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Day Three | Biden’s First 100 Days

22 Fri Jan 2021

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the events of the 6th

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Friday, 22 JAN 2021] So, this is it.  Here we go, again.  We are officially back in the wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing politics of the Democrat Party, who make us feel warm and fuzzy, as they devour us with neoliberalism.

Why is America – why does this loom to be such an explosive political year? Because this is the year of politics. This is the year when all of the white politicians are going to come into the Negro community. You never see them until election time. You can’t find them until election time. [applause] They’re going to come in with false promises.  And as they make these false promises they’re going to feed our frustrations, and this will only serve to make matters worse. I’m no politician. I’m not even a student of politics. I’m not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American – and got sense enough to know it. [applause]

I’m one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats. One of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism. [applause] And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve seen is hypocrisy. [applause]

Malcolm X, quoted from “The Ballot or The Bullet” speech, 12 APR 1964, King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan

@LumpenProles, 07:53 PST, Friday, 22 JAN 2021

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After our primary duties are taken care of, let us find out what’s going on out there.  Remember, don’t let no one get you down, ‘cos if they do, we’ll be around.  Solidarity.

“Mob Mentality: Capitol riot exploited to expand the security state that failed to stop it”, 21 JAN 2022, The Grayzone

Max Blumenthal and Aarom Maté provide us with very valuable analysis and insights in this important discussion. This narrative makes a lot of sense to us. But, of course, Blumenthal’s Grayzone analysis is looking at these events through a political lense. And it’s very revealing that the most vocal slogans among the Trump loyalist alliance were anti-China and anti-Communist slogans and ranting. Blumenthal seemed to downplay racial motivations. We can see how his perspective can be explained by the possibility that he may have seen the most militant subscribers to Trump’s anti-China rhetoric. But the masses in attendance may be less concerned about China and more driven by an assortment of complaints, from anti-establishment views to white supremacy and fascism. But I’m with Martin and Malcolm. We cannot ignore the fact that white supremacy was baked in from the start. Our failure to deal with this reality, the North’s abandonment of Reconstruction, the New Jim Crow (i.e., Second Reconstruction period), and the Black Lives Matter response has left the nation in need of a sincere and meaningful Third Reconstruction, as various observers have emphasized on Pacifica Radio these past few weeks. And, with Black Lives Matter being cited by many in law enforcement as their greatest threat to their unchecked power to kill with impunity and oppress people of color and low-income communities, BLM is poised to defeat and/or reform an institution, which was founded to support the institution of slavery, then to support the capitalist mode of production to jail discontents, dissenters, and debtors. The notion that police exist to keep us safe and to care for us and envelope us in their loving embrace seems an increasingly fleeting notion. U.S. policing has become increasingly militarized, yet without any appreciable benefits or improvements in U.S. ghettoes. Poverty continues unabated, which incentivizes petty crime, which provides a pretext for increased policing. We’ve known this since the 1960s and ’70s. When cops complain that they’re not social workers, that they can’t solve all the society’s problems, it becomes harder for them to argue for increased police budgets. And redirecting some of their bloated budgets to real social workers, who can provide real resources and services to those impacted communities starts to make a lot of sense. Again, we all ought to revisit MLK and Malcolm and other freedom fighters. Kat Brooks was talking about how they would play MLK speeches for the BLM protestors to help them build their resolve toward non-violent direct action, and also to learn about the real MLK, who has been censored out of the history books. MLK was more than a dreamer; he was also an anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-consumerist, which we may be forgiven for reading as a communist.

00:00 – 03:00 PST, KPFK [LA] > Something’s Happening A > […]

03:00 – 06:00 PST, 05:46, RDWOLFF CLIO ON what Biden’s immediate economic program should be, from 21 jan 2021 no mmt?  Wolff’s flaw.

05:00 PST, WPFW [DC] & WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! > […] 05:35 PST  ‘book-burners’.  Native American elders, keepers of the language, are dying from covid, native languages may be lost.

