Saturday, November 4, 2017
November 6-10
PACIFICA FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT: http://www.pacifica.org/about_mission.php
“SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!” ON THE WEB
KPFK can be heard streaming live online at http://www.kpfk.org/ and click on ‘Listen Live.’ Times are Pacific Time. Program times for “Something’s Happening!” are approximate but close and “Monday night” is legally Tuesday morning et seq.
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 (under repair and reconstruction)
“Something’s Happening!” is posted for listening on demand for 60 days after broadcast. The programs are (normally) described on the archives so you can spot the program you are interested in. “Something’s Happening!” is not downloadable because many of the programs I play do not belong to me nor to Pacifica, but you can listen any time day or night, weekends and holidays, for 60 days. Just go to http://archive.kpfk.org Be sure to
FUND DRIVE NEWS
We successfully ended the October major fund drive with a total of $782,580 which went beyond our original goal of $600,000. This 'overdraft' was due to some programs splitting their pledges 50/50 with urgent charitable donations to victims of earthquake, hurricane, and flood in Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Oaxaca, Mexico to who we gave (my estimate) between $30,000 and $50,000 directly and reliably. In addition we became encumbered by a $ million dollar plus debt by a sudden court decision against Pacifica/WBAI by the 'Vampire State Reality Trust' to which we have owed a debt for transmitter space over a few years and which threatens Pacifica Foundation. (for details see 'Behind the Scenes: After the Shoe Dropped" in following section.
While the new board works this debt out we will count our pennies in thanks to those of you who contributed, to our faithful phone answerers - particularly Barbara Flasher and John B.; to our phone administrator Buzz, to my dear Diane. It was a long and difficult drive but it did demonstrate that "Something's Happening!" IS slowly rebuilding its midnight to 3am audience again from zero. I promise great programming to continue.
BEHIND THE SCENES "After the Shoe Dropped"
http://pacificainexile.org/archives/2488
"FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE"
There will probably be a mini-drive in December, maybe a week.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
8-8:30 "Introduction to Buddhism"
From http://www.alanwatts.org
(there is an Alan Watts Newsletter just formed - free signup at website)
MONDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 6
12-3 Bobb Lynes & Barbara Sunday "Don't Touch That Dial!"
It's time for Barbara's annual 38th anniversary all-detective special including Boston Blackie, Nick Carter, Candy Matson and Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
Email Bobb: iairotr@hotmail.com Email Barbara: donttouchthatdial@hotmail.com
SPERDVAC old radio club: http://www.sperdvac.com
3-4 Lux Radio Theater
"The Thin Man" with William Powell and Myrna Loy.
Originally broadcast June 8, 1936.
4-5:55 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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TUESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 7
Fletcher Prouty Special Part 1
12-4 L. Fletcher Prouty Special Part 1 of 3
"Understanding Special Operations and Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era" Part 1 "Background"
This is the first of 3 programs constituting the entire book/interview "Understanding Special Operations and Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era" (1989) which we have frequently played in November over 3 weeks. The interview was conducted brilliantly by David Ratcliffe of rat haus reality press which published the book and which we offered as premiums the last couple of years.
( From www.prouty.com )
"Col. Prouty was the model for the 'Man X' in Oliver Stone's film 'JFK'.
Col. Fletcher Prouty answered e-mail from this site while he was alive.
"Col. Prouty spent 9 of his 23 year military career in the Pentagon (1955-1964): 2 years with the Secretary of Defense, 2 years with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and 5 years with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. In 1955 he was appointed the first "Focal Point" officer between the CIA and the Air Force for Clandestine Operations per National Security Council Directive 5412. He was Briefing Officer for the Secretary of Defense (1960-1961), and for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"At times he would be called to meet with Allen Dulles and John Foster Dulles at their home on highly classified business. He was assigned to attend MKULTRA meetings. In this capacity Col. Prouty would be at the nerve center of the Military-Industrial Complex at a time unequalled in American History. He has written on these subjects, about the JFK assassination, the Cold War period, and Vietnamese warfare, and the existence of a "Secret Team". He backs up his his work with seldom seen or mentioned official documents - some never before released.
"Fletcher Prouty offers a rare glimpse of the "Power Elite" as described by Buckminster Fuller, or "The High Cabal" as Winston Churchill refered to them; and how they really operate. Those who have not been in a position to witness events such as these from the inside would not understand how invisible but ultimately effective they and their power structures are."
