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The story of Birzeit University; the genesis of CIA collaboration with Israel's Mossad
Dec. 19, 2018, 5:50 p.m.
Today's show comes as two entirely independent presentations.
For the 1st part of today's show, we take a long look at Palestineâs premier institution of higher education, Birzeit University. Palestinians are among the highest educated people on the face of the Earth. That is the good news. The bad news is that after they get their many degrees, whether it be a BA, Masters degree, PhD, or whatever, there are few jobs and extremely limited opportunities in their field for them when they finish. However, despite the grim economic and career opportunities, Palestinians highly value education and families go to extraordinary sacrifices to educate their children. Its an amazing phenomenon for a country living under military occupation. And Birzeit University? It is rated in the top 3% of Universities in the world. Howâs that for an amazing statistic?
The president of Birzeit, Dr. Abdullatif Abuhilyea, tells us about the University and the vital role it plays in Palestinian society. He speaks at the Palestine Center in Washington, DC.
And now for something completely different. Our next presentation explores the early development of the relationship between the CIA and the Israeli Mossad. Investigative reporter and author Jefferson Morely speaks about his research which led to a book on James Angleton, the key person early on in the creation of CIA and the man most responsible in forging the close ties between the intelligence forces in the US and Israel. This is quite a story. Hang on. We present Morley speaking to an audience in Washington, DC.
The book: THE GHOST: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. Go to JeffersonMorley.com to learn more about Morley, his books, and his blogs.
Back from the brink? Christian healing in Bristol Healing Rooms every Wednesday
Dec. 19, 2018, 4:16 p.m.
Sonic Cafe #117/Animal Stories
Dec. 19, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
Sonic Café. Hey, glad you could join us, because itâs time for animal stories here at the Sonic Cafe. Iâm your host Scott Clark and this is episode 117. This time we find ourselves broadcasting from the temperate rainforest just outside the back door of the Sonic Café. Yes itâs the Pacific Northwest, and yes it does rain a bit here. Donât know why exactly, but we love it. Listen for animal stories about everything from Cheetahs, the worldâs fastest animal to Homo sapiens, the worlds most conniving one, brought to us by a gaggle of comedians including Kellen Erskine, Louis CK and Robert Mac and others. Plus a mix of great music that will push your fight or flight response into overdrive from The Fabulous Thunderbirds, T Rex, the Primitive Radio Gods and more⦠with tunes about Bluebirds, Bull Frogs, Beasts of Burden, Dogs, Cats, Bees, Butterflies, and ahhh, well you get the idea⦠all this time on the Sonic Café. So slather on the mosquito repellent, put on your safari pants, grab your Tilley hat and join us for Animal Stories this time from that little café nestled deep in the rainforest of the beautiful Pacific Northwest⦠weâre the Sonic Café.
The Government Has Mismanaged Huawei Matter
Dec. 19, 2018, 9:21 a.m.
The arrest of a Huawei executive was the result of a plan by the Five Eyes, an intelligence-gathering group consisting of the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, to block China from becoming preeminent in the next generation of cell phone technology.
Unable to compete, the Anglo-American spy group is using "international security" as an excuse to eliminate a successful Chinese company. Old colonial thinking adds to the danger.
Between the Lines for December 19, 2018
Dec. 19, 2018, 8:20 a.m.
Landmark Senate Vote Calls for End to U.S. Support for War in Yemen; The New Sanctuary Coalition Supports Immigrants Targeted by Trump Administration; At UN Climate Summit Over 300 US Elected Officials Call for Nationwide Plan to Phase out Fossil Fuels
NDA 10 - Sister Megan Rice, Nonviolent Resister
Dec. 19, 2018, 7:03 a.m.
Megan Gillespie Rice, S.H.C.J., is an anti-nuclear activist and Roman Catholic religious sister of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, and a former missionary.
On July 28, 2012, she and two others penetrated the heavily guarded Y-12 nuclear facility in Tennessee, reaching the outer walls of the complex's highly enriched uranium materials facility.
The Soul of Soil - John Jeavons
Dec. 18, 2018, 11:48 p.m.
This is part of a TUC Radio mini series on Soil, a response to the devastating forest fires in California in 2018.
John Jeavons is a master farmer, educator, researcher, author and Director of the nonâprofit Ecology Action. He has spent the last 43 years developing and teaching a way of farming and gardening that is free from fossil fuel chemicals; and instead of depleting the soils to grow food is actually enhancing and building the soil. When I first met him at KPFA radio in Berkeley 30 years ago he made the organic farmers uncomfortable by suggesting that they were still not sustainable as long as they imported huge quantities of compost from somewhere else.
