The Socialist Program presents a new special 3-part, more than 5-hour-long podcast series on the legacy of Russian Marxist V.I. Lenin, based on a class series by Brian Becker at The People’s Forum in November and December 2023, enhanced with historical audio recordings and more. This series provides a specific approach to studying Lenin's writings for a new generation of socialist organizers. It discusses the war in Gaza and the struggle of the Palestinian people for national liberation, and outlines Lenin's organizational and tactical outlook in the era of modern imperialism.

Below are details of historical audio clips included in this episode that may not be otherwise identified by listening:

Part 1:

5:50 - Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, written in 1893 (a favorite of Lenin)

8:53 - Excerpt of Lenin’s speech “What is Soviet Power?” recorded March 1919

14:28 - Recording of Tsar Nicolas II addressing soldiers in 1910

37:45 - Journalist John Pilger speaking with a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, 1970

52:02 - Eyewitness account of the February Revolution from the Kennan Institute Russian History Audio Archive

1:21:14 - Marching Song of the First Arkansas Regiment (U.S. Civil War)

1:28:36, 1:28:56 - News report on House Un-American Activities Committee investigation in Hollywood, 1947

1:29:44, 1:30:15 - Anderson Cooper and Bernie Sanders at the Democratic Party presidential debate in Las Vegas, 2015

Part 2:

12:28 - Eugene Puryear speaking at the National March On Washington for Palestine, November 4th 2023

30:04 - Brian Becker speaking at anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2003

56:37 - ‘John Brown’s Body’ - popular song in the U.S. Civil War

1:36:28 - Joe Biden (then a senator) speaking in Congress, 1986

Part 3:

5:56 - Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, from documentary ‘Images of a Revolution,’ 1987

7:35 - Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, from documentary ‘Images of a Revolution,’ 1987

10:08 - Member of the public asks president Obama a question during a town hall meeting, 2009

12:02 - Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a town hall responding to a question from a member of the public asking if the Democratic Party could move left on economics, 2017

54:39 - Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill speaking in 1954

58:49 - Andy Stapp of the American Servicemen's Union, speaking at the Black Panther Anti-Fascism Conference, 1969

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Lenin and the Path to Revolution

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The Socialist Program presents a new special 3-part, more than 5-hour-long podcast series on the legacy of Russian Marxist V.I. Lenin, based on a class series by Brian Becker at The People’s Forum in November and December 2023, enhanced with historical audio recordings and more. This series provides a specific approach to studying Lenin's writings for a new generation of socialist organizers. It discusses the war in Gaza and the struggle of the Palestinian people for national liberation, and outlines Lenin's organizational and tactical outlook in the era of modern imperialism.

This is Part 1 of Lenin and the Path to Revolution

Below are details of historical audio clips included in this episode that may not be otherwise identified by listening:

5:50 - Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, written in 1893 (a favorite of Lenin)

8:53 - Excerpt of Lenin’s speech “What is Soviet Power?” recorded March 1919

14:28 - Recording of Tsar Nicolas II addressing soldiers in 1910

37:45 - Journalist John Pilger speaking with a U.S. soldier in Vietnam, 1970

52:02 - Eyewitness account of the February Revolution from the Kennan Institute Russian History Audio Archive

1:21:14 - Marching Song of the First Arkansas Regiment (U.S. Civil War)

1:28:36, 1:28:56 - News report on House Un-American Activities Committee investigation in Hollywood, 1947

1:29:44, 1:30:15 - Anderson Cooper and Bernie Sanders at the Democratic Party presidential debate in Las Vegas, 2015

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Help make this show possible by joining our patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram

Lenin and the Path to Revolution [Part 1]

The Socialist Program presents a new special 3-part, more than 5-hour-long podcast series on the legacy of Russian Marxist V.I. Lenin, based on a class series by Brian Becker at The People’s Forum in November and December 2023, enhanced with historical audio recordings and more. This series provides a specific approach to studying Lenin's writings for a new generation of socialist organizers. It discusses the war in Gaza and the struggle of the Palestinian people for national liberation, and outlines Lenin's organizational and tactical outlook in the era of modern imperialism.

This is Part 2 of Lenin and the Path to Revolution

Below are details of historical audio clips included in this episode that may not be otherwise identified by listening:

12:28 - Eugene Puryear speaking at the National March On Washington for Palestine, November 4th 2023

30:04 - Brian Becker speaking at anti-war rally in Washington, D.C., January 18, 2003

56:37 - ‘John Brown’s Body’ - popular song in the U.S. Civil War

1:36:28 - Joe Biden (then a senator) speaking in Congress, 1986

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Help make this show possible by joining our patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram

Lenin and the Path to Revolution [Part 2]

The Socialist Program presents a new special 3-part, more than 5-hour-long podcast series on the legacy of Russian Marxist V.I. Lenin, based on a class series by Brian Becker at The People’s Forum in November and December 2023, enhanced with historical audio recordings and more. This series provides a specific approach to studying Lenin's writings for a new generation of socialist organizers. It discusses the war in Gaza and the struggle of the Palestinian people for national liberation, and outlines Lenin's organizational and tactical outlook in the era of modern imperialism.

This is Part 3 of Lenin and the Path to Revolution

Below are details of historical audio clips included in this episode that may not be otherwise identified by listening:

5:56 - Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, from documentary ‘Images of a Revolution,’ 1987

7:35 - Eyewitness to the Russian Revolution, from documentary ‘Images of a Revolution,’ 1987

10:08 - Member of the public asks president Obama a question during a town hall meeting, 2009

12:02 - Then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at a town hall responding to a question from a member of the public asking if the Democratic Party could move left on economics, 2017

54:39 - Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill speaking in 1954

58:49 - Andy Stapp of the American Servicemen's Union, speaking at the Black Panther Anti-Fascism Conference, 1969

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Help make this show possible by joining our patreon community at patreon.com/thesocialistprogram

Lenin and the Path to Revolution [Part 3]

Abby and Robbie Martin talk about Joe Biden dropping out of the race, the disastrous presidential debate and ensuing political chaos, wrapping up with the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

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Democrat's Palace Coup, Trump Assassination Attempt

A long, unedited excerpt from the dawn section of an unattended overnight recording, featuring Crested Bellbirds performing a series of transpositions of their distinctive but (rhythmically and tonally) variable Bellbird song pattern. (At 20:10 one of them seems to push itself to the highest point of its vocal range.)

The recording was made with a microphone rig comprising four supercardioid microphones in an IRT Cross / double NOS array, in open Mallee country.

In this first stereo mixdown of the four isolated tracks of the fourfold array, because of the original stereo perspective, there appears to be only one main (near) vocalist (not counting those Bellbirds that are obviously much farther away). However, while later experimenting with other stereo perspectives made possible by the four tracks, it became clear that, in fact, more than one main (near) Bellbird vocalist was involved. For a different stereo perspective that reveals this differentiation: https://earth.fm/recordings/winter-dawn-in-mallee-country-with-crested-bellbirds/.)

Recorded respectfully and mindfully on the land of the Meru and Danggali peoples.

Track image credit: Male Crested Bellbird photographed by Indra Bone (South Australia, 2019). Source: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/photos/43977723. (CC BY-NC). Below the photograph is a spectrogram of the recording.

2024.08.11 Crested Bellbirds: Transposition Display. Dawn. Winter's End. (1st stereo perspective)

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Two Thrush Nightingales in song.  Recorded at night beginning at 2.05am on the 20th of May 2013, in Soomaa National Park, Estonia.  This is the third of three recordings.  Some months ago I uploaded this same recording but a shorter version in 44khz/16bit, this recording is the full-length 48Khz/24Bit version.  Equipment; A matched pair of Sennheiser MKH8020 microphones, a Sound Devices MixPre microphone pre-amp and a Marantz PMD661 solid state recorder.
Recording 2502.
To help you find my other albums, here is a list of the names of the albums as sound cloud is not structured in such a way as to make it easy to find material that is a long way down or at the bottom of the page, so it is easier to search for the albums if you know their names, here is a list.
Put any of these names in the search bar and press enter.  
Central America . . . Belize.
Garden of songs.  	Forest Home.	  Out of the blue.
Jungle report.	Wild enough.	  Na Luum Ca - revisited.

South America . . . Brazil.
Xixuau   (2 disc production).
South America . . . Guyana.
Karanambu.	   Iwokrama.
South America . . . Peru   (4 disc production).
Otorongo.     	  Tahuayo. 
Europe . . . Finland.
Natures Song.	  At the blue moment.
Europe . . . Estonia.
Soomaa.
Europe . . . Wales / Ireland.
Morning Birds 3.	
Europe . . . Ireland.
Morning Birds 1 and 2.	  The joy of birdsong.	  Birds of the great Saltee.   Saltee Revisited.		Songs of silence.		Aubade.
More Suburban Birds.		 Suburban Birds (This one was never uploaded to sound cloud).

2 Thrush Nightingales - The 48khz/24Bit version

Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio guides the listener through the history of the infamous 'Israeli Art Student' spy ring that was identified by the DEA in an official leaked document from 2000 and how this spy ring crosses over with the illicit global MDMA/Ecstasy trade, the 9/11 hijackers in Florida and possibly dozens of Mossad cut-out operations operating inside the United States. 

In the episode we provide an exclusive report from Dancesafe.org co-founder Emanuel Sferios about his own encounter with the Israeli spy ring in 1999.

Additional documentation, video clips and pointers were provided by researchers Jon Gold and DJ Thermal Detonator

*Opening track is 'Alien Disco' by Cosmosis from 1996

*Robbie incorrectly says the Dancesafe.org office was in San Francisco, CA, it was actually located in Oakland, CA

*Robbie incorrectly refers to Urban Moving as 'Urban Moving Systems' several times before realizing his error

Media Roots Radio 

Ecstasy, Israeli Art Students & the Mossad

[Experiment] Trying the Shure MV88 mic on a iPhone for field recording (nature).   Not that I would want to do this very often, but it could be useful when better mics/recorders are not available in a given moment.   The photo shows the location where this recording was made (holding the iPhone, standing about 5 feet from the grass in lower middle of photo).

[Setup] Shure MV88 on an iPhone 10 with foam windscreen. Settings on app:  mid-side mode, max compression, flat EQ,   The quality is not bad for what it is.

The Shure MV88 is *not* a sensitive mic and certainly not great for nature field recording.  The manual even says it was designed to record in very loud environments like concerts, so it would not be good for recording a quiet soundscape.   However, for loud environments it seems OK.   These cricket frogs were so loud that I wore the headphones for ear protection even when not recording.  Without ear protection the frog calls were painfully loud (to give an idea of the ambient sound levels being recorded).

BTW, on an iPhone X I was not able to find a way to monitor audio while recording.  Gain was set by watching the meter on the app.  On phones that have plug-in headphones, apparently there is a way to monitor audio while recording.

iPhone field recording using Shure MV88 mic (frogs in forest)

News and views about the world for those who want to change it, with Brian Becker

Lenin and the Path to Revolution [Part 1]

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker