The Sad Advent of Standard Time
Oh boy! I've been scrambling like crazy here trying to fix some kind of problem that has everything looking like it's somewhere else on my computer. I seem to have corrected the particular files and their locations, but I need to find out what's going wrong. Is it another Microsoft update?
So we covered the below topics and more on this program. I will have to fill in the rest later on. I'm getting this Web page up pretty late as it is. Check back for updates.
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
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. This will be the last meeting of the 12th WBAI LSB. The WBAI LSB held an executive session meeting this past Monday October 30, and the official report out is, The WBAI LSB met in executive session to discuss confidential personnel issues related to the evaluation of WBAI Management personnel.
That's about all I can say about it.
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 the 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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Daylight Saving Time ends tomorrow! The Sun will set at 4:48 Sunday afternoon. I lament this every year. And every year it happens again. I do wish that we had Daylight Saving Time all year long. Now we'll be plunged into the depressing, early sunsets of Autumn. Only March and the advent of Daylight Saving time will make things better. Until then people like me will just have to suffer.
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The Trump family's fraud trial in Manhattan Supreme Court is still going on. Co-defendants Donald Trump Jr. And Eric Trump testified this past week, and daughter Ivanka Trump is to testify next week.
Donald Trump Jr. Testified that I was all the fault of the professionals they'd hired. He does not seem to be opposing the idea that a fraud was committed, just that it was just someone else who's responsible for it.
The other executive vice president at the Trump Organization, Eric Trump, testified that he didn't know anything
about his father's financial statements until the New York attorney general brought the case on trial. Then he conceded that the Trump organization did have financial statements. And then Assistant Attorney General Andrew Amer presented evidence showing that former Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney had in fact informed Eric Trump of the statements a decade ago when they were talking about figures to value the family's Seven Springs property. The Assistant Attorney General asked, So, you did know about your father's annual financial statements as of August 20, 2013, didn't you?
and Eric Trump replied, It appears that way, yes.
Amer then followed up with, And he told you that he needed to value Seven Springs for that annual financial statement, right?
and the reply was That's what it says, yes.
So the attempt to weasel out of that charge failed.
The Trump Organization controller had previously testified that Eric was the one who'd directed him to account for seven non-existent units that the Trump organization had planned to build, but never did build, at the Seven Springs property when calculating its value, boosting its worth by $161 million. It's stuff like that which had made the judge rule that they were all guilty of fraud before the trial had even started. Pretty blatant stuff. Meanwhile Donnie Bonespur
Trump continues to verbally assault the judge in the case outside of the courtroom.
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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 1,151,435 which means that 1,316 people have died of COVID-19 since our last program a week ago. Which is a little bit less than the weekly total on our last program. I finally got my Autumn COVID-19 booster and flu vaccination this past 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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