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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:49:54 -0500
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From: Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
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Mal,

    I hope that now all the U.K. hams are RICH from the savings caused
by closing down the BBC that you will all buy oceanfront property and
erect large towers with the taxes money you are now saving ! No
excuses!
--=20
73 Warren K2ORS
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WD2XGJ
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 WD2XSH/23
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:43 AM, mal hamilton <g3kevmal@talktalk.net> wrot=
e:
> Confucius he say IF IT IS NOT PAYING CLOSE IT DOWN
> 1200 staff employed to keep it running !!!!
> =A3140 per licence to BBC and a criminal offence if it is not paid if yo=
u have
> a TV
> G3KEV
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Warren Ziegler" <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
> To: <rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:50 PM
> Subject: Re: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave
>
>
> John, Pete,
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I'll keep it brief since we are getting further off-t=
opic.
> I have two thoughts on the end of the BBC World Service on Shortwave:
>
> 1) The reliance on the Internet for program distribution is worrisome.
> One only need look at Egypt where the Internet is shut down, or China
> where it is censored.
>
> 2) The BBC World Service gives the U.K. considerable stature in the
> World, in other words the U.K. is a small country with a big voice and
> international role. Elimination of the World Service will make the
> U.K. just another small, non-descript country in the EU.
>
> 73 Warren K2ORS
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:20 AM, M0FMT <m0fmt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Warren
>>
>> My immediate response is that if you like it that much why not pay Engl=
ish
>> tax to help maintain it.
>>
>> However the BBC world service, the Government mouth-piece, is currently
>> funded by direct taxation which is probable more equitable than the new
> plan
>> which is to fund it out of the compulsory so called Licence Fee, collec=
ted
>> under threat of imprisonment, which is really a tax on a tax i.e. paid=
 out
>> of taxed income.
>>
>> This is the dark side of English culture.
>>
>> 73 es GL petefmt
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Warren Ziegler <wd2xgj@gmail.com>
>> To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org
>> Sent: Mon, 31 January, 2011 5:15:48
>> Subject: LF: OT End of the BBC World Service on Shortwave
>>
>> Sad day...
>>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/28/bbc-world-service-cuts-respo=
nse
>>
>> Guess I'll have to rely on the 198 longwave transmissions.
>>
>> --
>> 73 Warren K2ORS
>> WD2XGJ
>> WD2XSH/23
>> WE2XEB/2
>> WE2XGR/1
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> 73 Warren K2ORS
> WD2XGJ
> WD2XSH/23
> WE2XEB/2
> WE2XGR/1
>
>
>
>