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THE BRADCAST 12/29/22: Encore: Election security expert Susan Greenhalgh (00:58:00)
Encore: original air-date 12/15/2022. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Justice Department’s newly-appointed Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has subpoenaed Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in his criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 election. But federal investigators don’t appear to be probing the still-ongoing, post-2020 multi-state plot, coordinated by Trump’s top MAGA lieutenants, to unlawfully breach election system security in Coffee County, Georgia and several other states as they attempted to overturn the 2020 election. SUSAN GREENHALGH, Senior Advisor on Election Security at the non-profit good government group, Free Speech for People, discusses the 14-page letter that she and more than a dozen of the nation’s top cybersecurity and voting system experts sent this week to Special Counsel Smith, Attorney General Merrick Garland, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), seeking a federal probe of the coordinated, ongoing plot that poses a major national security risk to U.S. elections. Greenhalgh explains the bizarre GOP scheme to unlawfully breach election security and distribute proprietary election system software in Georgia and multiple states, how the stolen software can be exploited to tamper with election systems all over the country, why a federal investigation is now necessary, and much, much more. Also today: In an unintentionally hilarious and dumb ad, disgraced former President Donald Trump hawks nutty digital trading cards portraying him as a super hero. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Christian Nationalism 2023: Power Not Piety (00:59:35)
Who better than a former Christian Nationalist to explain the continued threat to democracy? Bradley Onishi is himself a deconverted Christian nationalist. His new book is titled Preparing for War; The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism”And What Comes Next. On this show, he answers the puzzling question of why so many who consider themselves Christian have a near worship of the very non-Christian Trump. January 6th was no aberration, it’s been carefully cultivated for the past 60 years. And the concerted assault on democracy is hardly over.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN: 12/29/22 (00:58:00)
The pane discusses the new Congress, with a Republican Majority, who will likely not pass any new legislation, but will stop the Democratic efforts. We also talk about the labor “shortage”, which is an indicator of a broken economy. The Texas election is also discussed, with the role of Beto O’Rourke.
GROWING GREENER: Gardening Without Pesticides in Toronto, Canada (00:29:00)
Popular gardener and garden blogger Helen Battersby of Toronto, Canada describes the impact of Ontarios ban of pesticide use for ornamental purposes in this conversation from 2020.
TUC RADIO: Michael Parenti: How I Became an Activist (00:29:00)
Parenti rarely talked about his life. How does a NYC street kid get accepted to Yale? How does he lose the privilege of his PhD. in an arrest at a demonstration against the war on Vietnam, and become an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer? Michael Parenti grew up in a poor, working class Italian community in New York City. When he received his PhD in political science from Yale in 1962 he was the success and pride of his family. He risked and ended his academic career when he openly opposed the war on Vietnam. Ultimately the choice he made then was a good one. He now is an independent political writer and thinker and author of over 20 books. Invitations to speak come from all over North America. His topics are history, fascism, US Imperialism, globalization and terrorism. His writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages. TUC Radio has an extensive collection of audio and video recordings representing about 30 years of work by Michael Parenti. You will hear more rebroadcast throughout this year.Recorded in Berkeley, CA, June 6, 2003.
Bopst Show: Clap Your Hands (00:55:11)
Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by The Wheels with Teddy Van Chorus & Orchestra, Lizabeth Scott, The Young Knives, Barry Brown, Abdel Gadir Salim, Dave Dudley, Ros Sereysothea, The Homosexuals, Benny Mayengani, Rolls Royce & the Wheels, Ondioline Orchestra with Dick Hyman and Jean Jacques Perrey, Towana & The Total Destruction, Tony Allen, and Joyce Jones.
ALAN WATTS: How to Enjoy Life (00:05:44)
Buddhist teacher Watts reflects on life. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and lecturer who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy and religion for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man, and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #459 (00:58:00)
In a live Zoom event in conjunction with the American Museum of Tort Law, we welcome back Claire Nader, author of You Are Your Own Best Teacher and Susan Linn, author of Who’s Raising the Kids? for a lively panel discussion moderated by child advocacy legal expert, Robert Fellmeth, on the ongoing corporatization of childhood. We also hear from audience members but not just old people talking about kids today. A thoughtful seventh grader gives us a young person’s perspective.
FRIDAY 12.30.22 PROGRAM Note
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday December 30, 2022
JUST SOLUTIONS: Maeve’s Last Show (00:29:00)
Gloria Neal joins FSTV as a guest host of the Just Solutions: Culture Series. Gloria’s professional experiences as a black woman in broadcasting and government will guide us through topics impacting the working class and BIPOC communities.
COUNTERSPIN: Best of CounterSpin 2022 (00:28:04)
Rakeen Mabud, Bryce Greene, Layla Jones, Helen Zia, Jeannie Park, Sumayyah Waheed, Mike Rispoli.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Are We Headiing for a Misinformation Crisis? (00:58:00)
Are attention-hungry algorithms online programmed to make money by steering all of us towards believing in a false- and probably scary- version of reality? And what are the other unexpected consequences of putting our lives on social media?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Shrimpbox: A Cleaner Approach To Seafood (re-broadcast) (00:28:59)
Shrimp is Americas most popular seafood product. Yet, the industry is rife with problems, from human slavery to ecological devastation. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Daniel Russek, the founder and CEO of Atarraya, a Mexican-based company whose innovative shrimp farming solution is called Shrimpbox. Russek talks about the problematic practices plaguing the shrimp industry worldwide and gives us a peek into the Shrimpbox approach.
COOL SOLUTIONS: A Garment Worker’s Victory (00:28:00)
The story of a David vs Goliath victory which tripled garment worker wages in California. A small group of mostly immigrant workers, tired of factory wage theft, organized and won passage of a law that makes fashion brands responsible for unpaid wages. Hourly pay went from a shameful $5 an hour to a minimum of $15 an hour. Now a similar bill is going to Congress.
Bopst Show: Clap Your Hands (00:55:11)
Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by The Wheels with Teddy Van Chorus & Orchestra, Lizabeth Scott, The Young Knives, Barry Brown, Abdel Gadir Salim, Dave Dudley, Ros Sereysothea, The Homosexuals, Benny Mayengani, Rolls Royce & the Wheels, Ondioline Orchestra with Dick Hyman and Jean Jacques Perrey, Towana & The Total Destruction, Tony Allen, and Joyce Jones.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/30/22 (00:00:00)
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THURSDAY 12.29.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday December 29, 2022
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Green Music Festival (Replay) (00:58:00)
The Radio Ecoshock Green Music Festival. Best of eco-music, many you won’t find on Itunes. Some sent in by listeners, or the artists, not on albums, etc. Plus two Occupy songs (by Makana and David Rovics). A little inspiration for the heart.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Did China Declare a Silent War on the West? (00:58:00)
Veteran US trade negotiator Clyde Prestowitz joins Thom- is China working to undermine the free world economically? What steps has the Biden administration taken to protect American interests abroad, and what are the economic consequences likely to be?
LOPATE AT LARGE: Chris Fabricant on Junk Science (00:50:27)
In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant’s clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice Systemchronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the “science” that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. Join us when, Innocence Project attorney M. Chris Fabricant presents an insiders journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science plays in maintaining the status quo, on this installment on Leonard Lopate at Large
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 33 (01:05:34)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/29/22 (00:56:09)
On the Show: Despite claims from the right that the left is “ignoring” the Twitter Files, it is actually the right that is lying or confused about what the Twitter Files actually say. As COVID appears to explode in China, required negative COVID tests will again start in the US in early January after a plane from China arrives in Italy with more than half the passengers positive for COVID. Republicans are desperately rethinking their strategy around abortion after the disastrous 2022 midterms. Fox News tries to blame Joe Biden’s Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg for the Southwest Airlines meltdown, which is both inaccurate and hypocritical. Lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is now under criminal investigation for his many lies. Lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos once claimed his mom died in 9/11, and months later claimed she died in 2016. Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is absolutely furious with Tulsi Gabbard for her critical interview of lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos on Fox News. Failed Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake panics and deletes tweets attacking an Arizona judge. Voicemail caller asks whether the George Santos fiasco exposes a failure by journalism and opposition research to catch Santos’ lies earlier.
WEDNESDAY 12.28.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday December 28, 2022
BETWEEN THE LINES RADIO NEWSMAGAZINE 12/28/22 (00:29:01)
Will January 6th House Committee Criminal Referrals Result in Trump Accountability?; United American Indians of New England Leader Reflects on Current State of Indigenous Americas; New Biden Administration Policy Aims to Reduce the Homeless Population 25% in Next Three Years.
THIS WAY OUT #1813: The Queerest News of 2022 (pt.1) (00:28:59)
In Part 1 of “This Way Out’s” review of some of the queerest news of 2022, we remember attacks in Republican-controlled U.S. state legislatures against LGBTQ youth, especially transgender young people; the queer angle on the years most reported story, Russias unprovoked war on Ukraine; and the almost year-long arrest and detention in Russia of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner; with humor along the way provided by TV satirists John Oliver and Jon Stewart, and from the homoerotic relationship between “Skyfall” characters and actors Daniel (“James Bond”) Craig and Javier (the film’s villain) Bardem. All that and more this week when you find “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture. (Part 2 of The Queerest News of 2022 fills next week’s program; NewsWrap” returns on our week of 9 January 2023 show.)
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Do We Get Our Brains Back? (00:58:00)
Author Johann Hari joins Thom to consider why our attention span continues to collapse- or was it stolen? Plus – do we really want our appliances to spy on us?
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR #1527 (00:58:59)
This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, we look back and listen to excerpts from some of our favorite conversations from 2022, and wish all our listeners a very happy New Year.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 32 (00:21:25)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: The Impact of Sitcom Abbott Elementary: Putting a Critical Eye on Public Education (00:28:00)
Can you remember the last time when the challenges that inner city public school teachers face were the subject of a popular TV series? Abbott Elementary ” which has just been renewed for a second season on ABC ” does just that. The Philadelphia school on TV is fictional, but the challenges it faces are all too real. Closely based on the school that series creator (and star) Quinta Brunson attended, and especially her experiences with Ms. Abbott, her 6th grade teacher, the show combines art, education and activism. On this month’s Meet The BIPOC Press with URL Media, real-life educator Joyce Abbott joins acclaimed actress and activist Sheryl Lee Ralph from the series, to discuss what the show’s success shows us about this moment, when educators, especially teachers of color, are leaving the profession in droves. Can a TV show help stem the tide, shift the culture and change policy? Among her many accolades, Ralph starred in the original Broadway production of Dreamgirls. Is quality education for all, a dream? Laura Flanders and co-hosts Mitra Kalita and Sara Lomax-Reese don’t think it should be.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/28/22 (00:55:59)
On the Show: Liar Republican Congressman-elect George Santos is interviewed by Skye Ostricher, and despite being a complete softball friendly interview, it still goes horribly wrong for Santos. Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard fills in for Tucker Carlson on Fox News and does a good job of calling out Republican Congressman-election George Santos for his lies. It would be good for society to find a way to help incels, and it would be good for the incels as well. Fox News contributor Doctor Janette Nesheiwat is calling for the existing protocol to be required for trans children, apparently clueless that it’s already in place. Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin says that Donald Trump will end his life “behind bars.” Donald Trump looks as scared as we’ve seen him in a deranged new video responding to the January 6 Trump riot committee. Failed former President Donald Trump’s former Chief-of-Staff Mark Meadows is accused of burning official documents in his office by Cassidy Hutchinson. Donald Trump’s tax returns will be released on Friday. Voicemail caller is not happy about the suggestion by David that Jewish Christmas can include Indian food in addition to or instead of Chinese food.
