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Post by doc on Jun 3, 2019 20:36:47 GMT
Female Voice: CQDX, CQDX: Este es Radio Kaliburg, transmitiendo en vivo desde Kaliburg, Ananto, Kalistan, territorio libre en Seleya! This is Radio Kaliburg, Transmitting live from Kaliburg, Ananto, Kalistan: Free Territory of Seleya!
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Post by doc on Jun 3, 2019 21:27:21 GMT
Broadcast from April 3, 2023 Announcer Edward Ballentine:Next up is Donna Gonzales, with tonight's Opinion:
Donna Gonzales:
We welcome you to Radio Kaliburg's nightly opinion segment. We want to comment on the sad attempts of the Keymonite government to smear Kalistan. In an odd robotic voice, their announcer claimed that our government is covering up the killing of rich people in Kalistan. But our goal tonight is to talk about the killing of the poor in Keymon.
Due to the economic Liberal policies in Keymon, many thousands of poor in Keymon do not have access to basic food, shelter, or health services. Does this lead to their death? No more, we'd say than the elements leads to the death of hypothermic people. It is most assured that poor people in Keymon have died from lack of any basic services. We interviewed one Keymonese refugee named Kaikane, who did not want his last name announced for fear of Conservative reprisals, even here in Kalistan. Kaikane described the dramatic decline in the standard of living following independence. According to Kaikane, the Conservatives cut social services for the poorest in Keymon, claiming that they were helping poor people obtain dignity by forcing them to work. Sink or swim is the mentality, said Kaikane. Work or starve is the daily message of the Government. And yet Keymon says people are free to choose "starve".
What it means instead is that the poor simply get poorer, and those who are already the poorest die off.
But Kaikane, and others who confirmed his story independently with stories of their own, give the Government of Keymon far too much credit. The real policy is to eliminate poverty by starving the poor out of existence. This is the real purpose behind so-called "starve the beast" cuts to social spending. The Beast is public money to deal with social problems like poverty, unemployment and homelessness, which are themselves the direct result of unfettered capitalism like the sort you will find in places like Keymon.
The ones who somehow make enough money to stay alive despite the "kill the poor off" policies of the Rightist Government in that imprisoned Island are meant to be forced to simply accept whatever wage their capitalist masters choose to pay them. They have no ability to negotiate, because the Government has created policies which put all the negotiation power into the hands of the wealthy and powerful. In fact, the workers are just chattel, meant only for capitalist exploitation, paid just enough to ensure they can wake up the next day and return to their work stations. What little wealth workers are somehow able to generate for themselves is immediately claimed by capitalists and landlords, or if they get sick, by for-profit medicine.
The result is predictable: A few benefit from the one-way Keymonese wealth Elevator, while the masses suffer, and yes, die. And politicians, who have been utterly captured by the wealthy, continue to do the Wealthy's business in Government, without a beneficent thought for the poor. Their malevolent policies lead to mass starvation, homelessness, and other social ills tied to neglect and exploitation by their society. Keymon is being turned into a slum while the wealthy hide in their mansions and behind the walls of their gated community.
If we can offer a word of advice for the Government of Keymon, it is this: Hungry people don't stay hungry for long. They know where the food is. The know who exploits them in the workplace. The only thing the poor of Keymon don't know is why the Government of Keymon protects those people instead of working for the benefit of society. Why must Keymon work on behalf of the tiny minority who exploits the people of their country? Why must Keymon protect those who have the wealth and power enough to protect themselves? Doesn't the government of Keymon see it as their job to work on behalf of the people? We know that a society is judged by how it treats its least fortunate. But if we applied this standard to Keymon, we would judge them a dismal failure. What sort of Government lets their poor starve and die in the streets? What sort of Government allows poor people to die outside of hospitals for their failure to afford insurance? We know Keymon does, because they are ideologically opposed to the existence of the poor in their country and can't simply send out death squads to kill them off more directly. But someday, their chickens will come home to roost.
It is our hope that Radio Kaliburg provides the soundtrack for that day.
