least.” Whether they’d be allowed back in 2024 or beyond, Pyor said, “I can’t speak for the future decisions that the board’s gonna make.” Concerned Women for America
According to Cravens of the SPLC, CWA was founded in the 1970s by Beverly LaHaye, whose husband co-authored the Left Behind series of Rapture novels. Her children have held leadership roles at CWA and its current chair is LaHaye’s daughter.
CWA touts its genesis as a reaction to feminism. “There were several issues in the Equal Rights Amendment package that were not good for the family,” Aderholt told an interviewer in 2017. “Things like providing no-fault divorce that were harmful for the family.”
CWA’s public ethos of shaping public policy to meet its notions of Biblical values is solidly in line with similarly theocratic beliefs to be found among some Family insiders, the Aderholts included.
At the March 2021 Republican Women of Huntsville Prayer Breakfast, Aderholt explained how she and her husband see their work, on and off Capitol Hill. “We are of the belief that our vocation is our ministry. Our faith informs all aspects of our lives,” she said.
“If we don’t have a nation that fears the Lord,” Aderholt said in the 2017 interview, “then we’re doomed to destruction.”
When her interviewer remarked that “everything is spiritual warfare,” Aderholt responded, “It is.”
Right-wing Biblical exegesis has been at the heart of CWA from the start. A 1978 Los Angeles Times article refers to the “newly formed” CWA as defending “rights of parents to teach their children according to Biblical concepts.”
And the husband of CWA’s founder was more than just an author. Tim LaHaye was part of an emerging movement telling American evangelicals to stop seeing politics and religion as separate.
Cravens notes that “Tim also founded the Council for National Policy.” (Today, the Council for National Policy’s executive director is former Rep. Bob McEwen (R-OH), a longtime Family insider.)
“The gist of the idea was to use conservative religion to fuel a political movement that help[ed] hasten the Second Coming,” Cravens says. Aderholt has espoused similar eschatological views, saying in her 2017 interview, “We have the final victory, so we win in the end.” Aderholt’s Lobbying
Aderholt joined CWA some time in 2015. Her husband’s congressional disclosure filings show her drawing a salary from CWA through 2018, and she appears to have served as chief of staff for that entire period.
“My specific duty for CWA is really identify and promoting our legislative agenda at CWA,” Aderholt said in 2017. She said the organization’s House and Senate lobbyists reported to her. “I identify the legislation that we as a[n] organization try to affect every year.”
One of CWA’s priorities was ensuring that Hyde Amendment language gets tacked on to any relevant bill, re-enforcing the legal prohibition against using federal money to fund abortions.
CWA disclosure forms filed during Aderholt’s tenure refer to a broad range of political advocacy. Some lobbying veers from CWA’s predominantly right-wing bent. During Pres. Donald Trump’s successful push to cut taxes for the rich, for instance, CWA lobbied in favor of the child tax credit.
Most of its agenda, however, lines up with the evangelical fundamentalist focus on issues around sex and gender. CWA’s boilerplate language for its lobbying priorities under Aderholt listed “[S]upport of traditional marriage, life, traditional values, education, broadcast decency, parental rights, protection of unborn life, common-sense restrictions on abortion [and] … religious liberty…”
Religious liberty, by CWA’s definition, typically refers to the right to discriminate. CWA has, for instance, sought legal protections for health care workers who object on religious grounds to serving patients transitioning gender or in need of gender-affirming care.
In its most recent filing, CWA disclosed lobbying against federal funding for gender-affirming care and against the Pentagon facilitating abortion access for military personnel, as well lobbying to ban abortifacient drugs and make them more difficult to obtain. CWA has called Plan B emergency-contraception drugs “an abomination.”
Legislation and regulation aren’t CWA’s only lobbying priorities. In July 2017, Aderholt said that CWA’s efforts to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, had been a big victory.
“This year, things that we are trying to do is to confirm pro-life judges like Justice Neil Gorsuch,” Aderholt said. “We spent a lot of time this past year working on that, setting up strategy and getting our grassroots ladies involved in that. So that was a very successful activity for us this year.”
Gorsuch, of course, took the seat that Republicans blocked then-Pres. Barack Obama from filling. Gorsuch’s vote has proved vital to the far right across a range of issues central to CWA’s agenda, most notably the overruling of Roe v. Wade.
CWA supported Trump’s other nominees, as well. President and CEO Penny Young Nance appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox show to explain that CWA “strongly” supported Judge Brett Kavanaugh, even launching a bus tour, because Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations of sexual violence by Kavanaugh had not been proved. The group’s endorsement of Judge Amy Coney Barrett was predicated in part on her commitment to honoring precedent.