TUESDAY 12.27.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday December 27, 2022
THE POSITIVE MINID (00:57:29)
PART 2 – Guest, Dr. Lisa Miller, Ph.D., author of, “The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest For An Inspired Life,” returns this week to explain how depression can be the key to a spiritual awakening. Dr. Miller says that the hallmark experience of depression is marked by a loss of connection to self and others but it is also a sense of not being held by a force or presence greater than yourself. Depression can be treated as something we wrestle with, or it can be viewed as an invitation to a reigniting of our “awakened brain,” by connecting with ourselves and those around us. Join Kevin, Niseema, and Dr. Miller as she leads us through two visualization exercises that help us experience our “awakened brain,” providing an opportunity for spiritual growth.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Inequality Causes Crime (00:58:00)
Why can’t America wake up to the fact that many of our social ills are driven by our extreme inequality? Who wants to be a rich man in a poor country?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Best of 2022 (00:59:00)
This week on The Children’s Hour, we explore the best musical releases for kids in 2022, including the five nominees for the Best Children’s Grammy. We also hear from listener Maeva Porter who recommends an often overlooked gem of a series: the original Nancy Drew mysteries. Celebrate independent Kindie artists, enjoy some of the best of 2022, and Happy New Year from The Children’s Hour! The Children’s Hour is a weekly, educational and entertaining public radio program for kids and families. Using excellent music, expert guests, talented kids and a format that is a proven success in growing and keeping listeners of all ages engaged. The Children’s Hour includes kids in all aspects of the production. We’re dedicated to filling educational gaps, by focusing on civics, STEM, culture, and performance, using interviews with scientists, astronauts, civil servants, cultural educators, performers and others, and weaving shows together with a wide variety of musical genres. Kids on our crew and in our community contribute content, design programming, and cohost our shows, live in public venues, and in studio.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 30-31 (00:36:46)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
GREEN STREET NEWS: Something in the Water with Deena Winter (00:28:00)
On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discus she hazards of eating chocolate, why plastic roads are a bad idea, the big announcement about nuclear fusion may not be the panacea we think, and finally a story about a reporter in Minnesota and 3M’s contamination of water with PFAS chemicals.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/27/22 (00:54:27)
On the Show: Texas sends buses full of migrants to Kamala Harris’ house on a freezing Christmas Day, endangering people over a sick political stunt. Texas has yet another power emergency in the midst of historic cold weather as a power plant fails. Republican-elect George Santos admits that he fabricated his life story, including his work and educational history. Yet another critic of Vladimir Putin dies after falling out of a window. A judge finally tosses failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s lawsuit into the trash, where it belongs. Donald Trump is interviewed by OAN’s Chanel Rion about his NFT scam and it goes bad quickly. Donald Trump is terrified of being indicted based on a scary and deranged Christmas post he made to Truth Social. Donald Trump is interviewed by friendly host Wayne Allyn Root, and even Root can’t save Trump from himself. Law professor Lawrence Tribe suggests Donald Trump plead insanity at a potentially forthcoming trial. Voicemail caller is bravely fighting the War on Christmas.
MONDAY 12.26.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday December 26, 2022
WHEN THE BIOMASS HIITS THE WIND TURBIINE # 166 Nukes in Ohio (00:28:33)
Ohio is dealing with legacy fallout from a nuclear waste facility that has resulted in widespread contamination and soaring cancer rates. Two nuclear facilities are literally crumbling in Lake Erie and are at the center of a scandal involving bribery and the Speaker of the House and other state officials facing prison time. And power from nuclear energy simply cannot compete with wind and solar without massive infusions of public funds. So of course the Ohio legislature has decided that now is the time to create an oversight process that is not subject to public scrutiny ” designed to manage and promote nuclear energy in the state behind closed doors. Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station are joined by Pat Marida, anti-nuclear activist for a discussion on just what is going on with nukes in Ohio.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: China and Inflation: Real Analyses, not BS [REPEAT] (00:29:00)
The program’s first half focuses on the realities of China’s rise and not the Cold War rhetoric. The second half analyzes the inflation now threatening the US economy. Its causes and consequences turn out to be quite different from the mainstream media treatments of the subject.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Should a Handful of Billionaires Own More Wealth than the Bottom 50% of All Americans? (00:58:00)
Is our economy here to serve average Americans, or are we here to serve those who own and control most of the money flowing through our economy? Also Professor Richard Wolff explains the (so-called) bipartisan retirement proposals of the new omnibus bill.
RADIO ART HOUR: 2022 Radio Art Pop (00:58:00)
This week tune in 2022 new music that is also radio art, from. Daniel Bachman, Scanner, Jesse Kudler and Graham Stephenson, and Derek Bailey.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 29 (00:25:34)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
CREATING OUR PREFERRED FUTURE: Conversation with Lilly Pinchiaro (00:29:00)
Part 1
This program features a conversation and interview with Lilly Pinciaro. Lilly describes a fascinating personal transformation. She is from a, self described, upper middle class suburban family. As a teen with her own portable phone, she would inhabit the shopping mall with friends and search out name brand clothes to boast about. That all changed going away to college, reading Thoroeu, Bhuddism, her own contemplation and a month at an organic farm in California. Lilly left college to explore a more eco logical lifestyle that is true to her ideals and values, keeping her family updated as her adventure evolves. She now teaches in a school that connects kids with nature.
ALAN WATTS: How to Enjoy Life (00:05:44)
Buddhist teacher Watts reflects on life. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and lecturer who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy and religion for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man, and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
A LEGENDARY DEBATE: James Baldwin vs. William Buckley – 1965 (00:58:42)
In 1965 at the University of Cambridge, two of the foremost American intellectuals were challenged with the question: ‘Has the American Dream been achieved at the expense of the American Negro?’ From William F Buckley’s highly stylised posturing and pointing, to James Baldwin’s melodious rhetorical flourishes and memorable scowls, what’s become known as the ‘Baldwin-Buckley Debate’ now stands as one of the archetypal articulations of the dividing line between US progressives and conservatives on questions of race, justice and history. Baldwin, the famed African-American writer, whose reputation as a progressive social critic and visionary Civil Rights activist has only risen in the intervening decades, argues that the very foundation of US society is built on the dehumanisation of its African-American population. Meanwhile, Buckley, the leading US conservative intellectual of the period, argues that African Americans would be best served by exploiting their country’s many freedoms and opportunities, rather than pointing a collective finger at discriminatory structures and institutions. In both cases, their positions presage contemporary divisive debates in the US, though one wonders whether such an event could happen in today’s political environment. While usually reduced to short clips, the full hour-long debate – presented here in its entirety – is a remarkable historical document in its own right. Conducted in front of a large, almost entirely white and predominantly male audience at the Cambridge Union, the encounter offers a sense of campus intellectual life in the mid-1960s through the atmosphere in the room, the things that made people laugh, and the particular references made by the debaters. After the always eloquent Baldwin evokes his personal experience to describe a perpetually disorienting and demeaning existence for African Americans, Buckley responds with facts and figures – as well as an ad hominem shot at Baldwin’s speaking voice – to argue that there’s an American Dream available to all those who would pursue it. In the end, Baldwin prevailed, earning an ardent standing ovation and a landslide victory in the Union’s vote on the motion raised. Audio restoration: Adam D’Arpino.
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THE BRADCAST: David Daley of FairVote on SCOTUS nightmare election law case (00:58:00)
Encore: Original air-date 12/7/2022. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Democracy had a good night in Georgia on Tuesday before facing a brand new nightmare on Wednesday at the far right-corrupted U.S. Supreme Court. Georgia’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock was re-elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate, defeating Trump-backed serial liar Herschel Walker, the latest in a string of losses for Republicans in the 2022 election. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in ‘Moore v. Harper’, a case that poses an extreme danger to free and fair elections in America. The dispute is based on a challenge by North Carolina Republicans to the North Carolina State Supreme Court’s ruling that struck down their wildly gerrymandered legislative maps. NC Republicans based their challenge on a radical concept called the ‘independent state legislature theory,’ that they claim gives state legislatures total, unreviewable power to create laws regarding federal elections with no constraints. The fringe theory has never been approved by the Supreme Court in 233 years of US history, but if approved by the Court’s rightwing super-majority, it would sow chaos and overturn decades of election and voting laws, giving state legislatures uncheckable power over U.S. elections, including the authority to overrule the will of the voters in presidential elections. Gerrymandering expert DAVID DALEY of FairVote, who was in the courtroom for oral arguments, unpacks the so-called ‘independent state legislature’ theory, its potentially ‘seismic’ consequences that ‘could shake the very foundation of our democracy,’ how the far-right super-majority is likely to rule, and much more.
KEEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Christmas Truce of 1914: Not So Isolated (00:58:58)
Many think the Christmas Truce of 1914 was an exaggeration. Acclaimed historian Adam Hochschild reveals the truth. This was not the only such event: there were desertions, mutinies, and fraternizations. Today it seems anyone with a uniform is dubbed a hero, but what about the peacemakers? On this show Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, Spain in Our Hearts, and 2022s American Midnight talks about those genuine heroes who risked all to oppose that insane first world war, and the relevance to today’s acceptance of permanent war and near silence of calls for peace.
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Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 12/24/22 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with with Professor Brad Onishi about his book, detailing the history of white Christian nationalism. Historically, this group does not consider that anyone outside their splinter group does not ‘deserve’ the rights of citizenship. And they’re willing to engage in violent actions to show this, as witness the January 6 insurrection.
We would think that this is a group that should be shrinking as they are comprised of many older white men. But they’ve been make inroads into a population of white working class evangelicals and using their religion to leverage and justify their actions.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Jon Erickson, University of Vermont, to discuss the problem of unchecked capitalistic growth and how does this affect the environment? We also talk about the worldwide summit on biodiversity, hosted by Canada.
GROWING GREENER: Looking to the European Garden Masters (00:29:00)
Award-winning garden designer and writer Tony Spencer introduces the New Perennial Movement that has brought a revolutionary naturalistic ethic to gardens worldwide.
TUC RADIO: A Love Letter to my Grandmother and a Detour into Fast Fashion (00:29:00)
Im recording this at the end of December 2022 – as a celebration of three decades of producing TUC radio as an independent community program. And as a love letter to my grandmother who did all the clothes-making and repairing at home. If she were now by my side would she even recognize the land she walked on when she was a teenager at the turn of the century? And how would she react to fast fashion? An article in the Guardian says that textile production consumes more oil than Spain uses in a year, and significantly contributes to the fashion industrys huge climate footprint. Synthetics also continue to have an impact long after production, shedding plastic microfibers into the environment when clothes are washed. Comments on fast fashion in this program come from Rollie Williams, a New York street comedian with a degree in climate policy from Columbia University. Followed by excerpts from a report on How Fast Fashion & Polyester Create The Microplastics In Our Blood – And finally 10 Fast Fashion Facts You Might Not Know assembled by Planet Proof, a channel that is dedicated to researching and evaluating businesses, brands, and products.
THE BOPST SHOW: Santa’s Too Fat (00:55:46)
The third and final installment of the Bopst Show Christmas trilogy featuring an assortment of global yuletide melodies from different eras, genres and inspirations. Fun for the whole family if your family is worth knowing, a lot of people have been saying that this special edition of the Bopst Show is quite possibly the single greatest accomplishment in mankind’s history.
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RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #459 (00:58:00)
In a live Zoom event in conjunction with the American Museum of Tort Law, we welcome back Claire Nader, author of You Are Your Own Best Teacher and Susan Linn, author of Who’s Raising the Kids? for a lively panel discussion moderated by child advocacy legal expert, Robert Fellmeth, on the ongoing corporatization of childhood. We also hear from audience members but not just old people talking about kids today. A thoughtful seventh grader gives us a young person’s perspective.
