SATURDAY 09.30.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/28/202: Special Coverage of the GOP’s ridiculous second ‘Presidential Primary Debate’ (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Our special coverage of the Republican Party’s ridiculous second 2024 ‘Presidential Primary Debate’ is arguably the dumbest and funniest ‘BradCast’. The debate was hosted by Fox ‘News’ at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, and featured seven ‘candidates’ — former Vice President Mike Pence, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, supposed businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Not in attendance was the guy with multiple indictments who Republicans apparently intend to actually nominate for the job next year. The subject matter was dumb, but our excellent special coverage panelists — award winning blogger and columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON of Salon and Hullabaloo, and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the ‘Professional Left Podcast’ — make it fun and funny. Enjoy!
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: How About a Rural New Deal? (00:57:48)
Liberals usually fail to connect and inspire people of the rural mid-west. And we lose elections. But if were true to tradition, we should take the lead in solving rural alienation. Our guest today Jessica Corbett explains a new report from the Progressive Democrats of America and the Rural Urban Bridge Initiative. Instead of the usual top down, this new idea is bottom up, involving local people, funding rural schools, and job-creating projects. This can work. And help save democracy.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN September 29, 2023 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, editor of the Quorum Report.
We discuss the governor’s campaign to institute school vouchers, and its failure to date. The distraction from this is the focus on the border, specifically Colony Ridge, which is a settlement of undocumented people. The GOP stirs fears of “invasion”.
We also discuss the money that Lt. Gov. Patrick received just prior to Paxton’s trial. It is not clear what conditions were placed on the $2M “loan”, and it was obvious that the trial was weighted by Patrick in Paxton’s favor.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Robert Hockett.
We discuss the rulings in Trump’s trial in New York state. He was shown to be an obstructor and financial cheat. This could mean the end of Trump’s financial empire, because the Trump organization has lost its licenses to do business in NY. We discuss how this pattern of behavior by Trump was ignored for years.
GROWING GREENER: Cityscapes as Native Insect Refuges (00:29:00)
Dr. Luis Mata of the University of Melbourne Australia details how the installation of just 12 native plant species turned a small urban greenspace almost overnight into a hotspot for native insect biodiversity
TUC RADIO: LIVE from the New School in NYC: Day 2 of the Peoples Climate Week Launch (00:29:00)
Section ONE addresses pipelines, geo-engineering and hydrogen production from fossil fuels and nuclear power, and carbon capture and sequestration. On September 17, 2023, over 75,000 joined the New York City March to End Fossil Fuels making it the largest demonstration pressuring President Biden to stop supporting the fossil fuel industry. The march took place ahead of the UN Climate Ambition Summit (Sept. 20, 2023).
THE BOPST SHOW: Love and Romance (00:55:15)
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 the classic soul, R&B stylings of Bettye Swann, 70s cumbia from Afrosound, and 21st century Australian power pop by the Sleepy Jackson as well as sounds provided by Ranking Ann, Otoboke Beaver and many others outside of mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #499 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes award-winning foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer to discuss America’s bloody history of proxy wars. They’ll also discuss the mainstream media’s “shameful” coverage of the war in Ukraine, the warhawks on Capitol Hill, and the catastrophic trickle-down effects of American military meddling.
FRIDAY 09.29.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 29, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Electric vehicles may improve a community’s health
THIS IS SCIENCE: Something Strange in your Neighborhood (00:29:01)
Jess tells the stories of three invisible threats harming residents of major US cities with help from Julie McNamara and Darya Minovi of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
COUNTERSPIN: Menendez indictment (00:28:00)
Stephen Zunes unpacks the Menendez indictment.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: As Republicans Begin Phony Impeachment Hearings, Democrats are Ignoring Real Crimes (00:58:00)
Why are Democrats Fighting with One Hand Tied Behind Their Backs? Does this debate represent the death of the GOP? Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Are Trump’s loyalists just like Hitler’s Nazis? A retired 4-star general thinks so.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Pain At The Pumps: Understanding Gas Prices With Dan Dicker (00:29:00)
It’s hard not to notice how sky high gas prices are these days. Perhaps the universe is trying to tell us something about our personal transportation choices — namely, that the status quo is untenable. This week on Sea Change Radio, Daniel Dicker is here to help us wade through the complex world of oil and gas prices. We discuss the various geopolitical facets that influence the prices of this valuable commodity, compare energy policy and consumer habits between the U.S. and the EU, and get Dicker’s take on how gas prices may affect the 2024 Presidential election.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Before the Ground Runs Dry: BIPOC Media on the US Water Crisis (00:28:00)
From the sinking lands of California’s Central Valley to the depleting aquifers nationwide, we’re at a critical point: Americans are running out of water. In this episode of Meet the BIPOC Press, a monthly collaboration between The Laura Flanders Show and URL Media, we take a closer look at the US water crisis that is affecting many Americans, and putting communities of color especially at risk. How are over-extraction and climate change impacting our water supply? BIPOC media outlets are bringing these stories to the forefront, debunking myths about climate change and uplifting solutions to this urgent issue. Joining us for this conversation are Warigia Bowman, Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law, and Andrew Hazzard, Climate Reporter at Sahan Journal, which is dedicated to reporting on communities of color in Minnesota. Co-host S. Mitra Kalita is co-founder of URL Media, a national network of Black and Brown community news outlets. Kalita is also the publisher of Epicenter-NYC, a newsletter based in Queens, New York. How do we turn the tide on this crisis, before our water sources run dry?
THE BOPST SHOW: Love and Romance (00:55:15)
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 the classic soul, R&B stylings of Bettye Swann, 70s cumbia from Afrosound, and 21st century Australian power pop by the Sleepy Jackson as well as sounds provided by Ranking Ann, Otoboke Beaver and many others outside of mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/29/23 (00:56:56)
On the Show: New polling shows that Republicans see Donald Trump as more of a “person of faith” than even Mitt Romney, whose Mormon identity is the most recognizable thing about him. Ken Blackwell, a Republican with a history of making it harder to vote, says that automatic voter registration actually takes away people’s rights in an unintelligible rant. Caller worries the term “social democracy” sounds too much like socialism. Caller asks about Briahna Joy Gray’s progressive purity tests. Caller talks about the health benefits of broccoli. Caller discusses Republicans’ plan to gut public schools. Caller suspects the existence of aliens would be good for Republicans. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 09.28.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 28, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The world’s poorest people won’t be able to migrate to escape climate disasters
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Hippos in London: Rising Methane & Termination Event (00:58:00)
Climate can flip to a new state, quickly. Is strangely rising methane a signal of a termination event? Dr. Euan Nisbet, Royal Halloway, University of London with worrying new science. A world methane update. We explore abrupt climate shifts with Prof. Niklas Boers, Technical University of Munich and PIK. He tells us about global reorganization of atmospheric circulation in the past – glimpses of our future – or now?
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Did a NY Judge Begin the Unraveling of the Trump “Fantasy” World? (00:58:00)
Dean Obeidallah – Its not just Trump, the GOP has long supported criminals. Geeky Science! From cage-free chicks to puppy mills – the GOP is trying to roll back animal protections and not only is it cruel -but- it would spread disease. Did NY judge begin the unraveling of the Trump “fantasy” world? Is the Republican debate a fake? Are they all just playing pretend?
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: American Midnight: The Early 20th Century Model for Trump? (00:58:04)
Authoritarianism. Anti-Immigrant. White men fearful of losing control. Books banned, free press shut down. Widespread domestic spying. Dissent criminalized and many jailed tortured and killed. In his new book, American Midnight: The Great War, A Violent Peace, and Democracys Forgotten Crisis, acclaimed author historian Adam Hochschild says it was the Trumpiest period of American history before Trump. Amazing stories, with both villains and some heroes.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ch.5 (00:42:36)
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. To date, the book has been adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000 word story is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. (Wikipedia) The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited the future. There, he finds the human species has “evolved” into two distinct forms. Above ground live the Eloi—gentle, fairy-like, childish creatures, whose existence appears to be free of struggle. However, another race of beings exists—the Morlocks, underground dwellers who, once subservient, now prey on the feeble, defenseless Eloi. – Summary by Cliff Stone
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35/35-h/35-h.htm
ALAN WATTS: Exploring Your Dark Side (00:12:43)
A British writer who explored Eastern Philosophy for a western audience.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/28/23 (00:57:54)
On the Show: Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks and author of the new book “Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It” joins David to make the case that Joe Biden cannot possibly win re-election in 2024, and more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/46uUwmK
Despite not even attending, Donald Trump easily wins the 2nd Republican presidential debate, as the debate itself becomes a farcical reality show not useful to any of the candidates who attended. California Governor Gavin Newsom is in the spin room after the second Republican debate and destroys everyone. Failed former President Donald Trump gives a fake, staged speech supposedly supporting striking UAW workers at a non-union factory with non-autoworkers holding fake signs. Republican Congressman Jason Smith does not like it when NBC reporter Ryan Nobles explains to him that the supposed wrongdoing by Joe Biden allegedly took place when Biden was neither President, nor Vice President, nor a candidate for any political office. General Mark Milley now must take security precautions for himself and his family after Donald Trump suggests Milley should be executed. Voicemail callers as David super specific questions about pasta and tea.
WEDNESDAY 09.27.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 27, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Wind farms generate significant tax revenue for Iowa counties
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Dr. Connor Berlin on Working in Ukraine (00:16:27)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features an interview with Dr. Connor Berlin, a UVA Health neurosurgery resident, about his travel to Ukraine to volunteer at a hospital and treat injured soldiers and civilians impacted by combat hostilities.
https://www.vhha.com/communications/patients-come-first-podcast-dr-connor-berlin/
ALAN WATTS: Don’t be afraid, it’s all a show (00:12:40)
Speech extract from “The Works” by Alan Watts, courtesy of https://alanwatts.org. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher who interpreted and popularised Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
THIS WAY OUT #1852: Canada’s 2003 Equality Crawl & Out at Oktoberfest + global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
The muddy road to Canadian marriage equality; how Munich Oktoberfest developed a fetish for gay men; Biden stands for all humans rights at the U.N. General Assembly, Erdogan mistakes U.N. summit colors for LGBTQ rainbows, The Nigerian 69 are released on bail, a Hong Kong court okays a two-mom birth certificate, South Korea notes its first lesbian to give birth, the Pentagon seeks to upgrade Don’t Ask Don’t Tell discharges, and that Mifepristone-banning judge disses drag. 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: Preserve, Baby, Preserve! (00:58:00)
The president is protecting Alaska wild lands from drilling- but will Republicans now have an excuse to pin gas prices on the president when Saudi and Russia pump up the market right before the election? Plus – Know anyone who wants to sign up for Biden’s Climate Corps?
CIVIC CIPHER: National Headlines Proving We Still Need Social Justice Reform (00:59:00)
In the first part of our show, we discuss some national stories including a Black boy who nearly drowned while his White friends pushed him under and called him George Floyd. We also talk about the optics surrounding the smash-and-grab shoplifting videos that have been circulating as well as the murder and cover-up of the police shooting of Eddie Irizarry. In the second half of our show, we discuss the story of a police officer caught on video describing 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula as having limited value as well as the story of the DC police training officer who shot and killed a Black female officer in training in the middle of the training class. Our Way Black History Fact highlights the African-American roots of Bid Whist, Bridge, and Spadesthe classic card games!
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ch.4 (00:25:49)
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. To date, the book has been adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000 word story is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. (Wikipedia) The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited the future. There, he finds the human species has “evolved” into two distinct forms. Above ground live the Eloi—gentle, fairy-like, childish creatures, whose existence appears to be free of struggle. However, another race of beings exists—the Morlocks, underground dwellers who, once subservient, now prey on the feeble, defenseless Eloi. – Summary by Cliff Stone
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35/35-h/35-h.htm
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curiosity, Analogies & the Power of Less, with Leidy Klotz (00:28:00)
What if the best answer to a curious, generative question like, “What are all the ways we could…?” is “Do less”?
UVA Engineering professor Leidy Klotz, author of Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less makes the case to consider subtraction as a viable, reliable, and all-too-often overlooked strategy in a world that is biased to always add more. And in a twist I definitely didn’t see coming, Leidy takes analogous thinking to a whole new level of subtraction. “Analogies,” he says, “are one of the only ways to remove wrong ideas.”
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/27/23 (00:55:13)
On the Show: President Joe Biden joins striking UAW workers on the picket line and delivers encouraging remarks to them. California doubles taxes on guns and ammunition to pay for school security. A judge rules that Donald Trump committed fraud in his business dealings and orders the dissolution of the Trump Organization. Failed former President Donald Trump absolutely loses his mind over a judge’s ruling that his business has to close. Liberal Fox News host Jessica Tarlov brings up Donald Trump’s cognitive glitches from the last two weeks and her right-wing co-hosts are not happy. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign is collapsing as he has now fallen behind Nikki Haley in recent polling. Fox News slashes ad prices for tonight’s second Republican presidential debate as advertisers and viewers both seem increasingly uninterested. Donald Trump melts down, slamming Fox News as the friendship crumbles. Voicemail caller says David is deaf, dumb and blind, and that it is “obvious” that President Joe Biden “sold us out” to China.
TUESDAY 09.26.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 26, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Idaho group helps protect farmworkers from heat and smoke
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Effectively Navigating Life’s Little Challenges (00:29:49)
On this show we are pulling from our toolbox; emotional resilience, problem-solving skills, and a positive mindset as we aim to effectively navigate life’s little challenges. You might possess everything you need and you might be still gathering the necessary components but no matter where you are on your journey, remember that life’s little challenges are an inevitable part of the human experience. By developing effective skills and maintaining a positive attitude, you can successfully navigate them and emerge stronger on the other side.
