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ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS, 8 AM
November 4
"Time" (did you reset your clocks?)
From www.alanwatts.org
MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 5
OLD RADIO NIGHT!
12-3 Bobb Lynes & Barbara Sunday, "Don't Touch That Dial!"
"Recollections at 30," (Veterans Day 1956) - memorable moments of NBC of (their) past 30 years. Barrie Craig, 'Microfilm in the Fishtank.' (10-24-51). Christopher London, 'Pattern for Murder,' (5-29-50). Adventures of Sam Spade, 'The Mad Scientist Caper' (7-25-48). Email Bobb: iairotr@hotmail.com Email Barbara: donttouchthatdial@hotmail.com
3-4 Lux Radio Theater (Sept. 7, 1936)
"Is Zat So" (James Cagney, Robert Armstrong)
A boxing film which played on Broadway for 2 years.
4- 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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TUESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 6
12-3:30 Alan Watts, "The Future of Politics" 1-4.
"Will politics, as we now know them, become irrelevant and disappear, and will the state, as Marx imagined, fall away? What are the prospects for individual liberty, civil rights, law and the courts, the police and penology? If nature abhors a vacuum, into what will 'drop outs' drop in? (AW) From www.alanwatts.org
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 7
12:00 Dave Emory
For The Record #1025 The So-Called "Arab Spring" Revisited, Part 1
In this program, we review and present information about the Muslim Brotherhood and the phenomenon that became known as "The Arab Spring."
The Muslim Brotherhood is an Islamic fascist organization, allied with the Axis in World War II. After the war, the organization gravitated to elements of Western intelligence, where it proved to be a bulwark against Communism in the Muslim world.
It is our view that the Brotherhood was seen as useful because of its military offshoots (Al-Qaeda in particular) were useful proxy warriors in places like the Caucasus and the Balkans and because the Brotherhood's corporatist, neo-liberal economic doctrine was in keeping with the desires and goals of the trans-national corporate community.
(The Afghan Mujahedin were a direct offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and the successful war conducted by that group was a successful manifestation of "Brotherhood" as proxy warriors. Of course, Al-Qaeda grew directly from the Afghan jihadists.)
In FTR #'s 733 through 739, we presented our view that the so-called Arab Spring was a U.S. intelligence operation, aimed at placing the Brotherhood in power in Muslim countries dominated either by a secular dictator or absolute monarchy.
In FTR #787, we solidified our analysis with definitive confirmation of our working hypothesis presented years earlier.
About the Muslim Brotherhood's economic doctrine: " . . . . . . . In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by God alone-anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the 'invisible hand' of market-based pricing. . . . The Muslim Brotherhood hails 14th century philosopher Ibn Khaldun as its economic guide. Anticipating supply-side economics, Khaldun argued that cutting taxes raises production and tax revenues, and that state control should be limited to providing water, fire and free grazing land, the utilities of the ancient world. The World Bank has called Ibn Khaldun the first advocate of privatization. His founding influence is a sign of moderation. If Islamists in power ever do clash with the West, it won't be over commerce. . . ."
Ronald Reagan resonated with the Brotherhood's economic doctrine when promoting his supply-side economics: "President Reagan, in his news conference yesterday, cited a 14th century Islamic scholar as an early exponent of the "supply-side" economic theory on which his Administration bases many of its policies. An authority on the scholar later said that the reference seemed accurate. . . . Responding to a question about the effects of tax and spending cuts that began taking effect yesterday, Mr. Reagan said the supply-side principle dated at least as far back as Ibn Khaldun, who is generally regarded as the greatest Arab historian to emerge from the highly developed Arabic culture of the Middle Ages. . . ."
The U.S. view on the Brotherhood and Islamism in general was epitomized by CIA officer Graham Fuller, who ran the Afghan Mujahadin: " . . . . . . . Fuller comes from that faction of CIA Cold Warriors who believed (and still apparently believe) that fundamentalist Islam, even in its radical jihadi form, does not pose a threat to the West, for the simple reason that fundamentalist Islam is conservative, against social justice, against socialism and redistribution of wealth, and in favor of hierarchical socio-economic structures. Socialism is the common enemy to both capitalist America and to Wahhabi Islam, according to Fuller. . . .'There is no mainstream Islamic organization...with radical social views,' he wrote. 'Classical Islamic theory envisages the role of the state as limited to facilitating the well-being of markets and merchants rather than controlling them. Islamists have always powerfully objected to socialism and communism....Islam has never had problems with the idea that wealth is unevenly distributed.' . . . ."
