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The convergence of wealth inequality and Media consolidation is explicated as the greatest risk to democracy. The degree of media consolidation is shocking and has led to the absence of so much of the dissenting evidence needed to form informed understandings regarding our collective foreign policy impact on the world stage. Without that we are unable of holding our government accountable and responsible for carrying out the will and interests of the majority population and instead become unconscious victims of the will and economic interests of the elite few. This show not only details the degree of media consolidation but also documents the methods and results of creating a misinformed electorate with clear examples and documentation. From the 1st Gulf War and before until today examples abound on how deceitfully misrepresentations were presented to the American public.

“In 1983, the US media was controlled by 50 companies. There were nine companies ruling in the 1990s, and by 2020 the number shrank to six — AT&T, which bought Time Warner, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Comcast, Disney, News Corp, and Viacom. This means that a huge amount of media companies are connected.”

Those that own the overwhelming disproportionate wealth, also own the media, and therefore own the purveyors of ideas from epoch to epoch. As Herbert Marcuse described back in the 1970s in his book One Dimensional Man, a closed universe of discourse is created that shapes and creates false truths, and false history with the result that things people often believe but which in fact are false or grossly misleading.

How we have been misled into conflict after conflict by control of information and the distorted presentation of false narratives is detailed with hard evidentiary examples. When foreign policy and public relations firms work hand in glove, we are advertised into supporting unjust interventions and wars.

The last 25% of the show shifts to an introduction to the Libyan invasion of 2011 and the false propaganda that was connected to that war crime, which will be further explicated next week.

The convergence of wealth inequality and Media consolidation is explicated as the greatest risk to democracy. The degree of media consolidation is shocking and has led to the absence of so much of the dissenting evidence needed to form informed understandings regarding our collective foreign policy impact on the world stage. Without that we are unable of holding our government accountable and responsible for carrying out the will and interests of the majority population and instead become unconscious victims of the will and economic interests of the elite few. This show not only details the degree of media consolidation but also documents the methods and results of creating a misinformed electorate with clear examples and documentation. From the 1st Gulf War and before until today examples abound on how deceitfully misrepresentations were presented to the American public.

“In 1983, the US media was controlled by 50 companies. There were nine companies ruling in the 1990s, and by 2020 the number shrank to six — AT&T, which bought Time Warner, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), Comcast, Disney, News Corp, and Viacom. This means that a huge amount of media companies are connected.”

Those that own the overwhelming disproportionate wealth, also own the media, and therefore own the purveyors of ideas from epoch to epoch. As Herbert Marcuse described back in the 1970s in his book One Dimensional Man, a closed universe of discourse is created that shapes and creates false truths, and false history with the result that things people often believe but which in fact are false or grossly misleading.

How we have been misled into conflict after conflict by control of information and the distorted presentation of false narratives is detailed with hard evidentiary examples. When foreign policy and public relations firms work hand in glove, we are advertised into supporting unjust interventions and wars.

The last 25% of the show shifts to an introduction to the Libyan invasion of 2011 and the false propaganda that was connected to that war crime, which will be further explicated next week.

We continue our Black History & State of Black America series of conscious raising shows around systemic racism & oppression. This week we speak with two activists Amanda Jasso and Kellee Coleman, who work with the City of Austin Equity Office. They share the challenges, by race and gender, that particularly are faced by women of color, at the local level regarding inequities posed by systemic oppression. Rather than complaining, they share the adaptive strategies women of color blazed in Austin Texas, in order to ‘normalize self-care’ and the care of their born and unborn children. Recognizing oppression and realizing it is not only about adapting to challenges and obstacles they place in the way to equality but recognizing that they are ‘systems’ ‘that are built to do what they are supposed to do’, maintain and expand the inequities that some benefit from while the majority to different degrees, some based on race and gender, are left to struggle with. Additional insights are provided such as the clarity in defining different types of ways oppression is manifested, however what is ‘not nearly as clear is how we experience white privilege’.

Change is measured in incremental advances which hopefully will snowball into structural change. Oppression alienates us from our humanity, but we are inspired by how our guests minimize those impacts by the choices they make and teach us to make.

