MONDAY 07.31.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 31, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: D.C. community center plans to serve neighbors during disasters
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE: 032 – From Whale Oil to Kerosene (00:27:29)
The search for energy has largely been a search for light. We have evolved from huddling around campfires, to burning candles made of animal fat, to hunting whales on the oceans, to refining oil and ultimately the electric light.
This is a journey filled with adventure, fortunes, misfortunes – but mostly lies and lawyers. Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of sustainable living – and the Dead White Scientists that made it all possible.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: The U.S. Tax System: Rigged, Unfair & Fundamentally Unjust (00:29:00)
This week’s update focuses on a systematic overview of federal, state, and local tax systems in the US to show the injustices built into corporate and personal taxation of income, spending and property.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is Tuberville’s Senate Hold on Military Promotions So Trump Can Fill Them in 2025? (00:58:00)
It looks like the billionaires who control the MAGA movement have learned from January 6th and won’t make the mistake of having an independent military, FBI, press, or Department of Justice again.
More lies and fraud in the Supreme Court Gutfeld: Disgusted Fox staff, “at any other place, his career would be over” Is Gen Z about to take the 2024 electoral baton? And – what that means. Do Dems have a plan for re-taking the south? Florida doctors can now refuse to provide services to gay people.
RADIO ART HOUR: AWU Radio, Nabalayo, Misty Avinger, Kui Dong (00:58:00)
This week “Trans-Temporal Echoes” by AWU Radio; “Focus on Yourself” by Nabalayo; “As Seen on TV” by Misty Avinger; and “Flying Apples” by Kui Dong are featured. In her guidebook, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, queer black feminist love evangelist and self described marine mammal apprentice Alexis pauline gumbs asks: “How can we listen across species, across extinction, across harm? How does echolocation, the practice many marine mammals use to navigate the world through bouncing sounds, change our understandings of ‘vision’ and visionary action? Is social media already a technology of bounce, of throwing something out there and seeing what comes back?” Created by AWU Radio, a feminist radio station based in Senegal, Trans-Temporal Echoes is a technology of bounce, in the words of Alexis Pauline Gumbs. It is an ensemble of voices, a deep, dear dialogue between women and whales echoing each other. Telling stories of the deep, deep tones, deep time, deep entanglements, and deep trans-generational transmission. Then, the phrase Focus on yourself begins almost every refrain of Nairobi-based griot, Nabalayo’s poem and public service announcement. Never addressed to any particular listener, or maybe addressed to all who need to hear it, the transmission is intended to address the undeniable link of misogyny and colonialism within the Kenyan context. “Focus on yourself and question your thirst for blood. Is it symbolic revenge? For what they did to you? to us?” Nabalayo asks. “Kenya is growing, but its women are suffering at the hands of misogyny, and complacency to misogyny,” the artist writes. Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2023, Iru Ekpunobi. Next, in “As Seen on TV,” Audio Producer and sonic storyteller Misty Avinger imagines a Build-a-Dad workshop, choose-your-own-adventure radio piece, that accompanies the artists inner monologue as they flip through a catalog of Television Dads. Through a game-show medium, our host both grieves and offers reflection on fractured relationships with parental figures, and transmits the whimsical places imagination can take us through the radio. – Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2023, Iru Ekpunobi. Finally, Kui Dong’s “Flying Apples” is an algorithmic composition that takes the listener into the colorful, playful, and fantastic realm of an unfinished childhood dream. Programmed in Small-talk language, using extremely nested patterns based on a repeated three-note motive, the work was completed on newly developed software operating on a Mac workstation at the Computer Center of Research in Music and Acoustic, Stanford University
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 30 (00:33:31)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
GREEN STREET NEWS: The Unwanted Chemicals in Every Plastic Bottle with Mike Belliveau (00:28:11)
This week on GSN, after the news headlines, Patti and Doug speak with Mike Belliveau of Defend our Health about the organization’s discovery of toxic chemicals in every plastic beverage bottle they tested.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/31/23 (00:57:20)
On the Show: Vivek Ramaswamy, entrepreneur and 2024 Republican presidential primary candidate, joins David to discuss his campaign, how he plans to defeat Donald Trump, how he would defeat Joe Biden if he were to be the Republican nominee, and much more. Failed former President Donald Trump holds a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania during which he insults Joe Biden, tells corrosive lies, and generally makes a fool of himself. Trump rally attendees are interviewed outside his Erie, Pennsylvania rally, including one who suggests all political enemies should be killed, and another who embraces being in a cult. 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kenned Jr repeats the claim that there’s proof that vaccines cause autism. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis continues to try to make social campaign stops where he is unable to socialize normally. Former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard likens Joe Biden’s economic policies to Nazism. A confused Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein again raises serious questions about her cognitive state. Voicemail caller notifies David that copycat books to his are now showing up on Amazon.
SUNDAY 07.29.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 7/28/23: Alexandra Flores-Quilty of Free Speech for People on disqualifying Trump under the Insurrection Clause (00:57:30)
Encore: original airdate 7-17-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Donald Trump is arguably ineligible to serve as President of the United States, according to the ‘insurrection disqualification clause’ of the U.S. Constitution (14th Amendment, Sec. 3). Trump is also arguably the easiest GOP candidate for Joe Biden to defeat in the 2024 Presidential Election, in what will again be a proxy battle between democracy and autocracy. Former Trump White House officials are constructing an agenda for the next Republican president, promising a radical takeover of independent Executive Branch agencies and a consolidation of all ‘Unitary Executive’ power in the Oval Office. ALEXANDRA FLORES-QUILTY of the non-partisan, pro-democracy good government group Free Speech for People, discusses their latest campaign to ensure top state election officials utilize their responsibility to disqualify Trump from the ballot under the Insurrection Disqualification Clause of the Constitution, after his incitement of the Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Flores-Quilty explains the clause, its history and application, and actions that voters can take to promote accountability in US elections. Callers weigh in on whether it is politically smart to disqualify Trump from the ballot, potentially paving the way for a smarter authoritarian Republican to defeat President Biden.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Frank Zappa Said, Annoy Them A Little. Well. (00:29:00)
But we are looking for a kind of conversation in public space that is as regular and full or neighborly affection as it is, in 2023 at least, a revolution in communication. The stories blow in the wind in one direction more than any other direction, and that is called Culture”. The absence of a sensible delivery system for spoken word stories is the key to why we are not communicating about the Earths crisis. No we aren’t. Not enough. Not clearly. Our climate reports comes as pixels, data, tragedy and celebrity compassion, but nothing as powerful as a friend who shakes us and demands that we change. And we shake and shout at all the friends and strangers who conspire with us to poison the air and grow the storms.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Poison Years (00:27:54)
“Turn On The News” is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in “Turn On The News” each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides — good and evil — every time you “Turn On The News.” This week: “Poison Years.” This week the former president is getting ready for another indictment.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 5/20/23 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with Prof. Lincoln Mitchell of Columbia University. We discuss the concept of protected speech. We also discuss antisemitism in the context of the MAGA movement. We also expand on the idea of “useful” Jews..
Segment Two
We then talk with Jeffrey Solocheck, education reporter, about Florida’s just released guidelines for teaching black history and culture. The very controversial assertion that black people learned skills while enslaved that would help them succeed once freed is discussed. The Florida Department of Education has insisted on promoting this idea, despite NO evidence to support it.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS July 26, 2023 (00:58:57)
A Roundup of Legal Issues Facing Hunter Biden, Guiliani, Flynn, Navarro and Trump | Biden’s Mental Health Initiative as Addiction and Mental Illness Remain Untreated Across the Country | The Techno-Autocracy of Saudi Arabia as an Example of Capitalism Without Democracy
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Part 2 – Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing with Cheryl Pallant (00:59:00)
This is the second half of my interview conversation with Cheryl Pallant. Cheryl Pallant is an award-winning writer and poet, energy healer, somatic coach and dancer. She’s published more than 200 articles on dance, writing, healing, somatics and spirituality, and is the author of several books, including Writing and the Body in Motion, and Contact Improvisation. She teaches at the University of Richmond and leads workshops around the world. Her new book is Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing. We talk about somatic or embodied awareness and intelligence, and how to thrive by connecting and grounding in our bodies, even in times of cataclysmic crises. And how the embodied practice of thriving in difficult times is also the best medicine for the environment and the planet, as well as each other.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: All The Cyber News Fit To Print (00:58:44)
Hackers hitting Red States over gender affirming care, AI Pollution online is increasing, Meta is involved in human trafficking and so much more happened this week! Whew!!
SATURDAY 07.28.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 7/27/23: The Still-Unpunished Attempt to Steal America’s 2020 Election (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: As the nation awaits potential indictments for disgraced former President Donald Trump and others in multiple state and federal criminal investigations, corporate media is still working hard to find new euphemisms to avoid accurately informing the public that Trump tried to STEAL the 2020 Presidential election, not ‘bend the results.’ Trump attorneys met with Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office in a last-ditch attempt to avoid indictments in the investigation of the January 6 insurrection and attempted theft of the 2020 election. But Smith has strangely not yet interviewed far-right former Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) about Brooks’ allegation that Trump ordered him to try to ‘rescind’ the election and other nutty, illegal acts to install Trump in power. In Michigan, MAGA attorney Stefanie Lambert says she been indicted in the criminal probe of unlawful breaches of several voting systems in 2020. Even Fox ‘News’ is agog at the strong growth and resilience of the U.S. economy under President Biden’s policies. The Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark climate law enacted by Biden and the Democrats one year ago, is already ‘turbocharging’ the U.S. clean energy sector and producing massive investment in U.S. manufacturing and jobs. Biden unveils new measures to help communities grappling with extreme heat waves. Late-breaking: Jack Smith has filed additional charges in Donald Trump’s stolen documents case. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: How The Wagner Group Came to Be (00:59:15)
Private Security Firms; just part of doing business, right? Blackwater was Americas version in Iraq; The Wagner Group is Russias today in Ukraine and Africa. Atrocities in the Donbass region of Ukraine? Russia cynically said, thats not us, its little green men. History Professor Emeritus Dr. Lawrence Wittner on this show reveals the major role of mercenaries, soldiers of fortune in the pay of Russian oligarchs. And they boost their great wages with wholesale looting. The United Nations is not doing its job.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 7/28/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, dean of the Austin Press Corps about the ongoing impeachment of Tx Atty General Ken Paxton. We also talk about the scandal of Texas A&M’s suspension of a faculty expert for remarks interpreted by one student about the fentanyl problem in Texas.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Harold Meyerson about age of office holders. The majority of the US Senate is over 65 years old. We discuss the changes in Israel, and how it is increasingly dominated by right wing religious orthodox members. We look at parallels within the US, and the christian evangelicals.
We discuss the Hunter Biden problem.
GROWING GREENER: A Youth Uprising in Montana (00:29:03)
Maya K. van Rossum shares what she observed at the recent trial in Montana, where 16 young natives of that state charged the legislature with deliberately violating the guarantee of a clean and healthful environmentfor present and future generations in Montanas state constitution
TUC RADIO: Norman Solomon: War Made Invisible (00:29:00)
Kirkus Reviews called this book a powerful, necessary indictment of efforts to disguise the human toll of American foreign policy and a provocative overview of the consequences of the medias appalling failures in making important truths known.
Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic, author and activist. He is the founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy and co-founder and national director of the online organization RootsAction.org, which now has upwards of 1.3 million online supporters. He is the author of 13 books, among them Made Love, Got War; War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death; and Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. Massachusetts Peace Action invited Norman Solomon to a book-talk on July 19, 2023. They are working to foster a more just and peaceful U.S. foreign policy. Thanks to Massachusetts Peace Action for the recording. You can watch the talk including a very interesting Q/A session on Youtube. Search for Norman Solomon: War Made invisible
THE BOPST SHOW: Mugged by the Aristocracy (00:54:58)
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. This week’s show features music by Northern soul singer September Jones, dub experimentalists Dub Syndicate, 70s Swedish prog rockers Nationalteatern well as songs by the founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen Mallinder, funk rockers Mfalme and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #490 (00:58:00)
Ralph spends the whole hour with Jennifer Vanderbes, author of Wonder Drug: The Secret History Of Thalidomide In America And Its Hidden Victims. Thalidomide was never commercially available in the U.S., but American doctors handed out samples to patients even though no one could prove the drug was safe. Or could definitively say what the drug did. And by the time thalidomide landed at the FDA for approval, whistleblowers, journalists, doctors, and patients in Germany, Australia, and the UK were sounding the alarm about its shocking side effects.
FRIDAY 07.27.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 27, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Black sea bass habitat is shifting north as the Atlantic heats up
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW Half-hour: All The Cyber News Fit To Print (00:29:08)
Hackers hitting Red States over gender affirming care, AI Pollution online is increasing, Meta is involved in human trafficking and so much more happened this week! Whew!!
