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Eugene

(62,756 posts)
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 11:49 AM Mar 2022

Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners

Source: Associated Press

Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners

By MARGARET STAFFORD
March 26, 2022

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A man who runs a little-known, low-budget radio station in suburban Kansas City says he is standing up for free speech and alternative viewpoints when he airs Russian state-sponsored programming in the midst of the Ukrainian war.

Radio Sputnik, funded by the Russian government, pays broadcast companies in the U.S. to air its programs. Only two do so: One is Peter Schartel’s company in Liberty, Missouri, and one is in Washington, D.C.

Schartel started airing the Russian programming in January 2020, but criticism intensified after Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Schartel said people accuse him and his wife being traitors to the U.S. and occasionally issue threats. Some critics say he is promoting propaganda and misinformation, but Schartel maintains most people who call to complain haven’t listened to the program.

“Some will talk to me, but others will still call me a piece of whatever,” he said. “What I am thankful for is we are still living in a country where they can call me up. Even if they aren’t thinking about free speech they’re exercising that right.”

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-entertainment-business-kansas-missouri-b6240ed4d6bada628e59c24b29d68669?traffic_source=Connatix

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Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2022 OP
Shithole state cilla4progress Mar 2022 #1
Not a fan of KC I take it? n/t xocetaceans Mar 2022 #5
Dunno. cilla4progress Mar 2022 #6
It is, but, unfortunately, ... xocetaceans Mar 2022 #7
I remember that Hallmark cards was big there - cilla4progress Mar 2022 #8
Here is some more information... xocetaceans Mar 2022 #9
Awesome - thanks! Will read fully. cilla4progress Mar 2022 #10
Why haven't we gotten rid of Fox "News" yet? There are deplorable people everywhere. abqtommy Mar 2022 #2
Oppositional defiance disorder: 'you can't make me' cry of the cbabe Mar 2022 #3
this is the station josh 'jaws' hawley listens to. it's close to his homestead. Figures. SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #4

cilla4progress

(25,972 posts)
6. Dunno.
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 01:38 PM
Mar 2022

Lived there for a year as a VISTA volunteer in 1977-78.

It's just the State's politics now.

Is KCMO blue, too?

xocetaceans

(3,981 posts)
7. It is, but, unfortunately, ...
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 03:15 PM
Mar 2022

there are only about three cities (or four counties) that seem to have a reasonable chance at being consistently blue.

You're right about St. Louis being deep blue, though.

The non-GOP spots in MO are:

KCMO in Jackson County (2020, 60% Biden, 38% Trump),
Columbia in Boone County (2020, 54.9% Biden, 42.4% Trump),
St. Louis County (2020, 61.2% Biden, 37.2% Trump), and
St. Louis City (2020, 82.2% Biden, 16% Trump).



There does not seem to be much hope for anywhere outside of the aforementioned places.

Canvassing for Obama/Biden 2008 in the county which I was in only moved the needle from about 66% GOP to 63% GOP, and that was even after Bush's endless sequence of follies.


Wow, in the late 1970s, I headed through KC on Hwy-71 about four times yearly and got to see the lighting of the Plaza one Thanksgiving. There used to be a seafood buffet restaurant in the Union Station: it was called The Lobster Pot, I think. The king crab legs were really good - at least, it was a memorable experience.

cilla4progress

(25,972 posts)
8. I remember that Hallmark cards was big there -
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 06:45 PM
Mar 2022

headquarters? And there was a fancy shopping area - Paseo? Or maybe that was a street in the inner city where I lived and worked as a VISTA.

Surprising Spanish (Mexican?) influence or relics there?

There was flooding there the year I was there.

EDIT: Paseo did run through inner city. I guess the shopping was The Plaza? Spanish architecture. Google search.

xocetaceans

(3,981 posts)
9. Here is some more information...
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 02:21 PM
Mar 2022

Yes, Hallmark was a big employer in the area: I have no idea about its present status, though.

There's Ward Parkway, and, also, Paseo and Troost run near those areas.

There is the Crown Center and the Plaza. Apparently, the Plaza (Yes, it's the shopping area.) was intended to mimic Seville, Spain.

There is still a problem with flooding.

I was looking up Crown Center (I had forgotten whether it had an e or not.) and ran across this article: it might be interesting.


Dissecting the Troost Divide and racial segregation in Kansas City
By Diane Euston with contributing historian Tim Reidy

A long overdue conversation about systemic racism has ignited across the nation, perpetuated from the pain of witnessing on camera the killing of George Floyd. What followed were protests and genuine cries for change in our city.

