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Feb. 8, 2019, 3:19 a.m.
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TB 180105 The Dictatorship of the Refrigerator 2X
Feb. 8, 2019, 2:29 a.m.
This weekâs archive radio show started off last year with a lesson on how to be an activist! (Itâs a fun job â but somebodyâs gotta do it!)
Then, we reveal how Americans are educated just enough to not realize how uneducated they actually are. After that, we point out that humans have an amazing ability to accept insanity as normal when insanity becomes normalized â especially since if they ever rationally faced the insanity then they would probably go insane. Next, we fulfill our duty to utterly terrify you by pointing out how with recent advances in technology, then very soon the 1% may not need us to build their world for them any longer. (And you know their usual policy toward what they consider to be âuseless mouthsâ â i.e. someone that does not produce profit for them.)
Then, for the feature piece this week, we describe how David Patraeus â ex-head of the CIA â came right out and admitted that they are going to start using the âsmart gridâ and âsmart appliancesâ to spy on us.
Now your refrigerator will be spying on you right along with your phone, your computer, your car, and your alarm system, etc.
There will soon be nowhere that is safe.
The Thunderbolt is likely to broadcast news that will rock your socks. Beware.
Feb. 8, 2019, 1:01 a.m.
Sounds From the Global Village 1904
Feb. 7, 2019, 9:21 p.m.
Segment One
Amaken by The Andre Hajj Ensemble
CD: Instrumental Music From Lebanon (ARC)
Guapa by Juan Wauters
CD: La Onda de Juan Pablo (Captured Tracks)
Binte Shiu Pika-Pika by The Tirana Folk Ensemble
CD: Songs and Dances From Albania (ARC)
Yinguica by Yinguica
CD: Marrabenta Music From Mozambique (ARC)
Segment Two
Amwaj by Amira Kheir
CD: Mystic Dance (Sterns)
Bah Sain (Spirit of the Wind) by Unknown Artist
CD: Temiar Dream Songs From Malaya (Smithsonian Folkways)
Rampoka by Solly Sebotso
MP3: I'm Not Here to Hunt Rabbits (Piranha)
Estemos Juntos by Victor Hugo
CD: Discover Salsa With ARC Music (ARC)
Segment Three
Barokan by Djely Tapa
CD: Barokan (Disques Nuits d'Afrique)
Iain Ghlinn Cuaich by Cliar
CD: Celtic Visions (ARC)
Tren Lechero by Nicolas Caballero and Ariel Burgos
CD: Maitei America: Harps of Paraguay (Smithsonian Folkways)
Mustjala Paarisrong by Ro:Toro
CD: Estonian Bagpipe (Tutl)
The Shortwave Report 02/08/19 Listen Globally!
Feb. 7, 2019, 3:10 p.m.
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. NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Sputnik Radio.
Feb. 7, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
Excerpts from Democracy Now, Radio Ecoshock, Rising Up with Sonali, Twit Wit Radio and Intercepted. Music from Arrow, Seun Kuti, Mix Master Mike, Bob Marley, Underworld, Marvin Gaye and The Prodigy.
Sonic Cafe #124/Shall We Dance?
Feb. 7, 2019, 10:58 a.m.
Sonic Café. Put on your red shoes and dance the blues. Thatâs the music of the late great David Bowie. Hey welcome to episode 124 of the Sonic Café. Iâm Scott Clark, your host with the two left feet. Dancing. When it comes to dancing really, you either got it, or you donât. Thereâs those folks whoâve got the moves. Then there are those of us that canât dance a single step⦠and finally there are those like me who just stink up the whole dance floor with my natural white boy rhythm. Ahem. So this time the Sonic Café confidentially struts out onto the dance floor with a music mix pulled from 48 years. Listen for the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, King Harvest, Wang Chung, Genesis, Leo Sayer and many more. Then to compliment this collection of dance hall favorites the Sonic Café brings you a variety of comedic observations on dancing. Listen for Cory LeRoy, Jill Michele Melean, Max Amini, Lowell Sanders and Dwayne Perkins. All this just ahead as we present another hour of intelligent, eclectic music, comedy and pop culture from that little café in the great Pacific Northwest where we always dance like we donât care ahhh cause we really donât. Weâre the Sonic Café.
Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture
Feb. 7, 2019, 8:28 a.m.
The Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression recently launched a campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture (CFIST). The goal of CFIST is to mount a mass campaign for our new Governor, J.B. Pritzker (217-782-6831), to issue pardons for all people tortured by the Chicago Police Department into giving confessions that ultimately led to their incarceration.