COUNTERSPIN: Asylum Policy, Sports Journalism (00:27:52)
Melissa Crow/asylum policy, Dave Zirin/sports journalism
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Trumps New Big Lie-Filled Fascist Ad is Damaging Our Democracy (00:58:00)
It follows a fairly ancient pattern of destructive Big Lies that goes back to Renaissance Italy and even the Roman republic and ancient Greece… Is Mitt Romney the last decent man who’s a Republican? Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Texas A&M professor is suspended for criticizing the Governor – say what? We were warned – the ocean currents are changing! Plus – just how hot is the water in FL? This is not good news. Vice President of Media Matters Julie Millican reflects on Fox news as an un-indicted co-conspirator in Trump’s crimes.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Joseph McFadden: A Cattle Biologist Explains Feed Additives (00:29:00)
Did you know that India accounts for about one-third of the worlds one billion head of cattle? Last week on Sea Change Radio, we spoke to the head of Rumin8, a startup thats working to reduce methane emissions from cattle. This week, we take a more academic approach to the cow burp problem ” our guest is Dr. Joseph McFadden, a professor of cattle biology at Cornell University. We learn more about the science of enteric fermentation in ruminants, examine the various technological solutions aiming to reduce these methane emissions, and discuss the hurdles that the feed additive industry faces, and why they are particularly challenging in countries like India.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: The Americans with Disabilities Act: A Civil Rights Milestone With Miles To Go (00:28:00)
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed in 1990, a significant milestone in the fight for civil rights, with a vision of inclusion and respect for people with disabilities. But ableism, or discrimination in favor of able-bodied people, persists, affecting the one in four Americans with a disability. What does ableism mean and why is it still a prominent problem? Anita Cameron and Keith Jones, leaders in the disability rights and disability justice movements, have answers. Cameron, who has been arrested nearly 150 times, participated in the “Capitol Crawl” for the passage of the ADA in 1990 and, later in 2017, she was part of the widely-publicized Rotunda Takeover with the disability advocacy group, ADAPT, to protest proposed Medicaid cuts. Her influential writings shed light on topics like ableism in media and the intersection of ableism and mental health. She currently heads the Minority Outreach at “Not Dead Yet”, an organization committed to fighting ableism, or discrimination veiled as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia of persons with disabilities. As an African-American activist, entrepreneur, and father living with cerebral palsy, Keith Jones advocates for quality independent living for persons with disabilities. He also strives for equal access to housing, education, and voting rights – for all. In addition to his human rights work, Jones is the founder of SoulTouchin Experiences and has earned an Emmy award for his song “Rising Phoenix,” a documentary about the Paralympic Games. This far-ranging feature, timed to coincide with the signing of the ADA on July 25, 1990, concludes with a commentary by Flanders.
THE BOPST SHOW: Mugged by the Aristocracy (00:54:58)
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. This week’s show features music by Northern soul singer September Jones, dub experimentalists Dub Syndicate, 70s Swedish prog rockers Nationalteatern well as songs by the founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, Stephen Mallinder, funk rockers Mfalme and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/28/23 (00:58:01)
On the Show: Donald Trump is expected to soon be indicted over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the January 6th Capitol riots. Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy debunks his co-hosts over alleged Biden corruption. Rudy Giuliani admits to making false statements about 2020 election workers in Georgia. Caller talks about impeaching Supreme Court justices. Caller discusses ranked choice voting. Caller delves into Toaster Strudel fundraising. Caller suspects kids aren’t learning cursive and basic math anymore. Caller points out Republican hypocrisy on law and order. Caller had a conversation with a “race realist.” Caller wonders what would happen if the 2024 election is a four-way race between Trump, DeSantis, Biden, and Manchin. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 07.27.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 27, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: EV charging stations to roll out at fast food restaurants in California
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Real Answer: Post Growth and Degrowth (00:58:00)
From the UK, Professor Tim Jackson talks about his book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism. Lorenz Keysser from ETH Zurich takes it further: planned decline coupled with increasing well-being ” degrowth. Will we wait for the great collapse, or plan our way back down the mountain?
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will America Face Narcissistic Collapse as Trump Descends into Legal Hell? (00:58:00)
He is already using the language of narcissistic collapse, priming his cult followers to experience rage and act out revenge fantasies on his behalf in a clear call to stochastic terrorism…
Is the US government hiding alien spacecraft? Or not? Is it a sign of how lost the GOP is that they are floating impeaching Biden? Rudy Giuliani has conceded he participated in the “big lie” Steve Bannon is a criminal who hangs out with criminals: why does he still have a popular podcast?
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Its Costing Taxpayers Billions. Prespond To Effects of Climate Change (00:57:48)
Our infrastructure is overloaded. It already can’t handle extreme weather and climate change is making it more frequent. We can’t keep sweeping it under the rug. On this show Steve Ellis, president of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, talks about their alliance with E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) and the need for upfront investments. Right now, middle and lower income taxpayers are getting whacked. They’re at greatest risk. Ellis argues that for our economy, Presponding is necessary.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 29 (00:24:54)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
WINGS #15-23 Audio Art on Abortion (00:28:58)
The primary content of this program is an audio art piece titled After Roe. Produced in 1992, it uses a combination of real interviews with imaginary ones, some satirical, to reflect on a past when abortion was illegal in the US and predict a future [now arrived!] in which the Supreme Court has repealed the right to abortion.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/227/23 (00:00:00)
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WEDNESDAY 07.26.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 26, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Municipalities unite to address flooding along Massachusetts Charles River
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Nate Ledford – Recruiting Nurses (00:14:43)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Nate Ledford, the Staffing Resource Office Nurse Manager at UVA Health, for a conversation about innovative nurse recruiting initiatives at UVA at a time when health care staffing shortages remain a concern across the industry, foster parenting, and mor
ALAN WATTS: Exploring Your Dark Side (00:12:43)
A British writer who explored Eastern Philosophy for a western audience.
THIS WAY OUT #1843: Retail Pride Sells at a Sydney Store & global LGBTQ news (00:29:01)
A Sydney chain store puts its Pride in the window; Ghana’s top court nixes a challenge to a horrific anti-queer bill, Kenyan lawmakers to become Kill the Gays copycats, Italy’s far-right government
erases lesbian co-moms, a gay diplomats husband strains U.S.-Jamaica relations, a lesbian guidance counselor loses her fight with a Catholic school, and a San Francisco church hosts a Drag Queen Bible Story Hour.
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: Death Penalty for Birth Control? (00:58:08)
A deadly serious group of powerful men are fighting to make birth control a death penalty offense. Women are already in jail right now for breaking draconian fetal personhood laws, will we see the GOP execute a woman because she refused to give birth? Plus, health insurance companies are ripping off Medicaid now, as well as Medicare advantage, The science of how highly dominant men get endorsed as leaders in times of conflict & crisis, and DeSantis has a new video that is very, very weird and ends with storm troopers heading toward spinning swastikas. Geeky Science: “Wild blueberries may improve vascular function and cognitive performance in healthy older adults, study finds” by PsyPost.
CIVIC CIPHER: Was Breonna Taylors Death a Conspiracy? / Viral Video of Police Throwing Old Black Woman to the Ground (00:59:00)
In the first half of the show, we discuss the death of Breonna Taylor and the mountain of evidence that has come to light since her death suggesting that her death was closer to an execution than an accident. We also review the relationship between the officers involved, elected officials, and even a real estate developer. In the second half of the show, we discuss a viral video showing an older Black woman being brutally attacked by police in Lancaster, CA. We give you the details of the encounter and try to reimagine the outcome if we held police to a more human standard of decency and scrutiny.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 28 (00:40:50)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
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.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/26/23 (00:55:53)
On the Show: Republicans are building a plan to impeach President Joe Biden, even if it isn’t clear what they would impeach him for. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis now fires 1/3 of his remaining campaign staff. Vaccine conspiracies burst after Lebron James’ son, Bronny James, suffers cardiac arrest. Correspondent Adam Mockler interviews supporters of Donald Trump at Trump’s recent rally. Robert F. Kennedy Jr holds a Fox News town hall hosted by Sean Hannity, and it does not go well. Failed former President Donald Trump begs Congressional Republicans to help him as his third arrest is imminent. A new report reveals the possible criminal charges that Donald Trump is facing in Georgia, and they are extremely serious. Ron DeSantis’ campaign continues to feature David Pakman in their campaign ads. Voicemail caller builds on Ben Shapiro’s recent idea by suggesting people cool their homes by opening their freezers.
TUESDAY 05.25.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July 25, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Scientists investigate the climate impact of airborne dust
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Understanding the Different Characteristics of Codependency (00:30:27)
On this show we are going to worry about ourselves as we seek to understand the different characteristics of codependency. Please don’t immediately identify with or reject this behavior before we dive in and dig deeper. This is not a one-size fits all terminology nor is it a terminal practice. Instead, its a deeply rooted compulsive behavior that more than 90 percent of Americans display during their lifetimes. Are they all codependent? No. But could they benefit from becoming aware of these patterns and characteristics in an attempt to redirect their journey in a more positive direction? YES!
MAKING CONTACT: The Healing Project: An Abolitionist Story (00:29:00)
This week on Making Contact we bring you to “The Healing Project,” a multimedia installation that shares stories from incarcerated people about how the trauma of imprisonment has impacted their lives and families.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Plant A Trillion Trees Today (00:58:08)
Does the G.O.P. really think we can plant our way out of climate change, or is this another craven propaganda move to keep the fossil fuel money rolling in?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Black Footed Ferrets (00:58:00)
This week we explore a creature that used to live throughout the mountain west United States, the elusive black footed ferret. Once declared extinct, the highly endangered specialist predator may make a comeback in the North American prairie thanks in part to our guest, Paul Marinari, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoo. We’ll have an introduction to Elizabeth Ann, a ferret cloned from cells frozen in 1987.
There’s a lot of great music to sing and dance to while we learn all about black footed ferrets!
The Children’s Hour is produced by The Children’s Hour Inc, and Executive Producer, Katie Stone. We had help from our Senior Producer Christina Stella. Mauro Oliviera from KFOI produced Extinction Diaries. This program originally aired in spring 2021, and has been rereleased as part of The Children’s Hour Animal Month series.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 27 (00:37:56)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
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).
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/25/23 (00:00:00)
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MONDAY 07.24.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 24, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Nonprofit plants ‘super trees’ along Houstons shipping channel
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE (00:29:12)
How do you construct a home or cottage from straw bales? Join Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of sustainable living and alternative housing options.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Unions & Strikes are the People’s Power (00:29:00)
This week’s show brings updates on unionization of Stanford University grad student workers, UPS’s 350,000 workers vote and prepare for strike, 2.5 million public employees in Germany strike and win big wage gains, LA sees biggest hotel workers strike in 50 years, win big wage gains at LA’s biggest hotel. Major discussion of markets’ failures using 2 examples: (1) FDR replacing markets with government rationing in World War 2, and (2) using the market to distribute housing causes gentrification and homelessness. Short concluding discussion of the reform vs revolution debate.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Insanity of Republican Economics (00:58:00)
Will Marjorie Taylor Greene’s dick picks be enough to distract from Republican attempts to gut social security and further privatize Medicare? Will Marjorie be prosecuted under D.C.’s revenge porn laws? Also- did Russian hackers steal Hunter Biden’s data in the first place?
RADIO ART HOUR: Jose Maceda (00:58:00)
Ugnayan, for 20 Radio Stations” (1974) was created by Jos Maceda, a Filipino classical musician who spent time in European avant-garde music circles; he was also an ethnomusicologist trained at UCLA who focused on indigenous Filipino music –music performed for centuries in villages as part of ceremonies and rituals. When Jos Maceda started composing in his mid 40s, he borrowed techniques from western and eastern musical traditions, as you can hear in Ugnayan, for 20 Radio Stations. Artist and performer Aki Onda wrote this about the piece: Jos Macedas Ugnayan was an expansive audience participatory work for radio to be broadcast at 6 PM on New Year’s Day, 1974. Arguably the most ambitious, provocative, and controversial work in his repertoire, the fifty-one-minute-long piece consisted of twenty separate tracks, each to be played on a different public radio frequency simultaneously, producing a musical atmosphere at the scale of the city. All thirty-seven radio stations in the metropolitan Manila area turned over their channel for Macedas sound diffusion, with some tracks playing from multiple stations. Millions of listeners tuned in. Manilas parks, plazas, and street corners were converted into what the composer called Ugnayan Centers”142 locations in all. In one of the biggest, 15,000 people congregated, their personal radios creating a stunningly knotted mass of sounds. Jos Macedas Ugnayan is not very well known globally and is rarely performed, something that Aki Onda has been trying to remedy. In January 2020, Aki Onda recreated Ugnayan for 20 Radio Stations at Fridman Gallery in New York City in collaboration with Wave FArm. Onda obtained Macedas 20 original sound files from the Filipino archive that houses Macedas music and set up 20 transmitters, whose signals were received by an array of radio receivers on-site at Fridman Gallery. I got to hear Ugnayan transmitted in this format, and it was thrilling. One more point of interest: The Filipino word ugnayan translates into English as relationship or connection between people. Ugnayan is the title the First Lady Imelda Marcos wanted for the piece; Jos Macedas original title was Atmosphere. There is a broader political context in terms of the involvement of the Marcos Regime in the production of Ugnayan. See Aki Ondas insightful essay, In Light of the Frenzy: How Jos Maceda Took Over Manila Public Radio. There, youll also see a link to Jos Macedas Sources of Musical Thought in Southeast Asia.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 26 (00:44:51)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
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.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/24/23 (00:00:00)
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SUNDAY 07.23.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 7/21/23: Legal journalist Mark Joseph Stern on John Roberts’ neat SCOTUS ‘Moderation’ Trick (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 7/12/2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The Republican-controlled Iowa state legislature hastily enacted a law banning nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, despite polls showing 61 percent of Iowa voters support legal abortion in all or most cases. 2024 GOP candidate and former Vice President Mike Pence called for a national, federal ban on abortion and cruelly forcing women to carry unviable pregnancies to term. Iowa Republicans are able to inflict this cruelty on women because the corrupt, far-right majority on the US Supreme Court overturned women’s reproductive rights last year. This year, the radical rightwing Supreme Court supermajority’s rulings were no less radical. Slate legal journalist MARK JOSEPH STERN discusses a number of those decisions, and what has now emerged as Chief Justice John Roberts’ neat trick to hoax the media into portraying the Court this year as ‘moderate’ – – essentially manipulating the Court’s docket to make end-of-term rulings appear less extreme than they actually are. Stern explains the most alarming and worst ruling of the term, the made-up-out-of-whole-cloth, wildly subjective ‘major questions doctrine’ that allows the Court to legislate from the bench (despite Republicans’ pretense of being against such a thing), what to expect in the Court’s next term, and specific policies for court reform.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: A Thousand Natural Disasters Acting As One, Discouraging Our Suicide (00:29:00)
A Thousand Natural Disasters Acting As One, Discouraging Our Suicide. The passivity of human beings in the face of the fossil killing fields… that is the riddle of our age. If we go ahead with our current shrug of the shoulders, we are offering up our children to early death. Why? Yes, we do have an alternative. That would be – ending our opposition to the vivid process of life that is demonstrated everywhere around us by legions of living things. The Earth is our government, our economy and culture, our religion, and our well-being. Something about the “hottest day of the Earth’s history” of last week, plus a thousand disasters all over the place… a critical mass is reached that engages us and makes passivity a crime. Earthalujah!
