November 6-10

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 (under repair and reconstruction)
“Something’s Happening!” is posted for listening on demand for 60 days after broadcast. The programs are (normally) described on the archives so you can spot the program you are interested in. “Something’s Happening!” is not downloadable because many of the programs I play do not belong to me nor to Pacifica, but you can listen any time day or night, weekends and holidays, for 60 days. Just go to http://archive.kpfk.org Be sure to




FUND DRIVE NEWS
We successfully ended the October major fund drive with a total of $782,580 which went beyond our original goal of $600,000. This 'overdraft' was due to some programs splitting their pledges 50/50 with urgent charitable donations to victims of earthquake, hurricane, and flood in Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Oaxaca, Mexico to who we gave (my estimate) between $30,000 and $50,000 directly and reliably. In addition we became encumbered by a $ million dollar plus debt by a sudden court decision against Pacifica/WBAI by the 'Vampire State Reality Trust' to which we have owed a debt for transmitter space over a few years and which threatens Pacifica Foundation. (for details see 'Behind the Scenes: After the Shoe Dropped" in following section.


While the new board works this debt out we will count our pennies in thanks to those of you who contributed, to our faithful phone answerers - particularly Barbara Flasher and John B.; to our phone administrator Buzz, to my dear Diane. It was a long and difficult drive but it did demonstrate that "Something's Happening!" IS slowly rebuilding its midnight to 3am audience again from zero. I promise great programming to continue.




BEHIND THE SCENES "After the Shoe Dropped"
http://pacificainexile.org/archives/2488



"FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE"
There will probably be a mini-drive in December, maybe a week.






ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
8-8:30 "Introduction to Buddhism"
From http://www.alanwatts.org
(there is an Alan Watts Newsletter just formed - free signup at website)





MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 6


12-3 Bobb Lynes & Barbara Sunday "Don't Touch That Dial!"
It's time for Barbara's annual 38th anniversary all-detective special including Boston Blackie, Nick Carter, Candy Matson and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.

Email Bobb: iairotr@hotmail.com Email Barbara: donttouchthatdial@hotmail.com
SPERDVAC old radio club: http://www.sperdvac.com



3-4 Lux Radio Theater
"The Thin Man" with William Powell and Myrna Loy.
Originally broadcast June 8, 1936.





4-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'




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TUESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 7
Fletcher Prouty Special Part 1


12-4 L. Fletcher Prouty Special Part 1 of 3
"Understanding Special Operations and Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era" Part 1 "Background"


This is the first of 3 programs constituting the entire book/interview "Understanding Special Operations and Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era" (1989) which we have frequently played in November over 3 weeks. The interview was conducted brilliantly by David Ratcliffe of rat haus reality press which published the book and which we offered as premiums the last couple of years.


( From www.prouty.com )
"Col. Prouty was the model for the 'Man X' in Oliver Stone's film 'JFK'.
Col. Fletcher Prouty answered e-mail from this site while he was alive.

"Col. Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first "Focal Point" officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

"At times he would be called to meet with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles at their home on highly classified business. He was assigned to attend MKULTRA meetings. In this capacity Col. Prouty would be at the nerve center of the Military-Industrial Complex at a time unequalled in American History. He has written on these subjects, about the JFK assassination, the Cold War period, and Vietnamese warfare, and the existence of a "Secret Team". He backs up his his work with seldom seen or mentioned official documents - some never before released.

"Fletcher Prouty offers a rare glimpse of the "Power Elite" as described by Buckminster Fuller, or "The High Cabal" as Winston Churchill refered to them; and how they really operate. Those who have not been in a position to witness events such as these from the inside would not understand how invisible but ultimately effective they and their power structures are."



4-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT NOVEMBER 8


12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #972 - They Are All Bound on the Wheel: Reflections on Charlottesville"

With the mainstream media, the so-called “alternative media,” the so-called “progressive sector” and the GOP beating their breasts over Donald Trump’s predictably equivocal reaction to the violence in Charlottesville (Virginia), we highlight the profound complicity with all of these elements with the very white supremacist, Nazi and Neo-Confederate movements that are at the foundation of the events in question.

