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WHAT HAPPENED?
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"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.
AUDIO ARCHIVES
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FUND DRIVE NEWS
Upcoming mini holiday fund drive is scheduled for Dec. 5-15. If we make our goal of 350k we will end on the 15th, if not it will be extended a couple of days. We are currently running behind about $30,000 toward our goal of $350,000.
BEHIND THE SCENES
'An Open Letter to the Pacifica Community"
http://pacificainexile.org/archives/2496
"FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE"
There might be some programming changes depending on pledges or lack thereof.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
8-9am "The Collected Letters of Alan Watts" by Joan Watts and Anne Watts. Alan Watts' oldest two children were interviewed last Thursday night live and will be rebroadcast at this spot with the book, published December 6, will be offered as a thank-you-gift.
MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 11
FUNDRAISER
12-2 Saturday With Sheehan (Recorded December 2)
The latest in a monthly webinar recorded live.
The Peoples Advocate, the autobiography of American Constitutional Trial Attorney Daniel Sheehan, is now available at www.romeroinstitute.org Sheehan traces his personal journey from his working-class roots through Harvard Law School and his initial career in private practice. His early disenchantment led to his return for further study at Harvard Divinity School, and rethinking the nature of his career. Eventually his role as President and Chief Trial Counselor for the famous Washington, DC-based Christic Institute would help define his role as America's preeminent cause lawyer.
In The Peoples Advocate, Sheehan details "the inside story" of over a dozen historically significant American legal cases of the 20th Century, all of which he litigated. The remarkable cases covered in the book include both The Pentagon Papers Case in 1971 and The Watergate Burglary Case in 1973. In addition, Sheehan served as the Chief Attorney on The Karen Silkwood Case in 1976, which revealed the CIA's Israeli Desk had been smuggling 98% bomb-grade plutonium to the State of Israel and to Iran. In 1984, he was the Chief Trial Counsel on The American Sanctuary Movement Case, establishing the right of American church workers to provide assistance to Central American political refugees fleeing Guatemalan and Salvadorian "death squads." His involvement with the sanctuary movement ultimately led to Sheehan's famous Iran/Contra Federal Civil Racketeering Case against the Reagan/Bush Administration, which he investigated, initiated, filed, and then litigated. The resulting "Iran/Contra Scandal" nearly brought down that Administration, leading Congress to consider the impeachment of over a dozen of the top-ranking officials of the Reagan/Bush Administration. He is currently lead attorney in the Dakota Access Pipeline actions. Produced by www.ETLetsTalk.com Video posted at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=508yXsuIHWg
2-3 "Document A-777" (Celebrating Human Rights Day)
On the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was signed December 10, 1948. All star cast includes Richard Basehart, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Maurice Evans, Jose' Ferrer, Reginald Gardner, Van Heflin, Gene Hersholt, Lena Horne, Marsha Hunt, Alexander Knox, Charles Laughton, Sir Laurence Olivier, Vincent Price, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ryan, Hilda Vaughan, Evelyn Williams, and Robert Young. Music by Lyn Murray. Written, produced, and directed by Norman Corwin, originally broadcast on Mutual 4/17/50.
3:-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
TUESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 12
FUNDRAISER
12-12:30 Vaccine Update
12:30-1:30 Karla McLaren, "The Gifts of ALL Emotions - Including Depression"
Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and educator whose empathic approach to emotions informs her studies of sociology, anthropology, neurology, and cognitive psychology. With Sounds True, Karla has most recently contributed to the anthology Darkness Before Dawn: Redefining the Journey Through Depression. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Karla and Tami Simon discuss depression as an essential human emotion-one that may carry important messages about what's no longer working for you. They also talk about the questions you can ask of your emotions to determine their cause and the course of action they are asking you to take. Finally, Tami and Karla speak on the necessity of understanding and embracing the full range of human emotions-even those you deem unpleasant-in order to live a fuller, healthier life.