FRIDAY 12.23.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday December 23, 2022
LIGHTLY ON THE GROUND: Music for the Dark Months (00:27:35)
In response to a post asking friends for winter music, the comments poured in, offering up music spanning many genres, eras and cultures. Here it is!
COUNTERSPIN: January 6 Report (00:28:00)
Lisa Gilbert discusses the January 6 report.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Christmas Joy in Kyiv Despite Ukraine’s Winter from Hell (00:58:00)
Matthew Sniff and Natalie Marcotullio from DrawDAO explore the future of carbon capture. Also, despite the war in Ukraine, Ukrainians are preparing for the Christmas break. But how, in a country under siege, do the locals manage to live? Veteran War Correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine, Phil Ittner reports from the ground in the war-torn country. Pediatrician and Child Advocate, Dr. Irwin Redlener joins Thom to explain the trauma experienced by the population and how people outside of the war zone can help with the Ukraine Children’s Action Project.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Waymap CEO Tom Pey (00:28:59)
Have you ever watched in amazement as a visually impaired person nimbly maneuvers their way through a crowded subway station? Well, some thoughtful innovations are being developed to enable people with low vision to navigate the world with greater ease. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to the founder and CEO of Waymap, Tom Pey, about his start-up company’s breakthrough navigation technology. We discuss his company’s product, look at some of the challenges that people with disabilities face, and touch upon the promise of autonomous vehicles for those without sight.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Howard Zinn at 100: A Peoples History, Urgent Lessons for the Present (00:28:00)
Historian Howard Zinn would have turned 100 in 2022. His monumental work, A Peoples History of the United States, published in 1980, continues to have an impact today. For Zinn’s centennial we explore what made his model of history different with three guests who were influenced by his bottom-up approach: Anthony Arnove worked with Zinn throughout the latter part of his life, and wrote the introduction for the 35th-anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic work; Jamaican poet, performer and writer Staceyann Chin performed in The People Speak, a documentary film based on A People’s History; and Imani Perry, professor of African American Studies at Princeton University who just won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for her own bottom-up history: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation. What lessons can we take from Howard Zinn’s model of history for this time?
THE BOPST SHOW: Santa’s Too Fat (00:55:46)
The third and final installment of the Bopst Show Christmas trilogy featuring an assortment of global yuletide melodies from different eras, genres and inspirations. Fun for the whole family if your family is worth knowing, a lot of people have been saying that this special edition of the Bopst Show is quite possibly the single greatest accomplishment in mankind’s history.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/23/22 (00:56:02)
On the Show: More falsehoods come to light about Republican Congressman-elect George Santos. Donald Trump on Truth Social demands he get reinstated as president and suggests overthrowing the US government. Caller thinks Ron DeSantis will win the presidency if he runs. Caller questions why Republicans aren’t more ashamed to claim elections they lose are rigged. Caller wonders if Trump’s NFTs are a new low for him. Caller talks about the idea that Barack Obama led to Donald Trump. Caller compares patriotism and nationalism. Caller wants to know who David supports for president in 2024. David responds to viewer emails and social media messages.
THURSDAY 12.22.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday December 22, 2022
RADIO ECOSHOCK: The Poly-Crisis: What Is Really Going On? (00:58:00)
“Avoiding A Ghastly Future” – panel with Paul Ehrlich, Bill Rees and Nate Hagens. But first, American neurosurgeon Ann-Christine Duhaime: “Minding the Climate – How Neuroscience Can Help Solve Our Environmental Crisis.”
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will America Keep Our Word to Ukraine? (00:58:00)
As the Russian campaign of murder, rape, and destruction continues, America has both a moral and a legal obligation to defend Ukraine and enforce the Budapest Memorandum of 1994. Let me put Trumps tax returns in context. Senator Bernie Sanders is dropping by for a few minutes to chat. Also Congressman Mark Pocan joins the show to answer listener questions for a Progressive Town Hall Meeting.
LOPATE AT LARGE: Chloe Sorvino on Raw Deal (00:51:27)
Labeled an investigative journalism classic Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat offers a shocking expos of the United States meat industry, the devastating failures of the countrys food system, and the growing disappointment of alternative meat producers claiming to revolutionize the future of food. Well before COVID-19 swept across the United States and the chairman of Tyson Foods infamously declared that the food supply chain was dangerously vulnerable, Americas meat industry was reaching a breaking point. Years of consolidation, price-fixing, and power grabs by elite industry insiders have harmed consumers and caused environmental destruction. Americans have no idea where their meat comes from. And while thats hurting us, its also making others rich. Join us when financial journalist Chloe Sorvino presents an expansive view of the meat industry with in-depth research. Sorvino investigates corporate greed, how climate change will upend our food production, and the limitations of local movements challenging the status quo, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 83-84 (00:34:09)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
WINGS: #36-22 Male Victims of Family Violence (00:28:58)
In this interview, Prof. Lysova explains the similarities and differences between women’s and men’s experiences with and perpetration of family violence. She says this field of study originated with the feminist movement and focused on violence against women, but that the worst forms of violence against women cannot be stopped unless men’s experiences of violence are also taken into account and help – appropriate help that they can accept – extended to them as well.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/22/22 (00:56:29)
On the Show: Gerrit Bruhaug, PhD candidate at the University of Rochester working at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, the largest university laser lab and one of the only places in the world that can do laser-driven fusion experiments, joins David to discuss the recent nuclear fusion breakthrough and what it means for the future of energy. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses Congress during a visit to the United States, and it is both powerful but also strange. Under oath, Fox News host Sean Hannity admits that he never really believed Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election being rigged or stolen. Donald Trump’s tax returns reveal that he paid no taxes many years, and even received massive refunds. It is exposed that the IRS has badly failed America in the context of the release of Donald Trump’s tax returns. An incredibly sweaty and visibly confused Donald Trump delivers a lie-riddled statement about the US-Mexico border. Failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake appears to have hired the worst lawyers, as evidenced by the recent video of pretrial hearings. Failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake appears to have hired the worst so-called “expert,” as evidenced by the recent video of pretrial hearings. Voicemail caller has a terrific suggestion about our forthcoming charity membership drive.
SATURDAY 12.17.22 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 12/15/22: Election security expert Susan Greenhalgh (00:57:59)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Justice Department’s newly-appointed Special Counsel, Jack Smith, has subpoenaed Georgia Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger (R) in his criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to steal the 2020 election. But federal investigators don’t appear to be probing the still-ongoing, post-2020 multi-state plot, coordinated by Trump’s top MAGA lieutenants, to unlawfully breach election system security in Coffee County, Georgia and several other states as they attempted to overturn the 2020 election. SUSAN GREENHALGH, Senior Advisor on Election Security at the non-profit good government group, Free Speech for People, discusses the 14-page letter that she and more than a dozen of the nation’s top cybersecurity and voting system experts sent this week to Special Counsel Smith, Attorney General Merrick Garland, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), seeking a federal probe of the coordinated, ongoing plot that poses a major national security risk to U.S. elections. Greenhalgh explains the bizarre GOP scheme to unlawfully breach election security and distribute proprietary election system software in Georgia and multiple states, how the stolen software can be exploited to tamper with election systems all over the country, why a federal investigation is now necessary, and much, much more. Also today: In an unintentionally hilarious and dumb ad, disgraced former President Donald Trump hawks nutty digital trading cards portraying him as a super hero. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The High Price Paid for Ignoring the Mid-West (00:59:26)
Do we really have to yield the mid-west to the Trumpsters? No one likes to be ignored. We saw what happened when the 2016 Democratic nominee skipped those states. The truth is it was a liberal heartland: McGovern, Wellstone, Mondale, etc. Our guest is historian and author of the new book The Good Country: a History of the American Midwest 1800-1900 Jon K. Lauck who sheds light on the realities, not the elitist bi-coastal cliches and stereotypes we’ve been fed about this huge region, which has a long commitment to educating the masses. Give a listen!
http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with Anders Croy, Communications Director for Florida Watch. We discuss how DeSantis is raising money with his dinners, and how he manages Florida to enrich the insurance industry and the other big industries in Florida. These are not aimed at making ordinary lives better, only worse and more difficult.
Segment Two
We then talk with Mark Joseph Stern, of Slate(dot)com, about the radicalization of courts and judges. The Federalist Society has become a filtering and training ground for radical right clerks, judges, and others.
http://www.arniearnesen.org/WP/
GROWING GREENER: Synergy on the Brandywine (00:29:00)
Combining native plants gardening with land preservation and a museum of extraordinary regionally focused art has made the Brandywine Conservancy a unique celebration of the local landscape. Join Horticultural Coordinator Mark Gormel as he explains how this all begins with locally collected seeds, and how home gardeners can duplicate this in their own back yard.
GOT SCIENCE?: The Midterms Are Over: Whats Next? (00:29:00)
Voting rights expert Dr. Michael Latner recaps the midterm elections and lays out the challenges facing our democracy.
THE BOPST SHOW: The Little Man in the Red Suit (00:55:07)
More Christmas oddities you will hear nowhere else on the nation’s airwaves except on the Bopst Show. Suitable for children of all ages, expect the unexpected with a seamless mix of yuletide cheer that will keep you smiling well into the new year.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #458 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes the Washington Posts technology columnist, Geoffrey Fowler, to explain all the ways your smart devices are gathering information about you, your garage door, your soap dispenser, your vacuum cleaner and even your toilet.
FRIDAY 12.16.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday December 16, 2022
LIGHTLY ON THE GROUND: Union Strong (00:27:37)
No reason not to listen to a Union Man tell how Uniting voices brings change, maybe even justice.
COUNTERSPIN: Fossil Fuel Lies, Disability Economics (00:28:00)
Richard Wiles on fossil fuel lies, Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Do We Stop Wealthy Rightwing Christians from Bribing the Supreme Court? (00:58:00)
Imposing a judicial code of ethics on SCOTUS like the European Parliament is creating this week is a vital place for Congress and the White House to begin. Powell should think twice about raising interest rates… Plus is Brazil having a Jan 6th dictator moment? Now right-wing extremist Governor Ron DeSantis is calling for a grand jury to investigate Covid vaccines in Florida…really? Oregon’s outgoing Governor Kate Brown officially ends death penalty in state.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Emile Torres: Effective Altruism + Longtermism Pt. 2 (00:29:00)
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our two-part series examining the effective altruism movement and “longtermism.” We speak to philosopher mile Torres to better understand the movements futurist vision and its shockingly callous view on climate change. Then we discuss how the Sam Bankman-Fried scandal and ensuing cryptocurrency collapse may end up affecting the future of philanthropy.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: North Carolina: Courageous Conversations in a Climate of Fear (00:28:00)
Many questions remain about the recent attack on North Carolinas electrical grid, which left tens of thousands of citizens unsettled, frightened and without power or heat for days. Officials say it was a malicious and intentional attack, but who is responsible for this destruction of vital infrastructure, and what was their motive? In a growing climate of fear and political intimidation, many residents in North Carolina ” the most militarized state in the union, where law enforcement officials are active in paramilitary groups such as the Oathkeepers and a white sheriff was recently re-elected despite making racist remarks about Black employees ” are deeply concerned and had begun organizing a multi-racial coalition to respond. One example is a series of revelatory Courageous Conversations. In this episode, Laura joins one such conversation, featuring Curtis Hill, the head of the Columbus County NAACP and leader of the recall of Jody Greene; Keith Rivers, his counterpart in Pasquotank County; Serena Sebring, the Executive Director of Blueprint NC, the largest coalition of grassroots groups in the state; and writer and organizer Mab Segrest, one of the country’s leading right-wing researchers who is also a consultant with Blueprint. How can community safety be ensured in this moment? It will take courage from us all.
