Alabama Court Goes Theocratic
We had a number of pressing things to talk about on this program. Vladimir Putin has murdered another Russian dissident, the Alabama Supreme Court has made a batshit crazy ruling based on the religious biases of the Justices on that court. We talked about the pandemic and more. This Web page will ber updated soon, so check back for those updates.
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday March 13, 2024, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security.
We had a LSB meeting on Wednesday night February 14, 2024. We had a minute of silence for James Irsay and Jazz Hayden who died this month. We also had to elect people to committees of the PNB. One of the usual suspects from the so-called Justice & Unity Campaign disrupted the meeting, she was alleging that things were being done wrong, in a parliamentary sense, and that we'd have to do the start of the meeting differently, even though when her faction had a majority they did it the way we did it on Wednesday and we've been doing it this way for 17 years. Doing it differently would also allow more disruption. Basically this person and her faction were trying to impress the newer members of the LSB with their tactics and disparage those of us who are not in their faction. We got most of the committees populated.
The Final results of all of the LSB officer elections we held last month are in.
At the February 14, 2024, LSB meeting the election were announced for who from WBAI will sit on the Pacifica National Board (PNB) for the next year.Those elections are below.
Listeners: Paul DeRienzo, Jim Dingeman, Cerene Roberts
Staff: Shawn Rhodes
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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Alabama! The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are children.
and have all the rights of children. The 131-page ruling appeared to be based on an extremely literal interpretation of the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor Act,
which the majority opinion called sweeping and unqualified,
thus applying to all children, born and unborn, without limitation.
Alabama's constitution says that each person was Made in god's image,
although they don't say which god that wold be. The justices even invoked the Bible throughout the ruling. Yeah, Christian Nationalists are trying to take over the United States. This disgusting development is squarely on Trump. His three right-wing Supreme Court Justices lied when being confirmed and then struck down Roe v. WEade as soon as they could get the opportunity. This court ruling will most probably go to the Supreme Court and I wonder if they're going to go along with this Christian Nationalist agenda.
People trying to have babies using in-vitro fertilization are now concerned about going to prison for performing illegal abortions, or even going to prison for murder in Alabama. Some people have reportedly spent their life savings on the procedure and now they can't have it.
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The CDC Web site says that as of their last reading, the death toll in America from COVID-19 was 1,180,042. Which means that 1,515 people have died from COVID-19 since our last program a week ago. That's 373 fewer deaths than the previous week. Good. I think that the weather is having an effect on the spread of COVID-19. The people who are oblivious to COVID-19 because they think that the pandemic is over can be having the opposite effect.
The pandemic is clearly not over. Pickles of the North and I are mostly still keeping our masks on. We've gotten our new shots, we don't want to get this disease.
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Alexei Navally died in prison. Everybody know that Putin had him murdered. Putin had tried to murder him twice before.
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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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