For the last several years, the mainstream media, the so-called “alternative media,” and the so-called “progressive sector” have manifested an almost erotic obsession with the overlapping activities of Eddie the Friendly Spook (Snowden), Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Glenn Greenwald and Greenwald’s media financial angel Pierre Omidyar.

All of the focal points of their collective adulation are at one with the very white supremacist, Nazi and Neo-Confederate forces that coalesced on behalf of the preservation of the Confederate memorials in Charlottesville.

The marriage of the GOP and the ABN was effected under the auspices of the Crusade for Freedom, a dual-sided covert operation with the GOP/ABN nexus at the root of a domestic political operation and the combat support afforded guerrillas from the OUN/B and other Eastern European fascist fighting by the Office of Policy Coordination (which morphed into the CIA’s Directorate of plans): “. . . . Frustration over Truman’s 1948 election victory over Dewey (which they blamed on the “Jewish vote”) impelled Dulles and his protégé Richard Nixon to work toward the realization of the fascist freedom fighter presence in the Republican Party’s ethnic outreach organization. As a young congressman, Nixon had been Allen Dulles’s confidant. . . .

. . . . Vice President Nixon’s secret political war of Nazis against Jews in American politics was never investigated at the time. The foreign language-speaking Croatians and other Fascist émigré groups had a ready-made network for contacting and mobilizing the Eastern European ethnic bloc. There is a very high correlation between CIA domestic subsidies to Fascist ‘freedom fighters’ during the 1950’s and the leadership of the Republican Party’s ethnic campaign groups. The motive for the under-the-table financing was clear: Nixon used Nazis to offset the Jewish vote for the Democrats. . . .

. . . . In 1952, Nixon had formed an Ethnic Division within the Republican National Committee. Displaced fascists, hoping to be returned to power by an Eisenhower-Nixon ‘liberation’ policy signed on with the committee. In 1953, when Republicans were in office, the immigration laws were changed to admit Nazis, even members of the SS. They flooded into the country. Nixon himself oversaw the new immigration program. [This is a Republican pro-immigration program–D.E.] . . .”

The key figures in the CFF became the cream of the Reagan administration. ” . . . . As a young movie actor in the early 1950s, Reagan was employed as the public spokesperson for an OPC front named the ‘Crusade for Freedom.’ Reagan may not have known it, but 99 percent for the Crusade’s funds came from clandestine accounts, which were then laundered through the Crusade to various organizations such as Radio Liberty, which employed Dulles’s Fascists. Bill Casey, who later became CIA director under Ronald Reagan, also worked in Germany after World War II on Dulles’ Nazi ‘freedom fighters’ program. When he returned to New York, Casey headed up another OPC front, the International Rescue Committee, which sponsored the immigration of these Fascists to the United States. Casey’s committee replaced the International Red Cross as the sponsor for Dulles’s recruits. . . .

. . . . It was [George H.W.] Bush who fulfilled Nixon’s promise to make the ‘ethnic emigres’ a permanent part of Republican politics. In 1972, Nixon’s State Department spokesman confirmed to his Australian counterpart that the ethnic groups were very useful to get out the vote in several key states. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States. . . . “


For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-972-they-are-all-bound-on-the-wheel-reflections-on-charlottesville/



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Dave Emory’s entire life­time of work is avail­able on a flash drive. The new drive is a 32-gigabyte drive that is current as of the programs and articles posted by early 2016. Link: http://www.kfjc.org/donate/index.php

Dave's website: http://www.spitfirelist.com





1-2 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour: "Grassroots Action"




Ralph welcomes Sarah van Gelder, founder of PeoplesHub and Mark Pertschuk, director of Grassroots Change, two organizations that offer you the skills and expertise on how to make change in your community.

Sarah van Gelder is a founder of a new nonprofit start-up, PeoplesHub, which will be offering online training to local groups around the country who want to make change where they live. Sarah is also YES! Magazine Co-founder and columnist, a public speaker, and the author of a new book, 'The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America,' which is about Sarah’s solo road trip around the United States, seeking out the people who are making change happen.