MAKING CONTACT: The Shadow of Nuclear Colonialism (00:29:00)
On today’s show, we hear about the impact of nuclear colonialism and the Manhattan Project on the people and places of New Mexico with Myrriah Gomez, author of Nuclear Nuevo Mexico: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos. And then we dig into how nuclear testing during the Cold War led to dangerous and lasting contamination in the Marshall Islands and San Francisco’s Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Republican Attacks on Fact-Checkers are Now on Steroids (00:58:00)
The Putin Caucus in the GOP, along with the fossil fuel billionaires, appear quite pleased that theyve succeeded in intimidating fact-checkers just in time for the 2024 election. Calling for death is “stochastic terrorism” and what Trump does. Fascist Playlist Alert! Trump says he intends to thoroughly scrutinize & limit NBC News and other news agencies if he’s re-elected president..Say what!? How the Menendez scandal reflects the wold SCOTUS built. Will the GOP own the shutdown?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Kids Global Music (00:53:00)
Get into the world groove with The Childrens Hour as we explore global music for kids. We hear some radio debuts of songs that teach, inspire, and entertain, performed by musicians from around the world. Join us for a musical exploration of world music for kids! Music around the world inspires, educates and gets our bodies moving. We hear many songs illustrating the diversity of global music, including a lullaby out of Ukrainian quartet, DakhaBrakha. The United States Poet Laureate of 2019 – 2022, Joy Harjo, the first Indigenous American to hold that position. Not only is she an amazing poet, she is also an accomplished musician. Hear her perform her poem Remember with world renowned oud master, Rahim AlHaj, an Iraqi refugee living in New Mexico.
We also get captivated by the bizarre sounds of the mouth harp, as performed by a Mongolian folk band, and then we hear a traditional Tuvan song demonstrating the haunting, whistling of overtone singing.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ch.2-3 (00:28:42)
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. To date, the book has been adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000 word story is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. (Wikipedia) The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited the future. There, he finds the human species has “evolved” into two distinct forms. Above ground live the Eloi—gentle, fairy-like, childish creatures, whose existence appears to be free of struggle. However, another race of beings exists—the Morlocks, underground dwellers who, once subservient, now prey on the feeble, defenseless Eloi. – Summary by Cliff Stone
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35/35-h/35-h.htm
BETWEEN THE LINES RADIO NEWSMAGAZINE September 20, 2023 (00:00:00)
UAW Strike Demands Fairness for Workers, as US Automakers Spend Billions on Stock Buybacks; GOP Attacks Wisconsin’s Democratic Institutions to Maintain Grip on Minority Rule; Supporters of Leonard Peltier Call on Pres. Biden to Release Americas Longest Serving Political Prisoner.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/26/23 (00:58:29)
On the Show: Yascha Mounk, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, founder of the digital magazine Persuasion, Contributing Editor at The Atlantic, Host of the Good Fight podcast, and author of the new book, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time,” joins David to discuss what Mounk claims is the left’s turn towards identitarianism. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3PUQApT
President Joe Biden will become the first president to join a strike and walk the picket line, which highly triggers failed former President Donald Trump. Indicted Democratic Senator Bob Menendez’s press conference, attempting to defend himself, does not go well. Failed former President Donald Trump’s brain fails during a speech in South Carolina, claiming that Jeb Bush, rather than George W. Bush, started the Iraq War, and glitching badly a number of times. Donald Trump tours a gun store in South Carolina, and it’s a house of horrors. Right Side Broadcasting Network interviews attendees at Donald Trump’s rally in South Carolina, and it’s scary. Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko appears on Fox News and completely debunks host Brian Kilmeade’s attempts to “prove” a Joe Biden conspiracy theory. Voicemail caller explains that his friend is scared to subscribe to The David Pakman Show YouTube channel for fear of blowback from his family and girlfriend.
MONDAY 09.25.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 25, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Wind farms generate significant tax revenue for Iowa counties
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #152: Seeking Social Justice (00:29:11)
What is social justice and why is it not incorporated in all aspects of life, business and our culture? What can we personally do to help promote a culture of fairness and equity in our everyday activities. Annie and Jay Warmke of Blue Rock Station are joined by Jarod Marsh, who recently graduated with a degree in human rights and sustainability from the University of Dayton – then packed off to India to experience whether not the world reflected the theory
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Socialism and Worker Co-ops [REPEAT] (00:29:00)
20th century socialism is now behind us. Socialists continued to evaluate both its achievements and failures via extensive self-criticism. A changed socialism has emerged, focused on a transition of workplaces from top-down hierarchical capitalist structures into democratic worker cooperatives. The powerful appeal of worker coops as grounding a new 21st century socialism is presented.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Mark Pocan is Standing Up to Power (00:58:00)
How can Democrats negotiate with Republicans that already broke their agreement over the last fake government shutdown crisis? Also, Thom reads from “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy” by Connor O’Neill.
RADIO ART HOUR: M’Iou Zahner Ollswang, Colin Black (00:58:00)
This week tune in M’Iou Zahner Ollswang’s “Mosquitos,” and Colin Black’s “Residue.” Both works use natural sounds. “Mosquitos” is from the Tellus #11 cassette “The Sound of Radio.” The Australian artist Black writes about his “Residue,” “Unlike some of my previous works, I think of Residue” as a musical work inspired by what Luc Ferrari has termed anecdotal music, where I use a source/context-driven handling of recorded sounds as an element of the overall musical composition. I think of these concrete sounds (that are carefully selected for this musical composition), just like one would choose musical notes for a traditional score that creates deftly constructed cadences, counterpoint, motivic and rhythmic development, textures and colours after all, music is sound and all sound is music
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Time Machine by H. G. Wells ch. 1 (00:21:20)
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895. To date, the book has been adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in many media. This 32,000 word story is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle. (Wikipedia) The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited the future. There, he finds the human species has “evolved” into two distinct forms. Above ground live the Eloi—gentle, fairy-like, childish creatures, whose existence appears to be free of struggle. However, another race of beings exists—the Morlocks, underground dwellers who, once subservient, now prey on the feeble, defenseless Eloi. – Summary by Cliff Stone
TEXT: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35/35-h/35-h.htm
GREEN STREET NEWS: Chemical Assault with Cheri Peele (00:28:54)
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about burning tires to power cryptocurrency data mining, tax breaks for plastic manufacturing, and PFAS in fast food. Then scientist Cheri Peele from Toxic Free Future talks about the array of chemicals in everyday products and how some retailers are helping to reduce our body burden.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/25/23 (00:00:00)
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SUNDAY 09.24.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/22/2023 Encore: John Nichols on WI GOP’s state Supreme Court impeachment threat; GOP McCarthy announces impeachment inquiry of Biden (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 9-12-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Republicans previously railed against impeachment when it was used to hold their obscenely corrupt former president accountable. Now they are embracing it as a political bludgeon. A little over a week ago, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House GOP would hold a full floor vote before launching any impeachment inquiry in President Biden. Today, McCarthy flip-flopped, unilaterally announcing the opening of an inquiry anyway, despite the fact that three ongoing U.S. House probes and a five-year criminal probe by a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney failed to uncover any independently verifiable evidence of any wrongdoing by President Biden. McCarthy is trying to appease far-right House Republicans who are threatening to shut down the government without passing critical spending bills. In Wisconsin, Republican state lawmakers are desperately threatening impeachment of a newly-elected state Supreme Court justice who they fear will overturn Republicans’ rigged, heavily-gerrymandered legislative maps. Journalist JOHN NICHOLS explains Wisconsin Republicans’ radical scheme to entrench themselves in permanent power, how they can cripple the state’s highest court, and how pro-democracy folks are fighting back to stop the GOP’s unprecedented power grab. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Widening Gap Between Protest and Revolution (00:29:00)
When will it dawn on us that we must save ourselves? How many Lahainas and Dernas are needed to convince us?
Chase Bank, BlackRock, and CitiBank show no signs of backing off their trillions in toxins. Climate Week in New York City will have its inventive gestures, a few arrests, and bank employees distracted for a couple of hours. Stopping oil, though, will take a revolution, not a protest. Revolution is not just cultural, or pixelated, or a mile of marching. The gap between protest and revolution has been widened by consumerism to the point where we now find ourselves. Start by ignoring private property…got to get into some necessary trespassing! Sing with us!
TURN ON THE NEWS: If 6 Was 9 (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: “If 6 Was 9.” This week everything is upside down.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN September 23. 2023 (00:59:30)
Segment One
The first half of our Scott Braddock hour, we talk about the impeachment trial of Attorney General Paxton, of Texas. The Texas senate DID NOT convict him of the many articles. It was apparent that the whole hearing was orchestrated by Lt. Dan Patrick in advance, after Patrick received $3M from a group who supported Paxton. ($1M in cash, $2M “loan”). Patrick also communicated privately with the senators after the hearing, while Patrick was acting as “judge”.
Segment Two
We then shift gears to clothing and the relaxation of the clothing code in the US Senate. How do clothes influence political views? We also talk about the Ken Paxton impeachment hearing, and the way that Paxton is now framing the outcome as an attack by Biden. $3M seems to have bought the collusion of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in producing the outcome.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: September 24, 2023 (00:59:00)
Tuesday Will See the First American President to Join a Picket Line in the UAW Strike in Detroit | How Shaky is Xi Jinping’s Hold on Power? | The Failure of Journalism in the Reagan Era and Now the Trump Era.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Terence McKenna – Psychedelics in Human Evolution and How They May Help to Save Us From Extinction (00:59:00)
Terence McKenna was a mathematician and ethnobotanist, and a brilliant out of the box thinker. He was a very prolific speaker and author of Fruit of the Gods. In this fascinating presentation he talks about how psychedelics likely played a crucial role in the most major advances in human evolution, and how we are currently at another critical juncture in our history and how psychedelics may be the only way that humanity will be able to change its thinking and how it relates to the world quickly enough to avoid extinction.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: Big Tech Just Put the Final Nails in Democracy’s Coffin (00:58:32)
The lesson learned by the elite tech wealthy is that they owe society nothing in terms of helping to secure and protect the democratic norms that have made many countries successful enough to support a burgeoning billionaire class. So when you bite the hands that feed you, how do we, as the collective hand, respond? Apparently, it’s to let them keep biting us harder. We explore this plus catch up on all the latest cybersecurity news and breaches!
SATURDAY 09.23.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/21/2023: Trump Terrified, Biden Building Back Better (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: New international poll reveals that solar energy is by far the most popular form of energy worldwide and polluting fossil fuels are deeply unpopular. President Biden launches the American Climate Corps, a green jobs training and service program for young people modeled after FDR’s legendary Civilian Conservation Corps. Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson reveals in her new book that Donald Trump refused masking during the worst of the COVID crisis because it messed up his makeup. Trump is also reportedly terrified of the possibility of going to prison, possibly for the same reason. The Minnesota Supreme Court fast-tracked a lawsuit seeking to disqualify Trump from the 2024 ballot under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Section 3, the ‘Insurrection Clause.’ Listeners offer cogent thoughts on a previous segment on the 14th Amendment, and we debunk several misconceptions with some help from the handy ‘Myths and Realities about 14.3’ document, courtesy of the Constitutional law scholars at the non-profit, non-partisan Free Speech for People. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The Demise of Neoliberalism: It’s About Real National Security (00:59:53)
What is neoliberalism, and should be be glad about its demise? Reagan, Clinton, and Obama all boosted neoliberalism. But Biden is showing that he’s on a different track. Democrats in the 90s moved away from FDRs liberalism only to solidify Wall St’s hold on our economic life and political power. In his new book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, author Gary Gerstle says he noted a Jake Sullivan speech, redefining national security to mean average people’s ability to live decently. A real left is emerging, Gerstle says, but it will be a long rough road.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN: September 22, 2023 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, editor of the Quorum Report. We have a discussion, first, about the relaxation of the clothing code in the US Senate. How do clothes influence political views? We also talk about the Ken Paxton impeachment hearing, and the way that Paxton is now framing the outcome as an attack by Biden. $3M seems to have bought the collusion of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in producing the outcome.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry, formerly an aide in the Clinton administration. We talk about the problem of selling Biden as a candidate. Trump is able to morph himself into whatever his audience wants. Why is the upcoming election in a dead heat against fascists? The changes that Biden has been able to make will not take full effect until 2026.
GROWING GREENER: Biodiversity Builders Cultivates a New Generation of Native Plant Entrepreneurs (00:29:00)
As the chief seed sower at Devine Native Plantings, LLC, Jean Devine takes time out from habitat revitalization to mentor students in Biodiversity Builders, a paid, six-week program that introduces participants to working in partnership with nature while also building a business.
TUC RADIO: The ‘Slow Motion Execution’ of Julian Assange (00:29:00)
Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief of the New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed author. Craig Murray was the British ambassador to Uzbekistan and now is one of Britain’s most important human rights campaigners. Thanks to The Real News Network for broadcasting Hedges conversation with Craig Murray on September 15, 2023. That’s a date of great importance as the extradition of Julian Assange from Great Britain to the US might be only weeks away. Hounded by US law enforcement and its allies for more than a decade, Assange has been stripped of all personal and civil liberties for the crime of exposing the extent of US atrocities during the War on Terror. In the intervening years, it’s become apparent that the intent of the US government is not only to silence Assange, but to send a message to whistleblowers and journalists everywhere on the consequences of speaking truth to power.