TURN ON THE NEWS: Turn On, Turn Off (00:28:00)
“Turn On The News” is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in “Turn On The News” each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides — good and evil — every time you “Turn On The News.” This week: “Turn On Turn Off” This week cancel culture is on the air everywhere.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 5/20/23 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with Laura Belin, of the Bleeding Heartland, based in Iowa. We discuss the tactics of Iowa’s governor, and how successful she has been in pushing Iowa to the far right.
Segment Two
We then talk with Anders Croy, Communications Director of DeSantis Watch and Florida Watch. We look at the DeSantis campaign, which consists of culture war topics, not the problems that Floridians face such as: climate change effects, the immigration issues, costs, such as insurance. We also discuss the private militia thats being created, under the total control of the governor. He has spent 107 million dollars so far, equipping the group like a military force. This is beyond scary and we need to call this out as the fascism it is. Only autocrats need a personal police force. Not a democratically elected Governor.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS July 20, 2023 (00:59:00)
Today’s Republican Lovefest With RFK Jr. Which Had Democrats Attacking the Anti-Vaxxer and Anti Semite With the Storied Democratic Name | As Russia Attacks Grain Terminals, Mines the Black Sea and Threatens Shipping, Grain Prices Soar | A Legal Historian on How and Why Trump Has Avoided Accountability So Far
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: This is part one of my interview conversation with Cheryl Pallant(00:59:00)
Cheryl Pallant is an award-winning writer and poet, energy healer, somatic coach and dancer. She’s published more than 200 articles on dance, writing, healing, somatics and spirituality, and is the author of several books, including Writing and the Body in Motion, and Contact Improvisation. She teaches at the University of Richmond and leads workshops around the world. Her new book is Ecosomatics: Embodiment Practices for a World in Search of Healing. We talk about somatic or embodied awareness and intelligence, and how to thrive by connecting and grounding in our bodies, even in times of cataclysmic crises. And how the embodied practice of thriving in difficult times is also the best medicine for the environment and the planet, as well as each other.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: All The Cyber News Fit To Print (00:58:44)
Hackers hitting Red States over gender affirming care, AI Pollution online is increasing, Meta is involved in human trafficking and so much more happened this week! Whew!!
SATURDAY 07.22.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 7/20/23: The 2024 Stakes: Democracy v. Autocracy (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The choice in the 2024 general election is becoming more simple and stark by the day — it’s a choice between pro-democracy vs. pro-autocracy, in what will be the single most defining issue in American elections for the foreseeable future. In Florida, a federal judge blocked a new Republican state law that tried to prevent pro-democracy groups from registering voters. House Republicans introduced new legislation to make it harder for legal voters to vote and even easier for billionaires to buy elections. Senate Democrats re-introduced two major voting rights bills to make it easier for all legal voters to cast a ballot, regulate dark money in elections, ban partisan gerrymandering, and more — another clear illustration of a pro-democracy party versus an anti-democracy party. A Republican election official in Michigan has been banned from administering elections after he was charged with crimes related to posing as a fake GOP elector in a plot to help Trump steal the 2020 election. Former Trump officials are publicly touting their preparations for an ‘autocratic capture’ plan for the next Republican president to decimate the federal government, take over independent federal agencies, and institute full autocracy. Also today: President Biden highlights the extraordinary growth of jobs and manufacturing in the U.S. offshore wind industry. California man hilariously runs a mile in ‘Darth Valley’. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: A Major Win for Democracy (00:57:22)
It took a lot of persistent steady heavy lifting but New York State now has a new democratically run power authority. Instead of the traditional for-profit monopolies, the public good will determine a greener, less expensive supply of electricity.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN July 21, 2023 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk to Scott Braddock, the Voice of Texas, about the Lt.Governor, Governor, and especially the Attorney General Paxton. Paxton is under indictment for corruption, and has been impeached.
We also discuss the border policy that the governor has imposed, and the ‘fence’ he had constructed across the Rio Grande, consisting of bouys and razor wire. Children are being thrown back into the river, if they cross. The cruelty is the point.
The state is also being sued about their anti-abortion ban, which has caused harm to women.
Part 2:
We talk with Bob Hennelly and Bill Curry about the possibility of Gov. Newsom (CA) possibly challenging Biden for the election. We also discuss the NoLabels campaign, who is included in that group. We discuss their “platform” and their contributors.
We discuss the increase in child labor in the southern states, and how this is related to immigration policy.
GROWING GREENER: Back to the New Basics (00:29:00)
Gardening is changing, and our understanding of the field must keep pace. Veteran horticulturist and longtime teacher Joe Seals rises to this challenge in his new book, Back to the New Basics: A Practical Guide and Reference Manual to the Ways, the Whys, and the New Sciences of Better, Easier Gardening. A great introduction for the novice, and a quick update for experienced gardeners, this is an invaluable book.
TUC RADIO: The Historic Heat of the Summer 2023 – Passing the Threshold (00:29:00)
This recording was made on July 12th when the World Meteorological Organization confirmed one record hottest day after another. Dr. Peter Carter, is expert reviewer for the IPCC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute. Paul Beckwith is a physicist, engineer, and now a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. And Regina Valdez is Climate Reality Project Director, NYC. They met by Zoom on July 12th, 2023. And as I am recording this on Tuesday, July 18, AXIOS news reports that again – today – record highs have been set in the U.S., Europe and parts of Asia. They call it an example of simultaneous, compounding extreme weather and climate events ” which scientists have been warning of for some time. A sign that climate change impacts are escalating faster than expected in some parts of the globe Quote from Axios News.
Thanks for the material for this radio program to the Climate Emergency Forum and their Zoom entitled: Historic Heat — Passing the Threshold. It’s posted on their YouTube channel – just search for: Climate Emergency Forum.
THE BOPST SHOW: “Theater of My Mind” (00:54:41)
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 Algerian artist and activist Rachid Taha, the primitive early rockabilly of Darryl Vincent, legendary Jamaican vibraphonist Lennie Hibbert as well as the otherworldly sounds of Riam Daranoi, Girls at Our Best and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #489 (00:58:00)
Ralph and our resident constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, discuss how they compiled letters they sent to various government officials and representatives that have gone unanswered into a book titled The Incommunicados and how this unresponsiveness violates our First Amendment right to petition our government for redress of grievances. Then Washington Post opinion columnist, Helaine Olen, highlights the corporate equivalent, how hard it is to reach a human being for customer service and how all of this plays into the free-floating anger and general unrest of an American population that feels unheard.
FRIDAY 07.21.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 21, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: A Puerto Rican town avoided blackouts at key buildings during Hurricane Fiona
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW Half-hour: All The Cyber News Fit To Print (00:29:08)
Hackers hitting Red States over gender affirming care, AI Pollution online is increasing, Meta is involved in human trafficking and so much more happened this week! Whew!!
COUNTERSPIN: Kevin Minofu/Say Her Name (00:28:00)
Reporting on police violence against black women.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Insanity of Republican Economics (00:58:00)
Will Marjorie Taylor Greene’s dick picks be enough to distract from Republican attempts to gut social security and further privatize Medicare? Will Marjorie be prosecuted under D.C.’s revenge porn laws? Also- did Russian hackers steal Hunter Biden’s data in the first place?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: David Messina: Rumin8 Strives To Reduce Cow Methane Emissions (00:29:00)
When we think about greenhouse gas emissions, automobiles, airplanes, and power plants usually figure more prominently than livestock. The methane produced by cow belching, however, is one of the biggest sources of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Fortunately, there are some innovations on the horizon that are promising to help reduce the damage of these gassy cows. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to David Messina, the Managing Director of Rumin8, an Australian-based startup that is hoping to transform the cattle industry. The company’s main product is a lab-grown feed additive that is designed to significantly reduce methane emissions in ruminants like cattle and sheep. We discuss the problem that Rumin8 is trying to solve, talk about the company’s business strategy and hurdles it faces, and take a look at the competitive landscape in the growing feed additive space.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: What is a Solidarity Economy? [The Kola Nut Timebank Story] (00:28:00)
What if there was a way to trade time and share skills with your neighbors in a way that met a range of needs without involving cash? Since 2017, the Kola Nut Collaborative has operated Chicago’s only open platform, time and skills exchange, otherwise known as a timebank. Part mutual aid and community organizing, members come together to hear each other’s needs and share what they have to offer. Founding coordinator Mike Strode speaks with Laura about the changes he has seen in his community, how people are showing up for others, and what it takes to build a solidarity economy. Tune in for more on time banking, and how it just might work in your community.
THE BOPST SHOW: “Theater of My Mind” (00:54:41)
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 Algerian artist and activist Rachid Taha, the primitive early rockabilly of Darryl Vincent, legendary Jamaican vibraphonist Lennie Hibbert as well as the otherworldly sounds of Riam Daranoi, Girls at Our Best and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/21/23 (00:55:57)
On the Show: No Labels wants to fund a third-party “centrist” candidate in 2024. George Santos gets the terms of his bail modified to better allow him to shop and go out to eat. Caller really likes the show. Caller talks about private air travel’s impact on the climate. Caller wonders if Trump believes the nonsense he talks about. Caller suspects Ron DeSantis is more dangerous than Donald Trump. Caller questions the veracity of the Trump “they came to me with tears in their eyes” stories. Caller says he listens to TDPS music while at the gym. Caller says she dated an incel and is sick of them. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 7.20.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 20, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Electric boat motors could make shellfish farming quieter, cleaner
RADIO ECOSHOCK: The Heat & The Horror – Upon Us Now (00:58:00)
The first global heat wave, land and sea, just happened in July 2023. After the hottest June ever, we burned through four days with the hottest global temperature recorded by humans on this planet. After a fast review of world news on heat and floods, Alex replays interviews with Princeton’s Jane Baldwin (Back-to-Back Heatwaves) and Canadian scientist Merritt Turetsky (Abrupt Permafrost Thaw).
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: A Livable World Should be a Human Right (00:58:00)
Is it time to set in stone environmental protection as a legal right? Mary Grant with Food and Water Watch joins to Thom to alert us to Republican efforts to refund affordable drinking water across the nation.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Biden is Not Royalty. Neither is Democracy (00:59:54)
Biden’s problem is he’s not a TV star, just a good president. What is the draw of royalty? It’s much less effort than tedious democracy to just accept legitimacy being handed down from above. On this show, from the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, Suzanne Schneider explains how today’s fascination with royalty and reverence for military trappings displays a hunger for divine intervention, as democracy takes a big very dangerous hit. But history shows it doesn’t have to.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 25 (00:51:20)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
ALAN WATTS: How to Enjoy Life (00:05:44)
Buddhist teacher Watts reflects on life. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and lecturer who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy and religion for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man, and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/20/23 (00:55:57)
On the Show: Matt Lewis, Senior Columnist for The Daily Beast and author of the new book “Filthy Rich Politicians: The Swamp Creatures, Latte Liberals, and Ruling-Class Elites Cashing in on America,” joins David to discuss the book and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3rsZa5c The Republican “IRS whistleblower” hearings go horribly wrong, backfiring terribly. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis continues slamming non-existent vaccine mandates as his campaign crumbles. Donald Trump melts down badly as his third arrest looms. Fox News host suggests that Donald Trump is getting arrested so much, it may no longer matter. Judge clarifies that indeed Donald Trump was found liable for rape, despite his claims that he was not. Voicemail caller wrongly thinks David claimed gas prices were down to $1.50 per gallon.
