LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Thursday, 09 FEB 2023] Here are some of today’s media/press notes to help us track and make sense of this plandemic dystopia we all find ourselves living through in the 2020s, including inverted totalitarianism, medical authoritarianism, medical apartheid, police state, post-COVID-19 controlled demolition of the global economy, looming food crisis, the rise of neo-feudalism, houseless encampments of the neo-peasantry, nuclear danger, creeping WWIII provoked by US/NATO/AUKUS imperialism against the BRICS nations and the global south, military pollution, petrol pollution, corporate pollution, chemical pollution, geoengineering, chemical cloud seeding, endocrine disrupting chemicals in the food and water, a worsening global fertility crisis, and industry-induced climate change leading to a climate crisis of melting ice caps, record heatwaves, tornadoes, floods, drought, drying rivers, and other extreme weather events, which threaten life on Earth.
Let’s learn together and find solutions together. Let’s build working class solidarity. Let’s build human solidarity. Let’s form groups and “act for justice”. “[There’s] power anywhere where there’s people,” as Fred Hampton said. Siempre hay esperanza. (Please see below for samples of today’s news cycle.)
I think our priority should not be electoral politics. I think our priority should be building disciplined, organized, militant popular movements. And electoral politics can be part of that movement, but shouldn’t be the primary focus. We have to rebuild those organizations because the only strength we have is in our numbers. And, if we use those numbers correctly, we can pit power against power. But that requires organization.
Chris Hedges (quoted from a 2021 talk at Brooklyn College)
OTHER SALIENT OBSERVATIONS:
- “STOP Sale of KPFK Bld & Flagrant Violations Of Pacifica Bylaws 6 Year Term Limit-Speak Out At KPFA” by laborvideo [via YouTube], 9 MAR 2023. [24min 01sec] [21:56 PST]
- “Sea Ice in Crisis with Peter Wadhams and Patrick Hogan” by Facing Future [via YouTube], 9 MAR 2023. [08:10 PST] QUOTATION FROM VIDEO DESCRIPTION: pending. NOTES: A submersible ‘Ice Fin’ has detected the ubderside of a large glacier is jagged, not smooth, as previously assumed. This jagged underside surface appears to be more susceptible to ‘attack’ from warmer waters. Polar ice melting is now appearing more random than previously thought. The shifting of planetary weight due to ice melting changes appears to be affecting planetary ‘wobble’, which can affect plate tectonic activity. This reminds your author of YouTuber dutchsinse on earthquake forecasting. Coastal storms are proving to make coastal communities less viable, even before ocean level rise impacts take full effect. Mass migration drama has already begun around the world. The speakers conclude with a much-needed critique of ‘those rich people, who think they can ride out any wave’, who only care about profit, who should be helping people relocate from coastal environs, instead of only focusing on sea walls to try and protect property values. As we’re seeing, coastal storms will be a major challenge, which will precede the sea level rise problem, and which may make the sea walls less effective for maintaining viability of coastal properties anyhow.
@LumpenProles, last modified/edited/updated on 10 MAR 2023 at 07:48 PST.
MEDIA NOTES, NEWS, VIEWS, WORKING CLASS BLUES, INFORMATION, INSPIRATION, PERSPIRATION, AND AGITATION FROM A WORKING CLASS PERSPECTIVE*
[Ideally, your author would have included links to all programs listed below. Programs listed without an embeded link or listener notes are based on past scheduling and have not yet been verified. Please check relevant websites for actual programming. / Notes will be modified/edited/updated as time and labor constraints allow. Working class solidarity. ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊]
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Please read this book, if you haven’t already….
*The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests, journalists, authors, and other speakers in today’s sampling of news and information are not necessarily the views of Lumpenproletariat.
