TUESDAY 01.31.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday January 31, 2023
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Having the Confidence of a Chocolate Chip (00:30:18)
On this show we’re checking the recipe, measuring out our ingredients with precision, and cooking with conviction as we find the confidence of a chocolate chip. What does that even mean as my stomach grumbles at the mention of a chocolate chip? Don’t worry, I’m going to get to that and more. Let’s start here, where do you find your confidence? Maybe you’re saying, what confidence? or maybe you walk tall exuding courage and assertiveness. No matter where you currently are on the confidence scale, there is something in this show for you. A different perspective and a positive alternative, so stay with me.
COOL SOLUTIONS: A Garment Worker 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.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Did Trump Betray Our Spies to Russia? (00:58:00)
Evidence continues to come into the light that Trump sold us out to the Russians. So why is there so little coverage of these facts? And why are some Americans going down the rabbit hole of Russian propaganda?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Black History Special (00:58:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour we explore black history through music. We’ve put together a special playlist of songs to educate about a few of the people who made significant contributions to technology, culture, and the quest for justice and equality. Sing-along with us while we hear about black people in STEM, film, music, and more. We’ll learn about Harriet Tubman, what was meant in her message to “follow the drinking gourd.” We honor Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., heroes of the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950’s and 60’s.
The Children’s Corner has a book review for us on the autobiographical story, Ruby Bridges, This is Your Time.
Get ready to dance and learn with us on The Children’s Hour’s Musical Black History special.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 10 (00:36:59)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
GREEN STREET NEWS: Closing the Nuclear Cancer Factory with Diane Turco (00:28:04)
Our feature story today concerns the old Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant outside Boston, and how the company decommissioning the plant is planning to dump a million gallons of nuclear waste into Cape Cod Bay.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/31/23 (00:52:24)
On the Show: Jesse Dollemore, host of “Dollemore Daily” and the “I Doubt It” podcast, fills in for David while he’s on vacation. Heather MacDonald and Charlie Kirk provide horrible takes on the topic of policing in America. Congressman James Comer is off to a bad start as the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Mollie Hemingway and Harris Faulkner discuss a critical race theory conversation between Bryan Cranston and Bill Maher. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert endorses Donald Trump for president in 2024. Jesse Watters gives a harebrained take on the police killing of Tyre Nichols. Grant Stinchfield gives a harebrained take on the police killing of Tyre Nichols. Congressman Matt Gaetz appears on Ari Melber’s MSNBC show and it goes poorly for him. Manhattan prosecutors are presenting a case against Donald Trump to a grand jury. Donald Trump Jr. has an outrageous new podcast.
MONDAY 01.30.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday January 30, 2023
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #85: When Energy is Free (00:29:31)
We are used to energy becoming more and more expensive over time. The cost of electricity has increased 7 fold since 1970. That same year a gallon of gasoline cost 36 cents. But solar energy has changed that assumption. The cost of a solar panel has dropped from over $100 per watt in 1975 to only around 25 cents today. If these trends continue – energy will soon be free. But that doesn’t mean you won’t pay for it. Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station to discuss how energy will change over the coming decades and what that means to you and me.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: A Corporatized America (00:29:00)
In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff explains why capitalism does not deserve credit for improved living conditions, Home Depot billionaire blames US capitalism’s problems on US workers being “lazy, fat, and stupid,” Southwest Airlines as example of failures by both corporations and their gov’t “regulators,” George Santos as creature of capitalist advertising. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Chris Hedges on the crisis of corporate America in 2023.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Pssst! Wanna Buy a Supreme Court Justice? (00:58:00)
A donation of as little as $25,000 can get you face time over dinner with a sitting justice of the US Supreme Court. But that shouldn’t stop us from calling out the Courts corruption and preparing for the day when Democrats can regain control of Congress and pass meaningful court reform. Also, veteran war correspondent Phil Ittner, reports on the changing geopolitical threat from the ground in Kyiv, Ukraine.
RADIO ART HOUR: Roberto Paci Dalo, Aubry Gilles (00:57:58)
Tune in today to hear “Napoli” by Roberto Paci Dalo and “Under the Ahwach Moon” by Aubry Gilles. Plus a radio advertisement for radio from the 1960s from actor, author, comedian, puppeteer, and radio personality, Stan Freberg. And just about every reference Bruce Springsteen has made to radio in his songs. Tune in for “Napoli” by Roberto Paci Dalo. In spare, deliberate “snap shots,” “Napoli” explores the sounds of one Italian city: steps and screams, songs and invocations, a celebration at Mount Vesuvius, traffic noise…A t times, the microphone is used as a lens to enlarge acoustical fragments otherwise almost inaudible. In this way, micro-listening and macro listening exist side by side, adding to a sense of mystery: An immersion in the city through the mystery of hearing. Originally produced as an 8 channel sound installation produced for Kunstradio/ORF, Vienna, in collaboration with Audiobox/RAI, Rome. Then hear “Under the Ahwach Moon” by Aubry Gilles, introduced by Jos Alejandro Rivera. “Under the Ahwach Moon,” created in 2014, is a sound-collage made of various sound-check recordings in Morocco. Together with Zouheir Atbane, Gilles Aubry spent several weeks traveling the country in 2013 for their project, An Anthology of Ears Preservation, which included research on cultural preservation through listening practices and the sonic materialities of traditional music. Aubry writes, I consider the sound-check as a special moment of the music practice, not yet part of the music spectacle, but rather a necessary preparation for it, in which all the elements are tuned together: instruments, voices, amplification technique, musicians mind, and space. In essence, Under the Ahwach Moon reveals the social, material, and spatial dimension of music through the recording of sound-check situations. In this piece Aubry says listeners can hear traditional Moroccan music instruments mostly from Berbere (or rather Amazigh) regions including the lutar, the rebab, the bendir, the zamar, the raita, the qsbah, voices, as well as excerpts from the Paul Bowles collection of traditional Moroccan music from 1959. Also heard, are Aubrey, Zouheir Atbane and Robert Millis rehearsing with this material for a performance which took place in Marrakech in April 2014. The piece was broadcast in 2014 for Picnic Radio, a collection of stations that operate in ethereal and physical space collaborating with people around the world; and a radio art project curated by European-based organization, Zonoff.- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2022, Jos Alejandro Rivera.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 9-10 (00;50:05)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
ALAN WATTS: The Illusion of Money, Time and Ego (00:10:36)
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/
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/30/23 (01:11:29)
On the Show: Jesse Dollemore, host of “Dollemore Daily” and the “I Doubt It” podcast, fills in for David while he’s on vacation. Footage is released of the police killing of Tyre Nichols. The man who attacked Paul Pelosi calls up a local news reporter. The top donors to disgraced Congressman George Santos’s campaign don’t actually exist, suggesting possible campaign finance violations. Donald Trump hosts a rally in New Hampshire to little fanfare. Donald Trump hosts a rally in South Carolina to little fanfare. Steve Bannon hosts a humiliating interview with Kari Lake and Mike Lindell. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy delivers a disastrous appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” The Supreme Court didn’t disclose financial ties to the “expert” who reviewed the leak of the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. Fox News host Harris Faulkner bogusly claims Republicans are more fiscally responsible than Democrats. Federal prosecutors decided not to charge Donald Trump because they figured someone else would.
SUNDAY 01.29.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 1/27/23 (00:57:30)
Encore: original air-date 1-23-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: We open the phone lines to callers to get their thoughts as we catch up on the boatload of news over the weekend. Among the stories covered today: Should the Biden White House continue to refuse to negotiate with House Republicans over their dangerous and disingenuous plan to hold the debt ceiling and nation’s economy hostage, in order to extract unrelated spending cuts? The corporate media continues to draw false equivalency between Donald Trump’s theft and refusal to return government documents and President Biden’s cooperation in the discovery of classified documents at Biden’s home. The two cases are like a ‘Goofus and Gallant’ of document scandals. Another mass shooting in America, this time in Monterey Park, California, left 11 dead. A jury found four more Oath Keepers guilty of Seditious Conspiracy in the U.S. Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Arizona’s new Democratic governor has put the state’s death penalty on hold. A broad array of diverse callers have their say on all of the above and more.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Earth Is Why We Scream (00:29:00)
Emergencies won’t exist in the traditional ways when there is nothing on the surface of the planet but natural disasters. We have many small dramas but then there is the Great Extinction. Then there is Apocalypse that invents future life by punching our ticket. Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused,
music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue — the planets Sixth Extinction. Made by “Earth-loving urban activists” from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring News From the Natural World, a weekly gathering of climate changes latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Multiple Personalities (00:27:48)
This week: “Multiple Personalities” This week one representative is many.
“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.”
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 1/27/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1: We talk with Scott Braddock about government spending. We focus on Texas, which is enjoying a budget surplus.
Part 2: We talk with Bill curry and Robert Hennelly about Medicare and Medicare Advantage
(not part of Medicare).
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS (00:59:00)
The Culture of Violence in Elite Police Squads and the Failure of Command to Know or Want to Know What is Going on at the Street Level | George Kennan’s Warning About NATO Expansion Eastward | The Rise of the Radical Right at Home and Abroad.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Need to Risk Changing and Becoming New Shapes (00:59:00)
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Give her a salamander and a stone and shell write you a love story. Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially ” between beings, between ideas, between differences & mythical gradients. Sophie is the author of several collections of poetry & her new book is the Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine. She recently finished a work of historical fiction, The Madonna Secret, that offers an eco-feminist revision of the gospels, that will be coming out this summer. She is currently researching her next epic, a mythopoetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde. Sophie Strand has become my favorite teacher of the shape shifting realm of our evolving changing relationship with the world, particularly in relationship to the wild times we are living in today. Her perspectives are expansive wild-crafted and deeply relevant to everything we are facing in the world around us and in ourselves.
LAW AND DISORDER 1/30/23 (00:57:33)
The January 6 Report
The January 6 Report by the House January 6 Committee has just been published by Harper Collins. It is a page turner. Most strikingly, the report documents the multi-pronged attack that Trump plotted. The crucial point made by the January 6 Committee report is its demonstration that it is a profound misconception to view the January 6 invasion of the Capitol as merely a group of Trump supporters gone wild. The plot was not limited to the January 6 violence at the Capital.
Martin Luther King Jr. : A Dream Realized
We take a look at where the long struggle to end racial injustice stands in the United States today. Oh, some progress has surely been made, but to say we’ve a very long way to go before Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream can be considered realized is both true and also a sad and gross understatement; a sad commentary on the role that white privilege and racial hatred continue to play in the United States, hundreds of years since our founding.
SATURDAY 01.28.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 1/26/23 (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Some thoughts on the ‘Doomsday Clock,’ which the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved forward to just ’90 Seconds until Midnight,’ due to Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons in its brutal war on Ukraine, and the breakdown in international norms and institutions. Russia pretended the move was ‘really alarming.’ The US and many European countries agreed to send modern battle tanks to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s war crimes. Although some on the supposed ‘left’ in the US echo Kremlin propaganda, supporting Ukraine’s right to defend itself against Russia’s brutal invasion of its sovereign borders is consistent with anti-war advocacy and anti-imperialism. In New Jersey, a county race result was flipped after an unrelated issue revealed, two months after the Nov. 2022 election, that the computerized election system had been mis-programmed. There is no evidence of malfeasance, and the voting machine manufacturer ESS downplayed the mistake as ‘human error’. A state lawmaker’s call for mandating Open Source software on all election systems in New Jersey would improve transparency, but election security experts say that would not address the problem, recommending that the state adopt hand-marked paper ballots and meaningful, strict post-election audits. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Stronger Than Ever: The One World Idea is Back (00:59:33)
Nationalism. It’s what caused the insane first world war. And today climate change requires a new interdependence. Enough go-it-alone cultural supremacist nationalism. At this unique time, opportunities for working together offer great promise. And guess who had this vision 80 years ago? Wendell Willkie in 1940.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 1/28/23 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin our show with Jonathan Feingold, from Boston University Law, with the latest installment of Race Class. During this our 13th episode, we talk about how the current debt relief plan for Black farmers is not nearly enough to overcome the more than a century of deliberate inequality built into many government policies, especially the policies about land, farm, and home ownership. Where Black folks were systematically stripped of their wealth.
Segment Two
We then speak with Lee Harris of the American Prospect about the transition to green energy. We discuss what new green jobs should be, and what kinds of efforts are needed to successfully proceed with green initiatives.
GROWING GREENER: The Easy Way to Start Your Plants from Seed (00:29:00)
Starting plants from seed is economical and opens up a world of species and cultivars you’ll never find in the garden center. Seed starting is also easy and fun if you use the winter-sowing technique that Dolly Foster promotes.
TUC RADIO: Our economic system assigns no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment 1/2 (00:28:53)
Marilyn Warings work and inspiring life are described in a documentary film by Terre Nash. Im bringing back the soundtrack of this film to support a debate on the unquestioned need for economic growth at all cost and on what course to take to end the war on Ukraine. At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a feminist economist. The film, Who’s Counting traces her quest to explore how the fate of women and of the earth are irrevocably tied up with the deadly pursuit of economic growth. Marilyn Waring was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment.
THE BOPST SHOW: On The Wrong Side of History (00:54:54)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s program, you’ll hear Polish singer and actress Izabela Trojanowska, 21st century Japanese punk group Otoboke Beaver, and legendary British On-U Sound dub rockers Creation Rebel as well as French singer Savarah, the modern dance floor stylings of Regressive Left and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #464 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes James Damico and Mark Baildon, authors of How to Confront Denial: Literacy, Social Studies, and Climate Change. They discuss all forms of denial including climate science denial and climate action denial. Then, Ralph, Steve, David, and Hannah discuss three topics in the news, mass shootings, the war in Ukraine, and the outrage of pharmaceutical companies raising the prices of taxpayer funded Covid vaccines.
