CPR News, February 4, 2019

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Liberalism vs. Democracy, in Venezuela and U.S.A.

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.

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Queerland Security + global LGBTQ news!

Australia’s Black Rainbow opens doors for queer indigenous youth; Page turns on Pence after the Smollett hate attack; a Greek Orthodox Bishop is convicted of homophobic hate speech, Russian activists demand answers on Chechnya’s queer purge, Trump and his minions continue to undermine LGBTQ rights at every turn, two thousand defy Myanmar’s anti-gay sex laws to celebrate Pride in Yangon, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!

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The Motherland Influence: February 3, 2019

African, Latin & Caribbean Music

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Ambiance Congo: February 3, 2019

Congolese Popular Music

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interviews Venezuelan-Canadian Sociologist Maria Paez Victor

Host Sylvia Richardson speaks to Venezuelan-Canadian Sociologist Maria Paez Victor who defines the conflict in Venezuela as a neocolonial war. In this interview we explore the historical revolutionary process of Venezuela of the past 20 years as the people rose up against the IMF and World bank’s structural adjustments and brought to life the Bolivarian revolution that elected Hugo Chavez to power and later elect Nicolas Maduro. What is at stake is the return to colonial warfare as way to strip Latin Americans of their independence and autonomy to choose their own governments while rejecting being colonies for resource expropriation by USA and European corporate interests.

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Weekday World, February 4, 2019

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Swingin' the 55th; 2/3/19; set 1

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Swingin'the 55th; 2/3/19; set 2

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Space Cowboy Books Presents: Simultaneous Times Episode #01

Simultaneous Times is a monthly science fiction podcast produced by Space Cowboy Books in Joshua Tree, CA. http://www.spacecowboybooks.com

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Something Beautiful 1904

Segment One When I Fall in Love by Syd Dale CD Box Set: Candlelight Moods That Sunday That Summer by Beegie Adair CD: Love Letters Flamenco Love by Judd Downing LP: Latin Satin I Can't Help Remembering You by Herbert Rebein LP: Music to Soothe That Tiger I Can Dream, Can't I? by Bucky Pizzarelli and Frank Vignola CD: Moonglow My Best Girl by The Living Strings LP: Mame and Other Songs From Broadway and the Motion Pictures This is My Prayer by Teddy Mertens LP: Trumpet in the Night I May Be Wrong, But I Think You're Wonderful by The SRP Orchestra CD: SRP Collection Vol. 8 Call Me Irresponsible by Norm Geller CD: EZ Favorites #12 Don't Give Up On Us, Baby by Frank Chacksfield CD: Starborne Collection Segment Two The Rose by Mantovani CD Box Set: The Way We Were Matchmaker, Matchmaker by Frank DeVol LP: Popular Music Hit Parade Lightning Strikes by Bob Blom Single: Lightning Strikes Call Me by David Snell LP: Harp Transplant I'm a Dreamer, Aren't We All? by Geoff Love CD: Latin With Love/Dreaming With Love Yesterday by George Shearing CD: Here and Now/New Look! Try a Little Tenderness by Ian McDougal CD: The Very Thought of You Once Upon a Time in the West by Zamfir CD: Love Themes From the Movies Ciao Ciao Bambino by Tommy Garrett CD: The Best of the 50 Guitars, Vol. 2

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Lake Air 1904

Segment One The Light by Jarrod Robinson CD: Visions (self-released) Evening Poem by Himekami CD: Moonwater (Higher Octave) The Look of Love by Grover Washington Jr. Feat. Jean Carne CD: Strawberry Moon (Columbia) Midnight Caller Theme by Rick Braun CD: Intimate Secrets (Mesa) Segment Two Slide by Norman Johnson EP: The Art of Life (self-released) Morning Glory by Don Harriss CD: Vanishing Point (Sonic Atmospheres) New Day For You by Basia CD: Time and Tide (Sony) East by South by Yutaka CD: Brazasia (GRP) Segment Three L.A. by Art Porter CD: Pocket City (Verve) Sequoia by Eric Tingstad CD: Masters of Acoustic Guitar (Narada) Take Me Higher by Aysha CD: Take Me Higher (Innervision) Forever the Optimist by Patrick O'Hearn CD: Between Two Worlds (Private Music)

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YouthSpeaksOut! on "Vaping Among Rural Youth"