Inequality etched our landscape after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Systems put into place nationwide trickled into Kansas City, forever transforming the community into segregation. Into the 1890s, the city wasn’t as racially divided as many would assume. There were several factors that changed this, and one of note recently due to the call to rename J.C. Nichols Parkway was his use of racial covenants in the growing suburbs.

J.C. Nichols and other real estate developers such as Fletcher Cowherd and the Kroh Brothers of Leawood used covenants as a tool to create a white paradise outside the confines of the urban core. These racial restrictions weren’t solely the idea of one man in one city but were common practices supported by the federal government across the nation. Residential segregation, according to Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law, is “an unhidden public policy that explicitly segregated every metropolitan area in the United States.”

What drove segregation in Kansas City included blockbusting, racial covenants, real estate practices (including the federal government’s lending programs that refused to insure mortgages in African American neighborhoods), and the Kansas City Public Schools.
...

https://martincitytelegraph.com/2020/06/30/dissecting-the-troost-divide-and-racial-segregation-in-kansas-city/



Of course, Missouri has a complicated history. The area that was subject to General Order No. 11. includes a large part of present KCMO.

General Order #11

...

Highlights

  • On August 25, 1863, General Ewing issued his controversial General Order No. 11. This order required all residents of Jackson, Cass, Bates, and parts of Vernon counties to vacate them.
  • Those who were Southern sympathizers had to leave Missouri for the Confederacy, while loyalists could find refuge in Federal military posts or other towns.
  • Troops then reportadly burned houses, shops, and farm buildings to the ground.
  • Ewing believed that by clearing these counties he would rid guerillas of sanctuaries that they had effectively used throughout the war to escape capture.
  • ...

...

http://www.civilwarmo.org/educators/resources/info-sheets/thomas-ewing-jrs-general-order-no-11


That was after the raid on Lawrence, KS, as noted on the above webpage. I hadn't heard of that until within the last fifteen years. Previously, I had not heard of parts of the Midwest burnt in order to get rid of Confederates.

Of course, some places in Missouri are still completely out of touch with modernity:


  • The town of Waverly, MO, has a relatively recent statue (2009) to a Confederate - here.


Other places are trying to move slowly forward:


  • Savannah, MO, has seen fit to keep its high school sports teams named "Savages", but they are changing the mascot - here and here.

cilla4progress

(25,972 posts)
10. Awesome - thanks! Will read fully.
Sun Mar 27, 2022, 03:03 PM
Mar 2022

Here is a quick story that will make you see red!

VISTA was essentially the domestic Peace Corps, like Americorps now, its successor. VISTA projects are invited into communities by sponsors, typically local nonprofits. Our sponsor was almost a subsidiary of the Black Panthers - right down to the black berets: The Social Action Committee of 20, "SAC20". Sadly, after my term, the charismatic effective leader was shot and killed by another member...

Anyway - main focus was to support neighborhood block clubs in the inner city area where we were based and lived, that organized to lobby for public services like curbs and sidewalks. YES - I was a community organizer! I was often the only white face in the grocery store or street. I never felt unwelcome.

Well, one amazingly dignified and elegant gentleman shared his blasphemous personal story with me: he owned an apartment building in the white part of the city, which he purchased as investment property. When he would go to check on his building, he was required to show a pass to authorities in order to go to that part of town!!

GALLING!

Oh man - here is the SAC20 leader who was murdered. You can find anything online!

https://aaregistry.org/story/bernard-powell-a-frontline-activist/

Honestly I had no idea what a great man he was, his history.

RIP dear hero... 😢

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
2. Why haven't we gotten rid of Fox "News" yet? There are deplorable people everywhere.
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 12:30 PM
Mar 2022

When we moved out here to Albuquerque we drove through St. Louis, saw The Gateway
Arch and ate some good BBQ. Let's save Missouri and our country.

cbabe

(4,299 posts)
3. Oppositional defiance disorder: 'you can't make me' cry of the
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 12:41 PM
Mar 2022

Last edited Sat Mar 26, 2022, 10:29 PM - Edit history (1)

childish bully.

SWBTATTReg

(24,322 posts)
4. this is the station josh 'jaws' hawley listens to. it's close to his homestead. Figures.
Sat Mar 26, 2022, 01:27 PM
Mar 2022

He's such a disappointment for progressive Missourians everywhere. He grew up in a boondock part of Missouri, where they believe that probably trump should have declared martial law, made himself pres. for life, etc. All sorts of nonsense.

Maybe the more populated portions of Missouri (KC and STL) will finally vote this scumbag out, especially now that people see what he is like in reality. A barely concealed white nationalist.

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