So with that, we will end our commentary for the evening with a song by Kalistani Rock band Death to The Machine. This one's called "The Warning", and it is our hope that it speaks to members of the Keymonese Government, right along with the disaffected masses of Keymon who that same government wants to starve out of existence.
This has been Donna Gonzales, for Radio Kaliburg, Seleya's only Alternative.
Announcer Edward Ballentine:
Thank you Comrade Gonzales. Now, back to the News.
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Post by doc on Jun 4, 2019 1:24:05 GMT
Broadcast from May 2, 2023
Announcer Lena Verdes-Hampton
That was Timmons and the Natives with "Mule Driver". After the break we will hear more from the Gendaris Import Scene with 90's Beluzian favorites The Somnambulists' hit song "Dreaming Every Day", which features vocals from Beluzian singer Anna McGough. But first we have been asked to play a special message from our friends in the Syndicalist Republic of Punicar, Cildania. We hope all people of good conscience will listen to Punicar's message and take action. Audio:The Special Message from the Syndicalist Republic of Punicar
Transcription:
Announcer Lena Verdes-Hampton
The Kalistani Foreign Minister has informed me that the Government of Kalistan stands ready to ship small arms to Punicar upon request from the Government, and two battalions of Militia irregulars of the heroic Revolutionary Socialist Militia of Kalistan will deploy to Punicar to offer advice, training and support. We hope all correct thinking Nations will follow suit.
But now, back to the Music. Here's The Somnambulists' with "Dreaming Every Day" featuring Anna McGough, here on Radio Kaliburg: Seleya's ONLY Alternative
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Post by doc on Jun 5, 2019 4:34:17 GMT
Broadcast of June 8, 2023
Announcer Edward Ballentine
Welcome back to tonight's News. Next up is our nightly opinion segment, with Donna Gonzales. Donna...
Announcer Donna Gonzales
Thank you Edward. Tonight the topic of our discussion once more turns to Keymon. The lies of the capitalists in that imprisoned island have once more closed the window on any normal relations that Keymon and Kalistan might have had following the assistance of the Keymonite "government" in defusing a LDP terror plot we reported on last month. It is to be expected, of course. We know the main propaganda wing of the Keymonite "government" which is the official mouthpiece of the powers that be in Keymon, has filed several scurrilous reports about Kalistan recently, and until recently, Kalistan has attempted to work with Keymon despite their efforts to scuttle the thawing. But they have now definitively stated the policy of the Keymon "Government" toward Kalistan. It is none but hostility, even to the point of conjuring demons out of thin air to smear our Nation and its people.
But I would like to tell another story. This one comes to us from Fredrick Hernandez, who was one of the capitalists who fled Kalistan in 2020. He has returned to Kalistan with horrifying reports of conditions in that Rightwing dungeon. Mr. Hernandez, once a staunch supporter of the LDP and a capitalist himself filed this report, and excuse me, but I have been asked to read his statement verbatim, rather than attempting to summarize it. The following are the words of Mr. Hernandez.
That was Fredrick Hernandez' first hand account of the miserable condition of the Keymonese people. It is the sole responsibility of the Keymonite Government to do something about it, and speaking for myself, it sickens me that they allow anyone in their country to live like this. In Kalistan, when Liberals tried to make our country into what Keymon has become, the people rose up and kicked them out of power. Through democratic elections. We on Radio Kaliburg aren't telling Keymonite citizens what to do, but they know, more than anyone, how bad things are in Keymon. All we are saying is, there are examples of a better life than what they have now.
So with that, let us conclude our segment with a Suldanor Ska band, Forget Ferrite, with their hit "Liars". This song is dedicated by Mr. Hernandez, and all of us here at Radio Kaliburg, to the Government of Keymon.
That was "Liars" by Forget Ferrite, from Suldanor. You are listening to Radio Kaliburg: Seleya's ONLY Alternative.
Announcer Edward Ballentine
Thank you Compañera Gonzales. We will return after these messages.
