#fax broadcasting

[gventuretech]

Fax Broadcasting into your communication strategies, you can enhance engagement, improve response rates, and achieve your business objectives more effectively. Embrace the fax  

[headcanons-phb]

IMPORTANT!!

KOSA, an intrinsically unconstitutional internet censorship bill, just passed the US Senate. But it has to pass the House of Representatives.

www.stopkosa.com

Write letters, make calls, and most importantly SPREAD THE WORD!

The internet is not a medium of broadcasting like TV or Radio, it is a method of communication like telephone, mail, or fax. It should not be censored, regulated, or held in any similar regard.

Talk about it, make your voices heard. Because otherwise, the presently unadulterated court of public opinion will be policed by the US government's discretion.

Also, I'm sure you don't want to have to submit your state ID or SSN anytime you want to see anything the US government would classify as porn, from hot people doing it, to any sort of LGBT or Reproductive Health information.

WWW.STOPKOSA.COM

[911-incorrect-quotes-dispatch]

*Ravi, after coming back to the 118*

Ravi: I missed you guys so much, how have you all been?

Buck: I've been a little *static noise*

Eddie: Same, feeling a little *prolonged beep*

Chim: Yeah, I get the *emergency broadcast* as well.

Hen: Totally agree, that *fax machine dial up noise* is so relatable.

Ravi: ...

[gothhabiba]

Hi, do you have any tips or ideas how to effectively contact eurovision broadcast stations and ask them to pressure ebu to drop israel from the competition? I'm about to try to organize a call campaign, but I'm stuck at the reasons why they should care. Because it stands in opposition with the 'european' values and could damage their image? I doubt they're going to care or believe that. Because otherwise we're going to boycott them? At best around 100 people will participate and the broadcast station knows most of the annual audience in my country is going to tune in anyway. I've seen you answer asks about how to organize things before and I've found your answers to be very helpful and insightful. I guess if we have no other threats or arguments, the threat is that we're going to keep pestering them about it lol, but maybe you or someone you know has any other ideas. Thanks in advance!

I'm sorry I haven't answered this ask; I don't have a good enough idea of how Eurovision features in people's routines to suggest ways of disrupting it from that end.

I'd suggest taking a look at this post listing things that artists and broadcasters have already been doing (and also looking through the notes, where people have added a couple more actions from different countries).

Broadcasters are certainly a good target for pressuring campaigns (and you say you're already planning a call campaign--also look into faxing if they have a fax number, since that disrupts day-to-day business as well). If you can get people to sign an open letter threatening a boycott (canvas grocery stores, cafes, anywhere with a reputedly liberal clientele), the threat might seem more credible.

Nations' selected artists are also potential targets. Artists or their teams might actually care about how people talk about them on social media.

Boycotts of Eurovisions' sponsors (Bailey's, MoroccanOil [an Israeli company], and Royal Caribbean Cruises) have also been called for [though note they're not on the BDS official shortlist], so all of the methods of encouraging consumer boycotts of goods also apply here.

Also check if BDS has a chapter in your country--it's very possible that people are already organising and strategising around this.

[theculturedmarxist]

INNOCENCE ABROAD: THE NEW WORLD OF SPYLESS COUPS

By David Ignatius

September 22, 1991

NOBODY WAS rude enough to say so during last week's confirmation hearings for Robert M. Gates to head the CIA, but the old era of covert action is dead. The world doesn't run in secret anymore. We are now living in the Age of Overt Action.

The great democratic revolution that has swept the globe over the past few years has been a triumph of overt action. The CIA old boys spent a generation fantasizing about this sort of global anti-communist putsch. But when it finally happened, it was in the open. There were no secret paramilitary armies, and there was almost no bloodshed. The key operatives in the conspiracy turned out to be telephones, televisions and fax machines.

Working in broad daylight, the United States and its allies were able to do things that would have been unthinkably dangerous had they been done in the shadows. Consider:

When Boris Yeltsin's aides were trying to rally support for their resistance in Moscow on Aug. 19, the first day of the coup, they needed to broadcast their defiant message to Russia and the world. One of them sent a fax to Allen Weinstein, a pro-democracy activist who heads a think tank in Washington.

"Did Mr. Bush make any comments upon the situation in this country?" implored the handwritten fax message. "If he did, make it known by all means of communication to the people of this country. The Russian government has no NO ways to address the people. All radio stations are under control. The following is {Boris Yeltsin's} address to the Army. Submit it to USIA. Broadcast it over the country. Maybe 'Voice of America.' Do it! Urgent!"

And it was done, in the open.

Next, it was time for the leader of the free world to contact the Kremlin rebel who was seeking to dismantle the Soviet empire and destroy the Communist Party. And how was this contact, arguably the most sensitive and delicate in the history of the Cold War, handled? George Bush called Boris Yeltsin on the telephone. And then he went on television and described his conversation.

We didn't need the CIA to support Yeltsin's countercoup. We just needed a telephone operator.

Preparing the ground for last month's triumph of overt action was a network of overt operatives who during the last 10 years have quietly been changing the rules of international politics. They have been doing in public what the CIA used to do in private -- providing money and moral support for pro-democracy groups, training resistance fighters, working to subvert communist rule. And, in contrast to many of the CIA's superannuated Cold Warriors, who tended to get tangled in their webs of secrecy, these overt operatives have been immensely successful.

There's an obvious lesson here for Gates, or whoever ends up heading the CIA. The old concept of covert action, which has gotten the agency into such trouble during the past 40 years, may be obsolete. Nowadays, sensible activities to support America's friends abroad (or undermine its enemies) are probably best done openly. That includes paramilitary operations such as supporting freedom fighters, which can be managed overtly by the Pentagon. And it includes political-support operations for pro-democracy activists, which may be best left to the new network of overt operators.

Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) thus has it half-right when he urges that the CIA be abolished. The main problem, contrary to what Moynihan says, is not with intelligence collection -- "spying," in its purest form. That part of the CIA needs to be strengthened, not cut.

What may need abolishing is the covert-action role that was awkwardly grafted onto the CIA's basic spying mission when the agency was created in 1947. The covert-action boys were known back then as the Office of Policy Coordination. It may be time, at last, to bid them adieu. They're obsolete. They've been privatized.

That's especially true in the realm of what used to be called "propaganda" and can now simply be called information. The CIA worked hard in the old days to draw foreign newspapers and magazines into its web, so as to counter Soviet disinformation. Frank Wisner, the head of CIA covert operations during the mid-1950s, once remarked that he could play his media assets like a "mighty Wurlitzer."

Today the mighty Wurlitzer actually exists. It's called CNN. But it doesn't need playing by anybody but the independent journalists who work there. CNN's objective, omnipresent, real-time coverage of the news helps America's interests more than all the besotted Third World "media assets" of old could ever have imagined. And the bar bills are less.

Allen Weinstein, the recipient of Yeltsin's faxes, is probably the dean of the new overt operatives. Like many of the people running the new nations of Eastern Europe, he's an ex-professor. He taught history at Smith College for 15 years and even worked for several months writing editorials for The Washington Post.

Weinstein's career as an overt operator dates back to 1980, when he joined Soviet dissidents in organizing a citizens' committee to monitor the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights. He quickly became connected with the network of pro-democracy activists who were then beginning to challenge anti-democratic regimes around the world. Soon he was sponsoring conferences for dissidents, arranging visits for them to the United States and otherwise making trouble.

"The networking phenomenon is one of the things we've specialized in," explains Weinstein. His visitors in those early days included some of the insurgents who were later to lead protest movements across Eastern Europe in 1989.

"People wander through your office," he says. "They become family."

Weinstein founded the Center for Democracy in 1984 as an umbrella for his global meddling. He dispatched election-monitoring teams to the Philippines, Panama and Nicaragua that are credited with having helped topple undemocratic regimes in those countries through the ballot box. By 1990, he was hosting meetings for newly elected Polish parliamentarians; for legislative clerks from Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland; and for constitution-drafters from those three countries.

Trenchcoats and tradecraft were irrelevant to these gatherings. The key man in Weinstein's overt operation was the rapporteur.

Boris Yeltsin and his aides were soon drawn into this transatlantic hospitality suite. They attended Weinstein's conferences, including one on environmental problems held in Moscow in early August, which was co-sponsored by Weinstein's center and the Russian republic. When the hard-liners launched their putsch a few days later, the Yeltsin aides naturally enough began sending faxes to their friend, Weinstein. The first one read simply: "It is military coup. Tanks are everywhere."

Now, with the KGB in retreat from Prague to Vladivostok, Weinstein has scheduled a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria on the topic: "The Proper Role of Intelligence Agencies in a Democracy." That may be rubbing it in.

Amazingly enough, these simple pro-democracy activities were once the exclusive province of the CIA. Back in the heyday of the Cold War, the wizards of Langley seemed to think it necessary to "recruit" the world's democrats and give them code names.

The covert mentality penetrated nearly every aspect of American life. The mandarins decided that American students should attend international conferences and youth festivals to counteract Soviet propaganda. So the CIA secretly began funding the National Student Association. Anti-communist intellectuals in Europe were deemed worthy of aid, so the CIA subsidized the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Encounter magazine. It was decided that we should help democratic parties in Europe resist communist pressure. The CIA did it covertly.

No activity was so innocent that the CIA didn't think it could be improved by secrecy.

Even Gloria Steinem, now a feminist leader, was drawn into the CIA covert web. According to CIA historian John Ranelagh, she was involved in a CIA operation to send American students to World Youth festivals in Vienna in 1959 and Helsinki in 1962.

When these covert activities surfaced (as they inevitably did), the fallout was devastating. The CIA connection, intended to protect people and organizations from public embarrassment, had precisely the opposite effect.

"A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA," agrees Weinstein. The biggest difference is that when such activities are done overtly, the flap potential is close to zero. Openness is its own protection.

Allen Weinstein is just one of many overt operatives who helped prepare the way for the political miracles of the past two years by sponsoring exchanges and other contacts with liberal reformers from the East. It's worth naming a few more of them, to show the breadth of this movement for democracy: William Miller of the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations; financier George Soros of the Soros Foundation; John Mroz of the Center for East-West Security Studies; John Baker of the Atlantic Council; and Harriett Crosby of the Institute for Soviet-American Relations. This has truly been a revolution by committee.

The AFL-CIO also deserves a healthy pat on the back. Working mostly in the open, it helped keep the Polish trade union Solidarity alive in the dark days of martial law during the early 1980s. As the AFL-CIO's Adrian Karatnycky wrote in these pages two years ago, American trade unions and the U.S. Congress provided millions of dollars to the Solidarity underground.

"The money underwrote shipments of scores of printing presses, dozens of computers, hundreds of mimeograph machines, thousands of gallons of printers' ink, hundreds of thousands of stencils, video cameras and radio broadcasting equipment," according to Karatnycky.

The sugar daddy of overt operations has been the National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-private group headed by Carl Gershman that is funded by the U.S. Congress. Through the late 1980s, it did openly what had once been unspeakably covert -- dispensing money to anti-communist forces behind the Iron Curtain.

