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Day 35 | Sometimes, We Lower the External Volume to Hear the Internal, the Truth

23 Tue Feb 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Narcissism, Anti-Racism, Macroeconomic Analysis, Memoirs, Mindfulness

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Against the Grain, KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, Max Keiser, Pacifica Radio Network, Prince Rogers Nelson (1958-2016), Richard Medhurst, Sasha Lilley, Stacey Herbert, Susan Rogers, The Keiser Report, WBAI, WPFW

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Tuesday, 23 FEB 2021, 06:53 PST]  Susan Rogers is an educator and researcher, an expert in audio recording and, indeed, in the human aural experience. She takes the art of audio recording seriously. These paltry words, not afforded their proper drafting and redrafting, will have to suffice as a quick sketch of an idea Susan Rogers shared with us, which we now want to share with you. We refer to (an) excellent interview(s) Susan Rogers gave to the Prince Podcast. Susan Rogers is, perhaps, best known for her work with the young rising star of Prince Rogers Nelson, the musical genius from Minneapolis.

There is so much to share about those brilliant interviews, which will have to wait until another time. But the big takeaway for us, at Lumpenproletariat, was the bit where Susan Rogers talked about turning off all external inputs from time to time, to be able to hear the music inside. She said Prince would do that. Prince knew how to shut out the noise of the world to hear the beauty within.

Prince’s Controversy was the first album I ever bought, as a kid, a third-grader in California. Funk music was all around me, almost as far back as mariachi music. Such was the musical climate of Californian barrios in the 1970s. Brown people love Prince, almost as much as black people, maybe more. Maybe white people love Prince most, though, or, at least they were the ones, who ended up buying most of the concert tickets, it seems.

But Susan Rogers talked about influences and how we all strive to build on the shoulders of giants. Some of us remember losing ourselves for hours at brick-and-mortar wrecka stowes. But the danger is to become too fascinated with the external, with external validation, that we forget to hear our own internal voice, our own internal inspiration, which allows us to create something new and interesting and maybe even beautiful, maybe even valuable, maybe even life-affirming, life-advancing.

But if we never unplug, if we never turn off the algorithms of oppression, we will never again hear the internal, the eternal. We heard Ram Dass say something similar on Pacifica Radio recently: We become so fascinated with the things we’re aware of, such that we forget about awareness itself. At university, one of the big takeaways from a deeper reading of Adam Smith, under Dr. John Henry (UMKC Economics course, The History of Economic Thought), distilled the impartial observer. In Adam Smith’s important work, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, we encounter the importance of having the ability to detach our awareness from our self, to observe our own behavior, as if from outside of ourselves, as an impartial observer. We strive toward self-awareness, without self-censorship, wisdom.

Mary Oliver gently reminded us, we don’t have to crawl across the desert upon thorns, repenting. We only have to let the soft animal within love what it loves.

Music is the easiest way for most people to meditate. Soon we learn to meditate without music. Soon we learn to meditate as we walk, or wash dishes. We reflect for respect. We reflect for dignity. We reflect for love.

“Colonized Mind” by Prince, 2009.

An injury to one is an injury to all.

Solidarity.

@LumpenProles, 14:28 PST

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Notes from a working class left perspective…

Download the Pacifica Radio Network app to easily tune in to the live broadcasts of the terrestrial radio signals across the free speech radio network.

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

05:00 PST,

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“Something In the Way” by Nirvana

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“About a Girl” by Nirvana

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“Private Idaho” by The B-52s

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“Money” by Suede

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“The Chemistry Between Us” by Suede

“Oh, Class A, Class B; Is that the only chemistry?“

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“Under Control” by The Strokes

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“The Tracks of My Tears” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

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Corazón Chicano… Brown-eyed soul…

“Smile now, Cry Later” by Sunny and the Sunliners

Red Power to Red People!

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“Confessin’ a feelin’” by Sly, Slick and Wicked

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Brown Power to Brown People!

“Making Ends Meet” by Thee Midniters (from East L.A.)

Black Power to Black People!

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“Ain’t No Big Thing” by The Radiants

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White Power to White People!

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“Chicano Power” by Thee Midniters.

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All Power to the People!

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06:00 PST,

08:00 PST, WPFW > 08:12 PST, real talk. “workshops” ‘ a magazine’ ‘a picture of some gangster rapper’ ‘but he was a fraud” wrote mcpherson. But McPherson was not honest.’

Bai 0815 TW Nam dilamumbo clearing the fog Margaret Flowers 0823, on new working class party and third party anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politics 0855 pst, sue Goodwin: more killer cops? [TW]

0900 bai gary null show […] 09:28, ‘Well, I want people to get to slow cooking, slow eating, slow digesting.’ Indeed. But capitalist social relations value excess, as Dr. Null noted last Wednesday morning. That was such a great broadcast. It seems Dr. Null’s boss has commandeered The Gary Null Show today, perhaps, to keep Dr. Null in line, as he has a tendency to wander off the beaten path, get into the weeds, and expose some ugly or inconvenient truths or uncomfortable perspectives. But many of us tuned in for that, Ms. Linda Perry, over there at WBAI [NYC]. Please let Dr. Gary Null speak freely. It’s good that we’re discussing health and nutrition, as we all need to strengthen our microbiomes, mind-gut connections, mind-muscle connections, and immune systems. But what about all of this drug-pushing? Please ask Dr. Null about the controversial questions around the for-profit vaccine industry.

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10:00 PST,

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11:00 PST, KPFK > music. […] new album of music from Willie Nelson coming out this week, on Friday. cf. ‘In the wee small hours of the night’. Willie Nelson has recorded a beautiful interpretation of the Frank Sinatra classic.

“Willie Nelson – THAT’S LIFE – coming February 26th!” by Willie Nelson, 12 DEC 2020.

12:00 PST, KPFK > It sounds like Jimi Hendrix, live?

12:00 PST, KPFA > ATG | News | […] ‘a geographer discusses a legacy’ […] “critical geography” […] 12:12, ‘struggles by people of color” “struggles by women” geographer ‘Rachel Brizinski(sp?)’ […] 1234, ‘Chicano activists in the ’60s’ […] ‘But now its a park’ […] 12:42, ‘We were very influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement’ […] ‘We talk about Alex Nieto Park. It was also a story of gentrification’ and police terrorism, or behavior, like the Spanish Inquisition, to send a message to the lumpenproletariat. This is what we can do to you, not only if you step out of line, but if we do. […] THIS IS A FUND DRIVE BROADCAST. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO KPFA. PLEASE DONATE TODAY.

