January 22-25

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.




FUND DRIVE NEWS
Our next fund drive will begin February 6 with a goal of $600,000. Moving from survival toward stability. Will probably last through the month.



BEHIND THE SCENES
"The End Less Near - Pacifica Board Approves Loan
http://pacificainexile.org/archives/2552







ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
January 21:
8-8:30am "Spiritual Authority" Part 2
From http://www.alanwatts.org




MONDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 22


12-1 Martha Beck, "Follow Your North Star"
'Chart a Rewarding Path to Realize Your True Life's Calling'



The terrain along the journey of life is spectacularly varied, teaches Martha Beck. But the one thing that will never change is that your true nature will always urge you toward your destiny.


Over two million readers a month look to Martha Beck for her advice in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, here's the audio workshop her readers have been waiting for: her all-in-one guide for recognizing your life's purpose, staying on course, and reaching your fullest potential for happiness.


On Follow Your North Star, Beck offers straightforward-yet-simple tools for charting your life path by following the unchangeable "true north" markers of your life.

Martha Beck is a monthly columnist to "O, The Oprah Magazine." She is the New York Times bestselling author of 'The Joy Diet,' 'Finding Your Own North Star,' Expecting Adam, A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic,' and 'Leaving the Saints.;' She has taught career development at the American Graduate School of International Management; performed research at Harvard Business School and consulted to numerous Fortune 500 corporations.

Part 7 of 8: Stage 32 of Change Emerging
Moving into action. Developing a map to your dreams. Taking turtle steps. Revisiting your yearning and desired and feeling lists. Feeding your heart's desire. Treasuring and the Hall of Champions.


Part 8 (concluding): Part Four of Change: Perfecting
Staying alert and aware. Using your meta-skills.





From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, https://www.soundstrue.com/store/follow-your-north-star-3916.html



1-2 Larry Ward: "Mindfulness in Action, in Business"

Larry Ward is both a Baptist minister and a teacher of the Buddhist dharma, personally ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh. A lifelong advocate for nonviolent social change, Larry draws his main inspiration from the life and works of Martin Luther King, Jr. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Larry discuss how to tap into inner reservoirs of resilience and the factors that keep us from performing our very best work. They consider issues of race and ancestral healing in a time when these questions are prominent in the wider culture. Finally, Larry encourages listeners to develop a "fierce equanimity" and explains just what that means in day-to-day life. From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge.' For free download of audio and/or transcript of this interview, go to:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=11987





2-3 "From the Vault,"
Science Fiction Legend Philip K. Dick (poor sound quality)


This interview was conducted from Philip K. Dick s Southern California home in 1976 at a time when Science Fiction was considered by Publishers the lowest form of Literature.



Today, with the success of such Science Fiction franchises as Star Trek, Star Wars and others, it s hard to imagine a time when the Best Science Fiction writer in the field would struggle to have his novel published.
Since Philip K. Dick s death in 1982, fourteen of his novels and short stories have been made into films including Harrison Ford in Blade Runner, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall (remade with Colin Farrell), Tom Cruise in Minority Report and Matt Damen in the Adjustment Bureau.


His 1953 short story King of the Elves slated for a 2016 release.
Not surprisingly this very interview is in the special features section on the DVD of Philip's A Scanner Darkly starring Keanu Reeves.

You are in for a treat today. This conversation between Mike Hodel and Philip K. Dick is a real insider's peak into the mind of a great visionary, who battled for decades to get his ideas out to the world.
Philip K. Dick also pulls back the curtain to expose the reality of a science fiction writer dealing with an unsympathetic Literary world. He calls out both Harlan Ellison (who took over as host of Hour 25 when Mike Hodel passed) and Kurt Vonnegut for never embracing the Science Fiction genre.


Finally we present a clip from Philip's 1956 NBC Science fiction radio Drama The Colony.

‘From the Vault’ Produced by Mark Torres.
From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230, http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org




3-3:30 "Colony" by Philip K. Dick
An X Minus One program originally broadcast on NBC 10/10/56.




3:40-5:55 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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TUESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 23


12-1:30 Vaccine Update
Suzanne Humphries MD,
"Measles Herd Immunity"
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KhofzZ-ke8&t=3245s
Website: http:drsuzanne.net




1:30-2:30 Joel Kahn MD, "The Plant-Based Solution"


Dr. Joel Kahn is a holistic cardiologist, clinical professor of medicine, and author who is known as "America's Healthy Heart Doc." With Sounds True, he has published 'The Plant-Based Solution: America's Healthy Heart Doc's Plan to Power Your Health.' In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Joel and Tami Simon discuss why making the switch to a whole-food, vegan diet is the best decision you can make for your long-term heart health—as well as for diabetes prevention, sexual energy, and overall longevity. They compare a plant-based diet to other contemporary methods such as the keto and paleo diets, and Joel explains how to address what's missing in purely vegan foods. Finally, Tami and Joel talk about how the switch to a vegan diet is especially important for contemporary environmental crises and why a plant-based lifestyle will soon be a social standard.


