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Welcome to program 23 of Shortwave Radiogram.
I'm Kim Andrew Elliott in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Here is the lineup for today's program, all in MFSK32:
1:30 Program preview (now)
2:43 Poorest countries need avenues to
electricity*
10:56 Russia may retaliate if Google downgrades RT, Sputnik*
18:16 US Sues to Stop AT&T's Takeover of Time Warner*
25:35 London's Crossrail construction image*
27:45 Closing announcements
* with image
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From Deutsche Welle:
To prosper, poorest countries need avenues to electricity
The world's least developed countries need more reliable power
sources. Just turning the lights on could lift nearly 600 million
people out of the depths of poverty, according to a new UN
report.
Timothy Rooks
22 November 2017
Huge tracts of the world are not connected to the electricity
grid, let alone have high-speed internet access. This lack of
power dampens economic activity and holds back agricultural
growth, not to mention the millions of people it excludes from
the digital revolution.
Even where power is available in developing countries, it is
often not reliable. This unpredictability leads to frequent
blackouts. Companies are forced to use generators, which only add
to their already high cost of doing business.
What is taken for granted in many parts of the world is a luxury
for hundreds of millions. The lack of power impacts hospitals and
leads to higher mortality rates, while the lack of refrigeration
makes storing vaccines a challenge. Sadly, powering up the
world's least developed countries (LDC) is much more complicated
than the mere flipping of a switch.
The world's poorest
Every three years the United Nations reviews its list of least
developed countries. In their latest report, 47 countries make
the list. These countries struggle in three categories: poverty;
economic vulnerability; and weaknesses based on social factors
such as poor health, school enrollment rates and low levels of
adult literacy.
This list was first published in 1971. Since then only a handful
of countries have improved sufficiently to graduate from the list
to become developing countries - Botswana, Cape Verde, Maldives,
Samoa, and this past June, Equatorial Guinea. Of the 47 nations
still on the list, 33 are in Africa and nine are in Asia. Only
one, Haiti, is in the Western Hemisphere.
Powering a continent
When it comes to global development projects, the energy sector
gets very little attention from donor countries or
philanthropists. In 2015, only 1.8 percent of official
development assistance aid directed to the least developed
countries was intended to support the expansion or integration of
power generation, according to the UN report.
This suggests that the UN is a long way from hitting one of its
17 Sustainable Development Goals to "ensure access to affordable,
reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all" by 2030.
And even though electricity production more than quadrupled from
1990-2014 in the least developed countries, its overall impact
was only a factor of 2.5 due to large population growth.
One solution may be the much talked about "leapfrog" model in
which older technologies and business approaches are simply
skipped. In Africa, it only recently became possible to jump over
scarce state-owned telephone landlines and go directly to mobile
phones and access the wider world.
Transformational energy access
But the challenges are huge, since 577 million people in the
least developed countries do not have access to electricity. Yet
many believe the answer could lie in the sun. Experts think it
may be possible to leapfrog over the fossil fuel- or
hydro-powered electricity grid and go directly to off-grid
renewable technologies.
In the beginning, this means building tiny solar panels that
provide "universal access" - which only covers minimal household
needs. The next step is to build small-scale mini-grid systems by
connecting solar panels together. In other words, the bigger, the
better.
This ramping up of off-grid electricity production faces high
capital costs and an uphill technical battle. But since 2010, the
economic burden has shrunk as the price of solar panels has come
down by over 80 percent. Besides being good for the environment,
if these efforts can be scaled up quickly enough, they can lead
to "transformational" access to power and change much more than
individual lives. ...
Full text:
http://www.dw.com/en/to-prosper-poorest-countries-need-avenues-to-electricity/a-41472049
See also:
http://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=1608
Image: Map showing the 47 least developed countries (Haiti and
some Pacific island nations not shown) ...
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From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
Russia Threatens Retaliation If Google Downgrades RT, Sputnik
News Sites
22 November 2017
Moscow has threatened to retaliate if Google gives less
prominence in its search results to articles from Russian
state-funded news websites Sputnik and RT, according to the
Russian news agency Interfax.