BOPST SHOW: Storm the Reality Asylum (00:55:55)
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
ROBERT REICH: How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security (00:03:51)
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it. A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income. Meanwhile, a normal worker pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income. How does that make any sense?
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #498 (00:58:00)
Ralph welcomes Toby Heaps, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Canadian magazine Corporate Knights, which ranks the worlds 100 most sustainable corporations. And we welcome back Dr. Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump to discuss Donald Trumps continuing hold on 30% of the American population.
FRIDAY 09.22.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 22, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Free tool helps Gulf Coast residents identify potential risks to their homes
THIS IS SCIENCE: The New Dark Ages (00:29:00)
Jess speaks with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about the influence of fossil fuel dark money in politics today.
COUNTERSPIN: Labor – UAW Strike (00:28:00)
Lisa Xu/UAW strike
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Inequality on the Ground (00:58:00)
Thom does a deep dive with Nick Hanauer, co-author of the new book “Corporate BS: Exposing the Lies and Half Truths that Protect Wealth and Power in America”. How can we inoculate the public to recognize rich people’s bull—t when they see it? Plus – Thom reads from “The Privatization of Everything” by Donald Cohen.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Israeli Entrepreneur and Philanthropist Ziv Aviram on the EcoBridge Initiative (00:29:00)
Have you ever thought about what you’d do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billionaire high tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Ziv Aviram and see how he answers that very question. We discuss Aviram’s partnership with the Clinton Global Initiative to help fight climate change, hear about his path from the business world to the philanthropy space, and discuss the role that the uber-wealthy can play to address the complex predicament of a warming planet. Then, we dig into the Sea Change Radio archives and revisit part of our discussion with an icon of the environmental movement, Paul Hawken.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Naomi Klein: Tackling the Doppelganger, Disinformation & Lies (00:28:00)
Politics abhors a vacuum. Without credible explanations for the things that bewilder and exasperate us, people become susceptible to extremist conspiracy theories, hate and lies. So how does truth survive? In her brand new book, “Doppelgnger: A Trip into the Mirror World, award-winning journalist Naomi Klein, (author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, et al), describes being confused with Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth, as Wolf morphed into a conspiracy-minded anti-vaxxer during the Covid pandemic. In an era of all important “personal brands”, Klein became absorbed in the deep fake, double worlds surrounding and sometimes coming to represent her online. Right-wing conspiracies feed off Left-wing silences, she concludes. In this far-ranging interview from her home in British Columbia, Canada, Klein describes listening to hours and hours of conspiracist Steve Bannon’s podcasts, and researching doppelgngers in history and literature, in order to uncover why we have shadow selves, and how disinformation and conspiracy theories gain power. Join Laura Flanders for this charming conversation as Naomi Klein challenges us to overcome divide-and-conquer individualism if we are ever to tackle our real-life, systemic crises. And Laura shares a few thoughts on learning from our elders about the pre-digital age.
BOPST SHOW: Storm the Reality Asylum (00:55:55)
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 9/22/23 (00:55:36)
On the Show: Taylor Swift quickly becomes one of the most powerful forces in voter registration this election cycle. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy puts his surgeon wife, Apoorva Ramaswamy, in an impossible position over the COVID-19 vaccine. Florida Governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has fallen to a humiliating 5th place in new polling out of New Hampshire. Caller asks about general immigration policy. Caller talks about Trump’s mental health and fitness to stand trial. Caller discusses the state of the economy and how much inflation plays a role. Caller asks about Vivek Ramaswamy’s followers in the YouTube comments. Caller suggests paying off the national debt with a credit card. Caller points out that Republicans shouldn’t want any abortion exceptions if they believe it’s murder. Caller wants to debate David about libertarianism. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 09.21.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 21, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: 90% of U.S. counties had a weather disaster between 2011 and 2021
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Global Super Rain: the new face of climate change (00:58:00)
At the end of summer 2023, extreme rains struck different countries around the world. Its super shocking. Over ten thousand people died and property damage is enormous. Is this the new stormy climate James Hansen warned about? We investigate with American extreme rain and flash flood expert Jonathan Gourley from the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory. But Australian climate lecturer Andrew King cautions not all floods are sure signs of global warming. Then my report about insidious smog killing millions every year, starting in the womb.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Shutdown is the Two Santa Clauses Scam Rearing its Ugly Head Again (00:58:00)
Hopefully this time Democratic politicians and our media will, finally, call the GOP out on Wanniskis and Reagans Two Santa Clauses scam and put an end to it once and for all.
Congressman Earl Blumenauer – Marijuana, pollinators, homelessness and housing. Also Mike Rothschild author of “Jewish Space Lasers” & how we got here…?
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Wither American Arts? (00:59:57)
The writers and screen actors strike is an example of what’s happening to working people: the rents are too damn high. Housing is at the root of so many issues of the 2020s, including a stagnation in the arts. On this show Ned Resnikoff says if we want a thriving arts scene, more affordable housing is essential. the right hates the arts: it is by nature unruly. But it builds identity and benefits everyone. Give a listen; a good one.
LITERATURE ALOUD: “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1899) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (00:32:08)
Originally considered a gothic horror story, Gilman’s proto-feminist story is rich with suggestive detail and disturbing details. Inspired by her own treatment with “the rest cure” by Dr. Weir, Gilman gives us a chilling sense of what it feels like to be so dismissed and micromanaged by authority to the extent that we begin see strange things.
The link provides both the text and the audio
WINGS #23-23 Mother for Gays (00:28:52)
Kenya is a country where homosexuality is heavily stigmatized. According to international polls, more than 80 percent of Kenyans oppose acceptance for homosexual relations, and more than 90 percent oppose same-sex marriage. There are harsh penalties prescribed by law, insults like “mashoga” are tossed about, and violence – and even death – are serious possibilities. In the US, parents of gays played a major role in societal acceptance. Kenyan mother Mary Mumbi tells the story of how she came to terms with her daughter’s sexuality and has come to provide emotional support for other gays, to connect with the gay rights movement, and to speak out to family and associates – even. in church – about accepting and respecting gay people. She says gays were created by God, and that people who insult them may well have closeted gays in their own families.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/21/23 (00:54:13)
On the Show: Emily Monosson, a trained toxicologist who now writes about our impact on the natural environment and author of several books, joins David to discuss her book “Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic”. Get the book: https://amzn.to/45ZVIOO Republican Congresswoman Victoria Spartz delivers what is possibly the most unhinged rant in Congressional history during hearings with testimony from Attorney General Merrick Garland. Republican Congressmen, including Eric Burlison, attempt to “confront” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and it goes really terribly for them. Failed former President Donald Trump gives two speeches on the campaign trail in Iowa, both absolutely ridiculous both in content and optics. Trump supporters are interviewed at Donald Trump’s various campaign events in Iowa. It is revealed that, despite his public statements to the contrary, failed former President Donald Trump is privately panicking about the possibility of going to prison for life. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Donald Trump, alleges that Rudy Giuliani groped her breasts and put his hands up her skirt. Voicemail caller communicates his struggles to get a David Pakman Show membership.
WEDNESDAY 09.20.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 20, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Sea level rise varies from place to place. Why?
PEACE TALKS RADIO: Peacemaking in Relationships Amidst Health Challenges (00:29:00)
On this edition of PEACE TALKS RADIO, we explore what the sudden onset or revelation of an illness or disorder means for a relationship, be it familial, friendship or romantic. This change can be incredibly frightening, bringing with it emotions like fear, anger, guilt and deep sorrow. Individuals in such situations may have to make a choice either to stay through the sudden change, or to leave a relationship that is no longer serving them or the other. But it is how we communicate these thoughts and feelings that is crucial in ensuring moving forward in a non-violent, respectful way. This applies both communication with oneself, and with others. Correspondent Julia Joubert talks with Adrian and Claudine de Villiers, a couple who have been navigating the introduction of addiction and Bipolar into their 17-year marriage. Also she visits with Dani van Zyl, a woman living with POTS and other chronic illnesses who is reckoning with the isolation that her illnesses bring. And we talk with Emonie Carter-Hale, a systemic and family psychotherapist, specializing in trauma, boundaries, family conflict and coping skills.
THIS WAY OUT #1851: Section 28 Falls & Queer Duck Flies + global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
How actor JM J Bullock became a Queer Duck; how U.K. activists defeated no promo homo 20 years ago this month; Canadas Conservatives plan to ban pediatric trans health care, Belgrade Pride defies Serbian church and government opposition, Andorra’s out P.M. says he’s never been in, California lawmakers ban book bans, a U.S. federal judge allows Florida’s adult gender-affirming healthcare ban, another U.S. judge continues to block enforcement of Texas drag show ban, and U.S. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is mum on PEPFAR renewal arrests. 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: Can We Stop the GOPs Big Pharma Rip-Off? (00:58:00)
For todays bought-off GOP (and a handful of bought-off problem solver Democrats), as long as Republicans on the Supreme Court keep the corrupt payola machine running, there simply is no bottom.
More evidence of Trump’s crimes and lack of Government know how. Crazy Alert! GOP clutch’s their pearls over Fetterman’s shorts but stay mum on Boebert who just dumped her “groper” boyfriend for being a democrat. Will a “shutdown” work well for the GOP? There’s been a stunning steep rise in criminalizing pregnant people. It now appears US Elections are at risk of political violence with the spread of guns and distrust. Geeky Science! New study shows “forever chemicals” are increasing cancer in women.
CIVIC CIPHER: Three Year Anniversary Show / What Have We Learned in 3 Years? (00:59:00)
In the first part of our show, we discuss the accomplishments of the past 3 years not only by us, but by the whole country. We take a moment to also acknowledge some of the headlining stories of the week. In the second half of our show, we discuss the most important things we want people to know after being on air for 3 years. We discuss the myths of Black-on-Black crime, Black fatherlessness, and the calls to action from the movement of 2020.
Our Way Black History Fact highlights Shirley Anita Chisholmthe first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress and the first Black candidate for a major-party nomination for President of the United States.
LITERATURE ALOUD: “’Repent Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison (00:27:15)
In a world where time, scheduling and punctuality are worshipped, those who arrive late for anything have that time deducted from their lives – except for the Harlequin.
TEXT: https://knape.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/9/3/12935004/ellison_repent-harlequin-1.pdf
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Curious Minds, with Perry Zurn & Dani S. Bassett (00:28:00)
Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and — perhaps even more importantly — to each other. Twins, professors, and true curiosity connoisseurs, Perry & Dani return to Choose to be Curious for this delightful, multidisciplinary distillation of this thing we call curiosity, celebrating the release of their groundbreaking book, Curious Minds: The Power of Connection. As Dani puts it, the book ends up being something they breathed for five years. You don’t have to spend that long, but you will definitely want to inhale this transformative intellectual oxygen. Perry Zurn is a professor of philosophy at American University. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry and co-editor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.
Dani S. Bassett is J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. They are the author of more than 300 scientific articles in neuroscience, physics, network science, and complete systems science.
ROBERT REICH: America is On Strike (00:03:38)
Let’s make one thing clear: Americans didn’t quit their jobs because of unemployment benefits. They quit their jobs because they were sick of being underpaid and treated like dirt. Workers are officially fed up. Welcome to #Striketober. Watch More: What Happened to Organized Labor? ►►https://youtu.be/hwyvjvZO5Ls
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/20/23 (00:54:32)
On the Show: The nascent impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is already imploding. A Texas teacher is fired for assigning her class an illustrated edition of Anne Frank’s diary. Former prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains on MSNBC that Donald Trump unwittingly admitted to two more crimes during his recent interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker. Donald Trump Jr announces Donald Trump’s death on Twitter and also calls President Joe Biden the n-word as his account is apparently hacked. Failed former President Donald Trump surges to a historic lead in the 2024 Republican primary, a Ron DeSantis’ campaign is almost dead. Howard Stern declares that he is indeed woke, and right-wingers absolutely lose their minds. Donald Trump panics after blowback over his not-as-extreme-as-some comments about abortion, causing him to completely backpedal Radical Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s upcoming speech to the Texas Youth Summitt is canceled after she participates in a public sex act. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert may have committed multiple crimes during her vaping and fondling routine last week in a Colorado theater. The Eggman explains via voicemail that John Fetterman flouting the Senate dress code is what caused Lauren Boebert to perform a public sex act.
TUESDAY 09.19.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 19, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How should we memorialize communities lost to floods?
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Effectively Navigating Life’s Little Challenges (00:29:49)
On this showwe are pulling from our toolbox; emotional resilience, problem-solving skills, and a positive mindset as we aim to effectively navigate lifes little challenges. You might possess everything you need and you might be still gathering the necessary components but no matter where you are on your journey, remember that lifes little challenges are an inevitable part of the human experience. By developing effective skills and maintaining a positive attitude, you can successfully navigate them and emerge stronger on the other side.
MAKING CONTACT: A History of Traditional Root Healing (00:29:00)
In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm. When we think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations living in remote areas, in far away countries, with little access to modern healthcare. We rarely think about the ancient medicinal plants that might exist in our very own cities. On today’s episode we look at plant and herb medicines through the lens of Michele E. Lee the author of Working The Roots.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The American Dream Demands Paid Sick Leave & Low-Cost Child Care (00:58:00)
America gives a lot of lip service to the American Dream, but we havent led the world in meeting human needs since the Reagan Revolution. Also can the UAW transform America again?
