Sonic Café #460/How to Speak Midwest

Sonic Café, yeah, you betcha, that’s Attitude City, Nils Lofgren from the 2019 Blue with Lou release. So welcome to café, eclectic radio that’s fun that’s what we do here. I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 460. This time the Sonic Café preps you for a trip to the Midwest. North Dakota comedian Miles Montplaisir teaches you How to Speak Midwest, in two separate segments. Plus we’ll throw in his How to Be Midwest Nice as a bonus. Now if you live in the Midwest this will all be ahh extra credit. So yeah, our music mix is pulled from 51 years, including Tom Petty, Australian Punk from The Chats, we’ll spin Green Day from 2020, Weird Al with his version of the Pharrell Williams tune, Happy, something Al calls Tacky. Fun Stuff. Also, I Saw Her Standing There, Paul McCartney and Little Steven captured live in London, Full Bloom from 2024, John Mayer, Girlschool and oh before we forget, a trip back to 1973 in the Sonic Café time machine, listen for Redbone, Come and Get Your, around the bottom of the hour. So join us as the Sonic Café learns how to speak Midwest, from 2014 this is Social Distortion, and of course we’re the Sonic Café.

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Understanding Hamas

This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle to discuss understanding Hamas. Writer and analyst Justin Podur joins hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah to talk about Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s novel The Thorn and the Carnation. He gives insight into Sinwar’s thinking and how it helped shape the resistance in Palestine and world events since October 7th, 2023. Writer, author and director of Just World Educational Helena Cobban speaks about the importance of understanding Hamas and why that matters to ending Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Our contributing editor Jon Elmer discusses the Gaza siege, bringing us a history of the blockade, how Israel ghettoized the Palestinian population and the evolution of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority throughout the intifadas and the so-called “peace process.”

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Some jazzy goodness and a criticism ... of the Beatles?!?

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Bilderberger Lammy bid to end UK trial by jury, burn Magna Carta, chaos agent and justice secretary