4-5:55 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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WEDNESDAY NIGHT NOVEMBER 8
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #972 - They Are All Bound on the Wheel: Reflections on Charlottesville"
With the mainstream media, the so-called “alternative media,” the so-called “progressive sector” and the GOP beating their breasts over Donald Trump’s predictably equivocal reaction to the violence in Charlottesville (Virginia), we highlight the profound complicity with all of these elements with the very white supremacist, Nazi and Neo-Confederate movements that are at the foundation of the events in question.
For the last several years, the mainstream media, the so-called “alternative media,” and the so-called “progressive sector” have manifested an almost erotic obsession with the overlapping activities of Eddie the Friendly Spook (Snowden), Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, Glenn Greenwald and Greenwald’s media financial angel Pierre Omidyar.
All of the focal points of their collective adulation are at one with the very white supremacist, Nazi and Neo-Confederate forces that coalesced on behalf of the preservation of the Confederate memorials in Charlottesville.
The marriage of the GOP and the ABN was effected under the auspices of the Crusade for Freedom, a dual-sided covert operation with the GOP/ABN nexus at the root of a domestic political operation and the combat support afforded guerrillas from the OUN/B and other Eastern European fascist fighting by the Office of Policy Coordination (which morphed into the CIA’s Directorate of plans): “. . . . Frustration over Truman’s 1948 election victory over Dewey (which they blamed on the “Jewish vote”) impelled Dulles and his protégé Richard Nixon to work toward the realization of the fascist freedom fighter presence in the Republican Party’s ethnic outreach organization. As a young congressman, Nixon had been Allen Dulles’s confidant. . . .
. . . . 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. [This is a Republican pro-immigration program–D.E.] . . .”
The key figures in the CFF became the cream of the Reagan administration. ” . . . . As a young movie actor in the early 1950s, Reagan was employed as the public spokesperson for an OPC front named the ‘Crusade for Freedom.’ Reagan may not have known it, but 99 percent for the Crusade’s funds came from clandestine accounts, which were then laundered through the Crusade to various organizations such as Radio Liberty, which employed Dulles’s Fascists. Bill Casey, who later became CIA director under Ronald Reagan, also worked in Germany after World War II on Dulles’ Nazi ‘freedom fighters’ program. When he returned to New York, Casey headed up another OPC front, the International Rescue Committee, which sponsored the immigration of these Fascists to the United States. Casey’s committee replaced the International Red Cross as the sponsor for Dulles’s recruits. . . .
. . . . It was [George H.W.] Bush who fulfilled Nixon’s promise to make the ‘ethnic emigres’ a permanent part of Republican politics. In 1972, Nixon’s State Department spokesman confirmed to his Australian counterpart that the ethnic groups were very useful to get out the vote in several key states. Bush’s tenure as head of the Republican National Committee exactly coincided with Laszlo Pasztor’s 1972 drive to transform the Heritage Groups Council into the party’s official ethnic arm. The groups Pasztor chose as Bush’s campaign allies were the émigré Fascists whom Dulles had brought to the United States. . . . “
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
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1-2 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour: "Grassroots Action"
Ralph welcomes Sarah van Gelder, founder of PeoplesHub and Mark Pertschuk, director of Grassroots Change, two organizations that offer you the skills and expertise on how to make change in your community.
Sarah van Gelder is a founder of a new nonprofit start-up, PeoplesHub, which will be offering online training to local groups around the country who want to make change where they live. Sarah is also YES! Magazine Co-founder and columnist, a public speaker, and the author of a new book, 'The Revolution Where You Live: Stories from a 12,000 Mile Journey Through a New America,' which is about Sarah’s solo road trip around the United States, seeking out the people who are making change happen.
“I really believe that we need a really radical transformation in this country, but I don’t believe it can be top-down. It has to be bottom-up. It has to be based in our local communities and in people finding for themselves the type of world they want to build.” Sarah van Gelder, founder of PeoplesHub
Mark Pertschuk is the former President & Executive Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights. And in 1995, he co-founded Californians for Responsible Gun Laws to mobilize grassroots support for 40 local gun control ordinances and three statewide gun laws, which is why California has the strongest gun laws in the nation. His latest venture is as the director of Grassroots Change, an organization that connects advocates with the training and tools they need to build and sustain grassroots movements.
“The grassroots work that’s going on is so important. And it in some ways at the moment feels like our last hope for being involved in our own democracy.” Mark Pertschuk director of Grassroots Change
Originally broadcast Saturdays, 10am. All info: http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
2-2:30 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part FOUR)
Marilyn Waring on War (Part TWO of Sex, Lies and Global Economics)
This film was a secret favorite for those who wanted to decode the economic system of perpetual, destructive growth. And for those who looked for an intelligent explanation of the connection between economics and war. Marilyn Waring was only 22 when she was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament. Re-elected three times she soon became chair of the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee, the sole budget, appropriations, and public accounts committee of Parliament.
