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FUND DRIVE NEWS
We finished the December slightly extended mini-drive over goal to $337,450. Thank you mucho to all who could and did participate, our faithful phone answerers and especially Mansoor and Diane who were there all night with moi and early riser John B.
ALAN WATTS SUNDAYS
December 24,
8-8:30am "Zenrin"
MONDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 25
12-6 Post Christmas Old Radio
We'll have a fun and entertaining night with old time radio sort of post-Christmas shows. Old radio until 6am including drama, detectives, comedy, mystery. i.e. Lux Radio Theater, Sherlock Holmes, Johnny Dollar, Jack Benny, Suspense, The Whistler -- still putting it together.
(Thom is playing 'best of' and the Community Calendar is on vacation. Bobb and Barbara will be on next week if I haven't used up all the available OTR tonight)
TUESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 26
12-12:30 Vaccine Update
American Academy of Pediatrics Attacks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on Vaccine Safety" (Vaccine Impact News)
and
"How to Suppress Vaccine Safety Concerns and Protect Financial Interests" (World Mercury Project"
Both articles plus Sources: http://vaccineimpact.com/2017/american-academy-of-pediatrics-attacks-robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-vaccine-safety/
12:30-1:30 Goldie Hawn: "Moving in a Direction that Matters"
Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist best known for her roles in films such as 'Cactus Flower,' 'Private Benjamin,' and 'Death Becomes Her.' She created The Hawn Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind MindUP™, an educational program that is bringing mindfulness practices to millions of children across the world. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Goldie about her longtime interest in meditation and why it's so important to teach brain basics to kids. They discuss the neuroscience that demonstrates the clear benefits of teaching emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and the basics of brain science to children from an early age—as well as why Goldie is teaching these aspects to her own grandchildren. Finally, Tami and Goldie talk about what it means to differentiate one's true self from the projections of others, as well as why love and family remain Goldie's first priorities in life. From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' series. For free download of audio and/or transcript go to:
Goldie Hawn is an Academy Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist best known for her roles in films such as 'Cactus Flower,' 'Private Benjamin,' and 'Death Becomes Her.' She created The Hawn Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind MindUP™, an educational program that is bringing mindfulness practices to millions of children across the world. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon speaks with Goldie about her longtime interest in meditation and why it's so important to teach brain basics to kids. They discuss the neuroscience that demonstrates the clear benefits of teaching emotional intelligence, mindfulness, and the basics of brain science to children from an early age—as well as why Goldie is teaching these aspects to her own grandchildren. Finally, Tami and Goldie talk about what it means to differentiate one's true self from the projections of others, as well as why love and family remain Goldie's first priorities in life. From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' series. For free download of audio and/or transcript go to:
1:30-2:30 Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach: "Big Insights: The Power of Awareness to Change Your Life"
Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach are two of the leading authorities on mindfulness and meditation in the West. Jack is the bestselling author and teacher widely credited with combining mindfulness with modern western psychology. Tara has been teaching meditation for more than four decades and is the author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. In this special edition of Insights at the Edge originally recorded in 2015, Tami Simon sits down with both Jack and Tara to discuss the big insights that form the foundation of mindfulness practice. They speak on the concept of awareness itself and how to distinguish "awareness" from "thinking." Tara and Jack share some of the everyday benefits of a meditation practice, including personal clarity and more conscious relationships. Finally, Jack, Tara, and Tami have a frank conversation on how awareness training could affect the state of the world. From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' series. For free download of audio and/or transcript go to:
Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach are two of the leading authorities on mindfulness and meditation in the West. Jack is the bestselling author and teacher widely credited with combining mindfulness with modern western psychology. Tara has been teaching meditation for more than four decades and is the author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. In this special edition of Insights at the Edge originally recorded in 2015, Tami Simon sits down with both Jack and Tara to discuss the big insights that form the foundation of mindfulness practice. They speak on the concept of awareness itself and how to distinguish "awareness" from "thinking." Tara and Jack share some of the everyday benefits of a meditation practice, including personal clarity and more conscious relationships. Finally, Jack, Tara, and Tami have a frank conversation on how awareness training could affect the state of the world. From Sounds True 'Insights at the Edge' series. For free download of audio and/or transcript go to:
2:30-3:45 Martha Beck, "Follow Your North Star"
Chart a Rewarding Path to Realize Your True Life's Calling
The terrain along the journey of life is spectacularly varied, teaches Martha Beck. But the one thing that will never change is that your true nature will always urge you toward your destiny.
Over two million readers a month look to Martha Beck for her advice in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, here's the audio workshop her readers have been waiting for: her all-in-one guide for recognizing your life's purpose, staying on course, and reaching your fullest potential for happiness.
On Follow Your North Star, Beck offers straightforward-yet-simple tools for charting your life path by following the unchangeable "true north" markers of your life.
Over two million readers a month look to Martha Beck for her advice in O: The Oprah Magazine. Now, here's the audio workshop her readers have been waiting for: her all-in-one guide for recognizing your life's purpose, staying on course, and reaching your fullest potential for happiness.
