Denise and Johnny discuss Saint Nick and holiday safety nets

This week Backbeat has lots of blues, by blues singers this time, that just the way it goes. We'll also hear some movie music, a Zydeco Queen who got into playing music professionally in mid-life, records with star back-up singers (made before they were stars) and a new record from country singer Jeff Beadle that doesn't sound very country, bt does sound vintage.

Winter Solstice (December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere) is a physical event and it is also an occasion for ritual and contemplation. In this program, Frieda Werden asks questions of two experienced practitioners of an earth-based, women-centred religion about what they do and how they came to their vocations. They also make suggestions for privately engaging with the darkest night.

Award winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem in occupied Palestine: Mohammed El Kord. Famously Zionist American-Israeli turned anti-apartheid activist: Miko Peled. And a Palestinian mother, scientist, novelist, poet, essayist, and activist: Susan Abou Alhawa.

Sonic Café, Man of our times, that’s Phil Collins and Genesis from 1980. So ahh welcome to the program, I’m your host Scott Clark and this is episode 413. This time the Sonic Café brings you a mix of tunes so great they’re scary. Our mix pulls from the last 58 years. Listen for Madness with Our House, truly a product of the original MTV. Also Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band from 2012, Sufjan Stevens, The Belmonodos, from there 2010 Always Rumble album. Also music from Les Dudek, Hearts Nancy Wilson, and Parquet Courts pulled from 2018’s Wide Awake release. We’ll also flashback to 1966 in the Sonic Café time machine to hear Nancy Sinatra’s cover of the Beatles Daytripper. Yeah so all that plus listen for a quick mashed up of 1960’s cigarette advertising, and finally we play a great Portlandia, listen as Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen present the imaginary NPR podcast Forgotten America, Rural Footprints, funny stuff ‘cause ahh it sounds so authentic. So all that and more straight ahead from our little radio café way out here in the Pacific Northwest, from 2014 this is Future Islands with Spirit, and we’re the Sonic Café.

– Syria regime change unlikely to quench Gaza ‘human sacrifice’ fuse for World War Three – Queen Elizabeth wouldn’t let Israelis into Buckingham Palace as she thought they were all ‘terrorists, or sons of terrorists’ – Syria – Assad has gone and HTS has taken over – was it a ‘surprise’ or a deal brokered by ‘Art of the Deal’ Trump or others? – Susan Lindauer, peace campaigner and ex CIA agent, how Assad’s father had a contract out on her, but she’s not pro the new government – Judge Neopolitano interviews Col. Douglas Mac Gregor – did Trump do a deal with Putin over Syria? – Turkey’s interests in Syria. Dearlove, former UK Secret Services head, says WW3 has started. – Susan Lindauer – Israelis taking over parts of Syria. Will Islamists congregate in Syria to attack Israel? Richard Medhurst, who was arrested for being 'pro Hamas' – Independent journalist Richard Medhurst on the so-called ‘Syrian Revolution’ – Lavrov on why Russia couldn’t support Assad anymore. What happened to Syrian army? Lebanon weak and poor like Syria. – Starmer visits Akrotiri Military base in Cyprus. Starmer tells troops at base deploying Gaza spy planes ‘the whole world is relying on you’ – Douma and Goutha ‘chemical weapons’ attacks wrongly blamed on president Assad just Western ‘big lie’ propaganda – 1982 Oded Yinon plan continuing? US citizens freed from Assad’s prisons. ISIS released. PRE-PLANNED ATTACKS Though the attack by the ISIS is sudden and intense – Scott Bennett dies suddenly, age 54, from pancreatic cancer, after getting back from Ukraine where he had been collecting evidence of Ukrainian war crimes – was Scott bumped off? – Scott Bennett's book ‘Shell Game’ about funding for Jihadi networks from the 1980s through the Union Bank of Switzerland [included with this week's email]. – EXCLUSIVE: Fatima gives a report from Gaza – UN agency for Palestinian refugee (Unrwa) has warned that 945,000 Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of exposure – The Queen wouldn’t let Israelis in the Palace as she thought they were all terrorists. The late Queen Elizabeth believed every Israeli was “either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist” – Israeli war criminals won’t be arrested in UK? American Indian genocide. Israeli army chief given special immunity to visit Britain Exclusive: IDF chief of staff Herzi Halevi – America’s Syrian Gulag more than 50,000 humans are kept in a network of twenty-seven facilities in Syria. – Starmer appoints ex-Murdoch hack as ‘strategic communications’ chief Plus a Conservative think-tanker for good measure – Morgan McSweeney, to be his recycled chief of staff after the (induced?) resignation of the controversial Sue Gray, Keir Starmer has appointed former Murdoch hack James Lyons as his head of ‘strategic communications’. – Farmers protesting about chancellor Rachel Reeves’ new inheritance tax in London. Tractors descend on London in Budget protest, as Bradshaw highlights farming pain to MPs An estimated 600 tractors, at least, descended on Westminster on Wednesday – Jeremy Moody, secretary and adviser at Central Association for Agricultural Valuers, added that the tax changes would not discourage companies from snapping-up farmland, adding: “It is only individuals who die.” – Supermarket equity owners controlling food prices Vertical integration from farm, to distribution, to supermarket shelf. Monopolising the food supply! Kier Starmer this week on farmers. – Blackrock’s Varlay stated: “The senators…are f***ing cheap – you got 10 grand, you can buy a senator.” – Open source software being targeted. Free Software Is Under Attack! (Will You Help Defend It?) Free software means that the users have the “FREEDOM” to run, edit, contribute to, and share – Friday the 13th origin. Why that date is feared by Templar Masons. Knights Templar underground spawned the Freemasons. ‘The Brotherhood’ documentary by Martin Short about Freemasonry – P2 – A secret P2 Masonic fascist government of Italy was exposed in 1982: In January 1982, the P2 lodge was definitively 'disbanded' by the Law 25 January 1982 – Masonic initiation rituals are a combination of an obsession with the building and re-building of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and Witchcraft! Saul died in about 1010BC – NOT The BCfm Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/not-the-bcfm-politics-show-presented-by-tony-gosling-220/

