Thursday Night

Prog Notes Somethings Happening 09-29-23




12 AM

Alan Watts – The Constitution of Nature

In this lecture, Watts compares and discusses three views of “nature” – as a Construct, which he associates with Western thinking; as a Drama, which he sees mainly in India; and as an Organism, which he relates to “Far Eastern” thought – and how they might complement each other.



12:30 AM

Old Radio break – The People Take the Lead

“The Battle of Fraternity Row”

A World War II veteran reflects some years later on a battle for democracy on the home front after returning from the war to college and rebuilding a fraternity at Westbury College.



1 AM

Sounds True with Tami Simon – Michael Singer podcast season 3 episode 1

In this season opener, Michael Singer guides us into the understanding and practice of what he calls “the highest technique,” that of relaxing in the midst of your resistance to life’s events—and then fully experiencing the present moment.



Michael A. Singer is author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul and the New York Times bestsellers The Surrender Experiment and Living Untethered, all of which are published worldwide. He had a deep inner awakening in 1971 while working on his doctorate in economics and went into seclusion to focus on yoga and meditation. In 1975, he founded Temple of the Universe, a now long-established yoga and meditation center where people of any religion or set of beliefs can come together to experience inner peace. Along with his nearly five decades of spiritual teaching, Singer has made major contributions in the areas of business, education, health care, and environmental protection. Discover more here: https://product.soundstrue.com/authors/michael-singer/



2 AM

The Magical Mystery Tour with Tonio Epstein from the Pacifica affiliates unit

Shamanic Healing in Western Medicine with Dr. Sharon Martin, MD

Sharon Martin is a licensed MD and shamanic healer. She’s a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & the Healing the Light Body curriculum of the Four Winds Society, and the author of Maximize Your Healing Power: Shamanic Healing Techniques to Overcome Your Health Challenges.



In this conversation we talk about the shamanic perspective of healing and how it works, and how we can use shamanic techniques to heal ourselves and maintain our own well-being.



The Magical Mystery Tour is a show that dives into the heart of things exploring new ideas and new ways of seeing and being in this wondrous crazy world we share together. Feel free to contact the host, Tonio Epstein, at 802-229-5123 or tonio@together.net



3 AM

Caroline Casey -Visionary Activist from sister station KPFA

This is a fund drive program at KPFA. We do not have the premiums mentioned on offer here at KPFK. We urge listeners to donate to KPFK to support our capacity to air this type of programming here in Los Angeles as part of Something’s Happening, as we really need some additional funding to close out this fiscal year which ends on Saturday. Go to KPFK.org and click on donate. If you really want the premiums, you can follow Caroline’s instructions and donate to our sister station KPFA in Berkeley.

EQUINOCTIAL ANARCHO*ENTHEO*ASTRO*ANIMISM!

anarcho*entheo*Astro*animism! Live from WDRT in Viroqua, Wisconsin to KPFA, to all; Caroline hosts Eddy Nix and Christopher Robin, Viroqua Community Citizen denizens, as we all be stepping into the Equinoctial still center of the storm – to dance all falsely estranged, (as a mean trick of the Reality Police)



Back into dynamic harmonious equilibrium. Honoring Kropotkin’s “Mutual Aid” & Erica Lagalisse”s “Occult Features of Anarchism” both of which are proffered as pledge incentives for KPFA, in Fall Fund Drive – call 800-439-5732 (Yip-Yip!) or online here: https://secure.kpfa.org/support/



Eddy Nix plays a bookseller in real life and has many projects operating in the dream world. He is founder and operator of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wi and was a founding teacher at Youth Initiative High School, and has a radio show on community radio station WDRT every Sunday. He identifies as a rhizome, or a verb, depending on circumstances. He has been many other things also.



Christopher Robin: Curator and director of The Commons, Viroqua. Amatuer Astrologer and Musician. Knows Pooh.





4-6 AM

Final two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program non-commercial version from earlier on 09-28-23

Wednesday Night

Prog Notes S H 09-28-23




12 AM

Dave Emory – For the Record 1309

Deep Politics and the Death of Iris Chang part 3

FTR#1309 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.

https://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftrs-1309-and-1310-deep-politics-and-the-death-of-iris-chang-parts-3-and-4/



Introduction: These broadcasts supplement FTR#‘s 509, 1107 and 1108.

Significant sections of the latter two broadcasts are recapped in these programs and this description.



Key Points of Discussion and Analysis Include:



Iris Chang’s mother, Ying-Ying Chang, could not rule out the “dark conspiracy” that Iris was facing. Ying-Ying’s point of view was shaped, in part, by Steven Clemons’ observations.

