Berkeley City Council Rejects Save KPFA Resolution, San Francisco Postpones

The Berkeley City Council is more progressive then the kill kpfa concerned listeners goons squad . Should we be surprise ?B.E. tickert teacup or tickit is like blood sucker.Next he is going to go to the supreme court to get his job back. Some people have a self inflated felling of importance.

In the middle of a life-saving fund drive for KPFA and Pacifica, Thug Hallinan Gang supporter Aileen Alfandarry announced at 5:55 a.m. that the 7 a.m. broadcast of Democracy Now is being replaced by a government hearing hosted by her fellow Thug Hallinan Gang supporter, Mitch Jeseritch, the one who should have been fired along with Brian Edwards-Tiekert as he has even less seniority than BET. Democracy Now is probably the biggest fundraiser. Government hearings can and are summarized on the 6 p.m. evening news. My guess is that this hot air posturing session will last at least until noon Pacific Time, pre-empting also the 9 a.m. broadcast of Democracy Now. The hearing is on the 1917 Epionage Act that Democrat Obama and his Democratic Attorney General Holder want to use to falsely imprison journalist whistleblower Julian Assange, who is not an American citizen. The subject may be worthwhile but all government hearings are filled with procedural garbage and endless posturing speeches that we do not need to hear on KPFA. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY AILEEN ALFANDARRY AGAIN ATTACKING THE PACIFICA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WHO SAVED KPFA BY ENDING THE MORNING SHOW AND LAYING OFF ALL OF ITS STAFF, ONLY 2 OF WHOM WERE UNCOOPERATIVE, and only one that we hear from endlessly, ad nauseum, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, the former Local Station Board Treasurer who somehow could not get a $350,000 check to the bank on time. He is only in his 20s, or perhaps 30 at most, so he cannot claim to be feeble. We heard him on the Wednesday, 6 p.m. evening news, 12/15, telling his supporters who refuse to support KPFA during this fund drive that they are making a mistake because they cannot vote in the LSB elections if they have not contributed. This whole act was clearly programmed as BET is not intelligent enough to analyze anything. IT IS VERY CLEAR THAT THERE IS NO SERIOUS GENERAL MANAGER AT KPFA and that has to change AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

For Democracy Now, go to:
http://www.democracynow.org/

As to the progress of the lawsuit brought by the Republican Party law firm, Dhillon and Smith, on behalf of plaintiffs Brian Edwards-Tiekert, Mitch Jeserich and Lewis Sawyer, Alameda Superior No. RG10549212, thank you for the above news, and you can read all of the pleadings online as Alameda County is one of the few counties that puts the pleadings online. See
http://apps.alameda.courts.ca.gov/domainweb/html/index.html
You can print them from the right TIFF column, one page at a time.
The opposition is filed by attorney Ricardo De Anda of Texas on behalf of Pacifica Foundation. See
http://apps.alameda.courts.ca.gov/domainweb/service?ServiceName=DomainWebService&PageName=itree&Action=25323821
It is 4 pages plus exhibits, mostly bylaws. Here are the section headings:
1. Plaintiffs' Are Not Entitlted to Preliminary Injunctive Relief
2. Pacifica Acted Strictly In Accord with Its Bylaws in Taking the Disputed Action
3. Defendant is Entitled to Attorney's Fees for Appearance at the Ex Parte Hearing on 12/3/10.

YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE RIGHT NOW ONLINE TO KPFA, either by check or credit card, in any amount, and ask for any gifts, if you wish, and it is all tax deductible. Go to:
https://ittsui.pair.com/kpfa/support/

UNTIL THE FINANCES ARE STRAIGHTENED OUT, THERE SHOULD BE A FUNDRAISING WEEK EVERY MONTH AT KPFA.

And don't forget the fundraising party at La Pena on December 19, 2010 at 7 p.m. See:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/14/18666590.php

In honor of Ludwig van Beethoven's 240th birthday today, an excerpt from the 9th Symphony's last movement's libretto by Friedrich Schiller, the Brotherhood Anthem:
O Freude, nicht diese Tone!
Sondern last uns angenehmere anstimmen
und freudenvollere!

O friends, no more these sounds!
Let us sing more cheerful songs,
more full of joy!

Freude, schonner Gotterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;
Alle Menschen werden Bruder,
Wo dein sanfter Flugel weilt.

Joy, bright spark of divinity,
daughter of Elysium,
fire-inspired we tread
thy sanctuary.
Thy magic power reunites
all that custom has divided,
all men become brothers
under the sway of thy gentle wings.

How about identifying yourself, as other than "Big Potato," please? I went to San Francisco City Hall on Tuesday to speak out regarding the mayoral succession contest, and re their KPFA resolution, which was "continued" until January, meaning the vote was postponed. I appeared on SF.gov cameras and I've even spoken to Aimee Allison about this, so I don't have a lot of sympathy for anyone taking such an adamant stance who nevertheless wants to remain anonymous. I can, perhaps, understand why someone involved with the station would fear repercussions, but anonymous posts don't show a lot of courage or add credibility to the side of those who opposed these resolutions.

Also, don't be amazed by the contrast between the Berkeley City Council and the Concerned Listeners slate on the Local Station Board. Sands always seem to be shifting. The Voice of America and Orange County Republican Ed Royce are speaking much of the truth about East/Central Africa and the current Rwandan regime, now headed by Paul Kagame, the dictator whom Professor Ed Herman, co-author of Manufacturing Consent and The Politics of Genocide, calls "the worst killer on the planet." Kagame is also the Pentagon's guy in Africa, but Free Speech Radio News doesn't want to report any of that, and keeps reporting, instead, Rwanda's false reconciliation story, which Bill Clinton and Reverend Rick Warren have also repeated ad nauseum. See "Obama take heed: French judge files charges against Kagame allies," http://goo.gl/Uu90S, "Reverend Rick Warren on Trial in the Court of Public Opinion," http://goo.gl/JLj7j, and the Orange County Republican Ed Royce's "Atrocities of D.C.'s Golden Boy, Kagame, Go Unmentioned," http://goo.gl/uE6dH. Then see FSRN, http://goo.gl/OxPf, and read comments, below mine and Frank LeFever's, from Rwandan and Congolese refugees, and from Professor Susan Thomsom, who was doing academic field work in Rwanda when she was picked up by authorities, dumped in a re-education camp, and told not to believe a bunch of "dumb, lying Rwandan peasants."