Next, we present the reading of an article by CFR member Bruce Hoffman. Noting Al Qaeda's resurgence and Al Qaeda's emphasis on the Syrian conflict, Hoffman cites the so-called "Arab Spring" as the key event in Al Qaeda's resurgence. " . . . . The thousands of hardened al-Qaeda fighters freed from Egyptian prisons in 2012-2013 by President Mohammed Morsi galvanized the movement at a critical moment, when instability reigned and a handful of men well-versed in terrorism and subversion could plunge a country or a region into chaos. Whether in Libya, Turkey, Syria, or Yemen, their arrival was providential in terms of advancing al-Qaeda's interests or increasing its influence. . . . It was Syria where al-Qaeda's intervention proved most consequential. One of Zawahiri's first official acts after succeeding bin Laden as emir was to order a Syrian veteran of the Iraqi insurgency named Abu Mohammad al-Julani to return home and establish the al-Qaeda franchise that would eventually become Jabhat al-Nusra. . . ."
Hoffman notes that Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were, at one time, part of a unified organization: " . . . . Al-Qaeda's chosen instrument was Jabhat al-Nusra, the product of a joint initiative with al-Qaeda's Iraqi branch, which had rebranded itself as the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI). But as Nusra grew in both strength and impact, a dispute erupted between ISI and al-Qaeda over control of the group. In a bold power grab, ISI's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, announced the forcible amalgamation of al-Nusra with ISI in a new organization to be called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Julani refused to accede to the unilateral merger and appealed to Zawahiri. The quarrel intensified, and after Zawahiri's attempts to mediate it collapsed, he expelled ISIS from the al-Qaeda network. . . ."
An Egyptian newspaper published what were said to be intercepted recordings of Morsi communicating conspiratorially with Muhammad al-Zawahiri, the the brother of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the head of Al-Qaeda. Much of this checks out with information that is already on the public record.
The Egyptian government sentenced more than 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, to the resounding condemnation of Western countries, including the U.S. What we were not told was why. THIS appears to be why. Note the profound connection between the Muslim Brotherhood government of Morsi and Al Qaeda, information that supplements what the Bruce Hoffman paper discusses: " . . . . Morsi informed Zawahiri that the Muslim Brotherhood supports the mujahidin (jihadis) and that the mujahidin should support the Brotherhood in order for them both, and the Islamist agenda, to prevail in Egypt. This makes sense in the context that, soon after Morsi came to power, the general public did become increasingly critical of him and his policies, including the fact that he was placing only Brotherhood members in Egypt's most important posts, trying quickly to push through a pro-Islamist constitution, and, as Egyptians called it, trying in general to 'Brotherhoodize' Egypt. This second phone call being longer than the first, Zawahiri took it as an opportunity to congratulate Morsi on his recent presidential victory-which, incidentally, from the start, was portrayed by some as fraudulent-and expressed his joy that Morsi's presidency could only mean that 'all secular infidels would be removed from Egypt.' Then Zawahiri told Morsi: 'Rule according to the Sharia of Allah [or 'Islamic law'], and we will stand next to you. Know that, from the start, there is no so-called democracy, so get rid of your opposition.' . . ."
Note the networking of GOP Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham with Khairat El-Shater of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood while he was in prison. " . . . . The call ended in agreement that al-Qaeda would support the Brotherhood, including its international branches, under the understanding that Morsi would soon implement full Sharia in Egypt. After this, Muhammad Zawahiri and Khairat al-Shater, the number-two man of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, reportedly met regularly. It is interesting to note here that, prior to these revelations, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson was seen visiting with Khairat al-Shater-even though he held no position in the Morsi government-and after the ousting and imprisonment of Morsi and leading Brotherhood members, Sens. John McCain and Lindsay Graham made it a point to visit the civilian Shater in his prison cell and urged the Egyptian government to release him. . . ."
Might there be some relationship between the Graham, McCain/Shater contacts and the evolution of the Benghazi/Clinton emails/Trump election nexus?
Note, also, that Morsi and Zawahiri/Al-Qaeda jihadis were allegedly involved in the Behghazi attack that, ultimately, led to the Benghazi hearings, the Hillary Clinton e-mail non-scandal and Donald Trump's ascent: " . . . . Along with saying that the Brotherhood intended to form a 'revolutionary guard' to protect him against any coup, Morsi added that, in return for al-Qaeda's and its affiliates' support, not only would he allow them to have such training camps, but he would facilitate their development in Sinai and give them four facilities to use along the Egyptian-Libyan border. That Libya is mentioned is interesting. According to a Libyan Arabic report I translated back in June 2013, those who attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, killing Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, were from jihadi cells that had been formed in Libya through Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood support. Those interrogated named Morsi and other top Brotherhood leadership as accomplices. . . ."
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1025-the-so-called-arab-spring-revisited-part-1/
THURSDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 8
12-1 Alan Watts,
"The Diamond and the Web" Part 1 of 4
(Vajrayana) The spiritual materialism of the Vajrayana and Tantric interpretations of Buddhism and their 'esoteric numerogy?'" (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
'Meta Needs and Self-Actualization'
2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com
3-3:30 Science Fiction Break
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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