FRIDAY 01.27.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday January 27, 2023
JUST SOLUTIONS; Revisiting Improvements to the Vote (00:29:00)
Netroots 2022 recaps from Pennsyvania. Eileen Reavey on the push for a national popular vote and Nathan Lockwood on rank choice voting.
COUNTERSPIN: Maurice Carney on Patrice Lumumba (00:28:00)
This week on CounterSpin: US media elites have gotten comfy with what writer Adam Johnson calls their “wall calendar version” of Martin Luther King, in which he represents the “good” left, unmoved by racial nationalism and Marxist ideology. With Patrice Lumumba, assassinated by the CIA on January 17, 1961, as newly elected leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the story is different. Look up Lumumba on the anniversary of his murder and you’ll find—nothing, really, except maybe a story about how street vendors in Kinshasa are being pushed off of Lumumba Boulevard to prepare for a visit by the Pope. Martin Luther King, corporate media would have it, offers a lesson about hopes and dreams and the slow but steady push toward progress. Lumumba’s assassination, judging by attention, has zero lessons for US citizens or the press corps to learn about the past, the present or the future.
That’s how you know you should pay attention. Maurice Carney, co-founder and executive director of the group Friends of the Congo, has another story. And we hear about it this week on CounterSpin.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Winning the Information War and What Are The Stakes? (00:58:00)
Fox News is now targeting Latinos – Are the Democrats losing the “information war?”
After a self righteous claim to never have had secret documents – former Vice President Mike Pence was found to have lied when top secret documents were found at his own residence! Was his anger at Biden only projection? Plus the GOP stands up to a week of “Heedless Progressivism” … what!! And did Putin and Trump conspire with the FBI New York office to defeat Hillary?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Jared Yates Sexton on American Democracy and Religion (00:29:00)
In his book, “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People,” Jared Yates Sexton writes that The American Myth paints the process as divinely inspired and the result of a work of distinctly American genius, the Constitution itself an impeccable guide in all things and a means by which freedom and liberty might be bestowed upon every citizen. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with author and podcaster Jared Yates Sexton about his latest book, “Midnight Kingdom,” discuss the role of Christian Nationalism in the US, and look at the potential ascension of Ron DeSantis as the Republican heir apparent to Donald Trump.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Johann Hari: Get Your Mind Back / Save Democracy? (00:28:00)
Are we too distracted to think? The answer is worse than you’d expect. In his latest book, New York Times bestselling author Johann Hari says were all the victims of attention theft and the consequences are catastrophic, for our personal lives and our democracy. Adults in the workplace focus on a task for 3 minutes on average, and that number is declining. We’ve got so many crises we need to deal with that require sustained focus and attention on the part of the citizenry, Hari tells Laura, but our focus has been stolen by companies out to make a profit. Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again was named one of the best books of 2022 by many publications and is out in paperback this month. In this wide-ranging conversation, Johann and Laura discuss how we got here, what structural changes we need, and how we need to stop beating ourselves up. It’s not our fault we can’t focus, says Hari, but we do need our minds back if we want society to function. All that and a commentary from Laura on Luddites.
THE BOPST SHOW: On The Wrong Side of History (00:54:54)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s program, you’ll hear Polish singer and actress Izabela Trojanowska, 21st century Japanese punk group Otoboke Beaver, and legendary British On-U Sound dub rockers Creation Rebel as well as French singer Savarah, the modern dance floor stylings of Regressive Left and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/27/23 (00:00:00)
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THURSDAY 01.26.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday January 26, 2023
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Polycrisis Angst: Denial or Gaia? (00:58:00)
How are we supposed to cope with the awful knowledge about climate and losing nature? Why do so many deny obvious science? Cognitive scientist Philip Fernbach discovers a disturbing mechanism in society and the mind. As the polycrisis becomes permanent, former World Watch Editor Erik Assadourian explains the new Gaian Way. Can this help?
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Media Ceiling May Fall On Democrats (00:58:00)
The right wing attack on mainstream media continues, as a rapidly expanding Spanish-language radio network aims to be the Fox News of Latino radio. Will it be enough to win Republican majorities in future elections? Plus- Ken and Daryl Weber are telling Democrats to stop whining and start winning! They join Thom to talk about their new book “Branding Democrats”.
LOPATE AT LARGE: Filmmakers for the Prosecution (00:51:55)
Adapted from Sandra Schulbergs monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood ” brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg ” serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five years after the trial, French journalist and filmmaker Jean Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mines where films lay burning, uncovers never-before-seen footage, and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial ” Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today by Stuart Schulberg “was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War. Klotzs riveting film also fills in the gaps of how these groundbreaking materials were sourced, and poses still-pertinent questions about documentarian’s obligations to posterity.
ALAN WATTS: Conquering Fear (00:14:32)
Conquering Fear by Alan Watts. 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. 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).
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 7-8 (00;26:16)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
WINGS #41-22 Papal Politics (00:28:59)
Joanna Manning is a former nun from England who studied theology then left the order under the influence of Vatican II. She long championed the rights of women in the Church, but now she is a Canadian Anglican priest. Her three books are: Is the Pope Catholic? A Woman Confronts Her Church (1999), Take Back the Truth: Confronting Papal Power and the Religious Right (2002), and The Magdalene Moment: A Vision for a New Christianity (2006). In this interview, she discussed misogyny in Church theology, from Aquinas through John Paul II, as well as views of the poor and the role of Opus Dei in Church politics. An update describes Pope Francis’s 2022 cancellation of Opus Dei’s representation among the Bishops, and its new status as a diocese without borders.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/26/23 (00:57:33)
On the Show: Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger, joins David to discuss Big Tech, censorship, science fiction, and much more. Republican Senator Ted Cruz figures out a way to criticize President Joe Biden but defend former Vice President Mike Pence over the classified documents situation. Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik twists herself into a rhetorical pretzel, explaining that Mike Pence did nothing wrong with regard to classified documents, but Joe Biden’s actions are a national security threat. Failed former President Donald Trump makes a sweaty, slurring statement in which he attempts to order Republicans around now that they control the House of Representatives. Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is trying to be Donald Trump’s 2024 Vice Presidential running mate. Following up on the incredible and disastrous YouTube situation from earlier this week. Supposed small government Republicans demand Congressional hearings over the decision made by private company DirecTV to no longer carry right wing television channel Newsmax. Voicemail caller attempts to confront David about cancel culture.
WEDNESDAY 01.25.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday January 25, 2023
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Katharine Scafide (00:11:09)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Katherine Scafide, PhD, RN, a tenured Associate Professor, forensic nurse, and scientist in the George Mason University School of Nursing, for a conversation about her research work focused on the use of specialized light sources to detect bruising on people with darker skin.
BOOMER BIBLE READING: Apes, Aggression and Aggrandizement – The Origins of Religion (00:12:30)
Selected passages from the satirical Boomer Bible by R. F. Laird.
https://theboomerbible.com/
ALAN WATTS: Are You Tired of Playing the Social Game? (00:08:50)
THIS WAY OUT #1817: AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman & global LGBTQ news (00:28:59)
The “AIDS Diva” doc keeps Connie Norman’s legend alive; Taiwan opens civil marriage to most foreign same-gender spouses, Scotland and the U.K. clash over transgender rights, Dutch lawmakers add an anti-queer bias ban in their Constitution, a EuroCourt orders rights for Russian same-gender couples while another declares a Polish broadcaster guilty of anti-gay workplace bias, U.S. students lose their federal lawsuit against anti-queer schools, and Des Moines’ Catholic diocese “disappears” trans people. 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: America Is #1 in Gun ownership and Gun Deaths – Time to Wake the Hell Up (00:58:00)
Mass shooters and child-killers are celebrating. Meanwhile Republican politicians vow to protect us and our kids from ” wait for it ” librarians and history teachers! Also, Deschutes County District Attorney, John Hummel joins Thom to share the result of the ballot last month on gun control in Oregon. Crazy Alert! Gun show is featuring a kid’s rifle inspired by the AR-15. Plus, is the anti-woke campaign of Ron DeSantos just all about getting white men angry? And is it working? Also, Investigative Journalist and Staff Writer for the Daily Kos, Dave Neiwert reports about the right wing attacks on the power grid.
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR: #1529 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part Two) (00:58:59)
This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky continue their discussion prompted by a letter from a teacher in Iowa who asks what they think are the ten most important American historical events she should teach to her students.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 4-6 (00;26:28)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Natural Curiosity & Indigenous Perspectives of Inquiry (00:28:00)
Natural Curiosity is both an entity and an idea. The entity, a nonprofit organization based in Toronto with a lab school and eponymous teaching guide, embodies the idea that environmental education must center our relations with all things, seen and unseen. Propelled by unequivocal recommendations from Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Natural Curiosity brings indigenous perspectives into environmental education. It is, as they put it, “the starting point of an important conversation about learning in relationship with Mother Earth.”
Alysse Kennedy and Aleksa Nitsis join me to unfurl what “indigenous perspectives of inquiry” entail, especially in the hands of non-indigenous teachers and learners. And we learn a few things from some 6th graders who model these lessons in a powerful way.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/25/23 (00:00:00)
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TUESDAY 01.24.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday January 24, 2023
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: The Power of Peace and Finding it Within (00:29:28)
On this show we’re taking in a big breath, closing our eyes, and remaining still as we tap into the power of peace that resides within us. What an amazing time-out and one that you can enlist anywhere and at any time. Chaos can be all-encompassing and before you know it, you’re swirling around with your thoughts pulled into a million different directions. You feel out of control and overwhelmed. Sorry for the radical change after such a lovely time-out but Im curious, how do you handle those shifts throughout the day? Are you rational, weighing out all your options with a smooth transition into a problem-solving mode? Or do you shut down, riding the swells only to be pulled under by the current? Sometimes it takes too much energy and focus to fight it.
COOL SOLUTIONS: Community Owned Solar (00:28:00)
Meet a retiree in rural OR and a group of millennials in WA who are spreading community owned solar projects across their states. Most community solar in the US benefits corporations more than communities, with a large percentage of the economic benefit extracted as profit. A retired scientist in Talent, OR organized the first participant owned community solar project in his state. A group of young people in Olympia WA figured out how to work around the state’s lack of virtual net metering and install community funded solar on non-profit and community buildings. Both groups are now working statewide on projects with partners including tribes, high schools, fire departments, county governments, and irrigation districts. Mason Rolph, Dan Orzech, and Ray Sanchez Pescador explain why we don’t have to wait for utilities, big investors, or politicians to expand solar access in our communities.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Hostage-Taking is No Way to Govern (00:58:00)
Thom dives deep on why brinkmanship over the debt ceiling is terrible for the economy. And then, the Market Institute’s Charles Sauer squares off with Thom over the economics- and the politics- of government deficits.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Journalism (00:58:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about a profession with the task of informing the public of the truth: Journalism. We will learn from journalists themselves, including two from New Mexico Press Women who let us know what journalists do, and how they are different from paid advertisers. Find out what we can look for to verify the truth of a story. Then we meet Maria Hinojosa, a groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist with a new children’s book about her life. We’ve got a kid’s crew review of Once I Was You Finding My Voice and Passing The Mic. It’s all mixed with great music. Learn with us, on The Children’s Hour!
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 1-3 (00:32:26)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
GREEN STREET NEWS: Plastic in Every Bite with Dr. Mary Beth Kirkham (00:28:17)
On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss how toxic beauty products are marketed to people of color, oil and gas companies are moving into geothermal systems, and storm damage from climate change is costing us $165 billion a year. Then Dr. Mary Beth Kirkham of Kansas State University talks about micro plastics on farms, and how they’re jeopardizing our food supply.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/24/23 (00:56:01)
On the Show: Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defends banning an AP black history class over “queer” theory and “indoctrination.” Former NFL coach Tony Dungy invokes Damar Hamlin in anti-abortion rant. Dangerous “Doctor” Sherri Tenpenny is back, this time warning people that 5-10 people you know will soon die from the COVID vaccine, which is untrue. Lying Republican Congressman George Santos is caught in another lie, as it turns out he regularly dressed in drag under the name “Kitara.” Lying Republican Congressman George Santos claimed that he was under “police protection” for “attempted murder,” surviving an assassination attempt. Voters in lying Republican Congressman George Santos demand that he resign. Failed former President Donald Trump mistakes his accuser, E. Jean Carroll, for one of his ex-wives, during a deposition. Radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s recent Christian nationalism statements are horrifying. Failed former President Donald Trump now leads President Joe Biden in a new 2024 Presidential election poll from Emerson. Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson is very concerned about a floating space vagina above Turkey. Voicemail caller jokingly criticizes David for not recommending Robert Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series of books on personal finance.
MONDAY 01.23.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday January 23, 2023
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #81: Becoming an Annoying Consumer (00:29:28)
Every dollar you spend is a vote. And you should only vote for those companies that support a world vision that you support. But how can you know what their world vision might be? And when you vote – how can you tell those companies you did not buy from that you voted for someone else. In other words – how can you become an annoying consumer. Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for an optimistic discussion of sustainable living and living your values.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Economics for a New Year (00:29:00)
In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff discusses US spending for war in Ukraine paid for by higher interest rates and inflation hurting middle and small businesses; a rational transport system is NOT electric cars; an appreciation of the “degrowth” impulse with a critique of the degrowth movement’s focus on individuals’ consumerism and excess consumption.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Anna Friz, David Grubbs (00:58:00)
CNN columnist, attorney and radio host, Dean Obeidallah joins Thom Hartmann to discuss why Jim Jordan shouldn’t chair the House Judiciary committee. The House GOP is giving critical congressional committee assignments to its most crazed and criminal members including Marjorie Traitor Greene and insurrection implicated Jim Jordan. Plus veteran war correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine, Phil Ittner reports from the tip of the frontline, talking to soldiers. If they lose the war in Ukraine, Russia may begin nuclear war with the West. Is this threat serious or is Putin bluffing? Should we give in to nuclear threats or will that lead to a world of Russia Gone Wild?
