Pilger: War Is Peace, Ignorance Is Strength, KPFK LSB election results

Hi. I want to thank the many of you who voted in this election.
Seven of the nine open seats for KPFK's Local Station Board
and 2 of the 3 top alternates were won by the slate chosen by the
Committee to Strengthen KPFK. Congratulations to the winners
as well as my fellow Committee members and those of you who
elected them. Now, please notice the changing programming,
under the guidance of Director Alan Minsky. It's nowhere near
complete, but is clearly more coherent and appealing. Stay tuned.
Ed

PS: Station staff elect their own reps on the board, but these results
match and strengthen the listener choices. Good cess to all.

From: Grace Aaron
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3:07 AM
Subject: Fw: KPFK LSB ELECTION RESULTS, SUNDAY NOV 8, 2009

----- Original Message -----
From: D. J. Sanchez
To: XXXXX

HELLO, ALL...

Here are the complete results of the KPFK LSB Election for both STAFF and
LISTENER-MEMBERS...

These results will also be posted on the KPFK WEBSITE and announced on the
air...
I will be taking a few days off.
(I've been at the station, NON-STOP, since Friday Afternoon.)

Congratulations to everyone!!!

Michael Sanchez
Local Election Supervisor

KPFK LSB Listener Election Results
November 8, 2009
9 SEATS TO FILL (Plus Alternates)
1). Bree Walker ELECTED
2). Ken Aaron ELECTED
3). Ian Johnston ELECTED
4). John Wenger ELECTED
5). Dutch Merrick ELECTED
6). Kim Kaufman ELECTED
7). Fred Klunder ELECTED
8). Sequoia Olivia Mercier ELECTED
9). John Parker ELECTED
10). Luis R. Cabrales 1ST ALTERNATE
11). Margie Murray 2nd ALTERNATE
12). Christopher Bayard Condon 3rd ALTERNATE
13). Chuck Anderson 4th ALTERNATE
14). Luis A. Garcia 5th ALTERNATE
15). Dr. Chipasha Luchembe 6th ALTERNATE

The election was certified by Les Radke, National
Election Supervisor

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KPFK - LSB
STAFF ELECTION RESULTS
November 8th, 2009
3 SEATS TO FILL:

1). ALI LEXA
2). RODRIGO ARGUETA
3). JOHN CROMSHOW
4). STEVE PRIDE 1ST ALTERNATE
5). FERNANDO VELAZQUEZ 2nd ALTERNATE
6). DAN FRITZ 3rd ALTERNATE

This election was certified by Les Radke, National Election
Supervisor.

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War Is Peace. Ignorance Is Strength

http://www.lewrockwell.com/pilger/pilger80.1.html

by John Pilger

October 16, 2009

Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war
to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely
extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons
such as the innovative Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of your
lungs. According to the UN, 338,000 Afghan infants are dying under the
Obama-led alliance, which permits only $29 per head annually to be spent on
medical care.

Within weeks of his inauguration, Obama started a new war in Pakistan,
causing more than a million people to flee their homes. In threatening
Iran ­ which his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, said she was prepared
to "obliterate" ­ Obama lied that the Iranians were covering up a "secret
nuclear facility," knowing that it had already been reported to the
International Atomic Energy Authority. In colluding with the only
nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, he bribed the Palestinian Authority
to suppress a UN judgment that Israel had committed crimes against humanity
in its assault on Gaza ­ crimes made possible with US weapons whose shipment
Obama secretly approved before his inauguration.

At home, the man of peace has approved a military budget exceeding that of
any year since the end of the Second World War while presiding over a new
kind of domestic repression. During the recent G20 meeting in Pittsburgh,
hosted by Obama, militarized police attacked peaceful protesters with
something called the Long-Range Acoustic Device, not seen before on US
streets. Mounted in the turret of a small tank, it blasted a piercing noise
as tear gas and pepper gas were fired indiscriminately. It is part of a new
arsenal of "crowd-control munitions" supplied by military contractors such
as Raytheon. In Obama's Pentagon-controlled "national security state," the
concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay, which he promised to close, remains
open, and "rendition," secret assassinations and torture continue.

The Nobel Peace Prize­winner's latest war is largely secret. On 15 July,
Washington finalized a deal with Colombia that gives the US seven giant
military bases. "The idea," reported the Associated Press, "is to make
Colombia a regional hub for Pentagon operations . . . nearly half the
continent can be covered by a C-17 [military transport] without refueling,"
which "helps achieve the regional engagement strategy."

Translated, this means Obama is planning a "rollback" of the independence
and democracy that the people of Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Paraguay
have achieved against the odds, along with a historic regional cooperation
that rejects the notion of a US "sphere of influence." The Colombian regime,
which backs death squads and has the continent's worst human rights record,
has received US military support second in scale only to Israel. Britain
provides military training. Guided by US military satellites, Colombian
paramilitaries now infiltrate Venezuela with the goal of overthrowing the
democratic government of Hugo Chávez, which George W Bush failed to do in
2002.

Obama's war on peace and democracy in Latin America follows a style he has
demonstrated since the coup against the democratic president of Honduras,
Manuel Zelaya, in June. Zelaya had increased the minimum wage, granted
subsidies to small farmers, cut back interest rates and reduced poverty. He
planned to break a US pharmaceutical monopoly and manufacture cheap generic
drugs. Although Obama has called for Zelaya's reinstatement, he refuses to
condemn the coup-makers and to recall the US ambassador or the US troops who
train the Honduran forces determined to crush a popular resistance. Zelaya
has been repeatedly refused a meeting with Obama, who has approved an IMF
loan of $164m to the illegal regime. The message is clear and familiar:
thugs can act with impunity on behalf of the US.

Obama, the smooth operator from Chicago via Harvard, was enlisted to restore
what he calls "leadership" throughout the world. The Nobel Prize committee's
decision is the kind of cloying reverse racism that has beatified the man
for no reason other than he is a member of a minority and attractive to
liberal sensibilities, if not to the Afghan children he kills. This is the
Call of Obama. It is not unlike a dog whistle: inaudible to most,
irresistible to the besotted and boneheaded. "When Obama walks into a room,"
gushed George Clooney, "you want to follow him somewhere, anywhere."

The great voice of black liberation Frantz Fanon understood this. In The
Wretched of the Earth, he described the "intermediary [whose] mission has
nothing to do with transforming the nation: it consists, prosaically, of
being the transmission line between the nation and a capitalism, rampant
though camouflaged." Because political debate has become so debased in our
media monoculture ­ Blair or Brown; Brown or Cameron ­ race, gender and
class can be used as seductive tools of propaganda and diversion. In Obama's
case, what matters, as Fanon pointed out in an earlier era, is not the
intermediary's "historic" elevation, but the class he serves. After all,
Bush's inner circle was probably the most multiracial in presidential
history. There was Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Clarence Thomas, all
dutifully serving an extreme and dangerous power.

Britain has seen its own Obama-like mysticism. The day after Blair was
elected in 1997, the Observer predicted that he would create "new worldwide
rules on human rights" while the Guardian rejoiced at the "breathless pace
[as] the floodgates of change burst open." When Obama was elected last
November, Denis MacShane MP, a devotee of Blair's bloodbaths, unwittingly
warned us: "I shut my eyes when I listen to this guy and it could be Tony.
He is doing the same thing that we did in 1997."

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