TB 170915 Quantitative Screwing 2X

The Thunderbolt is still not being broadcast over the air. (Hitches in plans and ‘processes’ that I had previously been unaware of — but hopefully we’ll be on KAOS after their fund drive next month.) Since producing these shows is a lot of work, I am only recording one new show a month now instead of two and I have thus put together another show from the archives for you. (One advantage to archive shows is that no dogs ever make it into the show a second time, though…) This week’s show starts off with some central themes that I have been hitting on for years now. Then, we point out how during the last presidential election, one of the choices was completely intolerable — whilst the other was utterly unacceptable. Next, we reveal the secrets of the cosmos with our semi-regular ‘Wisdom of the Thunderbolt’ series, the Toothless Old Grandpa goes postal, we provide a basic course on how to influence public policy — and for the feature piece this week we describe an economic practice that is usually called ‘quantitative easing’ but that here in the Thunderbolt we refer to as what it actually is, i.e. ‘quantitative screwing’. Yes — it’s quantitative outrage mixed with a dash of pique this week — so listen at your own risk!

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Earth First! Update - 14 Sept, 2017

Radical, No Compromise Environmental News with an emphasis on Biodiversity and Direct Action

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If Music Could Talk - Sep 10 2017

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The Shortwave Report 09/15/17 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. Sputnik Radio, NHK Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, and Spanish National Radio.

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Commentary September 11, 2017

Socialist Cuba handles the hurricane, no codes Houston had a problem; NFL plantation bosses keep Kaep out bring back Confederate troubadour Hank, Jr.

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Upstate Radio Theatre 1714

An hour of Old Time Radio. http://qualityradioproducitons.blogspot.com

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CPR News, September 14, 2017

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Out of the Woods - Show #389 - 9-23-17

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 #173 - 9-22-17

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 9-14-17

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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Sonic Cafe #53 - The CURE for GLOBAL WARMING!

Sonic Café! We play our own kind of music. Welcome to episode 53, I’m your host Scott Clark. This time our eclectic mix leap frogs all over the place covering 100 years! How about that? From way back in 1963 to the the not too distant future of 2063. Listen for tunes from The Born Again Fluzzies, Cinemaphonic, Richard Wright from his Wet Dreams solo release, The Beatles, The Guess Who and more… Plus classic jazz from Joe Henderson’s Page One LP. Then we drop in on Vice President Al Gore. You remember Al… he invented the Internet in the nineties… and though he didn’t invent global warming he did invent a really nice slideshow about it in 2006 and we’ve got excerpts from it. And finally the Sonic Cafe leaps into the future to discover how our most handsome politicians finally crush global warming and save the planet. Wow… intelligent music, comedy, pop culture and the cure for global warming… all this time as we play our own kind of music… right here at the Sonic Café.

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La marge a CKIA 13 septembre 2017 Bruce Springsteen

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Lake Air 1713

An hour of smooth jazz with a touch of new age and acoustic music. http://qualityradioproducitons.blogspot.com

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Sounds From the Global Village 1713

An hour of World music. http://qualityradioproductions.blogspot.com

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September 13, 2017

Folk-rock with Indonesian and Greek seasoning; new Afrobeat from Professor Wouassa and Antibalas; more of la guitare from the Sahara Desert; Colombia's terapia -- it's good for what ails you

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Between The Lines Week Ending September 22, 2017

Institute for Policy Studies' Global Economy Project's Sarah Anderson: Trump-GOP Supported Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Produce Jobs; RootsAction.org's Norman Solomon: Left and Right Battle Over the Future of the Democratic Party; LGBTQ prisoner support group Black and Pink's Reed Miller: LGBTQ Prison Support Group Black and Pink Works to Empower their Incarcerated Members

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Repression in Rwanda has US-UK support

Two women have stood up to Kagame’s dictatorship in Rwanda, Victoire Ingabire and Diane Rwigara. Both were blocked from running for President, facing intimidation and eventual arrest. Victoire is in her seventh year in prison and Rwigara and her family are basically in custody. The public has to be told about this injustice, which has US-UK support. Anne also warns that writers/commentators should avoid comparing Kagame and Kim Jung-un and other alleged designated “bad guys”, such comments only bring confusion rather than clarity.