05:40 – c. 1230 PST, KPFA no app feed. See website feed, instead: https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=live

06:00 PST, 198pg plan, as covid soars to new heights. No herd immunity in NYC til 2022?  […]  “START Treaty” […] waiver for lloyd Austin (Raytheon), a 1st black person to that position

06:00 KPFK > The Stephanie Miller Show > 06:20 PST, liberal talk, of being so pleased that Biden “created such a divide” yesterday from Trump and his politics.  Like Amy Goodman’s first guest today, so pleased with Biden.  But this is exactly what will further alienate the 74 million, who correctly recognize Biden’s neoliberal corruption and the Democrat Party’s collusion to block third party alternatives. […]  06:26 PST, on the military involvement, “Michael Flynn”, et al “lied”, enabled the 6th? […] 06:28 PST. on Trump’s parting “grifts” and offenses…  […] 06:30, more Biden boasting, delusions… […]  06:38 PST, more otherization of the 74 million.  This is how out-of-touch liberals will further divide the nation, if they are not careful.  They talk trash about the Trump voters, but never bother to engage them on a human level to see what they actually have to say for themselves.  Liberals and their liberal audiences seem to have no interest in dialogue across ideologies. That is a recipe for extreme alienation, bitterness, and conflict.  Listening to The Stephanie Miller Show is so disappointing because they don’t seem to appreciate how dangerous it is to continue to denigrate and alienate tens of millions of Americans, who were victims of narcissistic abuse, were gaslighted, and manipulated.  That 74 million might even continue growing, as comedians keep making fun of them.  Chris Hedges tried to warn us back in 2015, just before Trump announced his candidacy for president, that we ignore the rise of fascism at our own peril.  Hedges reminded us of the Berlin cabarets where comedians made fun of the Nazis night after night, until the cabarets got closed down, one by one.  And, then, people got killed.  Like Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, et al., four years of liberal wit accomplished nothing.  This show is a mixed bag, we appreciate the factoids and information, but lament the lack of seriousness of purpose.  Jimmy Dore has a comedic approach, but retains his seriousness of purpose.  Perhaps, that has to do with the fact that he almost died when he had to rely on our for-profit healthcare system when he had a life-threatening  disease, but unable to afford the exorbitant medical bills.  Stephanie Miller seems to represent a liberal approach to heuristic persuasion.

06:00 PST, WPFW > […] 06:31 PST, talk, interview, “hip hop was originally created for gentrification justice”

06:00 PST, WBAI > […] 06:33 PST, “with your wisdom and your energy”.  Fund drive mode for listener-supported free speech radio. Donate and get gift: Julia Loggins, Reboot Your Immune System.

07:00 PST, KPFK > Sojourner Truth > On Biden’s first days, plus MLK speech. [TP] panelists include Dr. Gerald Horne, et al. > 07:02 PST, KPFA News Headlines [TP]

07:00 PST, WPFW > 07:04 PST, News, more honest about Biden’s falseness than KPFA news. [TP]

0800 wpfw 0815 uncritical covid talk

08:00 PST, WBAI > [TP] talk, reclaiming the real MLK. This is the type of sincere discussion, which has long been lacking at KPFA.  KPFA’s dominant faction are Wellstone Democrats, who stifle voices critical of the Democrat Party.  They would take us back to a time of liberals before MLK and Malcolm X and other important leaders, exposed and rejected the Democrat Party as a false opposition party to the evils of the Republican Party, which has long seeded and nurtured racist, white supremacist culture in the USA.

09:00 – 10:00 PST, WBAI > The Gary Null Show > talk, health.

1100 wpfw resistance radio (rerun) [TP]

1100 KPFA [TP] VOMENA

1200 KPFA bourgeois analysis of the 6th, etc.  Where’s Against the Grain when u need them? […] “anarchist” guest smeared the left, said ‘leftwing govts are worse than right-wing’, as if all future iterations of left movements would repeat the errors of the past… […] 12:57 PST, That was a disappointing broadcast.  KPFA seems determined to have their own isolated  take or narrative on this historical moment.  As noted previously, KPFA dropped out of key national Pacifica Radio broadcasts.  And Mitch Jeserich,  Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Kris Welch, et al refuse to engage with the listenership on a sincere basis.  When it comes to a program about the state of the nation in the aftermath of the 6th and Biden’s first 100 days, ATG dodges the current events, and they air anarchist analysis, which ignores party politics.  They talk a good game, but disempower…

1200 wbai TP Sojourner Truth Dr. Gerald Horne, debunking US colony settler myths

13:00 PST, KPFA > The Project Censored Show > A big sigh of relief falls over many of us when we get to commune with a good Project Censored broadcast, especially in times of crisis, such as our current American winter of discontent.