This segment is about war. Under the GDP accounting system war is the biggest growth industry of all. When John Maynard Keynes and Richard Stone invented the GDP formula during WWII they explicitly designed is as a system of: “how to pay for the war”. This British system was imposed on the world in 1953. No country may be a member of the UN, deal with the IMF or World Bank unless they do their national accounting based on the GDP”
And some say that unlimited growth along with globalization has driven the wars and environmental destruction of the past 60 plus years. In spite of the magnitude of the problem with Growth and GDP accounting there is an encouraging aspect. If a global system can be designed by two economists, Mr. Keynes and M. Stone, and if it can get imposed – not so long ago – in 1953 – it is possible and necessary to design a different system and set a date for change in the near future. From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, http://www.tucradio.org
2:30-3 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part FIVE)
Kate Raworth: How modern economics has failed the poor and wrecked the earth while making a few people very rich
Kate Raworth spoke on October 4, 2017, at the Stockholm Resilience Centre on her new book Doughnut Economics. Published in the UK and US in April 2017 the book has already been translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Japanese.
Kate Raworth says that economics dominate public policy and our decision-making for the future. It guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times. However economic theories as taught today are centuries out of date. That’s why it is time, Raworth says, to revise our economic thinking for the 21st century.
From Kate Raworth 35 minute talk I chose her fascinating retelling of the history of economics from Adam Smith to Paul Samuelson and her indictment of neoliberalism, market fundamentalism and the universally imposed system of economic growth, expressed in the GPD, the Gross Domestic Product.
From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, http://www.tucradio.org
3-3:30 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part SIX)
Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems, Professor Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom is best known for her understanding and defense of the commons. As one of the rare political scientists who continued to study reality first and then come up with a theory she has personal experience with hundreds of community managed fisheries, forests and irrigation systems.
In 2009 she was the first and so far only woman who was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in economics, in large part in acknowledgment of her work on the commons. Some say that in the year of the most severe economic crisis in our recent past the Nobel Committee had a hard time finding male economists.
Elinor Ostrom was Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. And she lived in Indiana until her death in June 2012. She and her husband, political scientist Vincent Ostrom, developed a world view that they called polycentric.
They define polycentrism, and with it the commons, as systems based on collective action, trust, cooperation and the management of common pool resources.
On February 16, 2010, Elinor Ostrom presented an updated version of her Nobel Prize lecture at Indiana University. From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, http://www.tucradio.org
3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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THURSDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 9
12-1 Alan Watts, "World As Play" #3 of 4
"The 'game-theory' of the universe -- its basic rules or patterns in both natural and human situations. Discussion of a 'cosmologic' or universal 'horse sense' about the behavior of life and energy, and its application to personal and social problems, based on the Yang-yin theory of the 'Book of Changes.'"
From http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Taoism" Part 7 of 15
2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com
3-3:30 Science Fiction Break
3:30 - 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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That's All Folks!
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Monday, October 30, 2017
October 30-November 2
PACIFICA FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT: http://www.pacifica.org/about_mission.php
“SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!” ON THE WEB
KPFK can be heard streaming live online at http://www.kpfk.org/ and click on ‘Listen Live.’ Times are Pacific Time. Program times for “Something’s Happening!” are approximate but close and “Monday night” is legally Tuesday morning et seq.
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.comand click on ‘what happened?’ Thanks to Sha Tahmasebi for redesigning and maintaining the website.
AUDIO ARCHIVES (under repair and reconstruction)
“Something’s Happening!” is posted for listening on demand for 60 days after broadcast. The programs are (normally) described on the archives so you can spot the program you are interested in. “Something’s Happening!” is not downloadable because many of the programs I play do not belong to me nor to Pacifica, but you can listen any time day or night, weekends and holidays, for 60 days. Just go to http://archive.kpfk.org Be sure to
BEHIND THE SCENES "After the Shoe Dropped"
"FUND DRIVE SCHEDULE"
October fund drive ends Monday at 6pm.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
One Hour Watts-a-Thon Special!
One More Time.
MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 30
12-1:30 Deb Shapiro, "Your Body Speaks Your Mind"
'Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness'
Part 3 (concluding): Practice Session: Listening to the Body
Body scan. Talking with your body. Bodymind appreciation.