Crazy Alert! Christian Nationalist Boebart puts hypocrisy on display while her and her “friend” fondle each other in public in front of children…and oh by the way…was it tobacco or something else she was illegally vaping? Plus Trump revels in praise from Putin…still….and why wasn’t Trump fact-checked on NBC?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Fossils (00:58:00)
Learn about fossils in this action packed episode of The Children’s Hour that comes with a Learn-Along guide that meets and cites National (US) Education Standards. The Kids Crew took a summer field trip to a secret fossil dig site located in an active mining quarry in the mountains of New Mexico. They spoke with the paleontologists working to extract 350 million year old fossilized marine creatures and plants. Then, Kids Crew member Amadeus Menendez is a longtime volunteer at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. To help us understand how fossils are made, he spoke with NMMNHS educator Mike Sanchez to learn more about how fossils develop, and dispel myths about what constitutes a fossil. We also spoke with Dr. Emily Lindsey, she’s the Assistant Curator and Excavation Site Director at the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in Los Angeles, California. The tar pits perfectly preserved animals, plants, people and anything that fell into them over the last 60,000 years. They have found long extinct animals, like giant camels and sloths, as well as humans, insects, and critters who couldn’t escape the sticky, oily tar.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 11b (00:12:55)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
ALAN WATTS: Understanding The Synchronicity Of The Universe (00:12:37)
Alan Watts. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
BETWEEN THE LINES RADIO NEWSMAGAZINE September 13, 2023 (00:29:00)
22 Years After 9/11 Its time to Reassess the US War on Terror; Scientist Believes Climate Activists are Doing the Most Important Work on Planet Earth Right Now; RICO Indictment of 61 Stop Cop City Activists Criminalizes Dissent, Sets Dangerous Precedent.
ROBERT REICH: Debunking “No One Wants to Work Anymore” (00:02:56)
What corporate America says: “No one wants to work anymore.” The truth: No one wants to be exploited anymore.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/19/23 (00:57:13)
On the Show: Mitchell Green, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut and author of the book “Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge,” joins David to discuss what it means to “know,” free will and our identities as people, how we mislead ourselves, sometimes willingly, and much more. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3Rr6oS8 Based on new 2024 House forecasts, Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s public sex act could end up costing Republicans control of the House. Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, gets news that his own lawyer is suing him for $1.4 million in unpaid legal fees. Republican Congressman Tim Burchett admits that indeed Donald Trump could have stopped or even prevented the violence that took place during the January 6 Trump riots. A new report alleges that Donald Trump treated classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home like scrap paper, often writing to-do lists on them. Failed former President Donald Trump continues to admit to crimes on national television during interviews. Right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro appears confused, or dishonest, about the sexual assault allegations against Russell Brand. Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly shocks right wingers by saying that there appears to be significant evidence of sexual assault against Russell Brand. Trump-supporting voicemail caller is upset that David won’t praise Donald Trump.
MONDAY 09.18.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 18, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Many people in flood-prone areas of Lagos, Nigeria, would like to relocate within the city
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #184 – Running a Produce Auction (00:29:00)
In 2004 Rural Action started a produce auction in the heart of Appalachia. In the early days a number of volunteers and a group of Amish farmers formed the core of this enterprise. Over the years it has grown to be an economic engine within the community of Chester Hill, Ohio ” as well as an unlikely tourist destination. Join Jay and Annie Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion with Emily Elam of Rural Action on some of the history, projects, challenges and successes of the Chester Hill Produce Auction.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Private Profits VS. Public Treasure – Saving The Redwoods (00:29:00)
Updates on successful unionization drive against Starbucks’ anti-union campaign, UK universities go to 3-day schedule so students can take jobs the other 3-4 days (fallout from a failing capitalism), UAW union prepares for strike against Ford, GM and Stellantis with Detroit community solidarity. Interview Eleanor Goldfield about her new film To The Trees exposing struggle: profiteers vs people protecting giant redwood forests.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: How the DOJ Caved to Trump’s Poisonous Political Violence (00:58:00)
It echoes the terror campaigns run by followers of Mussolini and Hitler in the early days of their rising to power. Today marks the sixtieth anniversary of one of the more tragic moments of the civil rights movement ” the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and the deaths of four little girls inside. Interview: The President of Muslims for Progressive Values, Ani Zonneveld explains the rise of the culture wars.
RADIO ART HOUR: 31 Down, Anna Friz (00:57:37)
This week tune in works from 31 Down and Anna Friz. 31 Down creates darkly themed, romantic performance work with an emphasis on sound design, imagery, and mood. The works consist of live performances, installations, live networked performances and streaming works. Ryan Holsopple, founder and Artistic Director, develops and programs interactive systems to create and control the performances. Here, their “Naomi, Hotel Room” is featured. Then Canadian radio artist, now based in California, Anna Friz is featured, with the 2023 work “Revenant.” It is made in two parts, exploring mortality, rot, and regeneration, using electronic and radiophonic instruments, and sound from below and above ground.
1: Outside
In the increasing heat and haze of summer, the days are long and hot and the nights insomniac. After brief, fitful sleep, the sun is a tarnished penny in the morning when it rises behind an orange haze of smoke and ash from wildfire. Stuck indoors when the air is hot and thick, other creatures find their way inside to take refuge with me: coming in along the plumbing, up the drains, in the vents and down the chimney, through the cracks under the door or the walls. Unexpected insects, worms and a lizard that dry on the floor, various arachnids running up the walls, a small bird, a bat. It seems I must change my approach to cohabitation: when the creatures move into my nest, I trade places and take to the airwaves or escape down into their burrows.
2: Revenir
The difference between the living and the dead is hard to discern. That which is dry and buried may not lie still, but move, resurface, rehydrate, transform. The dead gone to ground may yet pay visitations, or am I the visitor? Time underground enables metamorphosis of body and senses. The work was recorded in the mighty RP4 studios of the ORF Funkhaus in Vienna and on various locations in Santa Cruz, California. Thanks to Martin Leitner, Elisabeth Zimmermann, and Indexical.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 11a (00:30:53)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
GREEN STREET NEWS: The Ocean Is Telling Us – with Dr. Sandra Steingraber (00:28:48)
This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about chemical coatings on fruits and veggies and the FCC’s failure to protect the environment from cell towers. Then Dr. Sandra Steingraber talks about her latest essay about how the burning of fossil fuels is quietly but rapidly destroying our oceans, and the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 17th!
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/18/23 (00:56:19)
On the Show: Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace is again asked for evidence supporting Joe Biden’s impeachment inquiry, and is able to provide none, and then Congressman Michael McCaul also faceplants on the same question. Russell Brand is accused of sexual assault of a minor, in addition to a number of other sex crimes by multiple victims, and his denial is not exactly a profile in courage. Failed former President Donald Trump is interviewed by Kristen Welker, and it goes so poorly that there is speculation of Trump setting up an insanity defense for his criminal trials. Failed former President Donald Trump appears mentally gone at a speech in Washington DC before the Concerned Women for America 2023 Summit. Self-proclaimed pro-family Christian Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert is caught publicly fondling the genitals of her date at a performance of Beetlejuice. Donald Trump issues an ominous warning to Jewish Americans sparks horror and outrage. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is asked why people find him annoying, and he says it’s because he is doing well. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy comes out against H-1B visas, which his companies used 29 times, and attacks George Soros-funded scholarships, which he accepted when he was in college. Voicemail caller asks David who he trusts more, Dr. Anthony Fauci or David’s personal doctor.
SUNDAY 09.17.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/15/23: Encore: GA Coffee County voting system ‘breach’ continues (00:58:00)
Encore: original air-date 9-6-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: A federal judge ruled that Donald Trump is liable for comments he made in the second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial. Nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s eligibility for the ballot in Colorado under the 14th Amendment Insurrection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. In the Fulton County, Georgia RICO case against Trump and 18 co-conspirators over their plot to steal the 2020 election, the judge rejected an attempt by two former Trump attorneys, Ken Chesebro and Sidney Powell, to sever their cases from the others, and set a trial date to begin on October 23. A critical section of the RICO case revolves around the Coffee County Breach, in which Republican election officials allowed MAGA operatives to unlawfully breach, copy and distribute Georgia’s state voting system software. The breach is only known publicly due to our guest today, MARILYN MARKS of the non-profit Coalition for Good Governance. Marks explains the critical phone call she received from one of the co-conspirators effectively confessing to the entire Coffee County plot, the ongoing failure of Georgia’s top state election officials to investigate, set new security procedures, or install security updates, and warns that because the state’s voting system software has been posted to the internet, the ‘breach continues.’
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Widening Gap Between Protest and Revolution (00:29:00)
When will it dawn on us that we must save ourselves? How many Lahainas and Dernas are needed to convince us?
Chase Bank, BlackRock, and CitiBank show no signs of backing off their trillions in toxins. Climate Week in New York City will have its inventive gestures, a few arrests, and bank employees distracted for a couple of hours. Stopping oil, though, will take a revolution, not a protest. Revolution is not just cultural, or pixelated, or a mile of marching. The gap between protest and revolution has been widened by consumerism to the point where we now find ourselves. Start by ignoring private property…got to get into some necessary trespassing! Sing with us!
TURN ON THE NEWS: Totally Bananas (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: “Totally Bananas.” This week the former president is upping his potassium count.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 5/20/23 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin with an amazing talk we had with Amy Littlefield, correspondent on abortion access and denials. We discussed the options being considered by organizations that want to replace Roe, in light of the Dobbs ruling. There’s a lot of support for laws to protect abortion, including ballot measures and even Constitutional protections to protect choice.
Segment Two
We then caught up with David Dayen, Executive Editor, The American Prospect. We discussed the underreported, yet huge lawsuit by the DOJ against Google. The Biden administration isn’t backing away from one of its main policy objectives, like going after mega-corps who hold monopolies on things like search engines on the Web. Google is hoping you’re not paying attention, well get you up to speed on what’s happening and what’s the goal of the DOJ with Google.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS: September 17, 2023 (00:59:00)
The UAW and the Transition to EV: Avoiding the False Choice Between a Good Job and a Green Job | After Trillions Wasted by the Military Industrial Complex, Cheap Drones and Robotic Vehicles Operating on AI Are the New Global Arms Race | The Tragic Loss of Life in Libya Already Riven by Civil War and Beset by Corruption
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: A New Science of Consciousness and Communication After Death with Dan Drasin (00:59:00)
Daniel Drasin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer and media producer. Since the early 1990s, he has been actively investigating the field of afterlife communication through traditional mental and physical mediumship as well as modern electronics, which are thoroughly documented in his two full length documentary films Scole: The Afterlife Experiment, and Calling Earth. His new book is A New Science of the Afterlife: Space, Time & the Consciousness Code. All of which demonstrate lots of solid irrefutable evidence of communication and physical manifestation from the other side, or the afterlife, as hard as that might be to believe. For many, this will be truly mind bending stuff, and challenging everything many have been brought up and or educated to believe. We also talk about skepticism and science.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: ChatGPT has gone political and our upcoming elections are screwed (00:58:30)
The Disinformation supercharger is here and ramping up while the Facebooks of the world cut their safety and ethics team. The 2024 election is becoming the perfect storm for foreign interference! We explore that plus catch up on the latest news and breaches!
SATURDAY 09.16.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/14/23: True Tales from the Party of Crime and Corruption; Hunter Biden Charged (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Humanitarian crisis unfolding in Libya in the wake of catastrophic flooding. New analysis warns that human-caused climate change likely to push the planet to 1.5 degrees Celsius warming above pre-industrial levels far sooner than expected, turbo-charging more frequent extreme weather disasters. Trump-appointed US Attorney charged President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, on gun violations that are almost never charged – – is this the ‘special treatment’ Republicans decry? Judge overseeing the sprawling Georgia RICO case ruled that Donald Trump and most of his co-conspirators will be tried separately from defendants who requested a speedy trial, amid a crowded calendar for Trump’s 91 felony criminal charges. New York City pension funds sued Fox ‘News’ for neglecting to protect shareholders by knowingly broadcasting lies about the 2020 election, leading to more than $787 million in settlements. Wisconsin Republicans offer an absurd ‘deal’ to keep their rigged, gerrymandered legislative maps. Kentucky county clerk who illegally denied marriage licenses to same-sex couples must pay them $100,000 in damages. Deeply corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s mistress prevented from testifying in his impeachment trial in front of his wife. GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis enjoyed undisclosed luxury travel from wealthy donors. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: The First September 11th: 50 Years Ago (00:59:02)
Republicans determined to replace democracy with authoritarian tyranny. No it’s not 2023, it’s 1973 when they succeeded. Duly elected democratic socialist Salvador Allende is overthrown and replaced with dictator Augusto Pinochet. It’s not well known today, but listen in as, first, the stunning report of how America made it happen, written by National Security Archive senior analyst Peter Kornbluh, is read by our host, and then, from Chile where the 50th anniversary is being commemorated, Kornbluh himself explains what happened the days and months that followed. Some important questions are answered
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN September 15, 2023 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, dean of the Austin Press Corps, editor of the Quorum Report.
We discuss the ongoing impeachment trial of Atty. General Ken Paxton. The defense wants a directed “innocent” verdict, though 24 (out of 30) senators want to listen to further testimony. There may be possible Federal grand jury involvement. Opinion polls show Paxton’s popularity slipping.
Part 2:
We talk with Bill Curry and Robert Hockett about the UAW strike discussions. We look at salaries of auto executives, compared to the pay of workers in the industry. Several different strategies are discussed to provide equity to workers. The Republicans are trying to distract with the Biden impeachment circus.
GROWING GREENER: An Overlooked Native Fruit Finds Its Niche (00:29:00)
Compact, beautiful, and trouble-free, the pawpaw is the northernmost representative of a tropical fruit family, a North American native tree that bears large fruits with a delicious, exotic flavor over an extended season, while also supporting a host of native butterflies and moths. Sheri Crabtree of Kentucky State University’s Pawpaw Program explains why this gem never made it into commercial fruit orchards and why it is ideal for the home garden.
