[Fwd: Russian TV Takeover: Spooky Parallels]

wmmmandel@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> This prompted me to take an all-too-rare look at my website,
> www.BillMandel.net
> (after all, it's largely my own stuff). My eye was caught by the
> Bozeman, Montana, origin of the last note with signature on the letter
> requesting reinstatement of my broadcasts on KPFA. So I checked out the
> geographic origins of those posts, in reverse order, starting with the
> most recent. Amazing.
>         OUTSIDE THE RANGE OF KPFA, they are South Euclid, OHIO; Toronto,
> CANADA; Montclair, NEW JERSEY; North Hollywood, CALIFORNIA; Norwalk,
> CONNECTICUT: "I wish we could hear his informed commentary on New York's
> beleagered WBAI" (which I was on for over 20 years); Melbourne,
> AUSTRALIA;  Bronx, NEW YORK; Fresno, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Annapolis,
> MARYLAND, Salt Lake City, UTAH, Santa Fe, NEW MEXICO, Tarrytown, NY;
> Madison, WISCONSIN; Fairbanks, ALASKA; Washington, D.C.; Conover, NORTH
> CAROLINA; PInellas Park, FLORIDA; Great Falls, MONTANA; N.Y.C.; Las
> Cruces, NEW MEXICO; Harrisonburg VIRGINIA; Tivoli, NY; Clovis, CA;
> Spring, TEXAS; Englewood, FLORIDA; Hilo, HAWAII; Houston, TEXAS; White
> Plains, NY; Cabot, VERMONT; Asheville,NORTH CAROLINA; NYC; Brooklyn, NY;
> Atlantic City, NJ; Hamburg, GERMANY; San Diego, CA; Halifax, NOVA
> SCOTIA; Columbus, OHIO; Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO; Vancouver, BRITISH
> COLUMBIA.
> 
> Steve Freedkin wrote:
> >
> > Is it enlightening or just bizarre to think of the current Pacifica
> > national staff as a parallel to former KGB chief Putin and crew, and
> > the board as a parallel to the sleazy capitalist tycoons of today's
> > Russia? You be the judge. But whether the players can be matched up
> > or not, certainly the story below bears eerie similarities to the
> > circumstances of Pacifica. --
> >
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> the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century through the eyes of a
> participant
> observer in most progressive social movements (I'm 83), and of the USSR
> from the
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> longer than any
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