From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, http://www.soundstrue.com
1:30-2:30 "Halloween With a Witch"
A classic interview I did with Z Budapest, a Witch who talks about the real meanings of Halloween. Recorded live on KPFK October 10, 1978.
"Zsuzsanna Emese Budapest was born in Budapest, Hungary, during a big winter storm on January 30, 1940. Her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium and a practicing witch who supported herself and her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika’s themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, “Z,” grew up respecting and appreciating Mother Nature as a god.
"The poverty of postwar Europe and political oppression under the Russian occupation made Z fiercely political, so when the Hungarian Revolution broke out in 1956, she took her destiny into her own hands and became one of those sixty-five thousand political refugees who left the country, mostly young workers and students like herself. She finished high school in Innsbruck, graduated from a bilingual gymnasium, and won a scholarship to the University of Vienna where she studied languages.
"Z emigrated to the United States in 1959, became a student at the University of Chicago, married, and gave birth to two sons. In Chicago she studied with Second City, an improvisational theatrical school, the only one in the country at that time.
"Her family’s spiritual tradition, however, started seeping back into her life, and she practiced solo worship of the Goddess at her home altar in her backyard.
"When she entered her Saturn cycle at the age of thirty, she became involved with the women’s liberation movement in Los Angeles and became an activist herself, staffing the Women’s Center there for many years.
"There she recognized a need for a spiritual dimension so far lacking in the feminist movement and started the Women’s Spirituality Movement. She founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l, the first feminist witches’ coven, which became the role model for thousands of other spiritual groups being born and spreading across the nation. She wrote The Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries(Weiser Publishers, 1989) which was originally published in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows. This book served as the first hands-on book to lead women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage. Z was arrested in 1975 for reading Tarot cards to an undercover policewoman. She lost the trial but won the issue, and the law against psychics was struck down nine years later. (See WitchTrial.net)
"Z has led rituals, lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of women’s newspapers across the country. She has powerfully influenced many of the future teachers and writers about the Goddess.
"Today Z lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, traveling a lot, giving workshops and lectures, but always making time to smell the roses. She is the star of her own cable TV show called 13th Heaven and acts as the director of the Women’s Spirituality Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring a monthly lecture series in the Bay Area about the Goddess, spirituality retreats, and annual spiral dances on Halloween. Z founded and sponsors the Dianic University Online, a vagina-friendly online school for Dianic Wicca and Goddess studies for women. California Institute for Integral Studies recognized recently Z’s contribution to Women’s Spirituality Movement.
"Books by Z Budapest:
'Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries' 'Grandmother of Time' 'Summoning the Fates' 'Goddess in the Office' 'Goddess in the Bedroom' 'Grandmother Moon' 'Celestial Wisdom'"
'Holy Book of Women’s Mysteries' 'Grandmother of Time' 'Summoning the Fates' 'Goddess in the Office' 'Goddess in the Bedroom' 'Grandmother Moon' 'Celestial Wisdom'"
Z Budapest's Website: https://www.zbudapest.com/
From Pacifica Radio Archives, 1 (800) 735-0230, http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org Program #
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2:30-3:30 Old Radio Halloween Scary Programs
An ‘Inner Sanctum’ which used to scare me weekly and a ‘Quiet Please’ which is the scariest radio show I had ever heard.