Over the years, CWA has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a dark-money organization that backs campaigns to appoint and confirm far-right judges. The Judicial Crisis Network’s 2022 tax filings show a $165,000 donation to CWA for that fiscal year alone.
The Koch family political network reportedly gave CWA more than $10 million in previous years.
And CWA, with its legacy of high-profile ties on the right, has had little problem winning audiences on Capitol Hill. CWA posts include accounts of Aderholt meeting with Sen. Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) about abortion, and discussing tax reform with Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) and then-presidential advisor Ivanka Trump.
Aderholt was also invited to the Trump Health and Human Services announcement of a new division focused on “Conscience and Religious Freedom.” The office was established to help health-care workers evade legal consequences for refusing to assist gender-care and abortion patients.
In 2017, Aderholt took home her largest CWA salary out of her four years there, $71,500. That same year, CWA’s board welcomed new trustee Jon Whetsell, a fellow Alabaman and regular donor to her husband.
Aderholt’s last year on the payroll was 2018. Then, at some point between July 2019 and June 2020, tax filings show, Aderholt joined the CWA board of trustees. She remains on the board today, according to CWA’s website. The chair is Linda Murphy, Beverly LaHaye’s daughter. The Breakfast
Precisely when Aderholt took over as interim chair of the National Prayer Breakfast has not been made public.
In a Sept. 26 email to the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), Pryor wrote that he “rotated off 2-3 months ago,” and that the unnamed interim chair “will turn it over to a new chair” after one or two other board members have been replaced. One tax filing lists Aderholt as the NPB Foundation's principal officer as early as April 1, 2022.
Pryor in his email noted that the NPB Foundation website at the time still listed him, in error, as its president. The website has since been updated to disclose Aderholt’s role as interim chair, and Pryor is gone, but the other board members, all with Family ties, are still listed.
While previous Family leader Doug Coe was publicly nonpartisan – Hillary Clinton called him a “loving spiritual mentor” regardless of one’s political party – since his death The Family has become enmeshed in a growing number of right-wing scandals.
As chronicled in a Netflix documentary series based on the work of journalist Jeff Sharlet, some of the people behind the NPB were supporters of Ugandan politicians pursuing the death penalty for LGBTQ+ people. Earlier this year, TYT revealed that The Family’s point man in Uganda was still working with backers of the new law.
In addition to its history bolstering anti-LGBTQ+ networks in Africa, The Family used the National Prayer Breakfast to build right-wing networks in Ukraine and Guatemala, TYT has reported.
One of the few people to interview Coe was Warren Throckmorton, an evangelical Christian and co-author of “Getting Jefferson Right: Fact-Checking Claims About Thomas Jefferson,” a book refuting claims that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. Throckmorton told TYT, “My impression is that the previous departure of Sen. Pryor and the appointment of Ms. Aderholt signal a move to make the NPB Foundation more a right-wing political advocacy organization than a non-partisan call to prayer.”
Aderholt’s new role is “really sad,” said Annie Laurie Gaylor, president of the FFRF Action Fund. The FFRF and a coalition of LGBTQ+, secular, and faith groups had been working with Pryor on issues around the new breakfast.
“We have a lot of concerns about Caroline Aderholt,” Gaylor said. “We know that Rep. Aderholt, her husband, was one of 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the 2020 election results, and often espouses Christian nationalist rhetoric.” By contrast, Gaylor said, “Pryor envisioned a more pluralistic Breakfast.”
As TYT previously reported, no one at the NPB Foundation picked up Pryor’s dialogue with the FFRF and its coalition. The last the coalition heard from the NPB Foundation board was a meeting with Pryor in February.
Jonathan Larsen is TYT’s managing editor. You can find him on Twitter @JTLarsen.
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Russia Develops Nuclear Battery for Arctic
Published Mar 31, 2016 9:22 PM by The Maritime Executive
It is a team of scientists at the former nuclear weapon production site in Zheleznogorsk in Siberia are developing a battery that generates electricity from an isotope of Nickel (Ni-63).
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The Most Terrifying Shortwave Signal Ever
Little is known about the Gongs and Chimes station but it became one of the eeriest numbers stations to hit the shortwave dial.
With the Enigma ID G03, it became known for its famous gongs and chimes preamble signal which was played from a tape, an interesting point that’ll become clear soon.
The gongs and chimes sound made it one of the most terrifying shortwave stations ever heard on the air.
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