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TB 180126 Most Awesome Human on the Planet Award #1 2X

This week the Thunderbolt has suggestions about military recruiters, a contemplation on liars in public office, we describe an actual legal war that the United States is not currently engaged in, we describe how toxic the name Goldman $achs has become, and finally we have the first nomination for the official Thunderbolt Most Awesome Human on the Planet Award! Yippee!

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The Shortwave Report 01/26/18 Listen Globally!

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. Radio Deutsche-Welle, Sputnik Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and NHK Japan.

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January 24, 2018

Deep blues; left-field forro from Brazil's northeast; Lounes Matoub, the musical poet laureate of the Kabyle (Berber) people; salsa Colombiana dancefloor fillers

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Out of the Woods - Show #408 - 2-3-18

This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length. Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Kate MacLeod, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #192 - 2-2-18

Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull. The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week

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Sounds Irish 1-25-18

Sounds Irish is a weekly program coming straight from County Wicklow in Ireland, hosted by Joe Bollard, one of the elder statesmen of the Irish show band scene. Each program features a variety of Irish and Irish-related songs from many different genres, along with a healthy dose of banter from your host. Please consider adding Sounds Irish to your stations' weekly lineup of programs. All we ask is that we know where the show is being aired so that we can give mention on the program. To contact the show, it is best to send email to Joe Bollard directly at everton274@sky.com The 2-hour program is posted weekly in multiple parts for broadcasters to insert their own breaks.

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Show #2

Produced at the studios of WLSL-LP, Saint Leo University Radio

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CPR News, January 25, 2018

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Weekday World, January 25, 2018

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La marge a CKIA 24 janvier 2018 Grunge Late Bloomers

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Reggae Explorations #121

Hosted by Mike Roots, “Reggae Explorations” on Wednesdays from 1:00p to 3:00 PM, is WAPJ’s longest running show, having its start (as “Positive Vibrations”) at the station’s inception in March of 1997. On “Reggae Explorations” you’ll hear a mix of tracks from newer and lesser known artists, classic tunes, and deeper cuts than you would normally hear elsewhere. In addition, you’ll be treated to the “Motherland Track of the Week”, an occasional “Lovers Rock Set”, and even selections from off the beaten path. Mike Roots is a reggae artist and reviewer, and brings an inside perspective with interesting facts to enhance the listening experience. Tune in to “Reggae Explorations” for your weekly excursion into the world of strictly conscious, roots and culture, reggae music. NOTE: Reggae Explorations can now also be heard on Thursdays from 7-9pm CT on Dolphin Radio WXDR 99.1 FM in New Orleans.

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Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 54

Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 54 Testify. Will our hero testify? What did all the others testify?

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Israel's new blacklist gambit, and Rashid Khalidi's UN speech on the impact of Balfour on Palestinians

Today we start with an extensive Mondoweiss article on Israel's new "blacklist" assault on human rights proponents. Israel continues to be obsessed by the success of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. Israel is trying to legislate against it at both the state and federal level, and is now attempting to prevent its proponents from entering Israel, which includes the Palestinian territories. Following that, we'll share a speech by Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi on the Impact of the Balfour Declaration on the Palestinian people. It is presented to the UN Committee To Advance the Rights of the Palestinian People.

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Cheeze Pleeze # 709

We profile an album that gets a little intense with Ukelele's, music you want to stage a car chase with, and Snarf and Daffy move around the bunker and find a way to replace hiding records in the old glove compartment in the van with a little help of some air pressure...

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Ground Zero - Joe Delaney with latest on the Grenfell Tower enquiry

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Sonic Cafe #71/The LOW BUDGET Show

It’s the Sonic Café. Welcome to episode 71, I’m your host Scott Clark. This time we’re putting the Sonic Café on a low budget. Everything you’ll hear this hour is a bit on the cheap. Listen for flat broke tunes from Tommy Tutone, Buddy Guy, Donovan, DJ Shadow the Kinks and more… plus 2008 Poor House music from Billy Bob Thornton and The Boxmasters. And then later on listen for comedian Jeff Foxworthy’s opinion on discount medical procedures. Oh, and a quick reminder, you can stream the complete back catalog of Sonic Café episodes from Mixcloud.com. Just go to mixcloud.com, search Sonic Café and all our shows pop-up on one easy to click screen, it’s just that easy. So pop in your cheapest pair of ear buds, crank up the volume, and go for a low budget ride with us this time… on the Sonic Café.