1300 KPFA > The Herbal Highway | topic: ‘medicinal plants from the African Continent used on the North American Continent.’ […] 13:10 PST,

13:00 PST, WBAI > Democracy Now! | […] 13:11 PST, ‘Dr. Spencer, on the half million dead Americans, who have died of COVID-19-related deaths’ […] 13:27 PST, ‘the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed existing ethnic (i.e., “racial”) disparities in the U.S.’ […] Amy Goodman: ‘Dr. Spencer, we’ve heard a lot about the horrors about the pandemic. What about the solutions? What about Medicare For All? […] 13:30 PST, ‘We need to be prepsred to make those health investments now.’ […] 13:30 PST, ‘Octavia Butler, she died 15 years ago this week.’ […] music break: ‘Walkin’ in your footsteps’ […] ‘Parable of the Sower is set in California in 2220?’ ‘She also wrote about racism, about fascism‘ […] ‘the mother of afro-futurism‘ […] 13:34 PST, How did you first start writing science fiction?’ […] I saw a bad movie and got into competition with it.’ ‘Devil Girl from Mars’

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16:00 PST, KPFA > Hard Knock Radio > Freedom Archive’ ‘Community ‘ […] ‘COINTELPRO’ […] ‘about “the movie”, Judas? […] 16:11 ‘Huey P Newton’ ‘dialectical materialism is about adapting to changing conditions’ […] 16:13, ‘it centered the story on the state’ […] ‘Fred, Jr. acknowledged that, yes… […]’ ‘The film exposed the lengths the state will go to smash black leadership.’ […] 16:15 PST, ‘We have an archive’ ‘as an alternative to what’s taught in schools, that can be drawn upon to create curricula.’ […] 16:17 PST, ‘How does COINTELPRO manifest itself today?’ […] ‘State violence […] is a history of conquest and slavery and expansion into northern Mexico, Guam, the Philippines, Hawai’i, understanding US imperialism. So, of course we see the police state and the carceral state as part of the empire. Why does this state align itself with the occupying forces of Zionist Israel at the expense of the indigenous Palestinians?’ […] ‘Before J. Edgar Hoover targeted Fred Hampton, Sr., he cut his teeth on Marcus Garvey.’ […] THIS IS A FUND DRIVE BROADCAST. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO KPFA. […] 16:32 ‘BlackSolidarity.org‘ […] 16:43 PST, ‘Geronimo Ji-Jaga Pratt‘ […] ‘Claude Marx(sp?) and Tur Ha(sp?)’

16:00 PST, WPFW > […] 16:49 PST, real talk; lecture. Bad ass white-sounding lady on ‘the most revolutionary radical time since the 1930s’ […] mass incarceration of people of color, especially black people, after the Civil War and after the 1960s. […] Remembering Attaca., the Attica Rebellion. They said, we have found the answer. It’s called unity.’ […] 16:55 PST, Ann thom,author Blood In the Water. Sounds like Sunsara Taylor. Yes, it is. She’s such an awesome radio personality! […] 16:58 PST, Cierra Shine! We recall she invited callers on the air, in the Aftermath of the Sieges of State Capitols Around the Nation on January 6th. She let us plug our blog, Lumpenproletariat.org. ‘Remember, hunan nature is not the problem. It is the nature of the system that is the problem.’

17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints > ENDELON (sp?) “Salvador Saramieto( ‘DB: ‘ We have a change in the administration. The hopes are high.’ Guest; “Sure.” ‘ a crisis of racism’ […] 17:18 PST,

17:00 PST, WBAI > […] 1754, ‘LSB Members’ What? LSB? We missed it? Archives? […] Kpftx.org, wed nar 10 7pm wed mar 17 7pm(?) Next wed | Next Report to the Listeners is on mar 31st […] 17:56 PST,

1700 PST, KPFT[HD2] > […] 1757, on the Sieges of State Capitols Around the Nation on January 6th | ‘squibbs'(?) ‘Babbit wheeled out with half-exposed breast?’ […]17:58 PST, ‘ritual mockery’ ‘default public consent’ | “THE great Reset” ‘The Most Dangerous Blog in the World’ ‘The Project for the New American Century’ […] ‘Ken Baine(sp?) ‘Welcom back to In Other News(sp?) Suddenly, the broadcast cut away to music, South Asian? No glitch. Clock says 18:00 PST. It must be automated?

18:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > First Voices Radio, all Native hosted, now in Apple Tunes, Spotify, etc. First Guest: Leona Morgan, Dineh, fighting nuclear colonialism since the ’90s. Haulno.com(?) Rad Monitoring. Org? Facebook? Cf. International Initiative: Don’t Nuke the Climate. […] 18:04 PST,

18:00 PST, KPFA > 18:17 PST, The first testimony ‘The Norfolk Memo’ ‘That report noted’ ‘be ready to fight’ ‘get violent’ ‘go there ready for war’ ‘we get our president or we die’ ‘Did you get that report?’ […] ‘No leadership, including myself got that report. […] ‘Roy Blunt‘ ‘Why would it take an hour?’ […] ‘I didn’t get that report until 2pm’ […] ‘conservative Federalist website’ […] ‘agent provocateurs turn unsuspecting marchers into an invading mob’ […] ‘But Klobichar(sp?) dismissed the theory’ […] | 18:21, ‘the Golden State Stimulus‘, ‘$600 checks’, including ‘farmworkers’ including “households of mixed status”. “And for that we are not ashamed; we are proud,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. […] $5-$20K small business grants.

19:00 PST, KPFA > East Bay Yesterday […] 19:22, BET pitch THIS IS A FUND DRIVE BROADCAST. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO KPFA. PLEASE DONATE TODAY. […] 19:24, ‘The establishment of the police review board’ […] ‘It was really a PR move.’ ‘It was not set up to have real power.’ […] ‘It didn’t have subpoena power.’ […] 19:25 PST, BET […] 19:30 PST, back to the broadcast on ‘organizing around police violence’

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“Keiser Report | China Overtakes the U.S. (Yet Again) | E1662” by RT, 23 FEB 2021.