RADIO ART HOUR (00:58:00)
This week’s show includes Anna Friz’s “In the Air/In The Ground,” and “With nothing but words or nearly so” from David Grubbs. Friz’s “In the Air/In The Ground,” was created for a group installation called “On: Transmission,” part of the exhibition “Donner Forme Lther/ Shaping the Aether,” curated by Pali Mersaultat for Espace Multimedia Gantner, Belfort France in 2021. The second work this week is “With nothing but words or nearly so” by New York-based sound artist David Grubbs, and created for Christof Migone’s -If, the third in a series of twelve annual 12-hour events taking place on December 12 from noon to midnight EST. (Duration 45:00 min.) About it, he writes:
With nothing but words or nearly so
nothing but words to rely on
words only to buttress
words alone or nearly so
words alone but also
words and
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(With nothing but words or nearly so David Grubbs tricks himself into a session of writing. Don’t say hypnotize.)
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Preface & Letter (00:27:26)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
CREATING OUR PREFERRED FUTURE: The Congress of New Urbanism (00:29:00)
Jan hosts Rob Steauteville from the Congress of New Urbanism. Rob is editor in chief of the Congress’s online journal, Public Square and one of NU’s founding persons. The conversation is symbiotic. Urban issues are on of Jan’s favorite topics and there is much to agree upon in the interview. Rob describes the ideals and principles of New Urbanism, the “three legged stool” of economy, society and environment. Jan nudges Rob,,it doesn’t take much, to agree that New Urbanism exists, to a large degree, to repair the damage caused by our car centric economy, culture and lifestyle. Rob describes several examples of new urbanism development, mostly reworking under performing urban locations in Tucson, Arizona; De Soto, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Tempe, Arizona. Rob explains the terms incremental development, lean urbanism and suburban retrofit. All these apply to Jan’s own 1/4 acre suburban permaculture site. Rob mentions that our car centric lifestyles and urban design will not serve us well with the continued onset of climate change and related disruptions we can only expect. Rob and Jan agree, we would all benefit if there were more ways people could actually invest their own money in New Urbanist types of projects in their own neighborhoods and communities. Jan’s after interview sum up includes the comment he hopes New Urbanism can include downsizing society’s eco footprint as one of New Urbanism’s primary goals.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/23/23 (00:55:56)
On the Show: Despite breathless claims from right wingers, an investigation determines that Google is not biased against conservatives in its application of spam filters. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, says that he is willing and would be able to defend so-called sodomy laws in court. Donald Trump is dripping wet and slurring in one of the strangest funeral announcements in history, for the late Diamond of “Diamond and Silk.” Donald Trump appears visibly confused and delivers and outrageous eulogy of Diamond, eventually complaining about the duration of the service. Silk, of Diamond and Silk, suggests that Diamond died “from the vaccine” despite being unvaccinated, referencing the “shedding vaccine” conspiracy theory. The David Pakman Show YouTube channel has been nuked, losing 60-70% of our views and revenue due to unexplained phenomena. “Comedian” Jim Breuer’s “comedy” again reminds us of the depraved and pathetic nature of what American conservatives find funny in 2023. Now that classified documents concerns have hit President Joe Biden, right wingers take the issue seriously, with Fox Host Maria Bartiromo even asking whether it might be “treason.” Lying Republican Congressman George Santos is brutally heckled at Laguardia airport upon landing on a flight from Washington DC. Voicemail caller asks how the George Santos situation would be handled differently if Santos were a Democrat rather than a Republican.
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THE BRADCAST 1/20/23: Ballot Initiative Strategy Center on 2022 successes and new GOP backlash (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: In a scathing ruling, a federal judge has dismissed disgraced former President Donald Trump’s latest lawsuit and levied a $1 million fine against Trump and his new attorney, Alina Habba, for filing a ‘completely frivolous bad faith’ lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Peter Strzok and more than a dozen other defendants. The judge also ordered Trump and Habba to pay nearly $1 million to the defendants as punishment for ‘a continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers’ that ‘diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm.’ Wildly popular progressive citizen ballot initiatives were quite successful in the 2022 election, even in so-called ‘deep red’ states, on major issues like abortion rights, minimum wage, gun safety, independent redistricting commissions and much more. So of course heavily-gerrymandered Republican-controlled state legislatures are responding to the successes by passing laws to erect new barriers to restrict the process of citizen-led direct democracy. CHRIS MELODY FIELDS FIGUEREDO, Executive Director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, explains the GOP backlash to progressive successes on statewide ballot measures around the country in 2022, and what the GOP is now doing to prevent those successes from ever happening again. Figueredo also discusses where the ballot initiative process has seemingly been captured by corporate interests, the dozens of states where citizens aren’t allowed to place measures on the ballot, and how to protect citizen-led direct democracy against Republican efforts to quash it nationwide.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Earth Is Why We Scream (00:29:00)
Emergencies won’t exist in the traditional ways when there is nothing on the surface of the planet but natural disasters. We have many small dramas but then there is the Great Extinction. Then there is Apocalypse that invents future life by punching our ticket. Hosted by Reverend Billy and Savitri D, EARTH RIOT is a comedy-infused,
music-filled exploration of humanity’s most urgent issue — the planets Sixth Extinction. Made by “Earth-loving urban activists” from The Church of Stop Shopping, this podcast educates, inspires and urges listeners to embrace reality and take action. Featuring News From the Natural World, a weekly gathering of climate changes latest science, and insightful interviews with radical leaders in environmentalism and activism.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Upside Down Biden (00:28:00)
This week: “Upside Down Biden” This week everything is turned around. “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.”
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 1/20/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, dean of the Austin Press Corp about the Texas gubernatorial inauguration. Smaller than in years past. Policy as announced likely to focus more on property tax relief than on other issues. $33B surplus. Little talk about the grid or infrastructure.
We also discussed the issue of the Missouri legislature, which dictates that female legislators are not allowed to bare their arms in the legislative chamber.
Part 2:
We talk with Harold Meyerson and Bill Curry about the latest dictates of Gov. DeSantis in Florida: they are trumpism without Trump, and focus on culture wars exclusively. He is attacking the free speech rights of teachers and university faculty, providing cheap theater to his base.
SOJOURNER TRUTH 1/20/23: Occupation of Fairview Timber Site (00:55:51)
Three decades ago, in the summer of 1990, activists from Earth First! occupied the Fairview Timber sale site in the Shawnee Forest “which is located in Southern Illinois” for 79 days using their bodies to block the logging equipment and using legal strategies to challenge the harvesting of the lumber in court. This historic action has come to be known as the Shawnee Showdown. This relatively small group of activists were successful in stopping commercial logging in the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois for 17 years. But in 2013, the Forest Service won a motion to lift the injunction. Currently, thousands of acres at the Shawnee National Forest are scheduled for logging operations. Shawnee is managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, they allow logging on public lands, wood is then sold to logging companies at a price that is below market value. The fight to save the Shawnee Forest continues today, with the most recent attempt by organizers to transfer the Shawnee National Forest out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s control and into the hands of the U.S. Department of the Interior, with a proposal that would establish Shawnee as a National Park and designate it as the nation’s first climate preserve. Today on Sojourner Truth, we continue our coverage of the fight to preserve Shawnee Forest with our round panel. We will also feature our Global Justice Ecology Project Earth Minute segment. Our round panel guests are three ecologists that took part in the Shawnee Showdown nearly 30 years ago, joining us today to discuss their experience and the present fight to establish the Shawnee Forest as the nation’s first climate preserve.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Yoga Nidra, Neuroscience, Healing and Kids with Rina Deshpande (00:59:00)
Rina Deshpande, AKA Rina the poet is an educator, author and artist who was raised with yoga philosophy by her parents. After teaching in the NYC public school system, she helped found an elementary school teaching masters program in New York Citys Relay Graduate School of Education in 2010. Rina is also a certified yoga teacher with a masters degree in neuroscience and education from Harvard. She serves as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Harvard Medical School, where she designs yoga-based interventions for scientific research. She currently holds a fellowship with Harvards Graduate School of Education. where she trains preschool principals and administrators in mindfulness practice. Rina currently authors and illustrates a monthly Yoga Journal magazine column on the culture and science of Yoga, and shes the author of Yoga Nidra Lullaby, a book that helps children relax into sleep.
In this interview, conversation we talk about Yoga Nidra, yoga philosophy and how neuroscience is coming to recognize an validate the profound wisdom and healing benefits of the ancient yoga traditions, especially in our current world.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: The FAA Shows Us That U.S. Infrastructure Is Seriously at Risk (00:59:38)
The major outage by the FAA really underscores the serious issues that U.S. Government has with technology. Cybersecurity expert and host, Nick Espinosa, dives into that plus we catch up on the latest privacy and security news and data breaches!
SATURDAY 01.21.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 1/19/23: Ohio’s ‘moderate’ governor signs corrupt energy law; House GOP’s dangerous debt limit game (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The U.S. Treasury Department says it is deploying ‘extraordinary measures’ to avoid a default now that the U.S. Government has officially hit its current, statutory borrowing limit. But default will be triggered by June 2023 if House Republicans continue their dangerous game of ‘chicken’ in holding the debt ceiling hostage, rather than casting a routine vote to raise the limit to pay the nation’s already-incurred obligations. Default would result in a national or even world-wide recession or depression. Will voters remember Republicans’ hostage-taking and economic damage in upcoming elections? Also today: ‘moderate’ Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed a rushed bill to redefine climate-warming natural gas as ‘green energy,’ which new documents reveal was secretly pushed by fossil-fuel funded dark money groups. The latest Ohio GOP corruption scandal breaks as the federal bribery and corruption trial gets underway of Ohio’s corrupt former Republican statehouse Speaker Larry Householder. Householder and other Republican state lawmakers ran an elaborate scheme, secretly funded by utility company FirstEnergy, to pass a $1 billion bailout for FirstEnergy, and much more. DeWine also signed a massive new voter suppression bill making it easier to toss out the ballots of overseas active-duty military voters. Is there any amount of blatant corruption that would push Ohio voters to vote against Republicans? Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Perspectives on 2022: Some Impressively Positive (00:58:19)
In her CounterPunch essay, Medea Benjamin co-founder of CodePink writes of surprisingly good things that happened in 2022. On this show, she cites many genuinely positive developments and some hopeful wake-up calls. Give a listen!
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Anders Croy, the Communications Director for Florida Watch. We discuss Gov. DeSantis, and his methods in Florida, which are modeled on Orban’s (Romania). We note the release of “The Real Ron”, a documentary that describes what DeSantis is instituting in Florida: the war against the first Amendment, huge reelection campaign paid for by corporations that are profiting off Floridians’ misery, choices for state officials that are not qualified, i.e. the Surgeon General, etc.
Segment Two
We then catch up with Michael Massing, a writer who recounts the details of the latest scandal at Harvard: the rejection of Kenneth Roth, former head of Human Rights Watch, at the behest of individuals or groups who do not want any criticism of Israel’s policies on Palestinians. This highlights the penetration of Harvard, and other universities by government agencies.
GROWING GREENER: What to Look For in the Garden this Year (00:29:00)
Since 1827, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society has been leading the way in American gardening. Listen this week as its Vice President of Horticulture, Andrew Bunting, describes the trends to look for in 2023, and why sustainability concerns are at the top of the list.
GOT SCIENCE?: Saving Endangered Species: Turtle by Turtle (00:29:00)
New England Aquarium’s Adam Kennedy manages the sea turtle rescue and rehab hospital and tells us what it takes to save critically endangered species.
THE BOPST SHOW: Cueing Deep Cuts (00:00:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s program, you’ll hear the sounds of Haitian mizik rasin band RAM, the multi-cultural melting pot of the Tel Aviv-based quartet El Khat, and legendary Indian playback singer and musician Mohammed Rafi as well as New York punk group Bodega, the modern Brazilian Tropicália of João Selva and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #463 (00:58:00)
January 6th has become one of those days like September 11th where you need to say no more than the date for people to know what youre talking about. Ralph welcomes New York Times congressional reporter, Luke Broadwater, who was in the Senate chamber when the rioters breached the building and has not only been covering the January 6th hearings but wrote the introduction to the NY Times version of the final report.
FRIDAY 01.20.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday January 13, 2023
JUST SOLUTIONS: Not Just A Cartoonish Debacle (00:29:00)
DOES THE CARTOONSIH DEBACLE TO ELECT A SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE REALLY MATTER, AND HOW WILL IT SHOW UP AT YOUR HOUSE? ELECTION OFFICIAL, AMBER MCREYNOLDS ANSWERS AND EXPLAINS HOW IT IMPACTS YOUR KITCHEN TABLE?