The free speech Pacifica Radio Network, perhaps the world’s oldest listener-sponsored, definitely the world’s first and only listener-owned radio network, , includes KPFA (the first Pacifica Radio station; Berkeley, CA), WBAI (NYC), KPFK (Los Angeles), WPFW (D.C.), and KPFT (Houston), and has many other affiliate stations. The U.S. government, having undergone a corporate coup d’état in slow motion (if not a military coup on 22 NOV 1963), and being inimical to the Bill of Rights, is opposed to free speech radio. After the 1999 KPFA Lockouts, listeners won democratic governance of the Pacifica Radio Network. Unfortunately, since then, a liberal (i.e., pro-capitalist or non-anti-capitalist) faction, including KPFA news bosses (Aileen Alfandary, Mark Mericle, et al.), have colluded to undermine democratic governance and to NPR-ize Pacifica Radio. Free speech Pacifica Radio is your radio network, built to broadcast news and information, which the establishment tries to distort or hide from you. We cannot hope for a democratic society without an informed citizenry. Please support free speech Pacifica Radio. Become a member with full voting rights for as little as $25 per year. Then, hold your Pacifica Radio stations accountable and keep Pacifica Radio true to the Pacifica Mission Statement. Then, help expand free speech radio and digital media. Most media/press is state-corporate propaganda. The airwaves belong to the people. Don’t let Democrat partisans colonize free speech radio. Don’t let Democrat partisans keep the working-class imaginary confined within the false left-right paradigm, within the false opposition party that is the Democrat Party, within the corporate two-party dictatorship. The working-class needs institutional power to build political power, not just cultural awareness or cultural celebration, not just “identity politics”, which are mostly cultural, not political, concerns. Political education is as necessary for working-class liberation, as it is central to the Pacifica Mission Statement. Unfortunately, the Democrat Party, the two-party system, the establishment is dumbing down America. And this process of depoliticization and demobilization is being advanced within Pacifica Radio by certain people, apparently connected to the Democrat Party and/or the U.S. government. Please support free speech Pacifica Radio; then, hold it accountable to its Mission Statement. Oust the sophists. Lift up the truth-seekers. This daily column is dedicated to the Pacifica Mission Statement, dedicated to exposing sophistry and deception, dedicated to the liberation of the working-class through communication, dia logos, encouraging mindful action within and between wisdom-cultivating communities. As Einstein suggested, like Socrates before him, the important thing is to not stop questioning.
02:00 PST / 05:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > CODEPINK Radio with CODEPINK Collective
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05:00 PST / 08:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and company
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06:00 PST / 09:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg
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06:00 PST / 09:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > On the Margin
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07:00 PST, KPFK [Los Angeles, CA] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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07:00 PST / 10:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > CODEPINK Radio with CODEPINK activists
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07:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > UpFront with Brian Edwards-Tiekert
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COMMENTS: UpFront is some of the worst Machiavellian perception management, which will never inform the working class, which is oppressed by the power elite, nor help them connect the dots between issues to help the public see the larger truths to be able to learn from past experience. This is liberal [i.e., pro-capitalist or non-anti-capitalist] entertainment and Democrat Party apologism masquerading as critical leftist [i.e., anti-capitalist] journalism and analysis. [ 1 ]
08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > Code Pink Radio
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08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Joy of Resistance with Fran Luck
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09:00 PST / 12:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] & WBAI [NYC] (simulcast) > The Gary Null Show
NOTES (re: The Gary Null Show for Thursday, 9 MAR 2023, PRN.Live livestream): (09:00 PST) ‘challenge maintanstream science ‘ (09:01 PST) [channel/station change (CC )] … (09:58 PST) tuned back in. Null is discussing health and healing topics. | Additional “Show Notes” at PRN.Live.
NOTES (re: The Gary Null Show for Thursday, 9 MAR 2023, WBAI simulcast): (09:36 PST) clip [transcript-worthy (TW)] A politician challenges, interrogates representatives of the US military-industrial-congressional-complex | clip … (09:50 PST) [TW] Laura Igraham on committee hearing on Wuhan Cover-Up [TW] [Dr. Gary Null mentioned he usually disagrees with her on most issues, but on this issue she is right on ] … | (09:54 PST) Null commentary … | (09:58 PST) WBAI goes silent, then cuts to announcements [CC]
COMMENTS: This program, The Gary Null Show, is one of the most honest, compassionate, and hard-hitting shows on Pacifica Radio, or anywhere for that matter. This program is easily as important, as the best of them: Flashpoints; Project Censored; On The Ground: Voices of Resistance From the Nation’s Capitol; Covid, Race & Democracy, Guns and Butter, et al.