Golden oldies (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)

Eric Kirk and David Frank discuss the politics of the day.

Eric Kirk and David Frank discuss the politics of the day.

Eric Kirk and David Frank discuss the politics of the day.

The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.

The Repository is an oubliette of musique concrete, nocturnal emanations and audio oddities. An hour of strange music, spoken word musical mash ups of questionable taste. All material is royalty-free, public domain or Creative Commons. This show makes perfect late-night fare. Please let us know if you are broadcasting this show. Our host, Jack Bailey will give your radio station a shout out! Email us at kzzh@accesshumboldt.net.

For this week’s archive radio show we first navigate some banana slugs, some billionaires and ballot bandits, and then we go with a mostly historic theme as we travel to Ancient Greece and then to some of America’s earliest history as we consider a series of 17th Century events in colonial Massachusetts that set the mold for our nation’s incredibly bloody history. Facts that they left out of your history books — only here in the Thunderbolt!

What is it about the words we speak that convey concepts, nuances, ideas and sometimes even start wars?  Where do they come from, what is their history and how do they shape our minds and ability to communicate?  These are just some of the questions we asked Professor John McWhorter, author of “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue,” when we spoke with him from his home in New Jersey on December 1, 2008. The book Professor McWhorter recommends is “Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business,” by Ethan Morddenn.

This week, on the Global|Research News Hour, with world tensions frightening us and leading to embrace the pandemic treaty and the Pact for the Future among other arguably technocratic remedies to the classic Hegelian problem reaction solution, we explore the dynamics of the recent scare known as Pandemic, learn from similar suggested versions in history, and source out ways of preparing ourselves for a possible totalitarian dynamic playing out in the near future. Our first guest, Dr Bryan Ardis, talks about his own experiences within the medical care system within the United States and his considering a reason other than COVID-19 to the high death toll over the last few years. Then we speak to researcher Mattias Desmet about the psychological state he saw vast sectors of the Global Population subjected to and how it, together with propaganda, linked us to Totalitarian frameworks for a new technocracy. Finally, UK former political figure James Ferguson speaks to us about his organization and how it attempts to liberate us from the gradual allure of giving up our freedoms and being happy.

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. France 24, Germany, Cuba, and Japan.