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
"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.
BEHIND THE SCENES
For more than you want to know about Pacifica rumblings: www.pacificainexile.org
Letter from GM Anyel Fields to National Board:
As General Manager at KPFK, I am acutely aware of the tumultuous situation at WBAI and Pacifica in general, and that you are in the midst of making decisions relating to the management of WBAI and Pacifica in general. I'm writing to you on my behalf and from my perspective as the General Manager of KPFK.
I want you to know that before September 7th, when the change at WBAI happened, John had made a call to me and asked if KPFK would be willing to cover WBAI's payroll and explained in more detail the unstable financial situation at our sister station. This was the first time I have ever heard of an Executive Director engaging with a GM, rather than just poaching KPFK's accounts to make up for a shortfall at the New York station. This "poaching method" has been frustrating at KPFK to many of its members, staff, and volunteers. There have been some cases it has exacerbated our financial circumstances for the worst.
We discussed KPFKs own tumultuous set of circumstances, and out of respect for our member's contributions, our slim ability to make one of the highest monthly central service payments and help cover WBAI's payroll, it would compromise our ability to pay our staff. It was respectful of him to have a discussion with me about the decision. We heard each other out, and he respected my decision that KPFK could not afford to send money to WBAI, considering the need to pay the payroll and protect the job security here at KPFK. We didn't have the money to spare.
Just within my tenure of one year and ten months, I have worked with four Interim Executive Directors and one Executive Director. Of the four John Vernile has most clearly demonstrated a potential for leading Pacifica through the choppy waters, the Foundation has been meandering in for some time. He has also been the most engaging leader with a willingness to work with me and those that work for KPFK, has offered his support to engage with major donors, and foundations.
John got acclimated with Pacifica swiftly, both visiting here and other stations in person and talking extensively with the GMs regularly. He came, understanding the values of our Foundation. With time I know that John can further embody the mission and represent its staff, volunteers, and members and serve its members in a greater capacity, developing and conveying the vision of Pacifica that has been needed to help provide a blueprint to our future.
It is exceptional and critical to have someone that has current knowledge of FCC rules and regulations, has real-world experience in media across all industries, fundraising, building, and managing teams across various markets.
During his visit to LA, Vernile met with Mark Torres and me to discuss a themed fundraiser and timeline for the national fundraiser that would help to pay off the big loan and the audits. In my experience of 10 years plus at KPFK, this was first a for an iED to take a proactive and engaging role in fundraising at the station level.
On September 6th, after the initial conversation, we came up with a draft of "70 Years on the Air Anniversary Week" tentatively scheduled for (12/26/19 to 1/1/20). The broadcast was to include special programming with strong year-end fundraising appeals celebrating the most excellent of Pacifica's programs, content, and the best of the Pacifica Archives. Most of the regular programming would remain intact and would include messaging in alignment with the year-end theme. These efforts were to include a different way of fundraising other than the usual hardline pitching.
We have been suffering from increasing days of fund drives, relying on an old model of fundraising with old tools. John has been proactive in engaging with me to provide a means of solving one of our most significant challenges with fundraising, by securing Allegienaces services, the tools/ platform for us to move away from premium driven fundraising to one of engagement that is in tune with Pacifica's mission, values and most of the Public Media industry.
Some of the fundraising discussions included producing documentaries (video and audio) and seizing opportunities to be Executive Producers to other projects produced by our partners, which may consist of licensing recordings from the Pacifica Archives. The documentaries would be used on the air and digital platforms and could be used as premiums that have the Pacifica brand. For instance, we are now in conversation with the producer of the award-winning documentary "Let My People Vote" to produce another documentary covering the issues people are facing today in Selma. The documentary would include licensed material from the Pacifica Archives.
We understand many don't want to risk the Pacicifca status quo and maintaining the status quo may feel suitable for some, but this comes at the risk of keeping Pacifica at less than its potential. The world is rapidly changing, and no longer is the Foundation, the only place people can get information, enlightenment, and encouragement to forge progressive social change.
John has expressed nothing less than wanting to move KPFK and all of Pacifica forward, his actions have also illustrated that (although the result of his attempting to move things forward at WBAI, although well-meaning, didn't work out very well). From the beginning of his tenure, John immediately began to engage with me to understand KPFK, its role, and its value in the network. John made an effort to have me fly to Berkely to meet and talk with Quincy so that I had the opportunity to meet with him and Quincy early in his tenure to lay the groundwork of a partnership whose intentions were to reach both coasts. Again—a first for both Quincy and me to have the iED make the important effort to get us together in order to really build a sense of teamwork – which is particularly helpful because we, as managers often feel very alone, being both the spokesperson and the person whose job it is to listen to our public, and to our staff, so feeling part of a team has been an important result of Vernile's short tenure here.
