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TB 190712 The Backfire Effect 2X
July 12, 2019, 5:11 a.m.
This weekâs archive radio show starts off with some humorous observations of our president, we review the Olympia Standard podcast, the Toothless Old Grandpa tells us about the latest liberal outrage â and for the feature piece this week we discuss the âbackfire effectâ, a phenomenon that assists with the interjection of all the âfake newsâ into our narrative.
Zapping evildoers since 2012. Itâs the Thunderbolt!
July 12, 2019, 2:34 a.m.
Label / Radio / sunriseoceanbender.com / Sunrise Ocean Bender airs in the flesh Thursdays 9-11pm EST on WRIR 97.3 FM, Richmond, Virginia / wrir.org. Downloads are for rebroadcast on other non-profit radio stations.
July 12, 2019, 1:14 a.m.
An eclectic hour of Classical music.
Sounds From the Global Village 1914
July 11, 2019, 10 p.m.
An hour of music from around the world.
The Shortwave Report 07/12/19 Listen Globally!
July 11, 2019, 3:16 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 Deutsche-Welle, Sputnik Radio, and Radio Havana Cuba.
Conservative Takeover of the US Constitution Part 1/3: William Marshall
July 11, 2019, 5:13 a.m.
There may be no more consequential trend in contemporary America than the conservative focus on the courts - and the lack of an equally forceful response. This series will look at this issue from different perspectives. This is Part 1 of 3.
US-UK and Saudi Arabia Trying to Control Sudan
July 10, 2019, 8:49 p.m.
After months of popular demonstrations, the army has removed President Bashir in Sudan. However, the new question is who will rule. The Western imperialist powers, namely the the US and UK, are working closely with Saudi Arabia to bring Sudan into alignment with their interests. But the people want civilian rule, and no part of Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. Both the protest movement and the army have unpredictable divisions in their own camps.
Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 130 You Need to Calm Down
July 10, 2019, 8:21 p.m.
An original radio theatre show each week, with most sounds culled from the previous week, about a fictional, theatrical presidency. Contradictions tell the story, with songs, skits, and clips from political news shows and late-night comedy routines. The definition of "radio theatre" is stretched here, with an updated Dickie Goodman and/or Richard Foreman-meets-mashup style sometimes, and a more straightforward take other weeks. Currently airing on 30 or 40 stations around the world, the network has ordered another 15 episodes, but there are threats of cancellation. Anyone who would like to work on a production, or have their work air in this timeslot, should contact info@wgxc.org.
July 10, 2019, 5:27 p.m.
The opening hour of Rural War Room's weekly radio broadcast. Usually the show is four hours, but this week, RWR goes for five. Regularly 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband, and other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
July 10, 2019, 5:18 p.m.
The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband, and other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
July 10, 2019, 5:11 p.m.
The third hour of Rural War Room's (usually) four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband, and other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
July 10, 2019, 5:03 p.m.
The fourth hour of Rural War Room's (usually) four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband, and other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
New Commission, Councils, Parliament & Central Bank 2019-2024. The EU power puzzle
July 10, 2019, 3:05 p.m.
July 10, 2019, 2:11 p.m.
An hour of the best in Jazz.
Sonic Cafe #143/Goes WAY Over The Top!
July 10, 2019, 1:55 p.m.
If I Only Knew, from 1994, thatâs the very excitable Tom Jones here at the Sonic Café, so ah, how you doinâ? Iâm your host Scott Clark, welcome to episode 143. This time the Sonic Café slams the transmission into over drive and keeps it there as we present a mix that goes way over the top. Listen for music from The Meatmen, Frank Zappa & the Motherâs of Invention, Snarky Puppy, Speech Debelle, William Shatner, The Presidents of the United States of America and many more. Weâll also hear Jack Nicholson and Patrick Stewart in a couple of way over the top movie moments. Then as a public service, the Sonic Café presents the latest in security trends. Listen as comedian Nate Bargatze explains an over the top way to protect yourself without fighting or a gun. And finally, a big Sonic Café shout-out to our newest sponsor. Listen for a message from Blox. Blox uses a patented formula, developed by the Pentagon, thatâs guaranteed to keep your home and family germ free. Keep germs on the run with Blox. All that and of course more, as we turn the dial up to 11 and go way over the top, this time from that little café on the coast, weâre the Sonic Café.
July 10, 2019, 1:34 p.m.
