"SOMETHING'S HAPPENING!" ON THE WEB
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BEHIND THE SCENES
The quiet fund drive proceeds quietly. We are losing subscribers due to the economic squeeze, but our listenership is continuing to rise. We are tightening our belts - the management is cutting back their salaries. We are now using a cheaper xerox, a cheaper server, and several other services hunted down by our skilled exploratory and amazingly inventive manager, Anyel. From the top remains the ever present idea to save on our large electric bill by shutting down the transmitter at night like we used to do back in the '70's. There is always the idea (from the top, some of whom don't know much about station operations) of firing the programmers and using all volunteers. But out of about 99 programmers, only 4 are paid and they (and me) bring in more in subscriptions than we receive in salaries). I am one of those paid programmers, but all of the great people whom you hear on 'Something's Happening!' are unpaid contributors. There was a time around 1982 when a great manager, the late Molly Lowrey, discouraged by the lack of income, shut down the station. I was the one who made the announcement and pushed the 'off' button.' Fortunately, alarmed listeners sent in enough contributions in a week or two until I was asked, again, to push the 'on button' and restart broadcasting. It was a scary time - the repetition which we want to avoid. So if you are one of our listeners who is able to make a contribution to your station, please don't dismiss the seriousness of our plight and call in a new subscription or additional contribution or join our Sustainer's Circle with a monthly contribution. Pacifica is the LAST non-corporate network in the USA. 818-985-5735, www.kpfk.org (shop for gifts online if you wish)
"Not What Should Be But What Is" Part 1 of 2
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12-1:15 Danny Sheehan "Role of the Public Intellectual" continues
'Daniel Sheehan and Andrew Sivak debate the Worldview Structure'
The rise of post-modernist thinking, the nature of truth, and other fun things.
Recorded at the Santa Cruz Free University - January 12, 2015
THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL:
SANTA CRUZ FREE UNIVERSITY FALL 2014
Background and Motivation for “The Role of the Public Intellectual”: Constrained by their State Boards of Regents, State Colleges & Universities of Western Culture impose requirements upon their Professors that compel them to promote beliefs that support both the objectives and ideologies of the Nation State of which they are a part of. Private Colleges of Western Culture are similarly constrained by their Private Boards of Overseers to promote beliefs that support the private financial interests of contributors who personally finance those private Institutions. In Western Culture, these beliefs include: the primacy of the economic system of State Capitalism; the ideologies of Caucasian Racial Superiority and Female Inferiority; the belief in Scientific Logical Positivism and Materialism (these beliefs are often masked as the development of a superior capacity to function intellectually in order to achieve long range goals rather than functioning emotionally to indulge short term personal satisfactions); and the indoctrination of their students in the dual doctrines of Nationalism and The Legitimization of the Resort to the Use of Military Violence to Achieve the Selfish Economic Goals The Elite of their Nation State.
Just as Political Public Office-Holders in State and Federal Governments feel “constrained” from speaking the truth that they have learned in their positions until after they have“retired from public office, College & University Professors inside State and Private Colleges & Universities oft-times feel constrained from sharing with their students their true conclusions about the academic subjects that they have spent a lifetime teaching until after they have achieved Emeritus status – at which time it is often too late to reach a student audience.
It is the goal of SANTA CRUZ COLLEGE to bring these truths to College & University students while they are still in the midst of their undergraduate and graduate school learning experience. This Course, “REALITY 101”: The Secret Science – The Relationship Between Consciousness and Political Action, brings you crusading Harvard Constitutional Litigation Expert and U.C. Santa Cruz Visiting Lecturer Daniel Sheehan outside of the constraints of the public courtroom and of the State University classroom, to share with you, as active and aggressively-seeking students, the truths that he has not been allowed to share with his audiences in America’s courtrooms or in College & University classrooms pertaining to the secret relationship between “Consciousness” and “Political Action” in Western Civilization.
In a private home environment, with a small audience, Danny and Andrew Sivak in a very intellectual, sometimes abstract discussion on the varied philosophies and power structures of various religions, the half dozen types of spirituality and consciousnesses of individuals and the powers and structures of the state, all within a society. How can all the work together? Who's in charge here?