On Follow Your North Star, Beck offers straightforward-yet-simple tools for charting your life path by following the unchangeable "true north" markers of your life.
Martha Beck is a monthly columnist to "O, The Oprah Magazine." She is the New York Times bestselling author of 'The Joy Diet,' 'Finding Your Own North Star,' Expecting Adam, A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic,' and 'Leaving the Saints.;' She has taught career development at the American Graduate School of International Management; performed research at Harvard Business School and consulted to numerous Fortune 500 corporations.
Session One: Uncovering Your North Star. The gift of Adam. Empowering your North Star. Understanding the process of change. The essential self and the social self.
Session Two: Practice Session Using Your Body as a Compass. Instructions. Recalling a bad memory. Recalling a good memory. Rating your to-do list. The three B's: bag it, barter it, better it.
From Sounds True, 1 (800) 333-9185, https://www.soundstrue.com/store/follow-your-north-star-3916.html
3:45-6 The Thom Hartmann Program
(Might be 'best of')
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
KPFK Community Calendar on vacation.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 27
12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #983 - Fascism 2017 World Tour Part 2 "
As the title indicates, this program examines manifestations of fascism around the world.
In Europe, we analyze:
1.-The recapitulation of Nazi and fascist elements in the current Bulgarian coalition government of Boyko Borisov. (Bulgaria was a Nazi ally in World War II.)
2.-The vitality of “regionalism”–a political/economic doctrine that advocates the secession of key prosperous regions from nation states.
3.-Analysis of regionalism as an application of globalist economic theory to Euorope.
4.-The history of regionalism’s advoacy by Third Reich veteran theoreticians.
5.-Edward Snowden and Julian Assange’s support for Catalan secession from Spain.
6.-The success of the AfD in German elections.
7.-AfD politician Alexander Gauland’s statement that Germans should be proud of what that country’s soldiers accomplished in World War II.
8.-The Austrian Freedom Party’s projected success in upcoming elections. The party was formed in 1956 by Third Reich veterans as a vehicle for re-introducing Austrian Nazis into the country’s political life.
2.-The vitality of “regionalism”–a political/economic doctrine that advocates the secession of key prosperous regions from nation states.
3.-Analysis of regionalism as an application of globalist economic theory to Euorope.
4.-The history of regionalism’s advoacy by Third Reich veteran theoreticians.
5.-Edward Snowden and Julian Assange’s support for Catalan secession from Spain.
6.-The success of the AfD in German elections.
7.-AfD politician Alexander Gauland’s statement that Germans should be proud of what that country’s soldiers accomplished in World War II.
8.-The Austrian Freedom Party’s projected success in upcoming elections. The party was formed in 1956 by Third Reich veterans as a vehicle for re-introducing Austrian Nazis into the country’s political life.
In Latin America, we examine:
1.-The verdict that Argentine AMIA bombing investigator Alberto Nisman’s death was a murder, not a suicide.
2.-Review of the AMIA bombing investigation.
3.-The discovery of a cache of Nazi artifacts, including devices used for determining racial purity. Hitler apparently posed with some of the artificats.
4.-The role of Nisman’swidow as the judge investigating the Nazi artifact case.
5.-Operational links between American Nazi Christopher Cantwell and the Koch Brothers-funded Ludwig Von Mises Institute in Brazil.
2.-Review of the AMIA bombing investigation.
3.-The discovery of a cache of Nazi artifacts, including devices used for determining racial purity. Hitler apparently posed with some of the artificats.
4.-The role of Nisman’s
5.-Operational links between American Nazi Christopher Cantwell and the Koch Brothers-funded Ludwig Von Mises Institute in Brazil.
In the United States, we detail:
1.-How Breitbart actively promoted Neo-Nazism, while downplaying what it was actually doing.
2.-How white supremacist and Nazi elements are successfully using YouTube to mainstream fascist and racist views.
2.-How white supremacist and Nazi elements are successfully using YouTube to mainstream fascist and racist views.
In the Middle East, we highlight:
1.-Benjamin Netanyahu’s political connections with the Thyssen/Krupp firm, one of the lynchpins of the Bormann capital network.
2.-Yair Netanyahu’s attribution of his father’s political difficulties to sabotage by an international Jewish conspiracy.
3.-Ronald Regan’s 1981 citation of Ibn Khaldun as a key advocate for supply-side economics.
4.-Review of the Muslim Brotherhood’s embrace of the views of Ibn Khaldun.
2.-Yair Netanyahu’s attribution of his father’s political difficulties to sabotage by an international Jewish conspiracy.
3.-Ronald Regan’s 1981 citation of Ibn Khaldun as a key advocate for supply-side economics.
4.-Review of the Muslim Brotherhood’s embrace of the views of Ibn Khaldun.
For a detailed, annotated, written description of this program go to: http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-983-fascism-2017-world-tour-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
1-2 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralf Hotchkiss discussing wheelchairs, and filmmaker Helen Young discusses her movie 'The Nuns, The Priests and the Bombs.'