“I really believe that we need a really radical transformation in this country, but I don’t believe it can be top-down. It has to be bottom-up. It has to be based in our local communities and in people finding for themselves the type of world they want to build.” Sarah van Gelder, founder of PeoplesHub



Mark Pertschuk is the former President & Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights. And in 1995, he co-founded Californians for Responsible Gun Laws to mobilize grassroots support for 40 local gun control ordinances and three statewide gun laws, which is why California has the strongest gun laws in the nation. His latest venture is as the director of Grassroots Change, an organization that connects advocates with the training and tools they need to build and sustain grassroots movements.



“The grassroots work that’s going on is so important. And it in some ways at the moment feels like our last hope for being involved in our own democracy.” Mark Pertschuk director of Grassroots Change
Originally broadcast Saturdays, 10am. All info: http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com








2-2:30 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part FOUR)





Marilyn Waring on War (Part TWO of Sex, Lies and Global Economics)

This film was a secret favorite for those who wanted to decode the economic system of perpetual, destructive growth. And for those who looked for an intelligent explanation of the connection between economics and war. Marilyn Waring was only 22 when she was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Re-elected three times she soon became chair of the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee, the sole budget, appropriations, and public accounts committee of Parliament.



This segment is about war. Under the GDP accounting system war is the biggest growth industry of all. When John Maynard Keynes and Richard Stone invented the GDP formula during WWII they explicitly designed is as a system of: “how to pay for the war”. This British system was imposed on the world in 1953. No country may be a member of the UN, deal with the IMF or World Bank unless they do their national accounting based on the GDP”



And some say that unlimited growth along with globalization has driven the wars and environmental destruction of the past 60 plus years. In spite of the magnitude of the problem with Growth and GDP accounting there is an encouraging aspect. If a global system can be designed by two economists, Mr. Keynes and M. Stone, and if it can get imposed – not so long ago – in 1953 – it is possible and necessary to design a different system and set a date for change in the near future. From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, http://www.tucradio.org







2:30-3 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part FIVE)


Kate Raworth: How modern economics has failed the poor and wrecked the earth while making a few people very rich

Kate Raworth spoke on October 4, 2017, at the Stockholm Resilience Centre on her new book Doughnut Economics. Published in the UK and US in April 2017 the book has already been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese.

Kate Raworth says that economics dominate public policy and our decision-making for the future. It guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. However economic theories as taught today are centuries out of date. That’s why it is time, Raworth says, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century.

From Kate Raworth 35 minute talk I chose her fascinating retelling of the history of economics from Adam Smith to Paul Samuelson and her indictment of neoliberalism, market fundamentalism and the universally imposed system of economic growth, expressed in the GPD, the Gross Domestic Product.

From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, http://www.tucradio.org






3-3:30 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part SIX)


Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems, Professor Elinor Ostrom



Elinor Ostrom is best known for her understanding and defense of the commons. As one of the rare political scientists who continued to study reality first and then come up with a theory she has personal experience with hundreds of community managed fisheries, forests and irrigation systems.



In 2009 she was the first and so far only woman who was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, in large part in acknowledgment of her work on the commons. Some say that in the year of the most severe economic crisis in our recent past the Nobel Committee had a hard time finding male economists.



Elinor Ostrom was Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. And she lived in Indiana until her death in June 2012. She and her husband, political scientist Vincent Ostrom, developed a world view that they called polycentric.



They define polycentrism, and with it the commons, as systems based on collective action, trust, cooperation and the management of common pool resources.

On February 16, 2010, Elinor Ostrom presented an updated version of her Nobel Prize lecture at Indiana University. From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, http://www.tucradio.org






3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'




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THURSDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 9




12-1 Alan Watts, "World As Play" #3 of 4
"The 'game-theory' of the universe -- its basic rules or patterns in both natural and human situations. Discussion of a 'cosmologic' or universal 'horse sense' about the behavior of life and energy, and its application to personal and social problems, based on the Yang-yin theory of the 'Book of Changes.'"
From http://www.alanwatts.org





1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Taoism" Part 7 of 15


2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com


3-3:30 Science Fiction Break


3:30 - 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'


5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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