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stevenmeeksfreeamericaradio · 14 days

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Date idea: We build a radio in our study group, hide said radio from our teacher and then put the radio up and dance together!

#steven meeks #Meeks #gerard pitts #radio free America #dark academia films #dead poet society #dead poets fandom #Dps #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academia #dps fandom #dps boys

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oldshowbiz · 11 months

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The Bombing of Radio Free Europe

#cold war #violence #foreign policy #radio free europe #radio free america #voice of america

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searchsystem · 7 months

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Hans Förtsch & Sigrid von Baumgarten / Radio Free Berlin / America / Poster / 1965

#hans förtsch #sigrid von baumgarten #radio free berlin #america #poster #1965 #typography

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rongzhi · 3 months

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hi, quick question! i’ve been listening to chinese radio and during one news section about australia, the word „malapei“ kept being mentioned. i tried to do some research but since i can’t figure out which hanzi it is made of, i’m now asking you if you might know what it means 😅

Seems like they were saying Marape (马拉佩), the prime minister of Papua New Guinea. He recently visited Australia.

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#text #answered ask #oh btw VoA News (the chinese language result screencapped above) is sort of like radio free asia so i wouldn't read them in general #(for anyone thinking about using 'Voices of America' as reading practice lmao)

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masivechaos · 1 year

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*ೃ༄ midnight talks with james potter!

-> holding hands. james opening up for one of the first times in his life. smiling at you softly. kissing your tears away. deep conversations. looking at the stars. humour as a coping mechanism. dancing to forget. talking engulfed under the covers. forehead kisses. hot cups of tea.

#wanted to make a cosy moodboard for this #blame me #margot's moodboards! ੈ✩‧₊˚#margot's 500 followers!#📻 radio free america #james potter #james potter x reader #aesthetic

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chaoticwistfulness · 1 year

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Manifesting Chaos Machine someday doing their own cons on their own terms to promote their projects and those of their loved ones 😉😌 🕯🕯🕯

Break free! 💙💚

#no idea how their contracts with creation work #but if it's not possible kn the usa maybe canada or europe or latin america #break free #i'm gonna start including this as part of my perfect #jackles long con #chaos machine #jenmish #cockles #spnwin #radio company

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prettypinkbubbless · 5 days

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History teacher said something that’s in a line of Dead Poets Society and I had to physically stop myself from vibrating out of my seat

#dead poets society #he said radio free America #I am so normal about this movie #so normal that I dream about it #also got to name drop it in my AP lang essay #I am so so normal about this movie #you know that scene was in my head all day too

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listenonlineradio · 3 months

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Listen live Web Radio Capital Do Tomate - Brazil - Listen Online Radio👇🎧🙂

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officialjamesflint · 1 year

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1, 7, 21, 23 for the music asks!

1: what is your favorite song. right now

ELLE ME DIT ALWAYS AND FOREVER <33

7: what bands/artists have you seen in concert?

i haven't been to very many concerts that aren't like. classical music concerts. but i did see barry manilow with my parents a few years ago! my most influential concert that made my brain explode was probably lincoln center jazz with wynton marsalis. or the us marine band doing 1812 overture

21: weirdest song title

i just answered this one but another weird song title i enjoy is the classic queen track "i'm in love with my car"

23: what's a song that makes you feel like a hot badass?

ohh this is a good question. "walking on broken glass" by annie lenox is a good one for that. i also looooove the "it's a sin/i will survive" mash-up the pet shop boys have on their 1994 live album it makes me feel extra faggy <33

music asks!

#tam answers #someday i will see a concert in a real concert venue that isn't "the outdoor stage we go to see live radio shows recorded''.....someday #would KILL to go to a mika concert but i don't think he's touring america anytime soon :'(#the government should give me a free plane ticket to go to europe and see my best friend in honor of my contributions to mika scholarship

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stevenmeeksfreeamericaradio · 12 days

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My brain at the moment is a constant loop of “radio Freee America!” Which would be great if I didn’t have a lot of work to be thinking about!

#steven meeks #dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dps fandom #dead poets fandom #dps #dead poets society #dps boys #stephen meeks #radio free america #allelon ruggiero

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oldshowbiz · 1 year

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Armed Forces Radio was ordered to destroy a huge collection of rare jazz records.

#jazz #foreign policy #armed forces radio #radio free europe #radio free america

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whatisonthemoon · 1 year

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Radio Free Asia (and Radio of Free Asia)

Excerpted from Internet Privacy, Funded By Spies by Yasha Levine (March 3, 2016)

The CIA launched Radio Free Asia (RFA) in 1951 as an extension of its global anti-Communist propaganda radio network. RFA beamed its signal into mainland China from a transmitter in Manila, and its operations were based on the earlier Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberation From Bolshevism model.

The CIA quickly discovered that their plan to foment political unrest in China had one major flaw: the Chinese were too poor to own radios.

Here’s a bit from a fantastic three-page spread published by The New York Times in 1977, investigating the CIA’s role in global propaganda efforts, including Radio Free Asia:

The Asia Foundation was headed for years by the late Robert Blum, who, several sources said, resigned from the C.I.A. to take it over. The foundation provided cover for at least one C.I.A. operative and carried out a variety of media-related ventures, including a program, begun in 1955, of selecting and paying the expenses of Asian journalists for a year of study in Harvard's prestigious Neiman Fellowship program….

