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The REAL Reason WGBH-FM is Cancelling Naomi Arenberg's Folk Show?

I'm cutting-and-pasting this from correspondence I had last nite with Jacqueline Schwab, composer/performer of music for Ken Burns' CIVIL WAR PBS series and wife of Edmund Robinson minister of the Chatham UUMH.  Jacqueline is as dismayed at the cancellation of Naomi Arenberg's Folk Show on WGBH-FM as I am so I sent her my conspiracy-theory which I've covered here at the CC2day Blog in past years. 

"I've probably mentioned this article before... http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1123    The Friday two weeks before the invasion of Iraq, on MORNING EDITION Scott Simon and Bob Edwards 'got with the program' and repeated the Roveism all morning that the UNSCOM inspectors "Were Kicked Out" by Saddam 4 years earlier.  The Mainstream Media only took up this Big Lie in the last days of August/first days of September six months before the Invasion.  Prior to that, when a Republican operative would say that on Mainstream Media, he would be corrected by the statements of Hans Blix and Scott Ritter.    National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting were founded and funded by many of the same progressive postwar individual and foundations that were active in the New Frontier merger of the Unitarians and Universalists in the early 60s.    I've expressed my concerns on this to UU WORLD Magazine and the UU Board.  Given the centrality of the Flecks and the Picketts of Chatham to the founding of the new denomination and its hymnbook...  UUMH Chatham should consider confronting NPR with its role as cheerleader-for-the-cheerleader George W. Bush.    The postwar progressive Mutual Founders are mostly gone now, but there must be inheritors of the tradition who wrestle daily with this cognitive dissonance... let's figure out who they might be, confront them, and lend them support.    Perhaps folkmusic/singersongwriters have been found by WGBH surveys simply no longer popular in Boston.  Do you believe that?  I think it more likely that there's increasing friction between artists and the Suits Upstairs who gave Bill Kristol pundit-airplay for the past 6 years.  Maybe folkfans like me stopped giving money to GBH after 'Simon Said' What He Said.  I certainly cut 'em off my list.  I LOVE folk music... Dylan saved my sanity...    Growing up in a Republican household in Jacksonville FL all thru the 60s, being bussed for 6 years to a 'peculiar Prep School'(see my VITALITY feature this month) which despite its function as a Segregation Academy had a heavily Unitarian enrollment... the wife of Jacksonville UUMH minister Charles White McGehee was one of the English teachers, and their sons were my classmates... I managed to get rides a few times to 'Liberal Religious Youth' meetings at the J'ville UUMH to hear the kids play folkie protest-songs on their guitars... this in a town where every fourth paycheck comes from the Naval Air bases..."

Oh man the worst one was Corey Flentoff giving the evening news summaries in '03 and '04... the oleaginous rapture in his voice as he would intone the name "Pray-sident Booosh" ...what a little Luger-polisher...

Support LOCAL INDEPENDENT media folks; listen and contribute to WOMR-FM Provincetown www.womr.org with its New Digital Signal!  And keep reading and advertising in CapeCodToday... DO NOT send money to WGBH-FM until Scott Simon comes to the Cape, is confronted with tapes of that Friday show possibly in conjunction with one of Scott Ritter's appearances, explains himself AND RESIGNS. 

The Invasion was Thursday March 20 2003. Count back 2 weeks to the Friday I'm discussing, March 6th. That's when these ears heard Scott and Bob commit the war crime all morning. NPR'd been doing pretty well keeping things straight 'til that moment. Then it caved. Repeating the Roveism all morning that the UNSCOMers 'Were Kicked Out' 4 years earlier, an untruth, GAVE NPR's IMPRIMATUR to Bush to Bring It On. The coverage became gung-ho from then on. That is how NPR was complicit.