THE BOPST SHOW: The Little Man in the Red Suit (00:55:07)
More Christmas oddities you will hear nowhere else on the nation’s airwaves except on the Bopst Show. Suitable for children of all ages, expect the unexpected with a seamless mix of yuletide cheer that will keep you smiling well into the new year.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/16/22 (00:57:16)
On the Show: Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger says Donald Trump is “absolutely guilty” of a number of crimes related to the January 6th Capitol riots. Trump puts out a video on Truth Social about the Twitter Files, censorship, and “free speech.” Trump is humiliated after his “major announcement” turns out to be the release of NFT trading cards. Caller talks about legalizing cannabis. Caller asks if any right-wingers are worth listening to. Caller wonders if Trump will claim the Republican primaries are rigged if he loses to Ron DeSantis. Caller questions why dental insurance is separate from health insurance. Caller talks about the new AI chatbot. Caller is learning how to drive at age 23. Caller asks if House Republicans will spend the next two years investigating the Biden family. Caller suspects DeSantis will beat Trump and Biden if he runs. David responds to viewer emails and social media messages.
THURSDAY 12.15.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday December 15, 2022
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Ice and The Storms (00:58:00)
Retreating sea ice is probably affecting your weather right now. The truth about sea ice from long-time Arctic expert Dr. Don Perovich. Which hemisphere is getting stormier and why? Professor Tiffany Shaw, leader of new science of storms explains. Plus global climate and energy tidbit news.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Voters Demand Congress Raise Taxes on Big Corporations (00:58:00)
The Trump tax breaks in 2017, resulted in over $1 billion going to large profitable businesses. Big corporations are pushing for tax breaks, again, into the new tax laws. Although some tax breaks go away in 2022 and 2023 corporations are now pressing for reversal, to keep their breaks. Executive Director of Americans for Tax Fairness, Frank Clemente joins Thom Hartmann to explain who pays for these tax breaks? Take a guess . . . it’s you.
LOPATE AT LARGE: Marion Nestle on Slow Cooked (00:53:21)
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics, charts Marion Nestle astonishing rise from bench scientist to the pinnacles of academia, how she overcame the barriers and biases women of her generation faced, and how she found her life’s purpose after age fifty. Slow Cooked tells her personal story, one that is deeply relevant to everyone who eats and to anyone who thinks it might be too late to follow a passion. Nestle reflects on her late-in-life career as a world-renowned food politics expert, public health advocate, and a founder of the field of food studies after facing decades of low expectations. In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets. Join us when Marion Nestle told the story of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 82 (00:14:56)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
TED TALK: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left. – Megan Phelps-Roper (00:15:17)
What’s it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing … everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America’s most controversial church and describes how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this extraordinary talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization, along with some sharp ways we can learn to successfully engage across ideological lines.
WINGS #35-22 Girls’ Future in Uganda (00:28:55)
Women in Uganda’s Parliament are passing new laws that aim to protect children and women, and improve conditions at home, school and work; however, implementation with limited funding is a problem. Some of the risks are from ingrained harmful traditions, but many are from the disintegration of family life and of the schools, made worse by covid. Rebuilding society once it falls apart is a tall order. Uganda’s efforts are being studied by other African countries. One important element is involving men in the campaign.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/15/22 (00:56:16)
On the Show: Allison Butler, contributor to “The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People,” and the Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program at the University of Massachusetts, joins David to discuss media literacy, critical thinking, and more. If you want to know how the rich and powerful actually control American politics, conspiracy theories aren’t actually necessary to understand it. Former President Barack Obama accurately and concisely calls out the toxic elements of the American left that get in the way of progress. Explaining “reactionary populism” and why it’s an appropriate term for many modern right wingers. The Texas Attorney General has asked for a list of all Texas who have petitioned the state to change their sex on legal documents, a chilling revelation. It is revealed that failed former President Donald Trump kept for himself most of the $147 million that he supposedly raised to help 2022 candidates. Failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is still talking about her lawsuit to overturn the election she lost to Katie Hobbs. Donald Trump’s approval hits a 7-year low as Joe Biden’s approval continues to climb. Voicemail caller is upset that David did not review MyPillow pillows, instead leaving it to Producer Pat, who according to the caller did not do an adequate review of the pillows.
WEDNESDAY 12.14.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday December 14, 2022
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Vicki Parks (00:17:29)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with breast cancer survivor Vicki Parks, the CEO of Wythe County Community Hospital, for a conversation about her treatment journey, the importance of screening and early detection, health care delivery in rural communities, and more.
DAVID PAKMAN: Dominion Theology – Extremist Right-Wing Christianity (00:10:28)
A brief review of the theocratic belief of the “New Apostolic Reformation” and the “7 Mountains” doctrine that claims that Christians must dominate various areas of culture before Jesus can return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNKrhCQkRX0
THIS WAY OUT #1811: SCOTUS Hears Wedded Bias & The Scarlet Coast & global LGBTQ news! (00:29:00)
A trip to The Scarlet Coast finds holiday cheer; an anti-queer Colorado web designer bakes a case at the U.S. Supreme Court; Biden trades an infamous Russian arms dealer for Brittney Griner, Indonesia criminalizes unmarried sex, trans and non-binary athletes score with Sport New Zealand, Aruba and Curacao get court-ordered marriage equality, the U.S. Respect For Marriage Act buries DOMA, and the Florida Don’t Say Gay” sponsor quits after federal fraud and “false statements” indictments. Those stories and more this week when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Can a Fusion Breakthrough Actually Boost Clean Energy? (00:58:00)
Elon Musk sends the far right after Fauci as Fauci blasts cowards harassing his wife and children. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bannon are bragging that had they been in charge of the deadly January 6th insurrection, it would have succeeded- and it would have been armed. Geeky Science: Can a fusion breakthrough boost clean energy?
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR: #1525 Both Sides Now (00:58:59)
Clay Jenkinson responds to listener comments and questions. He speculates on how Jefferson would have responded to social media ” spoiler alert ” Clay says he would have been great at it, and he guesses how Jefferson would have responded to some of the social phenomena of our time. Clay also responds to a letter from a teacher in Iowa who says it is important to teach all sides of history.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 81 (00:19:22)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
ALAN WATTS: The Illusion of Money, Time and Ego
Alan Watts. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
Full lectures: https://www.alanwatts.com/ Learn more: https://www.alanwatts.org/
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity & Geocaching Goodness, with Sonny Portacio (00:28:00)
Do you like a good scavenger hunt? Love the thrill of discovering new places? That’s your curiosity calling!
Wait ’til you hear about geocaching, a GPS-driven treasure hunt game for the 21st century. Sonny Portacio hosts The Podcacher Podcast, a hit variety show all about “geocaching goodness” that he and his wife Sandy have been sharing since 2005. Who better to talk about curiosity and geocaching?
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/14/22 (00:54:15)
On the Show: A closer look at the possibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin launching nuclear weapons. Democratic Oregon Governor Kate Brown commutes all sentences of people on death row. Looking at the most pressing, and less pressing, climate change risks over the next ten years. How Fox News propagandist takes a real story and turns it into a conspiracy theory. Fox News host Stuart Varney tells Elaine Chao that everyone at Fox was “appalled” when Trump made fun of her Asian ethnicity. Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis announces an investigation into COVID vaccines. Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis continues his antivaccine tirade on Fox News. Why Donald Trump’s 2024 run could end in total disaster. A shocking new poll shows Ron DeSantis leading Donald Trump 56-33 in the 2024 Republican primary, even though DeSantis hasn’t even announced his candidacy. Voicemail caller delivers 19 seconds of right wing MAGA conspiracy red meat.
TUESDAY 12.13.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday December 13, 2022
THE POSITIVE MIND 12/12/22 (00:58:00)
PART 2
The greatest fear we have is not the fear of our own death but the death of someone we love. Dr. Howard Steele PhD. This statement speaks to the depth of our need to feel connected and attached to others with whom we can feel safe and enjoy life. In this week’s show, Kevin and Niseema continue to explore “Attachment Theory” with Drs. Miriam and Howard Steele, Directors of The Center for Attachment Studies at the New School for Social Research in New York City. The Steele’s answer questions from our audience about bullying and how learning the skill of reflecting on your own experience as a child can inform how you parent now, as an adult. We also discover how the need for new ways to be cooperative and civil, rather than competitive, is the next step in our evolution as a species. Attachment interventions and research are available for parents, teachers, therapists, and leaders to learn how to make our world a more peaceful and loving place. Howard Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology and former chair for Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Howard Steele is also founder and senior editor of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Attachment and Human Development. Howard is the founder and first president of the learned society, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org
Miriam Steele, PhD, is Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Shocking Reason the GOP is Done With Trump (00:58:00)
Julio Rivera isn’t done with Trump unless DeSantis runs against him? Will Republicans ever throw Trump out? It seems they only will if Trump becomes an election liability Trying to overthrow the country on January 6th, apparently wasn’t enough. Julio Rivera, editorial Director for Reactionary Times and contributor for Newsmax joins Thom to debate about Trump, DeSantis and much more. Plus, is it time again to nationalize the rails and what can be done to further stabilize the beleaguered energy supply for Ukrainians under attack from Putin?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Favorite Things (00:58:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour, we explore some of our favorite things. Everyone has something they love best of all, for some of us it’s our pets, and others it’s something totally different. Kids Crew member Genevieve loves opera, and got to attend her first live performance at the Santa Fe Opera this past August. We hear her interview with the Santa Fe Production Director. We also meet Jeanne and Madison from Animal Humane New Mexico who rescue animals, and help them find their forever homes. They brought Ferdinand with them, a sweet dog who loves flowers. Kodiak and Corbit love airplanes, and got a chance to fly with the Young Eagles, a program of the Experimental Aircraft Association of Albuquerque. Listen as they take to the skies and learn the ins and outs of flying an airplane. We have music celebrating our favorite things, including dogs, our planet, food, and making things from scratch. Join us for a few of our favorite things, this time on The Children’s Hour.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 79-80 (00:29:40)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
INSIDE THE FBI: Holiday Scams, Revisited (00:08:48)
On this episode of Inside the FBI, we’re resharing information on holiday shopping scams and tips to shop safely and smartly online.
AMERICA WORKS: Mario Cervantes, Boeing Air Craft Factory Worker. Wichita, Kansas (00:09:58)
Mario Cervantes, a skilled factory worker who makes the tools that make the planes for Boeing aircraft in Wichita, Kansas, is interviewed by Briana O’Higgins on behalf of the Kansas Humanities Council as part of an American Folklife Center Archie Green Fellowship to document Boeing Aircraft Workers. Shortly before this interview, Boeing–which had been a community mainstay for decades–announced it was permanently closing all its factories, offices and facilities in Wichita. Mr. Cervantes talks about his family’s connection to Boeing, his pride in his trade, and his pride in working for Boeing. He also discusses his Hispanic heritage and how it has impacted his career; labor unrest and his commitment to fair employment; his union; and his disappointment that Boeing would no longer be a presence in Wichita.