John Jeavons gave me permission to read his essay Soul of Soil for you. However I want to start by giving you a sense of his voice and presence by letting you hear the opening minutes of his keynote at the 2015 annual Moses Organic Farming Conference in Wisconsin on the banks of the Mississippi River.
For more information and a beautifully illustrated version of Soul of Soil go on line and search under johnjeavons.org
Weekday World, December 19, 2018
Dec. 18, 2018, 11:27 p.m.
Osborn, John Jay: A Marriage as a Separate Entity
Dec. 18, 2018, 9:02 p.m.
âListen to the Marriageâ is a novel by John Jay Osborn, a retired lawyer and law professor. The story centers a marriage counselor and a recently separated couple with demanding jobs and two small children. Â All thirty-one short chapters take place in the therapistâs office and reveal the angst, anger, and hidden love that the couple Gretchen and Steve, have for each other. Sandy, the therapist guides the sessions, while keeping her thoughts about her clients to herself. Â An empty green chair representing their marriage sits between Gretchen and Steve during each visit.
âListen to the Marriageâ is Osbornâs sixth novel, the first one being âThe Paper Chase,â published in 1971, a year after he graduated law school. âListen to the Marriageâ is based in part on the experience Osborn and his wife had with a marriage counselor beginning about ten months after they separated in the mid 1980s.  They remain happily married.
John Osborn visited the Radio Curious studios by phone from his home in San Francisco, California, on December 14, 2018. We began our conversation with his description of the therapistâs goal: To get the couple to look at the marriage they created as being separate from themselves.Â
The book John Jay Osborn recommends is âHappy All the Time,â by Laurie Colwin.
The program was recorded on December 14, 2018.
Dec. 18, 2018, 8:43 p.m.
Segment One
A Love Supreme, Part 3: Pursuance by John Colrane
Double CD: A Love Supreme (Impulse!)
Turnaround by Ornette Coleman
CD: Tomorrow is the Question (Contemporary/OJC)
Segment Two
Malaga Virgen by Brand X
CD: Moroccan Roll (Caroline)
Lenthe by Maloo
LP: All About the Things (Lava)
Segment Three
Beginning Again by Turning Point
CD: Silent Promise (Air Mail Archive)
Crosscurrents by Pierre Moerlen's Gong
CD: Downwind (Arista)
Common Sense Political Correctness Program 5 December 18 2018
Dec. 18, 2018, 8:24 p.m.
Boy of boy! We really thought we wouldn't need to do a program that was Christmas related. But it seems all the fake outrage and safe space cry babies are out in force.
Dec. 18, 2018, 6:45 p.m.
Author Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, The Making of Mass Incarceration in America. As early as the Johnson administration authorities systematically constructed a criminal justice regime that targets, criminalizes, and imprisons staggering numbers of young Black men. Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Communist Party, the trailer from Why We Need an Actual Revolution & How We Can Really Make Revolution
PurpleAir Founder Adrian Dybwad
Dec. 18, 2018, 6:13 p.m.
Northern Californiaâs now infamous Camp Fire was not only the largest, longest, and deadliest wildfire in the stateâs history, it also produced record amounts of smoke. Schools closed, there was a run on protective masks, and people were fashioning do-it-yourself air purifiers because there were none left in stores. And it looks like we will only see an acceleration of wildfires in the future. This grim forecast has brought a surge in traffic to websites that monitor air quality like AirNow, Weather Underground, and PurpleAir. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with the founder and CEO of PurpleAir, a company that sells laser air quality sensors for home use at a reasonable price, and posts all the results in real-time on its site. We discuss PurpleAirâs business model, its unique brand of crowd-sourcing technology, and examine the ways that it casts the world in a different, and sometimes frightening, light.
Dec. 18, 2018, 2:35 p.m.
Dec. 18, 2018, 1:47 p.m.
In edition 84 of the December 2018 Tax Justice Networkâs monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: timeâs running out to tackle the climate crisis facing us all. We look at environmental taxes and making them fair, speaking to the authors of new report A Climate of Fairness: Environmental Taxation and Tax Justice in Developing Countries
Plus: we discuss the gilets jaunes in France, a movement thatâs been widely reported as being anti-green taxes, but is in fact born from wider desperation for their âlet them eat cakeâ President Macron to reverse a series of policies that have worsened inequality in the country. We give Monsieur le President a lesson in how not to implement an environmental taxâ¦
Dec. 18, 2018, 8:58 a.m.
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
Dec. 18, 2018, 6:31 a.m.