1:15-2:15 Naomi Klein and Arundhati Roy “Surviving the Future”
What will tomorrow bring in the age of COVID-19? There is so much uncertainty. Arundhati Roy sees an opportunity. She writes, “Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and columnist, is the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is author of The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, No Is Not Enough, The Battle for Paradise and On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal. Her articles appear in The Intercept, Rolling Stone, The Nation and The Guardian, She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
Arundhati Roy is a world-renowned writer and global justice activist. The New York Times calls her, “India’s most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence.” She is the author of the novels The God of Small Things, for which she received the Booker Prize, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Her book of interviews with David Barsamian is The Checkbook & the Cruise Missile. A collection of her essays My Seditious Heart is published by Haymarket. From Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, www.alternativeradio.org
Sarah Posner is a reporting fellow with Type Investigations. Her investigative reporting has appeared in Rolling Stone, VICE, The Nation, Mother Jones, The New Republic, HuffPost, and Talking Points Memo. Her coverage and analysis of politics and religion has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Prospect, Politico, and many other outlets. She graduated from Wesleyan University and has a law degree from the University of Virginia. Her story “How Trump Took Hate Groups Mainstream,” published before the 2016 election, won a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. She is joined in conversation by Jeff Sharlet, associate professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth, and the best-selling author of ‘The Family’ (made into a Netflix documentary series), ‘This Brilliant Darkness,’ ‘C Street,’ and ‘Sweet Heaven When I Die.’ Recorded June 1, 2020.
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12-12:30 Dr. John Campbell on Covid 19 and Air Pollution
When in the last days of May 2020 several respected institutions such as the Harvard School of Public Health, and the All Party Group on Air Pollution in the UK, came up with strong emerging evidence that air pollution is a major contributing factor to the spread of Covid 19, Dr. John Campbell took a closer look. Outdoor air pollution already kills 4.2 million people per year in the world.
Dr. John Campbell is a retired Nurse Teacher in England who has gone through rigorous scientific training. Since the beginning of the pandemic he has walked into his study – once or even twice a day – and turned the camera on for his welcome and given updates on Covid 19. They are archived on his YouTube channel under “campbellteaching”.
Always friendly, personal with the scientific sources for his topics displayed on handmade slides – he explains complicated processes in no nonsense practical terms. Dr. John Campbell recorded this lesson on Air Pollution on May 31, 2020
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The Gary Null Show – Neoliberalism, Racial Violence and a Virus – 06.08.20
by Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD
Progressive Radio Network
The combination of the coronavirus pandemic and the eruption of large protests across the nation over the police murder of George Floyd and law enforcement’s culture of racial violence is exposing the systemic hypocrisies among Democrats and Republicans alike. Liberal Democrats have been voicing their approval for the lockdown and social distancing to curb the spread of the CoV19 virus in defiance of Trump’s egging on the Red states to reopen for business. Yet at the same time Democrats are pulling their weight behind the large gatherings of protesters. Over the weekend, estimates between 100,000 and 200,000 joined demonstrations in Washington DC. This would seem to contradict the benefits of lockdown guidelines.
On the other side of the aisle, the GOP and its conservative supporters undermine the severity of the COVID’s risks and favor a return to business and life as usual. Now as the demonstrations continue to escalate, we find Trump’s base criticizing demonstrators for endangering the public health by disregarding the lockdown. This bizarre Kaftaesque standoff between the political Left and Right is a sad theatrical tragedy because a critically important villain behind both the recession due to the shut down of business and the rise in a new civil rights protests is missing from the stage. That is, the neoliberal regime of capital that today controls both parties.
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A personal note from Dave to share:
‘’With all the focus on George Floyd, Black Lives Matter etc.
‘’I was thinking that perhaps you might lead off the first of the two shows next Wednesday by airing FTR #1133
‘’It is about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. When doing a twelve-hour special on the assassination on KFJC on the 50th anniversary of the killing (two years ago), I was struck by the almost total absence of discussion of the actual assassination itself, despite the fact that much was known at that time.
‘’Compared with the 24/7 coverage of Floyd, BLM etc. it is quite striking.
‘’So I recorded FTR #1133 about the King assassination, placing into the record some powerful information about what actually happened.’’
So we proceed:
12-1 Dave Emory, ‘’For the Record #1133: The Plot to Kill King’’
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, there has been wall-to-wall coverage of his murder and of the world-wide demonstrations stemming from it. The advent of smart phone (with cameras) and the internet affords detailed and intimate experience of such an event.
However, the orgiastic coverage of that event, the memorial service led by FBI informant and alleged [by the late Warren Hinckle] CIA operative in Grenada Al Sharpton stands in stark contrast to the utter silence across the board on the circumstances of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination.