1:30-2:30 Caroline Adams Miller: "Getting Grit"
Caroline Miller is one of the world's foremost experts in positive psychology and the author of books such as Creating Your Best Life and My Name Is Caroline. With Sounds True, she has recently published Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Caroline discuss the concept of "grit"-the ability to stay passionate and persistent in one's long-term goals even in the face of considerable hardship. Caroline explains the different kinds of grit, including "false grit" that encourages stubbornness or flatters the ego. Finally, Tami and Caroline talk about the startling fact that we don't become happy when we are successful; rather, we become successful because we're happy first. (56 minutes)
3:00-5:55 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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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 13
FUNDRAISER
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #981 - The Ukrainian Fascist Foundation of the 'Russia-Gate' Psy-Op"
IN FTR #967, WE NOTED THE UKRAINIAN FASCIST AFFILIATION OF ANDREI ARTEMENKO, AUKRAINIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT WHO WORKED WITH CIA AND FBI-CONNECTED TRUMP BUSINESS ASSOCIATE FELIX SATER. ALLEGED BY OUR MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT TO HAVE SIGNIFIED "RUSSIAN INFLUENCE" ON THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, THIS SATER/ARTEMENKO GAMBIT WAS ACTUALLY AN ANTI-RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY.
In this program, we highlight the profound extent to which the "evidence" in the Russia-Gate "investigation" tracks back to the very same OUN/B successor organizations we have covered in so many of our previous programs:
1.-A story noting the probable Dnipropetrovsk origin of the missile technology apparently facilitating North Korea's guided missile technology documented the political affiliation of Igor Kolomoisky [Kolomoiskoy], governor of the "Dnipro" district: " . . . . So, among the Kolomoisky-backed militias was the Azov battalion whose members marched with Swastikas and other Nazi insignias. . . . . . . . In response to the reports of possible Ukrainian collusion in North Korea's missile program, Oleksandr Turchynov, secretary of the Ukrainian national security and defense council, issued a bizarre denial suggesting that The New York Times and U.S. intelligence agencies were pawns of Russia. . . . Press reports about Turchynov's statement left out two salient facts: that as the interim President following the February 2014 coup, Turchynov ordered Right Sektor militants to begin the bloody siege of rebel-held Sloviansk, a key escalation in the conflict, and that Turchynov was the one who appointed Kolomoisky to be the ruler of Dnipropetrovsk."
2.-The journalistic viewpoint on a Ukrainian hacker allegedly used by "Russian hackers" against the U.S. comes from Anton Gerashchenko, part of the same milieu as Pravy Sektor, Azov, etc. Gerashchenko is, in fact, an apologist for Azov, as discussed in FTR #'s 803, 804, 808, 818: " . . . . Security experts were initially left scratching their heads when the Department of Homeland Security on Dec. 29 released technical evidence of Russian hacking that seemed to point not to Russia, but rather to Ukraine. . . A member of Ukraine's Parliament with close ties to the security services, Anton Gerashchenko, said that the interaction was online or by phone and that the Ukrainian programmer had been paid to write customized malware without knowing its purpose, only later learning it was used in Russian hacking. . . . It is not clear whether the specific malware the programmer created was used to hack the D.N.C. servers. . . ."
3.-Reading between the lines, an otherwise characteristically propagandized New York Times article encapsulated critically important information: ". . . . While still politically influenced, Ukrainian law enforcement is no longer a swamp of incompetence and corruption. It has been able to monitor Mr. Manafort's former business associates and turn up evidence of Russian hacking in the 2016 United States election, in part owing to American support. . . ."