It was only after Radio Free Asia's transmitters were operating, according to sources familiar with the case, that the C.I.A. realized that there were almost no radio receivers in private hands in mainland China. An emergency plan was drawn up.

Balloons, holding small radios tuned to Radio Free Asia's frequency, were lofted toward the mainland from the island of Taiwan, where the Chinese Nationalists had fled after the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949. The plan was abandoned when the balloons were blown back to Taiwan across the Formosa Strait.

The CIA supposedly shuttered Radio Free Asia in the mid-1950s, but another Radio Free Asia reappeared a decade later, this time funded through a CIA-Moonie outfit called the Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) — a group based in Washington, D.C. that was run by a top figure in South Korea's state intelligence agency, Colonel Bo Hi Pak, who also served as the “principle evangelist” of cult leader Rev. Sun-Myung Moon of the Unification Church.

This new Moonie iteration of Radio Free Asia was controlled by the South Korean government, including the country’s own CIA, the "KCIA." It enjoyed high-level support from within the first Nixon Administration and even featured then-Congressman Gerald Ford on its board. According to an FBI file on Rev. Moon, Radio Free Asia “at the height of the Vietnam war produced anti-communist programs in Washington and beamed them into China, North Korea and North Vietnam.”

Radio Free Asia got busted in a widespread corruption scandal in the late 1970s, when the South Korean government was investigated for using the Moonie cult to influence US public opinion in order to keep the US military engaged against North Korea. Back in the 1970s, the Moonies were the most notorious cult in the United States, accused of abducting and "brainwashing" countless American youths. How it was that the CIA's Radio Free Asia was handed off to the Moonies was never quite explained, but given laws banning the CIA (or the KCIA) from engaging in psychological warfare in the US, the obvious thing to do was to bury Radio Free Asia long enough for everyone to forget about it.

No sooner had Radio Free Asia vanished amid scandal than it reappeared again, Terminator-like, in the 1990s — this time as a legit ��independent” nonprofit wholly controlled by the BBG and funded by Congress.

Although this latest version of Radio Free Asia was supposed to be a completely new organization and was no longer as covert and B-movie spooky, its objectives and tactics remained exactly the same: To this day it beams propaganda into the same Communist countries, including North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, China, and Burma, and fiddles around in the same sorts of spooky adventures.

For instance: In 2011, The New York Times revealed that Radio Free Asia, along with the State Department, was involved in burying cellphones inside North Korea on its border with China, so that North Koreans could use the RFA cellphones to report to the West on conditions inside their country. That same year, following the death of Kim Jong Il, Radio Free Asia “kicked into 24/7 emergency mode” to beam non-stop coverage of the death into North Korea in the hopes of triggering a mass uprising. BBG officials clung to the hope that, bit by bit, Radio Free Asia’s stream of anti-Communist propaganda would bring democracy and freedom to North Korea. They like to cite a study showing that “elite” defectors from North Korea were increasingly listening to Radio Free Asia, as proof that their efforts are working.

#radio free asia #radio of free asia #moonies #unification church #counterinsurgency #propaganda #unification church in the united states #sun myung moon #unification church in the united states of america #unification church in usa #kcia #intelligence agencies #cia #u.s. government #anti-communism

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twobluejeans · 10 months

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HEARTBREAK ON TOUR!

charles leclerc x famous!reader

summary: in which the lavender haze has been lifted. or in which america’s it couple splits.

part 2: wtf does ET know?, part 1: don’t start

faceclaim: madison beer

ally’s radio 📻: PART 2! thank u guys so much for the love on part 1, blew up overnight n i’m so so grateful. a lot of tswift references 🫶

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popcrave this news is breaking us like a promise😭#Y/nL/n and #CharlesLeclerc have broken up after 6 years of dating, ET reports.

Their breakup was reportedly "amicable" and happened a few weeks ago:

"It was not dramatic. The relationship had just run its course. It's why [Leclerc] hasn't been spotted at any shows."

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whatisthatmelody delete this can’t be real i’m shaking

f1obsessed I THOUGHT THEY WERE GETTING MARRIED DA FAQ

greatwarleclerc april fools was like 3 months ago not funny 😀

selenagom3z omg new album coming 😍

dangerouswomanera keep pete davidson locked up for the next few weeks i’m so serious

sainzlandoo oh yk twitters gonna have a field day

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INSTAGRAM, (june 29)

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y/nflorals Y/N SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE SPLIT ENTERING A RECORDING STUDIO IN LONDON TODAY via twoghostsy/n

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lovingwags that next album gonna be fire istg

runway/n she looks like she’s been crying my poor bby 🙁

cowboyrry whyd i stutter reading the caption

y/nseuphoria wait i thought she was on tour?

y/nsflorals she is but she’s on a 4 day break!!

INSTAGRAM, (stories)

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dailymail #Y/nL/n caught in a heated argument with #CharlesLeclerc out side a restaurant, june 28. This footage was a day before ET announced their split.

