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IRAN: U.S. satellite feeds to Iran jammed
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| July 9, 2003
| Robert Windrem
Posted on 07/10/2003 1:07:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:08:17 AM PDT
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Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Iran Mullahs will feel the heat from our Iraq victory!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Re #1
Death to mullahs! Fry them with microwave.
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:10:36 AM PDT
by
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Tailgunner Joe; tet68
Hello, Navy artillery? Prepare to take a free fire location please. I'd like to call in a heavy strike at the following coordinates...
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:16:36 AM PDT
by
risk
To: risk
It may come to that!
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:27:36 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Iran Mullahs will feel the heat from our Iraq victory!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Khashayar; DoctorZIn
It would be the perfect antecedant to Powell's groaning submission to the mullahs.
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posted on
07/10/2003 1:30:41 AM PDT
by
risk
(Allow me to retort!)
To: risk
Cuba
And just who is the Chinese client who is being jammed - Taiwanese?
Let me guess, the Chinese elint facility on Cuba is involved.
From the article:
A representative of one of the Iranian-American broadcasters said he suspected the jamming came from Cuba, which has excellent relations with Iran, but offered no proof.
And MSNBC would not dare try to support any publishing of supporting proof, like even mentioning the advanced elint facility.
No MSNBC probably wants to set up their own facilities in Cuba and want to curry the favor of Fidel.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:11:46 AM PDT
by
flamefront
(To the victor go the oils. No oil or oil-money for islamofascist weapons of mass annihilation.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We don't take kindly to having our satellites jammed.
It shouldn't take very long to locate the source if we're serious about finding it.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:12:25 AM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: flamefront; DB
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Time for BAY OF HOGS.
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:15:27 AM PDT
by
risk
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; freedom44
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posted on
07/10/2003 2:15:48 AM PDT
by
flamefront
(To the victor go the oils. No oil or oil-money for islamofascist weapons of mass annihilation.)
To: risk
I think Cuba, Venezuela helped Mullahs jam the senders.
Any update about it so far?
To: Khashayar
Just this old news, but it indicates a pattern of broadcast interference:
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TV Marti is a U.S. govt.-run TV station in Miami used to promote democracy in Cuba.
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It costs U.S. taxpayers almost $10 million a year to keep TV Martí going. But few if any Cubans see it. (ABCNEWS.com) |
Newscast to Nowhere
U.S. Taxpayers Pay for a Cuban Broadcast That No One Sees
By Jeffrey Kofman
![ABCNEWS.com](http://a.abcnews.com/images/abcnewscom_83x20.gif)
June 11 It's the newscast to nowhere courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
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From http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/YourMoney/wnt_CubaTV030611.html
Fifty-five reporters, editors and producers all U.S. government employees work seven days a week in a television newsroom in Miami. Each day they earnestly assemble, record and broadcast 4½ hours of news and information programming in Spanish.
And no one sees it.
The intended audience is the people of Cuba.
Like those Voice of America radio broadcasts the United States used to beam across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, TV Martí is meant to promote democracy in Communist Cuba. But since it began in 1990 the only thing it has successfully promoted is scorn here in the United States.
Because from the beginning, the Castro government has successfully blocked the TV Martí signal. It costs the Cuban government just pennies a day to operate the jamming antennas that are strategically perched on top of Havana's highest buildings.
It costs U.S. taxpayers almost $10 million a year more than $100 million since TV Martí began to keep broadcasting TV Martí's anti-Castro invective into the ether.
ABCNEWS Havana producer Mara Valdes checked to see if people on the streets of the Cuban capital had ever heard of the U.S.-based newscast that is produced just for them.
"No," said one man as he shook his head, "because I haven't seen it on TV."
"Never," added a woman, "because it can't be seen."
'Never Been Seen in Cuba'
"TV Martí has just never been seen in Cuba," said Republican Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., one of chorus of congressmen who think TV Martí's funding should have been cut long ago. His conclusion: "It's a jobs program. Frankly, I think it's a political payoff."
According to Flake, TV Martí is zealously protected by Miami's three Cuban-American congressional representatives who reward their hardline supporters with jobs.
"I'd like to say it's something different, but given the amount of time and effort we put in trying to change it and the resistance we had, you can only conclude that it's a jobs program," he said.
The newest director of TV Martí and its sister operation Radio Martí (which is heard in Cuba, although even U.S. reports suggest it has very few listeners) is Pedro Roig. A real estate lawyer with no broadcasting experience but deep roots in the anti-Castro exile community in Miami, Roig gets a salary of $132,000 a year.
"I am not looking at the past, but at the future," said Roig when asked what he has to say to critics of his newscast to nowhere. "And my answer to the critics is this: This could be a valid criticism. Give us a few months. Give us time."
Roig wants time to explore alternative methods of transmission. Possibly from a satellite although few Cubans have satellite dishes and possibly from a U.S. government broadcast plane that would make daily flights just outside Cuban airspace. He doesn't know what that would cost. And while he and others explore options. The news goes on. To nowhere.
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posted on
07/10/2003 3:57:20 AM PDT
by
risk
To: Khashayar
And this:
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-8-2003-42679.asp ----
Iran acts to stop anniversary student protest
The Iranian government is taking action to pre-empt possible unrest tonight on the eve of the anniversary of a crackdown on student protests by banning rallies and jamming satellite broadcasts from exiles in the US.
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posted on
07/10/2003 4:01:28 AM PDT
by
risk
To: Khashayar
http://www.spacedaily.com/2003/030612030728.d43r4jgw.html War of the frequencies being fought out over Iran's capital
TEHRAN (AFP) Jun 12, 2003
Like thousands of other Iranians, 19-year-old Elham enjoys watching Persian-language satellite TV broadcasts from overseas, even though viewing such channels and owning the equipment to receive them are strictly banned.
But in recent weeks, her television has been causing her problems: every so often, the picture drops out, giving way to streaks of interference or nothing at all coupled with the message "No or Bad Signal".
"They are sending those parasites again," she says with a sigh. "That was my favorite programme."
...
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posted on
07/10/2003 4:03:04 AM PDT
by
risk
To: risk
I'd like to call in a heavy strike at the following coordinates... I agree.
Lock and Load
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posted on
07/10/2003 4:38:20 AM PDT
by
Momaw Nadon
(The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open.)
To: risk
Firing for effect!
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:11:49 AM PDT
by
kerosene
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I hope it's not . . . RASPBERRY.
There's only one country who would DARE give us the raspberry --
Lone Star!
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:36:31 AM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Bumper sticker: "Keep honking -- I'm reloading")
To: risk; Poohbah
No, no, no.
You configure the seekers on a couple dozen HARMs to go for the frequency. You then shut off the feed to Telstar 12.
Then you send the HARMs after the jammers. :)
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:46:35 AM PDT
by
hchutch
(The National League needs to adopt the designated hitter rule.)
To: Constitution Day; Zavien Doombringer
The jamming story hit the "big news". Read on.
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posted on
07/10/2003 5:55:48 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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