YouthSpeaksOut! is a monthly radio show produced in the high schools of Mendocino County. Laytonville High students discussed the vaping phenomenon in general and among high school students. It turns out that nicotine is not that popular among the local youth, though THC is. An interesting insight into life in the region. Our website is www.youthspeaksout.net

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0494

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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Climate Food Shock

Survival food expert Jonathan Richards on why we all need food insurance during the climate shift. With his dark blog "Survival Acres", Richards explores the junction between the ultimate threat of global warming and our way-too-fragile food system. In this rare interview, myths, scams and mistakes are revealed. Why we struggle to survive despite signs of doom.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1

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Cato, Letter No. 6

Cato uses his Letter No. 6 to speak to the "Three-Fifth Rule" regarding the apportionment of representation to - and concomitant participation of - women, children and Indigenous Americans in states practicing slavery. While it could be argued that Cato's concern is misplaced in a pre-suffrage era, he accurately warns that parasitic politicians will load up the people’s labors and assets with ruinous levies and tributes. Cato asserts that elites will employ every effort to transfer burdens to the people. He avers that the new government will have no real checks and balances under the proposed Constitution. Cato is concerned that the new government will be a costly affair, will use its new-found wealth to leverage its will, and construct a hierarchy of privilege among the political class. Cato, with great prescience, further cautions about taxes, overseas conscriptions to satisfy the power-hungry, and the Senate’s unaccountable oversight of treaties.

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Commentary November 5, 2018

The Taylor Report commentary from November 5th is now available. Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon discuss various topics, including NATO exhausting the beer supply in Iceland, the IATSE Local 58 lockout, the postal labour dispute, the USMCA trade agreement, the campaign to free Mumia, the Bannon/Frum debate, and the crisis in the labour movement involving UNIFOR's embrace of the Liberal Party position.

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Talk is Cheap

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Democratic Forces Face Prison, Death, and Disappearance in Rwanda (Nov. 5)

In case you missed it, this November 5, 2018 broadcast with Justin Bahunga is now available: Thanks to two courageous women, Victoire Ingabire and Diane Rwigara, who have spoken out and won the attention of people everywhere, there is a challenge to the strongman government of Paul Kagame. But there remains the fact that many supporters of Victoire and Diane are being jailed or murdered. Case in point: Boniface Twagirimana recently disappeared from inside a prison! There is a long list of mysterious disappearances. Meanwhile, Kagame remains America's favorite "modern" leader.

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Identifying Bullshit: Facing Up to True Lies and Deadly Prophecy

4thWorldRadyo host @TheAngryindian is still asking why North American Africans are choosing to follow false religious; cultural and 'revolutionary' leaders who spew wild conspiracy theories; toxic, hyper-masculinity and who freely associate with well-known White Supremacist terrorists dedicated to destroying non-Europeans across the entire continent. EXTRAS: Choice picks from our extensive collection of archived political interviews; more pro-Progressive, anti-violence PSAs; some relaxing tunes of #Resistance.

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Jazz Progressions 1904

Segment One Crazy Horse Chief by The Jazz Rock Experience LP: J.R.E. (Deram) Oasis by Ian Carr's Nucleus Double CD: Elastic Rock/We'll Talk About it Later (BGO) Segment Two Overdraft by Continuum CD: Autumn Grass (Flawed Gems) Sector 17 by If CD: Waterfall (Repertoire) Segment Three Theme to the Mothership by Return to Forever CD: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (Polydor) Yin by Larry Coryell and Eleventh House CD: Introducing Eleventh House With Larry Coryell (Vanguard) Ascorbic Acid by Alphonse Mouzon CD: Mind Transplant (Blue Note)

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Federal Workers Don't Have To Be The Sacrificial Lambs for Trump's Political Hijinks to Fund His Wall!