In an appendix titled “Requiem for Iris Chang,” Steven Clemons noted the alleged “suicide” of his associate Juzo Itami, who was battling the same forces as Iris Chang. “I have never bought the story about Juzo Itami, who was at war in his films with the Japanese right-wing crowd and yakuza.”

Iris’ best-known work, The Rape of Nanking, inspired a congressional resolution supporting Japanese compensation for those who had been compelled to labor as slaves and slave prostitutes or “comfort women.”

Iris was working on a book and documentary film project about the survivors of the Bataan Death March. Some of those veterans had been used as slave laborers by Japanese corporations during the war. The Bataan Death March veterans were among those who sued the Japanese corporations that had enslaved them.

The presiding judge ruled against the veterans and for the Japanese corporations. On the day of Iris’ “suicide” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was meeting with Japanese businessmen to promote California-Japanese trade.

In early September of 2001, Iris spoke at a conference assembled to protest the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the U.S./Japanese treaty of 1951 (negotiated by John Foster Dulles). Iris called “the San Francisco Peace Treaty a travesty of justice, a betrayal of our own American veterans.” Recall the congressional resolution passed in the aftermath of, and because of The Rape of Nanking.

After watching a spirited discussion between Iris and the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., a friend of Iris’ father advised her to hire a bodyguard.

As will be noted at greater length below, Iris was very critical of the George W. Bush administration and had written several articles critical of his policies.

Iris was very critical of the George W. Bush administration, and had taken stances against many features of his foreign policy, Bush’s invasion of Iraq in particular. Iris had long opposed all forms of racism in this country.

Sadly, many of those close to Iris dismissed her fears concerning the government’s targeting of her and the overlapping ideological animosity and targeting of her by the Japanese right-wing. The historical and operational overlap between the two is fundamental and is explored in some of the material below.

When she traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to interview survivors of the Bataan Death March, she felt she was under physical surveillance and harassment. We note below that Kentucky was a place where Bush confidant William Stamps Farish III had powerful connections.

During her book tour for The Rape of Nanking, Iris was approached by someone she felt was recruiting her. He said, “You will be safer to join us.” Was this an attempt at recruitment by the CIA?

We repeat the information in #11, for purposes of emphasis.

Iris was convinced to her dying day that she was the focal point of hostility from the Bush administration. A remake of the movie The Manchurian Candidate heightened her anxiety. Her articles critical of the Bush administration and, as we have and shall see, the overlapping dynamics of her work on The Rape of Nanking and Gold Warriors further deepened her peril. She first purchased a firearm for protection and was hoping that John Kerry would defeat Bush in 2004.

Despite the fact that Iris’ corpse was found in her car in the early morning, her parents weren’t notified of her death until almost midnight. Why?

Iris’ corpse was discovered early in the morning with her head against the driver’s side window, her hands crossed in her lap and the gun on her left leg. While not physically impossible, this is altogether unlikely for someone who had allegedly committed suicide by firing a powerful handgun into her mouth. She felt that her problems were “external,” while those around her thought they were “internal,” i.e. “all in her head.”

Same as 16.

Iris’ ordeal was remarkably similar to what Rita Katz endured following her work on Operation Green Quest and the SAAR investigation.

George W. Bush was pursuing Philippine Golden Lily loot in order to increase U.S. gold reserves and, perhaps more importantly, to fortify his blind trust. That trust was overseen by William Stamps Farish III, who had considerable political and economic gravitas in the state of Kentucky.

Bush’s Harken Energy may well have served as a money laundering front, perhaps for some of the gold recovered in the Philippines. We note that a director of Harken, Talat Othman, interceded directly with then Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill on behalf of the targets of the 3/20/2002 raids. The SAAR network was a primary target of those raids: we have seen how Rita Katz and her fellow investigators came under surveillance and harassment for digging into that case.

We revisit the deep politics of the Bush family, the family of Douglas MacArthur and William and Alan Quasha.

More about the deep politics of the Philippines, the Bush family, father and son Quasha, and the possibility that Alan Quasha’s dominant presence in Harken Energy may be derivative of the clandestine acquisition of Golden Lily loot.

The program concludes with review of the operations of Golden Lily and their involvement with things Iris was investigating. The Rape of Nanking marked the formal beginning of Golden Lily.

Colonel Tsuji Masanobu was heavily involved with Golden Lily and the Bataan Death March, the survivors of which were a focal point of Iris Chang’s research at the time of her death.