– Filton 24: who allegedly smashed up Israeli arms firm Elbit in Bristol: Ali McForever ‘The Good Witch’ discusses prisoners’ on hunger strike. – When a government can ban a protest group as terrorists, remand its members for a year, and let them starve while the press talks about the price tag of a jet engine, that is not just bias. That is a political choice about whose lives are allowed to matter – UK Budget 2025: What did Reform UK say? Party was removed from Budget coverage, smeared over Farage alleged racism at Dulwich College – ‘Assault on aspiration!’ Nigel Farage delivers damning verdict on Rachel Reeves’s Budget tax raid – UK Budget 2025: What about other non-uniparty political leaders? The fatal sex madness of Zack Polanski. – Can a woman have a penis? Yes. It’s going to take them a long time on the National Health Service to get rid of it. But that’s another separate problem. – BBC scandal is all about the Israel lobby tightening its grip as a Zionist propaganda outfit Anna Ford on Robbie Gibb and BBC pro-Israel bias. – Claims surrounding Gibb’s involvement: The comments follow claims that Gibb has “led the charge” in accusations that the BBC is systemically biased – Richie Allen show has been off the air due to tech difficulties so he hops on Tony’s show to give his views on Budget 2025 and David Lammy destroying uk trial by jury as sinister (left hand path) justice minister – Bilderberger Lammy bid to end UK trial by jury, burn Magna Carta, chaos agent and justice secretary – UK Budget 2025: Met Police try to ban London Tractor Protest at last minute! – Farms Not Factories coverage from Budget day 2025 which politicised Met Police banned Farmers Protest the Budget 26Nov25 – UK Budget 2025: Prof Steve Keen, Going Underground on RT. BRICS MUST Replace the US’ Authoritarian International Financial System – Steve Keen spells out UK 2025 Budget taboos from beyond the internet firewall – SECRETS AND LIES: The 2002 Soham Child Murders by USAF Lakenheath in Cambridgeshire with investigative journalist John Hamer (from 2019 – ‘Beeching Report’: Myth v reality There was pressure from the oil lobby behind the scenes to open up a vast new market for petrol in the UK before releasing the cash to build the rigs. – Tory Transport Secretary Ernest Marples – who owned road-building firm Marples Ridgeway – the industrial lobby got its way. Passenger travel on the railways would in future subsidize bulk freight transport – Introduced to the British public simply as chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Beeching’s link to explosives and nuclear weapons was never mentioned – Ukraine tug-of-war between White House and NATO’s Nazi warmongers Through the News Firewall with Peter Lavelle – CrossTalk: Peacefire, with quite a team, Patrick Henningsen, Matthew Ehret and Alex Krainer. Will Europe keep the Ukraine war going? – Nazi Germany then and now: Nazis resurgent, but deep in denial of course, within the German government police state? – Berlin-based US writer CJ Hopkins is raided by German police over his new book The Rise of the New Normal Reich – German police think its fine to refer to Nationalist party Alternative For Deutschland (AFD) as Nazis but not the German government – Documentary on 1930s Germany narrated by Patrick Allen: Occult History of the Third Reich, part 1 of 4, The Enigma of the Swastika (1991) – The role of Helena Blavatsky, Theosophists and occult organisations such as the Thule society in the formation of the Nazi Party – INVISIBLE OCCULT EMPIRE: Cynthia Chung Canadian Patriot Press Matt Ehret Coudenhove-Kalergi and the Roots of the Zionist Crusader Revival – The Shocking Truth Behind the EU: Discover the “Pan-Europa” blueprint by Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi – He explicitly anchored his vision for a united Europe on the symbolism of the Crusader Cross and the Son of Apollo and the goal of a “reconquest of the Holy Land“ – INVISIBLE OCCULT EMPIRE: David Livingstone on Accelerationists from Charles Manson to Nick Land trying to seed Satanic Nazi Order of Nine Angles chaos and race wars to disrupt and destroy society – Were Phoenicians also the Druids as Pliny the Elder suggests? Facts that Prove the Connection between the Phoenicians and the Irish-Celtic – Phoenician Encyclopedia Celtic Irish and Phoenician The similarity between the early Irish-Celtic and the Second Century, B.C., Phoenician language – Penulus of Plautus wrote about this, see, also: The Phoenicians in West Europe: From Canaan to Cornwall, Cork and Britain – The Bristol Politics Show, presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.gn.apc.org/2025/11/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-266/

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The Shortwave Report 11/28/25

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Germany, Japan, and Cuba.

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Celt In A Twist November 30 2025

Don't catch a chill. Celt In A Twist heats up some inside tracks for a toasty hour of blended Celtic spirits. Overlooked spins from our favorite artists, including a few debuts from Eloise & Co, The Langan Band, Natalie MacMaster and more. Join Patricia Fraser for good crack, curiosities and cool Celtic from Celt In A Twist!

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World Beat Canada Radio November 29 2025

When November gives you a dark and stormy night at 12 noon, do what Senor Coconut does and give it a merengue beat! That's on deck this hour along with a remix from Galician sound designer, Baiuca, brand new Polyrhythmics, Tunisian rhythms from Didon, Haitian kongo from Wesli and rogue Latin riddims from NYC experimentalists Zemog El Gallo. Your world in music from A to Z this hour from World beat Canada!

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Western media manipulated Syria story

Canadians in Jolani's cabinet shows Western media and intel have been manipulating the Syrian story for years.

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Cheeze Pleeze # 1118-A CP Christmas 2025 Show 1 of 4

It's another cheezy holiday season as we start off A Cheeze Pleeze Christmas 2025, your yearly celebration of cheezified shenanigans for over 20 years! Songs with whistling, santa doing stuff and disco christmas you'll want to forget about. Meanwhile as Daffy gears up for a Christmas baking frenzy, Snarf yearns for those yesteryears of fake asbestos christmas snow to sprinkle up the holidays next to the alumimum tree.

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Charles Ferguson- “Will This War Ever End?”