The rest of Mainstream Media had started to cave in the last days of August '02. For the next week into September you see the newly-minted phrase 'Were Kicked Out' popping up everywhere. NPR resisted to some degree, at least correcting NeoCon guests who used those Three Little Words. Until March 6th. Then Scott and Bob's heads became Embedded in the oil-rich sand of Iraq. I want testimony from those two on the precise phrasing of the orders that came down from upstairs... to begin lying to their listeners.

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Posin' at PAAM Last Weekend!

A photo-op arose as the Grateful Dead Guy and I attended the Alice Brock exhibit at Victor's, a Group Show at PAAM, the Joey Mars opening at Whaler's Wharf, and the Scream Along With Billy cabaret at Enzo's!  Any excuse to dress up and wear one of my more sinister fedoras...  http://www.wickedlocal.com/provincetown/fun/entertainment/arts/x880801146/Photo-Gallery-Art-openings-on-Oct-29  Photo by Richard Hopkins!

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Lowering Blood Pressure Naturally!

I know mine's lower since obtaining some copies of the new issue of VITALITY, Cape Cod's favorite homegrown natural-remedies-and-amusing-conspiracy-theories monthly tabloid!  http://www.vitalitycapecod.com/  If you type in http://tinyurl.com/y9wc9r6 as editor Don Woodland includes it, in this month's Spotlighted Local Resident right on the fold... to your Browser, it should take you... right back to this page!  My name is spelled correctly and there's a color photo of me looking fairly cheerful!  And... so we shall see what this does in terms of hyping up the resonance of my Regional Microcelebrity status... Thanks Don!!

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Halloween Horror Request!!

Fellow CC2day Blogger the CapeCodCrusader requested a Halloween post from your Gothic host and I'm thrilled to comply!  I've been working since late spring on an illustrated master outline tying together all my published comicstrip serials and unpublished fragments dating back to the mid60s...  this cheerful scene is based on recently-discovered notes from a lunch I had 23yrs ago in the Columbia U. neighborhood with WBAI-FM radio host of The Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, and GNOSIS Magazine contributor Peter Lamborn Wilson... Mister Wilson went on to conceptualize the Temporary Autonomous Zone and thus became the father of the Rave Scene and the chief influence on the Burning Man Festival...  In this update of the scenario hip-hop superheroines The Bomb and Tone Arm, working undercover doing sound at Club Narthex, aka the recently desanctified Saint-Athanasius-In-The Mews, investigating 'Vitamin Z'~a new anentheogenic drug sweeping the Club Scene~look on in cosmic dread as Skippy the Acolyte discovers his boss~ the Rev. Montague Knell~ slumped across the downstairs bar on a Sunday morning!  Skippy gets on the horn with Episcopalian Mystic and Psychic Detective Richard Falcombe who's living-under-a-curse 4 blocks to the west at the Amalgamated Theological Seminary.  Falcombe pulls on his broadbrimmed black Borsalino and the Occult Thrills commence!!

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How CIA is Murdoch?

http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2009/07/cias-rupert-murdoch-ted-shackley.html  Really?  The Emperor of Oceania, the High Priest of Maverick-ness was 'brought along' by Ted"The Blond Ghost", "the Proconsul of Saigon"Shackley? 

Remember Gloria Steinem admitting that the CIA jumpstarted her seemingly-countercultural career? http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1M9EAly2hog&refer=home

Reading the lurid pulpfiction account of the Big Bust of cartel"La Familia" on the frontpage of the CCTimes at Buckies Biscotti this evening, it hit me... how far do you get in the American mediasphere without playing ball with the Company?  How do you get American citizenship that quickly?  Why are all media-consolidation laws rewritten at your request? 

"During the buildup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, all 175 Murdoch-owned newspapers worldwide editorialized in favor of the war..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch  Fascinating!

Are Murdoch's NewsCorp outlets saying anything that the CIA wouldn't be happy with?  Who's the Dog and Who's the Tail in this scenario? 

The tale of Dick Cheney's motel-room televisions being preset to Fox comes to mind, of course... http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0322061cheney1.html

Aren't 'mavericks' supposed to be the young cattle that overcome their herding instinct... ? Aren't we being efficiently herded no matter how 'outlaw' we try to be?

