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I am vacationing through this week - Buzz is at the controls and helping with producing.
Fund drive - We brought in a bit over $234,000; goal was $262,000 so we're sending letters to Santa to make up the difference.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS 8AM
December 29, “Natural Law”
From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230, www.pacificaradioarchives.org
Archive #BB0528.33
MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 30
Buzz at the helm
12-2 Danny Sheehan, "The Assassination of JFK" #16
'The CIA As an Institution Did It'
Untangling the 3 major theories: Assassination by the mob, by the mob with CIA rogues, or by the CIA as an institution.
Class of November 19, 2013, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Danny's Website: www.romeroinstitute.org
2-3:30 Cornel West, "The Rise of Racism in America: Revisiting 'Race
Matters'".
September 27, sponsored by the Dymally Institute, California State University,
Dominguez Hills as part of the Dymally Distinguished Speaker Series.
“Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris.
“Author of 20 books, spoken word, numerous film and television appearances, he is best known for his classics, ‘Race Matters,’ and ‘Democracy Matters,’ and for his memoir, ‘Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud.’ His most recent book, ‘Black Prophetic Fire,’ offers an unflinching look at 19th and 20th Century African American leaders and their visionary legacies..
“He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.” (from event flyer)
Website: www.cornelwest.com
From
Mansoor Sabbagh, director of
Global Voices for Justice, Est. 2003
A non-profit media organization
Long Beach, California
Email: mansoor [at] gvfj [dot] org
Phone: 3 one 0. 2 eight three. 0 8 eight 5
www.globalvoicesforjustice.org
3:40- 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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TUESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 31
Buzz at the helm.
OUR SPECIAL BEGINNING-OF-THE-YEAR PROGRAM
12-3:30 Stephen Levine 'A Year to Live: How To Live This Year As If It Were Your Last'
(Stephen Levine 1937-2016)
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 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.
From Sounds True:
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/a-year-to-live-2925.html
3:40-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 1, 2020
Buzz at the helm
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #1095, The Destabilization of China, Part 6: Asian Deep Politics"
In this program we present some of the deep political Asian history that bears on Chinese history and politics. In particular, the harm done to China by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s drug-dealing Kuomintang government, its collaboration with the brutal Japanese occupiers of Manchuria, as well as the United States is important in understanding the Chinese political and historical outlook.
In turn, the deep economic, political and military relationship between the Japanese fascists and the U.S. is to be factored in to any understanding of how the Chinese view this country and the West.
In that context, we do NOT think China’s present government will go down easily in the face of an obvious destabilization effort by the U.S. and the West.
In addition to the European colonization of China and Britain’s violent imposition of the opium drug trade through the Opium Wars, China’s political and historical memory is vividly animated by the drug-financed fascist dictatorship of Nationalist Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Dubbed “the Peanut” by General Joseph Stilwell during World War II, Chiang was compared by Stilwell (the chief American military adviser and liaison to the Kuomintang forces during World War II) to Mussolini.
Chiang’s entire government and brutal national security apparatus rested on the foundation of the narcotics traffic, as was well known by the US Commissioner Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger.
It is impossible to understand World War II and the global and economic political landscape that emerged from it without digesting the vitally important book 'Gold Warriors' by Sterling and Peggy Seagrave.
Covering the Japanese equivalent of the Bormann flight capital network, the volume is a heroic, masterful analysis and penetration of the Asian wing of the cartel system that spawned fascism, as well as the realities of the post-World War II economic landscape. (FTR #‘s 427, 428, 446, 451, 501, 509, 688, 689 deal with the subject of the Golden Lily program successfully implemented by the Japanese to loot Asia.)
An incisive, eloquent review and encapsulation of the book is provided by Doug Valentine, providing further insight into the political and historical memory of the Chinese government and resulting stance toward any pressure to be mounted against that nation by the U.S. and the West.
Of particular note is the detailed analysis of the Japanese development of occupied Manchuria as an epicenter of the opium traffic with which to enrich their operations and to help subjugate the Chinese. Chinese sensitivity to the Japanese, Kuomintang, American and British roles in using drugs to enslave the Chinese people is very much in the forefront of Japanese political consciousness.
” . . . . .They [the Japanese] build roads and create industries and, more importantly, they work with corrupt warlords and Chinese gangsters associated with Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang Party to transform Manchuria into a vast poppy field. By 1937 the Japanese and their gangster and Kuomintang associates are responsible for 90% of the world’s illicit narcotics. They turn Manchu emperor Pu Yi into an addict, and open thousands of opium dens as a way of suppressing the Chinese. . . .”
Far from being a peripheral political and economic consideration; the Golden Lily plunder is fundamental to postwar Western reality.
We conclude by highlighting Fred J. Cook’s analytical account of the McCarthy period, 'The Nightmare Decade.' One of the focal points of Cook’s book is McCarthy’s theme that State Department [Communist] treachery had “lost” China to Mao and his forces.
Exploiting the meme that “pinko” State Department officials were responsible for Mao’s ascendance, McCarthy and his team successfully purged the State Department of officials whose outlook on Chiang Kai-shek was realistic.
The fate of John Service–described in the excerpt of 'The CIA as Organized Crime'–illustrates this kind of activity.
In FTR #s 932 and 933 (among other programs), we noted the pivotal influence of Joe McCarthy’s right-hand man Roy Cohn on the professional development of Donald Trump. We wonder what influence Cohn and the McCarthy legacy may have had on Trump’s policy toward China.