COUNTERSPIN: Accountability Journalism (00:28:00)
This week on CounterSpin: US reporters used to talk, even brag, about telling the truth and letting the chips fall where they may, and more acutely, about comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable—in other words about using their special, constitutional power to look behind curtains most of us can’t, and bring us meaningful information we could gain no other way. Not stories that might amuse us, which are fine, but more centrally, the sort of stories that might help us actually change a society that few would describe as perfect.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: For the Love of Money (00:58:00)
As the morbidly wealthy meet once again in Davos, Switzerland, the interests of the very rich continue to be fought for by the billionaire-funded right wing ecosystem and by Republican lawmakers. Is this just the way things should be?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Wood Pellets: The New Coal (00:29:00)
Back in the 16th century, when England began to run out of trees, it started burning coal. And by 1700, most Brits were using coal as their main source of fuel. But then coal became scarce. To come full circle, today England is burning large amounts of wood again – much of it in the form of wood pellets from the US. Wood has somehow been designated as a renewable energy source since the Kyoto Protocol in 1992 and the repercussions have been devastating. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to journalist Justin Catanoso, a journalism professor at Wake Forest University, about the dangers of this latest transition to a fuel source which is leading to deforestation and pollution. We learn about the wood pellet industry, manufacturing giant Enviva, and the wide-ranging problems caused by burning trees.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Abigail Disney: The American Dream or Nightmare for Workers? (00:28:00)
Is the American Dream dead? When Abigail Disney, the granddaughter of one of the founders of Disney, received a message from a worker at Disneys flagship theme park, she discovered that some employees were earning one two-thousandth of the earnings of CEO Bob Iger. She wrote to Iger, testified in Congress and ultimately made a film, The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales. In one scene she asks a group of workers, How many of you know someone that works at Disney that sleeps in their car? Abigail underscores the need to tax the top 1%, speaks out against corporate greed and calls out the policies and values that created such gaping inequality at Disney and across the business world. The median net worth of the top 10 billionaires in the world has nearly tripled over the last decade while most Americans are earning less than their parents and economic mobility is on the decline. Abigail Disney is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker, an activist and the granddaughter of Roy Disney who co-founded the company with Walt. The film, co-directed with Kathleen Hughes is available for streaming now. Laura and Abigail ask how long can corporations sustain the American Dream at the expense of their workers.
THE BOPST SHOW: Cueing Deep Cuts (00:00:00)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s program, you’ll hear the sounds of Haitian mizik rasin band RAM, the multi-cultural melting pot of the Tel Aviv-based quartet El Khat, and legendary Indian playback singer and musician Mohammed Rafi as well as New York punk group Bodega, the modern Brazilian Tropicália of João Selva and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/20/23 (00:54:38)
On the Show: Measles outbreaks are again on the rise thanks to parents choosing not to vaccinate their kids, a follow-on effect from COVID anti-vaxxerism. Kim Phuong Taylor, the wife of elected Republican Jeremy Taylor, is arrested for casting 23 fraudulent votes for her husband. It is revealed that the LIV Gold tournament led to the transfer of funds from Saudi Arabia to Donald Trump in what could be a money laundering and/or influence scam. Caller wonders if Republicans will make the US default on its national debt. Caller lives in Ukraine and is getting used to the war. Caller is skeptical about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Caller points out that income inequality is higher in blue states. Caller thinks Democrats need to be more aggressive. Caller talks about the effect Andrew Tate is having on young men. Caller talks about Ohio defining natural gas as “green energy.” Caller discusses a possible connection between social programs and overpopulation. David reads some messages from the mailbag.
THURSDAY 01.19.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday January 19, 2023
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Hansen – A World 10 Degrees C Hotter!? (00:58:00)
James Hansen, former top NASA climate scientist, his new paper warns the climate is already committed to extreme changes that will devastate life on this planet, including humanity. Alex investigates Global Warming in the Pipeline. Dr. Barry Lomax reports a near-miss extinction in recent decades – from UV-B that caused The Great Dying 250 million years ago.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Hairdryer Climate Mathematics Revealed (00:58:00)
Heating our houses and places of business, for example, represents our biggest use of fossil fuels. Yet in Urbana Illinois, Vancouver Canada, and across Germany they are building homes that are so efficient they can be wait for it heated with a single hairdryer. A new and better world is possible, if we can only overcome the money of the fossil fuel industry, the corruption of a political party, and stop squandering the little remaining time we have before, if we don’t act, climate disasters overwhelm civilization.
LOPATE AT LARGE: Investigative Journalist Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation (00:49:28)
As we honor the life and significant achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on this day, we can only wonder what he would have made of the incredible political turmoil our country is currently experiencing.
Join us when award winning journalist – specialized on the economy and politics, Bob Hennelly examines the current state of our government, labor strikes, and more on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
TED-X: A Southern Historian’s Lost Cause – Roy Wisecarver (00:09:18)
Growing up in the Deep South, Roy “Trae” Wisecarver was taught a different story about the Civil War than he learned as a historian. In this compelling talk, he mixes history and common sense to make the case that he and his fellow Southerners can love their home without lying about its history. Roy Wisecarver graduated from UAM with a BA in History in 2013. He subsequently earned an MA from the University of Mississippi and is currently a PhD student at Texas A&M University. His dissertation examines the relationships between the Confederate government, state government, and people of Arkansas during the Civil War. He will be talking about the dissonance between Civil War memory and history. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
LITERATURE ALOUD: Earth Abides by George Stewart (00:59:00)
An Escape radio adaptation of a very popular novel titled “Earth Abides” This aired in November of 1950 and it reflected the growing interest in Sci-Fi stories by listeners. The busiest actor in the radio world John Dehner stars as he plays a man who was way out in the middle of nowhere collecting geological specimens. While reaching to climb a small cliff, he’s bitten by a snake. He stumbles to his cabin to treat the wound then he passes out for a few days . . . Upon his return to San Francisco, everybody is dead . . . Not only in San Francisco but San Bernadio, San Fernando, San Simeon, Santa Barbara, Santa Claus, Sand Paper, Sander Vanoker, and pretty much every town on Earth . . . But Earth Abides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJSKYPIlt08
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/19/23 (00:00:00)
On the Show: Luke Beasley, TDPS correspondent and host of “The Luke Beasley Show,” fills in for David. The real Twitter files show Twitter and other social media sites gave Donald Trump preferential treatment. Donald Trump wants to rejoin Twitter and Facebook. New immigration records confirm George Santos was lying about his mother’s death being caused by 9/11. Marjorie Taylor Greene gets incredibly confused during a Fox News interview. Kari Lake is still trying to stay relevant and getting more and more delusional as time passes. Republican Senator John Kennedy tries attacking Democrats over the deficit. Mike Pompeo suggests he’s running for president in 2024. Republican Congressman Byron Donalds embarrasses himself so badly that even a Fox News host can’t save him. A MAGA pastor professes his love for Donald Trump. The childhood vaccination rate has dropped as a result of anti-vaxxers.
WEDNESDAY 01.18.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday January 18, 2023
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Sara Anderson Stroke Survivor (00:09:27)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Sara Anderson, an educator who shares her recovery experience as a stroke survivor with the help of the VCU Health Comprehensive Stroke Center and how the left-handed painting she did as part of her rehabilitation has turned into a charitable side-project to benefit VCU Health.
TED TALK: My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement & how I got out – Christian Picciolini (00:20:30)
At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out? In this courageous talk, Christian shares a surprising and counterintuitive solution to hate in all forms. After leaving the white-supremacist skinhead movement that he helped build in the 1980s and 90s, Christian Picciolini co-founded Life After Hate, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people disengage from violent extremism. His memoir, White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out (Hachette), which details his involvement, and eventual disengagement, from the early American white nationalist movement, will be published on December 26, 2017. Christian lives in Chicago. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
THIS WAY OUT #1816: World Pride Vax Alert & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Sydney World Pride preps for Monkeypox; the Golden Globes crown gay producer Ryan Murphys Lifetime Achievements; Delhi Pride marchers demand marriage equality, Algerias government suppresses Pride flags, Wisconsin Republicans block a conversion therapy ban, a U.S. federal judge finds West Virginias trans sports ban perfectly constitutional, and a Mexican Karen showers an affectionate gay couple with abuse,
Those stories and more this week when you discover “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: MLK’s Fight for Economic Justice (00:58:00)
For some people in our society the economic crisis never ends. What solutions did MLK promote in his activism, and where do we stand today? Thom is joined by Algernon Austin- Director for Race and Economic Justice at the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR: #1529 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part Two) (00:58:59)
This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky continue their discussion prompted by a letter from a teacher in Iowa who asks what they think are the ten most important American historical events she should teach to her students.
LITERATURE ALOUD: “’Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison (00:27:15)
In a world where time, scheduling and punctuality are worshipped, those who arrive late for anything have that time deducted from their lives – except for the Harlequin.
TEXT: https://knape.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/3/12935004/ellison_repent-harlequin-1.pdf
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Humble Inquiry for Parents, with Kate McCauley (00:28:00)
“Entering with curiosity says to our children: I see you. You matter to me. And what you think is important.” ~ Kate McCauley. When educator, therapist and community advocate Kate McCauley and I first planned this conversation, we thought we would be focused on parenting. But humble inquiry and shared power have important places in any good relationship.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/18/23 (00:00:00)
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TUESDAY 01.17.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday January 17, 2023
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Gifts; Those You Possess, Those You Give, and Those You Use (00:30:28)
On this show we are acquiring, unwrapping, giving, and using our gifts differently. You might hear the word gift and become anxious when you think of a thing given willingly to someone without payment; a present. Let’s face it, some of us are not good gift givers. Or you might be thinking of this word with gratitude, possessing a natural ability or talent. You could be thinking of this word with action, like the verb to give (something) as a gift, especially formally or as a donation or bequest. Passing something to someone else. No matter what feeling it elicits or the vision you conjure, let’s take some time to dig a little deeper into gifts. Those we possess, those we give, and those we use.
COOL SOLUTIONS: Community Owned Solar (00:28:00)
Meet a retiree in rural OR and a group of millennials in WA who are spreading community owned solar projects across their states. Most community solar in the US benefits corporations more than communities, with a large percentage of the economic benefit extracted as profit. A retired scientist in Talent, OR organized the first participant owned community solar project in his state. A group of young people in Olympia WA figured out how to work around the state’s lack of virtual net metering and install community funded solar on non-profit and community buildings. Both groups are now working statewide on projects with partners including tribes, high schools, fire departments, county governments, and irrigation districts. Mason Rolph, Dan Orzech, and Ray Sanchez Pescador explain why we don’t have to wait for utilities, big investors, or politicians to expand solar access in our communities.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: MLK’s Warning: Is the GOP the White Man’s Party? (00:59:00)
As we honor Dr King, did he foresee the threat to Democracy from the Republican party’s direct appeal to white people? Is Trump the real story, or should we be paying attention to the racist Christo-fascist movement he inspired?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Lungfish (00:58:00)
This week on The Children’s Hour, we learn about one of the most ancient animals to live on our planet, that is still alive today: Lungfish. Our guest, Dr. Irene Salinas studies lungfish at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Biology. She will explain to us what lungfish are, and how they can survive both in the water, and on land for years. Lungfish not only breathe outside the water, they surround themselves in a cocoon while they are on land. Dr. Salinas has studied the cocoon and its amazing properties. Lungfish can regenerate all of their cells, including all their internal and external organs. The cocoon is full of anti-cancer properties, as well as other toxins that make predators not want to eat a slumbering lungfish out of water. Lungfish are ancient. They pre-date the dinosaurs on our planet, and their DNA is the longest of all creatures on Earth. We also have a book review from Nina on our Kids Crew of the latest in the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: Young Changemakers. Mixed with great music, learn about the amazing lungfish with us this time on The Children’s Hour.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 43 (00:32:08)
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: Can You Trust Your Food? With Helena Bottemiller Evich (00:28:15)
On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug discuss the warming of the world’s oceans due to climate change, how gas stoves are causing asthma in children, and how the worlds investors are demanding that chemical companies stop producing PFAS. Then an in-depth conversation with food expert Helena Bottemiller Evich about the failure of the FDA to manage our food system.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/17/23 (00:56:21)
On the Show: Republican Congressman James Comer appears on CNN and is unable to explain why he is investigating Joe Biden but not Donald Trump in connection with classified documents. Donald Trump’s absolutely insane answer when asked about Ron DeSantis potentially running against him in 2024 during an appearance on The Water Cooler with David Brody. Donald Trump turns on evangelicals during an appearance on The Water Cooler with David Brody as his 2024 campaign heads towards potential collapse. Lying Republican Congressman George Santos falsely claimed to have had two knee replacements. Lying Republican Congressman George Santos is on video introducing himself as “Anthony Devolder.” Lying Republican Congressman George Santos claimed to have participated in developing carbon capture technology, which is not true. Former Republican Candidate Solomon Pena, a major Donald Trump supporter, is arrested for his involvement in shootings at the homes of multiple Democrats. Multiple states are waging war on electric vehicles, attempting to “phase out” or outright ban sales of electric vehicles. Arkansas Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signs a bill banning Critical Race Theory, which is not actually taught in Arkansas schools. Reactions to our recent segment on inflation confirm that there are dangerously delusional people in our audience. Voicemail caller asks who is the biggest soyboy, David Pakman, Hasan Piker, or Steven Kenneth “Destiny” Bonnell II?