1 AM

It’s Going Down from sister station KPFA in Berkeley

Interview with The Final Straw In North Carolina about how to put together an effective Anarchist Book Fair and deal with security issues at a time of increased fascist attacks and provocations.



2 AM

On the Ground with Esther Iverem from sister station WPFW in DC



Enough is Enough!... Australian MPs Speak in DC to Bring Julian Assange Home... Portion of speech by Colombian President Gustavo Petro at the United Nations General Assembly... Meetings a Further Sign That Unipolar Moment is Over with Dr. Gerald Horne...Poland's president calls Ukraine's head of state a 'drowning man' that is dangerous, and that is just one of the highlights of this week in as the empire turns.. Plus Headlines.



Featured speakers/guests: Colombian President Gustavo Petro, Gerald Horne, Barnaby Joyce, Tony Zappia, Alex Antic, Peter Whish-Wilson, David Shoebridge



On the Ground: Voices of Resistance from the Nation's Capital gives a voice to the voiceless 99 percent at the heart of American empire. The award-winning, weekly hour, produced and hosted by Esther Iverem, covers social justice activism about local, national and international issues, with a special emphasis on militarization and war, the police state, the corporate state, environmental justice and the left edge of culture and media. The show is heard on two dozen stations across the United States, on podcast, and is archived on the world wide web at www.onthegroundshow.org.



3 AM

Project Censored with Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff

Eleanor Goldfield opens this week's program in conversation with economist Richard Wolff, focusing on the United Auto Workers' strike, as well as alternative economic systems where there would be no need for workers to strike. Then Mickey and Eleanor discuss Eleanor's new documentary film To The Trees, an account of efforts to preserve California's remaining old-growth redwood forests.



Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts. He co-founded the academic journal Rethinking Marxism, and he hosts a weekly radio program, Economic Update. His web site is www.rdwolff.com. For further information about Eleanor Goldfield's new forest documentary, see www.tothetreesfilm.com



4-6 AM Final two hours of The Thom Hartmann Program non-commercial broadcast from earlier on 09-27-23

Tuesday Night

Prog Notes S H 09-27-23





12 AM

About Health from sister station KPFA

Dr. David Feldman interviews Dr. Sara King about the Science of Social Justice (archival episode, as KPFA is in fund drive)

Dr. Sará King is a Mother, a neuroscientist, political and learning scientist, medical anthropologist, social entrepreneur, public speaker, and certified yoga and meditation instructor. She is an internationally recognized thought leader in the interdisciplinary field that examines the role of social justice, art, and mindfulness in neuroscience.
https://mindheartconsulting.com/about/


She specializes in researching and teaching about the relationship between mindfulness, community alternative medicine, and social justice with an emphasis on examining the relationship between individual and collective awareness as it relates to well-being and the healing of intergenerational trauma.



She currently works as an NIH post-doctoral fellow in Neurology at Oregon Health Science University (OHSU) in the Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Neurological Disorders.



Dr. King is also a member of Mobius, a non-profit supporting compassion in tech, is guest faculty in the MNDFL mindfulness certification program, as well as she is the Co-Director for the Embodied Social Justice Certificate program alongside Rev. Angel kyodo Williams and Dr. Rae Johnson.



Since 2019, she has been awarded several prestigious fellowships, including the Oregon Fellowship for Diversity in Research, the Society for Neuroscience Neuroscience Scholars award, the Garrison Institute Fellowship and the Restored Warriors Fellowship. She is also a part of Google’s Vitality Labs – their well-being think tank, as a resident expert in the relationship between individual and collective healing and well-being.



Dr. King is the creator of the “Science of Social Justice” framework for research and facilitation which stipulates that well-being and social justice are one and the same thing, as well as the “Systems-Based Awareness Map” a model of the relationship between individual and collective awareness and well-being. She has been invited to give keynotes, offer scientific consulting, creative collaboration, and to create trauma healing circles and meditations based off of her research for Nike, the Jordan Brand, the Ford Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, Google, The Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, Oxford University, Columbia University, OHSU, UCLA, UCSF, and Harvard Medical School, among others.