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Paul Pillar on Iran Protests and Interventions in Syria

Paul Pillar is interviewed on two related subjects about which he has recently written, the protests in Iran (“Gazing at Iran Through a Distorted Glass”) and Syria (“A New Decision to Go to War in Syria”) for the National Interest. In the first he points out that interpretations of Iran's protests and those similar have more to do what is happening in the US and various agendas of players in the US than what is actually happening on the ground. This is particularly true of Iran where the protests, initiated by hardliners who oppose Pres. Rouhani soon involved others upset with the downturn in economic conditions. While acknowledging that both the US and Israel have an interest in fomenting civic unrest in Iran, the fact that the protests were never large, had different agendas based on realistic complaints and didn't expand argues against either country being behind them, nor the MEK, the Mojahedin-e Khalq, a one-time Marxist group that opposed Khomeni and went over to the side of Saddam Hussein when Iraq attacked Iran, which Pillar says is now insignificant n terms of Iranian society. Pillar examines the role the US has played in trying to directly and indirectly undermine the JCPOA nuclear agreement, its efforts to stem foreign investments the Iranian economy using the threat of secondary sanctions administered by the US Treasury, and what would likely happen should Trump pull the US out of the deal. Re the situation in Syria, he goes over the points he makes in introducing his article on Syria: “Behind a façade of continuity, the deployment of U.S. armed forces in Syria for the purposes that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson described in a speech this week represents a departure from what such forces were originally sent to Syria to do.  “The Trump administration is having U.S. troops participate indefinitely in someone else’s civil war, for reasons that are quite different from the original stated objective of helping to quash the so-called caliphate of the Islamic State (ISIS).  The new reasons do not stand up to scrutiny in terms of defending any threatened U.S. interests.  The administration has in effect made a decision to immerse the United States in yet another foreign war.” Read the entire article here: http://nationalinterest.org/blog/paul-pillar/new-decision-go-war-syria-24161 He also suggests that the main reason that so few Americans seem to care about what the US military is doing around the world is the absence of the draft, pointing out that in the Sixties, when he was in college, every campus was concerned with the draft and the ongoing war in Vietnam.

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Jeff Blankfort: News/Op: Honduras, Syria, Israel's Trump

I open by noting that no head of state places the civil liberties and right to protest of its citizens high on its agenda and only those of other nations when it is politically useful, such as Trump's tweeted support of Iran protests but silence when they are against a client state such as Honduras. But what about media silence, including NPR, on Honduras since December? I provide an update and news regarding Honduras. I point out again that Americans, across the political spectrum, have blocked out US overseas wars in favor of domestic issues and cite Bernie Sanders' concern that the government shutdown will affect the Pentagon and what it has to do. “We have to pay them,” says Bernie. I then review Rex Tillerson's speech at Stanford, calling for the ouster of Bashar al-Assad as a requirement for stabilizing Syria while announcing that the US will be training a 30,000 person Kurd force and is in the country to stay. I point out that the US has no business being in Syria and respect no country's sovereignty other than its own. I suggest that Turkey's incursion into Syria attacking Kurdish forces is a response to Tillerson's comments. I refer to a NY Times article on how the US attitude towards Israel has changed under Trump, eliminating any notion of even-handedness in favor of all out support for Israel and the cutting of aid to Palestinian refugees underscores that. I note that Trump is more popular in racist Israel than anywhere else in the world and that Mike Pence was the first US VP to address the Israeli Knesset. I conclude by pointing out Israel's control over Congress, that he has twice received 29 standing ovations from joint sessions of both Houses which led the NY Times Tom Friedman to write that Congress is “bought and paid for by the Israel Lobby.”

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Between the Lines for January 24, 2018

Government Shutdown Ends Without Resolving DACA Issue; Resistance Movement Shifts Focus to Defeating GOP/Trump Agenda in 2018 Elections; Democratic Deputy Chair Keith Ellsion Urges Activists to Focus on Grassroots Engagement

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Walkuman Style #192

1. Suspect Beats - All Stars Mob ft. Maku & Kunoichi 2. Cut the Check remix - Bill Ray ft. Sadat X and Blu 3. ANFOYU - davepsy ft. Blu and Ahmad 4. Down Payment - Stik Figa ft. Elzhi 5. What Do You Hold Dear - John Reilly 6. Last of Two Dollar Bills - Kool Krys 7. Hot Damn - Venomous 2000 & Trilan ft. The Artifacts, Tiye Phoenix & DJ Trickalome 8. Raw Spit - Jay Holly 9. Straight Razor - Hus Kingpin & SmooVth 10. Feeling Like Diddy - Grand Daddy I.U. ft. AG The Coroner and Don Black 11. Hodge Podge - MidaZ the Beast, Murdoc, Ollie Ox Grill & Al Mighty 12. The Dew In It - Moka Only 13. PineappleRockCreek - Drew Dave 14. Boom - Edo.G 15. Black God - Methuzulah ft. Sa-Roc and DJ Eveready 16. Daydreaming/O Sonhador - Kid Abstrakt & The Deli (cuts by DJ Million Faces) 17. Ghetto - J Scienide ft. Kev Brown 18. Celebrate - Es Nine ft. Fo Chief 19. Oh! - Sultan Mir 20. 2AM Vibes - Mecca:83 ft. Monma 21. Don't Get It Twisted - Vic Grimes 22. Sit With The Winners - Agallah Don Bishop & Duke Westlake 23. Frequent Fliers Pawz One ft. El Da Sensei 24. Drama - Madchild 25. Rap Essentials - Dan-E-O ft. Mathematik and Deuce Deuce 26. Feast - Dillon & Diamond D 27. Untouchable - Rez4Real, NA$TY, GTV, Marvolus, Peezy & Chin 28. Alive - Stess The Emcee ft, C-Red, Sha Stimuli and Mela Manchinko 29. Uncle Usi Taught Me - Brother Ali 30. Fat Catz - Chronic Tone ft. DJ Bobby Bangers 31. Karate Practice - Bozack Morris & Daniel Son 32. 4-14-17 - Melvin Junko 33. Ahm - DJ Connect 34. This Is....Finished - Sultan Mir 35. 8-13-17 - Melvin Junko 36. Sorry (Dummy Smacks Remix Instrumental) - MentPlus 37. P's and Q's remix (*inst.) - Marco Polo 38. Perfect Timing remix - Max I Million 39. Lawd-A-Merzzy - Nameless 40. Well Then... - Moka Only

