DECEMBER 2024

MONDAY 12.02.24 PROGRAM Notes 
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday December 2, 2024

https://www.democracynow.org

CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Solar energy is helping to power public landscaping in Oak Park, Illinois (00:01:30)

Electric tools provide a cleaner and quieter alternative to gas-powered equipment.

www.YaleClimateConnections.org

WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #37: Regulations, Sustainable Food (00:29:38)

Food is the heart of sustainability. Eating healthy, raw, locally produced food has been the norm since dawn of time. But in our industrialized, monoculture society, government seems set on making what has been the norm ” illegal. What are the barriers to a healthy lifestyle ” and how can you get around them? Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of the realities of sustainable living.

Joel Salatin at Polyface Farms

Food issues, selling on site, farmer’s markets

Selling eggs

Commercial Kitchens

Raw Milk Issues

https://bluerockstation.podbean.com

ECONOMIC UPDATE: The U.S. Capitalist Class and the Election (00:29:00)

In this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff discusses how US foreign aid serves the interests of corporations and their profits. We highlight how San Juan County in Washington state handled its fiscal crisis by cutting its employees’ work week to 32 hours. We update you on workers of Wells Fargo Bank who are currently conducting a unionization drive, which could lead to other US banks doing the same. We provide a quick analysis of the history of settler colonialism in New Zealand and how this practice informs and influences the Israel and Palestinian crisis. Lastly, we interview Professors Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre for a Marxian analysis of the exceptional nature of the US capitalist class and the US election.

https://economicupdate.libsyn.com

THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Progressive Caucus Postulates Plans for Return Under Menace of DJT (00:58:00)

National Progressive Townhall Meeting with phone questions answered by U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District) / Vice Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus. Listeners of the Thom Hartmann show ply the representative with queries on Congressional; strategies with the return of Trump, the apparent leadership vacuum in the DNC, and will exponential reforestation blunt planetary tipping points for climate change.

https://www.thomhartmann.com

SPIRIT IN ACTION: Another Mother’s Child – A Jewish Quaker Reaches Out (00:55:00)

Many of us have been in pain about events in the Middle East for years, a pain that was horribly amplified by the massacre of Jews on October 7th, 2023, and the horrific and disproportional retribution that followed in Gaza by Israelis. Today’s guest is Sandy Green, a Jewish Quaker, formerly a Zionist, who found she could not un-see the evils perpetrated by Israel on Palestinians, not just recently, but for decades. Late in her long life, Sandy has become a visible activist, facing painful consequences, but remaining steadfast to a fuller and wider love. This show includes a couple-minute clip from the 3/28/2024 QuakerSpeak.com interview with Sandy Green, anonymously at the time, and a reading by Sandy of her poem, Another Mother’s Child. Among the places Sandy has spoken is the Fridays at Fetterman’s weekly protest. Past/present religious/spiritual influences: Jewish, Quaker

LITERATURE ALOUD: Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe ch. 17 (00:40:54)

Among the most banned books in the United States, Uncle Tom’s Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly is a novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe which treats slavery as a central theme. Stowe was a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Academy and an active abolitionist. The novel is believed to have had a profound effect on the North’s view of slavery. In fact, when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, President Lincoln is said to have commented, “So you’re the little lady whose book started the Civil War.” First published on March 20, 1852, the story focuses on the tale of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave, the central character around whose life the other characters—both fellow slaves and slave owners—revolve. The novel depicts the harsh reality of slavery while also showing that Christian love and faith can overcome even something as evil as enslavement of fellow human beings. (summary by Wikipedia and John Greenman)

https://librivox.org/uncle-toms-cabin-by-harriet-beecher-stowe

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6RVbWGBq38

THE BRADCAST: 11/28/2024 Encore: ‘Bullet Ballot’ Claims and Other Arguments for Hand-Counting 2024 Votes; Gaetz report files hacked (00:58:00)

On today’s ‘BradCast’: Concerns over the accuracy of the 2024 Election results are growing in the wake of cybersecurity and voting security experts urging the Harris Campaign to seek hand recounts in states where voting system software was breached and distributed after the 2020 Election. We explain new theories about the election concerns posed by financial services security expert Stephen Spoonamore – – but again, the only way to determine if the results were tabulated accurately is with a public hand-count of ballots. In Pennsylvania’s extremely close US Senate race, a court battle is underway over whether otherwise legal ballots should be tossed out if mail-in voters wrote the incorrect date on the outside envelope. A hacker has accessed the unreleased report detailing evidence in the disturbing sex trafficking charges against Donald Trump’s nominee for US Attorney General, Rep. Matt Gaetz. Plus Desi Doyen has our new ‘Green News Report.’
https://bradblog.com/?cat=675