14:00 PST, WBAI > 14:03 PST, an honest conversation; we need more of this.  These ladies are speaking with sincerity.

“The Ballot or The Bullet” speech, 12 APR 1964, King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan


(c. 7:34) At this point in the speech, Malcolm X makes the case for economic self-determination for black people through mutual aid, and even boycotting white businesses to help get black businesses off the ground by concentrating black purchasing power onto black-owned businesses. Also, there’s an important element of boycotting white businesses as a political rejection of white supremacist socioeconomic structures in society.

However, in the process, Malcolm X, perhaps, is excessively harsh on his audience, as if boycott-divestment-sanctions would be the answer because the “slums” he lamented were solely created by patronizing white businesses. It was certainly an excellent starting point.

What few people knew was that the slums and ghettos were deliberately created through red-lining, racial residential covenants, school zoning rules, and other draconian and racist real estate and development laws and ordinances.

Dr. Kevin Fox Gotham’s book, Race, Real. Estate, and Uneven Development lays out all this history powerfully.  This was eye-opening for us to learn in Dr. Erik Olsen’s Urban Economics course at the heterodox economics department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.  Most economics departments are conservative (i.e., neoclassical); so, they don’t teach you this kind of stuff.  Most econ depts tend to want to erase history and the human element altogether.  They want to turn economics into the most boring math classes. So, that passionate dreamers, who want to help end unemployment or homelessness or poverty, will never go into the field of economics.

Listening to this again, it’s amazing how prescient Malcolm X was, like many people of color.  Malcolm X was spot on.  No, that’s an understatement.  Like MLK, he was prophetic. 

We may not know the details or specifics, but we can see it in our daily lives how white supremacist institutions are stacked against people of color.

Cf. https://lumpenproletariat.org/2015/04/12/race-real-estate-and-uneven-development-2002-by-kevin-fox-gotham/

We agree with one caller on Pacifica Radio, during on-air radio call-in on WPFW in the aftermath of the racist, fascist, and narcissistic assaults on the Capitol, who said he’d been revisiting Malcolm X’s “Ballot or the Bullet” speech. Indeed. The lessons about black people (and all people of color, nay, all people) must stop voting Democrat because it’s a false opposition party.

18:00 PST, (91.3) NPR > ‘A wartime effort’ is what Biden says will be required to fight the pandemic. Hosts air an uncritical interview with Dr. Fauci, who extolls the virtues of the drugs he’s pushing. No mention of Immunoboosters…

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Meanwhile, elsewhere in the USA.  Seth Meyers was telling jokes, eerily reminiscent of the comedians at the nightly cabarets in Berlin, making fun of the brown shirts.

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[These are my raw notes. I will expand and edit, as time constraints allow. TP = transcript pending volunteer labor. We must transcribe breaking news and information to make it accessible, searchable, and usable. It’s urgent that we document the people’s narrative of the events of January 6th and President Biden’s response in his administration’s first 100 days, which have been situated historically in the aftermath of polarized American social relations in the wake of the 6th.  We seek diversity of perspectives; so, we seek perspectives not often found on corporate media. But we must not get corralled into narrow silos of thought, theory, or action. Please, also monitor corporate media and right-wing media, too,. Solidarity.]

