Saturday, December 29, 2012

Crime Potpourri

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 52 -- December 29, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #252, January 1, 2013

Crime Potpourri


We look at crime at several levels: retail (the Newtown murders), wholesale (the entertainment industry), bigger wholesale (the financial system), and factory-direct (the Federal Government).

Segments include
  • KD's reflections on the Newtown murders and why the proposed new gun-control laws have zero relevance
  • a new David Rovics song on the Entertainment Biz
  • a short movie by Econ4 on the government-assisted crimes of Wall Street
  • a good essay by Paul Craig Roberts on Hugo Chavez vs. the Washington DC gang
Above: Paul Craig Roberts. Below: David Rovics.

Notes, credits, & links

* Note to broadcast stations: UNbleeped version of the show's audio includes the song lyric, "It's the rich who line their pockets while the rest of us get screwed." The BLEEPed version bleeps out "screwed."

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Boardwalk") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Above: Top Citicorp directors at work. Below: Scene from the Nuremberg II Trials. Social anthropologist Elliott Leyton correctly notes that--while "retail" mass-murderers get all the publicity--the biggest mass-murderers are national governments.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • January 8 -- TBA
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Comic Satire for Christmas

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 51 -- December 22, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #251, December 25, 2012

Comic Satire for Christmas


Some brief commentary by me, five seasonal songs, and one satiric imitation Broadway "big production number." All take a comic but critical view of American hypocrisies, religiosity, commercialism, class warfare, and other Christmastime traditions.

I'm especially fond of the pseudo- "big production number": Stan Freberg's 1958 masterpiece, Green Chri$tma$. The audio fidelity is excellent even by today's standards; the production is rich and sophisticated; the script is witty; and the message (alas) is still relevant.

Even its "dated" references are fun. All those cigarette ads Freberg parodies! One forgets (or one is too young to remember) how ads for cigarettes dominated the media. I have trouble remembering important names and dates, but I can rattle off 50 cigarette advertising slogans and jingles from 1960. Remember how great cigarettes used to taste? Luckies still do. And I never even smoked the damned things!

Anyway, "Comic Satire for Christmas" sounds good -- like a radio show should. And it is mild!

Hot presents this Xmas: the perfect gifts for adults (above)
and for lower-class female children (below).

Notes, credits, & links

Playlist:
  • Hugh Blumenfeld, "Long-Haired Radical Socialist Jew"
  • Simon and Garfunkel, "Silent Night / Six O'Clock News"*
  • Anne Feeney, "Brave New Christmas"
  • David Rovics, "Pirate Santa"
  • Stan Freberg, "Green Chri$tma$"
  • Tom Lehrer, "A Christmas Carol"
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "nihil obstat") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

* Christmas Trivia: In fact it's not the six o'clock news. It's the seven o'clock news. Listen closely at the end.


Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • January 1 -- New Year's Potpourri
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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Michael Ruppert on Peak Oil

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 50 -- December 15, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #250, December 18, 2012

Michael Ruppert on Peak Oil


A lucid and interesting explanation of "peak oil" and its consequences. Michael Ruppert convincingly argues that the problem exists, how large the problem is ( = very), and why we can't swap some other source of energy for the cheap, plentiful petroleum that used to be available.

Ruppert also shows some of the geopolitical results of peak oil--Cheney's top-secret energy panel, our war on Iraq, etc. But he ends on an optimistic note--sort of.

From Chris Smith's 2009 film, Collapse.

All graphics: Click to enlarge.

Notes, credits, & links

Personal grumble: Ruppert's brief critique of nuclear energy is negative (as it should be)--but not nearly negative enough, for my tastes. He could have mentioned 20 additional reasons nuclear power is a terrible idea.

Especially good is his discussion of the insanity of our (petroleum-intensive) globalized corporate agribusiness.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "average quality") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Click to enlarge. (It's worth the trouble.)
Finding and pumping deep-sea oil is extremely expensive--and prone to environmental disasters. Saudi Arabia is now drilling at sea. Ruppert asks: What does that tell us about the Saudis' oil reserves on land?

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • December 25 -- Comic Satire for Christmas
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Surviving the Collapse

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 49 -- December 8, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #249, December 11, 2012

Surviving the Collapse


Secular prophet Michael Ruppert has been quirky, controversial ... and very often right. In this interesting monologue, he explains why Western industrial civilization is unsustainable and beginning to collapse--and what Americans can do to weather the transition. Surprisingly, he ends on a note of optimism.

From Chris Smith's 2009 film, Collapse.

Above: Michael Ruppert, from the film.
Below: An office of the National Bank of Detroit

Notes, credits, & links

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "Yum-Yum tree") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.

Above: One of many urban organic gardens in Cuba. A catastrophic oil shortage led to more-sustainable agriculture and more-healthful food.
Below: "Underwater mortgages" in New Orleans.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • December 18 -- Michael Ruppert on Peak Oil
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Monday, December 3, 2012

The Censored News

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New World Notes News
Vol. 5, No. 48 -- December 3, 2012

This week in New World Notes, radio program #248, December 4, 2012

The Censored News


Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, gives an impassioned speech about how the media support Established Power--by producing news stories that are biased, censored, and full of omissions and false assumptions. And by suppressing news stories that would call official policies into question.

Complementing Huff's talk, we'll read selections from Project Censored's top stories of 2011-2012--seemingly-important stories unreported by the corporate media. One example: fallout from Fukishima caused 14,000 deaths in the U.S.

Plus introductory coments (and a very recent eample of censored news) by K.D.


Above: Historian, media critic, and Director of Project Censored, Mickey Huff

Notes, credits, & links

Huff spoke in September 2012. I have shortened his speech for this radio broadcast. A video of the entire speech is available at www.projectcensored.org. Summaries of the Top 25 Censored Stories of the year are available there too.

In my introduction I discuss a very recent censored story about child casualties in Afghanistan--recently brought to light by independent journalist Dave Lindorff. His article is here: http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/10/18/children-under-attack-in-pakistan-and-afghanistan/

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "What, me worry?") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

You can listen to any installment of New World Notes online or else download it (as an mp3 audio file) for later listening. The show is archived at both radio4all.net and (from #90 onwards) The Internet Archive. Either link should get you a reverse-chrono listing of available installments. Or browse the show's Web site: Each installment has a page, and each page has links to the recorded audio. See the gray sidebar on the right ("CONTENTS [Links]") for a table of contents.

Series overview: Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for.


Back in September 2011, the news media did their best to ignore Occupy Wall Street. Afterwards, they disparaged it. Finally, they were forced to take it seriously.

Coming soon (Tuesday air debut date shown)
  • December 11 -- Michael Ruppert on Surviving the Collapse
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