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“CPAC Chairman explains why they’re giving Trump a platform” by CNN, 23 FEB 2021.

“CNN’s Chris Cuomo questions CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp about giving former president Donald Trump a platform following the former President’s claims of election fraud.”

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“Do Not Go Gentle Intro That Good Night (Official Video), 23 FEB 2021.

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20:00 PST, KPFA > Sounds like Avotcja(sp?), celebrating the music if Deedee Bridgewater. […] ‘A Night In Tunisia’ […] ‘Nina Simone’s ‘Four Women’ […] 20:18 PST,

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A Night In Tunisia

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“Four Women” interpreted by Deedee Bridgewater.

“My skin is brown; my manner is tough…”

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“Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” by Prince.

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Thank you for reading Lumpenproletariat.org. Also find us at Lumpen.org, for easy access! Solidarity. All power to the people! What’s the call? Free ’em all!

Please remember to pick up a good book and read it. Check out our reading list, if you’re looking for ideas. Solidarity.

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[23 FEB 2021]

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Day 17 | A Ruthless Critique of Everything

05 Fri Feb 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Memoirs

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A Rude Awakening, Biden's first 100 days, Events of January 6th, Flashpoints, Jeremy Scahill (b. 1974), KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, KPFT [HD2], Pacifica Radio Network, Project Censored, RT, The Michael Slate Show, UpFront, WBAI, WPFW

One of the most courageous journalists around, Jeremy Scahill, and some working-class bloke, @LumpenProles. Book tour, The Assassination Complex, Berkeley, CA

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Friday, 5 FEB 2021]  In order to avoid bullshit, we must be honest.  To be honest, we must engage in a ruthless critique of everything.  Fellow Pacifica Radio participant Dr. Gary Null did that yesterday during his broadcast, as he has done.  He expressed concern over Pacifica soon being taken off the air by Emperor Biden’s upcoming fascist ‘reality tzar’.  Perhaps, the title of emperor is offensive.  Perhaps, U.S./NATO imperialism is offensive.  Which is worse?

A few hours later, on the west coast, Dr. Gary Null’s Pacifica colleague, Kris Welch reported on KPFA [Berkeley] that there is a pending lawsuit against the Pacifica Radio Foundation because Pacifica’s hard-won democratic governance structure after the 1999 lockout, which garnered national and international attention, is dysfunctional. It was not lost on us that she spent airtime to bash democratic process, as if a group of ivory tower elites can govern better than the unwashed masses.  It was also not lost on us, at the bottom of society, that Ms. Welch deemed it important to bemoan “factions”.  “There’s always factions,” she said.   Oh, really?  We suppose you’re right, in one sense.  There’s bound to be factionalism when solidarity is lacking.  And we contend that Welch’s faction, since at least the mid-2000s has lacked grassroots solidarity, and has acted in bad faith.  This is not intended to be an ad hominem attack towards anyone.  We have nothing but loving kindness for all of our Pacifica Radio Network extended family.   But we always gotta call it how we see it.  What did you see? 

This is what we saw.  Kris Welch, Philip Maldari, Aileen Alfandary, Mark Mericle, et al.’s faction at KPFA is the primary culprit for the obstructionism on KPFA’s Local Station Board and Pacifica’s National Board.  Your author, and friends, have attended countless board meetings and witnessed it with our own eyes, all of the long hours and minutes and public comment, all except what was concealed in executive sessions.

“A Change Is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke, 1963

Granted, your author has been away from the Pacifica Radio scene and the Berkeley scene.  Some of us went away to university or to DC or elsewhere, to care for our families  and duties, moving on after the 9/11 Truth years, the Global Financial Crisis years, which exposed the sham of Wall Street and neoclassical economic theories of the 1%, the Occupy Wall Street years, which empowered the 99%, and now the Global COVID-19 Pandemic, or the Global COVID-1984 Plandemic, which threatens to subjugate and punish the 100%, since we understand the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior, and we also understand that abuse always escalates in an abusive relationship, such as the one which currently exists between the state and the American people.

There are more questions than time.  But we have people power.  And time is on the side of truth and socioeconomic justice. Solidarity.

@LumpenProles

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Notes for future scholarship…

Mining free speech media, liberal media, and even right-wing media for socialist and communist gold…

05:00 PST, WPFW [DC] & WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! > […] dir fir Africa center for disease control > 6th “insurrection”, ‘lawmakers speak out’  AOC, Rashida Taleed(sp?) > 0541 PST, emperor Biden promises to end the US-backed war against Yemen. ‘Bizdn Says hea ending yemen qar, but its too soon to celebrate’ cf. Saudi Arabia + UAE alliance supply rebel groups, do assassinations, secret prison, if …, in the south. […] “I am hopeful,” said the professor from Michigan. Why? “It will be very dangerous “Trauma bond? The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. > Blinken.  AFP reporter asked […] 05:53 PST, “Abraham Accords” […] Prof Steven Zunes, Univ SF

06:00 PST, WPFW > Climate Friday > Emperor Biden’s climate crisis policies [TW]  0604 “the security implications’

06:00 PST, KPFA > Democracy Now! > [TP] 6th […] 06:19 PST, “COVID-19”

07:00 PST, KPFA > [TW] UpFront with Janine Edder(sp?) > News Headlines with Max Pringle […] Is Max Pringle’s report pathologizing civic engagement, citizen journalism, and dissent? […] > Dr. Amina Morris(sp?) on “school closures”. ‘She works with parents on, among other things, developing “cultural humility” […] 07:11 PST,

08:00 PST, KPFA > A Rude Awakening with Sabrina Jacobs > Dr. Katey Walter Anthony > CA Dems betray the people, again 0840, “They assume no one will look,” said the investigative journalist Steve Warren on AB345.  Indeed.  Dems count on that, just as the GOP counts on the Dems to run defense for them in their political theater. […]  0843  ‘Lorena Gonzalez sold out her people in the California Central Valley? […] the evils of Newsom… [TW]

09:00 PST, WBAI > The Gary Null Show > [TW]  ivermectin cf. Dr ken berry cf. Dr. Bikman, Why We Get Sick […] ‘the old man in the chair’, brilliant. > News Headlines with Sue Goodwin

WBAI > Leonard Lopate at Large [tw] on land rights

10:00 PST, WPFW [TW] […] 1020 on the toxic working conditions and lack of COVID-19 info for Florida formworkers. […] 10:25 PST

1000 kpfa [TW] Economic Update with RichardWolff > […]

1030 El Show de Andres Soto interesting, he’s usually not on at this time.  How long has this been the Friday line-up. […] “¡si se puede! All power to the people!”  All we need is Gavilan and Mr. Chuch and El Tecolote. […] El Trio Los Panchos, music from our childhood, of our parents. […] Romantic Chorus Filmmaker from Yucatan, Mexico.  Your author has relatives down there in Veracruz.  […] 10:45 PST, “That’s Amore” by Dean Martin. […] 10:50 PST,

10:00 PST, KPFK [L.A.] > The Michael Slate Show > […] 10:51 PST, “Bring people the truth.”  PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO.