From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge'

For a free download of the audio and/or transcript of this program go to:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=12935







2:30-3 "The Evolution of Organic" by Mark Kitchell



A new film on the history of organic agriculture told by those who built the movement

After WWII industrial, chemical agriculture almost erased the memory of farming and gardening as practiced for millennia. Even before the 1960s back to the land movement put out a flamboyant reminder for safe foodfree from oil based fertilizers and insecticides individual, unknown farmers and organizations preserved the ancient heritage.

Director and writer Mark Kitchell, best known for his movies: 'Berkeley in the Sixties' and his environmental film 'A Fierce Green Fire' decided to document the many sources for the Evolution of Organic. The film is going into distribution in early 2018.

Kitchell’s goal was to cover the range of practices and ideals that inspired the resistance to chemical agriculture, from Alan Chadwick to Rachel Carson to Rudolf Steiner’s Biodynamic philosophy. And the film eventually brings the history forward to today where organics in some ways reached their own production and distribution of scale, while other small scale farmers protect their specialties and local neighbor to neighbor support systems.

The film is 86 minutes long and this program presents ca 25 minutes of intriguing clips across generations. The narrator is Frances Mc Dormand.

The web site for the film is http://evolutionoforganic.com/

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



3-3:30 Evolution of Organic at the Grange

Community screening of the film by Mark Kitchell – In November 2017 Mark Kitchell brought his new documentary film, Evolution of Organic, to the Willits Little Lake Grange in Northern California. It’s a new film on the history of organic agriculture told by those who built the movement. Willits and the surrounding county of Mendocino have a rich tradition of organics and everybody in the audience was either a happy consumer of local food or a farmer/gardener themselves.


Gloria and Stephen Decater and Ruthie King are among those local farmer/gardeners and in addition they were important participants in the movie, Evolution of Organic. The Decaters began as students of Alan Chadwick’s in Santa Cruz, and founded in 1973 the Live Power Community Farm in Round Valley in Mendocino County.


It is a 50-acre, solar electric and horse-powered, certified biodynamic farm. Four acres are devoted to an intensive vegetable garden. The rest of the farm is used to grow home orchard fruits and field and forage crops for hay, grain, and pasture. Animals on the Live Power Community Farm include draft horses, dairy and beef cows, feeder pigs, sheep, and laying hens.


Ruthie King is Director of Operations and Livestock Manager at the Grange Farm School on Ridgewood Ranch – where she lives. She is also the Representative of the Mendocino Farmer’s Guild and Overseer of the Little Lake Grange.


After the screening of the film they came forward to comment and answer questions. Curiously this particular audience asked many questions about two founding personalities of the organic movement and the Philosophy behind it who were no longer alive when the film was made: Alan Chadwick and Rudolf Steiner.


Alan Chadwick was an English master gardener, and a leading innovator of organic farming techniques based on Biodynamic and French Intensive gardening practice. He was a student of Rudolf Steiner’s. Steiner, who died in March 1925 was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect and agriculturalist. He founded a number of schools, the first of which was known as the Waldorf school, which later evolved into a worldwide school network. He also founded a system of organic agriculture, now known as biodynamic agriculture, which was one of the very first forms of modern organic farming.


The film: Evolution of Organic by Mark Kitchell is going into distribution in early 2018. Kitchell also introduced the writer Kim Bancroft who used transcripts of the many practitioners of organics. She edited them into essays, preserving material that was impossible to fit into the 86 minute film.


Director and writer Mark Kitchell is best known for his movies: Berkeley in the Sixties and his environmental film A Fierce Green Fire. The web site for the film is http://evolutionoforganic.com/


I recorded this program at the Willits Little Lake Grange on November 17, 2017.


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




3:40-5:55 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, JANUARY 24


12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #987 - Walkin' the Snake at Breitbart and You Tube"


Continuing our long-running analysis of the realization of the Nazi methodology expressed in “Serpent’s Walk,” we further develop Breitbart’s achievements in that regard, as well as underscoring how YouTube has evolved in that same manner.


The back cover of “Serpent’s Walk” sums up the essence of the tome: ” . . . It assumes that Hitler’s warrior elite – the SS – didn’t give up their struggle for a White World when they lost the Second World War. Instead their survivors went underground and adopted some of the tactics of their enemies: they began building their economic muscle and buying into the opinion-forming media. A century after the war they are ready to challenge the democrats and Jews for the hearts and minds of White Americans, who have begun to have their fill of government-enforced multi-culturalism and ‘equality.’ . . .”


Key to the success achieved by both Breitbart and YouTube “alt-right” personalities is networking. At Breitbart, the skillful, adroit Milo Yiannopoulos served as a point person for a coterie of white supremacists and anti-Semites while couching the views they espouse in a careful, rhetorically ambiguous manner deflective of overt criticism. At YouTube, regular personalities with their own shows and content host other, more overtly extremist guests and channel viewers to the more extreme sites through that exposure.