3:30-5:55 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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TUESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 31
12-12:30 Vaccine Update
12:30-1:30 Anne Lamott, “Radical Self Care Changes Everything”
Anne Lamott is the celebrated author of many books of fiction, essays, and memoirs. Her works include ‘Bird by Bird,’ ‘Hallelujah Anyway,’ and ‘Crooked Little Heart.’ In this special edition of Insights at the Edge originally recorded for The Self-Acceptance Summit, Tami Simon speaks with Anne about acts of "radical self-care" and how they are essential for anyone's well-being. Anne talks about self-acceptance as an innately feminist concept, especially around issues of body image and self-esteem. Finally, Anne and Tami discuss how it is necessary to fully accept oneself before being able to show up for others, and why modern society often argues the opposite. From Sounds True “Insights at the Edge Series” For free download of audio and/or transcript go to
1:30-2:30 Lauren Walker: The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription
Lauren Walker is a certified energy medicine practitioner, teaching assistant to Donna Eden, and one of the originators of Energy Medicine Yoga, which she teaches internationally. With Sounds True, Lauren has released ‘The Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription.’ In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Lauren discuss the ideal ways that energy moves through the body and how that flow can be manipulated to help heal a number of conditions. Lauren highlights specific practices for the treatment of insomnia and gut issues, as well as a method for listening to "meridian pulses" to diagnose unknown pains. Tami and Lauren also speak on how the development of self-acceptance in conjunction with Energy Medicine Yoga can help us reclaim pleasure and joy in our daily lives. Finally, Lauren leads listeners in "The Wake-Up," a short practice designed to readjust the natural flow of our subtle energy. From Sounds True ‘Insights at the Edge’ series. For free download of audio and/or transcript -
2:30-3:30 Stephen Bezruchka “Making America Healthy Again”
The U.S. pays more for health care than any other country yet has shamefully poor results. People are paying through the nose for their hospital stays, surgeries and prescription drugs. An MRI in the U.S. costs five times what it costs in Australia. Instead of quality affordable health care we are building absurdly expensive F-35s, submarines and aircraft carriers. And there is a cool $ trillion for nuclear weapons. Our spending priorities are upside down. Every other industrialized country has universal health care. Since the 1970s surveys have shown most people in the U.S. want a single-payer, universal health care program. But Washington says: That’s off the table. So even though the public wants it, our so-called representatives, except for Bernie Sanders and a few others, are not considering it. Maybe we should look to Slovenia for inspiration.
Stephen Bezruchka is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington. He worked for many years as an emergency physician in Seattle. His particular areas of research are population health and societal hierarchy. He has spent over 10 years in Nepal working in various health programs, and teaching in remote regions. He is author of numerous articles and essays. He is a contributor to ‘Sickness and Wealth,’ a book on the effects of global corporatization on health. From Alternative Radio 1 (800) 444-1977, http://www.alternativeradio.org
3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 1
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #976 - Operation Mind Control: Subverting the Political Will"
Continuing analysis of the intelligence community’s mind control programs, this broadcast details one of the most insidious applications of the mind control discipline–the programming of entire new personalities into people, which could only become operational after a pre-conditioned cue was administered.
The program begins with discussion of the use of hypnosis to enable military and intelligence couriers to commit large amounts of information to memory in such a manner as to prevent disclosure when the subject was not hypnotized.
One of the CIA’s mind control couriers was a famous model and World War II pin-up girl named Candy Jones.
Ms. Jones–one of America’s premier models, a political liberal and the wife of broadcasting legend Long John Nebel–was subjected to a rigorous mind control program in which a bigoted, fascist personality was programmed into her under the alternate personality Arlene Grant.
Ms. Jones was conditioned to hate blacks, Jews and others, via a personality conditioned into her by a programmer. After marrying Nebel, a liberal, Ms. Jones was apparently programmed to kill herself, throwing herself off a cliff in the Bahamas.
Of particular note is the sexually-charged, anti-black racism with which Ms. Jones–as “Arlene Grant”–was imbued. Against the contemporary political backdrop, this is especially significant.
The balance of the discussion is a hypothetical “prequel” to discussion of the Peoples Temple of Jim Jones. With riots in many of this country’s urban ghettos in the 1960’s and violent acts by so-called “black militants” garnering significant headlines in the 1960’s and 1970’s, there was support in the intelligence and applied psychology fields to study the social behavior and psychology of African-Americans. Particular emphasis was on studying the brains of black people, to see if there was some innate inclination toward violent behavior on the part of a significant portion of the African-American community.
The Nixon administration and the California gubernatorial registration of Ronald Reagan were supportive of the project, with the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration enlisted to help finance the project, for which an abandoned Nike missile base was to be requisitioned as an operational center.
CIA psychologist Louis Jolyon West was one of the prime movers in the apparently aborted launching of the UCLA Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence. (West had been Jack Ruby’s psychiatrist, as well as an early experimenter on the effects of LSD.) In our next program, we examine the possibility that the UCLA center was actually supplanted with the Peoples Temple of Jim Jones, an apparent CIA operation and extension of the intelligence community’s mind control operations.
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-976-operation-mind-control-subverting-the-political-will/
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1-2 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
“Who Owns the Media / Monsanto’s Whitewash”
Former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, gives us a perspective on the media landscape from Johnson to Trump. And investigative journalist, Carey Gillam, explains how, thanks to chemical companies like Monsanto, we’re all probably eating the pesticide, Round Up.