On the fiftieth anniversary of King’s murder, Mr. Emory did a twelve hour program about the circumstances of the assassination, reprising AFA #8 (done in 1985 on the 17th anniversary of the killing) and FTR #46, recorded a decade later and supplemented on 4/3/2018.
Despite exhaustive and perilous research done by the likes of Dr. William F. Pepper, 4/4/2018 was notable for the absence of substantive discussion of King’s murder.
The political and historical significance of such an event was presented by Dr. Pepper in his third book about the King assassination, The Plot to Kill King: ” . . . . . . . . When one is confronted with the assassination of a major leader who personifies the most treasured values of the species and it becomes clear that those responsible for the murder are officials of his own government acting with the sanction of those in the shadows who actually rule, surely one should strive to understand what that means now and for the future. In other words, when the removal of a leader who has offended powerful forces and special interests in the Republic takes on the status of an act of state, citizens must contemplate what this reveals about their culture and its civil and political systems, their freedom, the quality and status of the rule of law, and their entire way of life. . . . ”
It seems that–for many–black lives matter, but not Dr. King’s, apparently, past a point.
Again, Dr. Pepper noted that: ” . . . . citizens must contemplate what this reveals about their culture and its civil and political systems, their freedom, the quality and status of the rule of law, and their entire way of life. . . . ”
In said contemplation, this program supplements our previous work on the killing.
Although Dr. Pepper reprises the stunning information he set forth in ‘’Orders to Kill in The Plot to Kill King,’’ we will not reprise that here, in the interests of time. (We do recap a short excerpt from ‘’Orders to Kill’’ comprising an apparent evidentiary tributary between King’s murder and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, which occurred two months later.)
The bulk of the discussion in this program is presentation and analysis of the political machinery in Memphis, Tennessee that engineered Dr. King’s murder. (Discussion of the Special Forces team that was in Memphis as a back-up unit in case the civilian sniper missed King is detailed in FTR #46.)
In Pepper’s investigation of King’s murderers, he detailed the apparent role of the late Russell Lee Adkins, a member of the Dixie Mafia in Memphis, Tennessee. (The Dixie Mafia is distinct from the Mafia, per se, that operated in the South, although–as Pepper makes clear–they worked with Mafiosi like New Orleans capo Carlos Marcello and Marcello associate Frank Liberto, like Adkins, an operator in Memphis.)
His son Russell Jr. took over executive management of the assassination machinery after his father’s death in 1967.
Note the cooperation between the Ku Klux Klan and elements of the Masons in Memphis. This should NOT be misunderstood as buying into the myriad of anti-Masonic conspiracy theories which have proliferated on the Internet. The bulk of Freemasonry are what they represent themselves as being–civic activists and philanthropists. The Third Reich planned to exterminate the Masons, along with the Jews and others….
We end the program with a caveat delivered to former Representative Walter Fauntroy [of Washington D.C.]–a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus. After informing then Speaker of the House of Representatives Carl Albert that he wished to head what was to become the House Select Committee on Assassinations: ” . . . . Albert said to him, ‘Walter, you don’t want that job.’ To which Fauntroy replied, ‘But I do want it; why not?’ Albert whispered, ‘Walter, they will kill you.’ . . .”
For a complete, detailed, annotated, written description of this program:
1-2 Dave Emory, For the Record #1125 Three-Dimensional Chess and the Covid-19 Outbreak: A Structural Overview
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”–Edward R. Murrow
This program is an overview of a number of overlapping considerations in the Covid-19 outbreak, which Mr. Emory calls a “Bio-Psy-Op.” These overlapping areas will be presented in a series of programs: FTR #1126 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 2: The Democracy-Killing Virus; FTR #1127 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 3: The Eugenic Virus; FTR #1128 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 4: The Wealth-Concentrating Virus; FTR #1129 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 5: Walkin’ the Coronavirus; FTR #1130 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 6: Context–The China-Killing Virus; FTR #1131 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse, Part 7: Pinchback’s Perspective and FTR #1132 Bio-Psy-Op Apocalypse Now, Part 8: The Nazi Virus.
Before discussing the Covid-19 “op,” per se, we memorialized the brilliant Kevin Coogan, author of “Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International,” as well as numerous articles. Kevin passed away on 2/27/2020 in New York City. We do not know the cause. Kevin was a brilliant writer and analyst and will be sorely missed.