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Cheeze Pleeze # 690

This week...a little polka....we look at records trying to cash in on the beatles hype of the 60s and tribute song for our favorite countdown host and the hoff drops by looking for a cheeseburger!

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The 4th Reich: Transhumanism, the History of a Dangerous Idea with David Livingstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2YnNOGKcQ

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Army Maj. Danny Sjursen rips US wars, self-image, hypocrisy

US Army Major Danny Sjursen, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq wars and still on active duty at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, elaborates on his recent article for TomDispatch, “Worth Dying For? When it Comes to the War in the Greater Middle East, Maybe We're the Bad Guys” which he acknowledges represents his views an not those of the Dept. of the Army, the Dept. of Defense, or the US Government. This becomes abundantly clear as he skewers the notion of the US as “the indispensable nation” or a “force for good,” in the world and the indifference of Americans to the violence that their country has been doing and continues to so around the world, citing the US support for the ongoing air-war being conducted by Saudi Arabia against the people of Yemen. He also castigates the public's refusal to acknowledge America's responsibility for the refugee crisis that its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have caused and wonders if it is too late to turn things around. Sjursen has particularly harsh criticism for Washington's choice of allies, the Saudis, Israel, and Egypt, and compares the US reaction to the behavior of the Saudis (whose fundamentalist Wahabist doctrine he condemns) with that of ISIS, when they do the same thing, such as be-headings. That the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have become interminable he attributes to Nixon's ending of the draft before which America's young men and their families had “skin in the game,” and to the preference of the military for a professional army, about which, he notes the country's founders had serious questions. Without the draft, he points out, there can be no serious antiwar movement. He points out that all of the military actions taken by the USG since 911 have been justified by the loosely interpreted “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists” given to Pres. GW Bush on 9/14/01 and noted that there is a new effort in the Senate by Elizabeth Warren and Rand Paul to repeal it. Sjursen notes the contradictions among those in today's army. While pleased with the “socialized” health care and the generous benefits provided by the government, a sizable segment tend to hold extreme right positions, politically, which fits in with what he describes as an “anti-intellectual” climate, in general. He is particularly critical of the way military service is portrayed in American culture, citing its pervasive presence in National Football League games, with huge American flags, troops on display and fly-overs and disgusted with the yellow ribbons and the polite but insincere “thank you for your service” statements spoken by politicians and the public. Major Sjursen speaks with remarkable courage and justifiable anger at what he has seen happen to his country and that he does so from “the belly of the beast” is all the more extraordinary. And sadly, all too rare.

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Jeff Blankfort: News/Op: 911, No. Korea, Iran, Israel, AIPAC

Blankfort, noting 911 memorials, wonders if there were moments of silence for the millions of victims of America's response, citing Gen. McCrystal's unnecessary concern that Americans would care. They don't. He points out that while questions remain about “official narrative” for 911, debates and discussions about it are barred from mainstream and equivalent alternative media while no one pays attention or cares that there have been no trials for those in Guantanamo accused of masterminding the attacks and that none are planned. Blankfort reports on new sanctions on No. Korea and explains why US threats of economic sanctions against China if it doesn't do more to bring Pyongang to heel are hot air since US is so in debt to China in terms of debt and reliance of Chinese imports that any move against Beijing would bring down US economy. He then quotes from Nikki Haley's speech at AEI in which she trashes Iran and advocates against maintaining nuclear pact with Iran and lies wildly about Hezbollah at a time when Israel is conducting war games on Lebanon's border. He points out that a reported threat from the State Dept. to ask Israel to return $75 million that it had asked for and received in violation of the MOU between Obama and Netanyahu in which Israel would receive $38 billion over 10 years while promising not to ask Congress for additional funds, which Netanyahu ignored, turned out to hold no teeth. He concludes by mentioning a photo of Sen. Lindsay Graham cuddled with Sheldon Adelson and Haim Saban and then PLAYS a minute long promotional message from AIPAC.