Nicholas Johnson is best known for his controversial term as a dissenting Federal Communications Commission commissioner in the Johnson/Nixon era. His book from that time ‘How to Talk Back to Your Television Set’ is just as relevant now as it was then, even in the Internet Age with its critique of media consolidation and the manufacturing of news. He currently teaches at the University of Iowa College of Law with an emphasis on communications and Internet law, and since 2006 has posted over 1000 blog essays. He is included in ‘The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law’ as one of 700 “leading figures in the history of American law, from the colonial era to the present day.”‘
“All television is educational television. The only questions is, ‘What is it teaching?’ And it certainly is not teaching the values of a democratic society with the information that citizens need.”
Carey Gillam is a veteran journalist, researcher and writer with more than 25 years of experience in the news industry covering corporate America. Since 1998, Ms. Gillam’s work has focused on digging into the big business of food and agriculture. As a former correspondent for Reuters’ international news service and current research director for consumer group U.S. Right to Know(, Ms. Gillam uncovers both the risks and rewards of the evolving new age of agriculture. Her new book ‘Whitewash: The Story of a Weedkiller, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science’ ‘‘(https://islandpress.org/book/whitewash) – just out this month – details the harm that pervasive pesticide use is wreaking on human health and the environment.
“For decades, Monsanto has worked very, very hard to manipulate the science, to suppress science by independent researchers that shows harm and to promote or push its own positive science, it’s own science that says it’s safe. And what we’ve seen in the documents that have come out recently – Monsanto’s own internal documents – shows them working to basically put forward fraudulent papers that carry the names of independent scientists that look to be credible and unbiased but actually are written or manipulated or drafted or directed by Monsanto’s people.”
Former FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, gives us a perspective on the media landscape from Johnson to Trump. And investigative journalist, Carey Gillam, explains how, thanks to chemical companies like Monsanto, we’re all probably eating the pesticide, Round Up.
Initially heard on KPFK Saturdays, 10am
2-2:30 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part ONE)
This is the beginning of a TUC Radio mini series on how to resist the demands of permanent economic growth and protect the earth, indigenous communities, local agriculture and women. Here first is the archive edition of Who’s Counting, Marilyn Waring on sex, lies and global economics based on the audio of the film by Terre Nash.
Marilyn Waring was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA). This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment.
At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a feminist economist. The film, “Who’s Counting” traces her quest to explore how the fate of women and of the earth are impacted by the deadly pursuit of economic growth.
Marilyn Waring is best known as the author of a book on women in the world economy entitled: “If Women Counted” to this day a persuasive and vivid argument against endless economic growth. From TUC Radio http://www.tucradio.org
2:30-3 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part TWO)
Marilyn Waring’s 30 Year Effort to Dismantle the GDP
Safe drinking water counts for nothing. A pollution-free environment counts for nothing. Even some people – namely women – count for nothing. This according to the United Nations System of National Accounts, the SNA, that sets the standard and imposes economic and budgetary decisions for almost 200 countries.
The SNA produce the GDP, the Gross Domestic Product that allegedly measures well being within a country. However war and catastrophes deforestation and mining show up as beneficial for the economy under the GDP.
Marilyn Waring, former New Zealand M.P., now professor of public policy at Auckland University, writer, and goat farmer, explained this in her book: Counting for Nothing. She gave a 30 year update at the University of Alberta, Canada, on November 18, 2016. This is an excerpt of her 55 minute speech.
Waring spoke at the Parkland Institute, at the University of Alberta. Parkland exists to counteract the dominance of the marketplace tat led to expanded corporate power. And to preserve the understanding of Canada as a caring and sharing society.
This is part two of a TUC Radio miniseries on Renegade Economics and how to resist the demands of permanent economic growth and protect the earth, indigenous communities, local agriculture and women. From TUC Radio http://www.tucradio.org
3-3:30 Renegade Economists Marilyn Waring, Kate Raworth and Elinor Ostrom (Part THREE)
Kate Raworth “Why it’s time for a new version of human prosperity”
Kate Raworth came to international attention in 2017 with the publication of her most recent book: Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. She critiques the Gross Domestic Product system of accounting – including the so-called Green or sustainable growth models.
Kate Raworth “Why it’s time for a new version of human prosperity”
Kate Raworth came to international attention in 2017 with the publication of her most recent book: Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist. She critiques the Gross Domestic Product system of accounting – including the so-called Green or sustainable growth models.
In Kate Raworth’ doughnut model the goal is to raise the well being of humans trapped inside the doughnut hole, while placing limits on climate change and pollution that are near or have crossed the outer circle of the doughnut.
Kate Raworth is teaching at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, and at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Over the last two decades she has worked as Senior Researcher at Oxfam, and as a co-author of the United Nation’s Human Development Report.