Be a mustachioed desperado while you still can... switch your ad budget to Cape Cod Today Dot Com... Protest the Rising Tide of Conformity!

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Dominionism's Smith&Wesson-Oil Comes to Community Access!

C3TV mid-cape community access cable, beginning today if I'm correct, just began airing the for-profit televangelism of Dominionist Terry Shuttlesworth.  He mixes Prosperity Preaching with End-Times Imperialism like nobody's Bidness... what's the point in getting rich right before the Rapture?  Maybe 'The Secret' is that you CAN take it with you!

http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/dominionism.htm

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22231/christian-dominionism-cult

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/joels-army-and-call

http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain10.htm

Check out the secret Holy Properties of Wesson Oil...

http://dogemperor.newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/18/2226748-rick-warrens-dirty-dominionist-secrets

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_01/016451.php

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/4/102528/740

 Shuttlesworth is a close crony of Sid Roth, a televangelist on Channel 9 WYDN The Daystar Network~~ why is Shuttlesworth on Public Access when Daystar is available?  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5578254614466798011#

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MurdochWatch Part 17~ Obama Says It's War...

Walter's been urging me to try embedding a YouTube vid in one of my rants so we'll give it a shot... plus, something clicked when I read this page on Salon this morning... http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/12/glenn_beck/index2.html  One of my loyal trolls has been for a couple of years been apoplectic about my artistic 'pretensions' and 'fraudery' in um, actually supporting myself as an illustrator for almost 40 years... I've never gotten what his beef is... "Entartete Kunst" and Tom Wolfe's ''From Bauhaus to Our House'' seem to come into it... My stuff's good ol' cheezy pop-culture... Glenn Beck started out as a Morning Zoo Jock... would he find my illustrations dangerously progressive?  A validating notion!  Back to the headline meanwhile... the recently-elected President of the United States has now declared war on the fella who owns our local daily The Cape Cod Times!  So... Support our Troops!  Cancel your subscription to the CCT and switch your advertising budget to CapeCodTodayDotCom!!!

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Haaaaaaaaaaar 'Mateys'!!

Cape Cod Times publisher Rupert Murdoch and lovely third wife Deng Wendi were captured by our camera Sunday as their swanky new Hongqi V12, a Mainland update of the classic Rolls Royce Phantom, cruised down Commercial Street... as one of the floats in the festivities surrounding Leather Mates Weekend.  It is Good to be Master and Commander... 'Top' of the World!   ...And  my favorite Hongqi!!

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MurdochWatch: Britain's 'Smartest' Supermarket-Chain Pulls Ads from Fox!

The Glenn Beck boycott goes international! 

Cape Cod Times - owner Rupert Murdoch is Australian, but he learned his tabloid shtick on London's Fleet Street... and now Waitrose Supermarkets of Britain no longer find Fox 'cool'...

Waitrose dumps Fox News in protest
over remarks about Barack Obama
His last-minute Olympic sprint to Chicago may have come to nothing, the Afghan quagmire may be bubbling away and Sarah Palin may be topping the bestseller list, but Barack Obama can at least take comfort from the fact that Britain's most upmarket supermarket chain is on his side.

Waitrose, which prides itself more on its "quality food, honestly priced" than staring down rightwing attack dogs, has become the latest firm to pull its ads from Fox News after presenter Glenn Beck's remarks about the US president...

Your fingertips~and karma!!~ will be far cleaner if you get your Cape Cod news from...  AND DO YOUR ADVERTISING in... CapeCodToday Dot Com!  Beat Media Consolidation- support the Alternative!

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Consider Yourself Carded!

Playing  around with my new and spectacularly-cheap HP Deskjet F4400 which I got on sale for 69 bucks at Staples Orleans Monday.  Don't call me 'cause I'm usually napping during bidness hours, but don't say I never gave you nuthin'.

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