4.-Exemplifying the Ukrainian fascists at the epicenter of "Russia-Gate" are a group of Ukrainian hackers, working in tandem with fascist politicians like the aforementioned Anton Gerashchenko. The hacker/Ukrainian fascist link spawned the "PropOrNot" list of "Russian/Kremlin/Putin" dupes in the U.S. media: This list was compiled by the Ukrainian intelligence service, interior ministry and-ahem-hackers: ". . . . One of the more frightening policies enacted by the current oligarch-nationalist regime in Kiev is an online blacklist [42] of journalists accused of collaborating with pro-Russian 'terrorists.' [43] The website, 'Myrotvorets' [43] or 'Peacemaker'-was set up by Ukrainian hackers working with state intelligence and police, all of which tend to share the same ultranationalist ideologies as Parubiy and the newly-appointed neo-Nazi chief of the National Police. . . . The website is designed to frighten and muzzle journalists from reporting anything but the pro-nationalist party line, and it has the backing of government officials, spies and police-including the SBU (Ukraine's successor to the KGB), the powerful Interior Minister Avakov and his notorious far-right deputy, Anton Geraschenko. Ukraine's journalist blacklist website-operated by Ukrainian hackers working with state intelligence-led to a rash of death threats against the doxxed journalists, whose email addresses, phone numbers and other private information was posted anonymously to the website.
5.-A Ukrainian activist named Alexandra Chalupa has been instrumental in distributing the "Russia did it" disinformation to Hillary Clinton and influencing the progress of the disinformation in the media. " . . . . One of the key media sources [46] who blamed the DNC hacks on Russia, ramping up fears of crypto-Putinist infiltration, is a Ukrainian-American lobbyist working for the DNC. She is Alexandra Chalupa-described as the head of the Democratic National Committee's opposition research on Russia and on Trump, and founder and president of the Ukrainian lobby group 'US United With Ukraine Coalition' [47], which lobbied hard to pass a 2014 bill increasing loans and military aid to Ukraine, imposing sanctions on Russians, and tightly aligning US and Ukraine geostrategic interests. . . . In one leaked DNC email [50] earlier this year, Chalupa boasts to DNC Communications Director Luis Miranda that she brought Isikoff to a US-government sponsored Washington event featuring 68 Ukrainian journalists, where Chalupa was invited 'to speak specifically about Paul Manafort.' In turn, Isikoff named her as the key inside source [46] 'proving' that the Russians were behind the hacks, and that Trump's campaign was under the spell of Kremlin spies and sorcerers. . . ."
6.-Alleged "Russian agent" Paul Manafort-identified in FTR #919 as a probable "advance man" for regimes targeted for destabilization-may well have been the person who recommended to his "client" Yanukovich to fire on the Maidan demonstrators. It was that gunfire that signalled the end of Yanukovich's government. This reinforces Mr. Emory's take on Manafort. " . . . . The lawyer's demands for explanation spring from the hacking earlier this year of the iPhone of Mr Manafort's daughter, [since confirmed as genuine-D.E.] Andrea, with around 300,000 messages published in the dark web. One of the texts sent to her sister Jessica said: 'Don't fool yourself. That money we have is blood money.' It continued 'You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly, as a tactic to outrage the world and get focus on Ukraine. Remember when there were all those deaths taking place. A while back. About a year ago. Revolts and what not. Do you know whose strategy that was to cause that, to send those people get them slaughtered.' . . . ."
7.-Reinforcing the hypothesis that the Maidan shootings were a provocation is the disclosure by Ukraine's chief prosecutor that the rifles allegedly used to fire on the Maidan demonstrators were recovered by an alleged Yanukovich operative and leader of the snipers who was one of the demonstrators on the Maidan! " . . . Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko says that the man who helped the so-called "black hundred" of police task force Berkut, who had been shooting at protesters during the Revolution of Dignity, flee Kyiv and deliberately drowned their weapons to conceal evidence, was himself one of the participants of the Maidan protests. 'With the help of military counterintelligence, we have found weapons of the 'black hundred,' including a sniper rifle, which the entire country saw on footage showing the shooting at the protesters from outside the October Palace," he told the 112 Ukraine TV channel. . . . 'We found it with a large number of automatic rifles on the bottom of one of Kiev's lakes. They were cut and drowned in one batch by a single group, whose leader is one of the targets of our investigation. Unfortunately, this man who, according to our version, upon the orders of [former Interior Minister Vitaliy] Zakharchenko helped the 'black hundred' flee Kyiv, destroyed and drowned their weapons, he, himself, was with us on the Maidan,' Lutsenko said. . . . "
8.-The sniper activity in the Maidan must be weighed against the fact that Nazi-linked elements from the Azov milieu were serving as snipers in Kiev at the time. Were they connected to the shootings of demonstrators?