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[22 JAN 2021]

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Day Eight | The Proto-Fascist Alliance Lynch Mob Violence

13 Wed Jan 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Fascism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Anti-War, Civic Engagement (Activism), Uncategorized

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Events of January 6th

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—Let’s stay vigilant, folks.  The events of January 6th may begin to fade from the news cycle, but the forces of fascism are still out there plotting their assaults on democracy.  Bourgeois politics debate in Congress today, whether or not to defend democracy and the rule of law in America.  It seems the brute physical violence of last Wednesday will be translated, today, into legislative violence waged by the Republican Party against democracy.  False moral equivalency will be drawn between anti-racist / anti-fascist protests and outright fascist / racist marauding. And Dems will continue to enable the Republican Party by authoring only one single Article of Impeachment, when dozens could be authored.  And Dems will likely continue their low-energy-level ‘opposition’ to Republican fascism by equivocating and handling the fascists with kid gloves.

@LumpenProles

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Welcome to my notebook.  These are my raw notes…  Help tell the people’s history. Take back the narrative from the corporate media.  What did you see on January 6th? 

Please share your comments below.  Let’s dialogue; and, in so doing, heal our nation and build up our nation from the bottom up.

Download the Pacifica Radio app for easy access to honest, fact-based, historically-based free speech journalism, news, information, and culture. Let’s share honest free-speech media; but we also must stay vigilant and monitor right-wing media, especially those putting out hate speech.

Let’s hear what people are saying on free speech radio about #45’s ongoing attempts to stay in power.  Of course, today is all about impeaching Trump.  Almost all of the experts featured on Pacifica Radio have urged for immediate impeachment to disempower the would-be dictator. However, a few legal experts pointed out that the 25th Amendment was largely “performative” here.  Also, Dems are counting on Mitch “The Grim Reaper” McConnel.

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

05:00 – 06:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar.

06:00 – 07:00 PST, KPFA > Special Broadcast: Impeachment Proceedings. “Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.”  BET intro. Mitch Jeserich joins in after a few minutes. Background on 25th Amendment. 06:11 PST, Republicans will likely take issue with 25th Amendment being used, as it was originally designed for medical emergencies when a president may be incapacitated, rather than for political reasons. 06:17 PST, AOC feared for her life, she said.  And rightly so, as observers have noted. Had the lynch mob spotted AOC or Pelosi, they would’ve been lynched. Some house members have been infected with COVID-19 after huddling with anti-masker Republicans during the events of January 6th. […] 06:23 PST, live feed of Impeachment Proceedings begins. […] (c. 29:00) Tom Kohl(sp?) (R – OK) Prof. Jonathan Turley cited as being opposed to a “snap impeachment.” ‘Alan Dershowitz, et al think that Trump’s words are not impeachable.’ No? How about his actions? […] Woman argues in favor of impeachment and rails against terrorism. She’s barking up the wrong tree. The threat is fascism, not terrorism.

07:00 > 07:30 PST, WPFW > 07:50 PST, black women’s service sorority history

07:00 – 09:00 PST, KPFA > Special Broadcast: House Impeachment Proceedings. “Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.” N.B.:  KPFA did not make this broadcast available as an mp3 download. 

07:00 PST, WBAI > 07:54 PST, Brent Michael Phillips path to wealth/health pitch fund drive

07:00 PST, KPFK, > [TW] Sojourner Truth.

08:00 PST, KPFK > 08:35 PST, [TW] Prof Timothy Snider (Yale Univ) says this was predictable in NY Times cover story article, “The American Abyss”.  08:44 PST, Next, COVID-19 update from L.A.

08:00 PST, KPFA > UpFront > John Nichols [TW] > 08:45 PST, Mitch Jeserich explained the protocol in Congress for debate and voting on impeachment. ‘No Republicans have voted for impeachment yet,’ said Jeserich.

08:00 PST, KPFK > 08:52, “Indigenous communities”

09:00 PST, WPFW > 09:14, “Black Velvet” by Heart

09:00 PST, KPFK [L.A.] > The Tom Hartmann Show > 09:15 PST, A congressman and listener call-ins

09:00 PST, KPFA > Special Broadcast: House Impeachment Proceedings > 09:18, 0931, live coverage of Congress. 0931, live feed. c. 09:35, Pelosi.  0942, Republican X. BS arguments: no hearings; this is a hearing. too soon; we don’t need more time. Dems are counting on McConnell, and after the 20th. McConnell the grim reaper cannot be trusted. — snip —  10:40, Dem. Maxine Waters: ’45 watched it all from TV!’ [Low energy from Dems; Maxine is the 1st voice of real indignation and concern. Even more than Dissilio(sp?), the author of the only impeachment article introduced.

