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ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
8-8:30am, "Swimming Headless" Part 1 of 2
From http://www.alanwatts.org
MONDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 1
First-Monday-of-the-Month Old Radio Night!
12-3 Bobb Lynes & Barbara Sunday, "Don't Touch That Dial!"
We'll be playing 'Our Miss Brooks,' 'Phil Harris Alice Faye Show,' 'Mr. President,' 'Challenge of the Yukon,' 'The Whistler' and 'Radio City Playhouse.'
Email Bobb: iairotr@hotmail.com Email Barbara: donttouchthatdial@hotmail.com
3-4 Lux Radio Theater (6-22-36)
"Dark Angel"
Starring Merle Oberon & Herbert Marshall
4-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom took the day off and posted a 'best of' so we will hear Friday's program which has not been broadcast here. (sorry - no football scores)
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TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 2
12:3:30 - Stephen Levine, "A Year To Live"
'How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last'
If you had only one year left to live, what would you do? When Stephen Levine posed this question to himself, it led to a profound, year-long experiment in conscious living that is fully revealed in 'A Year to Live.' In his work with the dying, Levine observed the radical life changes people can make in the face of death: how they quit dead end jobs, opened to love, healed their relationships, and acted on plans they had put off for years. He challenged himself to live an entire year as if it were his last, thus beginning an investigation into spiritual practices unlike any other: those designed to explore how death is cut from the same fabric as life and why it is never to be feared.
Carefully planned as a series of month-by-month practices anyone can do 'A Year to Live' teaches a way to live your life with vivid fullness while opening to the ultimate mystery of what the end will bring. With special meditations and exercises, Levine helps you discover your own 'deathless nature' contained in your moment-by-moment experiences.
For seekers of all faiths and all ages, 'A Year to Live' shows that every minute of life is not only part of a promise made at birth but the spiritual adventure of a lifetime.
Stephen Levine is a teacher, author, and meditation instructor. With Ram Dass, he helped found New York City's first hospice, and he is a leader in caregiving for HIV patients. He is the author of 'Who Dies?,' an influential book on spirituality, consciousness, and the dying process.
From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185,
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/a-year-to-live-2925.html
3:45-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 3
12-1 Dave Emory "For the Record #984
Fascism: 2017 European Tour"
The latest programs recorded are FTR #988 Hindutva Fascism: The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Part 1 and FTR #989 Hindutva Fascism, Part 2: The Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, Part 2
Mr. Emory has how finished and published AFA #39: “The World Will be Plunged into an Abyss . . . .” Mr. Emory VERY much hopes listeners and readers will closely examine, record and disseminate this information. It may well be what the Nazi future will look like, up to a point.
We begin our tour by examining overtly fascist elements in the governing Bulgarian coalition of Boyko Borisov, evocative of Bulgaria’s past as an ally of Nazi Germany in World War II. ” . . . May 17, Pavel Tenev, Minister of Regional Development, at the time, was forced to resign, after publication of a photo, showing him with his right arm extended in a Nazi salute, standing in front of a wax figure of a Nazi officer in Paris’ Musée Grévin. May 19, another photo was published on the internet, showing the freshly appointed department director in the Ministry of Defense, Ivo Antonov, also giving the Nazi salute in front of a Second World War tank of the Wehrmacht. . . .”
Other coalition partners have made disparaging remarks about Roma (“gypsies”) and Jews. Worth noting that Borisov’s selection of coalition partners: ” . . . .Following the recent March 26, parliamentary elections, Borisov, the winner of the elections (his GERB with 32.7 percent), did not begin negotiations for a government coalition with the Bulgarian Socialist Party (27.2 percent) or with the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (9 percent) representing the Turkish-speaking minority, but rather with the United Patriots (9.1 percent). The United Patriots is an alliance of three extreme right-wing parties. . . .”
In recent weeks, the struggle over the potential secession of Catalonia from Spain has garnered considerable attention
That struggle is framed against a larger political dynamic embracing advocacy of the elimination of formal national borders in Europe in favor of “regionalist plans.” Just such regionalist advocacy was the focal point of a prominent article (with accompanying maps of the projected realignment) in Die Zeit, a major German weekly.
Regionalist advocacy has a significant past, with the early postwar CIA and Allen Dulles having embraced such a dynamic. ” . . . . the federalists had initially been supported and controlled by the CIA predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and [one of its top spies] Alan Dulles, residing in Bern, and later by the CIA itself. . . .”
In addition, the regionalist dyanamic enjoyed the support of long-time German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, whose advocacy and implementation of brutal fiscal austerity helped beggar much of the EU, including Spain, following the financial crisis of 2008. ” . . . . Wolfgang Schäuble, as President of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) in the early 1980’s, was also promoting regionalist plans. Inspired by former Nazi functionaries, the AEBR criticized the ‘nation-state’s barrier effect’ of borders in the interests of large corporations. . . . Former Nazi functionaries were actively participating both on the AEBR’s committees and in the immediate entourage of its planning of the ‘regionalization’ of the border regions, including Gerd Jans, the former member of the Waffen SS in the Netherlands, Konrad Meyer, responsible for the Nazi’s ‘Generalplan Ost,’ Hermann Josef Abs, of the Deutsche Bank, as well as Alfred Toepfer, described by the publicist Hans-Rüdiger Minow as ‘infamous for his border subversion of France’s Alsace.’ In an extensive study, Minow describes the continuities of the Nazi’s concepts. . . .”
Despite an initial impression of “regionalism” that many might see as alien, The Schauble/AEBR/regionalism dyanmic ideology may be seen as something of a subsidiary element of globalization. ” . . . . .In 1979, Schäuble became president of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), an organization with the objective of downgrading the significance of borders in Europe. Business interests played an important role, which is why the AEBR could find reliable supporters in industry. A ‘European Charter on Border and Cross-Border Regions,’ passed by the AEBR in 1981, stipulated that the ‘elimination of economic and infrastructural barriers’ must urgently be pursued. . . .”
