They've Murdered 104 People Now
We talked about the many murders that were committed last weekend. We also talked about the official murders at sea by Donnie "Bonespur" Trump and Pete Hegseth in the past couple of days. We talked about The Winter Solstice this Sunday at 10:03 AM, and we talked a little bit about Isaac Newton's Birthday coming up this coming Thursday. We pitched again as a part of the WBAI Winter ;25 'thon. We hope that a lot of you donated. As usual I plan to update this Web page soon. I hope I actually do it. You might want to check back to see if there's been an update.
You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday January 14, 2026, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security.
Some years ago the WBAI LSB voted to hold its regular meetings on the second Wednesday night 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. Good luck.
Since the former General Manager 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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Two more boats in the Caribbean Sea have been blown up by the American military and the death toll from this activity of Trump and Hegseth has climbed to 104. We talked last time about Trump having an oil tanker seized, and now Trump is ordering a blockade of Venezuela. That is a casus belli. Blockades have rules in international law and those ruled aren't being followed, but if you don't care about committing international murder you probably don't care about any international laws.
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Last weekend was pretty bad. A gunman killed two people and injured several others at Brown University, and they have found the guy, dead, and they say he had also killed an MIT professor with whome he'd been to college in his native portugal. Trump has seized on the fact that the killer in this case was not an American citizen and has suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the killer to stay in the United States.
And then there was that anti-Semitic attack on people celebrating Chanukkah in Australia by a father and son team. They killed 15 people and injured about 40 others. They were sympathizers of ISIS. Of note is that a fruit seller named Ahmed al Ahmed confronted one of the gunmen, got shot and then wrestled the gun away from one of the shooters. He probably saved a number of lives.
And then there was the killing of Rob Reiner and his wife. They were stabbed to death, allegedly by their son. Of course Rob Reiner was a celebrity and everyone knows who he was. And then Donie Bonespur
Trump wrote on his social media account that Rob Reiner's death was, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME.
That was pretty damned crass. Representative Thomas Massie, Republican of Kentucky, wrote, Regardless of how you felt about Rob Reiner, this is inappropriate and disrespectful discourse about a man who was just brutally murdered.
Yeah, most of the Republicans in power didn't denounce what Trump said. This is quite in contrast to the total denunciation of anyone who didn't participate in the public hagiography of that Kirk guy who was assassinated in August. People were fired from jobs and threatened for saying anything that wasn't complimentary of Kirk. And Kirk was a hate monger.
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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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