AFN 1107khz from Kaiserslautern Recieved in Berlin

Recorded 26 December 2011 using a cheap reel-in wire antenna suspended out of a window into a closed exterior courtyard.

Mister Grab-Ass

Hey!  Don't touch the goods!

Wet and Cold

But that's life.

Dystopia Found

The 70s were never good to this place, and it seems to have been unkind to the old broad since.

It Makes Biafra look like a Sandbox Fight!

Amish beard-cutting war out of control

Goosestepping with Panache

The Ministry of Silly Walks has it's own armed force.

Without a fake Crisis we are Aimless

Huffington Post:

Without an Asteroid-Annihilating Rocketship, We're Toast

mmmm'kay. Next comes the "planetary distress signal", I suppose.

WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE: there is a giant asteroid headed towards Earth. All the astrophysicists and rocket scientists and brain surgeons agree ...

The Psychiatrists though could not be reached for comment.

From the Chronicles of European Wierdness

A Russian Man Was Caught Trying To Smuggle 200 Pounds Of Butter Into Norway

The Forbidden East

Well, not really. The west was what was forbidden to the easterners. The East was forbidding.

“In 1979/80 my family took part in the biggest espionage scandal that the former country of East-Germany saw in its entire 50 years of existence”

- Thomas Wagner, “If It Had Not Been for 15 Minutes”

Mr. Wagner’s story is a tense and fascinating one, and paints an honest, well rounded, and compelling portrait of the DDR that’s rarely found in the English language. Having livbed there myself (as a lucky foreigner who could leave,) I can attest to that.

They Invented Their Own Worst Stereotypes

Now iss de time on Schprockets venn ve tance.

Es ist zum Kotzen

In the early 1980s on the imaginary political frontline of the cold war, desperation was ripe. The western left wanted to disarm unilaterally, just to get the voices out of their heads. Common sense prevailed, and the resolute were victorius.

Looking back, the bleatings and howlings of the fearful seem pathetic, as their only best option was to maintain the status quo that imprisoned hundreds of millions of people east of the “Antifaschistische Schutzmauer”

Streaming TV URLs

Aggregators be damned!

BBC - mms://wm.bbc.net.uk/london/news/nb/londontv_16x9_nb.wmv
CBC North - http://a514.v8752d.c8752.g.vm.akamai.../northbeat.wmv
Russia Today - http://213.161.69.101/russia%20today?mswmext=.asf
Sky News - mms://live1.wm.skynews.servecast.net/skynews_wmlz_live300k
INTRACITV (French) - http://www.impek.com/go/inraci/wm
NASA TV - http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplayli...segment=149773
NHK English - http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/r0/high.asx
CBC Toronto - http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/newsatnoon/toronto.wmv
CBC Montreal [English] - http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/newsatsix/montreal.wmv
CBC Vancouver - http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/newsatnoon/vancouver.wmv
Webmir TV [Russian] - http://www.webmir.tv/tv/video/news.asx
BBC Politics - http://wwitv.com/stream/7689.asx
E-Music Television - http://broadcast.global-mix.net/?m=e-music&.wvx=
Livestation/Various [English] - http://www.livestation.com/channels
Cubavision - http://cubavision.cubasi.cu/Tvcubana
ZDF [German] - http://wstreaming.zdf.de/encoder/livestream6_h.asx
3sat [German] - http://wstreaming.zdf.de/encoder/3sat_vh.asx