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All Over America Tonight There Are People That Believe That Their Lives Are Over

Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:20

America In Decline: The New Paradigm of Lowered Expectations

Michael Snyder, Contributor

When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.

If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know exactly what I am talking about. When you have been unemployed for month after month it can be very tempting to totally cut yourself off from society.

Those that are kind will look at you with pity and those that are cruel will treat you as though you are a total loser.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

America In Decline: The New Paradigm of Lowered Expectations

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Michael Snyder, Contributor

All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over. When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing. If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know exactly what I am talking about. When you have been unemployed for month after month it can be very tempting to totally cut yourself off from society. Those that are kind will look at you with pity and those that are cruel will treat you as though you are a total loser.

It doesn't matter that America is in decline and that our economy is not producing nearly enough jobs for everyone anymore. In our society, one of the primary things that defines our lives is what we do for a living. Just think about it. When you are out in a social situation, what is one of the very first things that people ask? They want to know what you "do". Well, if you don't "do" anything, then you are not part of the club. But the worst part of being unemployed for many Americans is the relentless pressure from family and friends. Often they have no idea how hard it is to find a job in this economy - especially if they still have jobs. Sometimes the pressure becomes too great.

Sadly, we are seeing unemployment break up a lot of marriages in America today. Things are really hard out there right now. A very large number of highly educated Americans have taken very low-paying service jobs in recent years just so that they can have some money coming in even as they "look for something else". Unfortunately, in many cases that "something else" never materializes. In the past, America was "the land of opportunity" where anything was possible. But today America has become "the land of lowered expectations" and the worst is yet to come.

We live during a time when "the American Dream" is literally being redefined. In the old days, just about anyone could get a good job that would pay enough to make it possible to buy a house, buy a nice car and raise a family.


Unfortunately, those days are long gone. The following is from a recent NPR article....

The town of Lorain, Ohio, used to embody this dream. It was a place where you could get a good job, raise a family and comfortably retire.

'Now you can see what it is. Nothing,' says John Beribak. 'The shipyards are gone, the Ford plant is gone, the steel plant is gone.' His voice cracks as he describes the town he's lived in his whole life.

'I mean, I grew up across the street from the steel plant when there was 15,000 people working there,' he says. 'My dad worked there. I worked there when I got out of the Air Force. It's just sad.'

We live in an economy that is in serious decline. In this environment no job is safe. In fact, even Goldman Sachs is laying off workers these days.

Millions of Americans are suffering from deep depression because they can't find jobs. Many of them are sitting at home right now blankly starting at their television screens as they wonder why nobody wants to hire them. Some have been unemployed for years and have sent out thousands upon thousands of resumes. The following is from a recent article by J.P. Hicks....

I have a brilliant cousin with a $180K Syracuse education working part-time at a department store. She has literally sent out 38,000 resumes in the span of a year to no avail. I have another very bright friend with the kindest heart who is so desperate he has applied for dishwashing jobs and didn’t get them, sending him deeper into depression. I’m sure we all know people like this, or perhaps have even been there ourselves.

Society has trained us to believe that we are worthless without a job. Indeed, we feel worthless when we are unemployed with few prospects of making money. Family, friends, and peers constantly remind us in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that we 'need' a job.

Have you ever been unemployed?

How did it make you feel?

How were you treated by your family and friends?

In the old days, a college education was almost a guaranteed ticket to the middle class.

But these days, a college education guarantees you absolutely nothing.

As a recent article by Jed Graham detailed, most young unemployed workers in America today have at least some college education....

For the first time in history, the number of jobless workers age 25 and up who have attended some college now exceeds the ranks of those who settled for a high school diploma or less.

Out of 9 million unemployed in April, 4.7 million had gone to college or graduated and 4.3 million had not, seasonally adjusted Labor Department data show.

Overall, 53 percent of all Americans with a bachelor's degree under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed last year.

It is tough to tell young college graduates with their whole lives ahead of them that they need to lower their expectations because America is in decline.

So where did all the jobs go?

Well, one place they went is overseas. Over the past couple of decades, millions upon millions of good jobs have left the United States and have gone over to the other side of the world.

That is why you see gleaming new factories going up all over China even while our once great manufacturing cities are turning into crime-infested warzones.