We highlight the heroic role of Women in Austin in the context of their role throughout the world in mitigating the effects of poverty which is defined by Oxfam as “the worst form of violence perpetrated with the consent of society”. Insightful and empirically documented findings are reviewed of the Oxfam, Jan 2020 Report entitled, Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis: Even It Up. They include and document that ‘Economic inequality is out of control’; “The monetary value of UNPAID CARE WORK globally for women aged 15 or older is at least $10.8 trillion annually”; “at the bottom of the economy, women and girls, especially women and girls living in poverty and from marginalized groups, are putting in 12.5 billion hours every day of (essential) care work for free, and countless more for poverty wages” and “Oxfam has calculated that this work adds value to the economy of at least $10.8 trillion annually.” What makes women so heroic is the lives that they save every day in the face of the oppression they disproportionately are encumbered by.

We continue our Black History & State of Black America series of conscious raising shows around systemic racism & oppression. This week we speak with two activists Amanda Jasso and Kellee Coleman, who work with the City of Austin Equity Office. They share the challenges, by race and gender, that particularly are faced by women of color, at the local level regarding inequities posed by systemic oppression. Rather than complaining, they share the adaptive strategies women of color blazed in Austin Texas, in order to ‘normalize self-care’ and the care of their born and unborn children. Recognizing oppression and realizing it is not only about adapting to challenges and obstacles they place in the way to equality but recognizing that they are ‘systems’ ‘that are built to do what they are supposed to do’, maintain and expand the inequities that some benefit from while the majority to different degrees, some based on race and gender, are left to struggle with. Additional insights are provided such as the clarity in defining different types of ways oppression is manifested, however what is ‘not nearly as clear is how we experience white privilege’.

Change is measured in incremental advances which hopefully will snowball into structural change. Oppression alienates us from our humanity, but we are inspired by how our guests minimize those impacts by the choices they make and teach us to make.

We highlight the heroic role of Women in Austin in the context of their role throughout the world in mitigating the effects of poverty which is defined by Oxfam as “the worst form of violence perpetrated with the consent of society”. Insightful and empirically documented findings are reviewed of the Oxfam, Jan 2020 Report entitled, Unpaid and Underpaid Care Work and the Global Inequality Crisis: Even It Up. They include and document that ‘Economic inequality is out of control’; “The monetary value of UNPAID CARE WORK globally for women aged 15 or older is at least $10.8 trillion annually”; “at the bottom of the economy, women and girls, especially women and girls living in poverty and from marginalized groups, are putting in 12.5 billion hours every day of (essential) care work for free, and countless more for poverty wages” and “Oxfam has calculated that this work adds value to the economy of at least $10.8 trillion annually.” What makes women so heroic is the lives that they save every day in the face of the oppression they disproportionately are encumbered by.

Last week we detailed how slavery period, the Jim Crow period, interrupted by a short decade long Reconstruction period, was followed by Modern Day Discrimination that that continues to manifest its inequality today. We defined it as three connected eras that used different means and methods to ensure the second-class status of black lives’, hence the nature of systemic racism.

This week we shift our attention to the documentation of how Black airmen responsible for the most dangerous positions within the US WWII Air Force missions, namely as fighter pilots incurred a two front War. One against Nazi Germany and the second against the longest war in US History, the War of Racism. Special Guest Charles Chenier is featured form a 2007 BLID exclusive interview. One of the last Tuskegee Airmen still alive at the time gives a chilling and insightful vision of segregation and mistreatment of some of our real American Heroes the Tuskegee Airmen.

Mr. Chenier also reveals how we fed German Nazi prisoners better than our own black airmen and gives us insights into the nature of the advanced German air force capabilities faced in WWII.

The show includes a history of how the ‘New Deal’s’ Social Security program and the post War GI Bill program disproportionately benefitted whites over blacks with the effect of furthering the great racial wealth divide during the Jim Crow era and right up through the 1970s. A history unreported to the US public. Please join us as we seek to honor Black History Month by continuing to pursue our goal of deconstructing ‘systemic racism’ by revealing its different manifestations throughout our colonial and post-independence history right up until today.

Last week we detailed how slavery period, the Jim Crow period, interrupted by a short decade long Reconstruction period, was followed by Modern Day Discrimination that that continues to manifest its inequality today. We defined it as three connected eras that used different means and methods to ensure the second-class status of black lives’, hence the nature of systemic racism.

