Friday, December 18, 2015

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Friday, December 18, 2015



Fund drive



1:30-2:30 Alan Watts “Future of Politics” from MEA, http://www.alanwatts.com



2:30-3:30 Caroline Casey, “Visionary Activist Show”

Caroline hosts Dr. Rick Strassman, DMT researcher, author of DMT and The Soul of Prophecy,



3:30-5 Thom Hartmann



The Ominous Omnibus Bill
- Congressman Mark Pocan, U.S. Congressman (D-WI, 2nd District)

Article: "The Good, The Bad, And The Strange: A Budget Deal Guide" by Alan Pyke, Josh Israel, Aviva Shen.

Article: "Capitol Hill sledding ban lifted in spending bill" by Tim Devaney.

Article: "Restoring regular order in congressional appropriations " by Peter C. Hanson.

Article: "Brokered convention" by Wikipedia.



The Rise of the "New Chinese Order"
- Peter Navarro, Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World/UC-Irvine

Article: "Everything you need to know about the next Democratic debate" by Noah Weiland.

Speech: "America's Pacific Century" by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, November 10, 2011.

Article: "Unrestricted Warfare" by Wikipedia.



Dow/DuPont Merger...Bad for People, Bad for the Planet
- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Article: "Chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont announce $130bn merger" by Sam Thielman.

Article: "DuPont Found Liable in Teflon Toxin Trial" by Sharon Lerner.

Site: theyrule.net

Article: "Wall Street's disastrous 'fix' for Puerto Rico" by Charles Gasparino.

Article: "Vaccine injury fund tops $3.5 billion, as patients fight for payment" by Jessica Boehm.



5-6 Madeleine Schwab, Action Board Workshop





Thursday, December 17, 2015

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Thursday, December 17, 2015



FOR KPFK REPLACEMENT BALLOT OR HOUSEMATE BALLOT FOR LOCAL STATION BOARD ELECTION

http://candidateslate.org/Pages/KPFK/Supporting/NoBallot.html

For any questions: King Reilly, (323) 839-0985 email: kingreilly@roadrunner.com







Special Prouty Night



12-4:30 L. Fletcher Prouty Night

“Understanding Special Operations and Their Effect on the Vietnam War Era”

Pitch (books are gone)



4:30-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



Was there any real winner in last night's debate?

Article: "The Omnibus prevents the SEC from requiring corporate disclosures of political spending" by Ari Rabin-Havt.

Article: "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant" by Team Fix.

Site: Where is Mary Jo White?

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Merkley upset by 'big oil windfall' in budget deal

" by KTVZ.

Article: "Trade" by Rep. Sandy Levin.

Article: "CNN Debate Moderator Hugh Hewitt Attacks Obama When Asking A Question During GOP Undercard Debate" by Media Matters.

Quote: "Let me just say a few words to my friends in the Republican Party about extremism. When you deny the right of workers to come together in collective bargaining that's extremism..." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk" by Nicholas Kusnetz.

Article: "Sanders gets the most Twitter engagement in GOP debate" by Jesse Byrnes.

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Who won the Republican debate?
- Brian Darling, Third Dimension Strategies/Conservative Review


Site: ObamaTrade.

Article: "North Carolina Republican Calls It Quits With GOP, Joins Democratic Party" by Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Article: "Ben Bernanke: I Felt The Republican Party 'Left Me'" by CBSDC/AP.

Book: The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke.

Article: "Marco Rubio Pushes to Block Low-Cost, High-Speed Broadband" by Lee Fang.

Article: "Jeb Interrupts Trump: 'Am I Talking or Are You Talking'" by Pam Key.