Interfax quoted Aleksandr Zharov, head of Russia's Roskomnadzor
media regulator, as saying that his agency sent a letter to
Google on November 21 requesting clarification of comments over
the weekend by Eric Schmidt, the chief executive of Google's
parent company Alphabet, in which Schmidt said Google was
"working on...de-ranking" the Russian news websites.
"We will receive an answer and understand what to do next,"
Interfax quoted Zharov as saying. "We hope our opinion will be
heard, and we won't have to resort to" what the agency described
as "possible retaliatory measures."
Schmidt, speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum on
November 18, responded to a question about allegations that
Sputnik spreads "propaganda" in its articles and said Google was
working to give less prominence to "those kinds of websites,"
rather than delisting them.
"It's basically RT and Sputnik. We're well aware and we're trying
to engineer the systems to prevent it," Schmidt said.
The Russian government funds Sputnik and RT, formerly known as
Russia Today. U.S. intelligence agencies have said both of the
websites spread misinformation and published negative stories
about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during the 2016 U.S.
presidential election.
"We didn't see this a few years ago," Schmidt said. "We didn't
realize this could be so pervasive," he noted, adding that the
technology industry had been "naive."
"Ten years ago, I thought that everyone would be able to deal
with the Internet because the Internet, as we all knew, was full
of falsehoods as well as truths. But faced with the data, from
what we've seen from Russia in 2016, and with other actors around
the world, we have to act."
Schmidt said Russian disinformation was easy to combat because it
involves "amplification around a message" that is "repetitive,
exploitative, false [or] likely to have been weaponized."
"My own view is that these patterns can be detected, and that
they can be taken down or de-prioritized," he said. "We don’t
want to ban the sites. That's not how we operate.... I am
strongly not in favor of censorship."
Google spokeswoman Andrea Faville said Google's efforts to demote
search results that link to low-quality, false, and deliberately
misleading content began in April. Google is also working to
highlight authoritative content, she said.
Faville said Google analyzes a website's attributes and, based on
that assessment, gives it a higher or lower position in search
results.
RT's editor in chief, Margarita Simonyan, issued a statement
saying that Google’s own internal review system had found that
the news site had broken no rules.
Sputnik on November 21 quoted Roskomnadzor's Zharov as saying he
would monitor "how discriminating this measure will be in its
practical embodiment."
"It is obvious that we will defend our media," Sputnik quoted
Zharov as saying.
RT has previously been penalized by Google. The television
network received guaranteed ad revenue from Google's YouTube
outlet until September, when it was removed as preferred partner.
With reporting by Reuters, Motherboard, and The Guardian
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-roskomnadzor-zharov-threatens-retaliation-google-downgrades-rt-spunik-news-sites/28868922.html
See also:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-media-law-foreign-agents-rferl-voa-cnn-deutsche-welle/28869382.html
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-ambassador-to-russia-attacks-on-us-funded-agencies/4125489.html
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US Sues to Stop AT&T's Takeover of Time Warner
VOA News
20 November 2017
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department is suing to stop AT&T's
multi-billion dollar bid to take over another communications
giant, Time Warner, calling it illegal and likening it to
extortion.
"The $108 billion acquisition would substantially lessen
competition, resulting in higher prices and less innovation for
millions of Americans," a Justice Department statement said
Monday.
"The combined company would use its control over Time Warner's
valuable and highly popular networks to hinder its rivals by
forcing them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more per year
for the right to distribute those networks."
CNN, HBO top Time Warner products
Time Warner's products include CNN, HBO, TNT, The Cartoon
Network, and Cinemax - these networks broadcast highly popular
newscasts, movies, comedy and drama series, and sports.
AT&T and its subsidiary DirectTV distribute these programs, as
well as others, thorough cable and satellite.
The Justice Department decries the possibility of AT&T not just
controlling television productions, but also the means of
bringing them into people's homes.
In its lawsuit, it threw AT&T's words right back at the
communications giant, noting that AT&T recognizes that
distributors with control over the shows "have the incentive and
ability to use ... that control as a weapon to hinder
competition."
It also cited a DirectTV statement saying distributors can
withhold programs from their rivals and "use such threats to
demand higher prices and more favorable terms."
Assured transaction would be approved
AT&T's CEO Randall Stephenson told reporters the Justice
Department's lawsuit "stretches the reach of anti-trust law to
the breaking point."