This week we shift our attention to the documentation of how Black airmen responsible for the most dangerous positions within the US WWII Air Force missions, namely as fighter pilots incurred a two front War. One against Nazi Germany and the second against the longest war in US History, the War of Racism. Special Guest Charles Chenier is featured form a 2007 BLID exclusive interview. One of the last Tuskegee Airmen still alive at the time gives a chilling and insightful vision of segregation and mistreatment of some of our real American Heroes the Tuskegee Airmen.

Mr. Chenier also reveals how we fed German Nazi prisoners better than our own black airmen and gives us insights into the nature of the advanced German air force capabilities faced in WWII.

The show includes a history of how the ‘New Deal’s’ Social Security program and the post War GI Bill program disproportionately benefitted whites over blacks with the effect of furthering the great racial wealth divide during the Jim Crow era and right up through the 1970s. A history unreported to the US public. Please join us as we seek to honor Black History Month by continuing to pursue our goal of deconstructing ‘systemic racism’ by revealing its different manifestations throughout our colonial and post-independence history right up until today.

The show focus is on the impact of systemic racism on Black History and the State of Black America relative to White America. Three different periods of US history, ‘slavery’, ‘Jim Crow’ and ‘Modern Day Discrimination’ utilizing different means and methods to subject African Americans to second class status are presented as systemic racism. Examples are documented and described and presented as a 2021 State of Black America snapshot.

We examine the shocking findings of the January 25, 2021 Oxfam Report entitled The Inequality Virus. The COVID-19 Virus and its economic impact on billionaires compared to the majority interests of US citizens as well as the world’s majority clearly reveals the nature a failed economic system or what MLK referred to as the ‘edifice that needs restructuring’. We believe this is what he meant when he described the economic system focus need for a ‘radical change in values’ ‘from a ‘thing oriented’ focus to a people oriented’ one.

Please join us as we kick off Black History Month by critically applying MLK’s work to modern day USA and systemic racism. You cannot celebrate the true calling and legacy of MLK, we believe without staying focused on his greatest concerns.

The show focus is on the impact of systemic racism on Black History and the State of Black America relative to White America. Three different periods of US history, ‘slavery’, ‘Jim Crow’ and ‘Modern Day Discrimination’ utilizing different means and methods to subject African Americans to second class status are presented as systemic racism. Examples are documented and described and presented as a 2021 State of Black America snapshot.

We examine the shocking findings of the January 25, 2021 Oxfam Report entitled The Inequality Virus. The COVID-19 Virus and its economic impact on billionaires compared to the majority interests of US citizens as well as the world’s majority clearly reveals the nature a failed economic system or what MLK referred to as the ‘edifice that needs restructuring’. We believe this is what he meant when he described the economic system focus need for a ‘radical change in values’ ‘from a ‘thing oriented’ focus to a people oriented’ one.

Please join us as we kick off Black History Month by critically applying MLK’s work to modern day USA and systemic racism. You cannot celebrate the true calling and legacy of MLK, we believe without staying focused on his greatest concerns.

Dr King converged the spiritual critique with the economic and foreign policy missteps that is driving our world towards a premature and perhaps irreversible crisis oHof survival of our species. He called out our arrogance as a nation and violent foreign policy within the paradigm of racism and gross economic inequalities. Special guest Reverend Jim Rigby Pastor of St Andrew’ Presbyterian joins Pedro Gatos and leads a far-ranging discussion that highlights MLK words from his Beyond Vietnam 4/4/1967 speech and applies them to the deteriorating spiritual and material conditions more and more of our human species are being subject to.

Many answers lie in the legacy of Dr MLK lessons he left behind many of which were most well developed and expressed in the Beyond Vietnam speech.

You cannot celebrate the true calling and legacy of MLK, we believe without staying focused on his greatest concerns.

Dr King converged the spiritual critique with the economic and foreign policy missteps that is driving our world towards a premature and perhaps irreversible crisis oHof survival of our species. He called out our arrogance as a nation and violent foreign policy within the paradigm of racism and gross economic inequalities. Special guest Reverend Jim Rigby Pastor of St Andrew’ Presbyterian joins Pedro Gatos and leads a far-ranging discussion that highlights MLK words from his Beyond Vietnam 4/4/1967 speech and applies them to the deteriorating spiritual and material conditions more and more of our human species are being subject to.

Many answers lie in the legacy of Dr MLK lessons he left behind many of which were most well developed and expressed in the Beyond Vietnam speech.

You cannot celebrate the true calling and legacy of MLK, we believe without staying focused on his greatest concerns.