WEDNESDAY 07.19.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 19, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Volunteers help identify heat-vulnerable neighborhoods in San Francisco
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Gastroenterologist Ivan Hamden (00:14:34)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Dr. Ivan Harnden, gastroenterologist at Fauquier Health, for a conversation about his family life, career, colonoscopy screening, men’s health and wellness tips, and more. Send questions, comments, feedback, or guest suggestions to pcfpodcast@vhha.com or contact us on Twitter or Instagram using the #PatientsComeFirst hashtag.
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).
THIS WAY OUT #1842: George Michael: A Life & global LGBTQ news (00:28:59)
Award-winning biographer James Gavin chronicles the life of George Michael; a violent horde destroys Tblisi Pride, social media threats force a Jakarta queer conference relocation, Japan’s top court rules for trans toilet rights, Russian lawmakers advance a total ban on gender-affirming healthcare, U.S. judges rule against trans rights in 3 states but a Wisconsin trans girl can pee where she wants on campus, and that Rainbowland-supportive teacher gets fired. 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: Why Won’t the Media Cover Biden’s Wins? (00:58:00)
The economy is nearly the best it’s ever been- so why is the media dominated by recession scare stories? How could Democrats be getting out their message better?
CIVIC CIPHER: Mississippi Officers Torturing Suspects / Does The Supreme Court Really Understand Affirmative Action? (00:59:00)
In the first half of the show, we discuss the Mississippi officers who tortured and sexually assaulted Black suspects at their home for 90 minutes. We ask why there is still blind support for policing and why people are so opposed to rethinking how policing should be done. We also question the outcomes and ask critical questions about public safety. In the second half of the show, we discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Affirmative Action. We spend time explaining Affirmative Action and how it has benefited marginalized communities. We also discuss the hypocrisy of the Supreme Court and how voting has critical implications when it comes to things like this.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 24 (00:31:15)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity at Work, with Helen Chamberlin (00:28:00)
I first got interested in curiosity as a management tool in my role as chief operating officer at a national nonprofit organization. We had about 80 employees and nearly 1,000 volunteer-led affiliates — and it was basically my job to know everything. But I became more and more convinced I was better at my work if I didn’t know everything, and came at the work with curiosity instead. Do others in executive leadership feel that way, I wondered? What lessons have they learned?
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/19/23 (00:55:28)
On the Show: Failed former President Donald Trump is notified he is a criminal target of special prosecutor Jack Smith’s January 6 investigation. Failed former President Donald Trump announces that he will be arrested again. Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and Donald Trump Jr complain and flip out about Donald Trump’s seemingly imminent third arrest. The fake Michigan Donald Trump electors have been criminally charged. Donald Trump’s Fox News town hall was such a disaster, even friendly sycophant host Sean Hannity could not save Trump. 2024 Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is interviewed on CNN by Jake Tapper, refuses to actually answer questions, and makes a full of himself. President Joe Biden uses a statement about him by Marjorie Taylor Greene about all the things he will attempt to do as a political ad in a brilliant move. Fox News host Maria Bartiromo says “holy moly” in response to the wild claim from her guest, Republican Congressman Andy Biggs, that Joe Biden might have “taken in” $100 million in bribe money. Voicemail caller confirms that while Brian Tyler Cohen is indeed “hotter” than David Pakman, it’s not by that much
TUESDAY 07.18.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July 18, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: For every flood buyout, 10 new homes were built in flood plains in North Carolina
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Being Aware of What You’re Passing Down and What You’re Passing Around (00:29:01)
On this show we’re doing a mental and verbal inventory check and audit, to become more aware of what we’re passing down and what we’re passing around. Where do our ideas and opinions come from? How are our biases formed? Are we as open and accepting to traits and traditions as receiving and regifting Grandmas china or have we installed solid filtering systems, protecting our minds and hearts from the legacy transfer of limiting and negative beliefs? Not sure? Then you’re in the right place listening to some ideas that might help you question, understand, reframe, and rethink ideas and opinions that no longer serve you.
COOL SOLUTIONS: This Is My Home (00:28:00)
The David who fought Goliath had two sisters. These are two modern day stories about women taking on a giant. They started alone, standing up against a huge multinational petrochemical corporation, and won. Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from Seadrift Texas, won the largest ever penalty in a citizen clean water lawsuit, defending her bay from plastic pollution. Sharon Lavigne of St James Parish, Louisiana, stopped the same company, Formosa Plastics, from building the largest petrochemical plant in the world in her small Black community.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Can America be Both Democratic & Fully Integrated? (00:58:00)
The GOP is exploiting the structures in our brains that are rooted deep in our DNA, the wiring that says, I must protect ‘us’ from ‘them,’ the wiring that kept humans tribal for 300 millennia. So how can Progressives bring America together instead? Plus – Thom reads from “Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World” by Michael Lerner
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Parasite (00:58:00)
This time on The Childrens Hour, we learn about parasites. What makes a creature a parasite, and how do parasites find their hosts? Parasitologists Dr. Matt Bolek, Associate Professor of Integrative Biology at Oklahoma State University, and Dr. Sarah Bush, Associate Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah join our Kids Crew for a lively discussion. Explore different types of parasites, including the dreaded and dangerous Guinea Fire Worm. Are viruses parasites, and are viruses even living organisms or are they just a collection of chemicals? We plunge into this controversy and more with the Kids Crew. Mixed with great music, discover more than you ever knew about parasites with us this week! This episode was produced by Katie Stone, and our senior producer Christina Stella.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 23 (00:27:19)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
BETWEEN THE LINES RADIO NEWSMAGAZINE (00:29:00)
House Progressives Propose Measure to Block US Transfer of Cluster Bombs to Ukraine; Biden Believes Right-Wing Extremist Supreme Court Not Normal, But Resists Calls for Reform; After Supreme Court Rejects Biden Student Debt Relief Plan, Public Service Workers Have Another Option.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/18/23 (00:59:37)
On the Show: John Kiriakou, former CIA officer who blew the whistle on post-9/11 CIA torture, discusses with David when Rudy Giuliani allegedly quoted him “$2 million” for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump. MAGA is panicking over Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s seat as her opponent, Adam Frisch, raised three times more money than she did. Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ recent campaign events raise questions about whether protesters and other speakers are staged. Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis brags about having 30-40 people at his campaign events as his campaign crumbles. Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis’ campaign is collapsing, and has fired a dozen staffers. Failed former President Donald Trump rants incoherently to a silent crowd and tells one of his infamous “sir” stories. Former New Jersey Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie surges to a soft third place in the New Hampshire Republican primary. Fox hosts from Fox and Friends beg Donald Trump to participate in their Republican presidential primary debate, scheduled for August 23, 2023. Voicemail caller praises David for not calling the police on the thief who attempted to steal his umbrella.
MONDAY 07.17.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 17, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Bill McKibben rallies adults over 60 to fight for climate action
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE # 11 – Politics of Sustainability (00:29:14)
You can’t fix the system because it ain’t broken. Sustainability is political. Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion of the realities of sustainability in this culture we live within.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: China: Capitalist, Socialist, or What? (00:29:00)
On this week’s episode, Prof. Wolff talks about the Chinese economy. China is run by a Communist Party but describes itself as socialist, while the employer/employee structure of its enterprises is capitalist. We examine what this means for (a) its place in the world economy, (b) its place in the transition from capitalism to socialism/communism, and (c) its conflict with the US.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Did Trump Let Americans Die for Politics? (00:58:00)
When Trump decided Covid would mainly impact Democrats, did he direct the federal government to stop trying to save lives and start promoting policies that would eventually kill ” unnecessarily ” a half-million Americans?
Plus – Thom reads from ‘Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC, and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the Pandemic’ by Nina Burleigh.
RADIO ART HOUR: Hanna Hartman, Robert Adrian X, Rupert Wolfgang Maria Huber, Scanner (00:59:46)
First, tune in Hanna Hartman’s “Oh Sweet Potato and Solo for Abandoned House,” a work that is both abstract and very engaging. Her website described her approach as Having developed her very own language, Hanna Hartman creates compositions that are exclusively made up from authentic sounds which she has recorded around the world. Sounds are taken out of their original context and thus perceived in their purity. Hanna Hartman seeks to reveal hidden correspondences between the most diverse auditive impressions and, in new constellations, she creates extraordinary worlds of sound. Oh Sweet Potato and Solo for Abandoned House are presented on Silence Radio in Belgium. This work is introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2019/2020, Karen Werner. Then, described as an installation for radio, the next work, “Applause,” was made by Robert Adrian X and Rupert Wolfgang Maria Huber from three short samples of three people clapping. Extending for just over 30 minutes, the sound overlaps, in some places sounding like waves and others like a steady stream of applause. Like repeating a word over and over, the applause is abstracted and takes on a life of its own. As the composers described the work, There is not much to be said about this piece. It is simply pure applause without cause or content – applause as an object. Introduced Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2020/2021, Jess Speer. Finally, two works from the British-based sound artist Scanner, one his very early song “Scanner” that clearly picks up phone conversations and turns them into art. Then tune in for “Trawl (Enter Exit Mix) from his 2021 album “Trawl” introduced by Wave Farm’s Tom Roe.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 22 (00:30:06)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
GREEN STREET NEWS: How your fashion can make you sick (00:28:14)
This week on GSN, Patti and Doug discuss PFAS in butter wrappers, health costs of fossil fuels, and what will finally get politicians to address climate change. Then investigative journalist and author Alden Wicker talks about her new book and the toxic chemicals in the fashion industry. More info at www.AldenWicker.com and www.ecocult.com.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/17/23 (00:54:36)
On the Show: President Joe Biden’s Q1 fundraising blowout saw him raise more than twice what Donald Trump raised, and more than every Republican candidate combined. Robert F Kennedy Jr is caught on video saying that COVID is “ethnically targeted” at whites and blacks and to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie continues to go after Donald Trump, and Trump is increasingly triggered and terrified by it. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis finally admits that he does want to cut Social Security. A disheveled and confused Donald Trump speaks at Charlie Kirk’s TPAction summit and makes a total fool of himself. Historically friendly Fox News hots Maria Bartiromo confronts Donald Trump about his not draining the swamp, and Trump is visibly triggered. Confused and angry attendees at Charlie Kirk’s TPAction event give interviews. More than 6,000 copies of David’s children’s book, Think Like a Detective, have now been sold. Voicemail caller says he plans to celebrate when Donald Trump dies.
SUNDAY 07.16.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 7/14/2023: Climate and energy journalist Andrew Freedman on spate of record-shattering extreme weather (00:58:00)
Encore: Original airdate 7-14-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The planet last week registered its hottest day ever recorded, and then broke it four different times on four consecutive days. Our climate is in crisis, from the U.S. to Canada to Spain to India and China, to name just a few extreme weather ‘hot spots’ over the past 24-48 hours. In case your news sources didn’t tell you, the rapidly increasing frequency and intensity of extreme heat, drought, storms, and floods is due to the fossil fuel industry and the politicians and dupes they’ve bought off over the decades trying to trick you into believing that the climate crisis is a hoax. It is not. Veteran climate and energy reporter ANDREW FREEDMAN of Axios explains the mind-blowing temperature records being shattered on a daily basis, whether it’s too late for humanity to take action to reverse course (it isn’t), and who should be held accountable for the damages unfolding in rapid succession today and in the decades to come. Freedman cites climate scientists who say the most powerful thing people can do about climate change is talk about it, and details actions and solutions that everyone can take to do their part to help solve the crisis. Callers weigh in.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: Your Hate is Like a Heatwave (00:29:00)
Here at the hottest day in history is MAGA Republicans fear making violence directly, as surely as their friends the NRA encourage mass shootings. Are the fear-mongers impressed that their climate science denial became so real, so fast? For those of us who recognized the truth in the warnings by scientists going back 30 years, and who sensed in the deniers a dangerous kind of spiteful rejection of common sense – we are not surprised. We are charged with discovering the activism that is so necessary now. What are we capable of? We must move beyond fear. As activists we know that the heat-waves, downpours, viruses, sea-rise, hail stones, polar melts – are the reports of a conscious living being – the planet Earth.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Walls Closing In (00:28:00)
This week: “Walls Closing In.” The former president has a lot of lawyers. “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 July 15, 2023 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with Lee Harris, who writes for the American Prospect. We discuss the state of the American worker. Unions have been declining in membership in recent years, and many formerly union jobs have been outsource and off-shored. The administration, despite Biden’s support for unions has not been as strong a supporter as hoped. We talk specifically about efforts to bring migrant workers from Taiwan to Arizona into a new chip factory and the willingness to also bring migrant workers to Maine to a new factory, rather than benefiting existing Maine workers.
Segment Two
We then talk with Scott Braddock, Dean of the Austin Press Corp, Editor of Quorum Report. We discuss the heat in Texas. People have died due to the heat, with temps above 100 degrees. Infrastructure is failing. (power grid, water supplies) The governor is in the way of progress by instituting regulations and additional border controls, thus reducing the number of available workers in the state. But, cruelty is the point.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS July 13, 2023 (00:59:00)
Birth Control Pills Will Soon be Available Over the Counter Without a Prescription | A Brazen Coup Attempt in Guatemala Which Has the Leading Presidential Candidate Suspending Her Campaign | What Has Happened to the GOP, the Party of Law and Order?