To read through the NED's grant list (a public document) is to take a stroll down the democracy movement's memory lane: In Czechoslovakia, the endowment began aiding democratic forces in 1984, including support for Civic Forum; in Hungary, the aid began in 1986 and included election help and funding for Hungary's first independent public-opinion survey; in Romania and Bulgaria, the endowment has supported new intellectual journals and other tools of democracy. Among its many activities in Poland, the endowment has backed the Gdansk Video Center, which helped produce and distribute pro-democracy videos throughout Eastern Europe during the 1980s. And through the Free Trade Union Institute and the Center for International Private Enterprise, the endowment helped support new unions and employers' associations across Eastern Europe -- building the infrastructure of a free economy.

The endowment has also been active inside the Soviet Union. It has given money to Soviet trade unions; to the liberal "Interregional Group" in the Congress of Peoples Deputies; to a foundation headed by Russian activist Ilya Zaslavsky; to an Oral History Project headed by Soviet historian Yuri Afanasyev; to the Ukrainian independence movement known as Rukh, and to many other projects.

Covert funding for these groups would have been the kiss of death, if discovered. Overt funding, it would seem, has been a kiss of life.

David Ignatius is foreign editor of The Washington Post and author of "Siro," a spy novel.

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for August 16; 2014; #58.

Paperwhite “Magic”

X Priest X “Isn’t It So”

Das Racist “Shorty Said” (Gordon Voidwell RMX)

Twin Shadow “Castles In The Snow” (Com Truise RMX)

Rustie f. Danny Brown “Attak”

Tycho “Spectre”

Samantha Vacation “Samantha’s Vacation”

Legowelt “Teen Romance”

Mary Velo “Manhattan Project” (Silent Servant RMX)

Svengalisghost “High Heel Sleaze”

Ron Morelli “Slowly Losing Sight”

Alexander Von Borsig “Napalm”

Black Marble “MSQ No-Extra”

Fad Gadget “Ricky’s Hand”��(“King Of The Flies”)

Linear Movement “Due To You”

Ashrae Fax “Catchexpanddisrupt”

Caustic Window “101 Rainbows Ambient Mix”

Fuck Buttons “Okay, Let’s Talk About Magic”

Omar Souleyman “Kell Il Banat Inkhatban (All The Girls Are Engaged)”

Muslimgauze “Hamas Cinema Gaza Strip”

Cut Hands “Madwoman”

Siamgda “Dawn Frequency”

Sun Ra “Nuclear War”

Deluxe broadcast; all electronics.

[planetary]

tagged by @coolerdracula yaaay

last song you listened to: lol um. no children 🏔️🐐s

last movie you watched: oh man i have no idea what it was called, some random lifetime movie that was on at work

currently watching: youtube videos mostly but right this second im watching. muted news broadcast someone left on at work

other things you’ve watched this year: umm. barbie movie. fionna and cake. 1 episode of link click season 2. uhh. barbie diamond castle movie. like 1 trillion youtube videos…

currently reading: this is how you lose the time war

currently listening to: the fax machine just beeped real loud if that counts 😋

currently working on: umm. well finishing a run of bg3 i guess. filling out this dumbass paperwork at my gay job. eating 1 slice of white bread. moving the couch. nothing too exciting

current obsession: ive been really into peach mango juice and blueberry pomegranate juice lately …

now YOU🫵 must share information. @haptism @givrali @danhengil @oars @conways @aaitwo @mafuteru @hollowslantern @dra9on @causticwit i dont know how many people im supposed to tag actually um i guess 10 is probably correct

[samanitamuscaria]

PALESTINE MASTERLIST

A collection of resources for learning about and helping Palestine, on and off tumblr

(I will be editing this post as I find more resources)

Last updated: 08/27/24

I haven’t been on Tumblr for a while, so if anything on here is incorrect or outdated, let me know

LEARN:

Decolonize Palestine - A site made by Palestinians. Contains the full history of Palestine (pre and post Israeli occupation), debunks common myths about Palestine, and has lists of resources for learning more and taking action

Al Jazeera Coverage - Al Jazeera is a news site based in the Middle East. They have live updates and go into depth on everything going on. (I personally listen to their Live broadcast while I do stuff to stay updated)

Free Ebooks About Palestine - 3 free ebooks from Haymarket. If you’re willing to pay, Haymarket has a lot of non-free books about Palestine as well. They also host events about Palestine - just go to the ‘Events’ page and see if there are any you can attend. Many are free and available online.

Google Drive with 2700 ebooks on Israel/Palestine

Even MORE free ebooks

Yet again more free ebooks

The Palestine Directory - A compilation of free-to-access links to learn about Palestine and its history

Palestine Academy - a website with tons of info about Palestine and what you can do to help

B’tselem - an Israeli human rights organization dedicated to documenting the ongoing Palestinian genocide

Advocating for Palestine - A free pdf of a booklet supported by Bisan explaining and debunking common Israeli propaganda tactics

PDF of South Africa’s application to the UN to investigate Israel for genocide - Provides a TON of info and facts about the genocide, before and after October 7

Here’s a post compiling EVEN MORE resources to learn more

ACT:

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights - If you go to their ‘Act’ page, they have a variety of actions you can take. They provide a script for a phone call to your reps and will patch you in to a call with them, have a list of upcoming protests, and more. You can also donate to them.

Jewish Voice For Peace - Similarly to USCPR, they have several ways you can take action, with campaigns, scripts for your emailing/calling your reps, and more. You can donate to them as well

Donate E-sims to Gaza - Gaza’s communications is under constant threat. Donating e-sims helps Gazans connected.