TUC RADIO: The Environmental Impacts of Large Dams and Reservoirs with Patrick McCully, updated Archive pt.2 (00:29:00)
This is the second part of a program on the epic struggle over dams, displaced people and the environment, that I recorded for TUC Radio in 2006. Patrick McCully was then the executive director of the International Rivers Network. They are supporting communities around the world that are impacted by destructive dams.
On their 2023 website International Rivers Network dot org list 217 dam projects around the world that they have helped delay or stop. Globally the building of mega dam-projects is slowing down but the world is left with dams and reservoirs that are decaying and becoming a danger to people downstream. Just this morning, as Im preparing this program for distribution, terrible news is coming in from Libya: The subtropical cyclone “Daniel” hit eastern Libya yesterday and floods from heavy rains overtopped the reservoirs of two dams south of the city of Derna. Both dams were destroyed and the flood swept entire neighborhoods with people, houses and bridges into the Mediterranean. (Included is a 43 sec. clip from Sky News from September 12, 2023) Patrick McCully was then a member of the UN Environment Programmes Dams & Development Project. He was a co-editor of The Ecologist magazine in England, and is the author of Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams. Patrick McCully joined Reclaim Finance in 2021 as Energy Transition Senior Analyst.
THE BOPST SHOW: Cranked Up Really High (00:55:52)
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 the classic 70s English punk rock by Slaughter & The Dogs, Nigerian Afrobeat from Femi Kuti, and 21st century Spanish hip hop straight out of the mouth of the one & only El Sr. Rojo as well as sounds by John Coltrane, Ranking Tiger and many others outside of mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
ROBERT REICH: How the Super Rich Are Killing Social Security (00:03:51)
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it. A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income. Meanwhile, a normal worker pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income. How does that make any sense?
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #497 (00:58:00)
Professor David Hemenway, the author of Private Guns, Public Health joins us to explain how we can reduce gun deaths if we treat the problem more like a public health issue, just like Ralph proved when dealing with the auto industry. Plus, Ralph weighs in on the repeal of the child tax credit, and Francesco DeSantis reports news items that tends to get ignored in the corporate media in our segment In Case You Havent Heard.
FRIDAY 09.15.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 15, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Is climate change contributing to mysterious gray whale deaths?
THIS IS SCIENCE: Fear in a Handful of Dust (00:29:00)
Exciting new research allows UCS scientists to gain insight into North Koreas shadowy nuclear weapons program. Jess talks with UCS researchers Dr. Sulgi Park and Dr. Laura Grego about this work, and the current state of worldwide nuclear affairs.
COUNTERSPIN: Innocent Until Proven Muslim (00:28:00)
Maha Hilal on Innocent Until Proven Muslim
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Will January 6th be Buried Like the JFK Assassination? (00:58:00)
Will January 6th be like the Kennedy assassination? Will we never know the whole story? Also Veteran War Correspondent Philip Ittner reports from Kyiv, Ukraine. Plus Sen. Elizabeth Warren is calling for an investigation into Musk and Starling as the Putin plan to win the war in Ukraine includes electing Trump.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Tennis Anyone? James Martinez on Tennis Ball Waste (00:29:00)
Did you know that over 100,000 tennis balls are used in an average grand slam tournament? And unfortunately, they cannot be recycled. Given the plethora of tennis matches played across the globe in an average year, we are talking about roughly 330 million tennis balls going into landfills annually. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Associated Press reporter, James Martinez, an avid tennis fan and player, who serves up some insight into tennis ball manufacturing, this waste issue, and some of the creative efforts to help solve the problem ” and show the planet a little love.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: Catastrophic Capitalism: Marjorie Kelly & Edgar Villanueva on Wealth Supremacy (00:28:00)
As we commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we explore the urgent questions surrounding the extractive nature of capitalism and its impact on democracy and economic inequality. What are the consequences of capital bias, an economic and social system that prioritizes wealth and the wealthy at the expense of manufacturing, people and the planet? And in what ways is wealth supremacy as deadly as white male supremacy ” and every other kind? In this episode, we sit down with Marjorie Kelly, author of the newly-released book Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Todays Crises, and Edgar Villanueva, a member of the Lumbee people and Founder of the Decolonizing Wealth Project. We urgently need a spiritual revolution ” could Indigenous perspectives offer alternative ways of thinking about wealth and community? All that, plus an update from Laura on a special collaboration between the Laura Flanders Show and the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature podcast.
THE BOPST SHOW: Cranked Up Really High (00:55:52)
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 the classic 70s English punk rock by Slaughter & The Dogs, Nigerian Afrobeat from Femi Kuti, and 21st century Spanish hip hop straight out of the mouth of the one & only El Sr. Rojo as well as sounds by John Coltrane, Ranking Tiger and many others outside of mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
ROBERT REICH: The Truth Behind “Self-Made” Billionaires (00:04:25)
Elon Musk’s father owned shares in an emerald mine in Africa. Bill Gates’ mom helped Microsoft get a deal with IBM. Jeff Bezos’ garage-based start was funded by a quarter-million dollar investment from his parents. “Self-made billionaires” are a myth.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/15/23 (00:55:18)
On the Show: A Trump-appointed judge rules against Trump by requiring him and his lawyers to only review classified documents in a secure location. A progressive group sues to kick Donald Trump off the ballot in Minnesota, citing the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie says he plans to find and confront Donald Trump on the campaign trail. Caller asks if the Biden impeachment inquiry will backfire on Republicans. Caller wonders if Kevin McCarthy will lose the speakership over the Biden impeachment inquiry. Caller discusses social democracy and capitalism. Caller asks if Vivek Ramaswamy being Indian and Hindu will hurt his chances in the Republican primary. Caller talks about the “Think Like a Detective” book sales. Caller wonders why the left is generally against nuclear power. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 09.14.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 14, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Flood-prevention projects can enhance peoples well-being in underrecognized ways
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Extreme Antarctica, Ozone & Heat (00:58:00)
The U.N. chief warns: Climate breakdown has begun. In this show you hear unreported climate change: Antarctic Extreme Events with lead author Martin Siegert, Imperial College London. Plus Dr. Martin Jucker on early start to ozone hole – and the Tongan volcano warming the world for years to come. It is breaking science from Radio Ecoshock.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Swiftboaters are Back with the Biden Impeachment (00:58:00)
House Republicans have revived the infamous Swiftboat lie strategy that helped defeat John Kerry in 2004. Slander campaigns like this must instead be hit head-on with outrage and ferocity. Also, America has faced $23 billion in extreme weather disasters so far in 2023. Investigative Journalist Greg Palast – How the Osage of OK were the richest people on the planet. Until they killed them. For the oil.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: What is Racial Capitalism? (00:57:09)
They used to be prosperous Black neighborhoods: less than 2 percent unemployment. But through connected processes over the last 75 years, government and banks worked together to create gentrification. Black people were intentionally left out of the capitalist system, frozen out of participation in the benefits of our traditional real estate value growth. And apparently public housing had been good until Nixon came along. On this show, author and professor of sociology Tanya Golash-Boza talks about her new book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DCs Racial Wealth Gap. The author research saw signs of hopeful change.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 10b (00:37:00)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
WINGS #22-23 Matrix Societies (00:29:00)
Max Dashu is an American feminist historian, author, and artist. Her areas of expertise include female iconography, mother-right cultures and the origins of patriarchy. In 1970, Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives to research and document women’s history and to make the full spectrum of women’s history and culture visible and accessible. This interview, conducted in 2003 by the late Kellia Ramares-Watson, brings out Dashu’s primary analysis of how and why some cultures have been and still are maternal-centric and focused on peace and survival, while others – especially under pressure from invaders – have become patriarchal and suppressive of women.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/14/23 (00:59:37)
On the Show: Dr Phil Plait, astronomer, science communicator, and author of several books on space and our place in it, joins David to discuss astrology, and why it is patently bogus pseudoscience. Another Republican can come up with nothing when asked whether they have any evidence at all to support an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden, this time Republican Congressman Mike Waltz. Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi struggles to explain why so many Democrats don’t want Joe Biden to run for re-election during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Failed former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are now claiming that Democrats are “bringing back” COVID in order to “rig” the 2024 election, which makes no sense. Megyn Kelly interviews the failed former President Donald Trump, and the interview does not go well. 2024 Republican Presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gets rare applause from the Fox News crowd when he tells Sean Hannity that his administration would kill people at the US-Mexico border. Republican Senator Mitt Romney announces he will not run for re-election, and criticizes Donald Trump and the MAGA wing of the party when taking questions about his decision. Voicemail caller asks whether David will write a critical thinking book for older folks.
WEDNESDAY 09.13.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 13, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How back-to-back disasters strain community resources
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Elise Cope – Social Memory & Brain Function (00:11:08)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Elise Cope, PhD, an assistant professor in the UVA School of Medicine’s Department of Neuroscience, for conversation about social memory, the research of the Cope Lab regarding social memory and brain function and cognition, and more.
ALAN WATTS: If You Try to Hold on to Life You Will Lose It (00:12:22)
Alan Watts talks about how some noble truths but in reality there is no absolute truth. So hope you enjoy. Alan Watts also touches a topic that is very interesting to me, about how by trying to cling or hold on to life we absolutely make it worse.
THIS WAY OUT #1850: Banned Lesbian Poets Lorde and Dickinson + global LGBTQ news! (00:28:59)
Classic lesbian poets Emily Dickinson and Audre Lorde are targeted by 2023 book bans; Hong Kong’s top court orders marriage like legal rights for queer couples, while the European Court of Human Rights orders similar separate but equal recognition of a Bulgarian lesbian couples civil marriage, Texas top court lifts a ban on the enforcement of the state’s pediatric trans healthcare ban, while a federal district court judge yields on blocking Georgia’s trans healthcare ban, and California’s Attorney General successfully blocks trans student outings – for now.
Those stories and more this week when you choose “This Way Out”: the world’s audio oasis for queer news and culture.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Can America Take On & Defeat the New “Economic Royalists” (00:58:00)
Can we reverse Citizens United and other decisions that have handed America over to our oligarchs? Will it start with a solid progressive Democratic majority in Congress? Impeachment & 9/11 – Just how hypocritical is the GOP? Fascists VS Free – Comparing red states and blue states. Why MAGA cultists refuse to accept Trump’s 91 felony charges.
CIVIC CIPHER: The Police Killing of Pregnant 21-Year-Old TaKiya Young / Listening to Black Women is What Makes America Great (00:59:00)
In the first part of our show, we discuss the police killing of pregnant 21-year-old TaKiya Young in the parking lot of a grocery store in Columbus, Ohio. We discuss the footage seen online and give our response to this senseless tragedy. In the second half of our show, we discuss the three Black women who are leading the separate charges against the former president for his numerous alleged crimes. We discuss the ways Black women save this country from itself time and again. Our Way Black History Fact highlights the state of Vermont as it was the first colony in the United States to outlaw Slavery, and often championed initiatives that granted freedoms to Black people that later spread throughout the county.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 10a (00:37:17)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: When You Are Curious, with Veronika Darwell (00:28:00)
As the new school year gets started, I’ve been thinking a lot about the important teachers in my life, the ones who left an indelible impression. Those special educators helped me see and, as importantly, they made me feel seen. They gave me tools with which to engage the world around me, exciting me about it — and me in it. No surprise: Slovakian educator and author Veronika Darwell caught my eye when she popped up with When You Are Curious, a children’s picture book, with delightful illustrations by Johnny Plasil. What I didn’t expect was that our conversation would take us to how teaching finds us, the magic of learning multiple languages, and the importance of representation and inclusive design. “I wanted children to visualize themselves in the future, as well as identify as they are now. I wanted them to feel this book is going to be with them, wherever they go, that is like someone they can trust.” ~ Veronika Darwell
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/13/23 (00:57:13)
On the Show: Clancy Martin, writer and philosophy professor, joins David to discuss his book “How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind,” a book about his multiple suicide attempts. Get the book: https://amzn.to/3LiRXfa Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy announces an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, despite still having no evidence against him. Yet another Republican, this time Ken Buck, says he has still not seen any evidence indicating President Joe Biden should be impeached. It is revealed that failed former President Donald Trump met with Republicans about impeaching Joe Biden. OBGYN’s are fleeing red states over the outrageous abortion laws that have been enacted. Repugnant Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert gets thrown out of a theater performance for vaping and generally causing a disturbance. Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity begs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run for President as a third-party candidate, which would likely help Donald Trump. Facing life in prison, Donald Trump breaks down on Truth Social in the middle of the night. 77-year-old great-grandmother calls in, and she loves the show.
TUESDAY 09.12.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 12, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Water levels in the Great Lakes can fluctuate dramatically
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: Examining the Ego, Moving from Self-Importance to Self-Awareness (00:30:17)
On this show we aim to tickle your ego, prod your self-importance, and maybe even burst that bubble of self-delusion just a little. Ego you say? What ego? Well, ego isn’t just a one-size-fits-all deal; it’s a complex, colorful, and downright funky part of what makes us human. Were gonna explore the egos many faces, from the subtle whispers of self-doubt to the grandiose declarations of I am the center of the universe! Whether you need to put your ego in check or someone else’s, egos play a multifaceted and important role in our lives. While they can sometimes be associated with negative traits like arrogance or self-centeredness, ego is a fundamental aspect of human psychology.