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Part 2: On The Brink of Everything – Grace, Gravity and Getting Old with Parker Palmer (00:58:59)
This is the second half of my in depth interview with Parker Palmer. Parker Palmer is an author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published ten books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal. His books include The Promise of Paradox, Healing the Heart of Democracy, To Know As We Are Known, The Active Life, The Courage To Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, An Undivided Life, and his most recent book is ON THE BRINK OF EVERYTHING: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old.
SOJOURNER TRUTH: Bishop William Barber and Others Launch the Poor People’s Campaign Poverty Congress. (00:55:05)
Rev. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor Peoples Campaign, led a discussion with economists and public health policy practitioners on poverty and hunger in America during a three-day summit in Washington, D.C. They discussed a variety of issues, including the causes for poverty in America, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on low-income and minority populations, economic drivers of inflation, and how best to mitigate poverty in the country.
ALAN WATTS: How to Enjoy Life (00:05:44)
Buddhist teacher Watts reflects on life. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and lecturer who interpreted and popularized Eastern philosophy and religion for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. Pursuing a career, he attended Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, where he received a master’s degree in theology. Watts became an Episcopal priest in 1945, then left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies. Watts gained a large following in the San Francisco Bay Area while working as a volunteer programmer at KPFA, a Pacifica Radio station in Berkeley. Watts wrote more than 25 books and articles on subjects important to Eastern and Western religion, introducing the then-burgeoning youth culture to The Way of Zen (1957), one of the first bestselling books on Buddhism. In Psychotherapy East and West (1961), Watts proposed that Buddhism could be thought of as a form of psychotherapy and not a religion. He considered Nature, Man, and Woman (1958) to be, “from a literary point of view—the best book I have ever written.” He also explored human consciousness and psychedelics in the essay “The New Alchemy” (1958) and in the book The Joyous Cosmology (1962).
SATURDAY 07.15.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 7/14/23: (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: The film/TV actors of SAG-AFTRA have joined the Writers Guild of America (WGA) in a massive strike against producers to secure proper payment for streaming services and AI usage, among other appropriate demands. Fox Weather omits mention of climate change in its coverage of the recent surge in extreme weather disasters. Biden FDA approved the first-ever over-the-counter birth control pill, but rightwingers are unlikely to be happy about it even though it will reduce abortions. GOP billionaires in Illinois demand exemption from local leaf-blower air pollution rules. State court ordered New York to redraw U.S. House maps before the 2024 election due to partisan gerrymandering. University of North Carolina will offer FREE tuition to many in-state students ‘to boost diversity’ after US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions. After the corrupt rightwing SCOTUS supermajority struck down the Biden Administration’s student loan forgiveness program on specious grounds, the President announced plans to use a different law to forgive up to $20,000 in individual student loan debt. Beginning next month, a newly restructured loan repayment plan for many borrowers will reduce payments to $0 a month with no interest, and then deem loans paid in full after 10 years. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: This Supreme Court May Preemptively Ban a Wealth Tax (00:56:14)
It used to be just the far right fighting against an income tax. Now thats the Republican Party. On this show Matt Ford, staff writer for The New Republic explains a case the court soon may or may not take which would override the 16th Amendment to preemptively rule in favor of billionaires and ban a wealth tax. Some of us actually think that people ought to have a say in how we are taxed.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 7/14/23 (00:00:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, Dean of the Austin Press Corp, Editor of Quorum Report.
We discuss the heat in Texas. People have died due to the heat, with temps above 100 degrees. Infrastructure is failing.(power grid, water supplies) The governor is in the way of progress by instituting regulations and additional border controls, thus reducing the number of available workers in the state. But, cruelty is the point.
Part 2:
Bill Curry and Jeet Heer discuss the new immigrant regulations in Florida, which have had the effect of reducing the number of available workers. 70% of the workforce is immigrants. 87% of nursing homes are understaffed. There is economic turmoil in Florida, with failing infrastructure, fewer available workers, and discouragement of incoming workers because of the fear of being targeted.
GROWING GREENER: A Sherlock Holmes of the Forest (00:29:00)
This week, in a program first broadcast in August of 2021, ecologist and author Tom Wessels discusses his Forest Forensics, the system of simple visual clues you can use to read the history of your woodland acreage
TUC RADIO: In Memory of Bertolt Brecht (00:29:00)
Bertolt Brecht and many other artists in post WWI Germany were courageously and proudly democrats, socialists or communists. They had experienced the horror of the first World War and were determined to prevent a second one. So when Hitler and the Nazi party actually assumed state power in 1933 they were all marked and most of them left the country immediately. Their exodus destroyed much of the cultural/political rebellion of the 1920s.
Even though Brecht, the playwright, poet, director and theoretician of the stage, was persecuted by the Nazis, he was forced to leave his home in exile in the US when he was accused of being a communist. Nevertheless he did become a major influence on visual and performance artists such as Jean Luc Godard, Robert Wilson, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Augusto Boal, Pina Bausch, Dario Fo and many others. His most famous plays, the Threepenny Opera and the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny were just two of over sixty plays. During the war years, Brecht became a prominent writer of the Literature in Exile. He expressed his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements in his most often performed plays: Mother Courage, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, and The Life of Galileo – that he revised after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. One of his most searing, funny, frightening and historically accurate plays against Hitler is The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. The play followed precisely the stages of the Nazis seizure of power and posed the most important question: Could Hitlers rise have been stopped?
For Brecht’s 100ds birthday in 1998 the Royal National Theatre from London, under their first formidable woman director Di Trevis, gave a performance in his honor in San Francisco. They presented songs, and read from poetry and plays. I was given permission to record the songs during the dress rehearsal and include them in this broadcast. They are, in order of appearance: Song of the SA Man, The Seven Deadly Sins, To a Portable Radio, The Ballad of the Jewish Whore Marie Sanders, To Those Born Later, Hollywood Elegy, The Moldau, and Everything or Nothing.
This rebroadcast in July 2023 calls attention to the fragile edge between war and peace; and fascism and democracy, that might lead to WWIII.
DATE: November 3, 1998
LOCATION: Theater Artaud, San Francisco
BOPST SHOW: Storm the Reality Asylum (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 show, you’ll hear 70s funk by Iris Bell & the Jive-ettes, legendary Cambodian singer Prum Manhoods, post-punk collective Rip Rig + Panic as well as music by Love is All, Plains and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #488 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Maxim Thorne director of the non-partisan Civic Influencers, an organization that trains young people to inspire their peers to vote and therefore swing elections toward issues they care about and also fights generational gerrymandering, efforts by certain states to make it harder for 18 to 29-year-olds to vote. Plus, Ralph gives his take on some recent news items, answers your questions, and comments on your recent feedback.
FRIDAY 07.14.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 14, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Flu-like valley fever is on the rise. There’s a climate link.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW Half-hour: (00:28:35)
Mass Shootings continue to increase in frequency. How do we, as a society, address this issue and actually combat the online havens their followers encourage them in? We tackle this and so much more. Don’t miss this one!
COUNTERSPIN: Subsidies and Racism, Journalism Preservation Act (00:28:04)
Arlene Martinez/subsidies and racism, Florin Najera-Uresti/journalism preservation act
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: (00:58:00)
With dubious legal doctrines and without standing, the Supreme Court is behaving more like a legislature than a court. Why are our Justices comforting the comfortable while pushing transformative conservative cultural shifts on an unwilling population?
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Nithin Coca: The Impacts of Plant-Based Meats (00:29:00)
The new generation of veggie burgers do taste more like meat than their sawdust-leaning predecessors. And most agree that plant-based meat alternatives are a step in the right direction, considering the hefty impact that cattle have on the environment. But the Impossible Burgers and Beyond Meats of the world come with their own not-so-insignificant carbon challenges. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with environmental reporter Nithin Coca about his research for Vox.com on the impact of these popular plant-based meats on agricultural supply chains around the globe. We talk about the rapid growth of the market sector, take a look at how it affects the coconut oil and cacao butter industries, and, while we are at it, get a snapshot of lab grown meats, as well.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: What is a Solidarity Economy? [The Kola Nut Timebank Story] (00:28:00)
What if there was a way to trade time and share skills with your neighbors in a way that met a range of needs without involving cash? Since 2017, the Kola Nut Collaborative has operated Chicago’s only open platform, time and skills exchange, otherwise known as a timebank. Part mutual aid and community organizing, members come together to hear each other’s needs and share what they have to offer. Founding coordinator Mike Strode speaks with Laura about the changes he has seen in his community, how people are showing up for others, and what it takes to build a solidarity economy. Tune in for more on time banking, and how it just might work in your community.
BOPST SHOW: Storm the Reality Asylum (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 show, you’ll hear 70s funk by Iris Bell & the Jive-ettes, legendary Cambodian singer Prum Manhoods, post-punk collective Rip Rig + Panic as well as music by Love is All, Plains and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/14/23 (00:00:00)
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THURSDAY 07.13.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 13, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Pilot project uses volcanic ash to make cement
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Creating alien intelligence – what could possibly go wrong? (00:58:00)
Israeli historian, author & scholar Yuval Noah Harari blows our minds, going beyond human with artificial intelligence. How long before it surpasses us, evolving beyond control – and takes over? What then? Selections from from the Frontiers Forum April 2023, and Jordan Harbinger podcast June 2023.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Trump’s Plan for the Military Could Topple America (00:58:00)
Trump may or may not be the GOPs nominee this time next year, but whoever it is, now is the time to harden our democracy against a neofascist MAGA Republican rising to that office. Also, The GOP’s “extremist power grab” in the new “big lie bill” is exposed. Govt shutdown coming? Can the GOP wound the Biden economy this way? Is the new GOP attack on Jack Smith to defund him? Do they have that power? And have you seen Trump’s agenda if he’s reelected? It’s a doozy!
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: A Major Win for Democracy (00:57:22)
It took a lot of persistent steady heavy lifting but New York State now has a new democratically run power authority. Instead of the traditional for-profit monopolies, the public good will determine a greener, less expensive supply of electricity.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 21 (00:26:01)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
WINGS #13-23 Religious Cults in Kenya (00:28:53)
Pastor Margaret Machuki is the Kenya Representative for Re-Forma Global, a training institution of the Christian evangelical movement. She answers questions posed by reporter Diana Wanyonyi about the shocking discovery of hundreds of cult members found starved to death in her country, and about her views on how to curb the power of cults. (Note: Her definition of cults encompasses most of the world’s religions.)
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/13/23 (00:00:00)
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WEDNESDAY 07.12.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 12, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Third-party solar financing remains in legal limbo in some states
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Amber Egyud (00:16:05)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Amber Egyud, the Chief Operating and Chief Nursing Officer at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare, for a conversation about her nursing career, her leadership responsibilities, efforts to support staff wellness, human trafficking awareness, and more.
ALAN WATTS: Exploring Your Dark Side (00:12:43)
A British writer who explored Eastern Philosophy for a western audience.
THIS WAY OUT #1841: Slovenian Activist Mitja Blai & global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Slovenian activists temper big gains with backlash concerns; Iraq lawmakers ponder an official same-gender sex ban, a Czech marriage proposal passes its first reading, a Navajo initiative seeks recognition of all marriages, the U.S. Supreme Court adds pro and con to its LGBTQ rulings, Democrats fight Republican anti-queer laws in 3 U.S. states, and there’s no love from a Florida mom for a children’s biography of Billie Jean King.
Those stories and more this week when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Are the Redcoats Back in Control? (00:58:00)
Tragically, for the third time in our nation’s history, patriots who believe in the ideals of July 4, 1776 have to defend America against those who don’t. Also investigative journalist Greg Palast reveals how a billionaire took lavish vacations with this particular member of the Supreme Court. Can you guess how they sided when his case ended up before SCOTUS?
CIVIC CIPHER: The National Museum of African American History and Culture (00:59:03)
The first and second halves of today’s show are a recap of our recent visit to Washington D.C. to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. In short, it was incredible! Also, discussed is our visit to Norfolk State University, and a spotlight of Benjamin Banneker on our Way Black History Fact!
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 20 (00:27:43)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Appreciative Intelligence, with Tojo Thatchenkery (00:28:00)
Appreciative Intelligence rests in the ability “to see the mighty oak in the acorn.” George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government professor Tojo Thatchenkery believes such intelligence is especially important right now. A conversation about finding generative potential in the here and now. “When you face a situation, and you don’t know all the answers, curiosity allows you to be comfortable with that ambiguity, that uncertainty of not knowing what lies ahead.” ~ Tojo Thatchenkery
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/12/23 (00:55:42)
On the Show: The conclusion to David’s interview with Richard Dawkins, renowned evolutionary biologist who has revolutionized our understanding of genes, memes, and the origins of life, and host of the podcast The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins. Inflation declines again to 3% year over year, the lowest since March of 2021. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie once against goes after Donald Trump. A Trump supporter says she never sees homeless Hispanic people, only homeless black and white people. Ron DeSantis attacks the media when asked by a Fox News host about his massive polling deficit to Donald Trump. Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has yet another problem, the spread of malaria in Florida. Donald Trump’s lawyers want his criminal trial postponed indefinitely. A softball Donald Trump interview still manages to go horribly wrong. Voicemail caller says that the show “blows” and that David must be “paid propaganda.”