10:00 PST, KPFA > Letters and Politics Special: House Impeachment Proceedings Live. [TW] “

Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich. Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-Chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and Editor-at-Large for The Progressive Magazine.”

10:00 PST, WBAI > Leonard Lopat3 At Large.  — snip —  10:52 PST, author of Solving the Climate Problem Is Simple, on climate change. leonardlopate@WBAI.org

10:55 PST, WBAI, News Headlines, “mob attack”. “Several”, “at least five”, including Lynn Chaney. Armed troops surrounded the Capitol Building today, during impeachment hearing. [TW]

11:00 PST, WBAI > health

11:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley] & KPFK [L.A.] (simulcast) > Special Broadcast: Impeachment Proceedings Live. Host Mitch Jeserich, ongoing live coverage of the U.S. Congress Impeachment Hearing in D.C.  — snip —  11:25 PST, [TW] analysis 11:32, what happens if Trump tries to pardon himself?  Legal scholars are debating this now.  But never, says legal expert woman, has our nation fallen so low that a president is trying to pardon himself.’

1134, wbai pst [TW] Randy. Marty. Assange trial. [TW]

1137, wpfw, “baltimore”, “art”

12:00 PST, WBAI, Black Agenda Radio with Glen Ford and. 1. On the events of January 6th. 2. On black anarchists. 12:25 PST, What’s trans anarchism? 

12:00 PST, WPFW > 12:29 PST, “give voice to what people are feeling in constructive ways.”  ‘This is a wake up call for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons.’

12:00 PST, KPFA & KPFK (simulcast) > Special Broadcast: House Impeachment Proceedings Live “Direct from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.” > 12:32, “opposition to th3 gaslighting” [Yes, Lizzy lady!] — snip — 13:11 PST, Karen Greenberg(sp?) on legal responses to the Events of January 6th. Predictably, bourgeois politics is overreacting, calling for domestic terrorism laws, which are code for anti-1st amendment attitudes.  In other words, American liberals’ misguided, or naive, analysis, which views the 6th as a simple political problem stemming from a single malignant politician. Even if humanely, judiciously, and with a view toward containing the misled white supremacists and white nationalists, Greenberg(sp?), et al would have us focus on the individual as the source of the problem, rather than a broader, more complex or systemic explanation of the problem.  Not only did she lack a critical ‘race’/ethnic theory.  She had no ‘race’/ethnic theory.  The system of white supremacy doesn’t even enter her discussion. And, therefore, such bourgeois, liberal types always have a blind-spot, which causes them to underestimate the determination of white supremacists and white nationalists. We saw how that blind spot caught them off guard on the 6th. White liberals said they were surprised. This is not America, said White America.  This is America, said black people.  This has always been America, said people of color.

Meanwhile, as the Q-Anon narrative falls apart, its adherents are starting to defect. Kyle Kulinski explained on Secular Talk how Alex Jones may only be distancing himself for legal liability reasons. But InfoWars host Alex Jones has renounced Q-Anon.

13:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Special Broadcast: Impeachment Proceedings Live. N.B.: KPFA has not made this broadcast available as an mp3 download. So, listen now, ‘cos we wouldn’t put it past admin to delete soon.  KPFA archive summary: 

House Impeachment Proceedings LiveDirect from the US House of Representatives, KPFA brings you the proceedings on a vote to impeach President Donald Trump, with hosts Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Mitch Jeserich.

Guests:

Karen Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University School of Law. She is the author of several books and the host of Vital Interests Podcast dedicated to issues of governance, law and policy.

Brenda Wineapple is the author of several books including The impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation.

Alan Hirsch Chair of Justice and Law Studies at Williams College and author of the book Impeaching the President: Past, Present and Future.