“The Endless War,” a movie released in late July 2007, written, directed and produced by Charles Ferguson, depicts the blunders and ill-prepared manner in which the United States initiated and carried out the war against Iraq. This full-length feature film juxtaposes the statements and actions of the Washington leadership of the war, which at the outset failed to include President Bush – the Commander-in-Chief, with the leadership’s actions and grievous consequences that followed. Charles Ferguson holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has extensive experience in foreign policy analysis, and lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area. When I spoke with him on July 20, 2007 we began with his explanation how the war and the occupation of Iraq were shaped by an extremely small group of people In Washington D.C., with limited foreign policy and post war occupation experience. The film he recommends is “The Lives of Others,” a story about East Germany under the community regime.

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Between the Lines for November 26, 2025

Deepening US Healthcare Crisis Demands Radical Transformation, Not Band-Aids; Under Trump’s New Homelessness Policy Nearly 200 Thousand Will Lose Housing; COP30 UN Climate Summit in Brazil, Another Disappointing Outcome.

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Thanksgiving Special: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, a Conversation with Andres Resendez, Author of The Other Slavery  

An hour-long conversation with Andres Resendez, history professor at UC Davis, and author of, The Other Slavery, The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. It tells the little-known story of the enslavement of countless native people in the Americas, including the US. This slavery lasted into the 20th Century and helped provide the foundation for capitalism in the US.

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Julie Eisenberg & Babette Hogan: Running For The Mountains

The telecom titan Verizon just recently laid off around 15,000 employees, and it was just a blip on an otherwise slow news day. The DIY craft giant Michael's regularly hires 15,000 seasonal workers for the holidays, and it doesn't generally even brush up against a headline. We provide these numbers to help our listeners scale the 14,000 people working in West Virginia's coal industry, and the massive influence the question of their employment has on the American political and environmental landscape. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Babette Hogan and Julie Eisenberg, whose new film, "Running For The Mountains," takes a close look at the West Virginia coal mining industry. We discuss the environmental waste caused by coal in the state, dive into West Virginia's politics, and hear what they learned over their 15 year film-making process.

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The Repository_220

The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.

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Stu's Faves # 20

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org

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Does Hard Work Really Lead to Success? / Reagan’s Racism Tanked U.S. Education

Today we pull from a public World Government Summit lecture offered by professor of political science, Dr. Roy Casagranda discussing the economic history of the United States as well as the dismantling of the free/low-cost education system once found in the United States. In the first half of the show, discuss the idea that hard work leads to success. We challenge the idea that a few aligned factors can create a universal pathway to the American dream. We also discuss the systemic barriers and advantages present in society and how certain groups are more likely to encounter these forces. In the second half of the show, we talk about the shift in the United States’ approach to education after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. We discuss how an increase in costs was strategically implemented by conservatives to create barriers for would-be protesters and social dissenters.

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Episode 314 - Joe Drives the Fork Lift Naked through the Baby Shower

We learn much about what's going on in the country over marijuana legalization, this thing about banning hemp inserted into keeping the government open bill is causing states to start being strict all together. No Good.. But anyway - not to get all serious, cause trust us 99% of the show was Joe and Anthony being silly as duck! Tune in every other Monday at 8pm eastern 7pm central over at http://www.chiampa.org - ignore the security warning!! just go ahead in!

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The Early Years of AIDS & global LGBTQ news & more!

Rage and resilience mark the early years of AIDS; Ghana is poised to outlaw queer sex, coming out, and advocacy, the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court ends the Caribbean nation’s ban on same-gender sex for cops and military service members, New Zealand orders the end of puberty blockers for pediatric trans patients, Victoria leads Australia with free gender marker and name change updates, a proudly gay intel specialist sues the FBI over his Pride flag firing, and more LGBTQ news from around the world.