TUESDAY 07.11.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July. 11, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: What it’s like to road trip cross-country in an electric car
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Energy; Stored, Consumed, and Shared (00:30:02)
On this show we are checking our frequency, measuring our watts, and tapping into our power because were talking all about energy. Energy we store, energy we consume, and energy we share. Not sure about your hertz output? Maybe it’s different given the day, your mood, what has previously transpired, and what is yet to come. For electricity, you check the Kilowatt-hours that show up on your electricity bill. But what about your personal energy? It may take some effort and a deliberate check-in. We aren’t just talking about high energy or low, but everything in between. Positive and negative, productive and counterproductive. Can you change your frequency? Could you be more intentional with the energy you send out and could you be more protective about the energy you consume? The answer is yes. So lets all plugin, open our hearts and minds, and seek to understand.
COOL SOLUTIONS: This Is My Home (00:28:00)
The David who fought Goliath had two sisters. These are two modern day stories about women taking on a giant. They started alone, standing up against a huge multinational petrochemical corporation, and won. Diane Wilson, a fisherwoman from Seadrift Texas, won the largest ever penalty in a citizen clean water lawsuit, defending her bay from plastic pollution. Sharon Lavigne of St James Parish, Louisiana, stopped the same company, Formosa Plastics, from building the largest petrochemical plant in the world in her small Black community.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How Climate Change Accelerates the Danger of Worldwide Fascism (00:58:00)
In addition to stepping up to mitigate climate change & green the world’s economy, the free nations must harden our democracies against reactive rightwing violence & hate-based political movements. Also unveiling more of the entrenched corruption of Clarence Thomas – It gets worse. The Supreme Court just legalized stalking. Will Malaria be the new GOP disease? Also new evidence that alien’s spacecraft have crashed on Earth.
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Penguins (00:58:00)
The Kids Crew is joined by Charles Bergman who is a writer, photographer, and speaker and longtime professor at Pacific Lutheran University. He also wrote Every Penguin in the World: A Quest to See Them All. We learn about different species of penguins, their habits, and more interesting facts! There are 15 other species of penguins in the world, some of which are critically endangered. But, all penguins are on thin ice. Overfishing, changing ocean temperatures, and pollution threaten their survival. We also find out about penguins’ unique taste buds, and we learn from the Extinction Diaries about the rate of extinction on land versus in the oceans.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 19 (00:25:28)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
BETWEEN THE LINES July 5, 2023 (00:29:00)
Extremist Supreme Court Majority Ignores Decades of Precedent and Systemic U.S. Racism to Overturn Affirmative Action; After Supreme Court Blocks Biden Student Debt Relief Plan, Advocates Continue to Push for Debt Cancellation; New Documentary Film The Welcome Table Brings Attention to the Global Climate Migration Crisis.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/11/23 (00:00:00)
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MONDAY 07.10.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 10, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How local-level laws can protect trees during construction
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #142: What do we mean by Net Zero and can we achieve it? (00:29:27)
More and more corporations are promoting their net-zero or carbon-neutral goals. Is this more corporate greenwashing, or is it a real thing? Can the profit-driven corporate structure really shift to embrace a long-term impact-neutral process? And what does net zero really mean? Join Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion about the impact of a truly net zero society.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Today’s Class Struggles with Chris Hedges (00:29:00)
This week’s updates focus on US small/medium businesses converting to worker coops, the strikes at the US west coast ports and UPS, an employer uses a fake priest to get workers’ confessions for employers’ use, and the state of Delaware allows businesses to vote in local elections (alongside individuals). In the second half we interview Chris Hedges on the class struggles going on here and now.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is There a Plan to Rig the 2024 Election? (00:58:00)
Is the foundation being laid in the courts- from crackpot federal judges to the billionaire’s Supreme Court- on which to base Trump’s takeover of Democracy? Plus – Phil Ittner is on the ground with the battle against autocracy in Ukraine.
RADIO ART HOUR: Diamanda Gals, Melody Sumner Carnahan, Laetitia Sonami, Marie Goyette (00:57:21)
Two works this week from the New American Radio archives. Melody Sumner Carnahan with Laetitia Sonami and Marie Goyette contribute “Manananggal” and Diamanda Gals adds “Schrei 27.” Carnahan’s story is about two powerful women who come under each other’s influence, thereby releasing unconscious contents. Each begins to see the other as evil, bringing to life a type of vampire “a woman who can cut her body in half” the once-metaphorical beast known in Philippine folklore as “the manananggal.” During the unraveling of their history, the two women again draw close, the leitmotif of each is firmly underscored as she projects onto the other woman emotions and elemental forces she has repressed in herself. Originally commissioned for stage by STEIM in Amsterdam. Commissioned by New American Radio. Then, Diamanda Gals and her “Schrei 27.” It consists of several short performances over the space of twenty-seven minutes alternating extreme high-energy vocal work with absolute silence. The performances are chapters of a confession which might have been induced through a chemical or mechanical manipulation of the brain. There is a high density of speech-sound over time which is often machine-like in its velocity. The work employs the atypical speech and vocal signal processing that Gals has been researching since 1979. A co-commission of the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and New American Radio.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 18 (00:27:11)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
GREEN STREET NEWS: Kids & Tech Addiction with Dr. Victoria Dunckley (00:28:42)
This week on GSN Patti and Doug discuss climate change, toxic chemicals in clothes, and the polluting new plastic plant in Pennsylvania. The Dr. Victoria Dunckley talks about teenagers addicted to their tech screens and how removing technology can change the trajectory of their lives.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/10/23 (00:56:28)
On the Show: Rosie O’Donnell, television icon, actress, comedian, and host of the podcast Onward with Rosie O’Donnell, joins David to discuss American politics, Trump, Biden, Gavin Newsom, and much more. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is accused of even more corruption through receiving gifts. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom says that Fox News contributes to the mental health crisis in the United States. Fox News host Steve Doocy goes off script again, admitting that the Biden economy is quite strong. Donald Trump faces a nightmare scenario as top Republicans are cooperating with special prosecutor Jack Smith. Donald Trump delivers a ridiculous and pathetic speech in Iowa, glitching badly numerous times. The first attempt at banning David’s children’s book on critical thinking has arrived. Voicemail caller says that David is smug and full of himself, and Brian Tyler Cohen is “way hotter.”
SUNDAY 07.09.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 5/19/23 Elections expert Dr. Philip Stark debunks GA’s Sec. of State Raffensperger; More Alito corruption (00:57:38)
Encore: original airdate 6-28-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The US Supreme Court’s landmark 6-3 ruling in the Moore v. Harper lawsuit, which rejected the bonkers rightwing ‘independent state legislature’ theory, is ‘the single most important constitutional case for American Democracy since the Nation’s Founding…and one of the most important constitutional cases for representative government in America.’ The three rightwing justices who dissented — Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito — have all recently been exposed by investigative journalists for dubious ethics practices. New reporting sheds fresh light on Justice Alito’s years of climate change-denial and his court decisions on behalf of the oil and gas industry. In the critical battleground state of Georgia, the state’s top election official, Republican Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, is refusing to install security upgrades to the state’s electronic voting systems that have been urgently recommended by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and cybersecurity experts, in the wake of a damning expert report revealing serious, widespread vulnerabilities. Raffensperger is even attacking the nation’s top experts in voting and cybersecurity as ‘conspiracists’. One of those experts, DR. PHILIP STARK of UC-Berkeley, explains the shocking details of the expert Halderman Report and Georgia’s weak security protocols and policies, debunks the nonsense claims and attacks from Raffensperger’s office, and much more. Stark also presents solutions for real-world election security and transparency procedures that every voting jurisdiction can undertake to ensure verifiable elections. Encore: original airdate 6-28-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The US Supreme Court’s landmark 6-3 ruling in the Moore v. Harper lawsuit, which rejected the bonkers rightwing ‘independent state legislature’ theory, is ‘the single most important constitutional case for American Democracy since the Nation’s Founding…and one of the most important constitutional cases for representative government in America.’ The three rightwing justices who dissented — Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito — have all recently been exposed by investigative journalists for dubious ethics practices. New reporting sheds fresh light on Justice Alito’s years of climate change-denial and his court decisions on behalf of the oil and gas industry. In the critical battleground state of Georgia, the state’s top election official, Republican Sec. of State Brad Raffensperger, is refusing to install security upgrades to the state’s electronic voting systems that have been urgently recommended by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and cybersecurity experts, in the wake of a damning expert report revealing serious, widespread vulnerabilities. Raffensperger is even attacking the nation’s top experts in voting and cybersecurity as ‘conspiracists’. One of those experts, DR. PHILIP STARK of UC-Berkeley, explains the shocking details of the expert Halderman Report and Georgia’s weak security protocols and policies, debunks the nonsense claims and attacks from Raffensperger’s office, and much more. Stark also presents solutions for real-world election security and transparency procedures that every voting jurisdiction can undertake to ensure verifiable elections.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Climatocalypse Killed The Weather Channel (00:29:00)
All the words we should have used to explain to one another the deadly importance of the climate crisis are Consumerized. We’ve got to be surreal. We’ve got to be exorcised. We’ve got to be impossible sometimes, to understand. Got to fly from the edge of the cliff. We are weightless now. We are falling through natural disasters and we don’t know how to talk to the Earth. All we can say is This is unprecedented.
TURN ON THE NEWS: Early American History in Song (00:27:52)
This week: Early American history is told through songs. “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.” https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/93bbe3
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 6/8/23 (00:59:30)
We begin the show with John Nichols about the underlying values with the respective political parties. Republicans seem to no longer be interested in actually governing, instead when in power they seek to upend generations of established law and social progress. While centrist Democrats are still in love with neoliberalism, Republicans are actively sewing chaos for working class folks while viciously attacking LGBTQ folks.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS July 6, 2023 (00:59:00)
The US Secretary of State and the UN Secretary General to Send an International Police Force to Haiti to Prop Up a Corrupt Government in League With the Gangs and Repugnant Elite | The Battle of the Billionaires As Zuckerberg’s “Threads” Challenges the Future of Musk’s Twitter | The Maker of the LOAN WOLVES documentary Which Shows How and Why 43 Million Americans Were Trapped Into $2 Trillion in Student Debt
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Parker Palmer Part 1 – On The Brink of Everything Interview (00:58:59)
This is part one of a wonderful in depth interview with Parker Palmer. Parker Palmer is an author, educator, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. He has published ten books and numerous essays and poems, and is founder and Senior Partner Emeritus of the Center for Courage and Renewal. His books include The Promise of Paradox, Healing the Heart of Democracy, To Know As We Are Known, The Active Life, The Courage To Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, An Undivided Life, and his most recent book is ON THE BRINK OF EVERYTHING: Grace, Gravity and Getting Old.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: How do we fix mass shooting extremism online? (00:58:46)
Mass Shootings continue to increase in frequency. How do we, as a society, address this issue and actually combat the online havens their followers encourage them in? We tackle this and so much more. Don’t miss this one!
SATURDAY 07.08.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 5/18/23: Former DoJ official Lisa Graves on the corruption of Justice Sam Alito (00:57:38)
Encore: original airdate 6-22-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: It’s yet another ‘tour de force’ of rightwing corruption of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice by billionaire Republican megadonors. A blockbuster new investigation by Pro Publica reveals that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito enjoyed luxury travel courtesy of rightwing billionaire ‘vulture capitalist’ and GOP megadonor Paul Singer. Even though Singer repeatedly had business before the Court, Alito never disclosed the luxury trips or recused himself from cases in which Singer would eventually reap billions of dollars. The new revelations are similar to Justice Clarence Thomas’ glaring omissions of gifts and luxury travel from a billionaire benefactor also linked to cases before the Court. The matchmaking between justices and rightwing billionaire benefactors was facilitated by Leonard Leo, leader of the far-right Federalist Society. LISA GRAVES, former high-ranking official at the Justice Department and the US court system, debunks the ridiculous claims made by Alito in his unusual op-ed attempting to pre-but the revelations, how Alito’s actions and omissions violate the clear text of ethics laws, the toxic and corruptive effect of unbridled rightwing money pouring into our political and judicial system, and much more. Also today: The indescribably dumb GOP House majority is hellbent on beclowning itself, this week focusing their impotent frustrations on the very effective Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). As a brutal, climate-change intensified heatwave broils Texas, GOP Gov. Greg Abbott enacted a big government ban on local ordinances mandating water breaks for construction workers. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: How The Wagner Group Came to Be (00:59:15)
Private Security Firms; just part of doing business, right? Blackwater was Americas version in Iraq; The Wagner Group is Russias today in Ukraine and Africa. Atrocities in the Donbass region of Ukraine? Russia cynically said, thats not us, its little green men. History Professor Emeritus Dr. Lawrence Wittner on this show reveals the major role of mercenaries, soldiers of fortune in the pay of Russian oligarchs. And they boost their great wages with wholesale looting. The United Nations is not doing its job.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 5/19/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, editor of the Quorum Report, the Voice of Texas. We discuss the impeachment of the Atty General, Paxton. He has decided not to testify during this impeachment hearing. There are many reasons, which we discuss. We also discuss the current very high temperatures in Texas, and neighboring southern states, and how this is part of the climate change, which many refuse to acknowledge.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry, two-time candidate in Connecticut (for governor). We discuss climate change, and how it is affecting agricultural yield. We also discuss the ruling by a Trump appointed judge that the government cannot have contact with social media outlets. This will prevent the government being able to fight disinformation. We cannot prevent the spread of fascism, corruption, and lying without this tool.