Join the Chicago Alliance and the Next Movement of Trinity United Church of Christ for a discussion on a strategy for this movement to free incarcerated survivors of police torture. Panelists include:
Atty. Stan Willis,
Founded and Co-Chaired âBlack People Against Police Tortureâ, Civil Rights Attorney
La Tanya Sublett,
Female torture survivor and former prisoner
Mark Clements,
Torture survivor who served 28 years in prison for a crime that he did not commit
Atty. Joey Mogul,
Co-Founder of Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Partner at Peopleâs Law Office
Moderated by Frank Chapman, co-chairperson and field organizer of The Alliance
The event is sponsored by CAARPR, the Campaign to Free Incarcerated Survivors of Police Torture and the Next Movement of Trinity United Church of Christ.
Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 108 Television Man
Feb. 7, 2019, 8:24 a.m.
Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 108 Television Man. This week, our hero spends some Executive Time with the telly. The show is uploaded Thursdays, though anonymous sources say it may be canceled soon.
Feb. 7, 2019, 8:14 a.m.
Interview for CFRU Radio in Guelph, 2009
La marge a CKIA 6 fevrier Pieces Cachees
Feb. 7, 2019, 6:20 a.m.
Weekday World, February 7, 2019
Feb. 7, 2019, 3:39 a.m.
Feb. 7, 2019, 3:38 a.m.
Gbagbo has been acquitted, but remains in the coils of the ICC.
Feb. 6, 2019, 7:15 p.m.
Laurent Gbagbo, former president of Ivory Coast, was acquitted at the ICC but as of now, is not free. Although media speculate he will go to Belgium, his actual whereabouts are unknown. Such is justice at the celebrated international tribunal.
These facts give rise to the commonly-held view that the true function of the ICC is take specific African leaders "out of circulation," so that they can be replaced by non-entities chosen by the Western powers.
Feb. 6, 2019, 6:14 p.m.
We have a sponsor this week....the letter S.....yeah, time to recycle, as they say it's good for the enviroment, but I suppose we are greenwashing an excuse to plan some songs that start with S this week...yep!
Your Life is Their Toy - Part 22
Feb. 6, 2019, 4:50 p.m.
Health and life are man's most precious possessions; and anxiety to preserve them is natural. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have been exploited since time immemorial. Every age has had its charlatans, quacks and medicine men.
Much in the same measure as social organization has attained its highest pitch in the present era, the exploitation of health and life today has reached its zenith. Never before in history has there arisen such an extensive conspiracy about the problem of public health of entire nations, involving well-organized, opposing political and commercial groups.
The consequence of this welter of exploitation is the sacrifice of human comfort, happiness, health and life.
--Emanuel Josephson, 1941, "Your Life is Their Toy."
Bristol mum on a mission - to question the safety of child vaccines
Feb. 6, 2019, 2:56 p.m.
Feb. 6, 2019, 2:27 p.m.
A visit to the Great White North, eh?; lovers rock by the ladies; seven favorite Wailers tracks on Bob Marley's 74th birthday; the Daktaris: it is all a big hustle
Weekday World, February 6, 2019
Feb. 6, 2019, 4:16 a.m.
Feb. 6, 2019, 12:42 a.m.
NASA Scientist Eric Rignot on Melting Glaciers in Antarctica
Feb. 5, 2019, 9:18 p.m.
Even mainstream media reported at the beginning of February, 2019, a sensation in sea level rise. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, confirmed that a huge cavity â two-thirds the size of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet tall â has melted into the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. This glacier is about the size of Florida, and is currently already responsible for about 4 percent of global sea level rise.
Thwaites is sometimes called a culture changer since the collapse of that one glacier would raise the oceans by two feet, threatening so many centers of civilization that are built on the coast lines of the world.
Eric Rignot of the University of California, Irvine, and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is the co-author of this new study, which was published in Science Advances. Rignot is one of the first scientists who had the data to quantify the increasing discharges from the glacier system in the Amundsen Sea Embayment where the Thwaites is located.
This program is a collaboration between TUC Radio and Radio Ecoshock. Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock interviewed Eric Rignot at the end of January 2019 about the article: "Four decades of Antarctic Ice Sheet mass balance from 1979 - 2017", released on January 14, 2019.
Then Maria presents a segment of her archived 2014 interview with Rignot on "Ice Melt in Part of Antarctica âAppears Unstoppable'". Rignot was the lead author in this NASA study. She specifically asked Rignot about the research methods that he used to study the fastest melting part of West Antarctica, the Amundsen Sea Embayment where the Thwaites glacier is located; hoping that if people understood how the science works they would more likely to act upon the information.
If all the ice of Antarctica melted, it would raise global sea levels by 58 m
Feb. 5, 2019, 7:38 p.m.