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Post by doc on Jun 7, 2019 2:53:13 GMT
Broadcast of September 5, 2023Announcer Timoteo GerardThis is Radio Kaliburg, Seleya's Only Alternative. That was AM/FM with one of their early songs, the rather colorful, "Big Balls". Tonight, in Northern Seleyan Briefs, we will focus on the Beaches of Ananto. When the Socialists returned to power nearly five years ago, they mandated hours of work be set at 8 a day. Along with this mandate which was supported by workers of the Left, but largely opposed by Kalistan's dwindling Investor Class, The Government directed that all state owned industries would provide workers with one full month of paid vacation a year. Workers could break up the vacation as they pleased, or they could take it all at once. When working people began taking vacations, Kalistan's beaches became a number one destination spot. For decades, the beaches had been neglected, and erosion and degradation had taken its toll. In some places, sand was washed out, leaving a gravel beach. As the sand was pulled out, it made the coastline in places shallow in many places, increasing wave height at the shore, and making swimming for pleasure more dangerous. In Ananto's southern Midnight Beach, rip currents began to appear. Along the Suldanor coast, many sandy beaches turned into mudholes infested with mosquito. Northern Ananto beaches, which were never places that families and casual swimmers visited, due to its rocky coastline and tiny continental shelf, became hotspots for surfers. But following the establishment of the Month-long vacation, public outcry for safe, fun beaches, and later Water resorts, began to increase. In 2021, Ananto began efforts to restore its beaches. Much of the sand was reclaimed in large dredging operations behind temporary jetties. The deepening of the swimming areas, combined with the construction of sandbars to replace the jetties broke waves and redirected currents farther away the shore, and after a year of hard work by the NSP along with private sector structural engineers, Southern Ananto was ringed with eight restored beaches. Three of them are clothing optional: One is all ages, one of them is limited to age 50 and up, while the other is closed to everyone over the age of 30. In addition, new sand was provided to Suldanor's swampy coasts, removing the water table from the top of the soil, and creating nacent beach resorts complete with excellent guest accommodations, water slides, jet skiing and innertubing, and music. The resorts are a short cab ride from the nightlife in downtown Sulari. For a more secluded experience, Odufaray has opened three beaches of their own near Gendaris, and have recently expanded their airstrip to accomodate larger airplanes from Ananto and other parts of Kalistan. These beaches have more temperate climates, and could be described as somewhat more rustic. But they are nonetheless very beautiful, and one, Shoals Beach, offers snorkeling opportunities at a small reef a mile off the coastline. Vrassa has gotten into the action too, and is giving Ananto a run for their money, by opening the first All-Kalistani Surfing Competition, every year at Senvias. The waves that roll into the shore north of Bahia Senvias due to its relatively long, flat sloping sea floor, which is actually a long sandbar that is essentially an underwater delta of the Vrassa River, regularly top 15 feet trough to crest, and surfers have recently mastered new techniques at Senvias Beach. All in all, Kalistan's beaches offer fun for Kalistani citizens and foreign visitors alike. There is always plenty of food and fun at the beaches, long seasons and even the most secluded beaches are near transit hubs. All are welcome to visit our Beaches, and have the time of their lives. And now, let's get back to the Music. Here's the Heavy Boys, in their popular collaboration with the Midnight Boys called "Surf Out." Here on Radio Kaliburg: Seleya's ONLY Alternative.
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Post by doc on Jun 8, 2019 3:34:09 GMT
Broadcast of October 1, 2023
Announcer Alex Bennots
You're listening to Radio Kaliburg: Seleya's ONLY Alternative. That was 412 with their hit "Golden Energy". The video for that song was shot out at beautiful Midnight Beach in Ananto and featured several local girls who the bend met at a Bar.
This afternoon's feature, before we drop to the Nightly News Program, is on Kalistan's anti-corporate movement in popular music. 30 years ago, music was dominated by massive record companies, who spent millions on record production and expected to recoup that money before paying their artists. If artists were paid in advance, it was through advances, which artists went through pretty quickly. The problem was: if the album did not recoup the costs of production, the artists were on the hook for repaying the advance. If they were not able to, they were required to make records unpaid until either they recouped the cost, or they were released from their contract and the loss was written off.