He said the "best legal minds in the country" assured AT&T that
the transaction would be approved and said the government is
discarding decades of legal precedent.
AT&T and Time Warner are not direct competitors, and AT&T says
government regulators have routinely approved such mergers.
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his contempt for one
of Time Warner's crown jewels - CNN, the Cable News Network -
because of his perception of CNN being a liberal biased provider
of "fake news," including direct attacks against his
administration.
Trump vowed during last year's presidential campaign to block the
merger.
Stephenson called the matter "the elephant in the room," saying
he said he "frankly does not know" if the White House disdain for
CNN is at the heart of the Justice Department lawsuit.
But he said a proposal that Time Warner sell-off CNN as part of a
settlement with the Trump Justice Department would be a
"non-starter."
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-sues-att-takeover-time-warner/4127881.html
See also:
https://www.voanews.com/a/fcc-chairman-sets-out-repeal-net-neutrality-rules-/4128735.html
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Image: Crossrail is London's much-anticipated $20-billion
high-speed railway, due to open in December 2018 under the name
of the Elizabeth Line.
http://www.dw.com/en/tunnel-vision-inside-londons-new-subterranean-railway/a-41444842
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A special all-Olivia-64-2000 transmission of Shortwave Radiogram
will be 26 November (tomorrow or today, depending on when you are
reading this) at 2330-2400 UTC on 11580 kHz from WRMI Florida.
This will be a test of Olivia 64-2000 in the difficult reception
we have been experiencing lately at 2330 UTC.
Transmission of Shortwave Radiogram is provided by:
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VOA NEWS weekly address wasn’t being used to its full potential," White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in response to
a VOA question during
Monday’s daily briefing. it where it’s more beneficial and gets more information out," added Sanders, who declined to elaborate on whether the radio
tradition is fading out
permanently. made by President Donald Trump was on Oct. 13. During the first nine months of his administration, he had regularly taped the
messages. the broadcasts and whether they have much appeal for the current president, who frequently prefers an unscripted format as well as
Twitter, his favorite
social media platform. can make and shape news with a few flicks of his fingers via Twitter, you can argue that the president’s weekly radio address is less relevant and timely," according to presidential historian Mike Purdy. "A scripted weekly radio address doesn’t
allow him to get his message out as he’d like." chats" of President Franklin Roosevelt during the depth of
economic depression in
1933. of New York state at a time when radio broadcasting was a
technological revolution. veteran radio announcer and actor, who started the Saturday
audio-only addresses
from the White House. Ronald Reagan were ideally suited to radio," Purdy told VOA. "John F. Kennedy’s good looks, wit, and charm made him into our first television president. The reasoned, professorial, and calm
voice of Barack Obama came across well on
radio and television." relevant presidential communication tool, "President Trump will not highlight its use or be as consistent in using it since he
has other methods more in sync with
his personality." the country, in large and small markets, but found few
still
airing the Saturday
brief presidential speeches. Not by phone or email. That is in some contrast to feedback from listeners in prior years who feared we might not choose to carry the new president's remarks, especially when there was a change in parties," said Steve Butler, the longtime program director at
KYW in Philadelphia. chats and "we have always carried the addresses in the modern
era, since President Reagan
started them," Butler tells VOA. operations manager for KCLI-FM and four other Wright Broadcasting System radio stations in southwestern Oklahoma. But because the presidential remarks were of no fixed length and due to contractual obligations for syndicated program they proved too much of a challenge to insert into the lineup, according to
Brunner. broadcasts, although George H.W. Bush recorded only 18 in the
two-year
period between November 1990 and November 1992. remember thinking that they were pretty expensive in terms of invested time and effort, while there was great risk if the
president said the wrong thing." ironically gave the weekly radio broadcasts their most memorable
moment. of audio technicians, the president — during a time of heightened Cold War tensions — said: "My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five
minutes."
alert, for a brief period of time, to a
portion of its military. "partly because it was a way to speak directly to the American people, without the filter of commentary that bracketed his television appearances. But I suspect that part of it was his
nostalgic memories of Roosevelt and his famous
fireside chats." messaging strategies, "I’m surprised they lasted as long as they
did," said Wead. |
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