1100 kpfk breaks beats and rhymes

1100 PST, KPFA > VOMENA [TW]

1100 kpft talk the written word. “It was very cathartic. “

1100 kpfk global village

1100 KPFT [HD2] [TW] […] 1107 real talk: topic: values

11:30 PST, KPFT [HD2] > […] sounds like Resistance Radio > real talk. topic: Indigenous/Native American rights.  “settler colonialism” […] 11:39 PST, ‘gaslighting by settler colonialists’

12:00 PST, KPFA > KPFA News Headlines with Mark Mericle […] talk. 12:04, ‘military stepping in to vaccinate?’ Sounds ominous.  > It’s Going Down topic(s): ‘anarchist podcasters’, and more.  Sounds good, Rebel Steps podcast.  The problem is we’re unclear on the correct action.  We are still on the self-educate phase.  As Carl Dix, Sunsara Taylor, Dr. Cornel West, Dr. M.L. King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, et al have told us:  We must be clear in our thinking. […] 1215, NYC COVID-19, etc politics

Kpft 1224 real talk DetentionWatchNetwork. Org > 1225,”Justice Forward non-profit

12:00 PST, WBAI > Sojourner Truth […] 12:30 PST, “the slave market” […] “the story of John Parker” > 12:55 news [TW]

13:00 PST, KPFA > Project Censored > Host: Mickey Huff Topic:  Dr. Peter Phillips on his book, Giants. […] 1320 PST, 31 men and two women’ ‘the Group of 30’ […] 1329, Yes! Utah Phillips!  There’s a name we haven’t heard on KPFA in a long time. […] 1338. WTF?! Lybian lynch mob, Hillary bloodlust, was a sidebust against China’s investment in Lybia?  Wow. […] 1341, we salute Project Censored.  The only pieces missing are the two-party dictatorship and the white supremacy morphing into white nationalism as we see a resurgence of antisemitism. Cf. Southern Poverty Law Center, et al

1400 KPFT, music; revolutionary.  electronic. world. […] 14:32 PST, “Happy Birthday, Rick James.  ‘Dance With Me’ […] 14:45 PST, “Happy Birthday, Joe Sample.” […] 14:50 PST

“Dance Wit’ Me” by Rick James

“Black and White (Simple As) by Joe Sample

16:00 PST, KPFA > Hard Knock Radio with Davey D > ‘go electric, save the planet’ hip hop song […]  ‘I got a grant from Oakland.’  […]  ‘I just wanna show that Oakland cares about saving the planet, too.’  […] 16:17 PST, ‘I have never been allowed to do a free show, or presentation, at an Oakland public school.  Yet, all the private schools are paying $350 to $700.  But the public schools won’t even allow me to do a free one. And they wonder why schools aren’t performing well.’  […]  ‘Hit(?) learning’  […]  Learning through music.

“Breezin’” by George Benson

16:00 PST, KPFK > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > […] 16:24 PST, On Emperor Biden’s upcoming foreign policy.  […]  16:26 PST, ‘What do you think is gonna happen with Afghanistan?’  […]  SK asked about Biden; but the speaker deflected to Trump, then Bush. That’s disappointing. “This did not start with Trump. It goes back to Obama.”  Indeed.  Thank you.  Let’s learn more about the ‘continuity of government’.  […]  ‘The U.S. has been training death squads.”  But the speaker side-stepped any serious critique of Mr. Biden.

16:00 PST, KPFT > […] 16:38 PST, ‘We have a brand new general manager, and a new theme.’  […]  ‘Dr. Alexandra’ on health topics.  “Of course, this is for informational purposes only.”  THIS IS A FUND DRIVE. PLEASE SUPPORT FREE SPEECH RADIO.

16:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > […] talk. activism: anti-nuclear […] “This  has been Nuclear Hot Seat for Tuesday, February 2, 2021. […] NuclearHotSeat.com. ‘Nuclear weapons are illegal everywhere in the world, according to international treaty'(?)

17:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > With Good Reason > talk: human interest. ‘the embrace of non-monogamy’

17:00 PST, WBAI > […] 17:04 PST, talk: journalism, writing.  “Herb Boyd” […] ‘The Apollo documentary, a nice history of the Apollo Theater.’  […]  “Amsterdam News”  […]  ‘The history of Harlem’ [TW]  ‘Three centuries of black history by people, who lived it.’ [….]  Black Detroit: A People’s History History.  […] 17:09 PST, music break

17:00 PST, WPFW > […] 17:10 PST, “Someday We’ll All Be Free” by Donnie Hathaway […] We played Lalah Hathaway. My mother, “she texted me from California”. So, we played “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” Oni Aduni, my mother. So, please listen to the words of my mother—’cos I do—and take a moment to share some love.” […] 17:38 PST,