MONDAY 01.16.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday January 16, 2023
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE (00:29:46)
For the past decade or so, Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station have observed a three month period of non consumption – their Thanks for Nothing season. It is a break from our consumer society, where they do not buy anything – and even turn off the electricity. Find out what motivated this bizarre behavior and what lessons are learned – and how it has enriched their lives.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: “American Midnight” Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis (00:29:00)
In this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the French School of Economic Warfare and sanctions against Russia; how asset price declines threaten US pensions, electric replace fossil fuel private cars because of profit motive, instead of for a rational transportation policy; US police in elementary schools: bad for students, parents, teachers and even police; honoring Staughton Lynd, US radical academic and labor organizer who died on 11/18/22. In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Adam Hochschild, author of “American Midnight” how 1917-1921 was a US rehearsal for a parallel right-wing surge of recent years.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Inside the Battle for Soledar – for What Reason? (00:58:00)
Veteran War Correspondent in Kiev, Ukraine, Phil Ittner joins Thom Hartmann to examine the latest military shake-up and its meaning. The city of Soledar, Ukraine, isn’t considered as a strategic target, so why is Russia hitting it so hard? Is it just because Putin is desperate for a win ” or, is it something personal between Vlad and one of his generals? Crazy Alert: Fox network’s Martha MacCallum claims that female M and M candy characters embrace our enemies, Makes China Say, Oh Good …really? Plus a National Progressive Town Hall Meeting with US Congressman Mark Pocan answering listener questions.
RADIO ART HOUR: Joshua Fried, Conflux Coldwell (00:58:48)
This week tune in two works from Joshua Fried, and one longer piece from Conflux Coldwell. Fried performs under the name “Radio Wonderland,” using a boombox radio for his source material. Tune in today for his “The Call Him Flipper…” and a collaboration with radio artist Todd Merrell called “Pistol Shrimp.” Also tune in Coldwell’s “Dead Air” from his 2023 compilation “Music For Installation.” “Dead Air” was a live performance at the Residuum exhibition at Left Bank in 2017. This improvisational piece was created using three broken radios, a sampler and delay pedal, all played and recorded live in a former church.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 42 (00:22:40)
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
MLK: The American Dream (00:44:12)
On February 5, 1964, Drew University proudly hosted Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a convocation speaker. Dr. King’s connection with Drew University was through Dr. George D. Kelsey, Professor of Christian Ethics. Prior to teaching at Drew, Kelsey taught at Morehouse College where he became a mentor to Martin Luther King, Jr., then a student, and who has credited Kelsey for his motivation to become a preacher. At the time of the event, Dr. King had been recently selected as Time magazine’s “Man of the Year” and shared his “An American Dream” speech to over 5,000 attendees. A student reporter for the Drew Acorn noted, “He is unimposing, seems quite ordinary, but, when he speaks, people listen. They tend to forget all else.”
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/13/23 (00:57:02)
On the Show: President Biden gets confronted by Fox reporter Peter Doocy about why classified documents were found in his possession. Congressman Matt Gaetz interviews lying Congressman George Santos in what turns out to be a bizarre exchange. Caller compares the Brazil riots to January 6th. Caller asks what the worst-case scenario is for Democrats in 2024. Caller wants to know how to deal with an anti-vaxxer family member. Caller talks about tax-exempt megachurches. Caller wonders if America is going down the road toward right-wing dictatorship. Caller wonders when the right will move on from being against trans people. Caller asks if Democrats benefited from the difficulty Republicans had electing a House Speaker. Caller questions if Marjorie Taylor Greene as Donald Trump’s running mate would tank his chances of winning. David responds to viewer emails and social media messages.
SUNDAY 01.15.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 1/13/23: ACLU’s Jonathan Topaz on new Voting Rights Act Sec. 2 challenge (00:57:30)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: What a way to ‘celebrate’ Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Nearly 60 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act and ten years after the far-right majority on the U.S. Supreme Court gutted some of its central provisions, rightwing courts are gunning for the rest of the landmark civil rights voting law. JONATHAN TOPAZ, a staff attorney at the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, explains a disturbing case in Arkansas in which a district court judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging a racially gerrymandered Republican state district map by declaring that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act does not allow private groups like the ACLU or NAACP to sue to stop such laws. This week, GOP-appointed judges on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals appeared open to the idea. Topaz explains how the text and legislative record of the Voting Rights Act and decades of precedent expose the absurdity of this new assault on the VRA, and the widespread, devastating practical impacts on all voting rights laws if Sec. 2 is struck down. Also today: Ohio’s ‘moderate’ Republican governor signed new voter suppression legislation making it more difficult for (certain) voters to vote. A new report finds that Republicans launched a record number of anti-voting lawsuits in 2022 to prevent (certain) voters from voting under the pretext of preventing fraud. Another batch of Republicans have been charged with committing mass voter fraud with absentee ballots by the Justice Department.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: After Consumerism, the Deluge (00:29:00)
We can joke and cry about it, and find the usual climate criminals in it, but the suffering is the thing. Our prayers and thoughts are with our friends and loved ones in California. The Himalayan mountains are melting and Pakistan is drowning, the heatwaves and blizzards come hotter and colder and stay longer, and now these Atmospheric Rivers are pouring down on the Golden State. The jetstreams are dislodging the invisible landscape over our heads. Even now, we can join the Earth in the Great Change.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Congressional ABCs (00:28:00)
This week Republicans finally choose a leader, and learn how to govern. “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.”
ATTTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 1/13/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We speak with Scott Braddock, dean of the Austin Press Corps, about the budget situation in Texas. Currently, the state has a $33B budget surplus. Much of this is due to the additional revenue because of the high profits from fossil fuels. Discussions are now under way about ways to allocate this money, at a time when much infrastructure needs to be upgraded/repaired. The governor’s goal seems to be reducing property taxes instead. We also discuss how committee chairs are assigned in Texas.
Part 2:
We talk with Robert Hennelly and Bill Curry about the nurses’ strike in New York. Most of the impetus for this is staffing, while salaries are also in play.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS (00:59:00)
What to do When You Elect a Fictional Character and Get Stuck With an Abject Fraud | A Reporter Who has Been Covering the War in Ukraine For The Guardian Since it Started 326 Days Ago.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: A Mother’s Journey with her Child’s Gender Transition (00:59:00)
Paria Hassouri is a pediatrician, writer, a transgender rights activist, and the mother of three including a transgender teenager. And she is the author of Found in Transition: A Mothers Evolution During Her Childs Gender Change.
In this interview we go deep into the challenges, fear and joy of watching one’s daughter transform from a depressed timid child to a genuinely happy and self confident teenager as she fully steps into her own true sense of self.
We also talk about what it takes to change the world we live in, to make it a safer and more inclusive place for everyone. This is a beautiful story, but it didn’t start out that way. It took courage, acceptance and overcoming fear to get to there.
LAW AND DISORDER: The Sickness is the System, Israel’s Far-Right Agenda (00:58:00)
We all know almost instinctively that there is a connection between politics and economics. Today we talk with Professor Richard Wolff about that connection. We live in a world in economic turmoil, all the more so because of the US and NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. At home in the United States, we have the greatest wealth disparity and income disparity in a century. When Standard Oil, now Exxon, owner John D. Rockefeller died he was worth $3 billion. Now Jeff Bezos is worth about $180 billion. There has not been a national increase in the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour in decades. Half the people in America are poor or near poor. There has been a dramatic increase in labor militancy by American workers not seen since just before and just after World War II. US world hegemony is starting to fray even as the military budget increases. This month Congress passed a budget bill with half of it going to the military. The military received 45 billion dollars more than they even asked for. What is going on? What are the prospects for political action independent of these two capitalist parties?
Guest – Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, NYC. He is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. His latest book is The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, which can be found along with his other books Understanding Socialism and Understanding Marxism at www.democracyatwork.info
Israel’s Far Right Agenda
As reported in the New York Times, less than two weeks into its tenure, Israel’s new and extreme neo-fascist right-wing government has already undertaken a wave of items from its far-right agenda. Items that are designed to weaken the judiciary, entrench Israel’s control of the West Bank, and bifurcate the military’s chain of command so as to give far-right ministers greater control of matters related to Israel’s occupation. It is likely to have profoundly negative implications for the Palestinian people, as well as profound implications for the already dismal chances of finding a peaceful resolution of the decades long Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Even a great numbers of Israelis have grave concerns about its new government and what its announced plans may mean for them.
Guest – Sandra Tamari is a Palestinian organizer and the Executive Director of Adalah Justice Project. She was the Co-chair of the Steering Committee for the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights from 2015-2018 and a lead organizer of the Palestinian contingent to Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.
SATURDAY 01.14.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 1/12/23: Public Oversight to the Rescue in Biden docs case, Trump stolen documents case, PA election results (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Transparency and sunshine are the best disinfectants for the health of American democracy when it comes to politics and the necessity of public oversight, whether the topic is classified Presidential documents or hand-counting of ballots. Much of the corporate media is doing a fairly lousy job in allowing disingenuous rightwing opportunists to falsely compare Donald Trump’s theft and withholding of hundreds of classified government documents to the recent discoveries of some classified documents at Joe Biden’s residence and office. There’s little comparison in reality, as Trump continues to blatantly disregard the rule of law and obstruct justice, while Biden is cooperating. But it is a good development that Biden’s U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a Special Counsel to investigate the Biden documents case, just like in the Trump stolen documents case, because both will result in an independent report and exposure of any crimes. Transparency and oversight are also at work in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, where a hand-recount of the 2020 election is underway, despite no evidence of fraud or errors in programming or tallies, in order to build confidence among the county’s Republican voters, who have been misled by opportunistic election deniers. Transparency and oversight are helpful to restore confidence in our democracy, even if some may find it annoying. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Yes: Democrats Can Win Back the White Working Class (00:59:37)
What’s your reaction when fellow Democrats say: “Forget Trump voters, we don’t need to bother?” If you are like me and prefer to win, give a listen. How did so many blue collar regions go from Obama 2012 to Trump 2016? Our guest today Robin Johnson, himself of the mid-west, says Thomas Franks was wrong judging and dismissing this demographic; Democrats can win them back if we listen to and emphasize what the locals care about.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with Evan Mandery, author of the book “Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide the US”. We discuss how legacy admissions are used to perpetuate the status quo by admitting mostly students who like their predecessors. How does this affect the power structure of the US.
Segment Two
We then talk with Mark Joseph Stern, of Slate(dot)com about a recent decision by the US Supreme Court overruling the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in a death penalty case. We also discuss a recent rulings in a South Carolina case that expanded abortion rights, as based on privacy.
GROWING GREENER: Save the Snakes (00:29:00)
Michael Starkey understands that not everyone shares his enthusiasm for snakes, but as founder and Executive Director of Save the Snakes he believes that humans and snakes, even venomous snakes, can coexist. As a wildlife biologist, Michael shares techniques for making your landscape less ” or more ” attractive to snakes and how education can protect against snake bites and enhance your enjoyment of these amazing creatures.
TUC RADIO: A Poison Like No Other – Matt Simon (00:29:00)
Microplastics are making the news. This program opens with a clip from Auckland, New Zealand, broadcast on December 15, 2022. Research published in the Environmental Science & Technology journal shows that 74 tons of microplastics fell from the air on Auckland in 2020. Almost all plastics in use today are so called petrochemicals, products made from fossil fuels like oil, coal, and gas. This industry is booming and plastics are showing up not just in manufacturing, construction and road building, but in our personal environment, our homes, households, clothes, furniture, and the food distribution systems we depend on. The very thing that makes plastic so useful ” its toughness ” means it never really goes away. It just gets smaller and smaller: eventually small enough to enter the atmosphere and be inhaled, or be absorbed by food crops that are watered with sewage sludge. We are already exploring the spread of microplastics in the oceans. Included in this program are excerpts from Plastic Talks – hosted by Erica Cirino, the Communications Manager of the Plastic Pollution Coalition. She is speaking with Matt Simon, Science writer for Wired Magazine and author of A Poison Like No Other. How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.
THE BOPST SHOW: Free Your Algorithm (00:55:33)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s program, you’ll hear music by twisted Texas experimentalists the Butthole Surfers, Ethiopian singer and drummer Muluken Mellesse, the symphonic melodies of the Leon Pops Orchestra as well as Japanese instrumentalists Tokyo’s Coolest Combo, English post-punk duo Sleaford Mods and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #462 (00:59:00)
Ralph welcomes back retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to talk about American military policy, including the record $816.7 billion Pentagon budget, the war in Ukraine, the insanity of nuclear weapons, potential conflict with China and what the right-wing caucus in the House of Representatives really wants when they say they want to cut military spending. Plus, Ralph reads and responds to your questions and feedback from previous programs.
FRIDAY 01.13.23 PROGRAM Note
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday January 13, 2023
JUST SOLUTIONS: Netroots 2022 Recap (00:28:59)
Netroots 2022 recaps from Pennsylvania. Chris Smalls full interview on his view of the labor movement; Patrice Snow of DCVote explains the lack of statehood in Washington DC and Renada Robinson of New Georgia Project teaches us how Georgia votes.
COUNTERSPIN: Accountability Journalism (00:28:00)
David Sirota/accountability journalism
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Republicans Bring Back Smoke-Filled Rooms on Capitol Hill – Seriously? (00:58:00)
The new house rules continue to embrace Reaganomics that will further destroy the middle class and poor.
Geeky Science! A new study has found a drug free cure for depression and anxiety… and it will surprise you.
How can we say George Santos won when everything was a lie? What’s more important: integrity or power?