We Are The Ones Weve Been Waiting For: Federal Workers Dont Have To Be The Sacrificial Lambs for Trumps Political Hijinks to Fund His Wall! with Hector Figueroa, President, Local 32BJ, SEIU "Almost a million workers are locked out or being forced to work without pay. Others are going to work when our workspace is increasingly unsafe. What is the Labor Movement waiting for? Go back with the Fierce Urgency of NOW to talk with your Locals and International unions about all of the workers joining together. To End this Shutdown with a General Strike." Sara Nelson, President of the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA The federal government shut down on December 22, locking out almost 400,000 workers and forcing another 400,000 deemed essential to show up to work without pay. A larger number of employees working for employers with Federal contracts were laid off with no hope of ever recouping their losses. The public was also hurt by their loss of government services including increased risks to aviation safety, The ongoing holiday lockout is the most recent insult the federal government has hurled at its workers. But pay and benefits have been deteriorating for years, and conditions look set to degrade even faster in the near future.According to data compiled by Government Executive, civilian federal workers have received an annualized raise of 1.48 percent per year since 2008, including three years of zero raises under President Obama. During the same period, workers health insurance premiums increased up to 7 percent a year, though more recently the increase has been smaller. And this year, President Trump not only threatened a wage freeze for federal employees, he also proposed cutting their retirement benefits by $143.5 billion. Congress counter-proposed a 1.9 percent wage increase, but with the government shut down, it is unclear whether federal workers will receive raises or maintain their pension benefits this year. A recent study found that federal workers salaries are already 31 percent below comparable jobs in the private sector on average, though the disparity varies greatly by job title. Many of these workers are union members, affiliated with the American Federal Government Employees (AFGE). The union sued the federal government, claiming that it is illegal to require workers to work without paying them. But a more militant labor movement could respond to a shutdown very differently, with mass demonstrations across the country for example. Federal workers are strategically positioned to take advantage of. seizing the choke points within the U.S. economy and society.. Theres a potential army of 400,000 furloughed federal workers, not just in D.C. but based at government offices across the country. What if, taking a note from the yellow vests movement in France, these workers and their allies established picket lines blocking major roads and highways, halting all nonemergency traffic? Certainly that traffic would also include package delivery trucks and tractor trailers hauling goods for their own high-demand peak season. Imagine the political fallout of this massive economic disruption, all because Trump wants a border wall. Even the MAGA hat-wearers would likely prefer their packages delivered on time over a wall that they will never even see. The reopening of the government under these conditions would be a massive victory of the labor movement, a product of our own collective efforts rather than that of closed-door negotiations between legislators and the White House. If federal workers want to stop the attacks on their livelihoods and their dignity, the only realistic path is the same as for any group of workers facing a mean and unpredictable boss, cuts to pay and benefits in real dollars, and unexpected furloughs: they need to organize. Federal workers wont be consistently treated with real respect and dignity until they can present a credible threat to shut down the government " on their terms, not their bosses.

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Is new Israeli foreign minister Yuval Steinitz hinting at false flag attack on Iran?

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-133/

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'Cotham School is not Starbucks' privatised school fencing locals out of Stoke Lodge open space

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/bcfms-weekly-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-133/

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Celt In A Twist February 3 2019

Of Hot Girls (Paddy Murphy), Little Pigs (Sver), The Flying Cloud (Jim Moray) and Moon Shots (Ten Strings & A Goatskin) - More Celtivity, Less Malarkey!

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worldbeatcanada radio february 2 2019

Eastern Euro-rockers from Warsaw Afrobeat Orchestra & Volga, Santana's ode to Mona Lisa and Hot 8 Brass Band cover Joy Division!

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Saving the Earth or Saving Capitalism? The Inconvenient Truth Behind Today's Youth Climate Campaigns

This week's Global Research News Hour, we consider the possibility that some of the most prominent climate campaigns on the planet, including the Greta Thunberg-led Climate Strikes are in fact being co-opted by the world's most prominent financial elites, via vehicles like large environmental NGOs, to serve a pre-existing agenda having more to do with expanding capitalism than reversing or mitigating climate change. Independent investigative journalist Cory Morningstar is our guest for the hour, and she expands on the theme of her recent series of articles: "The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent."

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the berkeley signal 30

Excerpts from Rising Up with Sonali, Democracy Now, Letters and Politics, Twit Wit Radio, Donald Drumpf Theatre and Puzzling Evidence. Music from Ozomatli, Gaye Adegbalola, Bobby Blackhat, Lydia Mendoza, King Chango, Ali Farka Toure and The Ramones.

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UpFront Soul #2019.05 - February 4-10 h2

We'll Speed Up with Betty Moorer, hear Jamaaladeen Tacuma's rendition of Leon Thomas' masterpiece, The Creator Has a Master Plan, and spin the Four Tops' version of If I Were a Carpenter.

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