Sunday, March 24, 2019

March 25-29

PACIFICA FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT: http://www.pacifica.org/about_mission.php



"SOMETHING'S HAPPENING!" ON THE WEB
KPFK can be heard streaming live online at http://www.kpfk.org/ and click on 'Listen Live.' Times are Pacific Time. Program times for "Something's Happening!" are approximate but close and "Monday night" is legally Tuesday morning et seq.



WHAT HAPPENED?
Any program information not included in the program guide - guests, websites, contact information, music and comedy breaks, etc. can be found later at http://www.somethingshappening.com and click on 'what happened?' Thanks to Sha Tahmasebi for redesigning and maintaining the website.



AUDIO ARCHIVES
"Something's Happening!" (and the Sunday 'Alan Watts') are available for listening on demand for 60 days after broadcast. Go to www.kpfk.org and click on 'Audio Archives.' Be sure to use the handy search engine to list only the program (s) you are interested in listening to. "Something's Happening!" and "Alan Watts" are not downloadable because they contain program material which is not owned by Pacifica.




BEHIND THE SCENES
https://pacificainexile.org/




KPFK FUND DRIVE REPORT
We raised close to $700k, but we had to go overtime to make (and exceed) our $650,000 goal. The next fund drive will begin May 1st. We (Pacifica Radio) are working off our multi-million dollar 9/11+ debt to the Empire State Building and Empire State Realty Trust peeps (see https://pacificainexile.org/archives/2602 ) and are tightening our belts, changing some programming, and increasing our off-air fundraising and doing some long-overdue changes in our governance structures with a great board you have recently re-elected. You can still order the new limited KPFK 60th Birthday Shepard Fairey t-shirts and mugs online at KPFK.org. We are so grateful to those of you who were able to contribute as we endeavor to increase our listenership again.




TWO OF OUR PEOPLE ARE MISSING
Bobb Lynes and Barbara Sunday of our old time radio show "Don't Touch That Dial" came home and found their South Pasadena house was being dangerously undermined by a leaking water pipe. Their home was taped as dangerous to enter and they 'escaped' with only the clothes on their backs. Here is an article from the So. Pasadena News. https://southpasadenareview.com/so-pas-senior-center-aids-members-whose-driveway-collapsed/




ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS 8am
March 24
The final half hour of Alan Watts' rare Q&A with the audience, never before broadcast until the fund drive, but last week the last segment was interrupted by the Sheriff's practice emergency alert message. So here the final segment (hopefully) not interrupted by the Sheriff.








MONDAY NIGHT, MARCH 25





12-1:30 Pema Chodron, "Noble Heart"
'A Self-Guided Retreat in Befriending Your Obstacles'

You can't get away from suffering. That's the good news, teaches Pema Chödrön. For at the core of your most painful experiences, perhaps more than anywhere else, you will find the seeds of your awakening.

On 'Noble Heart,' this beloved American-born Buddhist nun shows you how vulnerability is your greatest spiritual resource on the path through life's difficulties. The noble heart, Ane Pema teaches, is one that sheds its armor, opening itself fearlessly to both heartache and delight. Using special meditations and traditional teachings, Pema Chödrön leads you, step-by-step, toward a full realization of your true strength, the strength that can come only through embracing the pain of your own experience.

'Noble Heart' was recorded as it happened, within the peaceful shrine room of Gampo Abbey, Ane Pema's home on the cliffs of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Structured so that you can create your own retreat at home or at your meditation center, this complete curriculum brings you key teachings about how to recognize and cultivate the soft spot that is the gateway to your own noble heart.

Here is the promise of the Four Limitless Ones-maitri (loving-kindness), compassion, joy, and equanimity-and down-to-earth advice about how to draw strength from them every day, in any situation. Here, too, are the treasured teachings about the Six Paramitas: the Buddha's own map of the journey to enlightenment. Learn how to connect with your innately unlimited friendliness, and how it can grow big enough to contain the entire world.

With four complete meditations, unique heart teachings, and Ane Pema's trademark humor, 'Noble Heart' invites you to discover for yourself the compassion and wisdom that have established her as a leading voice in American Buddhism. Includes more than nine hours of direct teachings from this revered acharya (master teacher)

Session 11 of 12: 'Shunyata Meditation'
Groundlessness. Opening our minds The true nature of mind. Kind hearted attentiveness. The contemplation of equanimity. Living with an attitude of non-grasping. Threefold Purity Meditation. More.


Session 12 (conclusion) 'Bodhichitta in the World'
The power of connectedness. Limitless compassion. Relaxing with groundlessness. Dissolving the barriers. The dharmic habit. The bodhichitta slogans. More.

From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185,

https://www.soundstrue.com/store/noble-heart-4209.html









1:30-2:30 Jack Kornfield, "The Jewel of Liberation" 7 of 10

For four decades, Buddhist meditation teacher Jack Kornfield has shared practical instructions for awakening the wise and compassionate heart in the midst of all we experience. The Jewel of Liberation presents 10 pinnacle dharma talks (teaching sessions) hand-selected by Jack from his personal collection to illuminate the pathways out of suffering and into the natural freedom that is both our shared birthright and our greatest gift to the world.

