the ability to see that there is light
in the midst of the darkness we all have
hopes what are your hopes better health
perhaps a promotion at work that your
children get a good education well in a
different time in a different place
people had different hopes imagine that
you were an undernourished prisoner of
war in a concentration camp in Germany
perhaps your hope that day was food that
you would not get abused by the guards
or that you would survive the war some
of those POWs were forced into hard
labor they had to go to the quarry’s to
mine large blocks of stone what were
those stones used for Hitler had this
idea of building an immense radio
station in Monte Carlo in order to
spread the fastest ideas of Nazi Germany
throughout world war two and for the
hoped-for 1000 year reign thereafter it
was a massive structure he had this idea
mad man that he was he had an
understanding of human nature he knew
that he had to use mass communication
mass communication at that time the
state of the art of the technology was
radio with radio waves one person could
reach hundreds of thousands of people if
not millions of people and he wanted to
spread his propaganda throughout Europe
at the time fortunately the Allies were
a little bit stronger Hitler had to
retreat from Monte Carlo he left that
station which was almost built on top of
a very sturdy bunker but without any
radio equipment there the French
realized the strategic importance of
having radio broadcasts and completed
that tower off of that station after
World War two at about the same time in
the 1950s there was an evangelist named
dr. Paul freed he was at the time
broadcasting from Tangier Morocco a
short way across the strait of gibraltar
about 15 or 20 kilometres and then you
could see the coast of Spain on a clear
day the Moroccan government had decided
to nationalize all the radio stations in
Morocco that meant dr. Freid had to shut
down he had to look for an alternative
broadcast position it’s not so easy as
just finding a new location Radio is a
strategic asset most governments had a
monopoly over radio communications at
the time and dr. Freid had to negotiate
very hard go through a vetting process
but eventually he was able to secure a
contract to use this station for 10
years how ironic that the station that
was built by the Nazis to preach is
spread fascist propaganda throughout
Europe was going to be used to spread
the message of hope encouragement and
eternal life to the people of Europe by
dr. Paul feed and his friends under the
banner of twr or Transworld radio from
the news station in Monte Carlo the
messages went out throughout Europe and
also across the Iron Curtain to those
people who were able to listen of course
radio signals are not stopped by walls
which existed at the time now from Monte
Carlo the network spread throughout the
world there are now probably 20 super
powered radio broadcasting
facilities around the world but what
does Transworld radio do Twi has a
particular heart for the plight of women
around the world as you will appreciate
women are unfortunately the underclass
they’re disadvantaged they’re not given
the same opportunities in education in
government nor to inherit property and
in some cases they also physically and
mentally abused at home twr is
compassionate about trying to help women
in such disadvantaged positions we have
radio programs which go out across the
world to try to alleviate the suffering
and give women hope around the world so
that they can at least live some sort of
life under their particular cultural or
domestic or political circumstances
which would otherwise be intolerable we
have many programs one of them is called
women of hope this particular program
also deals with issues face on a daily
level how to get food what is nutritious
for the children what allergies should
they watch out for in their children now
I was telling this story to a person
who’s also has some compassion some
empathy I think a word was used before
an empathy for the plight of women that
person said to me Barry do you know what
the problem is do you know what the
problem is I was a bit taken aback any
offers on the answer here’s the problem
men thank you football for the man
problem is men problem is men if you
think back most of the issues faced in
the world genocide environmental
destruction political persecution men
a comment was made by Jeremy before
things change yes things changed
technology changes twis used various
types of technologies human nature it’s
hasn’t changed hasn’t changed we wear
different suits we have got new tech has
it helped a man from Mozambique
challenged twr and said you have to have
programs for men we men are the problem
twr has produced programs to address the
problems that are faced by men men have
their own problems as well worried about
their jobs health issues maybe they’re
abusing substances that’s not an excuse
for what they do to other people but
they’ve got their problems and qwr does
have programming for men unfortunately
perhaps the men don’t listen to the
programs as often as the women apart
from those big issues we also have
programs for children children are our
future in Cambodia we have a little
children got a little children garden
program in Latin America we have a
program and for the Spanish speakers
excuse this Pedrito el pulpo this will
be to the octopus to give some
encouragement and some joy to children
as well in Africa we also deal with
issue practical issues like farming and
health the program coord foundations for
farming we work with people who are
familiar with agriculture and teach some
basic subsistence farming skills and how
to use fertilizers the program called
dr. Luke has dealt with the issue of HIV
and AIDS in Africa you will remember a
couple of years ago there was an Ebola
virus primarily in West Africa twr
worked with the health authorities in
the Ivory Coast and produce some
programming to educate people about
Ebola and how to minimize the impact
Ebola those are the regular programs at
twr has twr has felt a particular
obligation to use its vast networks of
broadcasting broadcasting stations to
assist where there are major human
crisis imagine if you will an earthquake
a tsunami a typhoon it’s very easy to
remember back in December 2004 just off
the coast of Indonesia a massive
earthquake nine on the Richter scale it
triggered probably the biggest series of
tsunamis in recorded history 230 odd
thousand people killed in 14 countries
lives devastated haiti 2010 Nepal very
recently also Japan Fukushima Twi has
worked with health officials and
psychologists in order to put programs
together to assist people who are
suffering from incredible trauma you may
have got an image of that with the
apart from the natural humanitarian
disasters there are also disasters which
are called caused by political
instability caused by civil war you
would be aware that there have been
waves and waves or refugees leaving
Syria and the Middle East heading
towards Europe particularly Germany for
a new life we work with psychologists to
prepare special programming to address
the particular psychological traumas
suffered by these refugees loneliness
loss of loved ones no prospects for the
future where are their children we are
programming in Arabic Farsi and I think
since I prepared this slide also in
another one of the Middle Eastern
languages so
WR is very practical and on the ground
doing things which we think matters to
people’s lives so if I’ve been talking
about broadcasting radio Jeremy
mentioned there are technological
technological changes we have also moved
with those technological changes the app
called refugee bridge is available to
the Syrian refugees in Germany so that
they can help to adapt to the nuclear
new lives one of the great things we’ve
got at the moment and it’s really quite
incredible imagine probably a number of
you go out hiking you’re maybe 20 miles
from where I’m standing here you’re in
cycle in a rather developed country yet
no cell phone signals why not enough
cell towers not enough power maybe
interference yet we’re in one of the
most technologically advanced cities in
the world but you can’t get cell phone
transmission but at ewr do we work with
a techno geek in Colorado and he has
helped us to develop technology whereby
we can use our massive towers these are
probably 400 feet high this one is in
our station in Guam we use that as a
gigantic Wi-Fi router we cast signals
over the horizon bouncing off the
ionosphere particularly at night those
signals can travel the globe in
appropriate atmospheric conditions those
signals were were picked up by someone
my cell phone someone with a cell phone
in Chiang Mai who was not on the Wi-Fi
it was not on the Wi-Fi they pick up the
signals the imagery the songs that all
the different programming imagine if you
are in the tech business imagine what
this means one-way communication no
Wi-Fi required maybe in a few more years
there’ll be two ways signals buy or sell
your tell your tech stocks I don’t know
anyway twr is everywhere I hope through
this little discussion that you have an
idea as to why I as an IP lawyer have
chosen to spend 10 years volunteering on
the board of this extraordinary
organization which can cast messages
across the globe across borders reaching
into people’s lives hopefully affecting
people’s lives imagine if you had that
capacity you had that infrastructure what would you do