Aside from the airy presumption that China was “ours” to “lose,” McCarthy’s thesis ignored the effects of U.S. policy in that country before, during and after, World War II. (This transgression is, of course, supplemental to Tailgunner Joe’s fabrication of evidence against those he targeted.)
In addition to support for Chiang Kai-Shek, whom General Joseph Stilwell compared to Mussolini, U.S. policy of using scores of thousands of Japanese soldiers as anti-Communist combatants was loathsome to the Chinese population, who had felt the full measure of Japanese atrocity during years of warfare.
Leafing through 'Nightmare Decade' for the first time in years, we came across a passage read into the record in AFA #11.
More than 16 months after V‑J Day (the official conclusion of the hostilities of World War II in Asia) the U.S. was countenancing the use of 80,000 Japanese troops (roughly eight divisions) as anti-Communist combatants in eastern and northwestern Manchuria alone!
Having been raised on 'Victory at Sea' and similar fare, this passage is yet another reminder that–70 + years or so after V‑J Day–“we’re not in Kansas any more, Toto.”
In retrospect, we never were.
For more on the subject of the Japanese fascism, see–among other programs–FTR #‘s 905, 969, 970.
Program Highlights Include: Brief discussion and overview of an article read in our previous program concerning HSBC and the bank’s historical links to laundering narcotics money and jihadist financing; the use of the racist term “shina” by the Hong Kong protesters–a term that had its genesis in the Sino-Japanese war.
Requiem for “Victory at Sea”
POSTED BY DAVE EMORY ⋅ NOVEMBER 26, 2019
Having been born in 1949, I grew up with World War II as a critical element of my political, civic and cognitive upbringing. I vividly remember watching the documentary “Victory at Sea” on television as a child. As I have grown older, more knowledgeable and wiser, learning the truth about World War II has been very sad and painful. In FTR #1095, we noted the historical background to the ongoing conflict with China–the brutal Japanese onslaught and the collaboration of Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang narco-dictatorship with Japan’s attack and occupation. As a boy, I was awed and moved by the heroism of American and Allied service personnel who braved the dangers of flying over the Hump to bring U.S. supplies to Chiang Kai-shek’s forces. Although officially allied with the U.S., Chiang Kai-shek’s forces were actually working “both sides of the street.” We have encountered nothing more grotesquely tragic and disillusioning than the awareness that American military supplies flown over the Hump and/or sent along the Burma Road found their way into the hands of the Japanese, courtesy of KMT general Ku Chu-tung and his organized crime brother. Collaborating with Kodama Yoshio, the Japanese crime boss and Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the brothers swapped U.S. lend lease supplies for drugs.
For a complete, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-1095-the-destabilization-of-china-part-6-asian-deep-politics
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1-1:30 Chris Hedges (current) "On Contact"
Chris Hedges talks to Spenser Rapone, former combat veteran and US Army Officer, about the Washington Post’s series the 'Afghanistan Papers.' Drawing on thousands of pages of international government documents about the war in Afghanistan, the series exposes the lies, deceit, mismanagement, waste, corruption, fraud and failed schemes that both Democratic and Republican administrations pursed in Afghanistan, the longest conflict in US history (18 years and counting) that has claimed tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars of US taxpayers’ money.
Originally heard Sundays, 12:30pm
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLagVUKF7CUTRiG64CklL1AN0mbmNaETfp
1:30-2 Chris Hedges, "On Contact" (Catchup)
On Contact: The killing of Eric Garner with Matt Taibbi
Chris Hedges talks to journalist Matt Taibbi about the police killing of Eric Garner, the criminalization of poverty, and institutional racism. Taibbi authored the 2017 book ‘I can’t breathe – A Killing on Bay Street.’
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcFpNY6u4xM&list=PLagVUKF7CUTRiG64CklL1AN0mbmNaETfp&index=5&t=132s
2-3 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour Catchup: "Reclaiming Democracy"
Ralph welcomes Paul Deslauriers, who with a small dedicated group of fellow activists was able to take over the governing council in his home county of Maui, Hawaii. He’ll take us through that experience and explain how those same techniques can be scaled up to the national level. Plus, Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein and Ralph discuss why Donald Trump’s stonewalling of Congress is an impeachable offense.
Paul Deslauriers is a grassroots organizer, who has consulted over two hundred organizations involving mergers, restructuring, work process flows, teamwork, management coaching, and asset management. The work involved diverse groups such as the Alaskan Inuit, Icelandic communities. In 2002 Mr. Deslauriers became a full-time activist, coordinating nearly three hundred grassroots groups focused on government system change. His has written a number of guidebooks on organizing including 'Seven Steps to Reclaim Democracy: An Empowering Guide For Systemic Change.'
“When you go against big money interests… if there’s enough momentum with the grassroots, grassroots will always win.”
Paul Deslauriers, author of ;'Seven Steps to Reclaim Democracy: An Empowering Guide For Systemic Change'
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
3-4 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour (current)
Initially heard on KPFK Mondays 2 pm
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
4-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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THURSDAY NIGHT, JANUARY 2, 2020
Buzz at the helm
12-1 Alan Watts, “Veil of Thoughts” Part 3 of 5
“Despite its marvelous achievements in many domains, the thinking process falls short of being able to penetrate its own veil to reach direct knowledge of the Self. This is directly clear to psychotherapists who have long known that merely ‘cerebral investigation’ does not illuminate the ‘Unconscious.’ But our strategies for self-knowledge seem always to get in their own way and somehow we have to creep up on the quarry without making a sound.” (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2 Jack Gariss
"Jewish Ways of Meditation" Part 2
Originally broadcast live on KPFK in 1969.
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
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