But as a recent WND article reported, the WTO has a solution. They plan to replace "Made in China" labels with "Made in the World" labels so that we don't feel so bad about losing our jobs and our economic infrastructure...

The World Trade Organization is moving closer to eliminating country-of-origin labels and replacing them with 'Made in the World' initiative labels because they say we need to 'reduce public opposition to free trade' and 're-engineer global governance.'

As the number of middle-class jobs has steadily declined in recent years, the number of low paying service jobs has increased.

In a previous article, I discussed how approximately one out of every four U.S. workers now makes $10 an hour or less.

Could your family survive on 10 dollars an hour?

Today, you can find hordes of very smart, very talented Americans flipping burgers, waiting tables and welcoming people to Wal-Mart.

Sadly, the United States now has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.

Perhaps we should applaud our leaders for doing such a great job of destroying the American Dream.

Because so many Americans are working crappy jobs, a very large percentage of them have absolutely no savings to speak of.

According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers live paycheck to paycheck.

I am constantly encouraging people to save up an "emergency fund" that will enable them to pay their bills for at least 6 months if they suddenly become unemployed.

Unfortunately, for many Americans that is simply not possible. Way too many families are just barely scraping by from month to month.

Another area of the economy where Americans are facing lowered expectations is in housing.

In the old days, most Americans dreamed of owning their own homes.

But today we are being told that things have changed. For example, a recent USA Today article was entitled "Home rentals — the new American Dream?"....

Steve and Jodi Jacobson bought their Phoenix-area 'dream home' in 2005. They built flagstone steps to the front door. They tiled the kitchen and bathroom. They entertained often, enjoying their mountain views.

'We put our soul into that house,' says Steve Jacobson, 37.

Then, home prices tanked more than 50%. Steve, a software quality assurance engineer, suffered pay cuts. In 2010, foreclosure claimed the home and their $100,000 down payment.

The Jacobsons didn't lose their desire to live in a single-family home, however. They now rent one, like many other former homeowners displaced by foreclosure.

Is that what we are supposed to tell future generations of Americans?

"Listen Johnny and Suzie, if you work really, really hard at your minimum wage jobs perhaps someday you will be able to rent a home that has been foreclosed by a big, greedy bank".

It is so sad to watch what is happening to this country.

These days many Americans are scratching and clawing and doing everything that they can to make it, but they still find themselves short on money at the end of the month.

Many are turning to debt in an attempt to bridge the gap. According to CNN, 40 percent of "low- and middle-income households" are using credit cards to pay for basic living expenses.

Overall, U.S. consumers have more than 11 trillion dollars in debt right now.

That is an incredible number.

As the economy has declined, a lot of families have completely given up trying to make it on their own and have turned to the U.S. government for financial help. Today, an astounding 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives government benefits.

Just think about that number for a while. It is one of the clearest signs that America is in deep, deep decline.

Unfortunately, things are about to get even worse. The next wave of the financial crisis is unfolding in Europe and we will all be talking about another "major global recession" very soon.

That means that unemployment in the United States is going to get a lot worse.

For the millions upon millions of Americans that are already suffering through the horror of unemployment, that is really bad news.

Posted below is a trailer for a new HBO documentary entitled "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island". Please take a few minutes to watch this video, because I think it does a good job of showing the soul crushing despair that many unemployed Americans are going through right now....


So do any of you have any stories of lowered expectations to share? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below....

This article first appeared here at the Economic Collapse Blog. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here.

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America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair Of Lowered Expectations

June 5th, 2012
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All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over. When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can't get one it can be absolutely soul crushing. If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time you know exactly what I am talking about. When you have been unemployed for month after month it can be very tempting to totally cut yourself off from society. Those that are kind will look at you with pity and those that are cruel will treat you as though you are a total loser. It doesn't matter that America is in decline and that our economy is not producing nearly enough jobs for everyone anymore. In our society, one of the primary things that defines our lives is what we do for a living. Just think about it. When you are out in a social situation, what is one of the very first things that people ask? They want to know what you "do". Well, if you don't "do" anything, then you are not part of the club. But the worst part of being unemployed for many Americans is the relentless pressure from family and friends. Often they have no idea how hard it is to find a job in this economy - especially if they still have jobs. Sometimes the pressure becomes too great. Sadly, we are seeing unemployment break up a lot of marriages in America today. Things are really hard out there right now. A very large number of highly educated Americans have taken very low paying service jobs in recent years just so that they can have some money coming in even as they "look for something else". Unfortunately, in many cases that "something else" never materializes. In the past, America was "the land of opportunity" where anything was possible. But today America has become "the land of lowered expectations" and the worst is yet to come.
We live during a time when "the American Dream" is literally being redefined. In the old days, just about anyone could get a good job that would pay enough to make it possible to buy a house, buy a nice car and raise a family.
Unfortunately, those days are long gone. The following is from a recent NPR article....