Kate Raworth has written extensively for media including The Guardian, The New Statesman, Newsweek, and Wired, and has done programs with BBC Radio 4, The World Service, ABC and NPR, as well as television with Thom Hartmann, Laura Flanders, CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CBC. From TUC Radio http://www.tucradio.org
Kate Raworth has written extensively for media including The Guardian, The New Statesman, Newsweek, and Wired, and has done programs with BBC Radio 4, The World Service, ABC and NPR, as well as television with Thom Hartmann, Laura Flanders, CNN, Al-Jazeera, BBC, and CBC. From TUC Radio http://www.tucradio.org
3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program
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THURSDAY NIGHT, NOVEMBER 2
12-1 Alan Watts, "World as Play" Part 2 of 4
“The ‘game-theory’ of the universe – its basic rules or patterns in both natural and human situations,. Discussion of a ‘cosmologic’ or universal ‘horse sense’ about the behavior of life and energy, and its application to personal and social problems, based on the Yang-yin theory of the ‘Book of Changes.’ (AW) All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Taoism" Part 6 of 15 . Originally broadcast live on KPFK May 21, 1978.
2:00-3:00 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com
3-3:30 Science Fiction Break
3:30 - 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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Monday, October 23, 2017
October 23-26
October 23-26, 2017
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MONDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 23
Fund Drive Schedule
12-1:30 Joe Dominguez, "Transforming Your Relationship With Money"
'The Nine-Step Program for Achieving Financial Integrity, Intelligence, and Independence' Part 4 (CONCLUDING)
Are you making a living? Or as Joe Dominguez puts it, are you making a dying? Dominguez was a Wall Street analyst who walked away from a high-powered financial career in 1969, retiring at age 30. Afterward he lived comfortably on about $7,000 per year, while donating a small fortune to various charities.
'Transforming Your Relationship with Money' is his life's work-a revolutionary guide that will help you find peace with the concept of money, stop consuming things you don't really need, and start contributing to the goals and ideals you believe in.
Joe Dominguez achieved financial independence not through a get-rich-quick scheme, but through a path of inquiry that led him to question the very nature of our relationship with money. Here he illuminates the equation between money and our most precious resource-our life energy-so that a powerful new definition of money emerges. In nine simple steps he teaches you how to consciously track, evaluate, and direct the flow of money-without compromising your principles or most cherished dreams.
"The foolish person wants more money, and more of the things money can buy," Dominguez says. "The wise person wants enough money, and more of the things money can't buy: health, happiness, love, and peace of mind."
Now the personal money management course that brings this wisdom to consciousness is open to every listener, with Transforming Your Relationship with Money.
Session 10: Steps to Financial Independence
Step 5: Making life energy visible
Step 6: Valuing Your Energy
Step 7: Income and Work
Step 8: Capital and Crossover
Step 9: A Real Life Example
Step 10: Financial Independence: Safe Investment Vehicles. The Myth of Inflation. Final Thoughts
From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185,
https://www.soundstrue.com/store/transforming-your-relationship-with-money-3537.html
1:30-3:30 Hot Topics for Fundraiser
3:30-6 The Thom Hartmann Program
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TUESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 24
12-1 Deb Shapiro "Your Body Speaks Your Mind"
'Decoding the Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Messages That Underlie Illness'
What Are Your Symptoms and Illnesses Telling You?
Our bodies are constantly sending us messages. Are you paying attention? On 'Your Body Speaks Your Mind,' Deb Shapiro shows you how mastering the language of your symptoms will dramatically increase your potential for healing.
On this enlightening program, you will discover the intricate link between feelings and thoughts and specific parts of your body, and how unresolved psycho-emotional issues can affect your physical health. 'Your Body Speaks Your Mind' guides you through your internal messaging system, including:
*Steps you can take to heal your body with your mind, and vice versa *A top-to-bottom body scan so you can hear and respond to the messages from each of your physiological systems your mind, and vice versa *Talking with your body-a 25-minute guided practice that enables you to dialogue with your symptoms and illness
By learning the body's language of symptoms, explains Deb Shapiro, you will actively engage in an intimate two-way communication that affects both your physical state and your mental and emotional health. With this original audio adaptation of her bestseller 'Your Body Speaks Your Mind,' she shows you how to access this powerful dialogue to decode the priceless information your body is giving you.
