. . . results of the 10no. 2023 delegates’ pseudo-elections: here that for the nine KPFA listener-delegates, Th12Oct2023 – https://elections.pacifica.org/wordpress/pacifica-elections-2023-results/ . . .

The results came out a day late – obviously without either an apology or explanation from the National Elections Supervisor, Renée ‘you haven’t seen me, right?’ Peñaloza.

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This was during the West Coast morning of Th12Oct – the sixth day of the genocidal onslaught upon Palestinians in Gaza, wrought by the Jewish-Israeli supremacist massacre machine, a state apparatus spawned since 1882 by a European colonisation in Asia, a colonisation by Jewish-Europeans enacting an emigratory nationalist ideology, Zionism, setting up colonies to this very day in a sliver of south-west Asia, Ottomanised Palestine.

For a political culture & leadership that prides itself in entrenching & empowering the state of the Jews (what Herzl termed der Judenstaat – mistranslated as ‘the Jewish state’: that’s der jüdische Staat), for a political culture & leadership that claims to speak on behalf of all Jews, the current unleashing of both genocide & sociéticide is a clear declaration to the world that this is what their idea of Jewish civilisation looks like, what their idea of Jewish ethics smells like.

For the Jewish-Israeli supremacists & their supporters: Jewish civilisation & the Gaza murder-box.

For the Jewish-Israeli supremacists & their supporters: Jewish ethics & the Gaza murder-box.

Let’s be clear: the Jewish-Israeli supremacists & their supporters are showing the world, unequivocally, that for them this is what justice – for them, Jew justice – looks like.

For them, this is Jew justice.

For ever more, they have gouged into the world their stark proclamation: Jew justice = the Gaza murder-box.

As such, the obscenity we are witnessing is the gravest insult to the memory of all those Jewish-Europeans who were murdered in the fascist European judeocide, known in Yiddish as Khurbn (‘destruction’, a destruction principally of the society of Yiddishland). The obscenity, a grave insult to the fighters of the Warsaw ghetto uprising – the Bundists & other Marxists – who battled in the ruins being created all around them, getting driven down into the sewers. Ruins. Ruins, like those being created at this very moment.

“Levy was a Senior Advisor in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and to Justice Minister Yossi Beilin during the Government of Ehud Barak (1999-2001). He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Israel/Palestine peace talks at Taba under Barak and at Oslo B under Yitzhak Rabin (1994-95)” – https://www.usmep.us/daniel-levy/

An associate professor of Holocaust & Genocide Studies, and the Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Genocide, Stockton University, Galloway Township, NJ – but for how long? https://stockton.edu/graduate/holocaust-genocide-studies.html, & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raz_Segal.

Here, the word ‘genocide’ is used in the legal sense, not rhetorically. And the crime of genocide has a quite broad legal meaning: murdering people is only one of the five ways of genociding (Article 2 of the Genocide Convention; first signed 9Dec1948, effective 12Jan1951); & the Srebrenica convictions in 2004 show that what is readily understood as a massacre, perhaps 8 372 people, was judged in law as a genocide – https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention, & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre.

Orr & Moshe Machover were amongst the founders of Matzpen (Hebrew for ‘compass’), to be joined by Jabra Nicola. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aki_Orr

Marc Caplan, ‘Khurbn’, in Dan Diner (editor), Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, Band 3: He-Lu, Verlag J B Metzler (Stuttgart & Weimar), 2012, pp. 341-5 – huge file at LibGen, https://libgen.is/search.php?req=Diner+Band+3&open=0&res=25&view=simple&phrase=1&column=def, but here’s a PDF of the article, https://mega.nz/file/8AkkQLBK#jTcgMOpdEulxWmhPvs0ShWPtqj-LyozTHT00QhB9TNk. (Also a piece on Caplan, the inaugural prof of Yiddish at Johns Hopkins: https://scholarworks.law.ubalt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1822&context=all_fac.)

(Re van Creveld, the updated figure for 2023 is derived from mid-year projections by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. Assuming constant rate of change, the year-end total for West Bank (including Palestinians living in the part of Jerusalem stolen in June1967) is 3 291 406 – the summary table being consistent with the latest report by the Bureau’s chief, issued 31Dec; helpfully, the PCBS splits the Jerusalem Governorate between this stolen part (denoting it J1), & the rest (J2); & with J1 as 320 993, the subtraction leaves 2 970 413 – https://pcbs.gov.ps/statisticsIndicatorsTables.aspx?lang=en&table_id=676, https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/statisticsIndicatorsTables.aspx?lang=en&table_id=2088, & https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/portals/_pcbs/PressRelease/Press_En_Palestinian2023E.pdf.)