The town of Lorain, Ohio, used to embody this dream. It was a place where you could get a good job, raise a family and comfortably retire.
"Now you can see what it is. Nothing," says John Beribak. "The shipyards are gone, the Ford plant is gone, the steel plant is gone." His voice cracks as he describes the town he's lived in his whole life.
"I mean, I grew up across the street from the steel plant when there was 15,000 people working there," he says. "My dad worked there. I worked there when I got out of the Air Force. It's just sad."

We live in an economy that is in serious decline. In this environment no job is safe. In fact, even Goldman Sachs is laying off workers these days.
Millions of Americans are suffering from deep depression because they can't find jobs. Many of them are sitting at home right now blankly starting at their television screens as they wonder why nobody wants to hire them. Some have been unemployed for years and have sent out thousands upon thousands of resumes. The following is from a recent article by J.D. Hicks....

I have a brilliant cousin with a $180K Syracuse education working part-time at a department store. She has literally sent out 38,000 resumes in the span of a year to no avail. I have another very bright friend with the kindest heart who is so desperate he has applied for dishwashing jobs and didn’t get them, sending him deeper into depression. I’m sure we all know people like this, or perhaps have even been there ourselves.
Society has trained us to believe that we are worthless without a job. Indeed, we feel worthless when we are unemployed with few prospects of making money. Family, friends, and peers constantly remind us in subtle and not-so-subtle ways that we “need” a job.

Have you ever been unemployed?
How did it make you feel?
How were you treated by your family and friends?
In the old days, a college education was almost a guaranteed ticket to the middle class.
But these days, a college education guarantees you absolutely nothing.
As a recent article by Jed Graham detailed, most young unemployed workers in America today have at least some college education....

For the first time in history, the number of jobless workers age 25 and up who have attended some college now exceeds the ranks of those who settled for a high school diploma or less.
Out of 9 million unemployed in April, 4.7 million had gone to college or graduated and 4.3 million had not, seasonally adjusted Labor Department data show.

Overall, 53 percent of all Americans with a bachelor's degree under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed last year.
It is tough to tell young college graduates with their whole lives ahead of them that they need to lower their expectations because America is in decline.
So where did all the jobs go?
Well, one place they went is overseas. Over the past couple of decades, millions upon millions of good jobs have left the United States and have gone over to the other side of the world.
That is why you see gleaming new factories going up all over China even while our once great manufacturing cities are turning into crime-infested warzones.
But as a recent WND article reported, the WTO has a solution. They plan to replace "Made in China" labels with "Made in the World" labels so that we don't feel so bad about losing our jobs and our economic infrastructure...

The World Trade Organization is moving closer to eliminating country-of-origin labels and replacing them with “Made in the World” initiative labels because they say we need to “reduce public opposition to free trade” and “re-engineer global governance.”

As the number of middle class jobs has steadily declined in recent years, the number of low paying service jobs has increased.
In a previous article, I discussed how approximately one out of every four U.S. workers now makes $10 an hour or less.
Could your family survive on 10 dollars an hour?
Today, you can find hordes of very smart, very talented Americans flipping burgers, waiting tables and welcoming people to Wal-Mart.
Sadly, the United States now has a higher percentage of workers doing low wage work than any other major industrialized nation does.
Perhaps we should applaud our leaders for doing such a great job of destroying the American Dream.
Because so many Americans are working crappy jobs, a very large percentage of them have absolutely no savings to speak of.
According to one survey, 42 percent of all American workers live paycheck to paycheck.
I am constantly encouraging people to save up an "emergency fund" that will enable them to pay their bills for at least 6 months if they suddenly become unemployed.
Unfortunately, for many Americans that is simply not possible. Way too many families are just barely scraping by from month to month.
Another area of the economy where Americans are facing lowered expectations is in housing.
In the old days, most Americans dreamed of owning their own homes.
But today we are being told that things have changed. For example, a recent USA Today article was entitled "Home rentals — the new American Dream?"....