This industrial system of making music forced music to be focused on money and profits. The industry, which formed of a virtual cartel of three of the Largest Record Labels in Terra: Ananto Records, Foster Brothers Recording (which was a media conglomerate on its own) and KRI, produced thousands of records a year that nobody ever heard of, let alone enjoyed. They often made these records to stock shelves. But they also ran a virtual peonage composed of some of the most talented musicians in Kalistan and abroad. A few huge stars made a lot of money for themselves, but a lot more money for their label, and they often carried the lesser famous artists.
The key to the dominance of the Labels was their control of distribution networks. They controlled the charts which said which records were popular, they controlled the trade magazines which talked up (or down) bands. They controlled the catalogs of music and publishing rights, which itself bottlenecked which record stores could buy from which distributors. By 1992, the Big Three Kalistani Labels controlled not only music, but musicians, and more importantly, tastes.
Into this system came a series of independent and alternative artists. A lot of the artists who enjoyed early success without a record label were seen as aberant. They developed loyal local followings where they grew up. And they put out their music on cassette tapes, which were easily replicable and distributable. These tapes sold at those bands' shows. For a few years, alternative meant loud music which was not designed to maximize sales, but spoke to the tastes of a specific audience. In the 90s, a person developed an identity around the bands they followed, rather than other divisions. Alternative blew the music scene wide open.
But the Labels struck back, and ended up assimilating most of the big alternative bands. Following a brief period, from 92-95, Labels began returning pop music designed to sell records to the airwaves, and completely inundated all music outlets with boy bands and teenaged pop princesses. A tiny renaissance of independently produced music glimmered in Kalistan between 2000 and 2002, but the Labels showed no sign of stopping their barrage of pop music. At the same time, as Hip hop became more popular in the mainstream, Major labels also mass produced that and created a strain of rap called "Club rap", which dominated rap stations, focused on "club life", drinking and having sex with people one meets at the club. Occasionally protagonists in club rap songs would get into a fight, but invariably, they would spend an inordinate amount of time dancing. Club rap was replaced by D-Rap, which focused on drug use and whose singers often mumble and sling garbled verses. It is all a function of Labels continuing to focus on profits over quality.
But then, file sharing began in 2002. Music became easily distributed fully outside the Lable's control through use of peer to peer sharing services. However, the vast majority of music distributed "illegally" via P2P sharing was popular music. Alternative bands and independent bands did not have the capital to be able to produce quality music. Though Lables objected to filesharing initially, they soon realized that paid downloads of music to mibile devices provided them with yet another revenue stream.
This situation continued, and led Kalistani music to be described as a "complete wasteland" for nearly 2 decades. But following the return of the Socialists, and especially the summary abolition of copyright monopoly that Labels enjoyed under LDP governance, a new movement in music, the anti-corporate movement has spread across the country. Initially, there were many resistors to the movement, Chief among them the Labels and their big name stars. One such star was the notorious white supremacist Felicia Ingridsdottir, who, before her self-inflicted demise and subsequent fall from grace, outsold most of her contemporaries by millions of albums. Most teenagers rejected the anti-corporate movement: they not only loved, but also emulated the D-Rap which blasted through their ear buds on a regular basis.
But by 2021, the anti-corporate movement had caught on. Record sales and paid downloads plummetted. One of the big three, Foster Brothers, shuttered in December of 2021. Most of the record stores tied closely with the Big Three's distribution network had closed years before. Meanwhile, independent labels and distribution channels proliferated throughout Kalistan. Alternative music returned loud guitars, deep bass and thumping kick drums to the market. Production pro-tools became easily available on personal computers, and now, anyone with a laptop could set up a 256 track digital studio. Both men and women musicians adopted this anti-corporate attitude.
Now, in Kalistani music, there are far more independent "labels" than there were even 20 years ago. Most of them are vanity and development labels founded by musicians to allow them to distribute music they themselves like. But a number of main indepdendent Labels exist across the Republic, giving any musician the opportunity to be heard. As a result, the Kalistani music scene is far more vital than any other music scene in the world, and nightlife often involves going to see a show, by which the person means, going to hear live music.