Archive what you can - Archiving info so that it’s available no matter what happens on Social Media is its own form of activism

Boycott, Divest, and Sanction - There’s a lot of huge lists out there with hundreds of brands to boycott. This isn’t feasible and isn’t what Palestinians are asking for. BDS, run by Palestinians, has its own shorter list of companies that have the greatest impact on Palestine. If you want to boycott other companies, go ahead, but please focus on the ones on the BDS site!

Fax Your Reps - 5 free faxes per day

Join/Donate to Palestine Action - Palestine Action is an organization focused on using direct action to bring down Elbit, a weapons’s manufacturer that sends weapons to Israel

Operation Olive Branch - a spreadsheet compiling a list of gofundmes from Palestinians and other groups in crisis

If you have any links you think I should add or have an issue with any of the links I currently have, please let me know!

[blowflyfag]

Pro Wrestling Illustrated: September 1996

press conference…

Every issue, reporters from PRO WRESTLING ILLUSTRATED will participate in an incisive press conference with a top wrestling star. The questions will be demanding. And the answers will reveal the innermost thoughts of the giants of the sport.

JERRY LAWLER

[Lawler and Vince McMahon make for an interesting broadcasting duo on WWF Monday Night Raw telecasts. “The King” thinks WWF telecasts would be more entertaining if he alone did the commentary.]

JERRY LAWLER EXEMPLIFIES the term renaissance man. Besides being wrestling’s premiere monarch, Lawler has displayed his skills as a cartoonist and has shown promise as a color commentator on WWF telecasts.

Lately, though, he has taken the latter to extremes. Not content with just wrestling or just commentating, Lawler decided to try combining the two. On two occasions, he wrestled preliminary WWF opponents with a wireless microphone in tow. The intent of this was not to use the microphone as a weapon (though he ended up doing that), but rather to give Lawler a chance to do his own commentary during the match–to show his skills in both vocations.

Lawler’s controversial ways earn him the ire of fans and journalists. Yet he still remains a hot commodity for interviews. When editors of PRO WRESTLING ILLUSTRATED approached him about participating in this issue’s “Press Conference,” he initially refused. He claimed that he was weary of the “stupid and inane” questions from the “peasants of journalism.”

After some persuasion, Lawler agreed, but on his terms. He would select the interviewer. With the terms set, the only issue left unresolved was when. Days after he agreed, he surprised us with a phone call. “I got it,” he said. “I’ll fax you the transcript now.” Shocked by the sudden completion of this assignment, we asked Lawler about the identity of the interviewer. 

“The best interviewer in the world,” he replied. “Me!” 

The following is a transcript of the “interview” Jerry Lawler conducted with Jerry Lawler. He met the conditions that PWI established, so we have an obligation to present this “dialogue” to you. 

JERRY LAWLER: Welcome to this very special press conference, Mr. oh,–I'm sorry–”King” Lawler, your royal highness. 

JERRY LAWLER: Thank you for that gracious welcome. I’d say I don’t deserve it, but we all know I do.

LAWLER: You certainly do. So tell me this: what’s it like to be the greatest wrestler and greatest commentator of all-time?

LAWLER: You’re forgetting about my artistic skills. I am also the greatest cartoonist of all-time. Forget that Steve Anderson kid. He couldn’t draw a crowd. He entered a “Draw Tippy” contest and his entry was sent back “Return to Sender, Said Drawing Stinks.”

[“The future of wrestling begins and ends with me. By the end of this year, I will be atop both the USWA and the WWF!”]

LAWLER: You are so correct, “King.” How could I forget? So tell me about your glorious career. What would you say is your greatest accomplishment?

LAWLER: You talk as if my career is over. It’s just beginning.

LAWLER: Okay then, your highness. Your greatest accomplishment thus far?

LAWLER: I could point to the countless titles that I have won. I could point to the historic matches that I have accentuated with brilliant commentary. But there is one achievement that stands out among the rest. 

LAWLER: Well, please don’t keep me in suspense, “King.” What would that be?

LAWLER: That would be totally embarrassing and humiliating the dysfunctional, in-bred brood known as the Hart family.

LAWLER: Funny, that’s just what I would have guessed.

LAWLER: Of course that excludes Owen. That apple fell far from that tree. In fact, that tree didn’t produce as many apples as it did ugly sticks.

LAWLER: If you look at it objectively, you’d have to say that they are an attractive group to say the least.

LAWLER: No doubt about it. The butcher shops in Calgary did great business. Stu and Helen had to buy pounds of pork chops to hang around each of their kids’ necks to get the dogs to play with them.

LAWLER: Stu and Helen aren’t exactly raving beauties themselves. 

LAWLER: When they first woke up in each other’s arms, they acted like coyotes.

LAWLER: Coyotes? LAWLER: They each gnawed off their arm out of fear of waking the other.

LAWLER: (Laughing) You’re so funny “King,” you ought to be a standup comedian. 

LAWLER: Who do you think was the original choice to replace Johnny Carson?

LAWLER: You?

LAWLER: You bet. They wanted my snappy repartee to be a part of The Tonight Show With Jerry Lawler. But I shot them down. That Jay Leno was a least-minute attempt to salvage their show.

LAWLER: Back to wrestling, the area you excel in most. Look into your crystal ball. Give us your keen insight on the future of wrestling.

LAWLER: The future of wrestling begins and ends with me. By the end of this year, I will be atop both the USWA and the WWF! 

[It doesn’t matter if it’s Duke Droese he’s in the ring with or any other WWF superstar–Lawler is always with or any other WWF superstar–Lawler is always very animated when he wrestles, but never more so than when he carried around a microphone during tow recent matches.]