“Someday We’ll All Be Free” by Donnie Hathaway

17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein > […] 17:40 PST, ‘Malik was acting as the editor of The SF Bayview before the retaliation.’ […] ‘He was subjected to a brutal beating. [….] ‘Send federal agents to Birmingham now” […] 17:41 PST, music break: revolutionary music […] 17:43 PST, ‘Title 42’ and ‘the Biden administration hasn’t done anything to stop it’ […] ‘trying to restrain this racist, bigoted terror, i.e., Green’ Meanwhile, harsh deportations of Haitians is going on each day; flights are leaving each Nicole Phillips, Legal Director, Haitian Bridge Alliance. […] 17:45 PST, “Give us a thumbnail sketch. […] ‘Remind us what’s going on.’ […] ‘Back in March 2020, Title 42, anyone aprehended at the border would be immediately deported under the pretext that immigrants could be bringing the coronavirus’ […] ‘Steven Miller and Mike Pence pressured for this Title 42.’ […] ‘It was about 60,000 people per month.’ […] 17:48 PST, ‘Most of them have not had access to legal counsel.’ [TW] […] 17:52 PST, ‘And, so, what happens with immigrants is they are used, and then abused. When the job is done, they are left high and dry.’ […] ‘And, then, they are just summarily deported to Haiti.’ […] 17:53 PST, “that the country is on lockdown. And he can’t leave, or go anywhere, for fear of being kidnapped. So, it is very dangerous.’ […] ‘They have not had an election […] and this one president is ruling almost entirely by decree in a quasi-dictatorship government.’ […] “We have not heard any word from” ‘the Biden administration.’ […] ‘They need time to adjust, they say. But they haven’t made any announcements. And they haven’t shown any support.’ @HaitianBridge. @BuddhistLawyer. ‘We need to get the Black Congressional Caucus involved’ […] ‘to stop these deportations.’ […] 17:57 PST, ‘they had President Aristide,’ but US imperialism put in a puppet government.

1800 WBAI NY African film festival […] 18:27 PST,

1800 WPFW > music: “jass”

1800 KPFA & KPFK > Pacifica Evening News with Mark Mericle > [….] 1808. Mr. Trump is still receiving “intelligence briefings”?! What!? Why!? Please, explain the logic, people. […] 18:14 PST, ‘the so-called QAnon Shaman went on a nine-day food strike, rejecting the toxic jail food, until he was granted “organic food”. Chansley claimed religious exemption in order to demand special treatment. We contend some degree of white privilege must also be taken into account in his win. […] 18:18 PST, ‘Bundy Ranch circa 2014’ […] 18:19 PST, GOP passes rash of new bills, including “the nuclear option” (in Arizona), to suppress voting rights. For example, one bill is starting to require black and brown people to have their ballots notarized before submitting. > 18:21 PST,

18:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > […] 18:25 PST, “gender-transcendent”

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“Yanis Varoufakis on Anti-Semitism, Israel, and Palestine” by DiEMD25, 5 FEB 2021.

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“Night Flight” by Joe Sample, 1997

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Day 15 | Gaslit Hope, Executive Orders, Agenda 21, & the 74 Million

03 Wed Feb 2021

Posted by ztnh in Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Fascism, Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Narcissism, Anti-Racism, Anti-Totalitarianism, Uncategorized

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Agenda 21, Biden's first 100 days, Bonnie Faulkner, Guns and Butter, KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, Pacifica Radio Network, Talib Kweli, WBAI, WPFW

LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Wednesday, 3 FEB 2021]  We are gathered here today, on this digital newsletter to discuss the issues of the day.  For some Americans, the first 100 days of Mr. Biden’s employment as figurehead of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government was a cause for euphoria and pollyannish glee.  The hope was palpable a couple of weeks ago.  Last week, the hope seemed less, as liberals struggled to articulate why Mr. Biden simply must back the evils of the state of Israel against Occupied Palestine, why the Democrat Party is going to let Mr. Trump get away with murder by not convicting him in the impeachment trial, why the Democrats are going to let Mr. Trump continue his career as a fascist demagogue, why Mr. Biden wants to take extra victory laps whilst flipping off the 74 million who preferred proto-fascism to his continuity of Obama-era neoliberalism, instead of working to hear them out.  No, they are not all deplorables, which America can simply write off.  U.S. liberals have struggled to explain why Mr. Biden is abusing executive orders, some have even called for stronger and faster executive power, further delegitimizing the executive branch, which, at this point, seems best to simply abolish, along with the Senate and the Electoral College.

Where does all this liberal, or more aptly neoliberal, ‘hope’ in a Biden Presidency come from?  The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. Since as far back as Malcolm X and Dr. King, we have been shown—or, at least, people of color have been shown—that if we support a political party, like the Democrat Party, which never keeps its promises to us, we’re nothing but chumps.  Oh, no.  Fool me once. 

“Apocalypse“ by Black Uhuru

Max Blumenthal made an excellent point, among many others, in the wake of the proto-fascist assaults on the Capitol Building on January 6th:  mental illness is a serious problem in America.  Indeed.  We will add the mental illnesses of racism and pathological narcissism.  There is little to no difference between the abusive behaviors of narcissistic abuse of codependent victims and racist abusers and their codependent victims.  The narcissist operates at the interpersonal level, like the racist.  However, whereas racist abuse can be scaled up from the micro to the macro (i.e., societal) level through ethnic ranking and hierarchical stratification, narcissistic abuse usually cannot be scaled up in the same way because it is not a racialized form of abuse.  Narcissistic abuse is about grandiosity or superiority; a need for admiration and/or external validation; the inability to empathize with others.  The narcissistic abuser always preys on the vulnerable, the isolated.  To scale up a task like this requires, evidently, a reactive narcissist.  In this regard, Mr. Trump has thus far proved himself exemplary.  A reactive narcissist, as described by Dr. James McIntosh on Pacifica Radio in the wake of the events of January 6th, is an extreme narcissist, who is incapable of accepting defeat, or ever admitting they’re wrong.  Dr. McIntosh cited Hitler as a most extreme example; and we all know how he ended up.

So, it turned out Mr. Trump had been gaslighting his constituency. But, now, Mr. Biden is gaslighting the nation, and the world with his, and his political allies’, neoliberal fantasies.  And just what are they?  As we enter year two of this global psy op we call the Coronavirus Pandemic, some prefer to call it the COVID-1984 Plandemic.  Such clever word-play is, evidently, too disturbing for many Americans to even contemplate.  Whether such word-play is outlandish or plausible seems less alarming than the fact that many Americans are triggered by such words.  It is said that most of our mental processes are unconscious. Yesterday morning on Pacifica Radio, we heard a professor on The Tom Hartmann Show discuss how the subconscious processes information, which is then kicked up to the conscious brain.  The point was that many people on the autistic spectrum, who tend to be able to focus on tasks for extended periods of time, which others would consider insufferably boring, tend to be more creative.  The idea is that, since our minds tend to network, we are susceptible to group-think.  In other words, our subconscious mental processes are influenced by our self-awareness of the social norms of others.  People on the autistic spectrum, who are sometimes accused of being insensitive or lacking self-awareness around others, are less influenced subconsciously by the decision-making filters of others.  So, they are more likely to be independent thinkers.  The whole time, we thought of someone like Julian Assange or Edward Snowden.