Reclaim the Seat of Dignity, Compassion, and Lovingkindness

Meditation is the practice of awakening itself; it is the fundamental tool the Buddha offered to quiet the mind and open the heart. We begin our retreat with an examination of the art of meditation and how it empowers us to see things clearly and be gracious with the flow of this ever-changing life.

'The Jewel of Liberation' continues with guidance in managing our troubles, the "weeds" that arise even as we cultivate the seeds of abiding happiness. Our retreat culminates with an inquiry into the "laws of life," the understandings we must have if we are to experience freedom independent of our circumstances.

The Possibility of Freedom Here and Now

"The sure heart's release is found nowhere else but in our own direct experience-for it is who and what we are," teaches Jack Kornfield. "The world so much needs people who are free in this way, unafraid to love every being." Here is his invitation for each of us to "be a lamp of freedom for yourself and for all."


Session 7 of 10: 'Genuine Transformation'
The body of habit. What brings about real change? What keeps chi alive? The transformation of identity.


Ten CE credits available!

All Info:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/the-jewel-of-liberation-1850.html






2:30-3:30 Happy 100th Birthday Lawrence Ferlinghetti!! (March 24, 1919 - )



"Lawrence Ferlinghetti, in full Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti, (born March 24, 1919, Yonkers, New York, U.S.), American poet, one of the founders of the Beat movement in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. His City Lights bookshop was an early gathering place of the Beats, and the publishing arm of City Lights was the first to print the Beats’ books of poetry.

Ferlinghetti was a U.S. naval officer during World War II, and he received a B.A. at the University of North Carolina, an M.A. at Columbia University, and a doctorate at the Sorbonne in 1951.

In 1951 Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco, and in 1953 he opened the City Lights Pocket Book Shop, which quickly became a gathering place for the city’s literary avant-garde. In 1955 Ferlinghetti’s new City Lights press published his verse collection Pictures of the Gone World, which was the first paperback volume of the Pocket Poets series. Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems (1956) was originally published as the fourth volume in the series. City Lights Books printed other works by Ginsberg as well as books by Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Denise Levertov, William Burroughs, William Carlos Williams, and foreign authors." ( from britannica.com )

'Poets West Parts 1 & 2 '

The poet and founder of City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, major cultural icon of the San Francisco Bay Area and everywhere from there, still alive and kickin'.

Reading by Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading from his book, 'A Coney Island of the Mind' and from 'Pictures of the Gone World.' Hosted by J. Glen Evans. From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230,www.pacificaradioarchives.org





3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com



5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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TUESDAY NIGHT, MARCH 26
GARY NULL SPECIAL




12-1 Gary Null, ‘Progressive Commentary Hour’ – 03.19.19



In this episode of The Progressive Commentary Hour Gary spends the entire show doing a investigative report on AIDS/HIV. In this episode Gary goes into his history on getting the truth out there on curing AIDS/HIV. Gary also played audio from Tri-State Healing Center testimonials on seroreconversion from members of the staff at the Tri-state Healing Center, and others. From Progressive Radio Network prn.fm



Download http://prn.fm/progressive-commentary-hour-03-19-19/




NOTE: For those who have heard fallacious rumors about Gary and his
work based on the infamous 'Quackbusters' attacks, read what the
California Superior Court has stated about the credibility of the
so-called Quackbusters: http://www.quackpotwatch.org/quackpots/
california_superior_court_judge_.htm






1-3:30 Various AIDS/HIV Program/Film/Conference


I have not reviewed the following segments but they will include testimonials from medical doctors and scientists besides Gary Null who have found non-toxic treatments to be effective - including “Aids is not a Death Sentence” Press Conference, Documentary: “The Pain and Politics and Profit of Aids” and maybe another Gary Null Show or two.









3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com



5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MARCH 27





12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1057 - Miscellaneous Articles and Updates"




1.–The State Department’s “Ministry of Truth” is going to be headed by a Fox News and CIA veteran, Lea Gabrielle. Designed to neutralize what the Powers That Be deem to be foreign propaganda, the blandly-named Global Engagement Center has been exemplified by its attempts to portray as “Russian disinformation” the verifiably Nazi character and political heritage of the OUN/B successor organizations wielding the police, educational and national security reins in Ukraine. ” . . . .