9.-The supposed "evidence" of Russian hacking in the U.S. election comes from CrowdStrike, whose co-founder and chief technology officer-Dmitry Alperovitch-is deeply tied to the NATO/OUN/B milieu installed in power in Ukraine: " . . . . Dmitri Alperovitch is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. The connection between Alperovitch and the Atlantic Council has gone largely unremarked upon, but it is relevant given that the Atlantic Council-which is is funded in part by the US State Department, NATO, the governments of Latvia and Lithuania, the Ukrainian World Congress, and the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk-has been among the loudest voices calling for a new Cold War with Russia. As I pointed out in the pages of The Nation in November, the Atlantic Council has spent the past several years producing some of the most virulent specimens of the new Cold War propaganda. ...
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-981-the-ukrainian-fascist-foundation-of-the-russia-gate-psy-op/
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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
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1-2 Jason Stanley, "How Fascism Works" (Ralph Nader postponed one hour)
What is fascism? Michael Parenti, author and historian says, "Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination." Fascism flourishes in times of economic insecurity and cultural backlash. Opportunistic politicians offer up a platter of racism, xenophobia and hyper-nationalism. They stoke fear and resentment using simplistic slogans such as "Drain the Swamp" and "Build the Wall." In the U.S. today, there is a whiff fascism in the air. Witness the march of white supremacists with torches held high in Charlottesville chanting "Blood and Soil," an old Nazi slogan and "Jews Will Not Replace Us." The president called them "very fine people." Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Knowledge and Practical Interests, Language in Context, Know How and the award-winning How Propaganda Works. From Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, www.alternativeradio.org
2-3 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
"The Difference Between Liberal and Progressive"
Ralph and Washington Post columnist, E.J. Dionne debate the distinction between "Progressive" and "Liberal," and Original Nader's Raider, Robert Fellmeth tells us why he thinks speech on the Internet should not be anonymous.E. J. Dionne writes about politics in a twice-weekly column in the Washington Post and on the Post Partisan blog. He is also a senior fellow in governance Studies at the Brookings Institution (https://www.brookings.edu/), a government professor at Georgetown University and a frequent guest on NPR, ABC's This Week and MSNBC. He is the author of seven books, the latest of which is "One Nation Under Trump: A Guide For the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not Yet Deported."
"I don't see the same sharp distinctions between the center/left and the left right now in the U.S. or - as you put it - between liberals and progressives. For example, take the issue of universal healthcare. Some of my progressive friends say that only single-payer is the way to go. I have nothing against single-payer. It's a system that works in many countries. I also think that universal coverage that would essentially treat the health system as a public utility, which is kind of what you do in Germany or the Netherlands - that that would work as well. I think we should have a healthy argument about what's going to work better, not some argument that says only single-payer is the way to achieve universal coverage." E.J. Dionne
3:00-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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THURSDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 14
FUNDRAISER
BEETHOVEN NIGHT
12-3 "Beethoven" His Spiritual Development" by J.W.N. Sullivan
Excerpts from this 11 1/2 hour reading, with music, produced in 1978 by Roy, ready Dudley Knight. (Also a thank-you gift on mp3 CD for $100 pledge). Beethoven's birthday Dec. 16 (though he wasn't baptized until Dec. 17)
3-3:30 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show"
Program shortened for KPFA fundraising
All info: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com
3:30 - 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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That's All Folks!
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