GROWING GREENER: Grassland Gardens for Our Era (00:29:00)
As our climates grow warmer and frequently drier, gardeners need the drought and heat tolerance, and innate sustainability of our native grassland plants more than ever. In their new book, The Gardeners Guide to Prairie Plants, Neil Diboll and Hilary Cox have combined their decades of experience to produce an indispensable tool for beginners and veterans alike, with invaluable advice about how to create functioning grassland ecosystems inside and outside the prairie states.
TUC RADIO: The Pentagon, Climate Change and War (00:29:00)
Neta Crawford co-founded the Costs of War Project at Brown University in 2010 and currently serves as a project co-director. She is the author of “The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions” (MIT Press). She spoke at a book release event on September 29, 2022, at Harvard University.
The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense “military forces and DOD agencies” is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world’s largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military’s growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels.
THE BOPST SHOW: They Were Wrong (00:57:04)
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 show, you’ll hear catchy Monsanto promotional tunes from the 60s, the gospel flavored soul of the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Jamaican toasting legend U-Roy as well as tunes by Galen & Paul, Hooded Fang and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #487 (00:00:00)
Ralph welcomes Abigail Disney, to discuss her work trying to get her namesakes company to pay their workers a fair, livable wage as told in her documentary, The American Dream: And Other Fairy Tales. Plus, Erica Payne cofounder of The Patriotic Millionaires and co-author of Tax The Rich! returns to update us on their latest work educating ordinary Americans about how they can advocate for a fairer tax system.
FRIDAY 07.07.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday July 7, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Oregon nonprofit offers incentives for energy efficiency and fire-resistant home improvements
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: How do we fix mass shooting extremism online? (00:28:35)
Mass Shootings continue to increase in frequency. How do we, as a society, address this issue and actually combat the online havens their followers encourage them in? We tackle this and so much more. Don’t miss this one!
COUNTERSPIN: Fossil Fuel Deception, Public Climate Policy (00:28:00)
Emily Sanders/fossil fuel deceptions, Alexander Kaufman & Johanna Bozuwa/pro-public climate policy.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will the Day Come When America’s Reporters Have to Flee? (00:58:00)
What would America be like with a “Dear Leader” in 2024? Nazi student forced a professor to cancel her class & the school did nothing? Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes tells U.S. Supreme Court to shove it. Why dem senators should reject Elliot Abrams.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: FloWater: An Answer To Our Plastic Bottle Woes? (00:29:00)
In the 1990s, I recall my grandfather remarking upon the new ubiquity of plastic water bottles, “When did everybody get so thirsty all of a sudden?” Indeed, plastic bottles have been proliferating at an exponential rate since the 1970s – the US alone is responsible for tens of billions of single-use plastic bottle waste every year. This week on Sea Change Radio, we take a look at the bottled water industry through the eyes of a relatively small but innovative player in the space. CEO and co-founder of FloWater, Rich “Raz” Razgaitis, joins us to tell us about his company’s product, its mission to help curb America’s seemingly bottomless thirst for single-use plastic bottles, and the ways the bottled water industry is similar to Big Tobacco.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Texas Under Siege: Dobbs, Democracy & Bodily Autonomy in the Crosshairs (00:28:00)
What kind of country do we want as Americans? Gerrymandered Red by the Republican minority, Texas is a testing ground for restrictive policies and ideologies that export themselves to the rest of the country. We follow up on our episode from last year, Forget Everything You Know About Texas, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade and opened the door for states to ban or severely restrict the availability of abortion care. For this episode, we’ve reconvened a panel of organizers and activists in Texas to discuss what has (or hasn’t) changed on the abortion, trans and voting rights fronts, and the ongoing impact on women, girls, LGBTQ lives and democracy across the country. Our guests say that Texas may just be a predictor of how 21st-century change happens when people organize differently. They also acknowledge that the backlash has grown and are finding creative strategies to push back. Caroline Duble is the political director of Avow: Unapologetic Abortion Advocacy; Eesha Pandit is co-founder of the Center for Advancing Innovative Policy (CAIP) and Emmett Schelling is the director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT). This July 4, we discuss whose rights are in the crosshairs, and what Texas can teach us all about movement strategy. Plus, a commentary from Laura.
THE BOPST SHOW: They Were Wrong (00:57:04)
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 show, you’ll hear catchy Monsanto promotional tunes from the 60s, the gospel flavored soul of the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Jamaican toasting legend U-Roy as well as tunes by Galen & Paul, Hooded Fang and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
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DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/7/23 (00:56:27)
On the Show: Donald Trump posted what was supposedly Barack Obama’s home address, and a man showed up with a gun. Donald Trump is increasingly desperate for people to protest in the streets for him, but he is struggling to find willing participants. Caller talks about the politicization of the Supreme Court. Caller is a former right-winger who was reformed by watching TDPS. Caller compares Ron DeSantis to Donald Trump. Caller suspects Ron DeSantis isn’t ready for primetime. Caller talks about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s candidacy. Caller talks about right-wingers being ignorant about the difference between sex and gender. Caller talks about red state restrictions on adult websites. Caller asks about when AI deepfakes will be able to consistently fool people. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 07.06.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday July 6, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Dust storms are on the rise in the Southwest. That could harm health
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Spoiler alert: Climate Catastrophe Could Be Very Close (00:58:08)
Just as we feared, new science confirms tipping points and climate catastrophes can arrive much, much sooner than we were told. A must-listen interview with UK research scientist and lead author Simon Willcock. Seems like its already here, with extreme heat punishing every continent. Canadian scientist Paul Beckwith joins me to peer through the smoke into the climate fire, around the planet.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is Discrimination Legal Again? (00:58:00)
Are we looking at what happens when billionaires stack the supreme court? Progressive Leader Mark Pocan shares what he’s seen. Plus listeners from across the country share their insights and questions.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: It’s Costing Taxpayers Billions. Prespond To Effects of Climate Change (00:57:48)
Our infrastructure is overloaded. It already can’t handle extreme weather and climate change is making it more frequent. We can’t keep sweeping it under the rug. On this show Steve Ellis, president of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense, talks about their alliance with E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs) and the need for upfront investments. Right nowMiddle and lower income taxpayers are getting whacked. Theyre at greatest risk. Ellis argues that for our economy, Presponding is necessary.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 17 (00:26:15)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
WINGS #12-23 Building Peace in Kenya (00:28:55)
Queen describes the situation that caused her to turn to crime to support her sibling. She describes her narrow escape from becoming a terrorist fighter for Somalia-based Al Shabaab, plus a number of different techniques she and her associates used for robbery, and how getting a government job and support from Mama Shamsa made it possible for her to earn a legitimate living. Mama Shamsa describes how she came to receive the Zayed Award for Human Fraternity in Abu Dhabi, and give many details of how she builds community and interfaith dialogue and collaboration that has made a tremendous difference in the safety of her part of the world; but also how Al Shabaab continues to evolve in its terrorist recruitment techniques.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/6/23 (00:00:00)
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WEDNESDAY 07.05.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday July 5, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Tips for keeping your pets safe in a hurricane
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Tyler Quinn (00:13:52)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Tyler Quinn, a cancer survivor and nurse at Valley Health’s Winchester Medical Center, for a conversation about how the circumstances around a leukemia diagnosis inspired him to work in health care, 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 #1840: SCOTUS v. Rights & School Board v. Bigots & more global LGBTQ news (00:28:59)
The U.S. Supreme Court uses free speech to cripple queer rights (with reports by Christina Aanestad/KPFA and Amy Goodman/Democracy Now!, and comments by Jorge Reyes Salinas, Matthew Stone, Moira Donegan, Karine Jean-Pierre, Dan Farmer, and Melissa Gira Grant) lesbian Los Angeles School Board President Jackie Goldberg rips book-burning wannabes a new one and in NewsWrap (reported this week by MARCOS NAJERA & NICO RAQUEL and produced by BRIAN DeSHAZOR), Nepal’s top court orders marriage equality, Pride-goers are jailed again in Turkey, U.S. federal judges slam Tennessee and Kentucky pediatric trans care bans but Kansas reverses rules on changing gender markers, and Hamburger Marys serves a drag ban loss to Floridas DeSantis.
Those stories and more this week when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Shocking Cash Value Of The Top Secret Documents Trump Stole (00:58:00)
Did Donald Trump keep top Secret documents to profit from treason? How much would Americas enemies pay to have our nuclear deterrent plan or the locations of Americas spies?
While the GOP wants you focused on Hunter Biden – what Jared & Ivanka did may be far worse, with Dean Obeidallah.
CIVIC CIPHER: Shopping While Black / The Stereotypes that Harm us All (00:59:00)
In the first half of the show, we discuss a viral incident where police were called on a Black couple shopping at Bed Bath and Beyond for having expensive items in their cart. We discuss the harmful stereotypes associated with Black people and how they shape our lives. In the second half of the show, we talk about how Black protesting is often rebranded as rioting, how rioting is not chronicled with an emphasis on fear when the (incredibly frequent) riots are based on a sports team winning or losing, and ask about the moral implications of allowing one’s preconceptions and stereotypes to shape their world view.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 16 (00:24:48)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity & Respect, with Julie Pham PhD (00:28:00)
Respect matters says Julie Pham, PhD. But it’s also relative, subjective, and contradictory. It’s complicated. Her book 7 Forms of Respect: A Guide to Transforming Your Communication and Relationships at Work makes the case that respect is all about honing our curiosity practices. Inward curiosity to unearth our own feelings about respect, and outward curiosity to help us discover and deliver what others need and want. A tool kit for navigating relationships and staying focused on what matters most. “The first element of curiosity as a practice is being curious about ourselves. And a lot of times people say ‘Oh, that person was respectful or disrespectful.’ We don’t actually ask ourselves ‘Why do I feel that way? Why do I feel disrespected?'” ~ Julie Pham
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/5/23 (00:56:26)
On the Show: Dr. Ami Klin, Director of the Marcus Autism Center at Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare in Atlanta, joins David to discuss autism, including prevalence, diagnosis, causes, treatment, and much more. Failed former President Donald Trump reportedly shared secrets on the Mar-a-Lago patio. In yet another line of possible investigation, Donald Trump reportedly trying pressuring Doug Ducey, the then-Governor of Arizona, to overturn the results in 2020. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is now using David in a new campaign ad. Luke Beasley, David Pakman Show correspondent, went to Pickens, South Carolina to interview supporters of Donald Trump at his recent rally, and it was absolutely insane. David’s critical thinking book for kids is now available, called “Think Like a Detective: A Kid’s Guide to Critical Thinking.” Donald Trump speaks in South Carolina, telling endless lies while the crowd boos Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. A Trump rallygoer in Pickens, South Carolina suggest sending Joe Biden to a concentration camp, among other insanity.
TUESDAY 07.04.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday July 4, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Buyout programs aren’t serving everyone who needs help after a flood, planner warns
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Seeing the In-Between, the Distortion of All-Or-Nothing Thinking (00:30:26)
On this show we are setting aside our all-or-nothing thinking, taking a second and maybe even a third look, as we strive to see the in-between, somewhere between this and that. Before you accept it for what you think IT is, formulate a strong opinion, and develop your truth, take another look. Open your mind to alternative ideas. Accept that quite possibly, you don’t have all the answers and embrace something new. See one door can be the beginning but it’s never the end. One door leads to the next, and then the next, and then another as you expand your thinking. The journey is the fun part and once you have enlightenment, well then you re-pack, find a new direction, and set out for uncharted territory. Old dogs can’t learn new tricks is a myth. Your mind, soul, and spirit are craving expiration. Let’s go!
MAKING CONTACT: Revolutionary Mothering and Reproductive Justice (00:29:00)
In today’s episode, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells the birth story of the book she co-edited with China Martens and Mai’a Williams, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines and gives context to the book with stories of the Reproductive Justice Movement.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour:Alarming New U.N. Report Asks Why Do Some Men Hate Women?? (00:58:00)
Stunning new evidence proves radical feminists are right that some men really DO hate women, SHOCKER! But its not just men! The report found the bias inherent in both genders!! Also The GOPs violent rhetoric is working. Emboldened by fascist talking points, their minions are ready to attack anyone they might suspect of being a groomer like a 9-year old girl who was simply participating in track & field for her school. Her crime? A pixie haircut!
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Manatees (00:58:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour, we learn about Manatees, the gentle giants of the sea. In a visit with Andrea Hermann from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, the Kids Crew and Katie discuss the current ecological status of manatees, plus we find out all about their lives in the seas around Florida and elsewhere in the world. This episode comes with a free Learn-Along Guide that meets and cites US National Education Standards! Download & print at https://ChildrensHour.org/Manatees Manatees are unique creatures because not only are they massive and friendly, they have no predators whatsoever in the ocean. Manatees are facing unprecedented die-offs in the last few years, and conservationists are working hard to understand the best ways to save them. We learn what the Conservation Marine Aquarium is doing to help save manatees, and educate boaters about watching for manatees in their habitats
We will hear a baby manatee talking to its mom, and some great music celebrating these elephants of the ocean.