The bonus/fifth/closing hour of Rural War Room's four-hour (unless we keep going) weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Also on KAOS Radio Austin, Texas; KTHS Radio Hot Springs, Ar; KBOG Radio Bandon, Oregon; and others. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, ReverbNation, SongKick. Buy albums by the Rural War Room cyberband, and other acts on the RWR Label on AppleMusic & Amazon. http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - Click Series above for full archive.
July 10, 2019, 1:26 p.m.
We look at some campy songs we like to call "Baseball Cheeze" while some polka songs might have too much information and a rap song that we think is a crime to your ears!
James Phillips on US Responsibility for Honduras Crisis
July 10, 2019, 1:11 p.m.
Breaking through the mix of a national media blackout, James Phillips exposes the role that the Obama and Trump administrations, and Hillary Clinton, in particular, have played in the destabilization of Honduras, the coup against Pres. Miguel Zelaya in 2009, and the fraudulent elections of 2013 and 2017 that have helped maintain the corrupt regime the corrupt regimes of Porfirio Lobo (2010-2013) and Juan Orlando Hernandez (2013to the present) in power.
Phillips describes the actions taken by Zelaya, a businessman, to benefit the Honduran people, which led him to be seen as a traitor to his class by his fellow businessmen and his outreach to Cuba and to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela was more than the US would tolerate in what it considers its âbackyard.â When it comes to the Americas, Phillips points out, there is no fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Phillips traces the history between the two countries in which Honduras plays the role of a colony as well as a key staging ground for military activities in the Americas such as support for the Contras against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.
From an economic standpoint, Honduras, a country, rich in natural resources, has been a serial victim of the extraction of those resources for the benefit of private and foreign investors which has been a major factor in the depressed state of the nationâs economy which feeds the very violence which has caused thousands of Hondurans to flee to the US where they have said whatever happens to them at the border is better than living in fear in their country
In the days before, after and during the 10th anniversary of the June 28, 2009 coup, there were major protests throughout the country which the US media largely ignored while, for example, NPR carried multiple stories about protests in Sudan as if what happens in that country some relevance to a US audience (which would have a hard time following either country on the map. JB)
And much more!
Jeff Blankfort on Iran, China, Hezbollah, Israel Occupied USG
July 10, 2019, 12:56 p.m.
I begin with a reference to Marianne Williamson calling out her fellow Democrat presidential aspirants for not talking about US responsibility for border migrant crisis and chide Bernie Sanders for not using the moment to expose Obama & Trump administration complicity in supporting the coup and fraudulent elections in Honduras.
I go from there to Iran, reporting on British marine seizure of Iranian oil tanker head to Syria and Iran threat to retaliate and from there to describing how Chinese oil tankers have found a way to fill their tankers with Iranian oil through a âdisappearing then reappearingâ operation.
Next, I report on Israelâs continuing propaganda war on Hezbollah, assisted by US media, and the application of sanctions on three members of Hezbollah, including two who serve in the Lebanese parliament by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury.
I identify that office as an agency of the Israel government, pointing out that the present head of that office is an Israeli and that every key official that has served there is either an American or Israeli Zionist zealot.
I go from there to Nancy Pelosiâs capitulation to a caucus of reactionary Democrats and Republicans in the House, the Problem Solvers Caucus, in approving the Senate Bill on border funding which contains nothing to alleviate or improve inhuman conditions on the US border.
I finish by announcing an upcoming worldwide âLights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Campsâ on Friday, July 12 and where people from Mendocino Co. will be vigiling.
Between the Lines for July 10, 2019
July 10, 2019, 7:39 a.m.
Refugee Humanitarian Crisis at US-Mexico Border Linked to Climate Change; Corporate Lobbyists Ramp-up Effort to Stop Medicare For All; Broad Coalition Defeats Plan to Build Federal Prison on Former Mountaintop Removal Coal Site.
July 9, 2019, 9:15 p.m.
July 4 - Imagine a World Without America - Burn the Flag from Coast to Coast. In Washington DC: At 5pm on July 4th, Joey Johnson, along with Carl Dix and members of the Revolution Club and the National Revolution Tour burned an American flag within sight of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, in opposition to Trump, his âSalute to Americaâ, and everything he and America stand for. At the US Mexico border in San Ysidro: The Los Angeles Revolution Club held an âImagine a world without Americaâ ceremony at 4 pm on July 4, at the border wall in San Ysidro. We'll get a report from Carl Dix, a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
The Freeway 9 - This Fight Is Not Over!