AMERICA WORKS: Bernardo “Bernie” Piña, Fresh Produce Salesman. Nogales, Arizona (00:10:25)
Arizonian Bernardo “Bernie” Piña is the sales manager at Ciruli Brothers, a family-owned fresh produce import company in Nogales, Arizona. For generations, the city of Nogales, which is located directly on the US-Mexican border, has been a major port-of-entry for the buying, selling, and shipping of fresh fruits and vegetables imported into the US and Canada from growers throughout Mexico and Latin America. If you, like most Americans, enjoy eating fresh produce from Mexico, it probably came through Nogales. Mr. Pina, a third-generation produce worker, tells folklorist Nic Hartmann what it’s like to be a salesman in Nogales’ vibrant and close-knit produce industry.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/13/22 (0057:07)
On the Show: Joe Walsh, former Republican Congressman from Illinois and host of the podcast “White Flag with Joe Walsh,” joins David to discuss the 2024 election, and Republican primary, and much more. The latest inflation numbers come in lower than expected, sending stocks soaring, and raising questions about whether the worst is over. Right-wing meteorologist Joe Bastardi goes on a completely delusional rant about climate change during an appearance on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson show. A stunning leak of text messages expose Republicans around the January 6 Trump riots, including Congressman Ralph Norman who was calling for Trump to invoke “Marshall law.” A soaking wet Donald Trump is interviewed by his own lawyer, Christina Bobb, on OAN, and the interview is a disaster. A stunning new poll shows that nearly two-thirds of Republicans want someone other than Donald Trump to be their 2024 nominee. Failed Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake is interviewed by former Trump propagandist Steven Bannon, and it’s utterly absurd. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel doesn’t like being asked about the 2022 torpedo that was Donald Trump. Voicemail caller thinks that David is bad for America, and Trump’s Twitter followers prove Biden is bad.
MONDAY 12.12.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday December 12, 2022
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #057: Raising Naturally Healthy Pets (00:29:38)
Like humans, many of the illnesses suffered by your pets are the result of an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. Yet the medical model – which extends to the world of veterinary medicine – seems fairly clueless in how to use natural remedies to keep your pet healthy and help it regain health when things are out of balance. Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of the realities of sustainable living.
ECONOMIC UPDATE (00:29:00)
On this week’s show, Prof Wolff talks about the social effects of inflation and the lack of accountability on the part of employers. Capitalist employers set prices with the only motive of maximizing. Employees, the vast majority, must live with inflation but are excluded from decisions setting prices. Employers scream labor shortage to get the government to force workers back to work at low wages. Employers recover from economic crashes but undercut workers efforts to do the same. How capitalism works.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Sinema: Independent but not from Money? (00:58:00)
What will Kyrsten’s latest shenanigans mean for the fight for justice, and what might it mean for her bank account?
Plus- our favorite vote suppression vigilante is back with the latest facts to emerge from the Georgia elections.
RADIO ART HOUR: Jasmina Al-Qaisi (00:58:00)
“Homoniememorimorph” by Jasmina Al-Qaisi, introduced by Jos Alejandro Rivera, is featured today. Originally performed in 2020 for Anybody out there?! (100 Days of Radio in Germany) at D21 Artspace in Leipzig, Germany, Homoniememorimorph was a live radio experiment using auto-archival methods crafted on the go. Jasmina Al-Qaisi describes the radio action, of which she has excerpted and edited, as an ongoing text writing method with, and for voice, where she re-writes her memory by crossing bridges between words. “Homonimemoriorph,” an invented word of a longer series of invented words by the artist, sonically and visually resembles other words. It is a manifestation of misspelled speaking, and a practice of Al-Qaisi as a poet, artist and radio maker. In the piece, she says the invented word is used to define the words that I feel fit together, and that stands for me, being here taking over talking over the radio; trying to re-order my memories to envision some sort of agency on what our memory is. “Homonimemoriorph” casts a wide net which allows Al-Qaisis words to create and pass through multiple forms and meanings depending on what associations the listener makes. The improvised nature of the piece often results in overtly confessional moments that transform ordinary approaches to what is considered useful or important information. The first public instance of this project was streamed over internet radio, and broadcast on Radio Corax 95.9 FM and UKW 87.5; the latter, covering the vicinity of D21 Artspace. Due to an un-planned delay in her headphones, Al-Qaisi’s voice, thinking, and as a result, the conversation with herself, was forced to slow down. Navigating this live radio time stretch, she spoke while sitting before a table of tiny, misplaced objects she gathered over the span of 15 years. They included scrap papers of invented words and poems, stones, shells, and pieces of metal items. As Al-Qaisi reflected on these objects, she re-wrote the importance they seemed to hold for her, and combined these new histories with samples of YouTube glitches that included insect, animal, and planet sounds, and samples of her friends attempting to pronounce homonimemorimorph. Episode 098.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 77-78 (00:28:30)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
GREEN STREET NEWS: PFAS and the EPA: Danger Meets Dysfunction (00:28:26)
On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug talk about PFAS from fracking waste showing up in landfills, how Coca Cola is influencing public health events, Congressional Democrats have a plan to stop plastic pollution, and a story about PFAS with former EPA whistleblower Dr. Kyla Bennett, now science policy director at PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/12/22 (00:55:32)
On the Show: Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema leaves the Democratic Party, becoming the third independent in the Senate, raising questions about the new balance of power. Senator Bernie Sanders slams Senator Kyrsten Sinema as a corporate Democrat who has gotten in the way of major legislation. The new “gay marriage bill” that was recently passed does not actually guarantee gay marriage. Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” are nothing more than right wing bait meant to enrage the MAGA crowd over things they don’t even seem to understand. New Twitter owner Elon Musk says Dr. Anthony Fauci should be prosecuted, and threatens to sue Twitter leakers. Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says that if she had been in charge of the January 6 Trump riot insurrection, she would have been armed, and they would have “won.” Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is under a House ethics investigation. Failed former President Donald Trump has reportedly not left his home at Mar-a-Lago since announcing his 2024 Presidential run. Donald Trump explodes in dangerous, unhinged and confused all-capital-letters Truth Social rant about election interference, January 6th, and more. Voicemail caller may have fallen for another scam, this one related to Playstation 5’s.
SUNDAY 12.11.22 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 12/09/22: NatSec journalist Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel on Oath Keepers guilty verdicts (00:58:00)
Original air-date 12/1/2022. On today’s ‘BradCast’: A jury has convicted far-right Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes and top lieutenant Kelley Meggs on charges of Seditious Conspiracy, and found them and three others guilty of felony Obstruction of an Official Government Proceeding, along with other charges related to their failed efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 presidential election, block the peaceful transfer of power, and overthrow the U.S. government on January 6, 2021. National security journalist MARCY WHEELER of Emptywheel.net explains what the guilty verdicts mean going forward for other upcoming sedition trials, and for others yet to be charged for the same felony crimes, such as Roger Stone, Alex Jones, and Trump himself. Wheeler also delves into topics related to the appointment of war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith as Special Counsel to oversee both the federal January 6 probe and the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of Trump’s theft of classified government documents, what may be in store for Republican members of Congress allegedly involved with the planning of the attempted coup, and much more. Also today: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel nixed the idiotic appointment of a Special Master by a Trump-appointed judge that slowed down DOJ’s investigation of Trump’s theft of classified documents. Trump-backed, losing Republican Senate nominee and former celebrity TV Doctor Mehmet Oz is apparently not welcome back on TV. Two longtime far-right GOP operatives, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, who were convicted in a robocall scheme to hoax voters with false election information, were sentenced to 500 hours of voter registration work in low-income neighborhoods.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: My Father Knew A World War When He Saw it (00:29:00)
The evil of Hitler and Hirohito was clear. In 2022 the investor class is openly reaping profits from toxic gasses and it is killing everyone. Every day the celebrity billionaires are in the news, unchallenged. The Earth is the radical today. The Earth is doing things that no-one thought possible. The Himalayan mountains are melting? There were people who didn’t want to believe that Hitler was possible, or that the Japanese would ever matter to us – out beyond the Pacific. We have already had many Pearl Harbors and the investor classes hold on the media and public figures is so strong that we consumers remain immobilized in our deadly sleep, watching the screen.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Anything Can Happen (00:28:00)
“Turn On The News” is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in “Turn On The News” each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides — good and evil — every time you “Turn On The News.” This week: “Anything Can Happen.” There is no predicting what will happen next.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 12/9/22 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
Scott Braddock discusses the elections in Texas and Georgia. We discuss the economic reasons and political reasons for the economic problems in the US and worldwide. We also discuss why Trump’s issues did not work voters in 2022.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Robert Hockett about the Georgia runoff election. Bill Curry’s opinion is that Warnock was too controlled by the consultants and handlers, even though he won. The DNC should let their candidates be themselves, because that is what voters really want. Biden should consider the country and the party before deciding to run again.
http://www.arniearnesen.org/WP/
GROUNDSWELL: Matthew Black Eagle Man (00:57:17)
Matthew Black Eagle Man tells the story of his life and that of so many scooped up children, those taken from their American Indian families. He offered this useful prayer:
Grandmother and Grandfather,
we are doing the best we can
with what we remember
of what you taught us.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Part 2 of Interoceptive Awareness & The Adaptable Body & Challenging the Status Quo with Jessie Owens (00:59:00)
This is the second half of my interview conversation with Jessie Owens, a dancer, performing artist, choreographer, structural integration practitioner and an embodiment practitioner. She’s the founder of ERGO/movement, and the Vermont Dance Alliance. Jessie is also a recent graduate of Goddard College’s Graduate Institute in the healing arts & embodiment studies program, where she wrote a brilliant thesis entitled The Adaptable Body: Increasing the Body’s Capacity for Living Through Interoceptive Awareness, Effort and Challenging the Status Quo, which is the subject of our conversation, in which we talk about the power of movement and dance to open new doorways of possibility in the ways we experience and relate to the world around us and ourselves in each moment, infusing our lives with a new richness and joy that can be hard to find in our stressful achievement oriented world.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: We have to own part of China’s problem (00:58:46)
China is experiencing the largest, most widespread violent protests since Tiananmen Square. While this apparently was sparked by harsh covid lockdowns, this has been a long time coming. Surveillance, forced labor, censorship; it adds up to rage & the desire to be free. However, the west has to own a part of this situation too. We explore this, plus the latest cybersecurity news and data breaches!
SATURDAY 12.10.22 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 12/8/22: Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern on ‘Moore v. Harper’ and same-sex marriage law (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: WNBA star Brittney Griner is headed back to the U.S. after being released by Russia in a prisoner swap for a notorious Russian arms dealer. The brother of Paul Whelan, an American still imprisoned by Russia, praised the Biden Administration for making ‘the deal that was possible, rather than waiting for one that wasnt going to happen.’ The U.S. House passed the Respect for Marriage Act to preserve marriage equality rights for same-sex and inter-racial couples, with 169 Republicans voting against it. Slate legal journalist and SCOTUS expert MARK JOSEPH STERN explains the specifics of the new bill now headed to President Biden’s desk, and why he believes critics are wrong about the landmark federal statute. Stern also delves into the wildly dangerous case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week, ‘Moore v. Harper,’ focused on Republicans’ radical, fringe so-called ‘independent state legislature’ theory, that would dismantle free and fair elections in the United States by granting gerrymandered state legislatures absolute, unreviewable power to control federal elections, unconstrained by state constitutions. Stern also explains the ‘stupid’ case of an anti-gay rights website designer, who preemptively sued for the right to discriminate despite never being asked to design a wedding website for anyone, gay or straight. CNN reports that the Justice Department has asked a court to hold Donald Trump in contempt for failing to turn over all of the classified records he stole from the White House. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The High Price Paid for Ignoring the Mid-West (00:59:26)
Do we really have to yield the mid-west to the Trumpsters? No one likes to be ignored. We saw what happened when the 2016 Democratic nominee skipped those states. The truth is it was a liberal heartland: McGovern, Wellstone, Mondale, etc. Our guest is historian and author of the new book The Good Country: a History of the American Midwest 1800-1900 Jon K. Lauck who sheds light on the realities, not the elitist bi-coastal cliches and stereotypes we’ve been fed about this huge region, which has a long commitment to educating the masses. Give a listen!
http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 12/10/22 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with Ian MacDougall of Propublica and discuss the conflict between how conservative state legislatures want to interpret election laws since the attempted coup by the Trump on January 6th, versus how the Federal Courts want. Will the Supreme Court gift these legislatures unilateral power to ignore the will of voters, the Moore vs. Harper case will decide.
