I recall having difficulty at first when I started visiting librivox.org, and it's probably because they offer so much.
Selecting "Catalog" and searching alphabetically by author is my preferred method, but I think their Search allows entering titles as well, maybe even genres, i.e., fiction, poetry, autobiographies, history etc.
The voice qualities vary a lot, since the books are read by volunteers, but in the main I have heard many excellent readings.
I have some old books I might record for the audiobook program, which on my station I call "Radio Books".
Today I came across a wonderful new program, "Women's Media Center Live".
This program very intelligently and fairly covers women's interests.
I do not yet know if permission is available for streaming or public broadcast, but of course part 15 stations who only listen privately to themselves have no problem.
The program is owned by CBS but is only carried on the mid Atlantic region of affiliates, but is podcast worldwide.
For the past few days I have wanted to return to this forum to continue talking about censoredships quest for educational programming.
These words, from a posting by censoredsyhip, will be my launching point:
"I think Democracy Now was in the recommended list and was what spiked my response. Count me as a less frequent listener of the show than I use to be. It use to be less partisan. Seems like Amy sold out to the politicians on the left.
"Never was a fan of the name of the show including democracy. Afterall, we live in a REPUBLIC Carl. Unsure who and when and where democracy reared its head. Like most political systems, nice on paper, terror when implemented."
I respect your opinion of Democracy Now as explained in the first paragraph above, but hesitate over the fact that my own (subjective) experience is different, as I find the show astoundingly consistent in pursuing the "dangerous" stories that main stream media avoids and the political authorities place on their no fly and kill lists.
But the next connection, regarding "democracy" is something we may share. The Pledge of Allegiance uses the phrase "...and the Republic for which it stands...." and so concurs with this Nation being a Republic.
So far as I know a "democracy" is "rule by the majority" and such rule is known by the other name "mob rule".
Therefore the distinction is not to be made lightly.
But I think most people do not think in much detail and may equate "democracy" with "freedom" and have little concept of how a "republic" differs from a democracy.
That is exactly when education can be of service, if the audience pays any attention.
This website here at part15.us is about more than the sketchy technical details stated in the rules. This website also pays allegiance to the programming of part 15 radio stations and the republic of station owners for which it stands.
Censoredship is to be commended for so thoughtfully gathering programming input.
@Carl Blare, has Amy and Democracy Now been speaking out about the gun grabbing the leftists are up to in an unconstitutional way? I hope they are for the United States sake.
What turned me on Amy was when she had Jacob Applebaum of Tor on the show talking about getting bothered and detained at airport. The premise is his privacy work runs afoul of US authorities. Meanwhile, Tor was created and funded by the federal government and Applebaum runs inside circles and friends like Eric Schmidt (a Bilderberger) and former head of Google who now does "government work".
What they are doing via Applebaum and that much replayed interview is advertising to Democratic leaning activists to use Tor and be "safe" in their online dealings, research, activism, etc. However, Tor is inherently insecure by design and essentially a public honeypot of sorts, a baited trap which the government operates, monitors, etc. Since it is inside a private network, all the rules, laws, etc. are non existent. Anyone can setup an end node and spy massively on people. Matching the traffic to users, far from hard. It is a long running sting.
As for the REPUBLIC. Blame public education for this promotion of Democracy. They are just as much to blame for the promotion of communism and socialism in the US. Such teaching infiltrated such systems all the way back in the 1920's.
How we all went from speaking of a sovereign, isolated and independent republic to this rule as a democracy, well I am truly unsure where the change over happened and why people haven't been screaming and kicking since then.
Democracy is the appearance of majority rule. However, that's truly false in most instances. It is a rule by heavily organized minority of the population over the vast majority of the population.
Take this case in point, the most recent presidential election:
65,899,660 Obama (Democrat) 51.1%
60,929,152 Romney (Republican) 47.2%
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126,828,812 total 98.3%
So 1.7% of the voters or say around 2 million citizens voted for someone else.
US population around time of election, 313,000,000
So total people that voted represents 40.52% of the total US population.
Meaning the winner, the Democrat received a vote from around 21% of the total US population.
So there we have 21% of the US population dictating what the other non-supporting 79% will be subject to. The same outcome with majority voting rules goes back probably for a very long time for presidential elections. Probably to the early 1900's or earlier.
Yes, even if we correct these numbers to eliminate those to young to vote, the winner still likely only received a vote from a minority of the population.
The same majority rule game rigging exists in congressional zone arrangements and a host of other offices.