There are several local scenes around the country. The Kaliburg scene is the most important: It focuses on punk, hardcore hip hop (2nd wave) ska and Reggae. The Sulari Scene plays hard rock, ska-punk, and metal. Odufaray specialized in independent hip hop, as well as a gritty variety of metal called "Sludge". Vrassa has a thriving country music scene, but also has hard rockers who come from there. And Neveras provides independent Blue grass and country, as well as their own variety of punk music called "Street punk" or Sk8 punk.
We end this feature with one of the early echoes of the anti-corporate movement, but still settled well within the pop music category. It is by Luthorian-Born singer Mattie M, along with Kalistani rapper Lil' D.a.N and its from 2018. This song offers a hard critique on Record Label ethics of making money, to the extent that the Labels exploit artists, portray crass consumerism, and seek to only make money, rather than allowing artists to have integrity. This message would be carried on more explicitly in later anti-corporate music, and so we can say, this song was one of the important contributors to the movement. Here's "Fat Stash", on Radio Kaliburg: Seleya's ONLY alternative.
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Post by doc on Jun 15, 2019 2:27:28 GMT
Announcer: That was Kaliburg punk Band Putrid with their ode to the Zombie Apocalypse, "Everywhere". And now it is time for tonight's Editorial. Tonight, it is being brought to you by Donna Hendrix, who is a graduate student in International Relations at Kaliburg Republican University. Comrade... Donna HendrixThank you Joe. Tonight, I'd like to pose a controversial thesis. Our politicians aren't talking about this. in fact, just the opposite, they are all seeming to have adopted the notion that we need to liberalize our economy to get along with the rest of the world. I don't know about all this, personally. In fact, I think Kalistan ought to accept the fact, and embrace the reality that we are a pariah nation in Terra.
What does it mean to be a pariah state? Well, political scientists have a definition for the word, but let me just give you one that I think will be appropos to our current situation. A pariah state is one that does not play the game of international politics by the rules others have set up for it, and as a consequence, are shunned for it by other nations. Another pariah state on Terra now is Beluzia. They are an admitted fascist state. In a world dominated by liberal theory on the one hand, and where the greatest powers have offered full throated endorsement of expansionistic monarchism as a regime type, Beluzia the fascist state has earned the condemnation and shunning of other states, including Kalistan. But it seems to a price they are willing to pay, to defend their ideals, as troubling as those ideals are. Meanwhile, they still have nationalized health care, which is something that Kalistan has not even been able to completely accomplish, and have cracked down on radical wealth maldistribution so common in liberal and market oriented states, where the rich just get richer and the poor get welfare, if anything at all.
Is Beluzia thriving? Perhaps they are by their own definition. And I think this is important: Beluzia, by standing outside, or being forced to stand outside the world system, becomes free to determine their own definition of success. They are spending their time doing what they want, and as a result, the only one who seems to ever have anything negative to say about what they are doing is Kalistan. Other countries shun them, so nobody bothers them while they drop napalm on their citizens. If the world cannot control them, they also cannot sanction them. This is the key. We can see that being a pariah also means you are immune to critique, and nobody can do anything to you.
Kalistan took a step toward this status recently. The step was reflected in Mordusian monarchist propaganda concerning the wedding of two future monarchs: They said that the kicking out of Iokua from Kalistan was problematic and they were concerned about Mordusian investment, saying they will put sanctions on Kalistan if Kalistan does something they do not like. They then proceded to declare Kalistan as having gone down the drain, by their own warped estimation. (Leave it to expansionistic monarchs to make such declarations.) When Keymon had Iokua in Kalistan, they could threaten Kalistan at leisure whenever they want. Sure, Keymon will claim they never threatened Kalistan, but the fact is, whatever perspective on the issue happens to be correct, as long as Iokua, a fully owned Keymon financial interest in a country where the desires of the capitalist class and government policy are absolutely identical, underwrote any part of the Kalistani economy, they always had leverage over us. They were in a position of saying "We don't like policy X, so say goodbye to Keymon investment. Sorry. Next time do as we want you to do, or you will feel pain we alone can level on you."