Segment Two
We then talk with Bill Curry and Robert Hockett about the Georgia runoff election. Bill Curry’s opinion is that Warnock was too controlled by the consultants and handlers, even though he won. The DNC should let their candidates be themselves, because that is what voters really want. Biden should consider the country and the party before deciding to run again.
GROWING GREENER: A Mid Winter Don’t Miss Event (00:29:00)
One of the most important events of my gardening year is the extraordinary collection of gardeners, designers, and ecologists who assemble to exchange ideas every January at the New Directions in the American Landscapes two-day annual symposium. Join executive director of NDAL, Sara Weaner, to learn about this year’s line-up of extraordinary speakers and topics. It’s a don’t miss opportunity.
GOT SCIENCE?: Is Capturing and Storing CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuels a Viable Climate Solution? (00:29:00)
Energy expert Steve Clemmer discusses the pros and cons of carbon capture and storage technologies and what role they might play in fighting the climate crisis.
THE BOPST SHOW: Merry Christmas To All (00:55:45)
A cornucopia of reimagined Christmas classics, rarities and oddities from Chris Bopst’s bag of audio delights cued from a lifetime of relentlessly pursuing all things naughty and nice. Hear Santa as you’ve never heard him before during this light-hearted hour of holiday hummables sure to bring a smile to the face of even the bleakest Scrooge.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #457 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times investigative reporter, Eric Lipton, to give us the over/under on how professional sports in the U.S. is now part of a multibillion-dollar corporate gambling enterprise that can now even reach children. And before you buy toys for your loved ones this holiday season you need to hear our interview with Teresa Murray, director of U.S. PIRGs Consumer Watchdog office, discussing their latest report on dangerous toys, entitled Trouble in Toyland.
FRIDAY 12.09.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday December 9, 2022
JUST SOLUTIONS: The power of women in the mid term elections (00:29:00)
The midterm elections saw large turnout around the country. Voters were deciding on everything from ballot measures to local and federal races. Young women especially showed up at the ballot box and analysts say that was in large part due to the attacks on reproductive rights. Our guest today is Virginia Kase Solomn, CEO of the League of Women Voters. The organization is more than 100 years old and has more than 750 local leagues in all 50 states. Its mission is Empowering voters. Defending democracy.
COUNTERSPIN: The Indian Child Welfare Act (00:28:00)
Jen Deerinwater on Indian Child Welfare Act.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is It Time For a Berlin Airlift for a Freezing Ukraine? (00:58:00)
Hundreds of Russian missile attacks continue to target electrical supplies in Ukraine, leaving people shivering in temperatures below zero, and freezing electric trains carrying supplies in their tracks. Is it time for the west to airlift food, medicine, and supplies to save lives of people under attack by Russian totalitarianism?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Nurdle Hurdles + Turning Plastic Into Gravel (00:29:00)
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petroleum-based building blocks of the plastics industry. And they are literally everywhere. This week on Sea Change Radio, we dig into the archives and talk to Neel Dhanesha of Vox to learn about the role nurdles play in the half-trillion dollar global plastics industry and why they are a big problem for the environment. Then, we hear about a small, innovative company that is recycling all sorts of plastics and turning them into gravel. We speak to the founder and CEO, Sebastin Sajoux, about the technology and mission of his company, Arqlite.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: What difference can a play make? Ask Angola Prison (00:28:00)
In 2020, the authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary (better known as Angola, for the former plantation on which it stands) shut down a play in the middle of a performance. What happened in that audience of incarcerated men that got guards so concerned? Thats the subject of Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison,” a new MTV documentary directed and edited by Cinque Northern (My Name is Pauli Murray) and produced by Catherine Gund. Award-winning actress and writer, Liza Jessie Peterson, (HBOs Def Poetry, Ava Duvernays 13th), whose one-woman show was shut down that day, and Norris Henderson, a former inmate who’d worked with her to bring the show, join Laura to reflect on the intersection of art and politics, incarceration and economics, and the work of VOTE, the criminal justice reform group Henderson founded upon his release. What difference can a play make? Watch and see.
THE BOPST SHOW: Merry Christmas To All (00:55:45)
A cornucopia of reimagined Christmas classics, rarities and oddities from Chris Bopst’s bag of audio delights cued from a lifetime of relentlessly pursuing all things naughty and nice. Hear Santa as you’ve never heard him before during this light-hearted hour of holiday hummables sure to bring a smile to the face of even the bleakest Scrooge.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/9/22 (00:57:26)
On the Show: The scary part is that Herschel Walker even had a shot at winning his Georgia election. Donald Trump’s Jewish allies are reportedly begging him to condemn Kanye West, and Trump is refusing. Republican Senator Mitt Romney clearly states that he would not vote for Donald Trump if Trump were the 2024 nominee, a stark contrast to William Barr and Mitch McConnell. Caller asks if Republicans will be as conservative as they currently are years from now. Caller discusses the JFK assassination files. Caller asks if David would go on Tucker Carlson’s show. Caller asks about stopping disinformation. Caller talks about Democratic messaging. Caller asks about the possibility of America becoming a Christian nationalist country. David responds to viewer emails.
THURSDAY 12.08.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday December 8, 2022
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Sorry For The Disruption (00:58:00)
Truly green energy is not easy. It’s even harder deep in the Amazon. Trials and tributaries from Dr. Emilio Moran, lead author of “Advancing convergence research: Renewable energy solutions for off-grid communities”. Then sustainability expert Dr. Jem Bendell apologizes for bright-siding climate change. From Harvard, Ye Tao’s fast run-down of the Meer project – cooling Earth with mirrors.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Impact on the Senate (00:58:00)
Representative Mark Pocan catches us up as to where things stand in the Senate after the Democratic win in Georgia. Plus- a deep dive discussion on the chances of renaming so-called ‘Medicare Advantage’.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Dangers of National Nostalgia (00:59:52)
Of all the motivations for war, nostalgia is at the top. Restoring lost glory. We see it not only in Putin’s Russia but in many former empires. Nostalgia is a factor in racist nationalist bloodletting everywhere. On this show History Professor Lawrence Wittner talks about the power of nostalgia. The Trumpist right taps into it and we all know people who perceive a decline of Americas past glory. But the climate crisis may help steer the world away from the longing to retrieve an imagined better past. Listen in.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 76 (00:25:07)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
WINGS #34-22 Fake Abortion Clinics (00:28:54)
This documentary reveals the size and scope of the network of thousands of anti-abortion “clinics” in the US and worldwide, and some of the dangers they represent in pursuing their missions of preventing pregnant individuals from accessing abortions. Harms they may cause include purveying false and potentially lethal information, and massive coordinated collection of personal data that can be used to track those who come to them for help. These organizations enjoy the immunity of nonprofit status and many in the US are receiving public funds. Speakers: Frieda Werden (intro); Kate Jessica Raphael, producer and host; Anna Iglitzin, voice of the internet; Jenifer McKenna co-founder of California Women’s Law Center and co-author of the 2021 report, “Designed to Deceive”; Dr. Monica McLemore, professor of Nursing and Public Health at the University of Washington; Ashley Underwood, director of the research group, Equity Forward. Voices from film excerpts: a student from University of California at Riverside, from the film Young Folks Share Their Experiences at Fake Clinics, produced by the nonprofit Advocates for Youth; and Bernard Nathanson, narrator of the 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/8/22 (00:56:26)
On the Show: Dave Farina, a science communicator and author best known for his YouTube channel “Professor Dave Speaks” joins David to discuss vaccines, homeopathy, GMOs, and much more. A restaurant has denied a Christian group service over their anti-abortion anti-LGBT views, and it immediately becomes a huge fiasco. The Republican blame game of fingerpointing hilarious escalates after Herschel Walker’s loss in the Georgia Senate runoff. Failed Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake agrees with Donald Trump’s call to “terminate” parts of the Constitution. Failed Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake has yet another lawsuit, now that the Arizona election has been certified. Failed Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake joins a prayer circle to try to pray for election victory. Classified documents have been found at a Donald Trump storage unit in Florida. A confused and disoriented Donald Trump is caught on video telling obvious lies about the 2022 election at a Mar-a-Lago event. Voicemail caller almost fell for another David Pakman impersonator text scam.
WEDNESDAY 12.07.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday December 7, 2022
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Suzie Van Valkenburg (00:10:31)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with breast cancer survivor Suzie VanValkenburg for a conversation about her work with the Augusta Health Foundation and the health system’s Appearances Boutique to support women undergoing breast cancer treatment.
TED TALK: I grew up in a cult. It was heaven — and hell. – Lilia Tarawa (00:20:05)
Lilia Tarawa was brought up in the Gloriavale Christian Community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, where she was constantly surrounded by everyone she loved. But over time, she began to see the dark side of her community, and ultimately realized that she had to get out. In this raw and emotional talk, Lilia shares the reality of life in a cult, and her heart-wrenching journey to break free.
THIS WAY OUT #1810: US Senate Says “I Do” & Club Q Rocks Queer Youth& more global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Queer youth under the gun; the U.S. Senate advances the Respect For Marriage Act; Singapore’s sodomy repeal comes with a marriage poison pill, a Tokyo court rejects a marriage equality case but opens the door to change, India’s top court hears 2 marriage equality cases, Russia’s plan to ban all pro-queer info passes parliament, Belgium and Western Australia each vow to outlaw conversion therapy, Australia’s Northern Territory adds LGBTQ people to its anti-discrimination protections, Queensland plans to scrap a surgery requirement for birth certificate gender change, and the U.S. relaxes blood donor rules for gay and bisexual men. Those stories and more this week when you find “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Danger of the Rich and Powerful Man-Bubble (00:58:00)
All these rich and powerful men think they are secret geniuses once they have concluded the truth of their own infallibility, they stop listening to those whose opinions contradict their own. Also, don’t be fooled! This is what Elon Musk is really up to with Twitter. The next presidential election season is already getting underway. Which of these Democratic candidates will likely run for President in 2024. Geeky Science: A brain expert says there is one thing that sets “super agers” apart from the elderly with weak memories.
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR: #1524 Past Present Future with Joseph Ellis (00:58:59)
Clay Jenkinson and the historian Joseph Ellis have a wide-ranging conversation beginning with Jeffersons failing reputation, and ending with both of them sharing their thoughts on the future. They also discuss our recent elections and the need for young and vibrant new leaders in America.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 75 (00:25:07)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Solutions Journalism: An Exercise in Curiosity, with Marie von Hafften (00:28:00)
“We see that solutions journalism reporting holds our communities and our leaders accountable in a different way.” ~ Marie von Hafften
Research suggests that journalism focused on solutions outperforms problem-focused news. Solutions Journalism feels more interesting, trustworthy, uplifting and inspires people to get involved. Marie von Hafften of the Solutions Journalism Network joins me to explore the role of curiosity and all-important trust in finding and telling news and other stories. “You know you’re reading a solutions journalism story when it focuses on a response to a serious social challenge, has some transferrable insight, has evidence and data, and illuminates limitations or shortcoming of the response.”