He has actively helped instill confidence where it has been wavering with KPFK's donors, staff, and volunteers. By providing a plan with options to strengthen WBAI, while not perfect, offers an opportunity for vested parties to come together to build something in the wake of wounded WBAI.
Most may not understand what a toll it takes in being a General Manager in Pacifica. We carry the burdens of our respective stations, strive to exceed the publics' expectations, deal with the politics of our boards, while more often than not facing challenges unlike any other General Manager at any other media organization. It takes a toll in so many ways; most of all, it does have an impact on our personal lives. John has been invaluable to me and KPFK in being a soundboard, a guide who routinely offers practical support in leading and supporting the staff. His experience and understanding are valuable in helping to improve fundraising and programming within the Pacifica while upholding our values.
Where there is no vision, Pacifica will continue to perish. With uncertainty, Pacifica will squander the opportunities of greater support from its members. Without tolerance, how can Pacifica best uphold its values and carry out its mission? To myself, many of the listeners and members Pacifica symbolizes the possibilities of social change in these times, an organization that promotes tolerance of diverse people, the architects of bridges between those diverse people.
I urge the PNB to allow him to work with us through these times. The prudent consider its steps, which he has taken the limited time to determine what those next steps should be. To do so otherwise is to be intolerant of what is necessary for Pacifica. It has been so productive having an experienced, knowledgeable, competent leader within our organization who understands fundraising, relationship building, and, most of all, the media industries.
Don't keep Pacifica in a perpetual civil war state. It is terrible for our bottom line; it is an impedance to us carrying out our mission serving the people of our respective communities.
Anyel Z. Fields
General Manager
KPFK a Pacifica Foundation Radio Station
FUND DRIVE TOTAL
Our extra long fund drive finally ended Friday with a running total of $644,920 with catch up pledges still to count. Great thanks to those of you who were able to participate and a hearty WELCOME to new subscribers! For 'Something's Happening!' I want to especially thank Buzz, John B., and Jeffrey plus of course Diane of Hollywood who kept things warm and simmering.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS 8AM
November 10:
"Daylight Savings and God"
From www.alanwatts.org
MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 11
Daniel Sheehan, ‘JFK Assassination”
In the fall 2013 quarter at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Daniel Sheehan taught a class on the theories of the JFK assassination, one of the first courses of its kind ever taught. Starting with the Warren commission report and the official government position, Sheehan outlines in extensive detail the nine major theories as to who was really behind the assassination.
12-1:30 JFK Assassination #8 "Undisputed Facts" (Oct 22)
1:30-3 JFK Assassination #9 "The Still Controversial Facts That Point To An Alternative Explanation" (Oct. 24)
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
VERY VERY LATEST DANNY SHEEHAN (11/15/19)
In conversation with Gary Null on his 'Conversations with Remarkable Minds,' Tomorrow night at 3am -- EZ download here for sleepy people.
http://prn.fm/gary-null-show-11-05-19/
Danny’s Website: www.romeroinstitute.org
Course Details, videos, syllabuses: www.danielpsheehan.com
3:40- 5:55 “The Thom Hartmann Program*
*Thom and Louise took the day off to celebrate their 47th Wedding Anniversary so we’ll substitute for them.
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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TUESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 12
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NOTICE: Gary's important film "Healing AIDS Naturally" is available for free viewing at the Progressive Radio Network Website: prn.fm
12-1 Gary Null Show ‘The Vaccine Deep State’
Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD
Progressive Radio Network, November 7, 2019
Who coined the term anti-vaccine or anti-vaxx? The derogatory term "anti-vaxxer," which has been championed by the media and the medical industry's experts who function as the media's talking heads, are merely people who question the efficacy and safety of a heavy-loaded vaccination schedule for children. And this does not represent a small group of dissident individuals and parents. Rather it represents hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, of people in the US alone.
We might consider mainstream news sources, such as the New York Times, once a highly respected newspaper, now becoming a propaganda vehicle for "manufacturing consent". In his book Public Opinion, political journalist Walter Lippmann, coined the expression "the manufacture of consent," which was later further elaborated upon by Noam Chomsky in his critically acclaimed book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media published in 1988. Chomsky defines the mass corporate media as "effective and powerful ideological institutions that carry out a system-supportive propaganda function, by reliance on market forces, internalized assumptions and self-censorship, and without overt coercion." Chomsky's insights remain every bit as relevant today for understanding the hidden motivations in today's media to promulgate the official medical establishment's vaccine doctrine and to demonize its opponents as they were over three decades ago for manufacturing consent to get Americans' support behind the Cold War.