MAKING CONTACT: Toxic Tracks (00:29:00)
On today’s show, we’ll hear an encore of a show from our archives that first aired in April. We’ll be looking at the environmental impact of the rail industry and hear from people in two communities currently impacted by rail-related contamination. In February, a Suffolk Northern train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, and residents are still recovering from the disaster over two months later. In Houston’s Fifth Ward, residents have been living with the dire health effects of creosote used to treat railroad ties decades ago.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Also Remembering the Other 9-11 (00:58:00)
Salvador Allende’s legally elected government was overthrown in the nation of Chile by a US- sponsored coup on September 11th, 50 years ago. What are some of the true- and not so true- conspiracies perpetrated by the wealthy and powerful in America?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Falling Into Autumn (00:58:00)
It’s fall in the northern hemisphere and we explore the science behind autumn. Equinoxes happen in the spring and fall, and each year those special days give our planet exactly 12 hours of day and 12 hours of night at the equator. At the Chichen Itza pyramid in Yucatan, Mexico, a snake is visible climbing down the steps only on spring and fall equniox. We also hear from 5th graders at Eugene Field Elementary School in Albuquerque, New Mexico describing how perspective can change history. They teach us about the traditional fall holidays of Labor Day (US), Mexican Independence Day (Mexico), and Columbus Day (US), and how each of these holidays feels very different based on the point of view in history a person takes. Mrs. Allison Hawks taught these intrepid students back in 2014 for a Title 1 School Project with The Children’s Hour.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 8-9 (00:24:44)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
BETWEEN THE LINES RADIO NEWSMAGAZINE September 6, 2023 (00:29:00)
“Best States to Work” Report Highlights State Policies Helping and Hurting American Workers; Climate Change-Driven Higher Temperatures in Prisons Leads to Increased Deaths; Japan’s Dumping Fukushima’s Radioactive Water in Pacific Linked to Long-Term Health Hazards.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/12/23 (00:00:00)
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MONDAY 09.11.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 11, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Easton Park in New Orleans is both a playground and a flood-defense system
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #183 – Latest Solar News (00:29:18)
Things are always changing, often without us noticing. This is especially true in the world of solar energy.
Join Jay and Annie Warmke of Blue Rock Station for a discussion of a few stories in a typical week in the world of solar and how these events will impact our world, our culture and our lives for decades to come.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Profit & Inequality: Two Driving Forces of Capitalism (00:29:00)
Updates on economists favoring rent control, leading global capitalists resent/resist US China-bashing, urgent drug shortages in US and a public pharma industry. Major discussion of causes of rising US economic inequality since the 1960s and its socially explosive political effects.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Congress Needs to Act (00:58:00)
SCOTUS has placed itself above Congress, the Constitution, and the Founders. The Court is corrupted by a handful of morbidly rich friends whose affiliated groups are constantly bringing cases or amicus briefs to the Court. Congress needs to exercise its regulatory duty over the court.
RADIO ART HOUR: Yvette Janine Jackson, Diana Chang (00:58:00)
Yvette Janine Jackson’s 2021 work “Test Flight No. 1” and Diana Chang’s “Falling Free” from Jan. 1, 1989 are featured. Jackson brings attention to historical events and social issues through her radio operas. Jackson’s work is inspired by early 20th-century radio plays and theatrical sound design. She writes, “Test Flight No. 1 is an etude for a series of compositions themed around commercial space tourism.” In Chang’s work, a curious repeat of the history of Asian immigrants, she focuses on an elderly Chinese-American woman left behind in an American suburb by a husband who wishes to return to his native China. More Americanized than he, her solitude proves a liberation. Told as a monologue with flash-backs to scenes from her earlier life, Falling Free is a delicate, poetic rendering of ambiguities: the ambiguity of the Chinese-American experience, and of human desire. An adaptation of a short story by the same name. Commissioned by New American Radio. Finally, we end things with Gregory Whitehead’s brief “Adioradio.”
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 6-7 (00:22:02)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
ROBERT REICH: The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told (00:07:30)
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed?
GREEN STREET NEWS: Poisoning the Hudson…Again with Dr. Gordon Edwards (00:29:22)
This week on GSN, Patti and Doug talk about how screen time can negatively impact infants, flame retardants in breast milk, and how fuel made from plastic is carcinogenic. Then Dr. Gordon Edwards talk about the plan to dump 1 million gallons of radioactive wastewater into NY’s Hudson River, and what that means to millions of people who depend on the river for drinking water, as well as the tourist economy.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/11/23 (00:00:00)
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SUNDAY 09.10.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/8/23: Encore: Ernest A. Canning on WI GOP threat to impeach state Supreme Court Justice (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 8-22-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers are threatening to impeach a newly-elected state Supreme Court Justice just days after her swearing in to prevent the new liberal court majority from ruling on heavily-gerrymandered maps that have entrenched minority Republicans in power. BRAD BLOG legal analyst ERNEST A. CANNING discusses the Republican plot to quash two petitions asking the court to toss the state’s heavily gerrymandered legislative maps as unconstitutional, and mandate new emergency elections for the state Senate. Canning explains the merits of the petitions, the Republicans’ complaints, and the constitutional crisis brewing if the state’s gerrymandered GOP-controlled legislature votes to impeach and remove Justice Janet Protasiewicz. Also today: Donald Trump’s co-defendants have begun surrendering in the Fulton County, Georgia indictment of their multi-state conspiracy to steal the 2020 election. John Eastman, the architect of the unlawful scheme to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence to reject legitimate Electoral College votes, and Scott Hall, the MAGA operative who unlawfully breached the Coffee County, GA voting system, were booked and released on bond. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’
EARTH RIOT RADIO: We Are One Great Natural Disaster! (00:29:00)
Our Activism Fails. The exotic and serene and vast landscape, the great bed of love is poisoned by fossil toxins.
Climate Week wants a direction. Well, read the instructions of a hurricane with rooftops spinning like frisbees. Oh help us! Let love fill us with the Earth’s expectations and we will face the killers. We will find stronger activism in the very thing we are trying to defend…birth, desire, death, birth, desire…stormy weather!
TURN ON THE NEWS: Drumpf Called Down to Georgia (00:28:18)
This week: “Drumpf Called Down to Georgia.” This week the former president counts his bail money. “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 9/9/23 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Professor Jonathan Zimmerman discusses how college education became a more universal model for the US, a place where once only rich young men were allowed higher education. Today, about 75% of the population participates in higher education. How is this supported and who benefits most?
Segment Two
We then speak with Jeet Heer, who writes for The Nation Magazine. We discuss among other things, Vivek Ramaswamys flip-flopping on key issues and his ever changing messaging, specifically his deepening racism.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS September 10, 2023 (00:00:00)
Modi, the Host of the G20, Employs Fascist Tactics to Make India a Hindu Only Nation | As China’s Economy Stumbles With Youth Unemployment at 21.3%, Xi Doubles Down on Repression | The Looming Possibility of Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Against Armenia
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Perceptual Intelligence – Seeing Past Illusion, Misperception & Self-Deception w Brian Boxer Wachler (00:59:00)
In this interview with Ophthalmologist, eye surgeon and author of Perceptual Intelligence: The Brain’s Secret to Seeing Pass Illusion, Misperception and Self-Deception, Brian Boxer Wachler talks about why and how we fall for illusion and self-deception, and how we can learn to separate reality from illusion, and thus increase our “perceptual intelligence.” A skill that is becoming more and more relevant every day.
DEEP DIVE CYBERSECURITY SHOW: ChatGPT has gone political and our upcoming elections are screwed (00:58:30)
The Disinformation supercharger is here and ramping up while the Facebooks of the world cut their safety and ethics team. The 2024 election is becoming the perfect storm for foreign interference! We explore that plus catch up on the latest news and breaches!
SATURDAY 09.09.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/7/23: (Odds, Ends, Follow-Ups, and More GOP Voter Fraud (00:58:00)
On today’s ‘BradCast’: Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro was found guilty by a jury on two counts of Contempt of Congress for his refusal to answer a lawful Congressional subpoena from the House January 6 Committee. A fact that shouldn’t fall down the Memory Hole of History: on the day before the November 2022 midterm elections, Russian mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin flatly stated that Russia had, in fact, ‘interfered, are interfering and will interfere’ in U.S. elections. In the wake of Hurricane Idalia’s landfall in Florida, new reporting reveals that a radical new anti-immigrant law signed by GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is hampering reconstruction. Hurricane Lee has intensified to a Category 4 hurricane as it nears the Caribbean. Yet another white Republican Donald Trump supporter has been convicted of voter fraud for knowingly and illegally voting in two states in multiple elections. A GOP state lawmaker in Alabama will plead guilty to election fraud. A new investigation in Coffee County, GA (home of the now-infamous breach and distribution of the state’s voting system software), reveals a long-standing voter suppression cabal in the heavily Republican County where about a quarter of the population is Black. Desi Doyen has our latest ‘Green News Report.’ Musician Billy Bragg responds to Oliver Anthony’s viral populist country song with one of his own, ‘Rich Men Earning North of a Million’.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Real Democracy and Infertility (00:59:11)
We value the right to control our bodies. But is there really reproductive fairness and justice if those who want to be a parent face unchosen infertility and are denied access and face social stigma? The new book is called Infertilties: a Curation, and our guest is co-curator Maria Novotny. It’s an important issue often ignored.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN: September 8, 2023 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Harvey Kronberg, publisher of the Quorum Report, Texas.
We discuss the impeachment trial of Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas. There will be a vote, and 21 votes are needed to commit the Texas Senators to impeach Paxton. We also discussed the floating barriers installed by the governor, and have been ordered to be removed by a federal judge. Mexico’s Supreme Court has decriminalized abortion in Mexico. The Texas power grid is stressed, and customers are being warned of likely power losses or brownouts.
Part 2:
We speak with Bob Hennelly and Bill Curry about unionization and the recent changes in union management and union elections. New elections have brought new leadership, and better representation to members. We discuss Vivek Ramaswamy’s approach to answering questions: he shouts down the questioner, and provides no answers. This includes journalists. We need journalists who will not tolerate this kind of behavior.
GROWING GREENER: A Brilliant New Book for Gardeners (00:29:00)
Naturalist, gardener, and journalist Nancy Lawson talks about her new book, Wildscape, which introduces readers to details of how very differently wildlife perceives our gardens, and the extraordinary relationships between plants and animals we can observe in our own backyards.
TUC RADIO: The Environmental Impacts of Large Dams and Reservoirs – updated Archive (00:28:59)
Jacques Leslie discovered when he wrote for Harpers that At the core of every argument about water are dams, the modern pyramids, generators of extravagantly apportioned electricity, water storage, and environmental and social disasters. Millions of people have been displaced and some of the most fertile land been drowned. In spite of their size dams are not forever. Sooner or later they will all silt up and become expensive waterfalls. They pose a constant looming danger to life downstream when they fall into disrepair or are damaged by earthquakes or acts of war.
A battle is being fought by independent scientists and those employed by the hydropower industry over the discovery that reservoirs behind the worlds dams are a source of global warming pollution. In the case of big reservoirs in the tropics ” where most new dams are proposed ” hydropower can actually emit more greenhouse gases per kilowatt-hour than fossil fuels, including dirty coal.
Since the recording of this archival program in 2006 there is good news of positive action. Jacques Leslie kept campaigning and educating on the effects on dams and reported in April of 2023 that: The Era of Building Big Dams Draws to a Close. In an editorial in the Los Angeles Times Leslie wrote that the era of dam removals has begun and reported that The Iron Gate Dam on the lower Klamath River is one of four dams that will be torn down to restore salmon fisheries. https://www.jacquesleslie.com/
THE BOPST SHOW: Them a Laugh (00:54:59)
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 Dutch revivalist music ensemble the Beau Hunks, Barcelona-based electronic music duo the Shanghai Restoration Project, Austrailan rockers Radio Birdman as well as songs by reggae vocal trio the Soulmates, cross-cultural psychedelic warriors Dengue Fever and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #496 (00:58:00)
Mark Twain once said, Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow. As an antidote to that Ralph welcomes Professor Piers Steel, author of The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done. Plus, Ralph urges listeners to sign up for The Capitol Hill Citizen Association, another way to organize citizens to put pressure on the branch of our government where things must get done, the United States Congress.
FRIDAY 09.08.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 8, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: The shipping industry is a major source of climate pollution
THIS IS SCIENCE: Going Green? Better Call Ed! (00:29:00)
Jess visits actor and environmental champion Ed Begley, Jr. at his LEED Platinum-certified home to talk all things green.
