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"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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BEHIND THE SCENES
How and when to vote for Pacifica Board
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FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE
We will be fundraising from October 1- ca:15 with a goal of $650-$700,000. We're concerned about an early-as-possible end so we can cover the upcoming Congressional Elections. We may add or subtract programs depending on the pledge response or lack thereof. We are highly motivated to present as much regular programming as possible.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
October 7 8-9am -
Fabulous Alan Watts-O-Rama (fundraising) plus some Alan Watts.
From www.alanwatts.org
MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 8
12-1:30 Pema Chodron, "Awakening Compassion" Part 1 of 6
'Meditation Practice for Difficult Times'
For more than 800 years, Tibetan Buddhists have used the practice of lojong, or mind training, to transform difficulties into insights. Lojong training is grounded in a special meditation technique and complemented by 59 written maxims-a treasury of practical wisdom that inspires everyday awareness.
On Awakening Compassion, Pema Chödrön, one of the Western world's best-known lojong teachers and practitioners, shows you how to use your own painful emotions as stepping stones to wisdom, compassion, and fearlessness. You will learn how to make friends with the painful parts of your life experience and how to use your natural courage and honesty to transform even the most difficult situations.
With an informal teaching style, both playful and insightful, Pema Chödrön makes this timeless way of bringing compassion into the world easy to understand and apply to your own life. More than seven hours of practical, compassionate guidance for shedding your cocoon and meeting your world with fresh appreciation. Includes a nine-page study guide with lojong slogans and additional resources.
Learn More About:
How to see your life freshly, clearly, and vividly
Using the lojong slogans to cultivate your bravery
The attitude of a bodhisattva, or fully awakened person
Practical techniques for working with jealousy, resentment, and rage
How to open your heart in even the most difficult situations
On-the-spot practices for dealing with anger, jealousy, and fear
How to change the habits that shut you off from those who love you most
The secret of transforming conflict into genuine communication
From Sounds True 1 (800) 333-9185,
https://www.soundstrue.com
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/awakening-compassion-3506.html
PEMA CHODRON DVD DHARMA TALK:
Wednesday, October 10, 7:30-9pm
Shambhala Meditation-Westside Center (Mar Vista)
https://www.facebook.com/events/718612675174151/?active_tab=about
Email: la@shambhala.org
Phone: 323-255-5472
1:30-3 Robert Thurman 'Jewel Tree of Tibet') Part 1 of 6
'The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism'
Tibetans call their cherished tradition of Buddhism a wish-fulfilling jewel tree for its power to generate bliss and enlightenment within all who absorb its teachings. This path to enlightenment, it is taught, requires more than a sitting meditation practice alone. With The Jewel Tree of Tibet, honored scholar and teacher Robert Thurman brings these insights to you as they were meant to be transmitted through the spoken word.
As a young seeker almost 40 years ago, Thurman first journeyed to Dharamsala, where he became the first Westerner ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Now, Thurman guides you lucidly through the unifying principles of Tibetan Buddhism's many branches. You will discover Tibetan Buddhism's detailed map of the bliss state of enlightenment; the principles of tantra for opening the doors to infinite compassion and continuity; and how to overcome the dangers of the spiritual quest to discover states of consciousness that transcend even death.
Finally, here is Robert Thurman on audio, offering a rich and intellectually riveting retreat program complete with many specific meditations and spiritual practices to fully immerse you in the mysteries of 'The Jewel Tree of Tibet.'
Eleven steps to create the spirit of enlightenment, here and now
The truths of Padmasambhava, Naropa, Tsong Khapa, and other legendary sages
Guided meditations to experience the blessings of the wish-fulfilling gem tree
More than nine hours of compelling study with one of Tibetan Buddhism's greatest teachersPart 1 of 6: What is nobility? The mentor offering. Reality: The great bliss state. What is Buddhism? Indian Buddhism's three main developmental stages. Buddhism comes to Tibet. The nature of the path of enlightenment. Reincarnation and karma. Taking refuge in the three jewels. Buddha, dharma, sangha. The guru: Tibet's addition to the refuge vow. Jewel tree meditation.
From Sounds True: https://www.soundstrue.com/store/the-jewel-tree-of-tibet-4737.html
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.'
(No Community Calendar during Fundraisers. Terry is busy administrating it)
TUESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 9
12-12:30 The Trump Administration's Latest Gift to the USA
Weakening of radiation regulations being discussed at EPA - as a benefit to our health!
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/little-radiation-good-you-controversial-theory-pops-senate-hearing-epa-transparency
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/trump-administration-working-weaken-epa-radiation-regulations-n915976
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/meh-its-just-a-little-radiation-epa-may-alter-rules-on-exposure/
12:30-1:30 "Deadly Deceit: Low Level Radiation, High Level Coverup"
Statistician Jay Gould discusses his findings from the first computer analysis of government mortality figures. As predicted by Linus Pauling and Andre Sakharov in 1958, immune systems of those born in 1948-1965 have been impaired owing to increased low levels of radiation. This can be seen in the increased occurrence of Epstein Barr, cancer, leukemia, chronic fatigue, heart disease, candida, as well as the outbreak of AIDS. He goes on to discuss Chernobyl's effect in the United States as well as Russia, milk contamination in New York and Washington D.C., Lyme disease and why military nukes have been shut down and civilian plants are (sic) scheduled to be closed in 5-10 years. Recorded live on KPFK May, 1992. From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230, Archive #KZ1832.