Iokua was never a deal of equity between Kalistan and Keymon. Iokua provided something that Kalistan needed, and as anyone who has ever had to choose between working a job that treated him like a slave and starving knows, those with the money hold the power. Keymon could, even if they never did, say "You policy is not satisfactory to us, so now you will feel pain until you change your policy." This is the heart of the Kalistani Investment law: to deny foreigners the ability to ever put that sort of pressure on Kalistan. To take that power away from the foreign nation, and to preserve the independence of Kalistan from the needs and whims of foreign powers who never ever have Kalistan's interests in mind.
Kicking Iokua out of Kalistan was a step toward being a pariah nation. It raised the fear in Mordusia that maybe they might not be able to control Kalistan either. It marked Kalistan as a country who is willing to lose investment rather than ever put itself in a subservient position. And since the great powers of the world require that subservience as a condition of peace, it increased the potential that those nations will shun Kalistan as they do other pariahs in the world.
Kalistan should embrace this. If other countries want to do business with Kalistan, they should be made to take Kalistani interests into account as well as their own. If they are not interested in doing this, then they should not be welcomed to do business in Kalistan. If they want to do business with us, and make their profits in our market, this should be alright, but they should have to pay something for the privilege. They deal should never be as one-sided as the Iokua dispensation was, where Kalistan was only allowed to buy a maximum of 10% stake in the company which aimed at making money by the fistful in Kalistan. That bank and that loan they gave to KalMD did not come without strings. So the Finance Minister was correct to end the dispensation.
And the Foreign Minister would be right to embrace the role of pariah. It may cost Kalistan in the short term, but it will also grant Kalistan the freedom to set its own course in the world, to make itself what it wishes to be, and to owe it to nobody, to grant nobody power over it, even if it means we have no friends.
It is the only way to continue Kalistan's quest for self determination set out as a National Security priority in the Ananto Straits crisis. Rather than kowtowing to the world order whose limits and requirements are set by others for their benefit, Kalistan should stand outside that system.
I call for the Government of Kalistan to take care of Kalistan, and invite the rest of the world to help take care of Kalistan. If nobody else is willing to incur the responsibility and bear the costs of doing so, we should be prepared for that fact and set about to do it ourselves.
The Socialists have established a good starting point: Zero percent GDP growth controlling for population growth. Anything Iokua could do in Kalistan we can find a way to do for ourselves, if we want them. If we want technology, we should be willing to develop it ourselves. Relying on other nations simply enslaves us to them.
But even more radical, and I will conclude here: We should also reach out to other pariah states. Yes, even to Beluzia. The ideology of Leftism should not stop us from taking friends where we can get them. If the Foreign Ministry pays no more attention to this opinion piece, let them hear this: Sometimes even pariah states need friends. Beluzia is a country with some things in common with Kalistan. We could build on those similarities for our mutual benefit. It is something to consider.
Embrace Pariah status. It costs, but it is also liberating.
Announcer:
That was Donna Hendrix of Kaliburg Republican University here in Kaliburg. Now let's get back to the music: Here's Doubted with their anti-corporate media anthem, "The Box", here on Radio Kaliburg, Seleya's Only Alternative
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Post by doc on Jun 18, 2019 4:12:13 GMT
Broadcast of March 14,2025
Announcer Chris Diego-Rivera:
We would like to acknowledge the loss of a beloved voice on Kalistani Radios. Today, Radio Free Seleya, a comedy channel broadcasted daily from Keymon, has gone silent. At 4pm Kaliburg time, Kalistanis listening to the channel preparing for their daily dose of hilarity, were shocked to hear the station fall silent. Upon investigation, in the Keymonite tabloid " Turtle City Press", researchers found that the Government of Keymon has finally shut down the station, alarmed that the station had been broadcasting what is essentially live comedy shows since its inception two years ago. Clearly the Keymonite Government was unaware that the station they constructed with public funds was broadcasting comedic reports and satire. The funding for the station was pulled due to “questionable content that the radio station broadcasted and the validity of some claims made by the station”, says the Keymonite daily. It became obvious that the Ministry of finance of Keymon had not listened to the broadcasts previous to the yanking of funding. (We, of course, not only assumed they had been listening to the broadcasts, but writing the copy. It turns out the Finance Minister is not the comedy writer we assumed he was.) From the story, we learn that the Minister, upon listening to the jocular broadcasts, became upset, pulled the plug and defenestrated the Staff of the station.