LAWLER: What else is in store for wrestling?

LAWLER: I will become the only commentator on WWF shows. McMahon, Ross, and “Pee Wee” Pettengill will all realize the greatness that is Jerry Lawler. They will crawl back under the rocks where they got their broadcasting degrees.

LAWLER: And “Mr Perfect”?

LAWLER: With all due respect to him, I showed my superiority as a wrestler when I stripped him of that AWA belt. Even he would have to admit my greatness as a broadcaster. He could maybe serve as a sidekick, like Ed McMahon.

LAWLER: Anything else?

LAWLER: I will be elected WWF president. 

LAWLER: What would be your first executive decision as WWF president? LAWLER: Aside from changing the title to “King,” I would create a rule that says I can never be beaten. Wait, I wouldn’t have to do that. But these cheating wrestlers and referees would make it necessary.

LAWLER: These are bold predictions.

LAWLER: Did you see me manhandle Shawn Michaels on Raw? He was overwhelmed by my technical ability. Even though he got that fast three-count after that illegal kick of his, the match was as easy as the ones I did my commentary on. 

LAWLER: I’m glad you brought that up. Where did you get that great idea?

LAWLER: Well, being the brilliant wrestler that I am, I needed to make it more challenging. I was tired of the insane comments of McMahon, so I thought Who better to comment on “The King” than “The King” himself?! 

LAWLER: Kind of like this interview?

LAWLER: Absolutely. Michaels was lucky I left the mike in my dressing room that night. He would have received a physical and verbal lashing. Maybe next year the main event for WrestleMania will be WWF champion me vs. some nameless idiot, featuring the commentary of me! 

LAWLER: That would make for record-breaking pay per-view buy rates

LAWLER: Right, you are!

LAWLER: “King,” if you could, please comment on the following wrestlers.

LAWLER: Fire away, my friend! 

LAWLER: Goldust.

LAWLER: He may look like Tammy Faye Bakker, but he’s bringing prestige and class to that Intercontinental belt.

LAWLER: Yokozuna.

LAWLER: Even Slim Fast can’t cure him.

LAWLER: Diesel.

LAWLER: Finally woke up from that fan favorite slumber. It’s great to see him kickin’ his little buddy’s butt again! 

LAWLER: Ahmed Johnson.

LAWLER: Needs to lay off Bret Hart’s hair oil. It’s all over his body.

LAWLER: Mankind.

LAWLER: Makes that Unabomber guy look like a fine upstanding citizen.

[Lawler might never stop feuding with Bret Hart. he still thinks and talks about him a lot and considers embarrassing “The Hitman” and his family his greatest accomplishment.]

LAWLER: Jeff Jarett.

LAWLER: “Double-J” is a friend to the end. His talents almost match mine. 

LAWLER: So true. And, finally, Sunny.

LAWLER: Hey, you more than anyone know my policy on that one. I never kiss and tell. 

LAWLER: So, “King,” why don’t you tell the readers why you selected me to do the interview.

LAWLER: That’s the easiest question of all. I’ve been interviewed by all these yellow journalists at PWI. Lenker, Rosenbaum, Rodriguez, Anderson. I’m tired of the same stupid questions over and over again. 

LAWLER: Don’t forget all those misquotes. 

[Before Jesse James Armstong turned fan favorite in the USWA several months ago, Lawler humbled him a few times. He has been a wrestler for two decades, but he says his career is still just beginning.]

LAWLER: I can’t tell you how many times my words were twisted to make me look like a fool.

LAWLER: Then why me?

LAWLER: Because, frankly, you’re the only one I trust. Who knows “The King” better? Who better appreciates the many talents that I have? Definitely not that jealous staff of PWI.

LAWLER: Maybe there's a future for you as a journalist.

LAWLER: I’m a busy man with too much talent. 

LAWLER: Well, this will definitely go down as the most fair and comprehensive interview in the history of PWI. Thank you for selecting me.

LAWLER: I definitely echo those sentiments. It’s been our pleasure. 

[still-single]

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Most recent show above, here's the tracklist:

The Damned – New Rose

Tyvek – Air Conditioner

Sleepyhead – Fairyboat

The Summer Hits – Groovier Drugs

Hackamore Brick – Searchin’

The Raspberries – Tonight

The Necks – Forming

FACS – Slogan

Ulrika Spacek – Diskbänksrealism

The Teardrop Explodes – Read it in Books

Ruth – Mescalito

Bardo Pond – Tommy Gun Angel

Horse Lords – Zero Degree Machine (live)

The Lost Days – Gonna Have to Tell You

My Dad Is Dead – Babe in the Woods

Cosey Mueller – False Confidence

Galcher Lustwerk – Fathomless Irie

D-Train – You’re the One for Me

The Jesus and Mary Chain – Sugar Ray

Tindersticks – Before You Close Your Eyes

Fever Ray – New Utensils

Georgie Red – If I Say Stop Then Stop!

Camp Lo – Luchini (This Is It)

Ultramarine – Saratoga (Peel Session)

Fax Yourself – Sunshine 89

Gran Am – Get High

Steel Pole Bath Tub – Surrender

The Sweet – The Juicer

Triplett Twins – Pretty Please

Subway Sect – Ambition

Shellac – Wingwalker

The Fall – Look, Know / Backdrop (Live in Reykjavik)

Animal Sounds – Michigan Red Squirrel

Panel Donor – Ana/Kata

Yura Yura Teikoku – Evil Car

Bodine – Short Time Woman/Oakland

[chocoholicbec]

[Image description:

Three "Bertstrips", screenshots from Sesame Street with sinister or darkly humorous text.