Dr. King is a regular collaborator with the Museum of Modern Art in NY. Her first collaboration with the MoMA NY was a meditation based off of her “Science of Social Justice” research framework, reocrded through their “Artful Practices for Well-Being” project. This marked the first time that a Black woman scientist has had her original scientific framework featured as a part of an internationally acclaimed art exhibit – featuring the work of the world renowned African-American artist Betye Saar. It will be on display – in person and virtually – at the MoMA for all of 2021. Dr. King’s second collaboration with the MoMA, entitled “The Art and Science of Hope and Justice” was developed with her mentor Dr. Dan Siegel and their colleague, musician and poet Orlando Villaraga. This project was picked up by the United Nations and the World Health Organization to be launched as a part of their 75th anniversary celebration. Her most recent collaboration with MoMA NY was “Awareness and Art as a Catalyst for Healing” with Orlando Villaraga, the first university-affiliated study in MoMA’s history.



She has also recently worked closely with the Ford Foundation for Social Justice in NY, and the Huntington Library and Art Museum in California to create meditations curated specifically for their world-class art collections.



Sará received a B.A. in Linguistics, and a B.A. in Black Studies from Pitzer College in 2005, minoring in Spanish. Afterwards, she received a Masters in Afro-American Studies and Political Science from U.C.L.A., where she concentrated in Education. During her M.A. program, she studied the politics of the post-racial phenomenon and it’s implications for pervasive educational inequalities.



Recently, she earned her Ph.D. in Education at U.C.L.A. in 2017, in their division of Urban Schooling, where she concentrated in anthropology and neuroscience to develop her methodological approach as a mixed-methods researcher and ethnographer. Sará is honored to have been mentored by her advisors Dr. Thomas Philip (U.C.L.A.) and Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang (U.S.C.) during her doctoral program.



Her dissertation research examined the way low-SES urban students express resilience, navigate well-being, and complex interpersonal relationships in the context of a school-based yoga and meditation intervention, making history as the very first in U.C.L.A.’s department of education to explore the impact of yoga and meditation in urban schools from a neuroscientific and critical theorist/anti-oppression point of view.



Dr. King is also very proud to have been a participant in the Dalai Lama’s Mind and Life Institute Inaugural International Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan in 2019. Here, she was one of 75 thought leaders and scholars in the field of meditation research invited to discuss the the latest advances in research in neuroscience, psychology, and Buddhist philosophy to produce innovative approaches in the advancement of contemplative studies.



Her research and writing have been featured in Lion’s Roar, Yoga Journal, Yoga International, Voyage LA Magazine, and the Journal for Contemplative Inquiry, and she speaks regularly at conferences merging science, spirituality, contemplative practices and well-being such as the Collective Trauma Summit, The Science and Non-Duality Conference, Wisdom 2.0 and the Well-Being Summit.



In 2021, she was named “One-To-Watch” by Mindful Magazine, as well as she made the November cover of Yoga Journal Magazine as a “Game Changer” for her work bridging science, social justice and contemplative practices.



YOGA, MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION BIO

As a former college athlete on the Pomona-Pitzer dive team, and life-long lover of movement and dance, Dr. King has always been fascinated with the relationship between wellness and embodied healing practices. She has been an avid student-practitioner of vinyasa yoga, as well as a student of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism for 14+ years. Her passion for studying contemplative practices and yoga led her to complete the 200 hr. Awakened Heart, Embodied Mind yoga teacher training at Exhale Yoga with Julian Walker and Hala Khouri. In this program she was trained to teach yoga in a trauma-sensitive way that incorporates an understanding of somatic therapy and neuroscience. In 2022 she was also named one of the “Ten Powerful Women in Mindfulness” by Mindful Magazine.







1 AM

Herbal Highway from sister station KPFA

Host Karyn Sanders interviews Vivian Hillgrove about plant lore and stories in this archival edition of Herbal Highway from 2016 (as KPFA is currently in an on-air fund drive)





2 AM

Green Street News

This week on GSN Patti and Doug talk about PFAS chemicals in consumer products and firefighting gear, excess radiation from the iPhone 12, and the earth exceeding most of its planetary boundaries. Then we hear excerpts from five outstanding speakers at the March to End Fossil Fuels.



2:30 AM

Food Sleuth Radio

Did you know that climate change threatens public health and safety, especially for underserved and vulnerable populations? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Georges Benjamin, MD, Executive Director of the American Public Health Association. Benjamin discusses regional differences of climate impact, and describes the ways extreme weather events can affect our health.



Related website: https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/climate-change

https://www.apha.org/-/media/Files/PDF/topics/climate/Energy_Justice_Key_Concepts.ashx

https://www.apha.org/Publications/Fact-Sheets



3 AM

Whole Mother from sister station KPFT with host Pat Jones

Erin Young, LMT, and Tiffany Venekamp, CPST



Erin Young has been a licensed Massage Therapist since 2002. It was through massage therapy that her passion for emotional and physical support blossomed. In 2008 she attended her first Doula training workshop. In 2012 she combined her massage practice with her doula work. She began writing curriculum and teaching other birth workers, which led her to pursue certification in Childbirth Education in order to teach families. In 2018 she launched a Houston Birth & Baby, a doula agency that employed many doulas throughout Houston. She is a respected entrepreneur in her community, and she is sought out for mentorship from other doulas.



