August 13-16

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

"SOMETHING'S HAPPENING!" ON THE WEB
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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
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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
The 2nd Quarterly report is available at this link https://create.piktochart.com/output/31346867-2nd-quarterly-report


FUND DRIVE and FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE
We are having a 2-week fund drive August 1 - 15, goal $350,000. The timing is to open up more regular program time for election coverage for November. As of Thursday night we were dragging a bit behind but not by much. The program schedule is a bit
loose and we will depart from it in response to pledge calls or the lack thereof. The night listenership is continuing its slow increase.



ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
August 12:
8-9 am Alan Watts-Orama.
From www.alanwatts.org



MONDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 13
FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE






12 - 1 Pema Chodron, "Coming Closer to Ourselves"
'Making Everything the Path of Awakening'
Part 5 of 6
Buddha's teachings on groundlessness. The bodasattva ideal. Not clinging to anything. Emptiness and form. The Prajnaparamita. The fearless state. The Heart Sutra Mantra.
From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185,

https://www.soundstrue.com






1-2 Ken Wilbur "A Brief History About Everything"
Part 2 of 6
(Read by Steve Grad and Willow Pearson)


'Worldviews and the Postmodern Revolution'
Transcendence and Repression. The Four Quandrants: Intention, Behavioral, Cultural, Social. The Two Hands of God. Propositional Truth. Truthfulness. Justness. Functional Fit - The Four
Faces of Spirit.

Info: https://www.shambhala.com/a-brief-history-of-everything-292.html




3-6 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'












TUESDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 14
FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE



12-1 "Fluoride: The Deadly Deception"
by Gary Null (article)
Online with footnotes at Progressive Radio Network: prn.fm





1-2:30 Lewis Mehl-Madrona, "The Spirit of Healing"
'Stories, Wisdom, and Practices from Native America'


Part 3 of 6: 'Spirit, Community, and the Sacred Circle'
The concept of community. The sacred circle. The relational self. Who is part of you? Three Lakota concepts. How spirit sees us and how we see ourselves. Extraordinary experiences. Hearing voices. Who talks to you?
The buffalo people. Changing your voices: visualization. From Sounds True. 1 (800) 333-9185,
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/the-spirit-of-healing-2053.html





3:-6 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'







WEDNESDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 15
(POSSIBLE FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE)

12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1013 - Fascism and the Politics of Immigration"




In The Hitler Legacy, Peter Levenda noted anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobia as part of “The Hitler Legacy.”




“. . . Xenophobia is at an all-time high in Europe and increasingly in America. The Internet has provided new and improved means of communication. As the political life of every country becomes more and more polarized between “right” and “left,” the men
of ODESSA can only laugh at our discomfort. . . .”

Fear of “the other” has been a staple of fascist thought and is dominating much of the political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.




In FTR #838, Levenda discoursed on how immigration from Europe, both Catholic and Jewish, melded with other events in the post-World War I period to mobilize fascist sentiment and activism.




Reacting to the advent of the Soviet Union, abortive Marxist revolutions in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, large scale immigration of Catholics from Ireland and Italy and Jews from Eastern Europe, powerful elements of the U.S. power elite embraced fascism
and eugenics ideology.

With the onset of the Great Depression, the potential threat of Communism was magnified in the eyes of many powerful American industrialists, financiers and corporate lawyers. Germany’s success in putting down the Marxist revolutions within its own borders,
as well as the business relationships between corporate Germany and its cartel partners in the U.S. business community inclined many influential American reactionaries to support fascism.




By the same token, these same elements came to despise Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his “Jew Deal,” as it was called by his enemies. American Jews were seen as hiring Jewish immigrants and thus denying “real Americans” jobs and economic well-being.




Attacking Roosevelt as a Jew and a Communist, American fascists embraced a cognitive and rhetorical position not unlike the view of Barack Obama as a “Kenyan Muslim,” and, consequently, a “traitor.”




Some key points in Peter’s analysis are explored a section of the book titled the “Origins of 21st Century Conflict.” ...







In The Hitler Legacy, Peter noted anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobia as part of “The Hitler Legacy.”




Next, we turn to a more recent development.

Melania Trump garnered considerable media attention when she visited a detention center for immigrants, including children, wearing a jacket that said “I Really Don’t Care. Do U?”




Tasteless on its surface, the statement assumes added significance when we factor in the fact that “I don’t care” (“Me Ne Frego” in Italian) was an important fascist slogan.




Furthermore, the Zara company that made Melania’s jacket has a history of marketing garments with fascist/racist overtones. It marketed a shirt that mimicked a concentration camp inmate’s garb and a swastika-inlaid handbag. It also marketed a Pepe The Frog
skirt.




Recent comments by Trump disparaging Haiti as a “shithole” country and pining for immigration from Norway instead warrant a fresh look at the Crusade For Freedom.




During Trump’s brief tenure as President, the media have consistently lamented his actions as idiosyncrasies. Trump’s policies are not his alone, but follow in a linear path, along which the GOP has traveled for decades.

In this post, we review the Crusade For Freedom–the covert operation that brought Third Reich alumni into the country and also supported their guerrilla warfare in Eastern Europe, conducted up until the early 1950’s. Conceived by Allen Dulles, overseen by
Richard Nixon, publicly represented by Ronald Reagan and realized in considerable measure by William Casey, the CFF ultimately evolved into a Nazi wing of the GOP.




“. . . . 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. . . .”


For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1013-fascism-and-the-politics-of-immigration/


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
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com



2-3 From the Vault: #581: "Fiftieth Anniversary of 1968





This week on From the Vault, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of 1968, a year in which a radical wave crashed across the globe, changing the world and its people politically, socially, and culturally. Wars, marches, elections, assassinations,
human rights, civil rights, women’s rights, the explosion of consciousness and creativity – no event took place in isolation; the Vietnam War ducked and wove through 1968, depositing destruction and igniting defiance against injustice; students worldwide took
to the streets to not only speak out against social ills in their own land – but also in support of their international brethren; civil rights campaigners spoke in unity about the need for equal rights and respect; and a new battle – the war of words – is
penned amidst the tide of change brought to artists struggling to comprehend and express the social and political upheaval surrounding them. And Pacifica Radio was there to capture it all. We’ll hear voices from 1968 that include H. Rap Brown, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Ray Bradbury, among others.




From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the GRAMMY Foundation and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National
Archives and Records Administration, and past grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners. We
also thank our partners and collaborators at the Pop-Up Archive, Amara, Other Minds Archives, George Blood Audio, and the California Audio Visual Preservation Project.

The From the Vault theme music was written and performed by Nancy Sanchez and Gina Recamier.




To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call the Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735-0230 ext. 261.

www.pacificaradioarchives.org

www.fromthevaultradio.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


KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711






THURSDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 16




12-1 Alan Watts, "Solid Emptiness" Part 1 of 4
"The way of liberation according to Nagarjuna's negation of all intellectual 'hang-ups;' and its expression in the literature of the 'Prajanaparamita' (or 'Wisdom for Crossing to the Other Shore'" (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org






1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Values"





2:00-3:00 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
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'


5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
KPFK Switchboard has written copy at hand - M - F 9am-5pm, 1 (818) 985-2711



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