Deb Shapiro has trained extensively in various schools of bodywork, Buddhist meditation, and Jungian Psychology in both England and America. She has been teaching both body mind therapy and meditation with her husband, Ed Shapiro, for the past 30+ years. Their books include 'Your Body Speaks Your Mind, ' The Bodymind Workbook,' 'Meditation: Four Steps to Calmness and clarity,' 'Voices from the Heart,' and 'Unconditional Love.'
Session 2 of 3: From your head to your toes. The nervious system. The immune system. The respiratory system. Heart and circulation. Digestion and elimination. The skin. The eyes and ears. From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, https://www.soundstrue.com/store/catalogsearch/result/?q=Deb%20Shapiro
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The Thom Hartmann Program
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 25
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #975 - Operation Mind Control, Part 2: Creating the Perfect Killer, Part 2"
The program begins by setting forth possible mind control connections to some of the "persons of interest" in America's major assassinations.
Focusing initially on Oswald handler George De Mohrenschildt, the broadcast notes that:
1.-De Mohrenschildt had apparently been a Nazi spy in World War II, working with North American Abwehr chief Baron Hugo Maydel during the war. De Mohrenschildt had been one of Oswald's handlers.
2.-De Mohrenschildt had apparently come to have regrets about the killing, and had been writing a book about the conspiracy, according to Dutch author Oltmans.
3.-After giving voice to his regrets and reservations and apparently naming CIA and FBI personnel allegedly involved in the conspiracy, De Mohrenschildt was interned in a psychiatric hospital, where he appears to have been subjected to various forms of mind control.
4.-His daughter Alexandra opined that De Mohrenschildt shot himself to death after receiving a phone call, which she believes contained a hidden cue that triggered his conditioned suicide.
Next, the broadcast highlights some of the aspects of Sirhan Sirhan's apparent programming at the hands of the intelligence operatives who masterminded the assassination of RFK. As discussed in AFA #9, the forensic evidence disproves the prevailing theory of Sirhan as the killer of Robert Kennedy. In discussing the apparent mind control to which Sirhan was subjected, we note that:
1.-There were fundamentally different analyses of Sirhan from Dr. Bernard Diamond and Dr. Edward Simpson.
2.-Diamond noted that Sirhan was a very easy subject to hypnotize and that he was also a "paranoid schizophrenic."
3.-Simpson noted that paranoid schizophrenics are virtually impossible to hypnotize.
4.-The available evidence suggests that Sirhan was under mind control and that the focus of that conditioning was to propel him into self-incrimination.
5.-Continuing exploration of the intelligence community's mind control programs, the broadcast features an interview with a U.S. government assassin, termed by author Walter Bowart "The Patriotic Assassin."
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-975-operation-mind-control-part-2-creating-the-perfect-killer-part-2/
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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
The Ralph Nader Radio Hour - "I Agree?"/Trip, Slip & Fall
Ralph talks to law professor Margaret Jane Radin about the hazards of fine print contracts and to Russell Kendzior about the hazards of slippery floors, two seemingly minor things that have a surprisingly profound effect on our daily lives.
Margaret Jane Radin is the University of Michigan Henry King Ransom Professor of Law Emerita. She taught courses about contracts and patents and international intellectual property. Her award winning book, "Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights and the Rule of Law"explores the problems posed for the legal system by fine print contracts.
"We're back to indentured servitude status. The fine print is stripping consumers and employees of core legal rights, especially their right to their day in court the Constitution says we have."
Russell Kendzior is the President of Traction Experts, Inc.(http://tractionexperts.com/) and founder of the National Floor Safety Institute. Mr. Kendzior is internationally recognized as the leading expert in slip and fall accident prevention and has been retained in over four hundred such lawsuits. He has a new book out, chronicling that testimony entitled "Floored! Real Life Stories From a Slip and Fall Expert Witness."
"The smallest piece of the trip and fall pie is fraud. Fraud represents only 3% to 5% of the claims... Faking it is actually very, very rare... The media will oftentimes portray all victims of falls as being fraudsters and really plays down the legitimacy of what is really the nation's leading health and safety problem."
http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com
The Thom Hartmann Program
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THURSDAY NIGHT, OCTOBER 26
Alan Watts, "World as Play" Part 1 of 4
"The 'game-theory' of the universe - its basic rules or patterns in both natural and human situations,. Discussion of a 'cosmologic' or universal 'horse sense' about the behavior of life and energy, and its application to personal and social problems, based on the Yang-yin theory of the 'Book of Changes.' (AW)
All info: http://www.alanwatts.org
Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"
From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com
Science Fiction Break
The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
That's All Folks!
Roy rtuckman (at) kpfk.org
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