But true to form, the former "News Director" departed with one final zinger on his way out the door. He stated, without a hint of irony, that everything the Station had presented was true, that the Finance Ministry clearly did not have a sense of humor, and that Keymon was going to significantly improve their tiny military with the funds they were saving on the station. While this sounds like something the Keymonite Government would certainly consider, there obviously couldn't be much money behind the station, given the quality of their signal during peak hours! But we must say, Well played Sir: Perfect comedic timing!
We interviewed Kalistanis who were dedicated listeners to the station. One such listener, a teenager from Kaliburg, says he used to love the show in the afternoons. Quote "Me and my friends would get f--ked up and tune in at 4:20. After a while, and after smoking a pretty heroic grip of Herb, the sh-t they were talking about just got stranger and stranger. It would crack us up! Listening to RFS was like the best way to spend the afternoons after school. Get ripped and tune into some hilarious sh-t." Unquote. He said he and his friends now probably had to go out and burn stuff to pass the time, while at least one of them intended to learn Go.
The world is slightly less ridiculous now with this comedic gold known as RFS off the air. As a public service, Radio Kalistan has agreed with KRTVN channel 92.9 FM to air reruns and greatest hits for RFS, for the next couple months, between 4 and 5 pm, so stoners can get "a smoke and a joke" in the afternoon, as the kids called it. We hope all those who listen to the reruns of the RFS show record their favorite bits and share them freely among their friends. We will also make the entire catalog of comedy specials from RFS available online at archive.rkalternative.org.ks as a zip file, where listeners can download and relive their favorite nonsense.
RIP Radio Free Seleya. You will be missed by Kalistani fans of all ages.
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Post by doc on Jun 27, 2019 5:03:53 GMT
BROADCAST OF MAY 5, 2026
Announcer Edward Ballentine
You're listening to Radio Kaliburg- Seleya's ONLY Alternative. That was Kaliburg's own Jane the Addict with "No One's Gonna Stop", a song about excess.
Following the PSA, we will bring you tonight's Editorial, from the Desk of Deputy Forrest Delmonico, on development in Kalistan.
We will now hear tonight's editorial from Deputy Forrest Delmonico, on economic development in Kalistan:
That was Comrade Delmonico of the UKWF.
Next on Radio Kaliburg, we're going back to some old school flavored hip hop. This is Sulari MCs Legendary and KNG with their 2018 collaboration "Dream outside the Streets". Only on Radio Kaliburg- Seleya's ONLY Alternative
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Post by doc on Jul 2, 2019 4:33:50 GMT
Broadcast from February 8. 2027 Announcer Poppy GarciaWelcome back to Radio Kaliburg, Seleya's ONLY Alternative. That was Suldanor's Ghost Peppers with the ever funky "K-I-S-S-I-N-G". When we return from the break, we'll have commentary from Horace Jones, professor of Political Theory at High Bong University on the pros and cons of Kalistan's electoral system. But first, a Public Information moment from the National Service Program, here on Radio Kaliburg- Selaya's ONLY alternative.Announcer Poppy Garcia
And we're back. We'll now listen to commentary from Dr. Horace Jones, on the Electoral System. Here on Radio Kaliburg- Seleya's ONLY Alternative.
Horace Jones:
Good evening. I have been asked to call in and discuss my paper on the potential for electoral reform.