2.–Fox News rejected a national buy for an ad that was to run during Sean Hannity’s show. The ad promotes the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘A Night at the Garden, ‘about a 1939 Nazi rally in New York City. The ad includes the warning “It Can Happen Here” about the potential dangers of President Donald Trump’s brand of populism. … On youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zRZ7XLYSA&list=PLgoeKuqmPnmC_7Y_Tn-BK0-8Q1xNkc2WC&index=2






3.–The El Paso Trump rally manifested a contemporary iteration of “A Night at the Garden”. ” . . . . Trump’s rally in El Paso was in support of his border wall. In his State of the Union address last week he claimed, falsely, that border fencing that was built south of the city in 2010 transformed El Paso from a dangerous place into a safe one. Its Republican mayor lashed out at the president last week for his falsehood…



4.–Next, we have an update on Data Propria, the Cambridge Analytica offshoot created by Brad Parscale’s company Cloud Commerce. The GOP hired the services of Data Propria for the 2018 mid-terms. Data Propria employs four ex-Cambridge Analytica employees, including Cambridge Analytica’s chief data scientist. Cambridge Analytica’s former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads Data Propia. …



5.–Matt Oczkowski is now the running Parscale Digital in addition to Data Propria. Parscale Digital is the rebranded version of Parscale’s old marketing company. As the following article notes, Parscale sold his shares in Parscale Digital in August 2017, at the same time he purchased $9 million in stock for Cloud Commerce and took a seat on its board. August of 2017 is also the same month Parscale Digital was sold to Cloud Commerce. Thus, Parscale is a co-owner of Cloud Commerce which the owner of Parscale Digital. Now Matt Oczkowski, the former head of product for Cambridge Analytica, is running Parscale Digital…



6.–After a member of an “antifa” group was stabbed at a white supremacist rally, the FBI investigated the protesters, rather than the KKK. ” . . . . Federal authorities ran a surveillance operation on By Any Means Necessary (Bamn), spying on the leftist group’s movements in an inquiry that came after one of Bamn’s members was stabbed at the white supremacist rally, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. The FBI’s Bamn files reveal: * The FBI investigated Bamn for potential ‘conspiracy’ against the ‘rights’ of the ‘Ku Klux Klan’ and white supremacists….



7.–The FBI investigation into the motive behind Stephen Paddock’s massacre in Las Vegas has omitted Paddock’s links with the Sovereign Citizen movement, which we highlighted in FTR #1011. ” . . . . The high-stakes gambler responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history sought notoriety in the attack but left his specific motive a mystery, the FBI said Tuesday as it concluded the investigation of the 2017 massacre that killed 58 country music fans. . . .”



8.–This society has been sowing the Nazi and fascist winds for a long time. Failing to come to terms with the Nazi and fascist sympathies of American industrialists who financed Hitler, the incorporation of the Nazi SS into the CIA via the Gehlen org, and the incorporation of Eastern and Central European SS-allied fascists into the GOP has borne its inevitable fruit. Now it will be reaping the Nazi whirlwind. An extremely popular children’s lip-synching app called TikTok has incorporated murderously racist invective against people of color and Jews, in addition to sharing overtly Nazi propaganda.





9.–Even as officialdom and the media downplay or outright dismiss the Junior Prom photo from Baraboo High School, we should expect things to become dramatically worse. Time grows short. Tik Tok! ” . . .



10.–Announced Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris opposed the 2012 parole bid of demonstrably innocent Sirhan Sirhan, the patsy for the RFK assassination…





11.–With the New Cold War gathering momentum and Trump’s withdrawal from the treaty on intermediate range nuclear missiles pointing the world toward war, it is worth reflecting on the history and deep politics that brought this about. Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty has written about events in August of 1944 that are indicative of the coalescence of the “Christian West” concept that we discussed in AFA #37 and further developed in FTR #1009. Note that this was well before the official incorporation of the Gehlen “Org” into CIA…





For a complete, annotated, written description of this program go to:
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1-2 Steve Ellner “The Open Veins of Venezuela”

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Historically, Venezuela has been an ATM machine for U.S. corporations. Located on the northern coast of South America with a population of 32 million, Venezuela is rich in natural resources: diamonds, bauxite, gold, iron ore, natural gas and oil, especially oil. The election of Hugo Chavez in 1998 heralded in what he called the Bolivarian Revolution. It was a challenge to U.S. hegemony. After his death in 2013 he was succeeded by Nicolas Maduro who stood for election in that same year and won. Maduro was reelected in 2018. The economy is in crisis. There is runaway inflation. Supermarket shelves are empty. Many people have left for neighboring countries. The economy is being crippled by sanctions imposed by the U.S., Canada, and other countries. Ordinary Venezuelans are suffering. Washington is leading the charge for regime change in Venezuela.



Steve Ellner has taught economic history and political science at the Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela for many years. His articles have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, In TheseTimes, The New York Times and other newspapers and journals. He is the author of ‘Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class Conflict & the Chavez Phenomenon’and ‘Latin America's Radical Left.’ ‘



From Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, www.alternativeradio.org






2-2:30 Chris Hedges, "On Contact"
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagVUKF7CUTRiG64CklL1AN0mbmNaETfp





2:30-3:30 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm

http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com





3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com



5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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(818) 985-2711






THURSDAY NIGHT, MARCH 28




12-1 Alan Watts, 'Future of Communications' Part 2 of 4
'Modern methods of communication are extending our nervous system to cover the planet. How and why will such an extended nervous system operate? How will it affect the 'private person and our ideas of ethics and responsibility? How, to use Toynbee's word, will it 'etherealize' our entire society?
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org




1-2 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"

TBA



2-3 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
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com

5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar

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That's All Folks!



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