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] > Leid Stories with Utrice Leid
NOTES: 1005 Utrice Leid, a late start > ‘Today is a day id like u tl dig deep into ur owm mind…. What ud America’s greatest contradiction? Greatest strength? … | ‘1. Henry from Chicago’ ‘biggest contradiction is that [ostensibly] America is a democracy…’ | 1018 2. ‘Brother David’ [TW] [missed most of it, listening to my neighbor, but Brother David probably gave us his usual important message about the American ruling class…’ … | (1024 PST) 3. ‘Veronica’: ‘In 55 years, I think there has been one year, that America had not been at war…’ TW … | ‘Dino’ … | ‘Walter’ ‘working-class…’ TW. … | ‘Lou from Harlem’, a Brit-sounding bloke, perhaps, black… ‘the greatest strength…’ … 1043 ‘it’s really, really sad…this American myth…I remember hearing USA #1!, but what are you #1 in?’ EL: ‘So, you don’t see any strengths that America has that are worthy of recognition?’ Lou: ‘No. And I’ve traveled the world…For example, in America, you can’t even protest. If people protest they are only allowed to protest on this one avenue… and I have kids here. You feel me? … I’m very disappointed in Americans…when u look at this two-party system, it’s two heads of the same dragon…1046…there are people starving here, the homelessness… 1048 EL: ‘Wow…and yiu defended ur position quite well…’ Lou: ‘Thank u’ … | 1049 EL ‘Ed from Queens’, an all star, regular caller…’ [TW] ‘like the other caller, I’ve traveled the world…’ 1050 … vincent from ny’
COMMENTS: This program, Leid Stories, is dedicated to free speech, but free speech with common sense, courtesy, and focus. Listeners are invited to call in to speak freely about a particular question posed by the host, Utrice Leid. Unlike other call-in shows, like Thom Hartmann, Kris Welch, Mitch Jeserich, and many others on free speech Pacifica Radio, callers aren’t screened or filtered, dissonant voices aren’t cut short, or otherwise handled to control the narrative. Instead, the host, Utrice Leid, helps callers make their point, as long as it’s a cogent argument. Utrice Leid encourages critical thinking. On Fridays, the discussion theme is “Free Your Mind Fridays”, where listeners are invited to call in to articulate an opinion on any topic they wish. KPFA listeners deserve a radio host, like Utrice Leid, during weekdays, instead of partisan hosts, such as Kris Welch, who perpetuate phony establishment narratives, and stifle call-ins. | Leid Stories is one of the most honest, hard-hitting, yet compassionate, programs on the free speech Progressive Radio Network, or anywhere for that matter. This program is easily as important, as the best of them: Project Censored; Flashpoints; The Gary Null Show; On The Ground: Voices of Resistance From the Nation’s Capitol; Guns and Butter; Clearing the FOG; Covid, Race & Democracy; et al.