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CPR News, January 24, 2018

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Weekday World, January 24, 2018

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Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers and The Post

Radio Curious revisits a 1997 conversation with whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg who released “The Pentagon Papers” in 1971.

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Tony Gosling 2017 Green Gathering The War On Terror Is Not Meant To Be Won

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The Execution of Martin Luther King, William Pepper (TWO of TWO)

In Part ONE: Bill Pepper became James Earl Ray’s lawyer when he found out that Ray was not the murderer. His friendship with King and his family goes back to 1967. Pepper had gone to Vietnam and taken photos of children burned by napalm. King asked to meet with him and they worked closely together during the anti-Vietnam war phase of King’s life. After the failure of all his efforts to get James Earl Ray a new trial, William Pepper recommended one more option to the King family. In this Part TWO Pepper explains why he recommended a wrongful death suit against Loyd Jowers and other known and unknown conspirators. For the first time under oath in any assignation case there is the complete picture of how Martin Luther King was killed. It took the jury 59 minutes to come back with a verdict against Loyd Jowers and an award for the family. There is a summary of the outcome - as well as 4,000 pages of transcripts posted on the King Center web site. Here is what Coretta Scott King said about the case: "After four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict on December 8, 1999 after about an hour of deliberations that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. In a press statement held the following day in Atlanta, Mrs. Coretta Scott King welcomed the verdict, saying , “There is abundant evidence of a major high level conspiracy in the assassination of my husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. And the civil court's unanimous verdict has validated our belief. I wholeheartedly applaud the verdict of the jury and I feel that justice has been well served in their deliberations. This verdict is not only a great victory for my family, but also a great victory for America. It is a great victory for truth itself. ... The jury was clearly convinced by the extensive evidence that was presented during the trial that, in addition to Mr. Jowers, the conspiracy of the Mafia, local, state and federal government agencies, were deeply involved in the assassination of my husband. The jury also affirmed overwhelming evidence that identified someone else, not James Earl Ray, as the shooter, and that Mr. Ray was set up to take the blame. I want to make it clear that my family has no interest in retribution. Instead, our sole concern has been that the full truth of the assassination has been revealed and adjudicated in a court of law… My husband once said, "The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice." To-day, almost 32 years after my husband and the father of my four children was assassinated, I feel that the jury's verdict clearly affirms this principle. With this faith, we can begin the 21st century and the new millennium with a new spirit of hope and healing.” http://www.thekingcenter.org/assassination-conspiracy-trial William Pepper is an acclaimed lawyer who practices international law in London. His book by Verso is: AN ACT OF STATE, The Execution of Martin Luther King. For more information: http://www.williampepper.com/books.html

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Bob Avakian, The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Also, Why DO People Come Here From All Over the World?

Michael Slate - Host and Producer Henry Carson - Assistant Producer Jeff Pryor - Production Assistant Teddy Robinson - Engineer  

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Kris De Decker: Enough Is Enough

In our quest to make a better world, we often strive for more efficient use of resources. But is the goal of efficiency the right one? Our guest this week on Sea Change Radio, Low Tech Magazine founder, Kris De Decker, makes a compelling case for the abandonment of efficiency as the barometer for planetary stewardship. He proposes we use the simpler, but perhaps more painful objective of sufficiency. De Decker argues that pursuing greener, more efficient methods and technologies is, more often than not, a fool's errand. He maintains that the human appetite for comfort, growth, and acquisition tends to turn efficiencies into increased consumption, and that the only way to truly fight climate change is for all of us to recognize that enough is, well, enough.

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CPR News, January 23, 2018

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ELP Live from Montreal - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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