Me, I think voting day should be a paid holiday and every adult should be mandated to vote or be forced to pay a large fine. Elections should only be declared when a super majority winner is elected (i.e. 60% or better of total voting age adults).
As for republic, I imagine the revisionist writers and dictionaries have changed the definition over the years to suit agenda.
It is a common problem and why when doing any real research you must invest in very old dictionaries, encyclopedias and legal reference books.
The history of republic is said to be:
Word Origin & History
republic
1604, "state in which supreme power rests in the people," from Fr. république, from L. respublica (abl. republica), lit. res publica "public interest, the state," from res "affair, matter, thing" + publica, fem. of publicus "public" (see public). Republican (adj.)
Clearly, 1604 was a lot closer and recent history to 1776 and much of the US days of founding than today.
Word Origin & History
"state in which supreme power rests in the people"
That seems in stark contrast to what we have running around today posing as government. Folks with agendas, arbitrarily imposing their will against the massive people in number. Example, fiddling away at 2nd Amendment gun rights under the atypical "save the children" worn out cause card. More children die from eating fast food, sedentary lifestyle, medical establishment, etc. than die from guns.
Even the term legal guns is a nightmare in contrasts. We've enacted all sorts of gun laws outside the color and spirit of the fundamentals of this country. Always under suspicious and convenient victim pimping by government.
Fact is much of the original gun control in the United States goes back to disallowing blacks from possessing any means of protecting themselves and keeping them in slavery bonds. A clearly vulgar, offensive and inhumane thing to do.
Looking the gun vs. slave issue, we note that slaves routinely outnumbered whites. Thus a constant and ever present powder keg and fear.
And, again the minority, then whites, snookered the majority (slaves, anti-slave whites, etc.) via legal legislative means of using law to suppress human freedom.
Dr. Benjamin Franklin when asked while leaving the Constitutional Convention of 1787 was asked what this new government was to be, replied:
"A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it."
Censoredship and everyone,
Two days ago I ran across a program source that's been around for a long time, but which I never knew about.
There's a lot of interesting reading on the site and many very serious and informative programs which are carried by independent radio stations.
Geez Carl, that program seems even more partisan and scary than Democracy Now.
"CALL TO ACTION – LEAVE COAL IN THE GROUND AND PUT A PRICE ON CARBON"
Oh the carbon tax routine. Price the people out off the planet, evaporate the wealth, drive people into poverty and high rise cities. Agenda 21 and taxing the vary air we breath.
Imagine that, a goof from NASA. That organization that is an offshoot of the MILITARY. An organization who wants to declare warfare on the population.
I need to find a document from NASA from years ago that is uber scary and you'll see my point.
Other topics covered in that podcast seem varied though. I am about to selectively tune in 🙂
Keep the recommendations coming. Imagine anyone piece-mill constructing programming has the fate or pre-tuning into the program and checking it for obvious issues prior to broadcasting on their station.
Ahh I think I might need to eat crow on your recommendation.
See they have an episode with Percy Schmeiser. He's the farmer in Canada Monsanto sued after their GMO seeds blew in and grew on his farm, polluted his seed stock, etc.
Big issues and corporate bullying, not to mention destruction of food stock globally.
Should be a good listen.
http://tucradio.org/MonsantoVSPercySchmeiser_ONE.mp3
http://tucradio.org/MonsantoVSPercySchmeiser_TWO.mp3
And they have an episode about a radio station 🙂
BUSH Radio, Cape Town
South Africa's first community radio station
Noam Chomsky praised the vitality and professionalism of South Africa's most influential community station. This is an intriguing look into the day to day operations of the station that defined how radio is done and trained staff for 80+ stations. When you visit Bush Radio in Cape Town any Saturday morning you find children as young as 6 years doing their own programming. Weekdays the news department presents local news on the air, in writing as blog, including photos and video.
Denied a license under the old Apartheid regime, Bush Radio went on the air illegally in 1993. Two broadcasters were arrested and the equipment confiscated. After the historic elections of 1994 the first broadcast licenses issued by the Mandela government were specifically for community broadcasters. In June of 1995 Bush Radio received its license to broadcast. Bush Radio played a huge role in defining the laws and practice of community radio in South Africa. Over the last eight years they trained approximately 500 people to operate a radio station. Almost every one of the nearly 90 stations in existence in South Africa today employs at least one person trained at Bush Radio.
In the summer of 2009 Brenda Leonard, the Bush Radio administrator, went on a US tour of public radio stations. I met her in San Francisco and asked her to tell me about the day to day operations of Bush Radio.
http://tucradio.org/090930BushRadio.mp3