Crazy Alert! Trump wanted to use a nuclear weapon on N Korea and blame it on someone else? Also a Brazil judge orders arrests of top security officials in the Braslia riot, and the GOP turns their back on Katie Hobbs’ request for collaboration.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Rebecca Leber: Why the GOP thinks ESG is a BFD (00:29:00)
Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy investments. For most of the movements relatively brief existence, ESG has fallen under the purview of sustainability experts. Recently, however, Wall Street appears to have embraced ESG with both arms – according to some estimates, last year over $41 trillion in global ESG assets were traded. This turn has liberals and environmentalists concerned that the definition of what qualifies as an ESG-friendly company may be watered-down. At the same time, prominent Republicans are decrying the use of ESG factors, claiming that its part of the “woke mobs war on fossil fuels.” This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to Rebecca Leber, a senior climate reporter at Vox. She unpacks the complex conservative position on the ESG movement and explains why she finds it so puzzling and troubling.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW (00:28:00)
At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion, shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a writer, disability, and transformative justice movement worker. Laura speaks with Leah about her newly-released book of essays, The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs. The book, published by Arsenal Pulp Press, an independent queer of color-led press, was written during the pandemic and documents two years of disabled isolation. Among the grief and despair came essential organizing from the Disability Justice movement ” and we should all take notice. And what about joy? Disabled pleasure activism, disabled art and culture-making brought hope in a time of crisis. Leah has joined Laura twice previously to talk about their work and read their poetry. In her new book, Leah asks: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled and what if that’s not a bad thing?
THE BOPST SHOW: Free Your Algorithm (00:55:33)
The Bopst Show, the critically acclaimed music radio show hosted by artist, musician, writer, DJ and founding member of GWAR, Chris Bopst, features a wide assortment of audio stimulations from a myriad of genres, eras and inspirations. On this week’s program, you’ll hear music by twisted Texas experimentalists the Butthole Surfers, Ethiopian singer and drummer Muluken Mellesse, the symphonic melodies of the Leon Pops Orchestra as well as Japanese instrumentalists Tokyo’s Coolest Combo, English post-punk duo Sleaford Mods and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
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DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/13/23 (00:57:02)
On the Show: President Biden gets confronted by Fox reporter Peter Doocy about why classified documents were found in his possession. Congressman Matt Gaetz interviews lying Congressman George Santos in what turns out to be a bizarre exchange. Caller compares the Brazil riots to January 6th. Caller asks what the worst-case scenario is for Democrats in 2024. Caller wants to know how to deal with an anti-vaxxer family member. Caller talks about tax-exempt megachurches. Caller wonders if America is going down the road toward right-wing dictatorship. Caller wonders when the right will move on from being against trans people. Caller asks if Democrats benefited from the difficulty Republicans had electing a House Speaker. Caller questions if Marjorie Taylor Greene as Donald Trump’s running mate would tank his chances of winning. David responds to viewer emails and social media messages.
THURSDAY 01.12.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday January 12, 2023
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Dark Science: Gone Glaciers & Sudden Warming (00:58:00)
Half the world’s glaciers will disappear within a single lifetime. We have the lead author of that breaking science, Dr. David Rounce. Then: little known geoengineering has been cooling the planet for decades. That’s over now. A co-author of the new bombshell from James Hansen tackles more warming revealed – as ship and transport emissions are cleaned up. Netherlands researcher Leon Simons explains. That is just part of a huge new paper led by Hansen, which also predicts sea level rise much higher than thought. He also says Earth might get up to ten degrees C hotter before settling into a new state of equilibrium. If true, catastrophe is on the near horizon.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: In the New McCarthy Era This Could Get Me Thrown In Jail (00:58:00)
We’ve entered the new McCarthy era, and Kevin is doing everything he can to empower Jordan as the new Joe. Will we find out all about the promises “and threats” McCarthy made to get his hands on the gavel? House Republicans focus on abortion rights and putting women in jail. Geeky Science! Everything is getting hotter…..and what that means for our weather.
LOPATE AT LARGE: David Fenton on The Activist’s Media Handbook (00:52:11)
David Fenton has been the driving force behind some of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long battle to legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the misinformation in Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and recent campaigns that successfully banned fracking in New York and alerted the public to the climate crisis, including the environmental impact of Bitcoin. Join us when, David tells the fascinating story of how he developed the strategies and that have made him a successful media agitator and shows how these tools can be used by anyone to advance their cause on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
TED TALK: How Cults Rewire the Brain – Diane Benscoter (00:06:56)
Diane Benscoter spent five years as a “Moonie.” She shares an insider’s perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today’s most troubling conflicts and extremist movements.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 41 (00:20:17)
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 (00:10:36)
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/
DEPARTMENT OF WAR 1943 PROPAGANDA FILM: “Don’t Be A Sucker” (00:22:49)
The audio from this surprisingly relevant video portrays a conversation between an American citizen immigrant and a man born in the US. This short drama reveals that anti-immigrant speech may sound persuasive but is ultimately only divisive – an un-American.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/12/23 (00:00:00)
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WEDNESDAY 01.11.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday January 11, 2023
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Russell Cassevah (00:13:20)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Russell Cassevah, a Chesapeake resident who is President of Little Bricks Charity, for a conversation about the mission of his charitable organization to provide Lego sets to patients in children’s hospitals, his three Guinness World Records, his TikTok success, and more.
ALAN WATTS: Stop Feeling Lost by Doing This (00:15:17)
If there is one simple question that bothers us all as human beings, it is : Why are we living ? It is a burden on our shoulders, and we cannot think about it without going depressed or becoming sad, because simply we can’t answer it. We got blocked. In this lecture, Alan Watts talks about the game of life, how the answer of that question is : To play. To simply not take it seriously, to stay within the flow of life without having to be very strict and rigid about it. We have to take it as if it was a game. Because if we take it seriously, we will be forced to think scientifically, to predict the future, and be aware that any false move, would lead us to a fatal death, which is not the case.
THIS WAY OUT #1815: The Queerest News of 2022 (Part 3) & 2023 global LGBTQ news (00:29:00)
In the conclusion of This Way Outs news review of the year gone by, queer characters capture the Spirit of 2022; marriage equality freezes in Peru, love wins again in a Taipei court, Israel’s parliament gets an out Speaker in a right-wing coalition, Lula is sworn in amid a Trump-style insurrection, Spain and Scotland improve trans lives, bathroom bias wins in a U.S. appeals court, Islamic cops in Nigeria raid another gay wedding, and a gay California Congressman gets sworn in with Superman’s help. All that 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: Why Is the For-Profit Health Industry Like a Giant, Bloodsucking Tick? (00:58:00)
The last successful effort to provide government funded, single-payer healthcare insurance was when Lyndon Johnson passed Medicare and Medicaid (both single-payer systems) in the 1960s.
Interview: Alex Lawson, Executive Director-Social Security Works. Will this next year be all about the privatization of Medicare and Social Security? Debate: Charles Sauer, Libertarian, Economist, President of The Market Institute. Plus Geeky Science! How kids get asthma.
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR: #1529 American History with Lindsay Chervinsky (Part Two) (00:58:59)
This week on the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Clay Jenkinson and Lindsay Chervinsky continue their discussion prompted by a letter from a teacher in Iowa who asks what they think are the ten most important American historical events she should teach to her students.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 40 (00:20:00)
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: How young people join violent extremist groups and how to stop them – Erin Marie Saltman (00:11:38)
Terrorists and extremists aren’t all naturally violent sociopaths — they’re deliberately recruited and radicalized in a process that doesn’t fit into a neat pattern. Erin Marie Saltman discusses the push and pull factors that cause people to join extremist groups and explains innovative ways of preventing and countering radicalization.
INSIDE THE FBI: The Unabomber Case (00:22:22)
On this episode of Inside the FBI, we revisit the Unabomber case—25 years after Ted Kaczynski’s arrest at his remote Montana cabin.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/11/23 (00:54:55)
On the Show: Republicans make clear that, now in control of the House of Representatives, they are happy to shut down the government and hurt the American people in order to score political points. Republicans brag about diversity during a Sean Hannity Fox News event despite the room being filled with only white people, mostly men. Looking back at the last time Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, from 2011-2019, reminds us why it’s horrifying when they do control the House. Donald Trump is interviewed by a friendly host on Real America’s Voice, and still completely humiliates himself. Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s former CFO, is sentenced to jail. Diamond of the right-wing pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk has died, believed to be of COVID, after a long period of anti-vaccine activism. A confused woman at a Turning Point USA event falsely blames Donald Trump for “millions” of vaccine deaths. Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna revives a long debunked and embarrassing talking point that “taxation is theft.” Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene now wants to be taken seriously, and sadly, the corporate media may help her. MyPillow CEO and Founder Mike Lindell appears to have turned on radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene over her vote in favor of Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House. Voicemail caller Eric from Mass disgustingly claims that David is happy that Diamond died of COVID.
TUESDAY 01.10.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday January 10, 2023
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Evaluating What’s Working and What’s Not (00:30:18)
On this show it’s time for a reality check as we wind it down and take a step back to evaluate what’s working and what’s not! What’s the definition of insanity? Oh yea, doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result. Its time to take charge and get real. There’s another saying, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it but when was the last time you looked under the hood? Nope, this year were not leaving anything to chance but instead taking a proactive approach as we take an honest deep dive into our lives. Sometimes its hard to get a good perspective when you’re so close to the subject, ie ” ourselves. So well consult some experts, relate with some stories, pull our vantage point back to get the bigger picture and make a commitment to embrace change.
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Setting a Goal You Can Achieve; Being the Best You Can Be (00:30:10)
On this show we’re going to look at goal setting through a different lens. Instead of anxiously scripting a target based on the top ten goals someone said you should achieve before some magical age, were going to set a goal we CAN achieve; being the best you can be. Maybe you’re purpose-driven and have your life planned out for the next 3, 5, or 10 years. Perhaps you love deadlines, competition, pushing yourself to uncomfortable heights, and winning more than losing. I mean who doesn’t? But maybe, you find goal setting, milestones, self-motivation, and the celebratory dance all a bit overwhelming so instead, you retreat until something comfortable and doable lands in your lap. Ok, no matter who you identify with, there is a plan for you.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: GOP Treason Is Stalking Democracies Around the World (00:58:00)
And it is damn well past time that the people who conceived, ordered and facilitated the execution of this crime against all the rest of us are held to account in a meaningful way. Plus it looks like DeSantis is all in on fascism and Putin too… The secret history of a riot, with investigative journalist, Greg Palast whose most recent film is Vigilante: Georgias Vote Suppression Hitman.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Divinity Roxx (00:58:00)
2022 Grammy Nominee Divinity Roxx is a superstar bassist, and longtime member of Beyonc’s touring band. This time on The Children’s Hour, she guest deejays the show, and answers all of our many questions about life as a rockstar. We learn about her “late start” as a musician, and how the love of an instrument can lead a person down a magical path. We also hear about what it was like to perform at the White House, and rock on stage with Beyonc.
Divinity Roxx kids’ release called Ready, Set, Go! has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Children’s Release 2022. It motivates young people to get up and move, as well as listen to their mamas! We’re thrilled to be joined by an up and coming legend of the Kindie children’s music world, Divinity Roxx. Divinity has chosen our playlist, which is a showcase of great black musical artists from across the spectrum of genres and years.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 40 (00:20:00)
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
THE MIDDLE WAY SOCIETY: The Mind At Work with Mike Rose (00:41:35)
A fascinating discussion, with Mike Rose reminiscing with great warmth and appreciation of his mother’s skill and social intelligence in her work as a waitress in a series of restaurants. I’m not sure that I accept his premise that such skills are undervalued or unacknowledged, although it’s perhaps the case that they may not attract the monetary rewards they deserve, and may not be reflected in the social status attributed to service or manual workers.It’s my experience that skilled ‘blue-collar’ artisans are generally highly regarded, so that people who cut great suits or restore ancient furniture may enjoy high status, as do actors, musicians or sportswomen whose intelligence lies elsewhere than in the intellectual domains. Skill, be it socio-emotional, embodied or physical, equates with intelligence in contemporary society. Indeed, it might be argued that intellectuals tend to get a bashing these days, and many are rather poorly rewarded for their efforts. Mike Rose is a research professor in the department of education of UCLA and the author of several books including Why School, Back to School and Possible Lives. We’re going to be talking about education and some of the themes explored in these books but we’ll be focusing in particular on his book The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker which challenges the long-held notion that people who work with their hands make up a less intelligent class. Recorded April 23, 2016
http://www.middlewaysociety.org/the-mws-podcast-93-mike-rose-on-the-mind-at-work/
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/10/23 (00:00:00)
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MONDAY 01.02.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday January 2, 2023
WHEN THE BIOMASS HIITS THE WIND TURBINE #168: Urban Food Forests (00:29:05)
The concept of a food forests, integrating marketable crops into a woodland environment, managing not just the turf for planting ” but every vertical layer of space ” is catching on in the world of agriculture innovations.