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softwags this is so wrong delete this

reputationera_y/n wth?? take this down this is such an invasion of privacy omg

steveharringtonmybeloved what.

f1obsessed well…shit💀

TWITTER,

ally’s radio 📻: so…FREE Y/N!! this was sm fun to write. dw, it only gets more dramatic from here 😌. ALSO I WAS THINKING…should we make y/n a nepo baby or not? if so, who should be mamá y papá? reblogs n like r so appreciated 🤍

taglist🦢🪩: @incoherenciass @dakotali @405rry @topaz125 @sassyheroneckgiant @hevburn @itsmytimetoodream @ivegotparticulartaste @crowdedimagines

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masivechaos · 1 year

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*ೃ༄ studying with steven meeks!

-> learning latin declensions. steven reading the textbook to you if you don't want to work. the sound of the rain. writing poetry for keating's class. kissing his knuckles. cleaning his glasses. helping you with trig. holding hands under the table. listening to classical music. dancing breaks. quiet giggles in the library. burning candles. small peck as a reward.

#margot's moodboards! ੈ✩‧₊˚#steven meeks #steven meeks x reader #dark academia #aesthetic #dead poets society #📻 radio free america #margot's 500 followers!

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hotvintagepoll · 2 months

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FINAL POLL OF ROUND 1

Propaganda

Hedy Lamarr (Samson and Delilah, Ziegfeld Girl)—Look. I'm sure someone has already submitted Hedy Lamarr because she was spectacularly beautiful, and a very strong lady too: she fled both an abusive marriage AND nazi persecution at a very young age and rebuilt a life for herself pursuing her love for acting all on her own!! Her career as an actress was stellar; while she began acting outside of Hollywood (her very first movie, Ecstasy, won a prize at the Venice Film Festival), she conquered American hearts very quickly with her first movie in the US, Algiers, and then just kept getting better and better. If all this isn't enough, she was also an inventor: her invention of the frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio transmission technique forms the base of bluetooth and has a lot of applications in all kinds of communication technologies. I think that deserves a prize, don't you?

Sonja Henie (Thin Ice, Happy Landing)—no idea if she counts, she's a famous skater more than anything else, but count her for the lols and i'll send you some thin mints

This is round 1 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut]

Hedy Lamarr:

The only person you can find both on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in the Inventor's Hall of Fame--her radio-frequency-hopping technology forms the basis for cordless phones, wi-fi, and a dozen other aspects of modern life. She was also passionate in her efforts to aid the Allies in WWII (unsurprising for a Jewish-Austrian Emigree to America), and her name served as the backbone for one of the best running jokes in what is possibly Mel Brooks' best movie. Look, Louis B. Mayer apparently believed he could plausibly promote her as "The world's most beautiful woman". Is an entire website full of people going to be less audacious than one Louis B. Mayer? I didn't think so!

Described as "Hedy has the most incredible personal sophistication. She knows the peculiarly European art of being womanly; she knows what men want in a beautiful woman, what attracts them, and she forces herself to be these things. She has magnetism with warmth, something that neither Dietrich nor Garbo has managed to achieve" by Howard Sharpe, she managed to escape her controlling husband (and Nazi Germany) by a) Disguising as her maid and fleeing to Paris or b) Convincing the husband to let her wear all of her jewelry to a dinner, only to disappear afterwards. Also she was particularly clever and helped develop Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (I can't really explain it but anyway...)

One of the most beautiful women ever in film, spoken by many critics and fans. Beautiful shapely figure, deeper seductive voice, and often played femme fatale roles. She was also brilliant and an inventor. Mainly self-taught, she invested her spare time, including on set between takes, in designing and drafting inventions, which included an improved traffic stoplight and a tablet that would dissolve in water to create a flavored carbonated drink, and much more.

Her depiction of Delilah and Samson and Delilah just lives rent free in my head. The woman was gorgeous.

Gorgeous and brilliant pioneer of modern technology and the middle part.

#sonja henie #hedy lamarr #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 1 #ALL POSTS UP HOORAY

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bananadramaaa · 12 days

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I’m curious, is Al’s hell form a little dated in your style? (A redesign to match his human form and race a bit more) or do you kinda keep him to canon? (Love your art. It’s amazing to see you create such lovely designs)

I'm ok with his design in the show. He's a demon there, 'cringe but free'~ and I based my human design on the show's version anyway, his features, I mean.

But I had my little experiment while silling around with him and Rosie. I tried to give him more 1920s–30s silhouette in his outfit. Like, monocle wasn't the most popular attribute to wear; at least it wasn't that popular in America to my knowledge, so I've changed it to pince-nez, for example. Also monocle was something like an indication that you have big money in your pocket which wasn't Al's case when he was alive. Yeah, maybe he was a popular radio host but I don't think because of his origin he was able to get that Rich Bitch status. A bowtie is possible (though I saw it mostly in formal suit combination, like at some wealthy people parties, not like as a regular wear), but a simple tie is more refreshing. There are already too many bowties in the show XD You know, just small changes.

#and thank you ☺️#ask #hazbin hotel alastor #myart

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