In For The Record #233, we examined Kevin’s analysis of “The Order,” a fascist/mystical concept that was formulated, in part by fascist mystic Julius Evola. Evola was a dominant philosophical and ideological influence on Steve Bannon, at the epicenter of the anti-China effort. (Mr. Emory misspoke himself–the program is FTR #233, not #312.)
The concept of three-dimensional chess derives from the old “Star Trek” television series, in which the officers played a variation of chess that involved playing on three different levels. Understanding the “Bio-Psy-Op” similarly involves thinking and awareness on at least three levels.
An op-ed column in The New York Times by Bret Stephens goes to the essence of this “bio-psy-op.” ” . . . . The only certainty is that, in the midst of a crisis, politicians are rarely penalized for predicting the worst possible outcome. If it comes to pass, they seem prophetic. If it doesn’t, they take credit for averting catastrophe. In the meantime, they seek to enhance their powers. . . . we might face not a recession but a full-blown depression, which would be financially ruinous for hundreds of millions and have its own disastrous knock-on effects in mental, emotional, and physical health, including for the elderly and sick who already face the greatest risks from the virus. . . .”
Key points of discussion and analysis, which will be developed at much greater length and in much greater detail in the series of programs noted above, including some of the articles which will figure into the analysis:
1.–Exemplifying the profound psychological aspects of the Covid-19 Psy-Op is the phenomenon of the hoarding of toilet paper. Mr. Emory views this as a deep Freudian/anal response to feelings of helplessness on the part of citizens. Toilet paper is of no help against the virus, but is symptomatic of a deep-seated personality dynamic seeking to manifest some measure of social control. This was the subject of a recent New Yorker piece. ” . . . . ‘Controlling cleanliness around B.M.s is the earliest way the child asserts control,’ Andrea Greenman, the president of the Contemporary Freudian Society, said. ‘The fact that now we are all presumably losing control creates a regressive push to a very early time. So, I guess that translates in the unconscious to ‘If I have a lifelong supply of toilet paper, I’ll never be out of control, never be a helpless, dirty child again.’
For a complete, detailed, annotated, written description of this program:
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
**Additional important non-program information recommended by Dave:
Spitfire List | Disturbing Article about DARPA and Bat-Borne Coronaviruses:
Spitfire List | White Supremacists, Nazis and Biological Warfare
2-2:30 Chris Hedges, "On Contact"
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12-12:45 Alan Watts, "The Future of Politics" Part 1 of 4
"Will politics, as we know them, become
irrelevant and disappear, and will the state, as Marx imagined, fade
away? What are the prospects for individual liberty, civil rights, law
and the courts, the police and penology? If nature abhors a vacuum, into
what will "drop-outs" drop in?"
'True Stories of the Animals who Change Our Lives' Part 1 of 2
A dog gives its life to protect a baby from a fire. An abused woman learns about courage from a horse. Who are these animals that change - and even save - our lives? On 'Animal Wisdom, bestselling author Susan McElroy brings to life the amazing ways that pets, working animals, and creatures of the wild touch and transform the human world.
An animal love since childhood, McElroy has worked in kennels, zoos, veterinary clinics, human societies, stables, and anywhere else she could get close to animals. Sharing stories from her own life and the lives of others, McElroy portrays animals not as playthings for our amusement, but as intuitive, loved friends capable of great empathy and daring courage. All the more remarkable because it is true. 'Animal Wisdom' takes you on an incredible journey where you will hear about:
*Animals responsble for the miraculous healing of humans.
*How animals inspire our lives, giving new direction and hope
*Spiritual teachings of animals in the face of death.
Unforgetable for its case of characters - four legged and otherwise, 'Animal Wisdom is a vivid and moving tribute to the animals we love and learn from.
Susan Chernak McElroy is the author of the national bestselling book 'Animals as Teachers and Healers." Diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1987, she survived - by following the dignified, joyful example of her dog Keesha, who had died ten years earlier of the same time of cancer. McElroy and her husband live in Oregon where they share their farm with miniature donkeys, llamas, chickens, geese, cats, dogs, and a cockatoo. Her cassette set is originally from Sounds True and now available from Amazon.com
as well as her subsequent books:
“Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections”
“Heart in the Wild: A Journey of Self-Discovery with Aninals of the Wilderness”
“All My Relations: Living with Animals as Teachers and Healers”
“Animals as Guides for the Soul: Stores of Life-Changing Encounters”
“Why Buffalo Dance: Animal and Wilderness Meditations Through the Seasons”
2:30-3:30 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
The wedding of spiritual magic and compassionate social activism with host Caroline Casey.
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