BuzzFeed has a long piece based on a cache of leaked emails that describe behind-the-scenes efforts at Breitbart to mainstream the “Alt Right” neo-Nazis. This story firms up analysis of Breitbart as a white nationalist publication run by neo-Nazis for the purpose of mainstreaming neo-Nazi ideals.


Those efforts primarily revolved around Milo Yiannopoulos, who is:


Tasked with reaching out to “Alt Right” figures.
Getting comments from them about what the “Alt Right” was all about.
Then, later getting feedback from them about the planned articles before they were published.
It was clearly a group effort. Those efforts included Andrew ‘the weev’ Auernheimer, Curtis Yarvin (the founder of the “Dark Enlightenment” movement), and Devin Saucier, a neo-Nazi Yiannopoulos describes as his best friend.


Of primary interest here is the cunning exercised by Yiannopoulos, Bannon et al in parsing just what they can get away with doing and what they must avoid. Auerenheimer, for example, was excluded a Yiannopoulos podcast after being vetted by Breitbart managment.


The emails included back and forths between Yiannopoulos and Breitbart editors about whether or not the publication was getting too openly friendly with the Nazis, with Yiannopoulos being told at one point that it was fine to use a “shekels” joke but “you can’t even flirt with OKing gas chamber tweets.”


Other points of information include: Curtis Yarvin’s statement that he was “coaching” Peter Thiel on politics; How the two Yiannopoulos passwords found in the emails were “a password that began with the word Kristall”, and “LongKnives1290,” references to Kristallnacht and the Night of the Long Knives;”


Noteworthy, also, is the financial power of the Mercer interests, who have successfully rattled legal sabers against media outlets who have tarred Yiannopoulos with the racist brush.


Alt-right YouTube hosts also employ networking, inviting ideologically extreme guests to participate on their programs, presenting views more inflammatory than those normally aired on the netcasts. The extremist guests then receive a significant bump-up in traffic from their appearances.
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to: http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-987-walkin-the-snake-at-breitbart-and-youtube/

You can subscribe to the comments made on programs and posts–an excellent source of information in, and of, itself -- http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpitfireListComments



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


David Helvarg, who is the executive director of the ocean conservation group, Blue Frontier. Steve Shafarman, who's latest book is entitled Basic Income Imperative: For Peace, Justice, Liberty and Personal Dignity,

Initially heard on KPFK Saturdays, 10am. All info:
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com






2-3 Jonathan Heawood, John Pilger "Propagana, Facts & Fake News" Part II




We live in an era of fake news. Fabricated reports go viral on social media. Totally false stories are concocted then tweeted and retweeted. Fantastical theories and wild claims are circulated in cyberspace. It's as Orwell says in 1984, "The lie became truth." There is a lot of fire and fury inflaming the news cycle. The term fake news is an all-purpose smear, used by the president and his supporters to deride and dismiss reporting they don’t like. A recent study found that Facebook was by far the platform through which people used to get to a fake news site. The report also noted that older, less educated people were particularly susceptible to fake news. Are facts up for grabs? How are we to navigate the mine laden waters of propaganda and fake news?




Jonathan Haewood is the founder and director of IMPRESS, an independent press regulator in the United Kingdom. He has previously worked as a journalist and human rights campaigner, and he is a former director of English PEN. He has written on free speech and regulation for various publications.


John Pilger is an internationally renowned journalist and documentary filmmaker. Born in Australia, he has long been based in London. He has twice been selected as Journalist of the Year. His award-winning documentaries include Palestine is Still the Issue and The War on Democracy. He is the author of The New Rulers of the World and Freedom Next Time. From Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, http://www.alternativeradio.org




3-3:30 The Bioneers - Revolution from the Heart of Nature
"Power Struggle: The Unstoppable Rise of the Clean Energy Era"


Today in the fossil fuel-induced age of escalating climate disruption, the joker in the deck is the climate imperative to transition rapidly off fossil fuels worldwide. Clean energy has reached the proverbial tipping point – and the smart money is hot on the trail of the clean energy revolution. Entrepreneur and visionary change-maker Danny Kennedy says clean energy not only makes dollars, it makes sense, and this literal power struggle could take us from energy monopoly to energy democracy. From Bioneers, 1 (877) bioneer, www.bioneers.org





3:40-5:55 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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THURSDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 25


12-1 Alan Watts, "The Metaphysical Basis of Psychiatry" Part 2 of 2
"Techniques of psychotherapy seem to suffer from an almost deliberate avoidance of metaphysics; that is, consideration of basic problems about the nature of man and the world and of the 'good lif.' Metaphysics therefore lies repressed in the unconscious of most psychotherapists, with the result that psychiatry, in particular, is unwittingly influenced by 19th Century Mythologies." (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org (includes sign up for free newsletter)




1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Taoism" Part 16, conclusion.


2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
(Caroline is in India and has provided rebroadcasts until she returns)
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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