COUNTERSPIN: Korea Travel Ban and US Policy (00:28:00)
Amanda Yee/Korea travel ban, Hyun Lee/US-Korea policy
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Who is Keeping People Power Down? (00:58:00)
Why do conservatives want to keep a large part of our population on the margins of society? And will they put the economy in the tank to make sure Democrats don’t get elected? Plus – Why tax cuts only really help rich people.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: John Stoehr on the Dangers of Illiberal Politics (00:29:00)
If you’ve happened to tune in to MSNBC or CNN on a day when a massive hurricane is not pummeling a coastal region, you might think that the only major news in this country concerns the many legal issues facing a certain former president of the United States. But, according to this week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, John Stoehr, there are plenty of other pressing political issues worth analyzing. First, we examine the recent mass shooting in Jacksonville, Florida, including what it tells us about the white supremacy movement and how the right-wing actually benefits politically from these events. Then, we discuss whether the reversal of Roe v. Wade has placated Republicans or if it has just paved the way for restricting other basic freedoms like contraception. And yes, we still manage to sneak in a few minutes to talk about the upcoming trials of the 45th president.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: The Evolution of Multicultural Education: The CUNY Brooklyn College Story (00:28:00)
How does the struggle for multicultural education and self-determination relate to book banning and the right-wing pushback against antiracist education today? In this back-to-school special, we look at the grassroots movement led by student activists with the support of some faculty to establish Africana Studies Departments and Puerto Rican Studies Departments at The City of New York, or CUNYs Brooklyn College ” one of the first in the country. Members of the Black League of African-American Collegians (BLAC) organized with other student groups like the Puerto Rican Alliance and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to force the implementation of the open admissions policy. These student-led actions in the late 1960s and early 1970s are the subject of the documentary film, Making the Impossible Possible, directed by Tami Kashia Gold & Pam Sporn and distributed by Third World Newsreel. Askia Davis and Antonio Nieves were part of the BC 19, a group of students who were arrested and incarcerated at Rikers jail for demanding open admissions and the establishment of the Africana Studies Departments and Puerto Rican Studies Department in the student-led takeover in 1969. Sonia Nieto is one of the BC 44, a former Brooklyn College faculty member who participated in the 1974 takeover. Learn more about this historic win from the former Brooklyn College students and faculty who were there on the frontlines.
THE BOPST SHOW: Them a Laugh (00:54:59)
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 Dutch revivalist music ensemble the Beau Hunks, Barcelona-based electronic music duo the Shanghai Restoration Project, Austrailan rockers Radio Birdman as well as songs by reggae vocal trio the Soulmates, cross-cultural psychedelic warriors Dengue Fever and many others outside mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/8/23 (00:56:34)
On the Show: Bret and Heather Weinstein of the Dark Horse Podcast go full conspiracy mode about COVID tests and “secret” vaccines for Joe and Jill Biden. Failed former President Donald Trump launches an outrageous attack on Special Prosecutor Jack Smith after Smith raises concerns of jury tampering. Caller asks why right-wingers care so much about birth rates. Caller talks about the “Think Like a Detective” book sales. Caller discusses Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign and the availability of botox. Caller asks how to deprogram people from right-wing propaganda. Caller talks about getting money out of politics. Caller asks why right-wingers care so much about Hunter Biden but not about the Trump family. The Friday Feedback segment.
THURSDAY 09.07.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Thursday September 7, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Marvels of engineering: The wind turbines that can float
RADIO ECOSHOCK: Harsh Climate: Summer of Discontent (00:58:00)
Have we already entered a new climate? Recent extreme heat, rains, and violent storms struck around the world. Meteorologist & storm-chaser Bob Henson covers extreme weather for you. Meanwhile, big oil and gas pump out more carbon, guaranteeing climate catastrophe. We should sue them! West Coast environmental lawyer Andrew Gage explains how. Welcome back to a new season of Radio Ecoshock.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Is Wisconsin a Look Into the Future? (00:58:00)
Republicans are managing to control Wisconsin even with a minority of the vote. Are their tactics a glimpse of future minority control of the United States?
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: More Democracy Can Prevent Climate Collapse of Civilization (00:58:00)
Phoenix may not last another 25 years. Whole countries will collapse. The issue is elite control, and that was why earlier civilizations: Chaco canyon, the Mayan culture, and Viking Greenland collapsed; average people had no say. On this show Professor Michael Klare opines that collapse may be inevitable, but maybe not. More democracy is required.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 3-5 (00:27:23)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
WINGS #21-23 African Foods Revival (00:28:51)
A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow and use them. Many have medicinal advantages as well as nutritional ones, and can be grown without any costly inputs. Anastacia Cheruiyot is a leader in this movement and a consultant in biodiversity conservation, climate-smart agriculture, and value-chain development for indigenous vegetables. She is based in Mombasa, Kenya.
Links for more information:
Bio of the speaker: http://consult.richana.co.ke/about
Haller foundation: https://haller.org.uk/
African Women’s Agribusiness Network: https://awanafrika.org/
ROBERT REICH: How the Super Rich are Killing Social Security (00:03:51)
Social Security taxes are rigged for the rich — and the program is in danger because of it. A CEO earning $20M/yr pays Social Security taxes on ~1% of their income. Meanwhile, a normal worker pays Social Security taxes on 100% of their income. How does that make any sense?
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/7/23 (00:55:49)
On the Show: A review of how the right wing broke America, including through elections, courts, culture, and more. A look at Project 2025 and Agenda 47, which if implemented after the potential election of Donald Trump in 2024, would turn the United States into a dictatorship, with Trump as the dictator. President Joe Biden is entering a polling crisis on the basis of some disastrous new polling and approval numbers, raising new questions about a 2024 Democratic presidential primary. Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew appears on Fox News to push the racist Great Replacement theory and is welcomed with open arms. Fox News interviews supposed “swing voters” and it is an absolute disaster. Another lawsuit is filed, this one in Colorado, to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot on the basis of violating the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Donald Trump flips out on right-wing host Hugh Hewitt during an interview over Hewitt’s questions regarding Trump’s criminal trials. Former Arkansas Republican Governor Mike Huckabee says that it Donald Trump loses in 2024, the next election will be “decided by bullets.”
Voicemail caller asserts that even if Donald Trump died of natural causes, his MAGA cult followers would claim he was assassinated.
WEDNESDAY 09.06.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Wednesday September 6, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: How Hurricane Ida survivor Melissa Bright is helping to rebuild her community
PATIENTS COME FIRST: Violence Intervention – Felicia Wilson (00:09:06)
This episode of VHHA’s Patients Come First podcast features Felicia Wilson, who works with the Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program at Riverside Regional Medical Center, for a conversation about her work, the Riverside Hand-in-Hand program, and more.
ALAN WATTS: Be Silent Enough to Hear Your Inner Voice (00:20:59)
Alan Watts talking about meditation, silence and other concepts of reality and life. Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British philosopher, writer, and speaker, best known as an interpreter and populariser of Eastern philosophy for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York.
THIS WAY OUT #1849: 60th Anniversary March on Washington Queer-Lights + global LGBTQ news (00:28:59)
LGBTQA+ voices are loud and queer at the 60th anniversary March on Washington; more than 60 are charged in a raid on a same-gender wedding in Nigeria, two Ugandans face execution for aggravated homosexuality, Canada warns it queer citizens about traveling to the U.S., hundreds protest Saskatchewans new anti-trans schools policy while California sues a trans student-outing school district, a federal judge blocks queer-inclusive storybook readings in Maryland, and another blocks Texas drag ban!
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: Building Fascism One Step at a Time (00:58:00)
Trump is using mob tactics to defend against the prosecution of his crimes. If he is re-elected will he start imprisoning people? Also – are education intimidation laws the opening steps to establishing fascism?
Plus – Thom reads from Justin Frank’s “Trump On The Couch”.
CIVIC CIPHER: The Jacksonville Dollar General Mass Shooting / The Recent Attacks on DEI Initiatives (00:59:00)
This week we are joined by Dr. Camilla Westenberg as we discuss the recent anti-Black mass shooting in Jacksonville FL. We peel back the layers of what goes into an act like this and offer some insight into the whys.
In the second half of the show, we discuss recent attacks on DEI initiatives in the workplace, and provide a defense of this type of education. We also make a fiscal argument for the benefits of DEI training.
Our Way Black History Fact highlights Loving v. Virginia, the case of a White man and his Black wife that led to the federal government clearing the path for interracial marriage in the U.S.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – ch. 1-2 (00:23:49)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
ROBERT REICH; The Biggest Economic Lies We’re Told (00:07:30)
Just a thought: what if we stopped measuring the economy by the state of the stock market and started measuring it based on how many people are housed and clothed and fed?
CHOOSE TO BE CURIOUS: Compassionate Curiosity & Death, with Valoria Walker (00:28:00)
Some time ago I was at a STEM event for middle schoolers, talking about curiosity — in particular, their curiosity about death. That got me thinking: how does curiosity show up around death? Doula by Destiny founder Valoria Walker joins me to explore how choosing to be curious about death might help us acclimate to the inevitable — and how compassionate curiosity helps her in her work. “Empathy causes you to sit and listen to people — to help, and honor them. That’s what we want.” ~ Valoria Walker
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/6/23 (00:56:14)
On the Show: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is sentenced to 22 years in prison, the stiffest sentence so far among the defendants related to the 2021 insurrection. The Supreme Court will soon decide whether to take a case related to Donald Trump’s eligibility to hold public office again in the context of possible violations of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Elon Musk, of Twitter/X, Tesla, and Spacex fame, is now blaming the Jewish civil rights group Anti-Defamation League for Twitter’s demise. The legal arguments being made by Donald Trump and his lawyers in court are so absurd that a prosecutor is asking Trump and his sons be fined. Former Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson goes full conspiracy by interviewing Larry Sinclair, a convicted con man who claims to have had sex with former President Barack Obama. Failed former President Donald Trump explodes in an all caps rant related to non-white support, a new line of attack being adopted by many on the MAGA right wing. Major Republican donors are dumping Ron DeSantis as it becomes clear he doesn’t have what it takes to win the Republican presidential nomination. Theorizing about how the Donald Trump MAGA cult will eventually end. Voicemail caller asks whether blue states are “better” than red states.
TUESDAY 09.05.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Tuesday September 5, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: When salt marshes erode, they can release carbon dioxide to the atmosphere
ENCOURAGEMENTOLOGY: If Joy Were a Color… (00:30:03)
On this show we are taking a colorful look at joy as we explore its meaning and presence, contemplating the idea, if joy were a color. When pure joy overflows and becomes so tangible you can reach out and touch, what color do you see? Maybe you’re still waiting for that type of joyful overabundance to show itself in your life and that’s okay. Want some good news? Joy resides inside of you and once you remove the barriers and unlock the resistance, it has room to activate in your life. Joy is defined as a feeling of great pleasure and happiness. When did you feel a strong sense of pride, love, or gratitude? Were you beaming? Eyes sparkling? Body radiating positive energy? Don’t overlook these joyful moments thinking joy has to be a steady state to be real. These moments, when recognized and celebrated, will be motivation for more!
MAKING CONTACT: 70 Million – Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole (00:29:00)
On today’s show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting motorists, and a state-mandated loophole converged to create a nightmare for “local residents” and generate piles of cash for the local government.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Going Beyond Nuclear (00:58:00)
Radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamp’s briefs Thom on the massive releases of tritium water from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plant. Also in this episode are increasing level of microplastics in our foods a danger to us?
THE CHILDREN’S HOUR: Tell Us A Story (00:58:00)
This time on The Children’s Hour, it’s a full hour of stories and story-songs! We hear from many storytellers in song throughout this episode including Bill Harley with his Monster in the Bathroom story-song, Outta The Books, Laurie Berkner, Steve Charney, the Story Pirates, and Saul Paul. Joanne Shenandoah who tells us the story of Three Sisters: Corn, Beans & Squash. Storyteller and author of Adventures of Duende in the Ocean, Michelle Adam tells us the whole story in our studio. Duende is a bilingual storybook about an elf who takes a boy on a journey into the ocean. The kids also interview Todd Parr, beloved author of more than 60 books for children of all ages. He shares what motivates him to write books for babies and kids, and he shares a little from one of his latest works.
The Children’s Hour is produced by a team each week that includes Executive Producer Katie Stone, Senior Producer Christina Stella, our intrepid Kids Crew, their parents, and devoted listener-supporters worldwide. This episode was recorded at the Sunspot Solar Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
LITERATURE ALOUD: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Preface & Letter (00:27:26)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. In factual detail, the text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th Century in the United States. (Summary by Jeanette)
TEXT: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html
BETWEEN THE LINES RADIO NEWSMAGAZINE August 30, 2023 (00:29:00)
Confronting GOP’s Racist Rhetoric that Incites Hate Crimes; New Pennsylvania Study Links Fracking to Childhood Cancer & Asthma; Guatemalans Elect Progressive President who Pledges to Restore Democracy.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/5/23 (00:00:00)
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MONDAY 09.04.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Monday September 4, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Nonprofit trains science teachers to weave storytelling into their lessons
WHEN THE BIOMASS HITS THE WIND TURBINE #139: Urban Forest Gardens (00:29:05)
Just as tiny houses require all the limited space to be used efficiently for shelter ” urban forest gardens use every bit of available space (side-to-side as well as up-and-down) to grow a mix of local produce. But farming in an urban setting present a unique set of challenges ” from codes and zoning that may shut it down, to theft and vandalism, to tip toeing around utilities and easements. Chad Cully, graduate student in Cornell University’s Natural Resources and the Environment program joins Annie and Jay Warmke from Blue Rock Station for a discussion design challenges in creating an urban forest garden.
ECONOMIC UPDATE: Rebuilding Families Amidst a Crumbling Economy (00:29:00)
Updates include how US labor rediscovers the general strike as WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes merged in LA and allied with hotel workers,’ teamsters’, and teachers unions; drug-producing firms’ profiteering cause shortages of needed medications; new research proves affirmative action for “legacy” students from rich, white families at Harvard, Yale and other elite schools, US domestic food supply chain includes gross examples of forced labor. Part 2 of an interview with Dr Harriet Fraad on new forms of family emerging as working class households react to collapsing traditional households. The family-economy link is a social problem not merely a personal problem.
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: Does DeSantis Want Criminal Cops To Get Away With Murder? (00:58:00)
DeSantis is moving to help police get away with crimes in what could be his next step towards a fascist take over. Can he be stopped before he becomes the next GOP frontrunner? So much for the party of law and order & The NC Chapel Hills student newspaper front page today is shocking – I’ll tell you why.