14:00 PST, KPFA > Voices of the Middle East. On the Kurdish people’s struggle for self-determination. [TW]

14:00 PST, KPFK > 14:16 PST, Lawyer’s Guild Show. “There were no marshalls.”  14:19 PST, speaker suggested there was no permit.  This contradicts what another expert said earlier this week on Pacifica Radio, who said that the wife of a Republican politician got a permit. That same Republican woman also reported that she said it would be a woman’s group, who would be demonstrating. So, Capitol Police were expecting a woman’s group, not arm3d men. Granted, that analyst was FBI.

14:00 PST, WBAI > 14:50 PST, local politics (NYC); Brad Lander.

15:00 PST, KPFK [L.A.] > Covid, Race, & Democracy with Ann Garrison. Audio of protesters on the ground at January 6th, actually rings true. But they’re misguided placing their working class hopes on #45. 15:10 PST, Dr. Gerald Horn [TW].  15:38 PST, [TW] “the seditious conspirators are still there. They are still in power.”  […]  And clearly the speech […] was an incitement to insurrection.”  […]  “So, this is very serious.”  […]  “This was a coup de tat.” ‘The liberal, or bourgeois media is not owning up to this. They’re not admitting it. Also, it is clear that there was a stand-down order. And the Dems are completely feckless.’ […]  ‘It was a coup de tat in plain sight.’  […]  The Democrats have lulled us into a false sense of security.’ 15:43 PST, “We need people taking to the streets now!” ‘We haven’t seen the end of this.’  We have Cruz, Holly, and 137 members…  ‘He now controls the 6,000 national guard out in DC’  — snip —  Musical break: Steel Pulse – “Ku Klux Klan

15:00 > KPFK > Covid, Race, & Democracy. 15:46 PST, Ann Garrison > Heather Gray(sp?) on H. Rapp Brown, political prisoner.

15:00 PST, WPFW > 15:59 PST, “My Umi Said” by Mos Def

15:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > On the 6th

16:00 PST, WPFW > The Uncle Devin Show > “family-friendly global beats” plus topical talk with an emphasis on underrepresented perspectives.

16:00 PST, WBAI > [TW] topical discussion on the events of January 6th. “the insurrection”  “the attempted coup”  [What else did America expect when MAGA hats, Trump flags, and “thin blue line” flags everywhere bolstered by years of incessant hate speech and draconian treatment of immigrants and ethnic minorities.]  Right-wing social media, Parlor(sp?). […] 16:17 PST, On the presidential use and abuse of Twitter for official government purposes; the consequences of socially conditioning the public to get used to having to literally becoming a “follower” of Trump on Twitter just to stay informed. […]  16:48 PST, on ‘tracking and monitoring right-wing extremist groups’.

16:00 PST, KPFK > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > on the 6th > 16:24 PST, Republicans are saying, Well, I’d love to vote to impeach Trump; but I’m afraid of the death threats from his ‘base’.  The Republicans don’t want Trump anymore, but they want to keep his voters. So, they’re trying to figure out how to get to that position.  Now, mind you, that’s basically a desire to get a bunch of voters, who support the same toxic, racist, chauvinist, and fascist ideologies, which Trump pursues.  So, it’s not saying much about the Republican Party that they want to rid themselves of Trump, but not of his ideologies. Guest was Derek Jeter (?), of The Nation.  16:30 PST, next topic… […]  16:43 PST, SK: ‘9/11 is the closest thing to this we can recall. Do we really need more domestic terror laws?  [No.]  Guest:  First, we need to investigate and address all the unanswered questions before we start moving to criminalize and punish dissent.  Well, that’s exactly what the Impeachment debate sounded like, fr both Dems and Repubs.  Alan Nairn pointed this out early on.  Warnings against cancel culture also warn against feeding into anti-First Amendment traps.

16:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Hard Knock Radio > 16:33 PST, Host Anita Johnson talks to guest (a ranting “political science professor”, Dr. Taylor) on the phone about the events of January 6th; impeachment. “The only value that the 25th Amendment could have had is […]”.  16:36 PST, AJ: “Is this political theater?”  Prof:  ‘The 25th Amendment was a tactic to run out the clock.’ [TW]  ‘Black Congressional Caucus was trying to impeach 45 from day one. But white liberals looked at them, as if they were being black and radical, or hyperbolic. The prof said they were dismissed. Well, but then why didn’t the Black Congressional Caucus come to the people, rally their base, if they weren’t getting bipartisan support?  I don’t buy that, Prof.  He sounds like a Dem apologist there. […]  “Bernie bro racism.”  […]  AJ:  Why has Pence been so silent.  Dr. Taylor:  ‘I think he was rattled.’

17:00 PST, WPFW > 17:23 PST, R&B/Soul music

17:00 PST, WBAI > Explorations with Dr. Michio Kaku > 17:24 PST, on illegally copying other people’s genome to copy other people’s facial features. What about a black market for movie star faces?  What about mental abilities?

17:00 PST, KPFK > Background Briefing with Ian Masters > [TW] On the events of January 6th.  On the complicity of congress and reports of reconnaissance assistance to loyalists by congress members. 17:28 PST, on impeachment, and what about the trials of the arrestees? Meanwhile, there will be 400,000 dead Americans due to COVID-19. What will Biden do?

17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints “Today on the Show: 24 million Yemenis at catastrophic humanitarian risk following new U.S. terrorist designations of Ansar Allah, according to The International Rescue Committee. Also Donald Trump impeached for the second time in thirteen months. We’ll speak to Harvey Wasserman Who just published the piece, “Hey MAGA Marchers: Where Was Trump As You Died?” And we will also open the phones to get your thoughts on the days historic events.” > 17:32 PST, ‘This is another argument for DC statehood.’ [TW]  Greg Palast reporting ‘Ali Alexander is now in hiding. And authorities seem to want to know what he knows about congress complicity. If that mob would’ve happened on AOC or Pelosi, that mob would’ve killed them.  No question. Trump must go to prison. You can see the pictures of the gallows… Harvey Wasserman.

18:00 PST, KPFA & KPFK (simulcast) > Pacifica Evening News. [TW]  Trump impeachment. Weaponizing the U.S. Census. Death penalty.  18:10 PST, ’10 Republicans joined Dems in voting for impeachment.’ — snip —  18:43 PST, ‘rent relief is helpful, but not enough. Corporate landlords have been bragging how much richer they’ve gotten since the pandemic. ‘ AB71 and the houselessness problem.  $23.4B for California economy and construction jobs, for projects to benefit houseless people 18:52 PST, Prop 22 & AB5. Labor protection for ‘gig’ workers. 18:55 PST, Google joins Alphabet Union. But it’s affiliated with the CWA, which sold out the UnPaid Workers Organization (UPSO) at KPFA.

18:00 PST, WPFW > 18:05 PST, “Here I Go Again” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

18:00 PST, WBAI > talk, lady explains why she joined “DSA” and became an activist…

19:00 – 20:00 PST, KPFA > Bay Native Circle. Bill Means, latest on Leonard Peltier, and the 6th. “white privilege”.  19:05 PST, listening to Bill Means, it occurs to me that the events of January 6th were an example of police harassment and brutality of Congress. snip —  19:22 PST, Lenny Foster with the latest on Leonard Peltier.

19:00 PST, WPFW > 19:10 PST, jazz

19:00 PST, WBAI > 19:11 PST, “Street Life” by Rose Royce

19:00 PST, KPFK > Covid, Race, & Democracy. 19:14 PST, Ann Garrison. Max Blumenthal.

20:00 PST, KPFK > news/noticias (español), anchor Fernando Velazquez.  — snip —  20:12 PST, good point: despite the antisemitic narrative being peddled via ‘Q-Anon’, US has a special alliance with Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine. Oh, the irony. 20:20 PST, Iran officials blasted the US. Look, they said, the U.S. was trying to push us around. And now they have fallen so low. 20:25 PST, China.

20:00 PST, KPFA > Dead to the World. Grateful Dead music.

20:00 PST, WPFW > music

20:00 PST, WBAI > music

20:30 PST, KPFK > culture & politics (español)

[These are my raw notes, which will be edited, revised, and expanded as time constraints allow.]

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