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1000 Days

Kansas City Missouri: A natural gas explosion apparently began in slow motion: people reporting that they “smelled something, maybe gas?”, the fire engine arriving and then leaving at the command of Missouri Gas Energy Man On The Scene, someone coming into the restaurant - JJ’s Restaurant – and gently suggesting that diners Leave!…time passes.  From the report, it would appear that despite warnings of every possible description, people did nothing.

 For forty years, the San Francisco Avant-Garde band The Residents have basked in relative obscurity, much of it self-imposed. Their earliest modus operandi had them creating works under their 'theory of obscurity', first coined by N. Senada, who may or may not be an actual person. One aspect of the theory is that a work is created with the intent of never releasing a work until every participant has forgotten about it - or something like that.

Another aspect of the Residents is that they've kept their real identity a secret for many decades, with a few people speaking on their behalf in a business capacity who may or may not be Residents themselves.. Hmmm..

Alan Wieder analyzes racism and crypto-apartheid in Israeli soccer as symptomatic of racism in Israeli society directed against Arabs. He takes as his starting point AC Milan player Kevin-Prince Boateng recent gesture of disgust with Israeli fan's racist chants, reverberations of solidarity by Jerusalem and regional leaders, and goes on to consider the racist history of Israeli Soccer. He also raises the question of Israel's intensifying ethnocentrism.

Alan Wieder talks with Marcia Meyers, founder of Rethinking Psychiatry. They discuss the organization and it's mission to educate people about the diversity of ways to deal with emotional disturbances, as well as interrogate the money-making and exploitive motivations behind mainstream psychiatry. They also talk about the up-coming Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival, which will feature Old Mole Jan Haaken's own documentary, "MindZone: therapists behind the front lines".