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Leonard Lopate at Large
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COMMENTS: This program, Leonard Lopate at Large, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Letters and Politics, Talkies, Rising Up, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists)…
10:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] & KPFK [Los Angeles, CA] (simulcast) > Letters and Politics
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COMMENTS: This program, Letters and Politics, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Leonard Lopate at Large, Talkies, Rising Up, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists)…
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > Your Rights at Work
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1100 PST / 14:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] > The Ralph Nader Radio Hour
NOTES: As of Friday, 10 MAR 2023 at 08:29 PST, there is no archive of this edition of this program at PRN.Live. But archives are probably available elsewhere, as the hosts indicate there is also a podcast version of this radio program. | Intro: Seymour Hersh on US Navy planning explosives on Nord Stream pipeline [TW] ‘the CIA said this claim is utterly false’ [If so, where’s the evidence?] + ‘Mickey Huff’ [Yes!] of Project Censored … | 1. Seymour Hersh interview. | 2. Huff … TW. [This was such a good segment! Your aurhor was, literally, cheering out loud, as he listened… If intellectual communication were a boxing match, Mickey Huff would be a heavyweight champ! Three cheers for Mickey Huff!! And right on for the Ralph Nader Radio Hour for stepping up their game in recent weeks and months… ] … 1159 end ‘For podcast listeners, The Wrap-Up(?), is an extended segment of this terrestrial radio broadcast, which for today’s edition, will include a postmortem discussion with Huff on Sy Hersh’s reporting on Nord Stream pipeline
11:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Talkies with Kris Welch
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COMMENTS: This program suffers from what Dr. Noam Chomsky described circa 1991 as “the liberal bias”. Kris Welch is a stalwart defender of Democrat Party reformism. But, of course, the defense is done with subtlety and nuance. Uncritical listeners might even project their own views on to her liberal rhetoric and see what they want to see. But, make no mistake, Kris Welch is a staunch Democrat, a Wellstone Democrat to be precise. The Democrat Party will always be a corrupt, corporate party. Yet, some Democrat reformists never stop with their false left-right paradigm, operating from an underlying assumption or from the presupposition that the Democrat Party is a sincere opposition party to the racist, anti-working class Republican Party. Over time, a pattern of Democrat Party apologia emerges. This seems implausible as an ideological stance. Such apologia only makes sense coming from shills on some payroll.
11:00 PST / 14:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Take Charge of Your Health with Corrine Furnani & Carol Petersen
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12:00 PST / 15:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] > All Together Now with Eleanor LeCain
NOTES: As of Friday, 10 MAR 2023 at 08:24 PST, there is no archive of this program at PRN.Live. | … 1217. Finally getting to the issue at hand…1218 Guest is pointing to transportation as one of the biggest polluters…Beware listeners, this sounds like sophistry, which is covertly pushing UN Agenda 21 (cf. Rachel Corey(sp?)) … Initial thoughts: The idea that making a city emissions-free is some panacea is bogus because emissions are regional…at the very least he should focus on making a county or a state. Your author was born in Stanford Hospital, within Palo Alto city boundaries. And the only reason Palo Alto can claim being emissions free ia because PA gerrymandered out East Palo Alto, carved out where the service workers lived and called that East Palo Alto, and also screwed them out of a tax base by gerrymandering away from them any tax base, by gerrymandering away industry and calling that part of Menlo Park, adjacent to PA…The guest is lying by omission… and the host is not thinking criticallyy here, unfortunately…Your author js disappointed in the host today… Early on the host let the guest go off on a tangent about NASA as a way to run out the clock…so far the guest has not provided any compelling evidence…].. 1220 guest: ‘How do we get people to not get into a car and drive.’ [There it is people…This smacks of the 15-minute City scandal/issue…] … 1225 ‘market signals to guide human behavior towards what works…’ [There it is, fellow readers, that’s code for technocratic capitalist totalitarianism… This guy is gaslighting the listeners… Oh, let me at him…If Rachel Corey were still around, she would eviscerate this man’s sophistry, gaslighting deceptions…] 1227 [The guest is mentioning or askimg about how the working-class is supposed to adapt to this BS…The army of workers, which commutes to the BAy Area invcl PA to work and do everything the rich dont do for themselves…. They will be forced to get on trains like in The Hunger Games, the peasants who must take a long train drive at gunpoint to the wealthy metro area… Surely, you all see this, fellow readers…] … 1229 … [Now, the guest and host are talking about hollow targets and what have you…But the problems humanity faces are not a lack of technology… The problems are political and a lack of political will… What does this host think? Does she think that this charlatan’s ideas are going to be adopted? No, the only thing capitalists will adopt is inverted totalitarianism… Thus far, the only people who have been talking about climate change are the global power elite, but only as cover for their global technocratoc totalitarianism, ie, Klaus Schwab’s motto, You will own nothkng and be happy’ the bogus | 1232 host: ‘Why are you leaving?’ Guest: ‘Mission accomplished…we put Palo Alto in a position of world leadership…’ [See, fellow readers, thst was his goal to create a phony model, which doesn’t work, not actually solving the problem of greenhouse gas emissions. He, himself, admitted the real problem is regional, not at the city level. Yet, five minutes later he turns around and says, Mission accomplished. Bollocks! Hogwash! Poppycock! Bullshit! ] … 1235 [Oh, this host is so disappointing… The guest says he’s next going into the realm of finance…asking ‘How do we finance the world we want?’ Simple. MMT. Next question. ] … 1236 [Next, rhe host asked him if PA is now the greenest city… The host said, well, that actually cannot be measured. WTF?! Then, how is he claiming mission accomplished?! Oh, fellow readers, watch out for charlatans, gaslightersl like this ] ‘NatLogic dot com’ is the guest’s company becayse he says it’s time for him to go back to the private sector. 1238 … host asked, why finance? Guest stammered, uh, because that’s where the game is….they don’t register externalities.. [oH please, externalities, neoclassical economics types always bring up externalities but that’s a political problem. Yet, charlatans like this man avoid political discourse at all costs… Then he went into a lame analogy about a ships rudders and how the world’s rudders are jn tge world of finance…Gawd, such lame sophistry… The only reason finance may be in power is due to political reasons, which both these people are avoiding… ] … 1241 … [U see the problems of pollution come from industry-induced climate change, which is driven by capitalist modes of production. Yet, these people are not even questioning the economic system… All the reforms in the world will only addr3ss symptoms, whilst ignoring the cause, which is capitalist modes of production… ] … 1244 ‘circular modes of economy…recycling…zero waste…] … 1244 ‘There’s a mind shift…’ [Yeah, that’s what he wants, to push a psyop, which guilt trips we, the people, into making lifestyle changes, without questioning capitalist industry, which prioritizes profit over all else… That’s the definition of capitalism, to prioritize capital over labor, over humanity, over the environment, over all else…] … 1248 … ‘We’re facing a climate crisis of epic proprortions…’ … 1249 ‘freeways, airports, hospitals…’ [Notice he’s only picking on the public sector and working-class people, letting his beloved private sector off the hook….] … 1250 ‘UN climate goals’ [….there it is, UN Agenda 21 and the S.M.A.R.T. city agenda ] ‘Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September ..’ [There it is, fellow readers, the global agenda… This man is full of shit, pardon my language. But it’s appropriate. ] 1251 ‘We’re in a very dangerous situation in world history.’ ‘…my work is focused on…how do we guide society…into making better choices.’ [Well, sir, that requires civic engagement and political discourse…Yet, you only want to impose your technocratic dystopia, whilst leaving the global power elite free to subvert the sovereignty of nation states…] 1253 ‘…for each of us individually…we have to align our choices…’ [Notice no community or collective action, only individualism… Next, guest engaged jn Democrat Party apologism…] …1254 … [Guest mentioned this new idea of Green New Deal…No, lady, that’s not a new idea…when Van Jones was promoting it, Obama shut him down, the. VAN jones sold out…then, the global power elite co-opted it… and, now, we have shills for the GLOBAL POWER ELITE agenda pushing a phony version, with WEF’s phony sustainable SGs or whatever… ] ‘American politics…’ … 1256 guest asked what he would suggest… ‘price on carbon’ [BS!] ‘and to shift subsidies…’ [ie, austerity politics… This is total garbage radio right now… I’m sorry, Dr. Gary Null. But we need to sit down with this host and ask her why she didn’t mention Rachel Corey’s book, Behind The Green Mask, or why she didn’t ask about the phony WEF agenda, the SMART cities, the 15-minute cities… This lady is asleep at the wheel!] 1259 ‘Gil Friend…thank u for being a revolutionary…’ [Oh, please… He’s a shill for the Global Power Elite… Zuckerberg lives in Palo Alto…all of Silicon Valley is full of the Big Tech technocrats and totalitarians…] End of program, All Together Now with Bonnie Raiitt theme music, Let’s Give ‘Em Something to Talk About …