The media refuses to accept that those who have been vaccine damaged, or who have children who will suffer for the remainder of their lives from adverse vaccine events, have a legitimate right to speak their truth rather than being labeled as hysterical or crazy. All of these individuals and parents were pro-vaccine until they or their child became vaccine-injured. Similarly we saw the New York Times manufacturing consent for accepting falsehoods that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. And this was true across the mainstream outlets including the Washington Post, Fox, MSNBC, CNN and others. The Times fabricated that rationale to the public on behalf of the neo-cons in the Bush administration who were determined to have a war. None of the journalists publishing these lies have taken responsibility nor lost a night's sleep because their fakery led to the death of millions.
FREE DOWNLOAD:
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1-2 Gary Null Show 11/4/19
Wikipedia’s Hate Campaign Against Ayurveda
Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD
Alongside Traditional Chinese Medicine, Indian Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest medical systems still widely accepted and practiced today. It has managed to thrive and flourish for at least three millennia and has built up an enormous body of diagnostic methods and treatments for a wide variety of mild to life-threatening illnesses and diseases. Evidence-based medicine has yet to fully explore its riches. Unlike modern conventional medicine that dominates our healthcare, Ayurveda is a “whole” medical system that goes beyond standard disease management, but also incorporates sophisticated ways sustain health, prevent physical disorders as well as balance the body and mind to promote wellness.
We might look at the entry for Ayurveda in a real encyclopedia, the Encyclopedia Britannica. The Britannica notes that approximately 500 million Indians rely upon Ayurveda for their health care. In 1971, the Indian government established standards for Ayurveda education while recognizing the invaluable contributions this ancient medical system has made to prevent and treat a wide variety of diseases. According to statistics recorded by the Association of Ayurvedic Physicians in India, the nation’s largest Ayurveda organization, India is now home to about 250 Ayurvedia colleges and teaching institutions and graduate approximately 12,000 doctors annually. The Association is affiliated with the medical school at Hindu Benares University in Varanasi, often regarded as India’s equivalent to Oxford. It is estimated that across the country, there are nearly 450,000 registered Ayurvedic practitioners.
FREE DOWNLOAD:
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2-3 The Gary Null Show 11/8/19
The Gary Null Show is here to inform you on the best news in health, healing, the environment. Study: Broccoli Sprouts Rapidly Detox Pollutants. Being Overweight In Your 20s Can Take 10 Years Off Your Life. Cannabis Might Reverse Heart Failure, Study Finds, Trial finds soy isoflavones, vitamin D3 benefit women with irritable bowel syndrome, Study helps explain why exercise guards against heart disease, Gooseberry extract can reduce inflammation biomarkers, improve lipid profiles for those with metabolic syndrome, Vitamin D, calcium supplementation, exercise may be better for bones than osteoporosis drugs, Older adults find greater well-being in smaller social networks, study finds, Researchers discover coffee drinkers could halve their risk of liver cancer.
FREE DOWNLOAD:
http://prn.fm/gary-null-show-11-08-19/
3-4 The Gary Null Show - 11.05.19
CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS – DANNY SHEEHAN
‘The Corporate Coup in Washington and the Public Narrative ‘
Danny Sheehan is one of our nation’s most important and influential Constitutional and public interest lawyers. During the past 45 years he has handled such public interest cases as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate Break In, Iran Contra and the Silkwood murder case. He has represented victims of he Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and fought against the American Nazi Party on hate crimes. He has been a lead attorney on behalf of the Native nations at Standing Rock and handling the dismissal of a case against Chase Iron Eyes for inciting a riot and felony trespassing. Danny is the founder of the Romero Institute, a nonprofit public policy center in Santa Cruz California. And more recently he founded the New Paradigm Institute which explores new pathways to world peace. He holds a law degree and divinity degrees from Harvard University. Danny is the author of “The People’s Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Defense Lawyer,” And his websites are DanielPSheehan.com AND RomeroInstitute.org
FREE DOWNLOAD:
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3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 13
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1089 - Fascism: 2019 World Tour, Part 4 (Goose Hopping in Hong Kong with Pepe the Frog)"
Continuing our look at global fascism, we visit Hong Kong and (by extension) China, where an intelligence community destabilization effort is underway. That effort is utilizing Islamic fascists in the Uighur community in Xinjiang Province and the Falun Gong, a fascist mind control cult that has developed close operational links with the Trump administration, Steve Bannon and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (a CIA “derivative.”)
Beginning our sojourn in Hong Kong, we review the prevalence of the Pepe the Frog icon in the Hong Kong protests. “The New York Times’ ” disclaimer that the protesters are not “alt-right” should be seen in perspective.
With Steve Bannon at the epicenter of the anti-China movement, Pepe’s presence in Hong Kong is not surprising.
Note Bannon and company’s networking with the Falun Gong cult.