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Recovery Radio for 11-27-25

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If Music Could Talk - Nov 23 2025 - Reggae, and more

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Seniors for Peace – A celebration of 20 years of Peace Work (TUC Archives)

When I joined Seniors for Peace at their second ever rally for peace in Iraq on February 7, 2003, I did not dream that 20 years later they would still be coming out every Friday from 4 to 5 pm to the busy intersection near their home. Undaunted – even by hostility – they have called for peace in all the subsequent wars since then. Among those who I met in 2003 was a survivor of the firebombing of Dresden and a Red Cross worker in London who saw the young men dead on both sides and still mourned their loss of life. I’m honoring them now – 20 years later – for the work they have continued and expanded since then. Their website is www.mvseniorsforpeace.org/

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Africa dominates Scrabble, OFL joins support for Palestine

African countries are dominant players in Scrabble worldwide: An unsurprising feature of postcolonialism. Plus, OFL joins worldwide labour trend in solidarity with Palestine.

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Defending One-China at the UN

Phil Taylor describes how China has defended its sovereignty and One-China policy at the United Nations. China has referred to its inalienable right to counter Japanese militarism, contrary to the interventionism over Taiwan expressed by Japan's new Prime-Minister.

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Professor Eric Cheyfitz on Zionism, Genocide, and His Conflict with Cornell

This episode is Professor Eric Cheyfitz on Zionism, Genocide, and His Conflict with Cornell. It features longtime Catholic Worker peace activist Mary Anne Grady Flores in conversation with Cornell Professor Eric Cheyfitz, a scholar specializing in the study of settler colonialism and genocide. The interview took place in Ithaca, NY on November 8, 2025.

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Nov 24th - “Dana Solomon: Blood Lines & Niimi – A Double Toronto International Film Festival Spotlight”

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning with Danny Hensley

The Appalachian Sunday Morning is a two hour all Gospel Music Radio program with radio station & program host Danny Hensley. The program is recorded live each Sunday morning while being broadcast on 91.7 FM Community radio and streamed world wide on www.sbbradio.org. This program is uploaded to SoundCloud, RSS.com, radio4all, Podbean and iTunes to mention a few.

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WINGS #33-25 African AI

The African Union is a massive organization comprised of all 55 countries of the continent.  Barbara Glover works with its Development Agency as lead investigator of a project titled "Advancing Responsible Artificial Intelligence in African Union Member States. "  Glover is based in South Africa, but she came to Mombasa for a conference in November 2025. WINGS' Kenya correspondent Diana Wanyonyi interviewed her about her background and her work. She says youth are especially active in designing uses of AI for the general good, but foreign funders may take their ideas to develop in richer countries. 

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Polar Change - Global Ripples

Could a rapid change in microbes unbalance world systems? Biologist Trond Kristiansen. From Montreal, scientist Scott Sugden reviews “Current and projected effects of climate change in cryosphere microbial ecosystems”. From COP30 Brazil, permafrost thaw is NOW. Worrying news from scientists Gustaf Hugelius, Christina Schadel, and Fabian Seemann. Breaking polar science from Radio Ecoshock.

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Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Hataalii in our Spotlight Interview (Indigenous Rock, Country) Hr 2

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Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Hataalii in our Spotlight Interview (Indigenous Rock, Country) Hr 1

Indigenous in Music with Larry K and Hataalii in our Spotlight Interview (Indigenous Rock, Country) Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, this week we welcome back from Window Rock, Arizona, Mr. Hataalii into the house. The young Diné musician who continues to redefine Native indie rock with his soulful lyrics and unique sound. His latest album, I’ll Be Around, weaves stories of life, identity, and community. Get ready for a conversation that blends music, culture, and vision. You can read all about him at our place at our homepage at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/hataalii. Enjoy music from Hataalii, Mike Bern, Samantha Crain, Darren Geffre, Def Jef, Julian Taylor, Carsen Gray, Burnstick, Mitch Walking El, Nathan Cunningham, Logan Staats, Cary Morin, Cactus Rose, Raven Reid, The Melawmen Collecitve, Toko Tasi, Elastic Bond, Ecuador Manta, Gary Small & the Coyote Bros, Injunuity, Diyet & the Love Soldiers, Pura Fe, Janet Panic, Latin League, Robin Cisek, Latin Playboys and much more. Visit us on our home page to learn about us and our programs at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org, check into our Two Buffalo Studios and our SAY Magazine Library to find out all about our Artists and Entrepreneurs.

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