Trump and the Danger of Emergency Powers. The declaration of such a state of emergency can be made by the president alone and would give the president access to extraordinary powers. With Andrew Boyle, Brennan Center for Justice. Carl Dix on the Outrageous Sentence for the Cop Who Murdered Laquan McDonald. Refuse Fascism LA on State of the Union?! How about the state of HUMANITY?
Wilkerson, Isabel — America's Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One
Feb. 5, 2019, 7:14 p.m.
In the years between 1915 and 1970 almost six million black American citizens from the south migrated to northern and western cities seeking freedom and a better life. Our guest is Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson author of âThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of Americaâs Great Migration.â Her book tells the untold experiences of the African-Americans who fled the south over three generations.
Wilkerson interviewed more than 1,000 people for her book. She is the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and is a recipient of the George Polk Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. Her parents were part of the great migration, journeying from Georgia and southern Virginia to Washington D.C.
In the first of two interviews recorded from Isabel Wilkersonâs home near Atlanta, Georgia, on September 28, 2012, she begins with a description of the âbiggest untold story of the 20th century.âÂ
The book Isabel Wilkerson recommends is âThe Ark of Justice,â by Kevin Boyle.
Jeff Halper - One Democratic State in Historic Palestine
Feb. 5, 2019, 1:52 p.m.
Jeff Helper speaks on a new initiative, the joint work of 90 some Palestinians and Israeli Jews.A plan for one democratic state of Arabs and Jews in historic Palestine. There is effectively only one State already. That was the Zionist plan from the beginning of their colonial settler, religious nationalist project. But there are other facts on the ground, beside the illegally built Jewish only settlements built on Palestinian land;
6,000,000 Palestinians who have resisted the genocidal practices of the Israeli State
Israel is a world leader in the technology of repression. It is exporting that technology to other countries, who seek to suppress their own popular opposition to neoliberal programs and dictatorial governance. Halper speaks briefly of that and of his new book on the topic in as much as Israel is training U.S.
police departments whose militarization and heavy handed
response to protest was visible in Ferguson, Missouri following the police murder of Michael Brown and the revelations of widespread racist and criminal practice of police and city officials in dealing with the majority black population of Ferguson.
Feb. 5, 2019, 1:43 p.m.
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Feb. 5, 2019, 1:28 p.m.
Segment One
Window Views by Alexander "Sandi" Kuhn
CD: The Place in the North (Unit)
Stairway to the Stars by The Claremont Standards Band
CD: Conversations 1 (self-released)
One Hundred Ways by Tom Dempsey
CD: Saucy (Planet Arts)
Segment Two
Mind the Bubbles by Andrew Lawrence
CD: Trialogue (self-released)
My Funny Valentine by Beth Goldwater
CD: Vintage (self-released)
Yes or No by Ricky Ford
CD: Shorter Ideas (Muse)
Segment Three
Powder Keg (Take 5) by Wayne Shorter
CD: Wayning Moments (Koch)
East of the Sun by Michael Kocour
CD: East of the Sun (OA2)
Daahoud by Steve Hobbs
CD: Second Encounter (Candid)
Ship of Fools: Cruise Polluters
Feb. 5, 2019, 1:25 p.m.
Growing up watching "The Love Boat," some of us thought of a cruise as a romantic and exciting way to see the world. New research out of Johns Hopkins University and Stand.earth, however, indicates that cruises don't just "set a course for adventure," they deliver high quantities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons into the air and delicate ocean habitats. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with Kendra Ulrich, a Senior Shipping Campaigner at Stand. She tells us about the hazards presented by these moving "cities on the sea" that float into some of the planet's most fragile ecosystems, the diesel fumes that harm the lungs of the ship's crew and passengers, and the greenwashing that the cruise-lines have used in response to allegations of environmental irresponsibility. It could be enough to make Julie McCoy, Gopher and Isaac stage a mutiny.
Weekday World, February 5, 2019
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Liberalism vs. Democracy, in Venezuela and U.S.A.
Feb. 4, 2019, 8:28 p.m.
Elites are starting to worry that 'Democracy is getting out of hand.' It is said that the liberal-democratic order is under threat. But what is meant by democracy?
Gowans walks us through a revealing NYT article by columnist Max Fisher. In response to the common feeling that today's democratic systems are not very responsive, Fisher explains that they aren't supposed to be.
Liberal democracy has placed checks against the popular will - in the form of representatives and institutions (such as central banks) that do the deciding for ordinary people, who are not trusted to govern their own affairs. Liberal democracy therefore transforms a would-be democracy into a plutocracy.
Gowans subsequently turns this analysis towards Venezuela. What we are seeing is a naked power grab by Venezuela's small elite, working hand-in-hand with the United States. It is so blatant and transparent that it hardly requires analysis.