The implementation of regionalization would facilitate German domination of Europe, which has met resistance from poorer EU and EMU countries over the austerity doctrine favored by Wolfgang Schauble. ” . . . . Economic maps by the EU’s Eurostat statistics administration show the regions where Europe’s wealth and, therefore, Europe’s economic power is concentrated, a block with its centers in southern and central Germany, to the west, in Flanders and spreading to segments of the Netherlands, and to the South to parts of Austria and Northern Italy and in various separate regions of Western and Northern Europe. A number of these regions maintain close relations to Germany, or to the German regions. (german-foreign-policy.com reported.[11]) This clearly German-dominated block would hardly have any difficulty controlling a ‘Europe of the Regions.’ . . . .”
Also worth noting is the fact that the Catalonian independence movement embraces a Catalonian identity that involves people from France, as well as Spain: ” . . . . The Catalan movement currently pushing for secession is in fact largely defining itself ethnically. The autonomous movement has been closely cooperating with French citizens, who live outside the Spanish region of Catalonia, but also consider themselves ‘ethnic Catalans.’ At their rallies one can hear ‘Neither France nor Spain! Only one country, Catalonia!’ . . . .”
The two Twitter accounts that appear to account for nearly a third of all Twitter traffic with the #Catalonia hashtag, in reference to the Catalonian secession movement belong to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
Of more than passing interest, under the circumstances, is the Twitter effort by both Julian Assange and Edward Snowden on behalf of Catalonian independence.
As seen in many past programs and posts, Snowden and Assange are as far to the right as it is possible to be.
Their cyberlibertarian activism and their support for Catalonian independence is rooted in anarcho-libertarian economic theory. Seeing the dissolution of national governments as desirable, their support for the principle of secession is rooted in what Mussolini termed “corporatism.”
Snowden and Assange’s ostensibly “liberating” doctrines, if put into effect, would leave citizenry at the mercy of unfettered economic will, exercised by corporations and their associated elites.
Snowden specifically appears to be advocating that no secession movement anywhere ever can be rejected by the government under the premise that self-determination is a human right, viewing this as a “natural law” issue.
In that context, the right to secede is championed by the Libertarian far-right, all the way down to the right to individuals to secede from all government. As this piece from Libertarian David S. D’Amato demonstrates, extending the right to secede down to the individual facilitates the implementation of an anarcho-capitalist society with no government at all, as seen by figures like Murray Rothbard. This is envisioned as an excellent wayof achieving an anarcho-capitalist utopia.
The Snowden/Assange pro-secessionist movement should also be seen against the background of the Neo-Confederate movement, championed by Ron Paul and the Ludwig Von Mises Institute.
Following capture of 13 percent of the vote in Germany’s federal elections on Sunday by the Alternative For Germany (AfD), Alexander Gauland, the AfD leader, provoked outrage after suggesting that Germans should no longer be reproached with the Nazi past.
This type of behavior apparently motivated AfD leader Frauke Petry to leave the party, just hours after the election over its extremism.
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-984-fascism-2017-european-tour/
Dave's Website
www.spitfirelist.com
1-2 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Listener Questions and Year End Jokes!
To wrap up a year filled with anxiety, Ralph answers a bunch of your questions and then David and Steve try out some jokes. As usual, Ralph gets the last laugh.
Initially heard on KPFK Saturdays, 10am
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
2-3 Edward Herman, "The Propaganda Model"
In liberal democratic societies, it has long been understood that the use of force to control the population is generally not a viable option. Therefore, controlling what people think is critical. Thus, an elaborate system of propaganda is needed. For that system to be effective it must appear invisible. In totalitarian states there is no ambiguity. Citizens know they are getting the party line. But in countries like the U.S., where ownership is private and formal censorship is absent, there is an appearance of a free flow of information. However, that flow passes through successive filters, leaving only the cleansed residue fit to print.
Edward Herman was an economist who taught at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also highly skilled at exposing media lies, fabrications and propaganda. He was the author of many books, including 'Beyond Hypocrisy,' 'The Real Terror Network,' 'The Politics of Genocide' and 'The Myth of the Liberal Media'. He was author with Noam Chomsky of 'Manufacturing Consent,' one of the most influential books on the media ever written. He passed away in November 2017 at the age of 92.
From Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, www.alternativeradio.org
3-3:30 The Bioneers - Revolution from the Heart of Nature
'Breaking the Male Code: The Tyranny of Masculinity'
To transform our culture from its focus on dominance and hierarchy to one of connection, empathy and collaboration, it’s vital that we re-envision the essential (or archetypal) masculine, which changes everything. This rarely tackled topic is the subject of a deeply authentic dialogue among Playwright and activist Eve Ensler and three men working to change men and change the story: Tony Porter, co-founder, A Call To Men; Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous activist, member of the 1491’s Native American comedy troupe; George Lipsitz, board president, African American Policy Forum.
1 (877) BIONEER, www.bioneers.org
3:45-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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THURSDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 4
12-1 Alan Watts, "The Power of Space" Part 3 of 4
"Space, which is ordinarily regarded as nothingness, may I'm fact, be our own consciousness -- sensed in the form of an external dimension; and human awe at the vastness of space may be man's astonishment at himself. We reconsider our position as 'insignificant germs on a minute ball of rock, attached to a minor star on the outer fringe of one of the smaller galaxies." (AW) All info: http://www.alanwatts.org (includes sign up for free newsletter)
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Taoism" Part 13 of 16
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
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