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/7/22 (00:56:22)
On the Show: The Georgia Senate runoff is won by incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock, defeating Republican candidate Herschel Walker, which means Democrats will control the senate 51-49 and it is yet another humiliation for MAGA and failed former President Donald Trump. Fox News propagandist Laura Ingraham did not take Herschel Walker’s loss in Georgia well. Right-wing personality Jesse Lee Peterson appears on the Dr. Phil show and says things so vile, audience members cry. A Republican focus group conducted by Frank Luntz quickly goes bad for Donald Trump as the audience shows they are sick of him. The Trump Organization has been found guilty on 17 counts including various types of fraud. Failed former President Donald Trump explodes in an outrageous statement over the 17 guilty verdicts against his company. It is revealed that the January 6 House committee will indeed be making criminal referrals for prosecution. Honorees at an event for January 6 police refuse to shake Republican Senator Mitch McConnell’s hand. Fox News is visibly and brazenly lying and spreading misinformation about the “Twitter Files” bombshell that flopped and was not really a bombshell. Voicemail caller Eric from Mass thinks David “got COVID from the vaccine.”
TUESDAY 12.06.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday December 6, 2022
THE POSITIVE MIND 12/5/22 (00:58:00)
Was there one person in your childhood who you knew you could go to when you were in distress? You knew they would listen and allow you to have your feelings, providing comfort and support. This person represented a “secure base” in a world that may have been chaotic, confusing, and scary. It turns out that having a “secure base” during your childhood makes all the difference in how you love, trust and engage in relationships. Kevin and Niseema welcome Drs. Howard and Miriam Steele, to discuss their book, Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions. They have made it their life’s work to study the benefits of having a secure base, and what happens when there isn’t one. They have studied and developed effective ways to support parents learning the skills of being a secure base for their children, and in the process learn what it means to be a humble caretaker. Stay tuned for Part II next week, when the Steele’s will talk about the ramifications of a world where striving for independence has eroded the human need for “interdependence and community.” Howard Steele, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and former chair for Clinical Psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York City. At the New School, Dr. Steele co-directs (with Dr. M. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Howard Steele is also the founder and senior editor of the international scientific peer-reviewed journal Attachment and Human Development. Howard is the founder and first president of the learned society, Society for Emotion and Attachment Studies, www.seasinternational.org. Miriam Steele, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology, at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Dr. H. Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also an Anna Freud Center trained psychoanalyst. Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of inter-generational patterns of attachment, and has also carried out longitudinal attachment research in the context of child maltreatment and adoption.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: On the Ground in Kyiv (00:58:00)
As a bitter winter often without power begins to bite in Ukraine, veteran war correspondent Phil Ittner asks us all to take a stand against Russian imperialism. Plus- MSNBC journalist Ali Velshi shares with Thom his take on the likely future of the Republican party.
THE CHIILDREN’S HOUR: The Kindness Show (00:58:00)
Imagine a world where kindness is a habit. The Kids Crew explore kindness, as a practice, science and feeling on this edition of The Children’s Hour. We’re joined by Lindsay Munroe, a singer-songwriter who specializes in music to build caring communities of children. Acts of kindness are more than just beneficial for the recipient, givers are also rewarded. We discover the science of kindness, and how it’s a gift that keeps on giving. We’ve created a free, downloadable learn-along guide on Kindness, which meets national education standards. Find it at https://ChildrensHour.org/kindness/ Download it for free, grab some crayons, pens, markers, and pencils and come along with us as we cultivate kindness.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 74 (00:29:13)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
INSIDE THE FBI: Healthcare Fraud: Not a Victimless Crime (00:14:51)
On this episode of Inside the FBI, learn why health care fraud isn’t a victimless crime and how we’re fighting back to keep Americans safe.
AMERICA WORKS: Roberta Washington, Architect (00:10:07)
The distinguished architect Roberta Washington, who is the principal (or head) of her own firm, Roberta Washington Architects in New York City, speaks with oral historian and architect Sarah Filkins as part of Filkins’ Archie Green Fellowship to document women architects throughout the United States. Washington traces her career, her involvement in community planning and network building, and her work in designing hospitals, schools, and the African Burial Ground Interpretive Center in lower Manhattan for the National Parks Service. She talks about the challenges she faced as a woman–particularly as an African American woman–in a field that, especially when she started, was overwhelming White and male. She begins this episode by recalling how, as part a junior high school assignment to interview “someone about their job,” her life was changed when she chanced upon a Black professor of architecture, who just happened to be renting her neighbor’s home.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/6/22 (00:56:48)
On the Show: Doctor Oren Etzioni, founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI, joins David to discuss artificial intelligence, machine learning, super-intelligence, the risks of AI, and much more. How Republicans use anti-intellectualism to divide America and to try to win elections. The American right wing’s sick and bizarre obsession with Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. A new report reveals that failed former President Donald Trump hid a $19.8 million loan from Daewoo, a North Korea-linked company in South Korea. Failed former President Donald Trump has a mental breakdown on Truth Social over being called out accurately for his demand to be reinstated to the Oval Office. Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson says there is no “more brazen attack on democracy” than the flopped bombshell Twitter Files story. Failed Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake now has “a lawsuit” in Arizona. Voicemail caller asks about the possibility of human hibernation during winter flu season.
MONDAY 12.05.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday December 5, 2022
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE # 97: Resilient Community Development (00:29:39)
In the 1950s city planners pretty much all thought that bigger was better. More growth, more business… all good.
Then sometime in the 1970s folks started worrying about the boom bust cycle of development. Planners began asking how development could be more sustainable. Growing with the future in mind. Now growth must be resilient, able to adapt and weather the certain storms of climate change, changing technologies, energy interruptions. Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station and their guest, Myra Moss of the OSU Extension Office to discuss resilient and sustainable development within our communities.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Instability – Capitalism’s Constant (00:29:00)
In this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the Twitter-Musk scandals, critique of profit as return to risk, mass European union-led strikes against inflation, economic crisis of 54 poorest nations today, US General Assembly vote against US embargo (sanctions) against Cuba, and an analysis of crypto-currency collapse.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Greg Palast is a Vote Suppression Vigilante (00:58:00)
Greg Palast has the latest eye-opening details from the Republican dirty tricks workshop in Georgia. Also- are Republicans turning a blind eye- or worse- to racists among their supporters?
RADIO ART HOUR: Absolute Value of Noise, Anna Friz, and Glenn Gear; Scanner; Negativland; Joyce Hinterding and David Haines (00:58:47)
Tune in today to textures of radio, from Absolute Value of Noise, Anna Friz, and Glenn Gear; Scanner; Negativland; and Joyce Hinterding and David Haines. First tune in “Magnetic Radio” from Absolute Value of Noise, Anna Friz, and Glenn Gear. The track comes from their album “Somewhere a voice is calling,” and the collaborators write about the album: “On Christmas Day 1906, Reginald Aubrey Fessenden transmitted music and voice across the Atlantic in the first radio broadcast in history. Inspired by this event, radio artists Absolute Value of Noise and Anna Friz joined with animator/live video mixer Glenn Gear created a performance that worked with the themes of “invisible” sounds, hidden voices, and the early days of radio communication on the Atlantic Ocean.” Next tune in Scanner’s “RF Radiation” from his 1995 album “Spore.” The British artist known as Scanner is Robin Rimbaud, whose early controversial work used found mobile phone conversations. This track is from his second album, and includes a sample of someone warning about the dangers of mobile phone radio waves. Next, tune in “Sequitur,” from Negativland’s 2021 EP “No Brain.” It is a cascade of samples about and from radio wave broadcasts. The dictionary says that sequitur is “the conclusion of an inference.” Finally, the show includes Joyce Hinterding and David Haines performance from October 2016 at the “Radio Revolten” conference in Germany. Hinterding is an Australian artist known for exploring electromagnetic phenomena with large sculptural antenna works, video and sound-producing installations, and experimental audio works for performance. She partners with Haines on many large-scale works. Here they use home-made antennas to harness raw electro-magentic energy in the room. Episode 097.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 73 (00:23:26)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
GREEN STREET NEWS: The Unwelcome Cell Tower (00:28:38)
On this episode of Green Street News, Patti and Doug discuss Boston’s ban on artificial turf, what’s in your bottled water, and the story of Courtney Gilardi and the unwelcome cell tower in her residential neighborhood.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/5/22 (00:56:11)
On the Show: David has COVID-19, the coronavirus. The much-promoted and heavily anticipated Twitter bombshell, “The Twitter Files,” about Hunter Biden, which flopped spectacularly. Failed former President Donald Trump explodes over the Hunter Biden “Twitter Files” release. Kanye West tells conspiracy theorist Alex Jones that he likes Hitler and likes Nazis. Caitlyn Jenner “wishers Kanye well” after Kanye West praises Hitler and Nazis. Former President Barack Obama absolutely crushes Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker in a campaign speech for Raphael Warnock in Georgia. Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker wants IRS agents to stop “men in women’s sports.” Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene admits that voting for Herschel Walker in Georgia is “asking a lot.” Failed former President Donald Trump throws the Constitution into the trash and demands reinstatement to the White House. A visibly confused Donald Trump defends the January 6 rioters in a new video. Voicemail caller found his elderly mother watching David Pakman Show clips on TikTok.
SUNDAY 12.04.22 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 12/2/22: AZ election super geniuses; CO recount; Rail strike legislation controversy (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: President Biden signed legislation to avert a national rail strike that would have destabilized the nation’s economy – – but there is much more to the complex situation and the controversial political strategies employed by the White House, Congressional Democrats, and the railroad unions. Now the focus turns to pressuring Biden to sign an Executive Order requiring paid sick days for all federally-contracted rail workers. In Georgia, a man shot a teenager through a closed door as the boy was campaigning for Sen. Raphael Warnock (D), ahead of next week’s runoff election against Republican nominee and serial liar Herschel Walker. A mandatory recount is underway in Colorado, where far-right Rep. Lauren Bobert (R) leads challenger Adam Frisch (D) by only 550 votes. In Arizona, a mandatory recount is now set for the state Attorney General race, in which Democrat Kris Mayes won by only 510 votes. Both recounts will be conducted by computer, which may or may not re-tabulate the ballots correctly. An Arizona judge ordered MAGA Republicans on the Cochise County, AZ Board of Elections to certify their results immediately to prevent the disenfranchisement of all of the county’s voters. Another Arizona judge sanctioned attorneys representing failed GOP candidates, election deniers Kari Lake and Mark Finchem, for filing frivolous lawsuits challenging the election systems in the state’s two biggest counties that ‘baselessly undermine public trust’ in elections. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Black Friday, Earthalujah Sunday (00:29:00)
The rapacious shopping economy has been our devil for 20 years in the Church of Stop Shopping. But that doesn’t matter. Because this week the zombie tsunami crashes on us all. The News from the Natural World in this Earth Riot episode is breath-taking in the finality of it violence. And meanwhile we shout Earthalujah!!! …because we are grateful that life evolves, and our dead bodies are released into the sky as flowers and Chestnut-sided Warblers…. Earthalujah!
TURN ON THE NEWS: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (00:28:00)
“Turn On The News” is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in “Turn On The News” each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides — good and evil — every time you “Turn On The News.” This week: “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” There is a surprise guest on the menu.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 12/2/22 (00:58:00)
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BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS 12/4/22 (00:59:00)
The Democrats Change Their Presidential Primary Nominating Calendar for 2024 | Why has Such a Small Man as Putin Had a Disproportionate Impact on the World Stage?