Image 1: A giant cookie with sad eyes and mouth next to Cookie Monster. Text: 'At first Cookie Monster was confused why he was sent to hell by God, but then he realized that the sinners had all been turned into cookies. He wasn't being punished, he was the punishment.'

Image 2: Ernie holding a potted plant. Text: '"I like to use my victims as fertilizer to grow small plants, which I then send to the victim's family as a condolence present. Most people neglect potted plants they receive as gifts. So, in a way, it's like they're letting their children die all over again."'

Image 3: Ernie sitting next to Bert at a table, a microphone hanging from the ceiling above their heads. Text: 'Bert and Ernie had worked together as morning drivetime radio hosts for 20 years. They'd traded jokes, played pop music, and generally made people's lives a touch brighter as they trundled to work. Now, though, there was silence on the air. Ernie silently reread the fax message from the Department of Defense. As licensed broadcasters they were legally obligated to alert the public, to tell them the nukes were flying and that in a few minutes all the world's troubles would be over. What, though, was the point of that? To torture people with the knowledge of something they couldn't change? Their eyes met and a decision was reached. Bert put on their most requested song, a sugary top 40 tune while Ernie produced a bottle of bourbon from under the desk. As their producer banged on the locked studio door the colleagues toasted the end of a long career. Bert, always the consummate professional, turned away from the window as the first explosion split the distant horizon. He straightened his tie, tucked in his shirt, and brushed his hair back. He would meet his fiery death with dignity. He turned to Ernie and said in a quiet, resigned voice, "How do I look, Ernie?" Ernie walked slowly over to his friend. He looked into Bert's face and saw the closeness they shared, the strength of their relationship, forged over the years. He took a deep breath and spoke quietly: "With your eyes, Bert."'

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Pictures like this were everywhere back in my day but now theyre all gone

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Fuck your peaceful transfer of power, it’s time to get to work.

The rest of the world has known civil war and it has known fascism and for a lot of us even in the global north this is living memory. We’ve been there. The US doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel. Let us introduce you to the concept of sabotage.

Everyone has their role to play. It’s very important. As you organise:

• do a skills audit of your local group. If your group intends to be cross-states, share safely.

• mind any marginalisation (disability, immigration status, gender identity). You have a duty of care to your comrades. They’re not on the front lines unless they decide they will be of themselves.

• do a risk assessment before any sortie. If one protest / target isn’t what you think you can handle, don’t go. This would distract your comrades and you might be needed elsewhere (broadcast channels, jail support etc).

NON VIOLENT SABOTAGE

everyone, join a union. Don’t do it in January, do it now. Is your workplace not unionized? Then step up and do it. Does your workplace have union-busting practices? Call the national lawyer guild. Here is a handy guide to start a union. https://aflcio.org/formaunion

Collective bargaining has way more power than US civics would want you to think and this is why they don’t want you to unionize. Through union organising, you can train, mobilize, and have access to national networks of likeminded workers. Because the point of sabotage is to bring the country to a standstill.

The fash think they can govern? No. No pasaran.

IF YOU ARE A CIVIL SERVANT

• refuse to enforce any local laws that contravene human rights

• delay any enforcement through extreme use of bureaucracy. You can also switch to obsolete channels such as fax machines or using old photocopiers to mail hard copies instead of scanning a .pdf.

• any change implemented in your department that comes from the top will trigger an immediate negotiation with the union(s).

IF YOU WORK IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

• painstakingly delay any tabling of legislation through bureaucracy

• support congresspeople in filibustering every piece of legislation. Protesters and activists should also be ready to demand of every single Democrat lawmaker to filibuster, review and delay every piece of legislation, even the most innocuous one.

• congresspeople should be in regular conversation, through their teams, with human rights organizations monitoring across to civil and human rights. They should also have immediate press contacts in order to broadcast to the world every single detail of the Trump administration. People will need to know. No one will be able to say they didn’t.

IF YOU WORK IN EDUCATION

• organise with likeminded colleagues and attempt to refuse to implement and teach any new curriculum that would rewrite history

• once your classroom door is shut, teach your students even at primary level what you would have taught before curriculum changes. Explain to them, age-appropriately, what is going on outside.

• follow, either individually or with your union, trauma-informed education practices. Some of your students will be in crosshairs. Some of their families might be radicalized. Keeping the peace inside the classroom will mean acknowledging the harm done to children.

• come together with your teacher’s union with a sign - logo, symbol - something on a pin that, without being too public domain, could signal you are a safe person for your students who may or are at risk

• refuse to collaborate with any request made by federal law enforcement about the address or country of origin of one of your students. I have a million links on resisting deportations and Tumblr isn’t letting me post any of them. But it starts with white lies and you need to start being comfortable with it very quickly.

• organise at national level and through unions on implementing safeguarding practices including de-escalation techniques

IF YOU WORK IN HEALTH CARE

• you will be frontline in addressing the consequence of the violence that will inevitably rise. Prepare yourself emotionally and physically. Retain mental health support.

• through your union, provide a refresher on safeguarding roles in health care and look for a symbol to agree upon to signify to your patients you are a safe person.

• link with local grassroots abortion networks. They will need doctors, nurses, orderlies at every level to be able to assist medical abortions and to book a post abortion patient in the event of a difficulty without raising any alarms

• you will need to agree upon ways in which you will have to break the law. You will have to be comfortable with it. You will have to lie to law enforcement and you will have to probably switch medical files around or tamper with a recording system - could be on abortion, could be on medication, could be to help a DV victim escape. Those networks exist already. Find them.