In our long series predicated on Yasha Levine’s “Surveillance Valley,” we noted the Internet Freedom movement and its fundamental position as part of the intelligence community’s “soft power” propaganda and regime change arsenal.
Yasha Levine sums up the fundamental contradictions inherent in this dynamic: ” . . . . If you stepped back to survey the scene, the entire landscape of this new Internet Freedom privacy movement looked absurd. Cold War-era organizations spun off from the CIA now funding the global movement against government surveillance? Google and Facebook, companies that ran private surveillance networks and worked hand in hand with the NSA, deploying government-funded privacy tech to protect their users from government surveillance? Privacy activists working with Silicon Valley and the US government to fight government surveillance—and with the support of Edward Snowden himself? . . . .”
In China, Falun Gong is among the recipients of Broadcasting Board of Governors money. Recall that the BBG is a CIA “derivative.”: ” . . . .It also funded several small outfits run by practitioners of Falun gong, a controversial Chinese anticommunist cult banned in China whose leader believes that humans are being corrupted by aliens from other dimensions and that people of mixed blood are subhumans and unfit for salvation. . . . ”
After excerpting a puff piece that lionizes Falun Gong in their struggles with the Chinese, we highlight the beliefs of the organization.
The Falun Gong teaches that: post menopausal women can regain menstruation, considered mandatory for spiritual evolution; gays are demonized; mixed race people are demonized; cult members are discouraged from seeking modern medical treatment; space aliens are inhabiting human bodies and are responsible for modern technology such as airplanes and computers; tiny beings are said to be invading human bodies and causing “bad karma;” master Li Hongzhi knows the secrets of the universe; master Li Hongzhi can levitate and walk through walls; master Li Hongzhi can install a physical “Falun”–swastika–in the abdomen of followers which revolves in various directions; Falun Gong teaching demonizes feminists and popular music; there will be a “Judgement Day” on which communists and others deemed unworthy by master Li Hongzhi will be neutralized.
We conclude with part of an article which will be presented and analyzed at greater length in our next program.
Falun Gong–largely through its Epoch Times newspaper–has established a major social media presence and is a key ally of President Trump’s re-election effort: “. . . . In April, at the height of its ad spending, videos from the Epoch Media Group, which includes The Epoch Times and digital video outlet New Tang Dynasty, or NTD, combined for around 3 billion views on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, ranking 11th among all video creators across platforms and outranking every other traditional news publisher, according to data from the social media analytics company Tubular. That engagement has made The Epoch Times a favorite of the Trump family and a key component of the president’s re-election campaign
For a complete, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1089-fascism-2019-world-tour-part-4-goose-hopping-in-hong-kong-with-pepe-the-frog/
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1-2 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “The Power of Social Movements”
Recorded in Seattle, WA on September 5, 2019.
One of the techniques of ruling class control is to isolate people from one another. “Look out for yourself,” is the constant drumbeat. We are reduced to self-centered consumers not engaged citizens. Saul Alinsky suggests a different path. In his Rules for Radicals he said, “Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.” And that is happening. Popular movements such as Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Extinction Rebellion and Sunrise are shaking up the establishment. Finding kindred spirits and working collectively with allies not only has broader positive political consequences but helps to overcome negativity and feelings of loneliness and despair. You look in the mirror and you feel good about yourself. History has shown social movements can have a huge societal impact.
Speaker
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton. Her articles appear in CounterPunch, In These Times, Black Agenda Report, Jacobin and The Guardian. She is the author of ‘Rats, Riots and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s’ and ‘From Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation.’ Audio/Transcripts from Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, www.alternativeradio.org
2-2:30 Chris Hedges, "On Contact"
Originally heard Sundays, 12:30pm
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagVUKF7CUTRiG64CklL1AN0mbmNaETfp
2:30-3:30 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For free daily Newsletter listing dozens of links to websites, documents, videos, and articles pertaining to the day's broadcast sign up on Thom's website.
5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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THURSDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 14
12-1 Alan Watts, “The Joker” Part 1 of 4
“G. Gurdjieff used to say that there are 4 ways of liberation: of the fakir, the monk, the yogi, and the sly man (i.e. the Joker or Trickster who gets in by the back way). We explore the ancient and universal symbolism of the Buddha-as-joker to find out why no laughter is allowed in church or in court.” (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2 Pema Chodron, “”Comfortable With Uncertainty” Part 5 of 6
‘108 Teachings’ read by Tami Simon, founder of Sounds True.
“We can try to control the uncontrollable by looking for security and predictability,
always hoping to be comfortable and safe. But the truth is that we can never
avoid uncertainty.”
108 teachings, read by Tami Simon of Sounds True.
From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, www.soundstrue.com
2-3 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
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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That's All Folks!
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