This episode was produced by Katie Stone, our Executive Producer and our Senior Producer, Christina Stella. Our Learn-Along Guides are written by Jonathan Dunski. Many thanks to Amanda Herman from the Clearwater Marine Aquarium for helping us with this show.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 14-15 (00:56:01)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
LETTERS TO WASHINGTON: The Intellectual Life of Frederick Douglass (00:59:00)
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
MONDAY 07.03.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday July 3 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Online marketplace helps companies buy solar energy from underinvested communities
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #182: The Problem with Lithium (00:29:20)
Lithium and specifically lithium batteries promise to be the oil of the coming decades. But like oil, it comes at a price. There has already been a military coup of a democratically elected government (applauded by the US govt, sound familiar?) over control of this resource. Mining practices are wreaking havoc on some regions of the world ” and the transition to lithium is just beginning. But is the future of lithium all doom and gloom, or the dawn of a bright new age? Join Jay and Annie Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of the positives and negatives the world faces as it transitions to a battery economy ” and what new sources and technologies hold promise that history does not have to repeat itself.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Declining Global Inequality and Socialism (00:29:00)
This week’s updates focus on the ridiculously low ranking of the U.S. among OECD nations, why & how mega-corps get richer faster than we do, the palpable solidarity between the Labor Unions and the writers’ strike in the U.S, the UPS teamsters 97% vote to strike beginning on Aug 1, and how Pfizer fails to maintain supplies of penicillin. The major topics of discussion include why global inequality among nations is now falling, and why the phrase “socialism does not work” is flat out wrong
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Political Divisions From the American Revolution to Today (00:58:08)
Guest host Jefferson Smith of the Democracy Nerd Podcast sits in for Thom Hartmann today and speaks with Dr. Eli Merritt, MD, political historian at Vanderbilt University who specializes in the Founding Era of the United States. He is the author of the recently released Disunion Among Ourselves: The Perilous Politics of the American Revolution. Article: “Why Juneteenth Matters Far More Today Than the Fourth of July” by Eli Merritt.
Substack: “American Commonwealth” by Eli Merritt.
RADIO ART HOUR: “Voiceage” by Julia Loktev (00:58:05)
“Voiceage” by Julia Loktev, is featured today, introduced by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow Andy Stuhl. Voiceage was produced in 1990 by Loktev, who would go on to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. At the turn of the nineties, though, Loktev was a student at McGill University and the host of a radio show called Curiouser and Curiousear on campus-community station CKUT. Loktevs show gave her a platform to produce experimental audio productions that hovered between documentary and scripted work. For Voiceage, Loktev visited nursing homes around Montreal with a tape recorder. She cut, spliced, and manipulated these tapes along with music and other samples to shape a reflection on aging as a sonic process. Loktev later said of the piece, I was interested in memory, music and how age wears on the voice ” we talk about the face but rarely the voice ” and theres a little snippet in the piece that includes an older Bette Davis in dialogue with her younger self. Introduced by Wave Farm Radio Artist Fellow 2021/2022, Andy Stuhl.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair – ch. 12-13 (00:42:46)
It is the end of the 19th century. Like thousands of others, the Rudkus family has emigrated from Lithuania to America in search of a better life. As they settle into the Packingtown neighborhood of Chicago, they find their dreams are unlikely to be realized. In fact, just the opposite is quite likely to occur. The family, naïve to the ways of Chicago, quickly falls prey to con men and makes a series of bad decisions that lead them into wretched poverty and terrible living conditions. All are forced to find jobs in dismal working conditions for their very survival. The main character Jurgis, broken and discouraged, eventually finds solace in the American Socialist movement. This novel was written during a period in American history when “Trusts” were formed by multiple corporations to establish monopolies that stifled competition and fixed prices. Unthinkable working conditions and unfair business practices were the norm. The Jungle’s author, Upton Sinclair, was an ardent Socialist of the time. Sinclair was commissioned by the “Appeal To Reason”, a Socialist journal of the period, to write a fictional expose on the working conditions of the immigrant laborers in the meat packing industry in Chicago. Going undercover, Sinclair spent seven weeks inside the meatpacking plants gathering details for his novel. (Summary by Tom Weiss)
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/140/140-h/140-h.htm
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).
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 7/3/23 (00:57:14)
On the Show: Jamie Raskin presents a transcript of the alleged Joe Biden “bribery” “whistleblower” admitting he never spoke to Joe Biden. Fox News host Sandra Smith asks former Trump staffer Larry Kudlow to explain why the economy is actually terrible under Joe Biden, and Kudlow is unable to do so. Donald Trump is reportedly facing up to 45 additional charges related to the classified documents fiasco. Failed Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake wildly claims that she might be Native American in a completely ridiculous interview. The Supreme Court rules against Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie appears on Fox News to relentlessly pound Donald Trump. A number of MAGA extremists, including Roger Stone and Michael Flynn, sing the praises of Robert F Kennedy Jr. 204 Republican presidential candidate and Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis uses the term “woke” 6 times in 19 seconds during a speech to the extremist group “Moms for Liberty.” Ron DeSantis’s latest interview on Fox News goes bad quickly, including DeSantis eating pizza. Voicemail caller argues that Trump is more dangerous than DeSantis if either were to become President of the United States.
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THE BRADCAST 6/30/23: Former AL Gov. Don Siegelman regrets his use of the Death Penalty; The smoky cost of climate change (00:58:08)
Encore: Original air-date 6/7/2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: The cost of our climate crisis has hit a large swath of the nation, with smoke from hundreds of wildfires in Canada choking the skies in more than a dozen states across the Northeast. President Biden’s E.P.A. announced $115 million in funding to repair and upgrade the long-deteriorating water system in Jackson, Mississippi. Alabama’s former Democratic Gov. Don Siegelman discusses his recent op-ed calling out ‘the flaws in our nation’s justice system,’ particularly as it applies to the death penalty. Co-authored with the state’s former Republican Gov. Robert Bentley, both men say they have come to ‘regret’ overseeing executions during their terms in office, and are calling for reform of the unequal, unjust application of the death penalty in our perverted justice system. Siegelman explains the history and politics of the death penalty and details several criminal justice reforms, including changes to the secret grand jury system, ending non-unanimous juries in death penalty cases, the outrage of ‘judicial overrides,’ a relic of the Jim Crow era that allowed judges to overrule juries to issue death sentences, and much more. Also today: Corrupt U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has asked for more time to complete his annual financial disclosures after investigative reports revealed that he failed to disclose, as required by law, extensive luxury travel, gifts, and much more from billionaire Harlan Crow.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: A Very Different Emotion Far, Far Beyond Anger (00:29:00)
Things happen in the US that our words don’t reach. We shout, scream, shoot bullets
but none of what we do is a realistic response to the Earth’s crisis. We need logic more like the surrealism of evolution. We need common sense more like the paranormal intuition of a psychic who has a crying jag. We have murdered so many people that we have created a new creation-wide level of lamentation, a moan of pain above the dog frequencies beyond ultraviolet light but right here. Our activism comes straight from the mysteries.
https://revbilly.com/
TURN ON THE NEWS: Bravado(00:27:57)
This week: “Bravado.” The former president says he was lying. “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 7/1/23 (00:58:00)
Today on the Best Of, we speak with Jon Marcus, writer and lecturer about higher education. We begin with a discussion about the degree gap between white and Black students. Contrary to what the Supreme Court may claim is the age of color blindness, the problem of racism has most certainly not been solved. Particularly with regard to college admissions and college completion. While white students have many advantages, including legacy admissions and financial resources, black students are too often left behind.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS (00:59:07)
Another Right Wing Front Group Gets SCOTUS to Rule With a Predetermined Outcome, This Time Against Affirmative Action | How Asian Students Were Used to Perpetuate the Myth of Colorblindness | The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path – The Dance of Darkness & Light w Connie Zweig (00:59:00)
Connie Zweig is a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow, and Romancing the Shadow. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, won numerous awards in 2022 and extends her work on the Shadow into exploring aging as a spiritual practice. Her new book is Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. We’ve heard about the sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic Church for decades. But much less known is that the same problems and issues exist within nearly every religious and spiritual tradition around the world. In this in depth interview, we explore the shadow side of humanity on the spiritual realm. And that spiritual development and enlightenment doesn’t guarantee moral development or the resolution or elimination of unresolved trauma and harmful emotional and psychological issues stemming from that.
We also talk about many of the well known spiritual teachers, gurus, roshis and rimpoches who have abused and taken advantage of their students.
LAW AND DISORDER June 26, 2023 (00:57:59)
Peace Plan? Biden Administration Continues Full Support In Escalating Ukraine War. Sixteen months ago, Russia launched an illegal invasion of Ukraine, albeit in the context of a history of threats to its security by NATO countries. It is estimated that as of February, Russia has suffered 189,500 to 223,000 casualties and Ukraine has suffered 124,500 to 131,000 casualties. Meanwhile, the United States and its allies continue to provide Ukraine with all the weapons it requests and impose increasingly harsh sanctions on Russia. But there appears to be little appetite in the U.S. for a ceasefire and negotiations to end the bloodshed. Guest ” Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she is the director of the New Internationalism Project and works on anti-war, US foreign policy and Palestinian rights issues. She has worked as an informal adviser to several key UN officials on Palestinian issues. Her books including Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Todays UN, and Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.
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THE BRADCAST 5/18/23: Smoke, Ukraine and Affirmative Action: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. And racism (00:57:38)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Canada is grappling with its worst wildfire season on record, and the dangerous smoke is affecting more than 100 million Americans. Texas is in its third week of a relentless, deadly, unprecedented extreme heat wave. But those who go to Fox ‘News’ and the deceptive Fox Weather website will never be informed that fossil fueled-climate change is a primary driver of these disasters, and we all pay the price. In the wake of the 24-hour ‘mutiny’ in Russia when Yevgeny Prigozhin revealed that the imperialist invasion of Ukraine was built on lies, new polls show a 20-point increase in Americans’ support for President Biden’s policy of helping Ukraine defend itself. The rightwing supermajority on the stolen-and-packed U.S. Supreme Court overturned more than 40 years of precedent in demolishing affirmative action policies in college admissions for all private and public colleges and universities (while exempting military academies for some odd reason). The Court’s dizzying 237-page ruling includes multiple concurrences and dissents, and the far-right activists on the bench — and those that put them there — get to cross another long-term goal off their list. Also today: A brand-new version of the 1989 Billy Joel classic, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” updated for 2023. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Righting a Century Old Wrong: Free Kurdistan From Middle East Prison (00:59:33)
Their language is illegal where they live. They cannot give their kids Kurdish names. A continuing legacy of European imperialism. Americans owe Kurds gratitude for beating ISIS in 2014. Our guest Kani Xulam, director of the American Kurdish Information Network is walking over three hundred miles to the United Nations, arriving 100 years to the day when Kurdistan was carved up, calling for self government. Give a listen.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 6/30/23 (00:58:03)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, Editor of the Quorum Report in Texas.
The second Special Session of the Texas legislature continues, with property taxes a big topic. The governor and Lt governor are at odds at how to spend the current budge surplus. The governor continues to play “voucher vaudeville”, though Texans do not approve of voucher plans. The heat in Texas is killing people, including at least two inmates of Texas prisons, which have no air conditioning. At least $6 B has been spent on the “border protection” schemes, to no effect.
Part 2:
Our guests are Bill Curry and Lincoln Mitchell. Curry is a two-time candidate for governor of Connecticut, and Mitchell is a professor at Columbia University.
SCOTUS has struck down affirmative action on the basis of race. Legacy admissions continue. We discuss the effects.
GROWING GREENER: Making Our Vegetable Gardens More Climate Resilient (00:29:00)
Grow Your Own is a cornerstone of sustainability, but our vegetable gardens are being challenged by increasingly erratic weather as the climate changes. John Traunfeld, Program Director at the University of Maryland’s Home & Garden Information Center shares his experiences in making food gardens more climate resilient, and how this can even draw our communities closer together.
TUC RADIO: Seniors for Peace – A celebration of 20 years of Peace Work (00:28:59)
When I joined Seniors for Peace at their second ever rally for peace in Iraq on February 7, 2003, I did not dream that 20 years later they would still be coming out every Friday from 4 to 5 pm to the busy intersection near their home. Undaunted – even by hostility – they have called for peace in all the subsequent wars since then. Among those who I met in 2003 was a survivor of the firebombing of Dresden and a Red Cross worker in London who saw the young men dead on both sides and still mourned their loss of life. I’m honoring them now – 20 years later – for the work they have continued and expanded since then.
Their website is www.mvseniorsforpeace.org/
THE BOPST SHOW: They Were Wrong (00:57:04)
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 show, you’ll hear catchy Monsanto promotional tunes from the 60s, the gospel flavored soul of the Mighty Clouds of Joy, Jamaican toasting legend U-Roy as well as tunes by Galen & Paul, Hooded Fang and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
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RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #486 (00:58:06)
Ralph welcomes journalist and executive director for intellectual capital at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Hal Weitzman, to discuss his book What’s The Matter With Delaware? How the First State Has Favored the Rich, Powerful, and Criminal and How It Costs Us All.