SUNDAY 12.01.24 PROGRAM Notes
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RADIO 2050 Ep. 67: The Geek Way  (00:58:06)

Andrew discusses his path to studying technology and his personal worldview. The conversation touches upon positive trends in technology, as well as the potential harms that may come with emerging technology like AI. Andrew also explores the principles of the Geek Way, which includes norms of science, ownership, speed, and openness.

https://radioparadise.com/radio2050

EARTH RIOT RADIO #145: Can We Be Strange Enough To Change Enough? (00:29:00)

Is any resistance to our carbon-based life style gonna happen? For years now screaming doomsayers have predicted these drowning and burning cities, the starvation and drought and disease. Is the Sixth Extinction underway? This week, with music from Common and the Fiery Eagles of Justice and The Stop Shopping Choir and lots of bullfrogs. We ask: Can We be Strange Enough To Change Enough?

https://revbilly.com

BOOM GODDESS RADIO #546: Smartphones 101 (00:23:34)

This week we’re going to discuss everything smartphone related. Many of our Boom Goddess listeners have shared with us that they are confused about smartphone terminology and technology. Helping us navigate this is Stephen Somerville, a tech entrepreneur based in Mesa, Arizona. During the show Stephen helps us define what a smartphone is, the differences between different operating systems and other general topics concerning the smartphone.

https://www.boomgoddessradio.com

Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN November 30, 2024 (00:59:30)

Segment One

We begin the show with Mel Goodman, former CIA Analyst, about the indictment of Netanyahu as a war criminal by the ICC. We discuss the reactions of the US government, and other governments, including Iran.

Segment Two

We then catch up with Molly Reddin of ProPublica. We discuss how Project 2025 is being implemented by Trump, even though he insisted during the campaign that he knew nothing of it. In addition, we learn about his plan to use the power of the purse, which is rightly that of Congress, for revenge and retaliation when moneys are to be spent.

https://www.arniearnesen.org/WP

BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: December 1, 2024 (00:59:00)

If the Senate Has Hearings, Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Will Not Be Confirmed | Trump’s Envoy To Ukraine General Kellogg’s Plan to End the War | With Iran and Hezbollah on the Ropes, Syrian Rebels Backed By Turkey Make Surprising Gains.

https://www.backgroundbriefing.org

MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Istanbul Crossing, Syrian Refugees with Timothy Jay Smith (00:59:01)

Raised crisscrossing America pulling a small green trailer behind the family car, Timothy Jay Smith developed a ceaseless wanderlust that has taken him around the world many times. En route, hes found the characters that people his work. Polish cops and Greek fishermen, mercenaries and arms dealers, child prostitutes and wannabe terrorists, Indian Chiefs and Indian tailors: he hung with them all in an unparalleled international career that saw him smuggle banned plays from behind the Iron Curtain, maneuver through Occupied Territories, represent the US at the highest levels of foreign governments and stowaway aboard a devil’s barge for a three-day crossing from Cape Verde that landed him in an African jail. Tim brings the same energy to his writing that he brought to a distinguished career, and as a result, he has won top honors for his novels, screenplays and stage plays in numerous prestigious competitions. His novels include, The Fourth Courier, Fire on the Island & his new book is Istanbul Crossing, about a gay Syrian refugee who helps other Syrian refugees on their arduous & often desperate attempt to get to Europe.

In this interview conversation we talk about the Syrian refugee crisis as they flee from war torn Syria, seeking a better life in Europe, as well as what happens to those who don’t have the money to get all the way to Europe and get stranded along the way. Tim also shares some of his overseas adventures and misadventures. We also talk about the coming global and US refugee crisis as climate change & the rising ocean displace coastal region around the world and the US

DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: The Case For The Editorial Process (00:58:35)

Disinformation, in part, drove the 2024 election. Real time information was perpetually poisoned by false narratives and the kicker of the whole thing is that Elon Musk openly embraced and encouraged this! If we kill the editorial process and information vetting, there is no coming back from the false realities that are being online and convincing people of things that simply aren’t true. This is what amps up violence and we need to explore the differences between actual vetted news and the fake garbage pervasive online. Don’t miss this episode.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-dive-radio-show-and-nicks-nerd-news/id1262505658

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