First, let me say: The electoral system in Kalistan is something that every political liberal could want. We exemplify the concept of one person- one vote. Our Presidents are elected, and indeed, campaign with little fanfare. We have something like 85 to 90 percent turnout in every election, even though voting is not mandatory in Kalistan. People care, and are engaged. There are viable alternatives. Representation is high: Every year the people report that the choices reflect their own preferences, and the only ones who consistently report negative attitudes toward the Government are those respondents who believe BOTH that Rightist Parties should govern the country AND who believe that those who do not share their ideological orientation should be completely locked out of the government. That's about 6%. There is not a corresponding attitude on the Left.
So we have a goldilocks type system where people have just enough, but not too much, partisanship, government involvement, and representation. Great, right? It's like a political scientist's dream come true.
If we agreed with liberal ideology, it is not the quality of choice, but the quantity of choice which matters. The MORE candidates we have running, the more "free" they will claim that people are. The counter to this argument is that you can have the choice of 18 different types of bread, but does it really mean that you are free when you try to choose the best one? Or is your choice merely a statement of taste, and is not based on anything more than "I like the taste of this bread more than these other breads?" And at what point can you make bread where it is not bread anymore, but something else? I mean to say: Is there really that much difference between 18 different types of bread? Sure, private companies, interested in you buying THEIR loaf, will make bogus claims like "This one is better for x y and z reason." But on a molecular level, the two or six loaves are identical, and what matters is the consumer's taste, rather than any sort of objective criteria for evaluation.
The same goes for candidates running for office. Our elections, based on a liberal electoral model, provides our "consumers" meaning the voters, a vast choice between people who are basically equivalent. Extreme views are not acceptable among our electorate. "Gassing Yehuddists" is not a valid choice. Full Communism is also not a valid choice. Neither is laissez Faire economic solutions, not anymore at least. If Laissez Faire is seen as too radical for the electorate, then why don't we see fewer candidates? It seems like there are more, in fact than ever. But they are all battling over an ever shrinking ideological landscape, as people in Kalistan begin to get used to socialism once more.
And what's worse, voters claim that they weigh the alternatives, consider the issues, and attempt to match candidate positions with their own before they vote. But time and time again, who they vote for comes down to "gut feeling". No person can have complete information about the candidates. So at best, they are making a choice based on incomplete information. But what it usually comes down to, once more, is taste. I like this or that candidate. There's just something about him or her. The rationalization of the choice invariably comes AFTER, not before the decision is made.
Is this anyway to pick leaders? When a person says I like this or that candidate more than some other one, they are making an equivalent statement when they say "I like this or that candy bar more than some other." Why? It's not important. Sometimes you just feel like dark chocolate and almonds with coconut, other days you just feel like milk chocolate with just coconut. It don't make any sense. There is not any science to it. A person votes based on their personal taste. But the people they pick make decisions that affect everyone else.
Can you imagine how ridiculous it would be for me to say "I prefer dark chocolate, and so if I get x number of people together who also prefer dark chocolate, then you MUST also eat it, though you don't like chocolate at all." That would be the essence of fascism. And yet, this is precisely what we get when we have majoritarianism. Me and my friends picked this candidate, based on nothing else at the time than our tastes, and now he governs you too, though you voted against him.
Wouldn't it be better to actually have GOOD politicians, rather than popular ones? Politicians who knew something about administering things, rather than ones who shake enough hands and collect enough votes? I think we ought to focus on quality of politicians, rather than quantity of candidates on offer.
To accomplish this, we could ask civic organizations to send us their leaders. Unions, social groups, Monthly Meetings, student organization- they could all contribute. They have a history of leading, and do not focus on treating our government like a business.
We don't need popularity contests every three years. What Kalistan needs is a competent and skillful government made of statesmen and women. Otherwise, we're back in the bread aisle, trying to pick between 18 virtually identical choices, and in the end just picking the same one we picked last time. That's not a way to shop, and that is not a way to pick leaders for the greatest nation in Terra.
Something to think of. I am Horace Jones, Professor of Political Science at High Bong University.
Announcer Poppy Garcia
And I am Poppy Garcia. You just heard commentary by Dr. Horace Jones. And now, let's get back to the music. Here's Luxon's own, Allyson Chaynes, with "Crunch", on Radio Kaliburg- Seleya's ONLY Alternative.
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