But can this concept be successful in an urban environment as we seek to provide local and sustainable food sources where we live? Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion about the promise and perils of urban food forests.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: What’s Wrong With Capitalism? (00:29:00)
The year 2022 produced a daunting, long list of serious problems associated with the economy (inflation, rising interest rates, stock market decline, deterioration of the environment, war, labor uprising, etc.). More than ever, the victims and critics of the problems of 2022 identified them as symptoms of a systemic problem, namely the capitalist system. On the one hand, capitalism is working as it always has, but that is now a problem. At its center capitalism prioritizes profit and profit maximization and we show how they are the core causes of the system’s dysfunction now for all but a tiny minority at its top.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is the Anti-McCarthy Crowd in the Bag for the Billionaires, Putin, or Both? (00:58:00)
Is this all a continuation of Trumps January 6th coup attempt and his desire to convert America from a democracy into a despotic strongman-rule nation aligned with Russia? Veteran War Correspondent, Phil Ittner, on the New Year’s Eve attack in Kyiv, Ukraine. Saudi-Backed LIV Golf Is Using PGA Suit to Get Data on 9/11 Families. World Could Lose Half of Glaciers This Century Even If Warming Is Kept to 1.5
RADIO ART HOUR: “Listening to the Inbetween” (01:00:28)
“Listening to the Inbetween” by Andrea-Jane Cornell is featured this week. Shortwave transmissions recorded between April 2017 and September 2020 in Punta Delgada, Azores, Louisville Kentucky, and Midcoast Maine, intermingled with synthesized tones and an occasional field recording. Scanning the shortwave radio spectrum is an exercise in tuning into the unknown, Cornell writes. Whether you are looking to find an actual broadcast signal, or listening to the pops and tones in the spaces in-between, all sounds could be signals emanating from somewhere beyond the horizon. it’s an exercise in listening with intention and intensity.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 38-39 (00:37:09)
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
XR RADIO: The role of music in protests (00:25:00)
We talk about how and why to sing at protest and how music can be part of changing the world with Nora Maynard, singer, music teacher, and climate activist.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/9/23 (00:56:17)
On the Show: The Brazilian version of the Trump riots hit Brazil as supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro riot in demand of his reinstatement, as mass arrests take place. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is hanging out in Florida, visiting KFC and Publix, as his supporters riot in demand of his reinstatement in Brazil. Donald Trump’s cronies’ fingerprints are all over the pro-Bolsonaro insurrection in Brazil, and a review of the things said by Steve Bannon, Mike Lindell, and others serve as a stark reminder. A record number of Americans are employed under Joe Biden as his approval rating continues to climb. The disastrous and humiliating aftermath of the House Speaker fiasco which ultimately led to the election of Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy as speaker. A confused Donald Trump claims that Joe Biden convinced Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, among other absurdities, during a recent speech at Mar-a-Lago. Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appears to abandon Q-Anon as she tries to rebrand herself now that Republicans control the House of Representatives. MAGA and conspiracy theorists turn on Marjorie Taylor Greene as she appears to be distancing herself from the radical elements of MAGA that she has been a part of until now. Voicemail caller named Karen is upset that her dogs are triggered by David bumping his microphone during the show.
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THE BRADCAST 1/6/23: Will Bunch on Jan. 6 and GOP House chaos (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: It’s January 6 again, our ‘weird annual tradition’ that underscores the Republican Party’s ongoing threat to American democracy two years after the deadly, Donald Trump-incited insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. House Republicans again failed to select a Speaker on the 13th ballot, but major concessions made by GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to hard-right insurrectionists appear on the verge of succeeding in making him the weakest House Speaker in U.S. history. To commemorate the second anniversary of the violent Capitol insurrection, House Democrats held a memorial honoring law enforcement officers who lost their lives defending the Capitol; we observed no Republicans attending the ceremony. In moving remarks at the White House, President Biden marked the somber anniversary by honoring 14 individuals who stepped up to defend democracy – – law enforcement officers who literally defended the Capitol, and election workers and officials who defended the 2020 election results, at great personal cost – – awarding them the Presidential Citizens Medal. Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist WILL BUNCH discusses the still-unfolding repercussions of the January 6 insurrection and the lack of accountability for its ringleaders. Bunch ties the January 6 violent assault on democracy to this week’s spectacle of far-right Republicans again fomenting chaos, and warns of rocky times to come now that far-right Republican ‘nihilists’ and insurrectionists are in control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Thank You James Lovelock, Gaia Radicalizes Us (RE-RELEASE) (00:29:00)
The people who set up the COP conferences invite billionaires and their enabling professionals to a poker game with a large herd of aggrieved advocates. The game is rigged, but it takes ten days.But that is the essential story of the conference, until now. With the physical environment so clearly deadly, the question “How will we survive” is bringing back the emotions of decency. Good people who want to live will tear apart a refinery with their bare hands over the weekend. As they do this, they are happy.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Who Is The Speaker? (00:28:00)
This week Republicans cannot choose a leader.
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ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 1/6/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, dean of the Austin Press Corps. He compares some the provisions of the Texas constitution that would have prevented the issues arising now in the US House, and the attempts by MCarthy to be elected to be Speaker.
He also tells us about the huge budget surplus in Texas ($45B-50B, counting revenues from oil and gas). No vision has been described by the governor or Lt. governor for using it, though there are many needs. (infrastructure, electric grid, clean water, etc.)
Part 2:
Bill Curry and Harold Meyerson discuss the insurrection currently in progress in the House. There is no leader for the House, and those who are preventing the leader from being installed are prolonging the insurrection of two years ago. Their only driver seems to be the destruction of the government. They are not interested in actually governing.
SOJOURNER TRUTH 1/6/23 (00:59:17)
Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you excerpts from Black Women Bringing It All Back Home, a webinar discussion series organized by the organization Black Women Radicals. We spend the hour in conversation with organizers for Black Women Radicals honoring host of Sojourner Truth, Margaret Prescod for her work as an activist, discussing her ongoing commitment to covering the Wests incessant destabilization in Haiti, while covering the work being done by organizers on the ground. Black Women Radicals activists cover Margaret’s commitment to independent media, and her history of involvement and activism with Women for Fair Wages and founding the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders to bring attention to the serial murder of Black Women in Los Angeles in the last 40 years.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: The Mysteries of Eleusis, Early Christianity & Psychedelic Initiatory Rites (00:59:00)
This is the second in a series of interview conversations with Brian Muraresku, a classics scholar studying ancient languages and history. His fascinating new book is: The Immortality Key – The Secret History of the Religion With No Name. Which reads like an archeological detective story putting together archeological discoveries and ancient classical scholarship particularly focusing around Ancient Greece through early Christianity, from the Mysteries of Eleusis to Jesus and into the first few centuries AD. And the discoveries that demonstrate that the great secret of the Mysteries was a psychedelic potion or brew that gave a beatific vision and union with the divine. And that this psychedelic potion went from the Eleusinian Temples of Demeter and Persephone to Dionysus and then to Jesus and the apostles who used these psychedelic spike wines to initiate many thousands of people into the great mysteries of the religion with no name, before Christianity became codified by the Church. We also talk about how these great mysteries were considered to be essential for the survival of humanity and that the loss of them would make life unlivable, and the consequences we currently face due to the loss of our connection to this essential part of our history and culture. And how it is being brought back.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: 2023 Cybersecurity Predictions and the Worst Breaches of 2022! (00:58:37)
2023 has a lot of challenges ahead when it comes to keeping everyone safe and secure online! We predict all things cybersecurity for 2023 in this episode! We also catch up on news and look at the Worst Breaches of 2022!!
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THE BRADCAST 1/5/23: House GOP Breaks 100-Year Record for Failing to Elect a Speaker (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: House Republicans have broken the record for failing to select a Speaker, with their leader Kevin McCarthy again failing to secure a majority in eleven rounds of voting on their third day of trying. The last time multiple ballots were needed for any party to elect a House Speaker was 1923, when it took nine ballots to settle the matter, but it’s still less than the 133 ballots required in 1855. The Republican chaos prevents them from enacting their radical agenda just yet, but will have major implications in coming months when serious legislative issues like raising the debt ceiling come to the fore. In Pennsylvania, Democrats and Republicans have found a path forward to resolve a very unusual situation of state legislature control, working together to elect a Democratic Speaker. In Ohio, Democratic state lawmakers out-maneuvered far-right Republicans in the legislature to elect a moderate GOP speaker, while at the same time, the state’s corrupt former Republican Speaker goes on trial on federal fraud and bribery charges. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Lula: New Hope for a Habitable Earth? (00:58:32)
Lula: New Hope for a Habitable Earth? None of us can do it alone. But Brazil’s new president, who beat their version of Trump, offers real hope for the planet. From mere crisis to real emergency, one big political change in Brazil offers realistic hope for saving the planet. No exaggeration. On this show global south veteran journalist James North explains that implementation of new priorities, with a new president known as Lula, there are new economic incentives for locals to buy into saving the irreplaceable and truly essential Brazilian rain forest. It matters to all of us.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN (00:58:00)
Part 1: We talk with Scott Braddock, dean of the Austin Press Corps. He compares some the provisions of the Texas constitution that would have prevented the issues arising now in the US House, and the attempts by McCarthy to be elected to be Speaker. He also tells us about the huge budget surplus in Texas ($45B-50B, counting revenues from oil and gas). No vision has been described by the governor or Lt. governor for using it, though there are many needs. (infrastructure, electric grid, clean water, etc.)
Part 2:
Bill Curry and Harold Meyerson discuss the insurrection currently in progress in the House. There is no leader for the House, and those who are preventing the leader from being installed are prolonging the insurrection of two years ago. Their only driver seems to be the destruction of the government. They are not interested in actually governing.
GROWING GREENER: Return of an American Giant (00:29:00)
In the early years of the 20th century an introduced fungal blight killed an estimated 4 billion American chestnut trees, effectively eliminating what had been a foundational species of eastern North American woodlands. Scientist Andrew Newhouse of the State University of New York explains how his university is preparing to release a race of American chestnuts genetically engineered to withstand the blight, so that this essential tree may flourish in the forest once again.
GOT SCIENCE?: Electric Vehicle Battery Reuse and Recycling (00:29:00)
Vehicles expert Jessica Dunn explores how electric vehicle batteries can be reused, repurposed, and recycled.
THE BOPST SHOW: Right In On Zero (00:55:57)
Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Vicky Leandros, The Automatics, The Square Set, Mighty Diamonds, C.J. & Company, Emiliana Torrini, Jonquil, Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards, Tony Joe White, Tomorrow, Kid A, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Chandeliers, Fred Lane & the Disheveled Monkeybiters, and Esta M.
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FRIDAY 01.06.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday January 6, 2023
JUST SOLUTIONS: 2022 – a year in review (00:29:00)
A look back at some notable interviews from 2022 including Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, editor of the Black Agenda, Bold Solutions for a broken system, a new collection of essays written by Black scholars, Alexandra Natapoff whose book Punishment without Crime chronicles the impact of the millions of misdemeanors that are filed each year in the criminal justice system. Tom Mauser who has been calling for common sense gun regulation since his son Daniel was murdered in the Columbine school shooting in 1999. Chris Smalls, president of the Amazon Labor Union, who spoke with us in Pittsburgh, during Netroots Nation.
COUNTERSPIN: Asylum Policy, Airline Meltdown (00:28:00)
Melissa Crow on Asylum Policy, Paul Hudson on Airline Meltdown.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Real Reason the Freedom Caucus Hates Kevin McCarthy Is Larger Than You Think (00:58:00)
While the battle for House Speaker appears to be about personality, it’s really about ideology. It’s about the future of big government and the American middle class. Also, What happens if they never pick a speaker?
Interview:Nate Gowdy -Photo-Journalist attacked by the J-6 mob while on assignment for Rolling Stone Magazine.
Plus, how the senate could fill more federal court seats.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Adam Minter: The Promise of Autonomous Vehicles for Rural America (00:28:00)
Have you ever been so tired behind the wheel that you needed to pull over to rest? Well, thats one of the problems autonomous or self-driving vehicles promise to eliminate. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with author and Bloomberg Opinion columnist Adam Minter about the world of autonomous vehicles. We examine the impact autonomous vehicles might have on rural America, look at an appealing test program in a sparsely populated area of Minnesota, and explore how the elimination of drivers might assist those who cannot – or should not – be driving.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs UNDROWNED (00:28:00)
Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this year hasnt been smooth sailing for many of us either ” with extreme temperatures, a global pandemic and other crises. How do we take a breath? Alexis Pauline Gumbs UNDROWNED: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, draws on the practices of marine mammals ” they are the experts, after all, in not drowning. (The harbor seal can slow its breath to about four beats per minute!) The book landed her the prestigious 2022 Whiting Prize for nonfiction, and now she is working on a biography of Audre Lorde. Plus, she is bringing people together through Soul Sanctuary, retreats that center a Black, feminist and queer vision. Join Laura and Gumbs for a conversation on how we can all practice another way to breathe. Music featured in the middle of the radio show and podcast is the title track of Samora Pinderhughes Transformation Suite.
THE BOPST SHOW: Right In On Zero (00:55:57)
Music variety show hosted, mixed and recorded by Chris Bopst featuring words and music by Vicky Leandros, The Automatics, The Square Set, Mighty Diamonds, C.J. & Company, Emiliana Torrini, Jonquil, Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards, Tony Joe White, Tomorrow, Kid A, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Chandeliers, Fred Lane & the Disheveled Monkeybiters, and Esta M.
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DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/6/23 (00:57:17)
On the Show: David discusses the phenomenon of lying becoming more acceptable in American politics. Donald Trump does a delusional over-the-phone interview with Dr. Darren Beattie. Caller asks what the biggest upset was of the 2022 midterms. Caller asks if it’s possible to be an ethical consumer in a capitalist society. Caller suggests states make pro-choice license plates. Caller talks about the Republican migrant border stunts. Caller asks how Democrats can use Republican infighting to their benefit. Caller talks about strict father morality as it pertains to immigration. Caller asks if social security is a socialist program. David responds to viewer emails and social media messages.
THURSDAY 01.05.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday January 5, 2023
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Saviors of Civilization? (00:58:00)
Millions of northern Europeans are wearing coats indoors, as energy prices skyrocket. Author and energy watcher Nate Hagens interviews writer & film-maker Nora Bateson in Sweden. Is this a trial run for living with less? Alex investigates the Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) tankers to save Europe, and the role of China. Desert for this radio meal is a few minutes with the late French philosopher Guy Debord. He saw the social lie that keeps us pinned to suicidal lifestyles.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is the Right to Contraception About To End in America? (00:58:00)
As of last week, Republican efforts to ban birth control in America have officially started, and teenagers in Texas are its first victims. Also, should Dems strike a deal for House Speaker? Perhaps retired Rep Fred Upton? America needs to stop talking about Russian “red lines” with regard to Ukraine. And has Pete Buttigieg declared an end to neoliberalism?