1:30-2 Helen Caldicott: 'Nuclear Power, Radiation, and Our Health" (Part 1)
There are very few people currently alive who have given as much time and effort to the whole complex of the nuclear nightmare, as Helen Caldicott. Beginning in 1971 with atmospheric bomb testing to nuclear war to nuclear power to nuclear weapons in space, and to climate change. In 1971 Caldicott played a major public role in Australia's opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific. Four years later she worked with the Australian trade unions to educate their members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with a particular focus on uranium mining.
At the end of the nineteen-seventies Helen Caldicott gave up a profession she loves, that of a medical doctor, and a career that could have given her a comfortable life. In 1978 she left her position teaching pediatrics at Harvard Medical School to fully immerse herself in nuclear disarmament and joined those who were ending the cold war.
Caldicott formed several important organizations in her over four decades of activism. A lasting contribution was her co-founding Physicians for Social Responsibility. The international umbrella group: International Physicians for the Preventions of Nuclear War won the Noble Peace Prize in 1985. The Smithsonian has named her one of the most influential women of the 20th Century. She is the author of several books, among them 'Nuclear Madness,' 'If You Love This Planet,' 'The New Nuclear Danger' and 'Nuclear Power is Not the Answer.' From TUC Radio, www.tucradio.org (707) 463-2654
2-2:30 Helen Caldicott: "Nuclear Power, Radiation, and Our Health" (Part 2)
This is the conclusion of Helen Caldicott's keynote presentation at a public forum in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 7, 2013. Caldicott covers essential knowledge: How do radioactive iodine, strontium and plutonium affect the body? Why do the body and placenta mistake plutonium for iron and strontium for calcium and embed them in our organs and the fetus? Caldicott also covers the latest studies on birds in the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones by biologist Timothy Mousseau and she ends with a personal account of how she, as young med-student, was moved by the novel On The Beach. The author, Nevil Shute, describes how a nuclear world war III can poison the earth with radiation.
The organizer of the Taipei forum was an antinuclear alliance of mothers called Mom Loves Taiwan. They are campaigning to prevent the opening of yet another nuclear power plant on Taiwan and are seriously concerned about the ongoing radioactive releases from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant and the risks of a future earthquake.
From TUC Radio, www.tucradio.org 1 (707) 463-2654
3:00-6 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
(No Community Calendar during Fundraisers. Terry is busy administrating it)
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 10
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1021 - FascisBook: (In Your Facebook, Part 3 - A Virtual Panopticon, Part 3)
This program follows up FTR #'s 718 and 946, we examined Facebook, noting how it's cute, warm, friendly public facade obscured a cynical, reactionary, exploitative and, ultimately "corporatist" ethic and operation.
The UK's Channel 4 sent an investigative journalist undercover to work for one of the third-party companies Facebook pays to moderate content. This investigative journalist was trained to take a hands-off approach to far right violent content and fake news because that kind of content engages users for longer and increases ad revenues. " . . . . An investigative journalist who went undercover as a Facebook moderator in Ireland says the company lets pages from far-right fringe groups 'exceed deletion threshold,' and that those pages are 'subject to different treatment in the same category as pages belonging to governments and news organizations.' The accusation is a damning one, undermining Facebook's claims that it is actively trying to cut down on fake news, propaganda, hate speech, and other harmful content that may have significant real-world impact.The undercover journalist detailed his findings in a new documentary titled Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network, that just aired on the UK's Channel 4. . . . ."
Next, we present a frightening story about AggregateIQ (AIQ), the Cambridge Analytica offshoot to which Cambridge Analytica outsourced the development of its "Ripon" psychological profile software development, and which later played a key role in the pro-Brexit campaign. The article also notes that, despite Facebook's pledge to kick Cambridge Analytica off of its platform, security researchers just found 13 apps available for Facebook that appear to be developed by AIQ. If Facebook really was trying to kick Cambridge Analytica off of its platform, it's not trying very hard. One app is even named "AIQ Johnny Scraper" and it's registered to AIQ.
The article is also a reminder that you don't necessarily need to download a Cambridge Analytica/AIQ app for them to be tracking your information and reselling it to clients. Security researcher stumbled upon a new repository of curated Facebook data AIQ was creating for a client and it's entirely possible a lot of the data was scraped from public Facebook posts.
" . . . . AggregateIQ, a Canadian consultancy alleged to have links to Cambridge Analytica, collected and stored the data of hundreds of thousands of Facebook users, according to redacted computer files seen by the Financial Times.The social network banned AggregateIQ, a data company, from its platform as part of a clean-up operation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, on suspicion that the company could have been improperly accessing user information. However, Chris Vickery, a security researcher, this week found an app on the platform called 'AIQ Johnny Scraper' registered to the company, raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of Facebook's policing efforts. . . ."
In addition, the story highlights a forms of micro-targeting companies like AIQ make available that's fundamentally different from the algorithmic micro-targeting associated with social media abuses: micro-targeting by a human who wants to specifically look and see what you personally have said about various topics on social media. This is a service where someone can type you into a search engine and AIQ's product will serve up a list of all the various political posts you've made or the politically-relevant "Likes" you've made.
Next, we note that Facebook is getting sued by an app developer for acting like the mafia and turning access to all that user data as the key enforcement tool: ...
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1021-fascisbook-in-your-facebook-part-3-a-virtual-panopticon-part-3/
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
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.'
(No Community Calendar during Fundraisers. Terry is busy administrating it)
THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 11
12-1 Alan Watts, "Net of Jewels" Part 1 of 4
The doctrine of the mutual interpretation of all things and events, according to the Avatamsaka Sutra and its interpretation by the Kegon and Zen Schools.
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Creativity and Relaxation"
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
3:00-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
(No Community Calendar during Fundraisers. Terry is busy administrating it)
That's All Folks!
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