The work Erin has done as both a Massage therapist, doula, and a childbirth educator positions her to speak with confidence and firsthand knowledge of what is involved in supporting a pregnant person through most physiological and emotional changes that occur in pregnancy. Additionally, she is trained in postpartum mental health disorders, the physical needs of parents and infants, as well as the emotional shifts that occur after birth. As an educator for the adult population, she has the ability to connect with different learning styles and methods which, in turn, communicates the information effectively and thoroughly.



Tiffany Venekamp is Program Coordinator at Family Promise of Lake Houston since July 2019. She is a Family Support Technician serving children and families in foster care and as a Licensed Foster parent. She is also certified as a Nurturing Programs Technician. She is married, mom of five childen and she is a three-time client of Erin Young



4-6 AM Final two hours of the Thom Hartmann Program from earlier on 9-26-23 no

Monday Night

Prog notes S H 09-26-23




12 AM

Creative Frontline

Climate Change and the Peopling of the Americas

Ben Potter on end of Ice Age migration






1 AM

Scholar’s Circle - Threats to reproductive and abortion rights

Robin Marty is at ground zero managing a women's clinic in Alabama and involved in lawsuits. She describes what it is like to provide women's reproductive care post-Dobbs.

Greer Donley's paper was cited by the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs.

Carole Joffe has for decades been documenting doctors involved in providing abortion and their struggles.



Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe V. Wade, what are the legal and medical ramifications of the huge geographical swaths of women who have no access to abortion? We discuss reproductive healthcare in a post-Dobbs world. What has it meant for the medical profession and the ways in which it had to alter some of the ways healthcare is provided? How have women sought to secure access to abortion in the areas of the country where it is not legal? Mifepristone, the medicine used to terminate pregnancy, faces severe challenges and restrictions. What does this mean for access to medicinal abortion access? What can the areas where it is legal do to help their counterparts in red states?



BIOS



Robin Marty is Executive Director for the West Alabama Women’s Center and a freelance reporter. She’s the author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America and co-author of The End of Roe v. Wade: Inside the Right’s Plan to Destroy Legal Abortion.



West Alabama Women's Center:

https://alreprohealth.com/



Greer Donley is an Associate Professor of Law at the University Pittsburgh Law School. She is the author of Medication Abortion Exceptionalism, and co-author of Abortion, Pregnancy Loss, and Subjective Fetal Personhood (with Jill Wieber Lens) and The New Abortion Battleground (with David S. Cohen and Rachel Rebouché) was cited by the Supreme Court’s dissent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.



Carole Joffe is Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the author of Doctors of Conscience: The Struggle to Provide Abortion before and after Roe v. Wade, Dispatches from the Abortion Wars: The Costs of Fanaticism to Doctors, Patients and the Rest of Us and co-author of Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America.



2 AM

Behind the News with Doug Henwood

A single hour-long interview with two analysts:

Aaron Benenav, sociologist and frequent contributor to New Left Review, and Seth Ackerman, an editor at Jacobin and author of this article, discuss the long-term health of capitalism: is stagnation really the problem?



3 AM

Equal Rights & Justice with Mimi Rosenberg (from sister station WBAI)

Equal Rights and Justice is joined by Cinque Brath, the Co-Founder and President of the Elombe Brath Foundation to talk about the formation of The African Jazz Arts Society and Studio (AJASS) which spurred the emergence of Black Culture and Identity in the 60s and 70s and gave rise to the Black is Beautiful Revolution, coupling Black Pride and Black Power, that became a world-wide phenomenon, clapping back against the supremacy of Eurocentric aesthetics and values, and which is being recognized with a street naming – “African Jazz Society and Studio Way”



Plus, we’ll attend the 52nd Annual Attica Memorial event organized by The Attica Brothers Foundation – who have been meeting for the last year to create an organization that can help keep the Attica Family intact and active and remind us that in this “incarceration nation” the Attica rebellion is and must be all of us – we’ll hear from Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Blood In The Water” Heather Ann Thompson and the Attica Brothers.




4-6 AM

Final two hours of Thom Hartmann Program (non-commercial version) from earlier on 09-25-23

CREATIVE FRONTLINE

EQUAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE