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Wednesday, December 16, 2015



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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

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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.

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Friday, December 11, 2015



Fund Drive



Fundraising: Background Music = Enya, “Dark Sky Island” CD



1-2 Alan Watts "Future of Politics" Part 1 of 4

Will politics, as we now know them, become irrelevant and disappear, and will the state, as Marx imagined, fade away? What are the prospects for individual liberty, civil rights, law with the courts, the police and penology? If nature abhors a vacuum, into what will 'drop outs' drop in?" (AW) From MEA, Box 303, Olema, CA 94950. 1 (866) 492-8446. http://www.alanwattsrecordings.com



2-3:30 Zenju Earthlyn Manuel: ‘Through the Fire to Liberated Tenderness’

Her most recent book, “The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality, and Gender”

For download of audio and/or text:

http://www.soundstrue.com/store/weeklywisdom?page=single&category=IATE&episode=11129



SEGUE MUSIC: Joan Armatrading, ‘Dry Land’ from “Gold” CD



3:30-4:30 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"

Guest: Paul Stamets, How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World www.fungi.com

Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com





The Thom Hartmann Program



Conversations with Great Minds Darald Sue

http://www.conversationswithgreatminds.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_lQNI9T6vs



Absolutely Angry Black Woman by Dominique Matti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDjZyQWshM



Conversations with Great Minds: Peter Mathews ‘Dollar Democracy’

http://conversationswithgreatminds.com/video/great-minds-p1-prof-peter-mathews-what-dollar-democracy





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

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Fund Drive

12:30-1:30 Dave Emory, "For the Record #867 – Because They Can Part 3 - Fireside Rant About Technocratic Fascism as’ Cyber Crowleyism’”

Detailed, annotated written description for this program available at: http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-867-because-they-can-part-3-fireside-rant-about-technocratic-fascism-as-cyber-crowleyism/

Dave's website: http://www.spitfirelist.com

Comments Line: comments that come in -- are a major and continuously updated source of information. Only a tiny fraction of this will ever make it into the program--it is simply too voluminous. http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpitfireListComments

PHOTO: Young Eleanor Roosevelt 1898 http://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/workers/workerpics/younger.html


2-3 “Document A-777 (United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Written, produced, and directed by Norman Corwin, originally broadcast on Mutual April 17, 1950.


3-5:30 L. Fletcher Prouty "Understanding Special Operations and Their Impact on the Vietnam War Era"
Pitch and play (books are all gone)


5:30-6 Thom Hartmann
Conversations with Great Minds: Evan Thomas, “Being Nixon: A Man Divided”
http://conversationswithgreatminds.com/video/great-minds-p1-evan-thomas-being-nixon-man-divided

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

WHAT HAPPENED

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Wednesday, December 09, 2015



Fund Drive – Program times dependent on pledges



12:30-1:30 Vaccine Update “Did 2014 Mark the Collapse of the Vaccine Establishment”

Article by Gary Null and Richard Gale. Online at: http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/did-2014-mark-the-collapse-of-the-vaccine-establishment/print/



State Vaccine Requirements: http://www.nvic.org/NVIC-site-search-result.aspx?q=vaccine%20exemption



California State Requirements http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements/california.aspx



California Personal Beliefs Exemption Form: (must file by Jan 1, 2016) http://eziz.org/assets/docs/CDPH-8262.pdf





1-3:30 “Friends for Life”

‘Loving and Losing Your Animal Companion’

Carolyn Butler, Suzanne Hetts, Laurel Lagoni

Originally published by Sounds True but not in current catalog.



SEGUE MUSIC:





The Thom Hartmann Program



Need to Know: How Big Money Is Shredding the Constitution
- Stephen Spaulding, Common Cause

Screwed: How the GOP Is Killing Women
- Marge Baker, People For the American Way (PFAW)

Best of the Rest: Is This the Death of Liberals?
- Professor Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania.

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

AND, Watch The Big Short
- Adam McKay, The Big Short

Daily Take: #You Ain't No Muslim Bro...The Best Way to Fight ISIS





In for Thom tonight, please welcome America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Need to Know: The GOP's stunning election advantage
- Farron Cousins, Ring of Fire

Screwed: Lead Paint Settlements... Bait For Predatory Companies?
- David Haynes, The Cochran Firm DC

Best of the Rest: The Right's New Race Lie
- Chauncey DeVega, Salon

Plus, Medical Pot Patients... Fired Up Over DEA Chief's 'Joke'
- Joel Stanley, CW Botanicals

Daily Take: The war on drugs is a war on Americans



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

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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Old Radio Night





12-3 Bobb Lynes & Barbara Sunday, “Don’t Touch That Dial!”

Suspense ‘Out for Christmas’ (12-21-58)

Jack Benny Christmas Show (12-15-40)

The Whistler ‘Decision’ (12-24-47)

Stan Freberg ‘Dragnet Christmas’

My Favorite Husband ‘George’s Christmas Present’ (12-16-49)

Fibber McGee and Molly ‘Best Christmas Decorations’ (12-20-49)

Email Bobb: iairotr@hotmail.com Email Barbara: donttouchthatdial@hotmail.com





3-4 NBC Theater, “The Doctor In Spite Of Himself” by Moliere (6/25/50)

Text: http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077&context=lib_fac





4-6 The Thom Hartmann Program



Hour One: Is Freedom Stronger Than Fear?
- Bill Keller, LivePrayer.com

Article: "Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies to mark attack" by Katia Hetter, Marnie Hunter and Brad Lendon.

Article: "Transcript The full text of Obama's address to the nation " by Christina Bellantoni.

Article: "Leytonstone Stabbing: 'You Ain't No Muslim Bruv' Becomes Very British Response" by George Bowden.

Article: "Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting suspect makes first court appearance" by Joanna Walters, Sabrina Siddiqui.



Hour Two: What Can Joe Camel Teach Us About the Gun Industry?
- Mark Pertschuk, Grassroots Change

Article: "The Gun Industry Has Systematically Demolished Regulators And Avoided The Fate Of Cigarettes" by Josh Israel.

Site: "Preemption Watch".

Site: "Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund" (CELDF).

Article: "Hartmann Peddles Fallacy of Food Stamps as Among 'Best Ways' to Stimulate Economy" by Jack Coleman.



Hour Three: Climate Wars...Greenpeace VS. ALEC
- Connor Gibson, Greenpeace

Article: "Researchers: Exxon, Koch Family Have Powered the Climate-Denial Machine for Decades" by Eric Holthaus.

Article: "Transcript: Thom Hartmann & State Represenative Mark Pocan: ALEC exposed in New Orleans. 5 August '11".

Article: "Greenpeace Activists Crash After-Hours ALEC Dinner Parties in Metro Phoenix (VIDEO)" by Miriam Wasser.

Site: Polluter Watch.

Article: ""We're going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan & Iran.."" Video Interview with General Wesley Clark Global Research by Democracy Now 2 March 2007.



Why We Need Nitrates
- Dr. Nathan Bryan, SuperBeets/Adjunct Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics

Article: "Gut microbes signal when dinner is done" by Chris Samoray.



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



OUTRO MUSIC: Judy Collins, ‘Nightingale II’ from “Whales & Nightingales” CD

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Friday, Dec. 4



12-1 Alan Watts "The Future of Communication" Part 4

From MEA, Box 303, Olema, CA 94950. 1 (866) 492-8446. http://www.alanwattsrecordings.com



1-2:30 Shinzen Young “Nausea, Health, Magic, Boredom, Death, etc.

From Vipassana Support International, 1 (866) 666-0874, http://www.shinzen.org



2:15-2:30 After Retreat Poems by Stephanie Nash

http://www.nasharts.com http://www.mindfulnessarts.org/



2:30-3:30 Caroline Casey, "Visionary Activist Show:"

Guest: Deborah Felmeth unfurling her book ‘Syria – Remember Me’ http://syria-remember-me.com/#story

From KPFA. Caroline's Website: http://www.coyotenetworknews.com



3:40 - 5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



God Isn't Going To Fix the Gun Issue...

Article: "Everything We Know About The Mass Shooting In San Bernardino" by Emily Atkin.

Article: "The Gun Industry Has Systematically Demolished Regulators And Avoided The Fate Of Cigarettes" by Josh Israel.

Article: "Guns killed more Americans in 12 years than AIDS, war, and illegal drug overdoses combined" by Zack Beauchamp.

Article: "Want To Know Why Politicians Only Offer 'Prayers' On Gun Violence? Follow The Money." by Kim Bellware.

Article: "Preemption Map" by Grassroots Change.

Article: "The other mass shooting that happened today in the United States" (Savannah, Ga) by Danielle Paquette.

Article: "The BBC's Distressingly Accurate Intro To The San Bernardino Shooting" by Zack Ford.

Article: "US Mass Shootings, 1982-2015: Data From Mother Jones' Investigation" by Mark Follman, Gavin Aronsen, Deanna Pan, and Maggie Caldwell.

Article: "Yes, Mass Shootings Are Occurring More Often" by Mark Follman.

Article: "Was San Bernardino Shooting a False Flag?" by Joe Biggs.



Ted Cruz's Master Plan
- Farron Cousins, Ring of Fire Radio

Article: "Ted Cruz has always had a master plan. Now it could win him the White House" by Andrew Romano.

Article: "Ted Cruz: Crazy Like a Fox and Waiting to Inherit" by Richard Brodsky.

Article: "Ted Cruz's Father Suggested His Son Is 'Anointed' to Bring About 'End Time Transfer of Wealth'" by Bruce Wilson.



Why is the Pentagon Buying Lavish Compounds in Afghanistan?
- Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel

Article: "State Spox Caught Criticizing Own Mubarak Line in Hot Mic" by Sam Knight, December 3, 2014.

Article: "Pentagon Spent $150 Million on Afghanistan "Villas," Security for Lavish Compounds" by Sam Knight.

Article: "President Obama Signs National Defense Authorization Act Solidifying Ban on Torture" by Corinne Duffy.

Article: "Wyden Promises Senate Fight Over Intel Policy Bill Rider" by Sam Sacks.

Article: "Interesting Tidbits from the House Intelligence Authorization" by emptywheel.



Need to Know: Another Day in America...Another Shooting
- Zainab Chaudry, Council On American Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R)

Screwed: Guns...God is Not Fixing This
- Dr. Alice Chen, Doctors For America

Best of the Rest: There is No Plan B
- America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

PLUS, Thom Confronts Morano on Massive Climate Coverup
- Marc Morano, CFACT/Climate Depot

AND, Billionaire Bonanza
- Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies/99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It



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



5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar

KPFK Switchboard has the printed calendar at hand – (818) 985-2711 ext. 0

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Thursday, December 03, 2015



12-1 Dave Emory, "For the Record #866 – Because they Can Part 2: More About Technocratic Fascism”

Detailed, annotated written description for this program available at: http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-866-because-they-can-part-2-more-about-technocratic-fascism/



Dave's website: http://www.spitfirelist.com



ALSO: Pterrafractyl and other expert listeners are making a huge contribution, updating the website with information on many subjects that Dave doesn't have time to cover in the programs. Comments Line: comments that come in -- are a major and continuously updated source of information. http://feeds.feedburner.com/SpitfireListComments



1-2 Tom Hayden, “A Global Warning”

From Alternative Radio, 1 (800) 444-1977, http://www.alternativeradio.org



2-3 The Ralph Nader Radio Hour

“Unsafe At Any Speed” 50th Anniversary

Using clips from the documentary “An Unreasonable Man,” David and Steve take Ralph through the history of how his seminal work, Unsafe At Any Speed, launched the modern consumer movement. Book info: https://nader.org/books/unsafe-any-speed/

Program Info: http://www.ralphnaderradiohour.com



3-3:30 The Bioneers – Revolution from the Heart of Nature

‘Ripples of Community Resilience: Small Acts, Big Change’

Program information: 1 (877) bioneer http://www.bioneers.org



3:30-5:55 The Thom Hartmann Program



How competition may work for business - but it doesn't work for government

Article: "Manufacturing in U.S. Contracts at Fastest Pace Since 2009" by Victoria Stilwell.

Article: "Eugene Robinson accidentally tells the truth on Morning Scar..." by Surya Gayatri.

Article: "Renegade Police in Rural Alabama Accused of Mass False Arrests of Hundreds of Black Youths" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Article: "Huckabee: Wouldn't raise gas tax to help fight War on Terror".

Article: "Declaration of Independence". "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Book: Outsider in the House by Bernie Sanders with Huck Gutman.



Who poses the bigger threat...international or domestic right wing terrorists?
- Clifford May, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Article: "DHS Crushed This Analyst for Warning About Far-Right Terror" by Spencer Ackerman.

Article: "Data Shows That Right Wing Republicans Are The Real Terrorist Threat To America" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Memo to presidential campaign advisers" by Clifford May.

Article: "Ex-US Intelligence Chief on Islamic State's Rise: 'We Were Too Dumb'" by Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark.

Article: "Bernie Sanders Storms The Senate Floor And Drops A Megaton Reality Bomb On Republicans" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chuck Todd grills Donald Trump: "You're running for president of the United States!" " by Scott Eric Kaufman.



Talk Radio News Segment:
- Ellen Ratner, Bureau Chief

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 12/2" by Victoria Jones.



News from Paris...
- Ben Collins, Rainforest Action Network

Article: "Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Cut Coal Financing, Join Growing Movement by Banks in U.S. and Europe" by Laurel Sutherlin.

Article: "Climate Scientist: 2 Degrees of Warming Too Much" by Andrea Thompson.



Joining Thom in studio for the hour...
- Ari Rabin-Havt, -The Agenda/SiriusXMProgress (ch.127)

/The Benghazi Hoax

Tweet: "I ask @uffeelbaek Danish MP and head of a new progressive party his thoughts on conservative climate deniers https://soundcloud.com/siriusxm-news-issues/european-leader-says-us-conservatives-need-a-reality-check?in=siriusxm-news-issues/sets/progress-on-siriusxm ..." by Ari Rabin-Havt.

Quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair".

Video: Who Killed the Electric Car?.


Green report: Fracking Now A Threat To National Security?
- Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, Cornell University



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



5:55-6 KPFK Community Calendar

KPFK Switchboard has a printed copy at hand - 9am-5pm (818) 985-2711 ext. 0 (for operator)