Quote: "This grotesque level of inequality is immoral. It is bad economics. It is unsustainable. This type of rigged economy is not what America is supposed to be about..." - Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com





Wednesday, December 16, 2015

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Wednesday, December 16, 2015



TWO SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:



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FOR KPFK REPLACEMENT BALLOT OR HOUSEMATE BALLOT FOR LOCAL STATION BOARD ELECTION



http://candidateslate.org/Pages/KPFK/Supporting/NoBallot.html

For any questions: King Reilly, (323) 839-0985 email: kingreilly@roadrunner.com



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12-4:30 “Beethoven: His Spiritual Development” night

Read by Dudley Knight produced by Roy of Hollywood for KPFK



4:30-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



Hour One: What Is the MOST Important Issue For Americans?

Article: "All Los Angeles Unified School District schools closed following 'credible bomb threat'" by Justin Carissimo, Massoud Hayoun.

Article: "Bratton: New York City Schools Received 'Hoax' Terror Threat, Says It Was Similar To LA Threat" by CBSNewYork/AP.

Article: "Poll: Clinton beating Trump, Cruz but not Rubio" by Jeremy Diamond.

Article: "Sanders Beats All Top Republican Candidates In Latest Poll" by Janie Velencia.



Hour Two: Could Tougher Gun Laws Have Prevented the Deadliest Mass Shootings?
- Carl Higbie, The Citizen League

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Key Gun Violence Statistics" by Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

Article: "Country vs country: United Kingdom and United States compared: Crime stats" by NationMaster.



Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.



Hour Three: In Search of Bernie Sanders
- Will Bunch, The Bern Identity: A Search For Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream

Book: "Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy" by Will Bunch.

Site: Attytood.

Book: Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen.



PLUS, The Dangerous Cyber Bill Threatening Our Privacy
- Evan Greer, Fight For The Future

Daily Take: The Media Is Ignoring the Most Important Issues of Our Time



Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com



















Tuesday, December 15, 2015

WHAT HAPPENED

SOMETHING’S HAPPENING!

Tuesday, December 15, 2015





Fund Drive



12-3:30 Stan Tatkin, “Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships”

Shift Out of Conflict and into Connection, Safety, and Intimacy

From KPFK $125 contribution, 6 CD set (818) 985-5735





3:30-5:30 The Thom Hartmann Program





Hour One: The Paris Climate Deal...is it enough?
- Rachel Cleetus PhD, Union of Concerned Scientists

Article: "Climate negotiators strike deal to slow global warming" by Pamela Falk.

Article: "Here's Another Thing To Love About Hawaii" by Ari Phillips.

Article: "Welcome Aboard AEP! It's Great To See You (...Side With Clean Energy)" by Samantha Williams.

Article: "Renewable Energy Accounts for 70% of New U.S. Generating Capacity in First Half of 2015" by Ken Bossong.

Article: "Seven facts you need to know about the Arctic methane timebomb " by Nafeez Ahmed.

Article: "India 100 GW Solar Power Timeline Unveiled" by Saurabh Mahapatra.

Article: "James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud'" by Oliver Milman.



Hour Two: Thom rants - how ISIL will end...

Article: "The Economy Is Improving, So Washington Has Decided It's Time To Screw You" by Shahien Nasiripour.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Calls Out The Biased Corporate Network News For Blacking Out His Message" by Jason Easley.

Article: "ABC, CBS, And NBC News Made An Intentional Decision To Ignore Bernie Sanders " by Jason Easley.

Site: Bernie 2016





Hour Three: How the Founding Fathers Fought For the Rights of Muslims
- Dr. Denise Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founding Fathers/University of Texas

Article: "Our Founding Fathers included Islam" by Denise Spellberg.

Quote: "Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion." - Thomas Jefferson -quoting John Locke's argument, 1776.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 6 section 3. "... but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Article: "Sanders Beats All Top Republican Candidates In Latest Poll" by Janie Velencia.

Thom's Website: http://www.thomhartmann.com





5:15-6 Madeleine Schwab “Action Board Workshop”

From KPFK (818) 985-5735, $50 contribution. Workshop Sunday Jan 10, 1:30-4:30pm, all materials provided. 100% of proceeds to KPFK.