The Word (2013-2015)

The Word: Series On Apartheid (2014-?)

Programmes Cancelled After One Episode

Africa

History

Language

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Topics- *The woman who changed her name to 'Sexy'
*The 'Game of Hoes'
*Capitalism in China
*Tension Betwixt Ukraine & Russia

feat. Annika & Elizabeth

Musick- Theme- Fuck My Face- Coco Brown Ms. No Tonsels
Take Your Time- S.O.S. Band
Aint Talking About Nothin' - Remy Ma
Alcoholic - Chanel West Coast
Aint Nobody Loves You Like I Do! - La Toya Jackson

Sourcing-- Buzzfeed, Queerty, RT America, Vice, RT

The Word: What Is Repressed Will Have Its Revenge

Annika & I have a wonderful conversation that begins with the topic of television, and specifically new entries for 2014. We begin debating Lindsay Lohan's new show on OWN and somehow that leads us to a discussion of art. What is art? Are Reality Shows art? Annika says it's all "bullshit", but (of course) I argue for a more forgiving view.

Also, Annika brings her latest angle, and the headlines appear at the top of the hour.

Join us!

Note!- For about the first 2 minutes of the programme Rosemary Clooney drowns me out. I have re-posted this multiple times and their seems to be nothing I can do. Sorry!

The Word: Is "Lindsay" Art?

This is part one of our special Series On Apartheid. As the leaders of the various anti-Apartheid movements pass away, we take the time to look back at one of the most interesting and unusual periods in Human History. 

In part one, we trace the origins of the Apartheid system back 1400's HRE, when Roman legal concepts entered the Low Countries. We then continue through the colonization of the Cape Colony by Dutch, French, and finally British forces. I discuss the various independent Boer republics, and how these efforts were extinguished by the most powerful empire in the world. 

Finally, I explore how the repression of the Boer people could have laid the groundwork for the Apartheid racial ideology that would emerge more than 40 years after the last Afrikaaner state was conquered.

Let's Learn Together!

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Announcement Concerning The Series On Apartheid

Outtakes & bloopers from the first year of "The Word"!

The Word Year 1 Outtakes

The second year of "The Word" begins with an author interview. Joining me is Rajee Narinesingh, the author of "Beyond Face Value," released in the wake of her world-wide fame. 

In addition to discussing why she decided to write the book when she did, we discuss her darkest moments, and how she is able to muster the will to survive, despite violence, hate, and prejudice. 

"Beyond Face Value" is one of the best memoirs I have ever read, and certainly one of the most enjoyable books I have read this year! Rajee shares several fun anecdotes from her life, as well as reviewing events that occur in the book. 

Please join us for this very special edition of "The Word"!

The Word: Beyond Face Value (Audio)

My musings on an infomercial I saw earlier this selling 1970's musick on CD's. Because this is one area I can speak on fairly well, & am especially familiar with the 1970's, I could pick up on several distortions. You may be surprised as to what was going on behind-the-scenes while you were enjoying 70's musick.

Jakob Musick's Audio Blog -- 'If It Was Good, It Was On The Radio'

In this editorial, I discuss the Jewish State, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, & recent developments from the region. I, & many others, would argue that the modern state of Israel constitutes an Apartheid regime in its dealings, colonization, & isolation of the Palestinian Arabs. Like its old ally, the Union of South Afrika, Israel is attempting to neutralize its dangerous minority populations by crafting reservations & delineating citizenship laws that exclude the majority. 

In the wake of the Israeli cabinet's deceleration of Israel as the "Nation-State of the Jewish People," and the concept's addition to the nation's Basic Law, the discussion surrounding the seemingly never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues. While the fortunes of Israeli Jews seems to rise & fall, the lot of the Palestinians, Arabs, & Muslims has continually gotten worse since 1945. I expect an unfortunate increase in violence toward the end of 2014, and the beginning of the New Year, as the 3rd Intifada accelerates. 

Note: This editorial originally aired on the HCC Radio Programme "HCC Radio News" in December 2014

You can read my blog Agitprop here -- http://jakobmusickmiller.blogspot.com/

Jakob Musick's Audio Blog:  Israel Is An Apartheid State

5th compilation of segments of the defunct programme The Word. This compilation covers the twilight of the programme's first year, & features Annika Wolf, Charlotte, & Elizabeth

Musick-
Special Love- La Toya Jackson
Friends- Amii Stewart
What's Your Fantasy (Remix) - Ludacris, Lil Kim, Trina, Foxy Brown, & Shawnna
Do It Like Me- Shawnna

Best Of The Word #5 (October-December 2013)

In one of the most dramatic episodes of Memory Lane, Roger tells a story of love, divorce, & drug addiction. Roger came from a well-off family, & he is very aware that his trajectory, as well as his race, played a part in how his particular addiction story played out. For Roger, who was working as a nurse at the time, was prescribed Hydromorphone after an injury (which is commonly known under its German Brand name Dilaudid). Within 6 weeks of this prescription, Roger was shooting up Hydromorphone at dangerously high levels. And then he was caught. 

Listen to this extremely compelling edition of Memory Lane to hear one of the quickest falls I have yet to learn of into the pit of addiction. Roger is forthright & now can look back years later, but his addiction , he says, destroyed everything in his life. He is only now, almost a decade later, being able to reconstruct what addiction took from him.

Share this story of addiction with someone who is in danger of developing this illness!

Memory Lane - Roger

Using another clip from American Talk Show "The View" we discuss three topics near to the heart of the new American version of "The Troubles" -- gun violence, police & race, & mental health, and how the bourgeois parties manipulate the discourse and constrict its social development through channels such as these

The Bourgeois Parties Constrict The Discourse On Mental Health

Safiya & I continue through the Torah, from the Persian Empire, back to the 'Holy Land', where the Kingdom of Judah exists under Assyrian authority, & the Kingdom of Israel "is but a distant memory. We comb through books of prophecy, where the presence is women is not only non-existent, but when it does appear, is completely allegorical. The only 'woman' we encounter in this period is the female personification of the 'Israeli'-Hebraic nation. 

The exit musick, J. Cole's "False Prophets", is apt -- With a dearth of women, we examine the actual prophecy given by the male prophets -(Hosea, Isaiah etc) and we find them utterly lacking. Unlike with some earlier books, the time between the books being written & the events that they describe is very short. So short that *while being written*, the political situation changes, rendering the 'prophecy' purportedly given by these books fairly useless. In some cases, namely the book purportedly written by Isaiah, the prophecy given is more and more inaccurate as the book goes on.

We also examine the changing political situation of this period, with the two poles of the Hebrew world -- Cosmopolitan Persia & the back-water Holy Land -- struggling for control of the tradition. 

All in all, women are nearly invisible. As Safiya notes, prostitutes were the only women in Hebrew society during this period that were given any modicum of free movement or latitude with regard to their lives, though the practice was not approved of in general, & the Hebrews had abolished the 'shrine prostitute' position years before.

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Safiya's Women Of the Abrahamic Tradition 3 (False Prophecy in the 'Prophetic' Books)

News Bulletin 7/28/2017
Calendar
On This Day
Kesha
MTV Video Musick Awards 2017
Jim Bakker
Livestream Car Crash
Justin Bieber
Lana Del Rey
US Military Policy
White House Press Briefing 
US Budget 2018

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