Some of us refuse to accept the bullshit, from bullshit manners and how we should use this fork for the salad and that fork for the meat, or that we should get less Vitamin D because neoliberals or fascists insist we must wear a shirt or a tie.

And what is this Agenda 21?  How can we mass mobilize solidarity on a global scale for a seriously needed climate crisis intervention when there exists widespread distrust of the state?  The only silver lining to this past year of proto-fascist lockdowns has been the reduction in carbon emissions.  Is the neoliberal deep state actually trying to reverse climate change and achieve total, global fascism at the same time?  All the red flags are blowing in that direction in the current political climate’s winds of change.  Are they not?  So many questions, so little time.  Let’s put our heads together, shall we?  As Albert Einstein said, the important thing is to not stop questioning.  Cheers.  Solidarity.

@LumpenProles

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Notes for future scholarship from a California native son, notes from a working class perspective, shunning false consciousness, like Antonio Gramsci…

05:00 PST, WPFW > 0535, ‘there could be a thousand or more families “ripped apart” […]  (cf. vox notes)  […]  The Nazis had the vulnerable Jewish population to abuse and target for dehumanization and annihilation.  U.S. fascists have black an brown to kick around. […] 05:44 PST, ’19 bodies found in Mexico’ [TP]  “Aura Bogado”, a long-time Dem apologist.

“Estoy Aqui” – Quetzal

06:00 PST, WBAI > Guns and Butter with Bonnie Faulkner > 06:07 PST, ‘Agenda 21 is a hijacking of the environmental movement’ […]  This is, by far, the most important broadcast we’ve heard thus far today.  We know it’s early in the day, but I doubt any other broadcasters will present us with any information more urgent than this.  This broadcast corroborated the broadcast yesterday on KPFA by Against the Grain, with C.S. Soong, which discussed anti-capitalist orientations and techno-ecology… […] Guest: Rosa Corey(sp?), author of Behind the Green Mask.

07:00 – 09:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley] > UpFront with Kat Brooks and Brian Edwards-Tiekert […] 07:50 PST, Conn Hallinan (Foreign Policy In Focus; WDRC, Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club ally.  WDRC was the political faction of the dominant white liberal types at KPFA, who have opposed the more sincere, grassroots-activist-based broadcasters at KPFA.  Circa the 2000s, this WDRC/KPFA/Pacifica faction included:  Philip Maldari, Aileen Alfandary, Mark Mericle, Kris Welch, BrianEdwards-Tiekert, David Gans, et al.) […] News with Max Pringle […]  ‘Who are the Boogaloo Boys?’ […] The Pentagon is concerned  about “reputational” issues?  The Boogaloo Boys are going to make the Pentagon look bad!  Oh, the absurdity!  Does this man hear himself?  […]  “the uniform code of military justice” needs to be seriously put on blast. […]  (cf. vox notes) > news Max Pringle > 0838, covid impact at San Quentin, etc […]

08:00 PST. […] topic: ‘The Rebel Women of Nepal.’  […]  ‘BarbaraNimree dot com'(sp?)  […]  ‘Her political work is being set aside. It’s like the Two Killings of Sam Cooke.  First, physical death.  Then, historical death and/or erasure.  Sam Cooke was a major leader among black people, who met with political leaders. But that important history has been hidden, obfuscated, like that of the rebel women.  Solidarity.  […]  08:53 PST,

“It’s a pretty bleak situation.”  You’ve got Dems ready to “wimp out”, offered Ian Masters tepidly.  His guest conceded, “I would call it challenging.”  As we say at Lumpenproletariat:  Democrat voters are hopeful, but not revolutionary.  Trauma bonds always breed hope.  Next time they will treat me with respect.  Next time the domestic abuse will end.  I just know that my abuser will change.  I have hope.  […]  By the way, we’re getting reports from boots on the ground that Silicon Valley cops are out again, issuing traffic citations.  Cops were laying super low along the S.F. Peminsula in the wake of the racist and proto-fascist police behaviors we all observed on January 6th, 2021. […] 09:01 PST,

09:00 PST, KPFA > Democracy Now! > News Headlines with Max Pringle > […] c. 09:15 PST, Fascism in Myanmar/Burma.  […] 09:18 PST, ‘also they saw what happened in the USA on January 6th.’  Indeed.  Didn’t Trump Campaign manager Steve Bannon dog-whistle a celebratory quip about bringing back the 1930s?  We mentioned this salient point on Lumpenproletariat previously. Then, yesterday, we heard KPFA’s Mitch Jeserich ask the same question to his expert guest on Letters and Politics.  The expert interviewee said the Myanmar military leaders only care about their own agenda. But, soon, he conceded the undeniable and toxic effect of Mr. Trump as a leader of a major nation. […]  09:23 PST, clip of Aung San Suu Kyi.

10:00 PST, KPFA > Letters and Politics with Mitch Jeserich > Intro: Myanmar/Burma.  > News with Max Pringle > […]

WBAI > 0906 > ‘9/11 pre-text for war on terror,’ Brit lady speaks on Tony Blair side… [TP] […]  09:58 ‘Lawyers For Trump’

09:00 PST, WPFW > […] 09:10 PST, music […] 09:59 PST, ‘Africa Now is up next.’

09:00 PST, KPFK > The Tom Hartmann Show > […] talk: electoral politics; politics; bourgeois politics. Call-ins with ‘Rep. Brendan Boyle‘. Will somebody please ask about the antidemocratic nature of the two-party dictatorship?  Also, please discuss the polarizing nature of any two-party system.  […]  09:29 PST,

0900 kpft hd2 LAP rerun from yesterday

10:00 PST, WPFW > Africa Now > ‘Hotel Rwanda’ ‘Kagame of Rwanda’ [TP]  “human rights situation”[…] 10:40, Kagame the narcissistic abuser? Gaslighter?  ‘a cause against dictatorship’ [TP]

11:00 PST, KPFA > The Talkies with Kris Welch > Kris Welch’s News Headlines > 11:12 PST, for a second, we thought the Pacifica Radio app kicked us off of the KPFA livestream again because suddenly we heard music.  The Pacifica Radio app has a tendency of suddenly kicking us out of critical political discussions and into another station with less critical content. But, then, Kris Welch returned to the air and acknowledged the glitch.  Did I do something, she quipped.  […] ‘The resentment that never sleeps’  Oy vey.  We take it, this won’t be an anti-capitalist discussion. […]  11:19 PST, Kris Welch just acknowledged her “status”, but not her power nor abuse thereof, nor of her Democrat Party gaslighting and insincerity about the antidemocratic nature of the Democrat Party, which colludes with the Republican Party to block alternative political parties from the presidential debates and from ballot access in many states across the nation with top-two primary laws and whatnot. Kris Welch lies by omission, as here.  She feigns historical amnesia.  Let’s debate these questions. Solidarity. […]  11:49 PST, the discussion finally shifted to the gender dimension, roughly the last ten minutes. If this is correct, this corroborated our initial suspicion as the actual purpose of this broadcast. […] “Cecilia Ridgeway”(sp?) is the author.  >  11:52 PST, Kris Welch begins taking call-ins. Some of us have been, literally, blocked/banned from calling in to KPFA.  Anecdotal history for another time, but we’ll never forget the videos showing Kris Welch’s heinous behavior toward fellow KPFA staffer Nadra Foster, when Welch’s faction called the cops and Foster was beaten.  Welch’s faction even called the police on your author when he volunteered as a KPFA LSB Election Supervisor’s Assistant.  I attempted to videotape an LSB ballot counting.  And Lewis Sawyer blocked me.  See IndyBay.org for my writings. At least Larry Bensky used to let us debate him on air. […] KW Censored caller; guest has no clue about the metanarrative.

“Uncle Joe’s Rainbow Coalition Death Cult®” by Richard Medhurst, 3 FEB 2021

12:00 PST, KPFA > Against the Grain with Sasha Lilley > An interesting discussion with an author about her book about adoptive parenting, ethnicity (i.e., “race”), and the nature vs. nurture dichotomy.  Those of us in the know, in the extended KPFA family can detect the shift in topics, which Sasha Lilley chooses these days, post-maternity.  Congrats on the baby, Sasha!  We don’t resent this faction at KPFA, including Kris Welch. Grudges are toxic things to bear.  But having the wisdom to forego resentment does not necessitate accepting the codependent role of abused to narcissistic gaslighting and abuse.  There are no hard feelings, just plain ordinary facts, which topple bullies and tyrants of all stripes and magnitude.  […]  13:00 PST,

12:00 PST, WPFW > [TP] sounds like Black Agenda Report > explosive news on RussiaGate with Ray McGovern, Max Blumenthal, et al! > Next segment:  On the ‘Assatta Collective’, Nigerian policing problems of police abuse of power and petty extortion of motorists and so on.  It sounds like Mexico and such nations, perhaps, most of the non-imperial nations.  1980s USA was definitely a decade of decadent lunacy, as African nations were ravaged by starvation, all we could do was sing “We Are the World”.  In the 1990s, things changed.  The 2000s, well… The 2020s?  The decade of fascism?

13:00 PST, KPFA > East Bay Yesterday > talk; human interest; bourgeois?

13:00 PST, KPFK > talk; liberal. Concern for the entertainment industry?  Compassion for all, we suppose.  But where are our priorities?  An injury to one is an injury to all.  But we think of movie stars, like Armie Hammer, et al.  Oy vey.

1300 KPFT > 1317, sounds like the NOI show. […]  1335, sounds like Farrakhan delivering a commencement address. 1345, on X

13:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > […] 13:19 PST, music

13:20 PST, WBAI > Democracy Now! >

13:00 PST, WPFW > 13:22 PST, real talk. [TP] rev holly lopez, parenting during a pandemic 1.888.373-7888, National Human Trafficking hotline.  Cf. HumanTraffickingHotline.org.  If you see something, say something. But the expert said, never approach possible human traffickers yourself to avoid putting yourself or others in even greater danger. The expert discussed seeing underage girls with older men on an international cruise, and another occasion at a restaurant.  We must not look away from the horrors, lest we allow predators to continue preying on the vulnerable. […] 13:29 PST, beyond hotlines, ‘how can we be a source of support?

https://archive.kpft.org/

14:00 PST, KPFT > music: “jass” (i.e., black classical)

14:00 PST, KPFT [HD2] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod […] 14:07 PST, sounds like KPFA News anchor, Max Pringle. […]  webinar by Haymarket Books:  ‘COVID-19 and decarceration’ [TP] […]  Good discussion of the movement for police/prison abolition: the point is to eliminate the conditions, which create the pretext for police state solutions to social ills, not simply to “eliminate the  buildings”.  Indeed.  […]

“Extinction Rebellion founder: why right-wingers should be radical environmentalists” by UnHerd, 3 FEB 2021.

1428 bai > […]  14:28 PST, real talk.  topic: policing, “overpolicing”, police-induced social ills and pathologies, etc., mainly focusing around the metro NYC area.  […]  14:49 PST,

