Another War
This Web page is getting posted late because I fell asleep! It's something I just couldn't stop from happening. We did spend much of the program talking about the war between Hamas and Israel. We also spent time on other topics. I'll have to really update this Web page later today because the program should already be airing as I type this. Check back for the updates!
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next WBAI LSB meeting will be on Monday October 30, 2023, but it will be a closed meeting, To discuss and evaluate WBAI Management personnel
according to the official notice posted on KPFTX.ORG. The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday November 8, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security. That will be the last meeting of the 12th WBAI LSB.
We had a LSB meeting on October 11, 2023. I did not get to give an oral Treasurer's Report but the written version of ther report is here. We spent an inordinate amount of time debating and then voting on excused absences because one particular LSB member insisted that we not excuse the absences of people who won't even be on the LSB anymore in a couple of months. And then we had to talk a lot about a Pacifica non-disclosure agreement, which I think has some very bad clauses in it.
The Pacifica and WBAI elections are over and the results are in, a little late. The people who were newly elected to the LSB are supposed to take their seats in December. December will start the 13th WBAI LSB. It will be interesting. The bad guys made some gains and that could do damage to WBAI.
Some years ago the WBAI LSB voted to hold its regular meetings on the second Wednesday of every month, subject to change by the LSB, so we have the following schedule:
These meetings are set to begin at 7:00 PM.
WBAI has a program schedule up on its Web site. The site has gotten many of the individual program pages together to provide links and such, so check it out.
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Here is WBAI's current Internet stream. We can no longer tell if the stream is working without testing every possible stream. Good luck.
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WBAI is archiving the programs! WBAI has permanently switched to yet another new archive Web page! This one is more baffling than the previous one. For some time I was unable to post archive blurbs, then I could, and then I couldn't again. Now I can again and there are a whole bunch of archive blurbs up there now.
This is a link to the latest version of the official WBAI archive. The archiving software appears to have been at least partially fixed. To get to the archive of this program you can use the usual method: you'll have to click on the drop-down menu, which says Display,
and find Back of the Book on that menu. We're pretty early in the list, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Once you find the program name click GO
and you'll see only this Back of the Book program. Management has fixed some problems that we'd been having with the archives.
For programs before March 23, 2019, we're all out of luck. The changes that took place once WBAI Management took control of the WBAI archives seems to have wiped out all access to anything before that date in March. You'll have to click on the same drop-down menu as above, which says Display,
and find Specify Date
, it's the second choice from the top. You are then given a little pop-up calendar and you can choose the date of the program there. Then click GO
and you'll see a list of programs that aired on that date. For those previous programs you can get the audio, but nothing else, since I can't post anything to those pages anymore. Yeah, it looks like they'll have some alternating program's name prominently there, but if you have the right date it'll be our program. Good luck.
Since the General Manager has banned Sidney Smith from WBAI he's not alternating with us on the air. As of November 2020, Back of the Book airs weekly.
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Our friend, fellow WBAI producer and Saddle Pal Uncle Sidney Smith has been banned from WBAI by General Manager Berthold Reimers. The General Manager will not say why. He won't even tell Sidney why he's banned! This is grossly unfair to Sidney and constitutes abuse of Staff. Why did Berthold ban Sidney?
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We spent a lot of this program taking about the current war going on between Hamas and Israel. It's late so I'll have to write more in here about this topic later on.
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The CDC Web site isn't giving us all that much information about COVID-19 in America, although they're saying that Total Deaths in Americas are at 1,147,253 which means that 1,295 people have died of COVID-19 since our last program a week ago. That's a little bit less than the previous week's total. I may get my Autumn booster this coming week.
The pandemic is clearly not over. Pickles of the North and I are still keeping our masks on. We're getting or have gotten our new shots, we don't want to get this disease.
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There are a lot of issues that are considered hazardous to talk about on the air at WBAI, even though the gag rule was lifted in 2002. However, there is the Internet! There are mailing lists which you can subscribe to and Web based message boards devoted to WBAI and Pacifica issues. Many controversial WBAI/Pacifica issues are discussed on these lists.
One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
There used to be a number of mailing lists related to Pacifica and WBAI. Unfortunately, they were all located on Yahoo! Groups. When Yahoo! Groups was totally shut down in December 2020, all of those mailing lists ceased to exist. One year earlier their file sections and archives of E-mails, had been excised leaving only the ability to send E-mails back and forth among the members. Now it's all gone. Older Back of the Book program Web pages tell a little more about those lists.
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