IF YOU WORK IN FACTORY PRODUCTION

• time to drop any McCarthyism on the side because we will need to seize the means of production

• fascists’ point of sell is the ability to lower inflation by restoring manufacturing. Go on strike. No point more complicated than that. The economy has to tank.

• National strikes especially in the automobile and weapons factories sector are paramount. UAW and AFL-CIO should lead the front of the resistance. If nothing gets made, nothing is sold, meaning the sector tanks.

• if you have any issues with tanking the economy, fix them internally quick. Yes, it will suck. Yes, it won’t help the poor. But neither is granting fascism the leverage of economic supremacy. We must prove fascism can’t ever be rewarded. Walk out.

• if for financial reasons long term walkouts are not doable, interlude with extremely slow production. Be as incompetent as you possibly can. Drop elements. Make mistakes. Etc

• unions have strike funds. The rest of us, even if not members of that union, should immediately start donating to strike funds.

IF YOU WORK IN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY

• you’re a crucial cog in the machine. Start contacting your local organising groups and offer free workshops / training sessions on operational security (opsec), surveillance laws, and digital safety. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) already has a lot of starter packs.

• assist in the connection and facilitation of information for endangered groups. Donate your time and resources as a white hat to secure documents necessary for groups to organise. Regularly run counter-surveillance tests.

• scramble signals.

IF YOU WORK IN JOURNALISM AND IN LAW

• we will be the ones first attacked. We must be silent for the rest to take place.

• lawyers, time to get to work. Most of you already know. Now, resurrect those dead group chats with journalists and let’s all talk about what we see; our cases; the arguments we hear.

• journalists will be under extreme pressure to self-censor if that’s not already the case. We must also share information with overseas news outlets, through wires and websites. Consider applying to be a US correspondent with foreign outlets. They will allow you to print what you can’t at home.

• create and maintain archives. They can be in hard copy or online (a database would have to be secured). Keep any correspondence that interferes with your press freedom. Contact the Committee To Protect Journalists and Index on Censorship.

• create anonymous social media accounts and use them for stories that have been censored. Share information your legal department has vetoed. Create a parallel journalism. Revive the use of FM radios.

• lawyers will need to seek TROs at every level. Nothing should pass or should be heavily delayed. In-house counsel should be ready to contact the OPC and declare any interference with our ethical standards. The ABA will be pressured to grow a spine. The NLG will continue to provide training on law enforcement interaction and arrest support.

That’s only the beginning. Bring this country to a standstill. Be unequivocal and drop any pretense of “healing”. Get to work.

[lindsay-robles17]

Blog Post 1: Digital Media

What I know about digital media is that it's not just what you scroll through on social media or social media itself. It is the aspects that form what we know to be media and all the details that go behind it. Such as the applications involved in forming posts, coding to create a webpage, the different colors you see when scrolling through the web, or even a funny meme you see on Instagram. Digital media is composed of audio, applications, visual, and codes that create what we see and use on a daily basis on the internet. Digital media came in many different forms long before the internet such as through ads on the tv, radio broadcasting, fax machines and printing and through email. The five basic forms of digital media are video, audio, text, images and mixed media. When using them in unison it creates a wide variety of options on what to create and where to direct that creativity in terms of media outlets. I've seen a lot of digital media implemented into ads. Ads like the Geico commercials and how they use CGI to create the gecko on the screen and the transitions are part of digital media. In comparison, ads like the Fuccillo Kia commercials are filmed with all real people but the applications they used to make the ad and all the digital information they placed in the ad is part of digital media. Digital media doesn't have to be done in a certain way because their are countless ways and options that digital media can be put out into the web. As digital media continues to grow and take on different forms, I wonder how AI will further shape it. Now with different AI sites up and running such as ChatGpt and Jasper, I feel that it will change the way digital media is perceived I'm just not sure how it will do so yet. Will digital media be brought about solely through AI or will it become something that coexists to enhance digital media in a positive light? With the use of AI, I think that it will enhance audience reach in digital media. At least that will be one of the forms in which it alters digital media. With new websites or people that need to get their product out there and known, AI could be an effective tool to do just that. It's shown that with AI, more will begin to make better analytic decisions. As digital media continues to grow, so will the characteristics that make it what it is today and what make it in the future. It is through digital media that we have this vast majority of information at our disposal that will continue to exponentially grow and we get to use it in a variety of different ways.

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Best Power Dialer Solutions

In today’s competitive call center environment, choosing the right tools is crucial for optimizing efficiency and achieving exceptional results. VICIDial Cloud provides top-notch power dialer solutions designed to address the unique challenges faced by call centers in the United States, particularly those focusing on outbound sales and customer engagement. This guide will delve into the features, benefits, and key factors to consider when selecting the best power dialer for your business.

What is a Power Dialer?

A power dialer is an advanced call automation tool that automatically dials numbers from a contact list, connecting agents with live calls immediately after ending the previous one. Unlike auto dialers, which may call multiple numbers at once, power dialers aim to minimize idle time while maintaining a steady flow of outbound calls. This makes them ideal for sales teams and call centers seeking to increase outreach without overwhelming agents.

Predictive Dialer vs. Power Dialer

Both predictive and power dialers enhance call efficiency, but they operate differently. A predictive dialer uses algorithms to dial multiple numbers and predicts when an agent will be available, which can reduce wait times between calls but may result in higher abandoned call rates. In contrast, a power dialer dials one number at a time, ensuring agents are always connected to live calls. This makes power dialers especially effective for high-quality sales conversations and customer service interactions.