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Increasing Our Body’s Capacity for Living Through Embodied Awareness & Challenging the Status Quo w Jessie Owens (00:59:00)
Jessie Owens is a dance artist, choreographer, structural integration practitioner and an embodiment practitioner. She recently graduated from the Goddard College Graduate Institute in the healing arts & embodiment studies program, where she wrote a brilliant thesis entitles The Adaptable Body: Increasing the Body’s Capacity for Living Through Interoceptive Awareness, Effort and Challenging the Status Quo, which is the subject of our conversation, in which we talk about the power of movement and dance to open new portals of possibility in the way we experience and relate to the world around us and ourselves in each new moment, infusing our lives with a new richness and joy that can be hard to find in our stressful achievement oriented world.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: We have to own part of China’s problem (00:58:46)
China is experiencing the largest, most widespread violent protests since Tiananmen Square. While this apparently was sparked by harsh covid lockdowns, this has been a long time coming. Surveillance, forced labor, censorship; it adds up to rage & the desire to be free. However, the west has to own a part of this situation too. We explore this, plus the latest cybersecurity news and data breaches!
SATURDAY 12.03.22 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 12/1/22: NatSec journalist Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel on Oath Keepers guilty verdicts (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: A jury has convicted far-right Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes and top lieutenant Kelley Meggs on charges of Seditious Conspiracy, and found them and three others guilty of felony Obstruction of an Official Government Proceeding, alongside other charges related to their failed efforts to help Donald Trump steal the 2020 presidential election, block the peaceful transfer of power, and overthrow the U.S. government on January 6, 2021. National security journalist MARCY WHEELER of Emptywheel.net explains what the guilty verdicts mean going forward for other upcoming sedition trials, and for others yet to be charged for the same felony crimes, such as Roger Stone, Alex Jones, and Trump himself. Wheeler also delves into topics related to the appointment of war crimes prosecutor Jack Smith as Special Counsel to oversee both the federal January 6 probe and the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of Trump’s theft of classified government documents, what may be in store for Republican members of Congress allegedly involved with the planning of the attempted coup, and much more. Also today: 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel nixed the appointment of a Special Master by a Trump-appointed judge that slowed down DOJ’s investigation of Trump’s theft of classified documents. Trump-backed, losing Republican Senate nominee and former celebrity TV Doctor Mehmet Oz is apparently not welcome back on TV. Two longtime far-right GOP operatives, Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, who were convicted in a robocall scheme to hoax voters with false election information, were sentenced to 500 hours of voter registration work in low-income neighborhoods.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE (00:58:49)
How did we get here? So many mass shootings; how did the gun culture become so powerful? Look to the Civil War. Militarily devastated, the Confederate culture transformed guns into a totem. In this revealing discussion, U of Wisconsin-Madison professor Nick Buttrick reveals the roots of Americas mass shootings and says kids today offer real hope for change.
Best of ATTITTUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 12/3/22 (00:59:30)
http://www.arniearnesen.org/WP/
GROWING GREENER: Coexisting With Black Bears (00:29:00)
One of the great success stories of American wildlife, black bears are returning throughout their historic range and even moving into the suburbs. Confrontations with human inhabitants have fed calls for hunting seasons to curb their numbers. Wildlife ecologist Laura Simon explains why this is unlikely to resolve the problem, and shares proven strategies for reducing black bear problems.
GOT SCIENCE?: Is Capturing and Storing CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuels a Viable Climate Solution? (00:29:00)
Energy expert Steve Clemmer discusses the pros and cons of carbon capture and storage technologies and what role they might play in fighting the climate crisis.
THE BOPST SHOW: And Here We Are Instead (00:54:35)
Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Carat, Poor Bob, Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program, Bio Ritmo, Oscar Brown Jr., Field Music, George Faith, Ronnie Ronalde, Tony Joe White, The Toys, General Muzka, Dip In The Pool, and The Colors.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #456 (00:58:00)
Ralph invites longtime colleague, Joan Claybrook, to the program to help him pay tribute to the work of the legendary, Michael Pertschuk, an individual responsible for an enormous amount of landmark, lifesaving consumer legislation. Then Steve and David interview Claire Nader about her book You Are Your Own Best Teacher! Sparking the Curiosity, Imagination and Intellect of Tweens. Plus, Ralph once again warns against falling for Medicare (Dis)Advantage.
FRIDAY 12.02.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday December 2, 2022
JUST SOLUTIONS: Just Solutions – Teaching Black History to White People (00:29:00)
This episode first aired in December 2021. The teaching of race and history in public schools has become the latest culture war in the US. Republican-controlled state legislatures have led the charge, and multiple states have passed legislation banning the teaching of critical race theory, and many additional states have introduced or plan to introduce similar bans. Leonard N. Moore, the George Littlefield Professor of American History at UT Austin, asks why is the teaching of Black history so controversial? In his latest book Teaching Black History to White People, Dr. Moore says every white person in America should be required to take a Black history class in either high school or college. He joins us today to talk about his own experience of 25 years teaching Black history.
COUNTERSPIN 12/2/22: UC Strike, Evangelicals and the Court (00:28:00)
Nelson Lichtenstein/UC strike, Marjorie Cohn/evangelicals and the Court
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Did Some in our Federal Police Conspire to Overthrow America? (00:57:59)
Was there a conspiracy “even if it only involved a handful of people” at the highest levels of our government to end the American Experiment that was only defeated by sheer luck? Also is Hershel Walker guilty of voter fraud? And will people be required to bury zygotes?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Alexander Zaitchik on Effective Altruism + Longtermism (00:29:00)
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried’s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the spheres of business, politics and philanthropy. Bankman-Fried was one of the largest donors to and a huge proponent of effective altruism, a social and philosophical movement started by academics Peter Singer, Toby Ord, and William MacAskill. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to author and journalist Alexander Zaitchik to learn more about the effective altruism movement and its offshoot known as “longtermism.” We discuss how longtermism sprung from effective altruism, how the downfall of Bankman-Fried might change the mega-philanthropy space moving forward, and how the movement all too often ignores the immediate threat of climate change.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently (00:28:00)
When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and BIPOC media got right, and they’re still missing many important stories. That’s the message from this roundtable of journalists we call Meet the BIPOC Press, a monthly feature of the Laura Flanders Show. What do the money medias hits and misses tell us about what journalists need to be doing better ” or differently ” in the weeks and months ahead? For this conversation, Laura is joined by S. Mitra Kalita, the publisher of Epicenter-NYC and co-founder of URL Media, a network of Black and Brown community news outlets that partners with the Laura Flanders Show every month; Habib Rahman, the cofounder of TBN24, the first Bangladeshi 24/7 live television channel in the US, and Stephanie Williams, the executive editor of the IE Voice and Black Voice News serving Southern California. How did their outlets meet the needs of their constituents and voters? Some of the answers are pretty surprising. Music spotlight features Only One Can Win by i Poet Laureate from Sintax the Terrifics album Year One.
THE BOPST SHOW: And Here We Are Instead (00:54:35)
Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Carat, Poor Bob, Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program, Bio Ritmo, Oscar Brown Jr., Field Music, George Faith, Ronnie Ronalde, Tony Joe White, The Toys, General Muzka, Dip In The Pool, and The Colors.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/2/22 (00:56:43)
On the Show: Colorado election officials are ordering a recount in the race between Lauren Boebert and Adam Frisch. Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn delivers a farewell address on the House floor and rails against “soft metrosexuals.” Republican Congressman Jim Jordan wants to investigate Apple for deciding to not advertise on Twitter. Caller asks if it’s possible to truly be a good president. Caller discusses being able to communicate with other drivers. Caller talks about the right’s obsession with trans women in women’s sports. Caller discusses campaign finance reform. Caller suspects Ron DeSantis would beat Joe Biden in a 2024 presidential election. Caller talks about the accuracy of polling. David responds to viewer emails and social media messages.
THURSDAY 12.01.22 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday December 1, 2022
RADIO ECOSHOCK: O HEAVENLY GRID: The Burning Question (00:58:00)
Our opening prayer O Heaveny Grid is from the Firesign Theatre – dedicated to the late and deceased COP27 climate conference held in Egypt this month. Katrin Ganswindt from the German enviro group Urgewald reports oil, gas, and coal companies have announced expansion enough to break the future. From Massachusetts, expert glaciologist Julie Brigham-Grette reports ice collapse in the latest Cryosphere 2022 report.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Beware of Those Who Believe They Were Sent By God (00:58:00)
Will they end the American experiment and take us down the road that others, so certain of the blessing of their god and their DNA, briefly took most of Europe eighty years ago? Also why are gas prices being down not being treated as a political story? Will Georgia go blue? Franklin Grahams ugly new lie about same-sex marriage exposed. The real reason why China is still having severe lockdowns?Can the GOP harm Ukraine? Also, the war is in a dangerous new phase.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Self-Serving Purpose of Philanthropists (00:59:54)
It’s “giving Tuesday.” The hyper rich, instead of paying their fair share of taxes, protect their assets by philanthropy. But who benefits really? At this time of year, we all think about giving. But what are philanthropists all about? To launder a plutocrats reputation, preserving great wealth and maintaining dominance and control. Our guest Edgar Villanueva has a new book, a second edition of Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance. Instead of hoarding power and wealth, foundations should address the source of the money. And boards of foundations need to reflect the communities they serve. And it works; there is evidence of positive change. Give a listen.
http://keepingdemocracyalive.com/
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) pt. 71-72 (00:33:06)
Loosely based on the story of a 1908 murder, this is the tale of upwardly mobile Clyde Griffiths. Having been raised in a family of street evangelists, his job as a luxury hotel bell boy makes him realize that money and influence can get him the finer things in life. Eventually he begins dating and having to choose between the poor but virtuous Roberta, and Sondra the wealthy socialite. Come along as we join Clyde on his path to the American Dream.
This is volume 2 of 2.
TEXT: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184846
WINGS #33-22 A Kenyan in the World (00:28:48)
Maimuna Mwidau grew up in a polygamous household. Her father was Mayor of Mombasa and later a Member of Parliament. He saw political “convening power” in this daughter and encouraged her interest in politics. She was educated in Kenya and Canada, and became both a political analyst and an activist for women’s political rights. Diana Wanyonyi interviewed her about her work on women’s inclusion in Kenya’s Constitution and her election observer work in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Somalia. While Mwidau once ran for a political office, she doesn’t see a level playing field yet for women in her country, which lags behind many others in that respect. She would like elections to be about the issues, instead of mainly religion, tribe, and party affiliations. She comments on the failure to yet fully implement women’s inclusion in politics in Kenya, and the possibility that the constitutional provision might be overturned. Mwidau was honored in 2013 for her work alongside both the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute – the foreign policy funding arms of the two major US political parties. She is a well known political analyst for various media, and is still researching barriers to women’s political participation and how to make change.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 12/1/22 (00:59:51)
On the Show: Adam Rogers, Senior Tech Correspondent at Insider, joins David to discuss his recent article about social media deepening polarization in America, but maybe not in the way that most people would assume. Joe Biden possibly responds to a shout from the audience of “four more years” with what might be “I don’t know about that.” Failed former President Donald Trump’s tax returns have finally been released to the House committee investigating him. Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries will replace Nancy Pelosi as the leader of Democrats in the House of Representatives. Failed Arizona Republican Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says she wants supporters willing to go to jail for her. Former Vice President Mike Pence appears on Fox News in an interview so absurd, it rivals some of Donald Trump’s worst interviews. Donald Trump explodes in anger at Kanye West over the recent dinner fiasco at Mar-a-Lago. Donald Trump once again loses it in a middle-of-the-night rant on Truth Social.
Voicemail caller warns David that his judgment day is coming.