RADIO ART HOUR: Hali Palombo, Shortwave Collective, Momus (00:57:57)
Today we hear two works from Hali Palombo’s “Radio Utah” album, one performance from the Shortwave Collective, and a radio play, or horspiel, from Momus. First, tune in Palombo’s “Antenna Construction & Los Angeles” and “Arizona Check Ins” from her 2020 album “Radio Utah.” The works sample shortwave radio. So does the Shortwave Collective, an international feminist group using the radio spectrum as artistic material that includes Alyssa Moxley, Brigitte Hart, Franchesca Casauay, Georgia Muenster, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Kate Donovan, Lisa Hall, Maria Papadomanolaki, Sally Applin, and Sasha Engelmann. Here, tune in their “Receive-Transmit-Receive” performance from a broadcast on Radiophrenia by Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts in Nov 2020, and as part of RAD Performance’s International Women’s #TakeBackTheStreets Soundride in Vienna on March 8, 2022. Finally, tune in “Summerisle Horspiel,” a radio play from Momus with Anne Laplantine.
LITERATURE ALOUD: Looking Backward 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy ch. 28 (00:39:22)
Published in 1888, this short novel focuses on the education of a wealthy man from 1887 who, amidst the labor struggles and wealth inequalities of The Gilded Age, experiences a “Mesmeric sleep” until the year 2000 when he is awakened to see an America transformed by the gradual, non-violent evolution from primitive capitalist exploitation to an advanced cooperative socialism. The novel predicts the radio, the credit card and big box stores as the characters discuss the problems and illogic of dog-eat-dog capitalism and the superior culture of a society focused on the benefit of all rather than the enrichment of a few.
https://librivox.org/looking-backward-2000-1887-by-edward-bellamy/
Text – http://www.fulltextarchive.com/page/Looking-Backward-From-2000-to-18871/
TED TALK: I grew up in a cult. It was heaven — and hell. – Lilia Tarawa (00:20:05)
Lilia Tarawa was brought up in the Gloriavale Christian Community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, where she was constantly surrounded by everyone she loved. But over time, she began to see the dark side of her community, and ultimately realised that she had to get out. In this raw and emotional talk, Lilia shares the reality of life in a cult, and her heart-wrenching journey to break free.
ROBERT REICH: Debunking “No One Wants to Work Anymore” (00:02:56)
What corporate America says: “No one wants to work anymore.” The truth: No one wants to be exploited anymore.
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 8/29/23 repeat (00:54:28)
On the Show: Right wingers wrongly rally around the claim that President Joe Biden will limit them to two beers per week. Fox News host Laura Ingraham realizes and admits that Cornel West’s Green Party candidacy may serve to help Donald Trump. Donald Trump is already down 6 points in a post-debate poll since the first Republican primary debate. 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramawasmy is interviewed by Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity, and it does not go well for him. One of Donald Trump’s trials will be two years earlier than Trump wants, placing it in the middle of election season 2024. Donald Trump is terrified and flips out over the news that one of his criminal trials will be held much sooner than he and his legal team requested. Fox News host Mark Levin breaks down, furious over Donald Trump’s arrests. MyPillow is in shambles, as CEO and Founder Mike Lindell tells Steve Bannon that his line of credit has been revoked by his bank. Voicemail caller has choice words for David.
SUNDAY 09.03.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 9/1/23 (00:58:00)
Encore: original airdate 8-24-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Special coverage of the first GOP Presidential Primary debate of the 2024 campaign, which featured eight candidates, none of them named Donald Trump. But he loomed large over the proceedings anyway. Joining us are HEATHER DIGBY PARTON, award-winning columnist at Salon and Digby’s Hullabaloo, and ‘DRIFTGLASS’ of the weekly ‘Professional Left Podcast’ for analysis, fact-checking and snark. The debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin was sponsored by Fox ‘News,’ held before an audience of booing and cheering Republicans. On the debate stage were Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis; entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy; former Vice President Mike Pence; former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley; former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; Senator Tim Scott (R-SC); former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson; and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. Also today: Trump headed to the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta to be booked on his fourth criminal indictment of the year. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has asked the Court to begin his racketeering trial in October, as the once Grand Ole Party continues its dangerous descent into madness.
EARTH RIOT RADIO: The Investor Class Makes The Worst Parents (00:29:00)
So many young people come out of their very young years looking the polluter generations in the eye. They make basic things clear about survival and right and wrong. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase is the most obvious of our climate criminals. We don’t have that many gangsters at his level. He puts his trillions behind the fabulous profits made by putting carbon into the air. He killed the Paris Climate Agreement. And now, after this summer’s science fiction scale disasters, we know our activism must somehow articulate what people like Dimon are doing. We haven’t done that yet. We need to OUT the poisoners. How? Well, the Church of Stop Shopping goes into the big Chase banks in Manhattan, and we dance on their desks….Do you have a better idea?
TURN ON THE NEWS: Out On Bail (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: “Out On Bail.” This week the former president counts his bail money.
Best of ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 9/1/23 (00:59:30)
Segment One
We begin the show with Harold Meyerson, editor-at-large, The American Prospect. We discuss how Biden’s appointees to the Labor Department have reestablished many policies that are friendly to workers, and the effects this is having on participation in the labor movement, and labor unions. We also talk about how companies have treated efforts at union organizing.
Segment Two
We then speak with Adam Laats about Moms for Liberty. We talk about how this group was formed, who is in it, and what its prospects are for long-term influence. We review the history of these groups, and how they eventually failed.
BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS September 3, 2023 (00:59:00)
What Happened to America’s Liberals and Can They Reimagine a Vision For the Future? | The Greatest Threat to Our Politics, Economy and Culture From Big Tech’s Billionaires Musk, Theil, Zuckerberg and Andreessen.
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: Experiences and Last Words at the Threshold of Dying (00:59:00)
In this interview with linguist and educator Lisa Smartt, author of Words At The Threshold – What We Say As We’re Nearing Death, we talk about the strange, often paradoxical and intriguing language used by the dying to express what they are experiencing in the last moments of their lives. And the mysterious nature of death that they seem to be pointing to. We also talk about how to be present with our loved ones as they are dying and to listen with an open heart and an open mind to the often strange things they are saying. And that this is a wonderful opportunity to deeply connect with them in ways they may not have been possible before.
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 09.02.23 PROGRAM Notes
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THE BRADCAST 8/31/23: Encore: Special coverage, legal and political analysis of Trump’s latest criminal indictment out of Georgia (00:57:30)
We are re-airing our special coverage of the four historic criminal indictments of Donald J. Trump. Original airdate 8-16-2023. On today’s ‘BradCast’: Special coverage of the disgraced former president’s fourth, and theoretically final, criminal indictment of the summer season. A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia this week handed up a sprawling 97-page RICO indictment of Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators, with District Attorney Fani Willis announcing 41 felony counts related to Trump’s alleged multi-state criminal enterprise to steal the 2020 Presidential election from Georgia voters and the American people. With the new indictment, Trump is now personally facing a total of 91 criminal felony charges in four different jurisdictions at both the state and federal level. Award-winning Salon columnist HEATHER DIGBY PARTON and former attorney KEITH BARBER of Daily Kos join us for legal and political analysis of Trump’s newest indictment and what it means moving forward into next week’s first-of-the-season GOP Presidential debate, the critically important 2024 election.
KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE: Happy Birthday Henry? (01:00:01)
He’s not known by today’s generation. Why he should be: One hundred years old and what’s Henry Kissinger got to show for it? Well, he’s a free man because the US never joined the International Criminal Court. Though he wouldn’t want to travel to the many nations that can prosecute him for war crimes. On this show, Rebecca Gordon of the University of San Francisco, not only reminds a young generation of his legacy in places throughout the globe, but points out that todays executive disregard for congressional restrictions are a continuing legacy.
ATTITUDE with ARNIE ARNESEN 9/1/23 (00:58:00)
Part 1:
We talk with Scott Braddock, Editor of the Quorum Report. We discuss the impeachment trial of Paxton.
We also discuss the increasing control that the state of Texas wants to have over local policies and regulations.
Part 2:
We talk with John Nichols, of The Nation. We discuss what Democrats should be doing to counter the Republicans’ efforts for 2024. They need to counter Trump, who has a lot of attention. They need to concentrate on young people, working people. They need to emphasize what they stand for. Biden should be campaigning now.
GROWING GREENER: How Introduced Plants May Behave Like Ecological Time Bombs (00:29:00)
When our native flowering dogwood tree was laid waste by an imported fungus in the 1970s, the east Asian kousa dogwood was widely planted as a disease-resistant replacement. After 50 years, however, it has turned invasive. Dr. Bethany Bradley of the University of Massachusetts Amherst explains that such a lag period is common among introduced plants and why this makes plant introduction a very risky gamble
TUC RADIO: Chalmers Johnson – Nemesis – The Last Days of the American Republic, Archive Pt. 2/2 (00:29:00)
Todays analysts and historians say that one statement is more timely now than when Johnson first made it in 2006 that nothing is more dangerous to democracy, than military expansion and war and argued that the U.S. is in danger of internal collapse, due in large part to the vast expenditures required to maintain its ever-expanding empire.
Chalmers Johnson is the acclaimed author of Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire and Nemesis. He is a former analyst for the CIA and professor emeritus of the University of California San Diego. Chalmers Johnson was interviewed by the California based author of Imperial San Francisco, Gray Brechin, in March 2007.
THE BOPST SHOW: Playing It Cool (00:55:42)
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 the vintage country swing of Ann Jones & Her Western Sweethearts, Nigerian dance floor generator Burna Boy, and German electronic innovators Kraftwerk as well as tunes by Suzi Chunk, Chicha Libre and many others outside of mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
ALAN WATTS: The Purpose of Life Is Not In The Future (00:06:04)
Welcome to Way of Thinking! Alan Watts talks about how we sometimes think that happiness, awakening, spirituality or joy is in the future. Making us chase every kind of things and in the end realizing that everything was a lie and “joy” “love” “peace” is here and now.
RALPH NADER RADIO HOUR #495 (00:58:01)
Ralph welcomes newspaper publisher, Steve McNamara, to discuss the “San Quentin News,” California’s largest inmate-run newspaper and the birthplace of the San Quentin News Forum” where incarcerated men and visiting police, attorneys, and judges share their perspectives on the criminal justice system. Then Peter Lurie, President of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) joins us to talk about CSPI’s work advocating for a safer, healthier food system, as well as their newsletter “Nutrition Action.” Plus, Ralph questions why the US still hasn’t ratified the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child” everyone else has done it!
FRIDAY 09.01.23 PROGRAM Notes
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Democracy NOW! with Amy Goodman
Friday September 1, 2023
CLIMATE CONNECTIONS: Nonprofit trains science teachers to weave storytelling into their lessons
THIS IS SCIENCE: We Didn’t Start The Fire (But We Know Who Did) (00:29:00)
UCS scientists have linked fossil fuel companies to the explosion of wildfires in the west. Jess talks with lead study author Kristy Dahl and climate law attorney Jessica Wentz about what this information means for holding corporations accountable for climate destruction.
COUNTERSPIN: Education (00:28:00)
Alfie Kohn, Diane Ravitch and Kevin Kumashiro on Education
THOM HARTMANN Best of 1 Hour: The Shocking GOP Plan to Dismantle the American Government Revealed (00:58:00)
The merger of billionaire wealth with Republican governance ” the public be damned ” threaten the integrity and future of the American experiment. Hit by a hurricane and you need new appliances? DeSantis tells you to screw off – Just how tiny and hateful can he get? Crazy Alert! Jesse Waters hosts a a disgraced oil industry funded scientist for his attack & denial on climate change and green energy. Phil Ittner – Ukraine update, Putin nukes, drones & the ruble falling.
SEA CHANGE RADIO: Neel Dhanesha on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Other Dispatches (00:29:00)
This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to environmental reporter Neel Dhanesha of Heatmap to learn about his new media startup, discuss the landmark climate case Held v. Montana and take a look at the lesser prairie chicken and why the plight of this dancing bird is no laughing matter.
LAURA FLANDERS SHOW: The Success of Guaranteed Income: Cash Relief for Black Moms (00:28:00)
This year, Mothers Day, May 14th coincides with the formal end of the National Covid-19 Emergency. Poor parents will be taking a hit ” but Guaranteed Income could be the solution. The Magnolia Mothers Trust in Jackson, Mississippi is the first in the country to provide Guaranteed Income of $1000 monthly to low-income families headed by a Black woman living in affordable housing.
THE BOPST SHOW: Playing It Cool (00:55:42)
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 the vintage country swing of Ann Jones & Her Western Sweethearts, Nigerian dance floor generator Burna Boy, and German electronic innovators Kraftwerk as well as tunes by Suzi Chunk, Chicha Libre and many others outside of mainstream consciousness.
podomatic.com/podcasts/chrisbopst
DAVID PAKMAN SHOW 9/1/23 (00:57:49)
On the Show: Ron DeSantis threatens to shoot looters in the wake of Hurricane Idalia. Donald Trump reportedly overstated his net worth by $2.2 billion according to the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James. Post-debate polls show that Donald Trump skipping out on the first Republican primary debate had essentially no impact on his chances. Caller asks why Donald Trump wanted to hold onto classified documents. Caller wonders if many Americans aren’t smart because of our poor education system. Caller talks about the success of our critical thinking children’s book “Think Like a Detective.” Caller discusses some of the issues facing Florida. Caller talks about improving Democrats’ chance in red states. Caller suspects Joe Biden isn’t doing enough to get re-elected. The Friday Feedback segment.