Benefits of Power Dialers

Increased Outbound Productivity: Automates dialing, allowing agents to focus on live conversations and significantly boosting call volume.

Improved Customer Engagement: Connects agents only to live calls, leading to more meaningful interactions and better customer satisfaction.

Enhanced Sales Performance: Enables sales teams to reach more prospects quickly, increasing the chances of closing deals and driving revenue.

Reduced Idle Time: Minimizes time spent waiting between calls, optimizing agents’ workdays and maximizing productivity.

TCPA Compliance: Designed to comply with Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) regulations, ensuring legal adherence.

How to Choose the Best Power Dialer for Your Business

Organization Size: Larger call centers may need more advanced features and scalability.

Dialer Type: Consider if the dialer needs to integrate with other systems, such as CRM or VoIP, or if it should have specific features like time zone management or call recording.

Business Goals: Choose a power dialer that aligns with your objectives, whether it’s increasing sales, improving customer service, or reducing idle time.

Features: Look for essential features like CRM integration, answering machine detection, call transfer, and remote access to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Power Dialer Features

CRM Integrations: Integrate with CRM systems to track customer details and personalize calls.

Answering Machine Detection: Identify calls answered by machines, allowing options to leave a message or hang up.

Call Transfer: Let contacts leave a message or transfer to a live agent by pressing a digit.

Remote Access: Allow agents to work remotely and transfer calls across various devices.

Callback and Call Forwarding: Manage callbacks for unanswered calls and connect them to agents when available.

Time Zone Management: Regulate calling times based on the contact’s time zone while adhering to TCPA regulations.

Do Not Call List Management: Avoid calling contacts on the Do Not Call list to ensure compliance and maintain trust.

Voice Message Broadcasting: Send pre-recorded messages to a large audience efficiently.

Insights and Analytics: Use detailed reports to evaluate call performance and identify effective strategies.

Unproductive Number Filtering: Filter out busy signals, voicemails, or fax signals to route only live calls to agents.

Interactive Dashboard: Monitor and analyze outbound campaigns in real-time with an interactive dashboard.

Contact List Management: Efficiently upload and manage contact lists for smooth operations and targeted outreach.

Read more:https://www.vicidialcloud.com/best-power-dialer-solutions/

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India has successfully filled global positions in all media and entertainment sectors

The media and entertainment industry consists of film, print, radio, and television. These segments include movies, TV shows, radio shows, news, music, newspapers, magazines, and books. It includes physical and online newspapers and magazines, television, radio, billboards, telephone and the Internet, fax and billboards. It describes the various ways through which we communicate in society. Because it refers to all means of communication, everything ranging from a telephone call to the evening news on television can be called media. Entertainment is something that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience’s attention. Although people’s attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognizable and familiar. In general, media and entertainment jobs include reporters, correspondents, and broadcast news analysts; writers and authors; editors; photographers; graphic designers; translators; film and video editors and camera operators; broadcast and sound engineering technicians; announcers; producers and directors; and performers—from actors to musicians and composers. The workers who are behind the scenes and focused on the business side are public relations people, talent agents and representatives, marketing managers, entertainment lawyers, and distribution workers, among others. Media & Entertainment Recruitment Agency in India is expected to grow at a much faster rate than the global average growth rate.

Media and entertainment jobs include reporters, correspondents, and broadcast news analysts, writers and authors, film and video editors and camera operators, broadcast and sound engineering technicians, producers and directors, announcers, and performers-from actors to musicians and composers. The workers who are behind the scenes and focused on the business side are public relations people, talent agents and representatives, marketing managers, entertainment lawyers, and distribution workers, among others. In addition to finding careers in film and media production, preservation and distribution, their graduates thrive in fields including technology, business and marketing, academic and the arts. They succeed because the skills they have mastered, from interpreting to maximizing the effects of multimedia communications, are essential to modern life and work. Best Media & Entertainment Recruitment Agency in India that give best services in recruitment sector. They flourish because they are future-ready, prepared to apply their skills to today’s medias cape.

Recruitment is a key part of human resource management and supported by the hiring manager and others involved in the hiring manager and others involved in the hiring process. Skilled recruitment efforts will make a company stand out and be more attractive to potential employees. Recruitment agencies are external firms that find suitable candidates for employers. They are tasked by employers to find candidates for vacant positions within their organization to save time and money and access the extended candidate net that a direct advert and company network cannot reach. Top Media & Entertainment Recruitment Agency in India can help in this regard. Hiring the right person is important, and with today’s competitive job market an employer can look through hundreds of applications to find a suitable candidate to interview. The major recruitment for media professionals is that they need to have creative mind, excellent communication skill and ability to grow well in environment. In the age of high competition in media and entertainment industry, companies need talented professionals who are right fit for the work role and well conversant with social media. The job is very different in this industry, so companies require dynamic recruitment solutions for their company.

One of the benefits of entertainment media is that it gives people amusement. Through consuming content for the purposes of entertainment, a person gets to unwind from a stressful day of work or school. Furthermore, entertainment media brings people together. For example, families can watch a television show together. Media educates the mass. With the help of television or radio shows, the mob discovers various facts about health affairs, environmental preservation, and many more topics of relevance. People get daily news updates from media outlets, which keep them updated on the current trends and happenings worldwide. People get to exercise their hidden talents through media. Media helps to showcase their hidden skills such as comedy, performing, singing, recitation, etc. Media allows the diffusion of diverse cultures by showcasing different cultural practices. It helps people around the world to be understanding of each other and welcome their differences. Entertainment is necessary for everyone. This is a better way to deal with stress, as it gives you some time off to relax and prepare your mind for recovery.