In school we heard so much of the Federalist Papers. What of the Anti-Federalists, who were far more prolific - and prescient?
Eric reads from the book "The Anti-Federalists," edited by Bruce Frohnen, and forwarded by Joseph Sobran.
Cato, believed by many to be New York Governor George Clinton, a prominent Anti-Federalist, wrote letters that appeared in the New York Journal in late 1787 through early 1788. His pseudonym was borrowed from Marcus Portius Cato, a Roman statesman, speaker, and defender of the Roman Republic.
Cato's letters, although not considered by historians to be the most eloquently argued or logically presented Anti-Federalist missives, capture well the sentiments of those warning against the new Constitution.
Cato warns that that same Constitution will allow avarice to grow unchecked; that it will provide unbridled opportunities for the moneyed elites to deceive and subjugate the people. Cato avers that the gritty, painful struggle to loosen Britain's hold on the Colonies was very costly and should be prized.
In his brief Letter No. 1, Cato urges his fellow citizens to keep fresh their memories of their bloody conflict. He implores them to not hurry their decisions regarding a new government. He asks them: Will they act cautiously and ensure a safe and secure future for themselves?
Weekday World, December 18, 2018
Dec. 18, 2018, 4:07 a.m.
ONE Way + Reps Wanted + global LGBTQ news!
Dec. 17, 2018, 5:58 p.m.
Preserving a ONE of a kind Archive; electoral math and the future of queer rights; Bermuda files a final appeal to preserve inequality, Israelâs top court says a parent is a parent, homophobic violence tops the challenges of sexual and gender minorities in a Kenyan refugee camp, âBrokeback Mountainâ and âBohemian Rhapsodyâ each make cultural history, and more LGBTQ news from around the world!
Episode 159 - Potatoes and Bacon
Dec. 17, 2018, 5:39 p.m.
Wow, it's the Holiday Episode and well, we really didn't talk about the holidays that much, a bit of holiday music from Kevin Macleod over at incompetech.com! There was plenty of crazy florida news though!Catch us, Joe and Anthony Live every Monday night at 8pm New York Time! http://www.chiampa.info
PCJ Radio International December 10 to December 16 2018
Dec. 17, 2018, 4:13 p.m.
French cops kill Strasbourg patsy Chérif Chekatt - ECB sets Euro time bomb to blow up on Brexit
Dec. 17, 2018, 3:46 p.m.
Dec. 17, 2018, 2:31 p.m.
Dec. 17, 2018, 2:16 p.m.
The Minds Ear Program #41: "Skinless"
Is your skin holding you back? Would your life, perhaps, be more fruitful and fulfilling without it? Chald explores these questions--and many more--in this rather discomforting installment of The Mind's Ear.
Dec. 17, 2018, 8:25 a.m.
Segment One
Carlos Surinach: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Vivace Con Fuoco
Alicia de la Rocha: Piano
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Frubeck de Bergos: Conductor
LP: Concertos From Spain (Decca)
Segment Two
Johann Sebastian Bach: English Suite No. 6, BWV 811
I. Prelude
II. Allemande
III. Courante
IV. Sarabande Avec Double
V. Gavote 1 and II
VI. Gigue
Hugette Dreyfus: Harpsichord
LP: Bach: English Suites 5 and 6 (Archiv)
Dec. 17, 2018, 3:15 a.m.
Eric the Blacksmith discusses the Antifederalists in this first of a series.
How much do we know about the debate between the Federalist Founders and the Antifederalists? How did Rhode Island fare when it said No to adopting the Constitution?
Eric talks about his background and an email exchange.
He refers to the book, "Hologram of Liberty" by Kenneth Royce, and mentions researchers James Montgomery and The Informer.
George Carlin and Mark Twain are compared. Twain's "Elements of Satire" is reviewed. What is the nature of government? What did Christ teach about politics?
North Carolina, like Rhode Island, was resistant to the Constitution. Eric reads a powerful 28 January, 1788 poem "On The New Constitution" published in the State Gazette of South Carolina. The poem leveled serious charges against the Founders and their tactics.
What were some of the circumstances surrounding the Hamilton-Burr Duel? A scene from "The Way We Were" reminds us of today's political discourse.
The show concludes with a scene from "Life is Worth Losing" by George Carlin.
Weekday World, December 17, 2018
Dec. 16, 2018, 11:26 p.m.
If Music Could Talk - Dec 16 2018
Dec. 16, 2018, 10:24 p.m.
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0487
Dec. 16, 2018, 6:18 p.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
Martian Gardens Episode 958 Hour 3
Dec. 16, 2018, 12:59 p.m.