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Meanwhile, back in PacificaWorld . . .

This post has to be made coz the NES’ webpage is effectively unreadable; in a few days she might provide a neat table of those elected, but don’t hold your breath. That’ll probably be in her final report – the first one, too (sic). [UPDATE: unknowingly, whilst this post was being written, the NES improved things a lot, putting the 10 final rounds very near the top of the webpage. C’est la vie.]

For those wanting to check the below against the NES’ info, given for your convenience, whilst you scroll, & scroll, & scroll, & scroll, is the ’round’ # of the final transfer of ballots.

If g-d allows, some notes will be added, on who wasn’t elected, &, more importantly, what gains the breakers made – not least in tightening their grip on the KPFK LSB, perhaps slipping into all four director seats sleepwalker pairs of pyjamas: in controlling three LSB’s, if they get to control the PNB (they’ll need a “majority of all Directors” – per by-law Article 17, Section 1(B)(2)(i), https://pacifica.org/indexed_bylaws/art17sec1.html), then the breakers in 2024 will be able to write whatever by-laws they want that don’t require a full-membership vote requiring a split between the two member classes.

If the breakers judge that the PNB is split 11-11, then they may push to create an at-large director, as mentioned before by this blog, securing a 12-11 majority. This strange beast requires PNB approval to start the electoral process, then nominations by 15Feb from a “majority vote of the Delegates” of at least three LSB’s, before going back to the PNB for decision – with the affiliate directors stripped of a vote (a’ha) … per bylaw 5/5, https://pacifica.org/indexed_bylaws/art5sec5.html.

And . . . then there’s the small matter of Good Olde ‘BAI . . . be it outsourcing programming (chopping staff-members, even to the point that the breakers can win both member class referenda on by-law amendments), . . . or the breakers having already lined up a broadcasting licence swap (although it’s already expired, on 1June2022, https://publicfiles.fcc.gov/fm-profile/wbai, with FCC deigning to grant a temporary permission).

And (a) with no kind of plan ever being cited by Executive Director Wells (sic), or by a manager of the 7 other operating units (sic), & (b) no actionable monthly management account statements (namely, net income, cashflow forecast, balance sheet), in being materially accurate & timely (within 3-4 calendar days of mth-end, or at worst 7-10 calendar days – not over 3mths late), this necessarily means that each of the 8 operating units, & so Pacifica as a whole, is financially flying blind. Given the facts, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

So what does all the busyness, all the firefighting amount to, when the fiefdoms reign supreme, because the ED isn’t controlled by the directors, & the station managers aren’t controlled by the ED? What do we have? . . . deckchairs . . . Titanic . . .

Those elected:

… not elected: Carlos Kohan …

… not elected: Anthony Fest …

… also not elected: Doug Barnett, Nancy Pearlman, incumbent Ruth Strauss …

Rodrigo Argueta Vargas, Wendell Handy, Oscar Ulloa

Adriana Casenave, Elayne Duncan, Lynden Foley, Rob Lee, Cheryl Lynn, Marianne Martinez, Torry Mercer, Debbie Smith, Richard Uzzell

Mike Lewis, Stuart Nance, Rick Norris

… not elected: director sleepwalker Donna Grimes …

Verna Avery-Brown, Ambrose Lane (the son), Ronald Pinchback

… not elected: former director sleepwalker Carolyn Birden, incumbent Jack DePalma, busy cttee/working group attendee Bruce Greif, CAB Chair Neale Vos, LSB Secretary Kay ‘somehow I’m just unable to get the last 7 LSB audios posted at kpftx.org’ Williams …

… not elected: former director sleepwalker Ralph Poynter …

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[NOTE: the list below will be completed by Day X of the Gaza Genocide/Sociéticide. Meanwhile, this is worth reading, the plan of the criminal organisation, known as the Israeli government, disclosed for the first time on F20Oct by Attack Minister Gallant: “'[t]he third step will be […] the removal of Israel’s responsibility for day-to-day life in the Gaza Strip'”, made in his address to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Cttee – https://www.timesofisrael.com/gallant-says-after-hamas-vanquished-israel-will-seek-new-security-regime-in-gaza/.]

Here’s a list of the departing squatters, due to leave their LSB in Dec & the PNB in Jan, illegally plonked on their seats in virtue of the 20Oct2022 PNB resolution extending their uninterrupted time as a delegate beyond 6yrs (no pagination, but pp. 3-5 of the PDF) – https://kpftx.org/archives/pnb/221020/221020_8138_minutes.pdf:

KPFA:

KPFK:

KPFT:

WPFW: Julie Clueless

WBAI: James ‘wooden, wooden as a chair’ Sagurton

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