New World Notes: #555 -- Human Resources, Part 2

Scott Noble's wide-ranging and fine documentary film of 2010. It's about the many attempts--some fairly successful--to reduce human beings to mere "cogs in the machine"--in order to further increase the wealth and power of the elite.

This week's installment begins with public schools. Schools were never designed to educate children--still less to empower them--but to turn them into obedient, docile workers. So argue both John Taylor Gatto and Alfie Kohn.

(Continued under "Credits.")

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Furious George Show: Trumpacolyspe Now: Big Daddy and his mob

Here is the show spotlighting the Reich-wing rhetoric mob talking points, Hurricane Michael rips on through, Kanye gets extra-dimensional, Professor Stanley talks fascist Big Daddy's, and Trump can't help lying.

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The Mind's Ear: Regret This Very Day, Vol. I, "A Long Way From Dead"

On November 18th, 1978, 918 people perished in Guyana in what has come to be known as the Jonestown Tragedy. The vast majority of those who perished were American citizens, and the Jonestown Tragedy remained the greatest loss of American life in a single deliberate act until the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11th, 2001. “Regret this very Day” is a multi-part, nonlinear experimental radio documentary about the Peoples Temple and its charismatic founder Jim Jones produced by Ernestus Jiminy Chald. Unlike more traditional documentaries, “Regret this very Day” has no narrator or explanatory notes to fill the listener in on the particularities of what occurred within the Peoples Temple. Instead, Ernestus Jiminy Chald laboriously examined hundreds of hours of recorded tapes left behind by the Peoples Temple and selected material directly from these tapes to give the listener an insider glimpse into the world that Jim Jones and his followers inhabited.

People often wonder how this sort of event could have happened. Why would nearly 1,000 people become so devoted to a single man and his revolutionary cause that they would literally give up their lives for him when ordered to do so? To many, such a notion seems absurd and unfathomable. But when one listens to these tapes, and considers the circumstances surrounding what happened in Jonestown on that fateful day and the events that led up to it, a portrait begins to emerge of a community that simply wanted to create a better world for their children than the racist, hateful world that American society offered them, and of the captivating leader who promised to create that world for them.

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Radio Ecoshock Show: Big Trouble on a Small Planet

Welcome to a stormy world. Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith and I cover the breaking science news behind the big storms and strange times. It's not just you: the record weather on the outside, with a climate shift behind it all. From a hot Arctic to the hurricanes we investigate the big picture, while billionaires tell us to get used to it.

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Martian Gardens Episode 951 Hour 3

 

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Martian Gardens Episode 951 Hour 2

 

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Martian Gardens Episode 951 Hour 1

 

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State Of The City reports: Hitler nukes Japan: Martin Bormann/Allen Dulles' CIA...

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BCFM Drivetime: Bristol mayor Marvin Rees wields his power - to close Ashton Court m...

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the berkeley signal 15

Spoken word from twit wit radio, democracy now, rising up with sonali, and full frontal. Music by hugh masekela, rob dougan, morrissey, wailing souls, articola 31, thelonius monk, stevie wonder and the boyoyo boys.

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