LOPATE AT LARGE: Jefferson Cowie on Freedoms Dominion (00:50:20)
In Freedoms Dominion, historian Jefferson Cowie traces the American freedom which is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom”their freedom to dominate others. Join us when a prize-winning historian chronicles a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
ALAN WATTS: Understanding the Synchronicity of The Universe (00:12:37)
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.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 37 (00:25:26)
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
WINGS #38-22 Symbiosis vs. Toxic Self Sufficiency (00:28:55)
Gage’s Sermon on Toxic Self-Sufficiency draws on the work of the late American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, known as the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis (as opposed to competition) in evolution. Margulis was an advisor to NASA. Her books include the title Symbiotic Planet. Gage applies the model that Margulis attributed to Gaia to human relations – especially, but not limited to, lesbian relationships to the world.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/5/23 (00:57:14)
On the Show: Dr. Gloria Mark, Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine, has studied attention and stress in the digital age for over two decades and joins David to discuss multitasking, attention span, stress, anxiety, and more. Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy loses House Speaker votes a fourth, fifth, and sixth time on the second day of voting, despite “help” from failed former President Donald Trump. A civil war explodes within the Republican Party over the House speakership, punctuated by a wild confrontation between Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity and radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who threatens to nominate Donald Trump for speaker. Putting aside the optics and hilarity, the lack of a House Speaker is actually a national security risk. Radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s unhinged interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle over the House Speaker fiasco goes horribly wrong. Lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos appears to forget his own name on the floor of the House of Representatives. Lying Republican Congressman-elect George Santos lies about having been sworn in on Tuesday, January 3, which he was not. Fox News guest and former David Pakman Show guest Steve Almond absolutely humiliates Fox host Laura Ingraham during a stunning appearance. Voicemail caller calls in about anti-vaxxers swarming to the Damar Hamlin story.
WEDNESDAY 01.04.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday January 4, 2023
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Dr. Robert Winn (00:18:05)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Dr. Robert Winn, Director of the VCU Massey Cancer Center, for a conversation about the clinical research and treatment work of the center, a five-year, $100 million clinical trial diversity program supported by the Bristol Meyers Squibb Foundation, and more.
ROBERT REICH: Inflation Isn’t Happening by Magic (00:05:54)
What’s really driving inflation? How do we stop corporations from price gouging? What can we do to build a better economy for working people? Solana Rice and I sat down to discuss.
ROBERT REICH: Worker Power is On the Rise: 2022 in Review (00:00:59)
This year’s labor surge proves that good things can happen when workers stick together. Remember: There are more working people than there are billionaires and CEOs.
ROBERT REICH: The Little Secret About Corporate Profits (00:04:05)
Every month we get reporting on prices. We get reporting on jobs. We get reporting on wages. You know what we don’t get? Reporting on corporate profits. Corporate America wants to keep it this way. Workers get blamed for inflation. Corporations get cover for their greed.
THIS WAY OUT #1814: The Queerest News of 2022 Part 2 (00:28:59)
In Part 2 of This Way Outs review of some of the queerest news of 2022, LGBTQ rights were debated in the U.S. Supreme Court and in Congress, results of national elections in Australia and midterm elections in the U.S. each cheered queers, the FIFA World Cup in Qatar was a perilous experience for sexual and gender minorities and their supporters, Israel and New Zealand led increasing national bans on conversion therapy that falsely claims to turn queer people straight, Christian fundamentalists fueled censorship of LGBTQ-supportive books across the U.S., Australias Citipointe Christian College provided an example of religious bigotry masquerading as religious liberty on school campuses, and trans actress MJ Rodriguez made Golden Globes history. All that and more this week when you find “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture. NewsWrap” returns next week, along with the concluding Part 3 of some of the Queerest News of 2022.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: When Will Republican Voters Wake Up to Their Own Oppression? (00:58:00)
Somehow the conservative base voters never seem to figure it out. Why? Will Kevin McCarthy’s disastrous day cause a blue wave to the democratic party? Do they have the balls? Also where will Trump flee to?
THOMAS JEFFERSON HOUR #1527 Year in Review (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. 35-36 (00:34:40)
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: Forensic Fact vs. Fiction (00:20:41)
On this episode of Inside the FBI, we separate myth from reality about how the Bureau uses science to process crime scenes.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/4/23 (00:56:56)
On the Show: Rachel Bernstein, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, educator, author, and host of the podcast IndoctriNation, joins David to discuss how to help cult members, victims of narcissists, former supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and others, which she has done for 30 years in her practice. Republicans humiliate themselves after failing to elect a Speaker of the House in three consecutive votes. Failed former President Donald Trump delivers a deranged lie-riddled endorsement of Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy for Speaker of the House after McCarthy loses three consecutive votes in the House. Republicans Lauren Boebert and Scott Perry liken radical Republican Congressman Jim Jordan to the first US President George Washington. Fox News propagandists Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity appear to possibly be abandoning Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker. Lying Republican Congressman George Santos has quite a first day at the office, sitting alone in the House, running away from reporters, getting stuck in a dead-end hallway, and picking his nose on camera. The civil war between Republican Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert is getting increasingly heated. House Republicans are set to spend the next two years investigating Joe and Hunter Biden. Voicemail caller Total Control, a conspiracy theorist, shows what happens when you fall down the rabbit hole.
TUESDAY 01.03.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday January 3, 2022
THE POSITIVE MIND (00:57:29)
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: Climate Change Tipping Points (00:58:00)
Are extreme weather events growing worse and more frequent? Thom gets to the bottom of the latest climate science with Dr Michael Mann . Plus- Thom’s listeners diverse ideas on solving the crisis.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: A Brief History of the American Southwest Radio Special (00:58:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour, we have a different kind of show. This episode is taken from our six episode educational podcast series called “A Brief History of the American Southwest – For Kids” which was produced through multiple virtual field trips to sites of significance in our high desert of New Mexico.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 34 B (00:37:37)
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: 2022 was not a great year for the environment! (00:28:31)
On this edition of GSN, Patti and Doug review the Top Ten Environmental Issues of 2022 and their impact on our health, with clips from Green Street News shows throughout the year.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 1/3/23 (00:00:00)
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MONDAY 01.02.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday January 2, 2023
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #167: Reclaiming Downtowns (00:29:38)
How do you create or recreate a vital and vibrant downtown district? As so many cities and small towns have seen their commercial districts fall into disuse and disrepair, there is a movement to recapture the days of locally-owned, walkable business districts. Marietta, Ohio is a small town located at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. They have actually been fairly successful in achieving this goal. Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station are joined by Luke Sulfridge as he talks about his experience in renovating commercial properties in downtown Marietta.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Surging US Labor Activism (00:28:00)
In this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses explosive labor militancy across 2022 in US and UK, Wells Fargo bank again fined for illegal practices on 16 million bank customers, US-Russia economic warfare undercuts European economies whose response will likely shape Ukraine War’s results. In the second half, Wolff interviews journalist Bob Hennelly on the rising US labor movement.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Health Watch: From COVID to Sugar (00:58:00)
Did Covid conspiracy misinformation contribute to the most deadly flu season in years? Plus discussions including.. the real dangers of table sugar.. why Republicans don’t back basic science.. and remembering the dangerous drugs federal regulation took off the market.
RADIO ART HOUR: Patrick McGinley (01:02:08)
“Framework #746” was created by Patrick McGinley (murmer) (2021), and is introduced by Jos Alejandro Rivera. Framework is a weekly radio program presented by its founder, sound, performance, and radio artist, Patrick McGinley (aka murmur). It is a growing community outlet consecrated to field recording, phonography, the art of sound-hunting, and its use in composition. In 2002, Framework began broadcasting on Resonance 104.4-FM in London. In addition to streaming podcasts of past editions on its own website, the show now airs on twelve radio stations around the world, including Wave Farms WGXC 90.7-FM. Episode #746, one of Frameworks regular editions, originally aired on February 28, 2021. It displays the characteristic qualities that are typical of Framework broadcasts; an introduction from a member of Frameworks community, various environmental compositions from numerous artists, and McGinley’s delicate mixing that results in seamless overlaps of these works. While listening, it is often difficult to distinguish where one piece ends and another begins. Presented in this way, the individual works together weave a net of the audible world at large; one that consists of McGinley’s agency as a radio artist, creative sound work from people all over the world, and the particular environments and moments that are captured. Occasionally, McGinley interjects and shares information on the artists and pieces that are presented. Additionally, time-stamps are provided in the show notes that allow listeners to learn more about a specific work or a particular artist. Framework is described by McGinley as both a staking of territory and an invitation in. Given the multiple layers of de- and re-contextualization that exist with playback of any sound recorded from the environment, the episode simultaneously explores the capacity of radio to create, blur, situate, and reframe notions of space and place over the airwaves. Framework #746: 2021.02.28 features sounds from Joseph Young, Jesse Kaminsky, Marja Ahti, EKG (Ernst Karel and Kyle Bruckmann), Jen Kutler, Caroline Claus, Samuel Goff, Katrina Fairlee, Martin P. Eccles, and an anonymous contributor to the Aporee Soundmaps. Episode #746 was mixed and produced by Patrick McGinley. To quote the text that opens every edition of Framework, open your ears and listen!- Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2022, Jos Alejandro Rivera.
LITERATURE ALOUD: An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (1925) vol. 2, pt. 34 A (00:30:27)
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 Pinciaro pt. 2 (00:29:00)
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 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.
TUC RADIO: Alex Carey – Corporations and Propaganda, parts 1 & 2 (00:58:00)
Alex Carey wrote that the people of the US have been subjected to an unparalleled, expensive, 3/4 century long propaganda effort designed to expand corporate rights by undermining democracy and destroying the unions. The 20th century, he wrote, is marked by three historic developments: the growth of democracy via the expansion of the franchise, the growth of corporations, and the growth of propaganda to protect corporations from democracy. Careys unique view of US history goes back to World War I and ends with the Reagan era. Noam Chomsky dedicated his book Manufacturing Consent to the memory of Alex Carey. Chomsky says that the Australian sociologist would have written the definitive history of propaganda in the US, had he lived to complete his work. This is a fairly complex production with many voices, historic sound clips, and source material. The program has been used by writers and students of history and propaganda. Alex Carey: Taking the Risk out of Democracy, Corporate Propaganda VS Freedom and Liberty with a foreword by Noam Chomsky was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1995.
SUNDAY 01.01.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 12/30/22: Encore: House J6 Committee votes to refer criminal charges for Trump (00:58:00)
Encore: original air-date 12/19/2022. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Merry Christmas from ‘The BradCast’ and the U.S. House, Mr. Trump. The bipartisan House Select Committee investigating the former president’s incitement of insurrection on January 6, 2021, and his failed attempts to steal the 2020 Presidential election, voted unanimously to send four criminal referrals for Trump to the U.S. Dept. of Justice. The Committee recommended DOJ investigate Trump for criminal obstruction of an official proceeding for corruptly attempting to block the peaceful transfer of power; conspiracy to defraud the United States for falsely claiming fraud in the 2020 election; conspiracy to make a false statement for the scheme to send fake electors to Congress; and for inciting an insurrection. In today’s special coverage, we air extended clips of the committee hearing that included some new witnesses and new information since the panel’s previous public hearing. The action requires DOJ to review the evidence, but whether it results in actual indictments and real accountability for the corrupt Trump is a separate matter. Callers weigh in on all of the above.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Where did the future go? It feels like the future no longer waits beyond the next moment (00:29:00)
Where did the future go? It feels like the future no longer waits beyond the next moment. The Ukraine War is a miniature replay of World War 2. Trump is like Huey Long crossed with Bozo. The Museum of Modern Art still tries to scandalize us with futurists from the past. Covid is the Creature of the Black Lagoon. What do we expect of our future as we cross the threshold of the New Year? All optimism is recycled industrial waste. But I like the Sixth Extinction. It’s hair-raising. It isn’t made of the past.
TURN ON THE NEWS: This week: “Alien Radio” This week the U.S. government says UFOs are out there (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.”
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN (00:59:30)
Rethink The Year
First is Stephen Pimpare who is the director of the Public Service and Nonprofit Leadership Program at the University of New Hampshire. He is the author of The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages (2004); A Peoples History of Poverty in America (2008); and Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen (2017) and Politics for Social Workers (2021). We also have Lincoln Mitchell, who teaches in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He covers the politics of NYC and San Francisco as well as International politics. He is the author of seven books and is a frequent contributor to CNN Opinion, the San Francisco Examiner and Brussels Morning. And lastly we have Robert Hennelly, the Award-winning investigative journalist, broadcast and print reporter for more than 30 years, covering federal, state and local politics, public policy, labor, the environment, law enforcement and national security.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS 1/1/23 (00:59:00)
The House in 2023 Crippled by Polarization and the Growing Threat of American Fascism | Are we Seeing a Replay of the 1850 Collapse of the Whig Party and the Rise of the Know-Nothings?
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Self-Sustaining Leadership – Love In Action In The World (00:59:00)
This show features Jody Marquis and Deb Pearson who are teachers and facilitators of Self-Sustaining Leadership, created by Jack Russell and Glenda Otto. Self-Sustaining Leadership is a methodology and practice of love in action in the world and in our lives. And Jody and Deb tell their immensely inspiring stories of how Self-Sustaining Leadership changed their lives, and how they are sharing their work with others in the world.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Social Media Is A Failed Experiment (00:58:37)
As Myspace and, eventually, the behemoth that is Facebook came to fruition, the social media concept faltered and devolved. Why? The answer is multifaceted, but at its core, its simply this: some people just suck. We explore why some people suck and the other reasons why Social Media has been the ruin of us. We also catch up on news and more! Don’t miss this episode!