14:00 PST, WPFW > Live at Five > […] 14:50 PST,

1500 wpfw > talk: ‘youth development’ and policing

15:00 PST, KPFA > Rising Up with Sonali Kolhatkar > […]  15:19 PST, author lady on Myanmar/Burma.  Sonali Kolhatkar is eager to speculate various theories in order to bash Aung San Suu Kyi.  But, notice, when the issue is controversial, liberals, like Kolhatkar are loath to speculate. Then, they go into ad hominem mode and start calling everyone pejoratives, such as conspiratorial.  […] ‘Colleen Shatticks(sp?) & Joan Godlbloom, co-authors of Broke In America.  The authors seem sincere and pretty right on.  It’s a pity, Sonali Kolhatkar is incapable of critical thought.  If she is, then she is being dishonest, like Mitch Jeserich, et al. at KPFA.  Such liberals know very well that ‘calling your representatives‘ will change nothing.   We know very well political prisoners are rotting in jail because they tried calling their representatives, they tried public assembly and demonstrations.  Millions have marched on Washington for crying out loud.  What are we talking about, people?  Sonali concluded this good discussion with sincere women by leading them down a pollyannish path of deceit.  Those author ladies aren’t activists; they’re social workers.  They don’t know about the limitations of party politics and activism.  But Kolhatkar does.  But she lied by omission.  She should have informed those nice ladies about the extent of the COINTELPRO and the CIA’s global war against the left.  Tell the truth.  Engage in real dialectic.  Don’t just interview the guests, inform them, as needed, too.  For example, the guests’ topic was poverty and how to end it.  So, they emphasized the importance of an effective jobs program.  But Sonali Kolhatkar never informed the guests about the MMT-based job guarantee program, which economist Dr. Stephanie Kelton has popularized in recent years, especially since her 2020 NY Times bestseller The Deficit Myth: Modern Money Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy.  KPFA listeners learned about this from Dr. Kelton, Dr. Michael Hudson, et al. on KPFA’s Guns and Butter circa 2012.  Well, the WDRC faction at KPFA has seen to it that Guns and Butter be taken off the air.  Fortunately, it still airs on Wednesday mornings on WBAI.  But this type of thing is the opposite of the KPFA motto of “advancing the conversation…”  Your author has emailed Mitch Jeserich, et al about informing listeners about MMT.  But they ignored all correspondence.  Now, in 2021, we[…] (cf. Flat Broke in the Free Market: How globalization fleeced working people  by Jon Jeter; Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich)

16:00 PST, KPFA > Hard Knock Radio with Davey D > real talk: two guests, ‘Dr. Benitez’ & Dr. Losana Hotep’.  topic(s):  ethnicity (i.e., “race”), white privilege, “identity politics”, blind allegiance to a politician solely based on ethnicity (and other forms of tribalism), eg, blind allegiance to President Obama.  […]  Guest naively stated, and chuckled in the process, that ‘Barack Obama was exponentially better than Bush.’  Is that so?  Well, what about Obama’s shredding of the U.S. Constitution?  His NDAA Section 1021, which codified indefinite detention, extraordinary rendition, suspension of habeas corpus.  The Obama administration also smashed the Occupy Wall Street movement in a coordinated nationwide crackdown in concert with most of the mayors of major cities.  […]  16:29 PST, One guest started out sharp, but his whole analysis seemed to crumble once Davey D challenged him on the neoliberalism and other contradictions of people of color endorsing Obama. […]  16:33 PST, OMG, Davey D just asked the bloke if Booker T. Washington was a “neoliberal”.  Then, the guest addressed whether or not Booker T. Washington was a “neo-colonial”, not a neoliberal.  Perhaps, that move helped Davey D save face, as neoliberalism didn’t exist back then.  […] “Losana Hotep(sp?) said, “Don’t confuse strategies with goals.”  Indeed.  But let’s not confuse debunked strategies with viable strategies, either, which is so often the habit of Democrat voters and partisans.  […] 16:37 PST, the other bloke being interviewed sounds more honest or frank. […]  No more audio archives, Davey?  What happened?  We used to transcribe Hard Knock Radio interviews for Media Roots.  Davey D used to retweet those articles out.  He once mentioned to me his appreciation, and said he’d never seen his interviews transcribed like that.  We were very impressed with his interviews with Carl Dix (RCP). […]  16:50 PST, Dr. Hotep narrated the origin of sagging pants as street culture.  Prisons were so inundated with black and brown people that there wasn’t enough properly-sized garments. So, oversized pants tend to sag.  But the stoic dignity of prisoners turned sagging baggy jeans into a dignified aesthetic.  Vatos and cholos and the brothers in prison, too, they were all creased up, ironed and creased clothes.  When prison style became street style, the sharply ironed and creased element was slowly eroded. Contact Dr. Benitez:  REBELINTELLECT4@YAHOO.COM. […]  Dr. Hotep made sense until he started talking about U.S. party politics.  In his closing remarks, he warned against us internalizing neo-colonial and neo-liberal mindsets.  Indeed.  But, as he said that, and in light of his Democrat Party apologia, it is clear he, too, still has some internalized neoliberalism, which must be cleansed, to cite the Franz Fanon reference they made in their conversation.  Oh, how we would have loved to chime into Davey D’s ear and pitch him some questions to psycho-analyze the contradictions, which lead people of color, such as the good Dr. Hotep, to support neoliberal and/or capitalist politics, such as that of the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.

17:00 PST, KPFA > Flashpoints > real talk.  topic(s):  immigration rights.  […] 17:48 PST, Norah Barrows-Friedman interview regarding the illegal occupation of Palestine, and an activist facing prison time. ‘Increase the cost of the occupation.’

17:00 PST, KPFK > Background Briefing with Ian Masters > […]  real talk. Emergency Fund Drive. Please Support Free Speech Radio. Per IM, KPFK LSB faction is antidemocratic, like the WDRC faction at KPFA.  Please inform yourselves about the realities of the various Pacifica Local Station Boards (LSBs) having been captured by moneyed interests that hate the grassroots activist spirit of Pacifica Radio.  I mean, to be honest, perhaps Lewis Hill and the other cranky, erudite old white woman—sorry, I can’t remember her name, she was around in the 1960s, I believe.  Anyway, maybe the anti-activist faction at KPFA are the rightful heirs of KPFA/Pacifica, since the original founders were also white liberals.  On second thought, no, that is not a valid position because said Dem apologist factions undermine Pacifica’s Mission Statement.  […] 18:05 PST,

18:00 KPFA & KPFK > Pacifica Evening News with Mark Mericle, et al. […] 18:26 PST, ‘vaccine nationalism’, ie, rich-nation narcissistic abuse. […] 18:31 PST, Mark Mericle pitches to raise money for KPFK! Cross-network solidarity. Nice job, Mark.

18:14 PST, kpft music

18:15 PST, talk: human interest. ‘the deep liberation process’; personal development/mastery.

18:00 PST, WBAI > […] 18:18 PST, real talk: activism, NY-based.  ‘how can we build public power (i.e., utilities)?

18:00 PST, WPFW > […] 18:24 PST, music

“Chris Hedges – The Decline of American Empire” by Democracy @ Work [clip shared by Reflection of Passion]

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[3 FEB 2021]

[Last modified on 12 FEB 2021 at 19:00 PST]

[TP = Transcript Pending volunteer labor. These are segments of radio, which would make excellent short-length, easily-searchable videos to share and, hopefully, make viral news and information from a left, working-class perspective.  We seek solidarity and dignity, not status nor narcissistic supply, like many U.S. liberals.]

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