COMMENTS: Your author is new to this radio program on the Progressive Radio Network (PRN). Your author has been listening to free speech radio KPFA since childhood, since junior high school (aka ‘middle school’). But, since the 1999 KPFA Lockouts, liberals, like Doug Henwood, a political ally of Sasha Lilley (a host of Against the Grain), have been watering down honest, hard-hitting, yet compassionate free speech radio… An honest, pro-labor, program, like All Together Now, ought to be on KPFA, instead of synthetic left programs, like Behind the News…
12:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Behind the News
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COMMENTS: This program, Behind the News, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Leonard Lopate at Large, Letters and Politics, Talkies, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists). Doug Henwood, like the hosts of Against the Grain (Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong), deserve some credit for providing some informative programs, which are of interest to left-leaning people. And, I must admit, they had me fooled for years into thinking that they are actually leftists. But, at this point in my life, I finally understand that Doug Henwood, like C.S. Soong and Sasha Lilley, will never critique the Democrat Party nor the two-party dictatorship as thoroughly as they may critique the Republican Party. Notably, Sasha Lilley is a political ally of Doug Henwood, helping him get on the KPFA broadcast schedule back during the years when Sasha Lilley was KPFA’s interim Program Director. I remember at least one KPFA ally, speaking against Doug Henwood, calling him a “hack” back then, when I naively perceived Doug Henwood as more leftist than he actually is. Liberals, like Doug Henwood, Sasha Lilley, and C.S. Soong are the most clever of Pacifica Radio liberals because they seem sincere, honest, leftist. But, when you listen closely to them, especially for decades as your author has done, you start to see the liberal bias and the Democrat Party apologia very clearly. It’s obvious over time, especially taking notes on their broadcasts. But such liberals can perpetrate a fraud against occasional listeners, as they have done for years, but all the while contributing to a general dumbing down of free speech Pacifica Radio listeners, especially when it comes to what Dr. Peter Dale Scott, Dr. Peter Phillips, and others call “deep politics”, especially when it comes to moments of kairos, turning points, such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 psyop (chimeric virus is real, most likely lab-engineered through gain of function research; but the statistics and statistical modeling was fraudulent and inflated for fearmongering purposes). All we get is gaslighting from such liberals masquerading as anti-capitalists when it comes to deep politics. Ultimately, this is liberal entertainment for shallow and demobilized types. It takes more sincerity, more willingness to challenge power structures with specifics, naming names, to truly elevate the consciousness of listeners, to activate and politicize and mobilize listeners to go from being passive to active. We need people like Doug Henwood, Sasha Lilley, and C.S. Soong to stop bullshitting listeners, when it comes to deep politics, even when it comes to the two-party dictatorship. Such liberals need to interview and learn from other more honest broadcasters, such as Mickey Huff, Bonnie Faulkner, Dennis Bernstein, Esther Iverem, Gary Null, Steve Zeltzer, et al.
12:00 PST / 15:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Resistance Radio with John Kane and Regan de Loggans
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13:00 PST / 16:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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13:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] >
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14:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > The Visionary Activist
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COMMENTS: This show, The Visionary Activist, is, perhaps, the most egregious example of dishonoring the Pacifica Mission statement. Instead of calling this show The Visionary Activist, it ought to be called The Demobilizing Activist, fomenting analysis paralysis. Fake deep statements. Fetishism of indigenous stuff? Liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists).
14:00 PST / 17:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Driving Forces
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14:00 PST / 17:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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15:00 PST / 18:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > U Must Learn
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15:00 PST / 18:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! Evening with Amy Goodman and company
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COMMENTS: Evidently, a truncated 30-minute version of the morning’s Democracy Now! program functions as WBAI’s nightly newscast.