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Haberdasher Music Machine

The New Music Machine is normally hosted by Derek Sunshine. It airs on WRIR LP Tuesday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org. It was a pleasure hosting for Derek.

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CPR News, September 13, 2017

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Trump the Swamp: It's in the Cards

Radio Curious visits with father and son duo, Allen and Sid Cooperrider, creators of the "Trump the Swamp" deck of playing cards.

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Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 35

Donald Drumpf Theatre Vol. 35 I'm No Communist. 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, the network has ordered another 15 episodes, but there are threats of cancellation. Anyone who would like to contribute to the show, should contact info@wgxc.org.

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Lies the System Tells Us: Bruce Cumings, the Truth about US Provocations against North Korea; Travis Morales, Hurricane Harvey, A Natural Disaster, the Crisis of a System

Bruce Cumings on the New Danger of War with North Korea. Recently, North Korea fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the Western Pacific Ocean. But who's threatening whom? And what do people need to do? Hurricane Harvey: A Natural Disaster, the Crisis of a System. Travis Morales, revcom.us, has been in Houston since before the hurricane. He'll talk about why this is a crime of the system, what's going on among the people, and how a socialist system would respond to such disasters.

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John Trudell: WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A HUMAN BEING (TWO of TWO)

The many remembrances that were written about John Trudell after his passing on December 8, 2015, showed the extraordinary width and depth of his engagement. Most know of his music and poetry, or of the films that he participated in. Not everybody knew that up to 1979 writing and performing was not even a thought or plan or dream of his. In this part TWO John Trudell opened with a surprising analysis of the practice of voting for the lesser of two evils and continued with thoughts about democracy, technology, and dominance. Trudell described Columbus as one who did not know what a human being is, and tried to activate ancient memories of those who arrived with and after Columbus and their long submerged links to their own tribal ancestry that was erased by the Inquisition. Respect and responsibility are the leading values Trudell referred to and he asked what the repercussions of the fears and doubts and insecurities are that we experience in today's culture. John Trudell spoke in March 2001 at a benefit for the U’wa of Columbia who were resisting oil drilling on their ancestral land. He died on December 8, 2015. Trudell had someone make one final post to his Facebook page 13 hours after he passed. It read, simply: “My ride showed up” “Celebrate Love. Celebrate Life” John Trudell
 February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015

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Aaron Huertas on the Purveyors of Disinformation

Disinformation. It sometimes manifests in theatrical shows of ignorance, like Senior Republican Senator James Inhoffe bringing a snowball to the Senate floor as “evidence” that global warming is a hoax, or the persistent denial coming out of the ill-informed head of the current president that Harvey and Irma are unrelated to climate change. But where does the disinformation start? Sometimes the seeds of willfully inaccurate right-wing talking points are planted by more mainstream conservative thinkers like George Will, Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan, or the latest star of the right wing elite, NY Times opinion columnist, Bret Stephens. Under cloak of sophisticated language, these opinion columnists bury grains in the fertile right-wing psyche that grow into dangerously thorny vines of falsehood. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with DC-based science communicator, Aaron Huertas, to discuss what disinformation Bret Stephens has sown lately regarding the climate. We talk about Stephens’s disregard for solutions that could fight climate change, examine the weaknesses in his research, and ponder what motivates him to reach his simplistic and misleading conclusions.

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Deir-ez-Zor is a Milestone in Liberation of Syria

Phil Taylor comments on the liberation of Deir Ezzor after an epic three-year siege. The U.S. war on Syria has been supported by the biggest collection of lies in recent memory. Phil recalls the turning point in 2013, when Obama's strike on Syria was cancelled, as the U.K. parliament rebelled against it. "They took a deep breath and counted to ten." Russia let it be known it would not allow another Libya. Unfortunately, many dangerous elements remain in this conflict, from U.S./Israeli strikes and provocations to the Al-Qaeda types cultivated by NATO.

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New Music Machine Warm-Up Show

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

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