Hegseth & Trump Are Committing High Seas Murders
So I'm groggy as hell this time, but I didn't fall asleep. Here's the initial Web page for this radio program. I plan to write more on this page over this next few days, so you might want to 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 December 10, 2025, 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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I'm seeing a headline in The Washington Post that when the first bombing of a boat was done in September Secretary of Defense Hegseth ordered helpless people who were clinging to the side of the burning boat to be killed. The Washington Post writes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive, according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation.
That is definitely a war crime. I'm sure that Trump will give Hegseth a full pardon for anything he might have done,once this Trump horror show has wound down, but will Hegseth ever be able to go to any other countries after the Trump infection ends? He could find himself in The Hague for this set of killings alone.The order was to kill everybody,
one of them said.
So Trump is targeting boats on the high seas that he claims are ferrying drugs. But on Friday Trump said he would pardon the former president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, whom prosecutors said had partnered with cocaine traffickers while he was president. He was arrested and extradited to the United States of America where he was convicted in a jury trial and is currently serving a 45 year sentence after having been found guilty of that crime. Well, maybe by the time you hear this he'll actually be out.
What apparently is happening is that Trump has endorsed a right-wing candidate in the election for Honduran president. That election will happen this Sunday. The candidate whom Trump is endorsing, named Nasry Tito
Asura, has spent a lot of his campaign time in Washington, D.C. where it looks like he was lobbying certain people. Trump wrote on a social media site, Tito and I can work together to fight the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the people of Honduras.
That's quite the contrast with his killing down on their luck fishermen who may be running some drugs north in a boat. But they're only following order. Trump/s new pal Hernández was only giving order. Maybe this means that we should call Trump a Narcofascist. Sounds fitting. He is, after all, a criminal.
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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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