The Stakes Are Great for All Those Who Hate This Regime, and Who Wish for a Better World
The trial in Los Angeles of two of the Freeway 9, arrested for protesting the fascist Trump/Pence regime and calling for massive nonviolent sustained mobilization to drive out this regime, just ended in a mistrial. A mistrial, in this instance, is a âhung juryâ that could not agree on any of the charges.
This was an important victory, bringing forward determination of some on the jury to refuse to convict these people of any crime. At the same time, this fight is not over.
We'll hear from the two defendants, Alex and Chantelle, on why they did what they did, and from Annie Day, from the Freeway 9 Defense Committee and The Bob Avakian Institute, on the context of the case and what the Defense Committee will be doing going forward.
Anne, A New Play, a unique play by Dutch playwrights Jessica Durlacher and Leon de Winter, reframes Anne's story through an unconventional lens. In this new adaptation, 13-year-old Anne Frank imagines her life as a young woman - safe in a post-war world. When she meets a publisher who expresses interest in her story, She looks back on the two years she spent hidden away with her family during the Nazi regime. We spoke with two of the actors, Ava Lalezarzadeh (Anne) and Rob Brownstein (Otto Frank), as well as director Eve Brandstein.
July 9, 2019, 8:36 p.m.
Eclectic modern jazz.
On American Orders, UK Pirates Capture Iranian Vessel Off Gibraltar
July 9, 2019, 8 p.m.
Gibraltar is a British Outpost, commanding the entrance/exit to the Mediterranean sea. It rightly belongs to Spain, but the British won't give it back. And they don't trust Spain to do their bidding at this strategic spot. But when the US commands, the UK obeys. So British marines took over an Iranian vessel, in complete violation of international law. Empires can't change their habits. Iran, Russia, China and other self-respecting states are no longer trifling in their response.
Mark Coleman on Mindfulness and Nature
July 9, 2019, 4:25 p.m.
The last time you went for a little walk around the neighborhood, did you take a few moments to drink in the natural beauty around you, even in the most unlikely of places, like a timid squirrel, a blossoming tree or a unique cloud formation or did you choose to zone out with a podcast, talk on the phone or text someone? This weekâs guest on Sea Change Radio wants you to try your best next time to be more attentive of your surroundings - and, who knows, it might just become a habit. We speak to author and nature meditation teacher, Mark Coleman, about his new book From Suffering To Peace, and the steps we can take to appreciate our environment in hopes that we can become happier, kinder and better stewards of our planet.
Rodolfo Gomez - A Walk in the Costa Rican Rain Forest
July 9, 2019, 3:39 p.m.
On the eastern slope of the Continental Divide, about an hourâs drive east of San Jose, Costa Rica, is the Rain Forest Aerial Tram, a tramway that travels through, above and below the rain forest canopy. The rain forest canopy is home to more diverse forms of flora and fauna than anywhere else in the known universe. Rodolfo Gomez, trained as an architect, has found his calling as a tour guide in Central America and specifically Costa Rica. My daughter Molly and I met with Rodolfo in the rain forest, near the aerial tram and recorded this program in April of 1995.
Originally Broadcast: June 20, 1995
July 9, 2019, 3:29 p.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
Jane Anne Morris: Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy
July 9, 2019, 11:43 a.m.
Long before the 2010 Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United ruled that corporations as persons are entitled by the U.S. Constitution to buy elections and run our government, Jane Anne Morris had written, spoken out, and campaigned on the decades long efforts of US corporations to use the Supreme Court to expand and solidify their power. She likens the US Supreme Court to the infamous unelected panels that today, in international trade, are empowered to overrule the laws of entire countries - even the size of Canada and China - when they are putting restrictions on corporate trade, or have the audacity to protect the environment and labor.
Jane Anne Morris was one of the principal members of the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD.org), a think tank of about a dozen individuals, co-founded by Ward Morehouse and Richard Grossman just before the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.
Recorded one year before Citizens United this interview reflects Jane Anne Morris research of the previous decade. She was interviewed by Tom Lewiston on Network X in Seattle on January 10, 2009
A link to this interview on film is on <tucradio.org> Jane Anne Morris died on May 28th, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. She was about to complete a book on the role of the US Supreme Court in dismantling democracy. We hope that someone will be able to put together her notes.
The Motherland Influence: July 7, 2019
July 9, 2019, 11:33 a.m.
African, Latin & Caribbean music
July 9, 2019, 11:28 a.m.
Congolese popular music.
Commentary on Hong Kong protests
July 8, 2019, 8:58 p.m.
Phil Taylor and Phil Conlon comment on the demonstrations in Hong Kong.