Initially heard on KPFK Saturdays, 10am
2-2:30 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz on the Doctrine of Discovery (1 of 3)
In 1455 Pope Nicholas V issued to the King of Portugal the bull Romanus Pontifex, sanctioning and promoting the conquest, colonization, and exploitation of non-Christian nations and their territories. This became the Doctrine of Discovery that is amazingly still enforced today and enshrined in US Federal law. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz explains the doctrine in this Part One of Three programs. This program is based on a talk she gave at the Lannan Foundation.
The Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, apart from awarding grants, presents speakers of extraordinary intellect and passion – among them just in 2017 Terry Tempest Williams, Glen Geenwald, Arundhati Roy, Óscar Martínez and Marlon James. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz spoke on October 11, 2017. You may remember her from a TUC Radio program on the release of her ground breaking book: 'An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.'
She was introduced by Nick Estes. He is member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and historian and doctoral candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz has been part of the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades, working on sovereignty and land rights. She is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay.
Thanks to the Lannan Foundation for permission to use the audio from the video they produced of the 1 1/2 hr event. You can watch the film at their web site https://lannan.org/ From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, www.tucradio.org
2:30-3 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz: ‘History and the Role of the Military in U.S. Settler Colonialism) (2 of 3)
In her talk at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe on October 11, 2017, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz asked why the history of Native Americans is so rarely told. Some of that has to do with the wrongs inflicted on Native Americans throughout what is now the United States. She described the work done at the United Nations to define what constitutes genocide and to pass the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948.
Toward the end of this program Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is joined on stage in conversation by her friend and colleague, historian Nick Estes. He is member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz has been part of the international Indigenous movement for more than four decades, working on sovereignty and land rights. She is Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies at California State University, East Bay.
She is the author of many books including 'Roots of Resistance,' 'The Great Sioux Nation,' and 'An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.'
Thanks to the Lannan Foundation for permission to use the audio from the pod-cast they produced. It was recorded in Santa Fe on October 11, 2017. You can find the pod-cast or film at their web site lannan.org/
From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, www.tucradio.org
3-3:30 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz on the Green Corn Rebellion (Part 3 of 3)
This is the last of three programs on the Indigenous People’s History of the US. On October 11, 2017 Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz gave a talk at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe New Mexico. In this last segment Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz makes inspiring comments on two questions asked by Nick Estes. He is member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, and doctoral candidate at the University of New Mexico.
First she remembers the forgotten history of the Green Corn Rebellion in Oklahoma. When Woodrow Wilson declared war in 1917 the poor tenant farmers in Oklahoma forged a coalition of Whites, African Americans and Indians. They were united by the recognition that the family would starve if they lost their sons. Under leadership of the Seminole Indians they wrote a manifesto, created a liberated zone by blowing up brides and tried to embark on an anti war march through the South with the goal to establish a socialist commonwealth. Their movement was betrayed by an informer and mostly white militia members confronted them and ended the uprising.
This program ends with a moving argument that the tending of corn and most vegetables that are know today by peoples in the Western Hemisphere had created extraordinary civilizations from Terra de Fuego to the Subarctic. They were on par with the other – more famous – civilizations in the Middle East as well as China. European Colonialism appropriated these already existing civilizations, shoved the people aside, and then privatized the wealth.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is not only professor emerita of ethnic studies with a focus on history but has also been part of the International Indigenous movement for more than four decades. Along with groups such as the International Indian Treaty Council she advocated up to the level of the United Nations for indigenous sovereignty and land rights.
She is the author of many books including 'Roots of Resistance,' 'The Great Sioux Nation,' and 'An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.' Her upcoming book is 'Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment' – to be published by City Lights in early 2018.
Thanks to the Lannan Foundation for permission to use the audio from the pod-cast they produced. It was recorded in Santa Fe on October 11, 2017. You can find the pod-cast or film at their web site lannan.org/
From TUC Radio, 1 (707) 463-2654, www.tucradio.org
3:45-6 The Thom Hartmann Program
(May be 'best of')
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
KPFK Community Calendar on vacation.
THURSDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 28
12-1 Alan Watts, "The Power of Space" Part 2 of 4
"Space, which is ordinarily regarded as nothingness, may I'm fact, be our own consciousness -- sensed in the form of an external dimension; and human awe at the vastness of space may be man's astonishment at himself. We reconsider our position as 'insignificant germs on a minute ball of rock, attached to a minor star on the outer fringe of one of the smaller galaxies." (AW) All info: http://www.alanwatts.org (includes sign up for free newsletter)
1-2:00 Jack Gariss, "Bio-Meditation"
"Taoism" Part 12 of 16
Originally broadcast live on KPFK in 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 - 6 The Thom Hartmann Program
(May be 'best of')
Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com
For details click on 'radio' and 'Sue's Daily Stacks.'
KPFK Community Calendar on vacation.
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