15:30 PST / 18:30 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Chris Hedges Report [30min]
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16:00 PST / 19:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley [60min]
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16:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Hard Knock Radio with Davey D
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17:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein
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18:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays
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COMMENTS: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays is usually, honest on basic social justice issues, but KPFA newscast bosses tend to gaslight listeners on COVID-19 (never mention VAERS data, VAERS deaths, assaults on informed consent, assaults on parental consent, no mention of litigation in India against the World Health Organization, etc.) and also gaslight listeners regarding establishment Democrat Party politics (i.e., usually engaging in Democrat Party apologia and perception management to keep people within the Democrat Party imaginary and away from the third-party politics imaginary, in the sociology sense of the term, ‘imaginary’). I.e., in other words, ‘it’s all good, just don’t question 9/11, COVID-19, nor establishment electoral politics.’ Having said all that, this is still a better nightly newscast than most. I’m hard-pressed to think of a better one, especially since the demise of Free Speech Radio News (FSRN), particularly regarding local news coverage. But that doesn’t excuse the KPFA news bosses’ intellectual dishonesty, lying by omission, and other deficiencies of journalistic integrity. WION is pretty good on global news; but there, too, one can detect the liberal bias, which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s.
19:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] >
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[ 1 ] UpFront is some of the worst kind of Machiavellian gaslighting in radio. This type of Machiavellian talk radio hides its lack of concern for the suffering of others behind a veneer of journalistic objectivity or journalistic professionalism—professionalism, the journalistic refuge of scoundrels. Liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists), like this host, appear to be professional amnesiacs, conveniently forgetting lessons from their own past interviews, if such lessons threaten the status quo, not to mention other common sense lessons from the broader society. There are so many examples of when listeners can remember a key piece of information, which can help an interview reach deeper conclusions or attain new insights, but the liberal host feigns ignorance or simply failed to make the connection. And listeners are given the mushroom treatment, as Nicole Sawaya used to say (former KPFA manager, described the long-standing culture behind the scenes at Pacifica Radio): ‘keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.’ At any rate, the listeners, who listen because they care about social justice, are the losers because these liberal hosts force each conversation to start at square one. Important insights culled from interview A will never show up on interview B or C. Sure, such liberals will go into meticulous and sophisticated detail. But only when it doesn’t impact the status quo. Of course, there are exceptions at Pacifica Radio, such as Flashpoints and Guns and Butter (which was forced off the air at KPFA), but they are viewed as the black sheep by the bosses, not supported or embraced as allies. Oddly, during the first quarter of 2022, Mickey Huff was on Letters and Politics. I’ll have to relisten, if possible. It’s plausible Mickey Huff is open to collaboration and cooperation. But it’s not plausible entertainers, like Mitch Jeserich, would ever do anything with sincere educators and truth-seekers, like Mickey Huff, without an ulterior motive, such as reputational rehabilitation. Examples of established ideas and conclusions, which can help liberate the working class, but which are marginalized or ignored by such liberals, as the hosts of UpFront, Letters and Politics, Talkies, etc., include modern monetary theory, the job guarantee program, the two-party dictatorship, the fact that two-party systems are polarizing, benefits of ranked-choice voting, proportional representation, the incompatibility between democracy and capitalism, and so on. And these are not partisan issues. They’re only partisan issues, if you’re an antidemocratic partisan, a fascist, or an authoritarian. Otherwise, we all have the common sense to identify basic democratizing features of a healthy democracy. These are undisputable conclusions about a healthy democracy versus a diseased democracy, which have been accumulated after listening to voices advocating for social justice for decades. When you listen to voices for peace and justice for years and decades, it’s hard not to learn basic truths over time. Yet, somehow, some people never learn anything. They still haven’t grasped the fundamental contradictions within capitalism, for example. Only willful ignorance seems adequate to explain this. The underlying presuppositions of such liberals deny all of these realities and begin with the false left-right paradigm, in which the Democrat Party is assumed to be a sincere opposition party, when, in fact, as Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader, et al, have long admitted, we have a two-party dictatorship because America has undergone a corporate coup d’etat decades ago. But you’d never know any of this from listening to liberals, such as this particular host.
[9 MAR 2023]
[Last modified/edited/updated on 10 MAR 2023 at 08:31 PST]
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