Steve and Jodi Jacobson bought their Phoenix-area "dream home" in 2005. They built flagstone steps to the front door. They tiled the kitchen and bathroom. They entertained often, enjoying their mountain views.
"We put our soul into that house," says Steve Jacobson, 37.
Then, home prices tanked more than 50%. Steve, a software quality assurance engineer, suffered pay cuts. In 2010, foreclosure claimed the home and their $100,000 down payment.
The Jacobsons didn't lose their desire to live in a single-family home, however. They now rent one, like many other former homeowners displaced by foreclosure.

Is that what we are supposed to tell future generations of Americans?
"Listen Johnny and Suzie, if you work really, really hard at your minimum wage jobs perhaps someday you will be able to rent a home that has been foreclosed by a big, greedy bank".
It is so sad to watch what is happening to this country.
These days many Americans are scratching and clawing and doing everything that they can to make it, but they still find themselves short on money at the end of the month.
Many are turning to debt in an attempt to bridge the gap. According to CNN, 40 percent of "low- and middle-income households" are using credit cards to pay for basic living expenses.
Overall, U.S. consumers have more than 11 trillion dollars in debt right now.
That is an incredible number.
As the economy has declined, a lot of families have completely given up trying to make it on their own and have turned to the U.S. government for financial help. Today, an astounding 49.1 percent of all Americans live in a home where at least one person receives government benefits.
Just think about that number for a while. It is one of the clearest signs that America is in deep, deep decline.
Unfortunately, things are about to get even worse. The next wave of the financial crisis is unfolding in Europe and we will all be talking about another "major global recession" very soon.
That means that unemployment in the United States is going to get a lot worse.

For the millions upon millions of Americans that are already suffering through the horror of unemployment, that is really bad news.

Posted below is a trailer for a new HBO documentary entitled "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island". Please take a few minutes to watch this video, because I think it does a good job of showing the soul crushing despair that many unemployed Americans are going through right now....



So do any of you have any stories of lowered expectations to share? Please feel free to post a comment with your thoughts below....



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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Risking Global War

Anthony Freda Art

Stephen Lendman, Contributor

Tyranny and permanent wars define Obama's agenda. Since taking office, he has exceeded the worst of George Bush.

Much more ahead is coming. Ravaging humanity is policy. Foreign nations and America's homeland are targeted. Rule of law principles are ignored. Unchallenged dominance alone matters.

Plans are to crush dissent and replace independent regimes with puppet ones. Subservience to Washington is demanded. Obama enforces these policies ruthlessly. Outliers aren't tolerated.

Removing internal opposition and destroying one country after another are planned. Occupy Wall Street is targeted for elimination. Syria tops the queue abroad. Blame game strategy wrongfully accuses Assad for Western crimes.

Potential global war looms. Policymakers are mindless. So are supportive media scoundrels. More on them below.

On May 20 and 21, NATO states and partners invaded Chicago violently. Discussions went way beyond Afghanistan. Focus included Syria. Escalated violence was planned. At issue is regime change. Dangers of potential global war weren't considered.

Officially NATO rules out intervention. Unofficially it's raged for months. Expect much more ahead. Washington, Britain and France are lead belligerents. Assad is more victim than villain.


Straightaway after Houla killings were reported, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague called for UN Chapter 7 intervention.

Article 39 states:

The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Article 41 says:

The Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations to apply such measures.

These may include complete or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, telegraphic, radio, and other means of communication, and the severance of diplomatic relations.

Article 42 is most relevant, saying:

Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.

Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations.

A world body established "to save succeeding generations from the scourge or war" has been instrumental in furthering world conflicts or did nothing to stop them.

Middle East/North African/Central Asian states are warmups for confronting Russia and China. Military, political, and economic strategies dictate removing rivals. Washington wants unchallenged dominance. Aims take precedence over risks.

Houla killings advance the ball closer to war. Despite convincing evidence, Assad is blamed for Western-deployed death squad killings.

Bashar Jaafari is Syria's longstanding UN envoy. He denounced the Western "tsunami of lies." He said hundreds of heavily armed terrorists assaulted five Houla law enforcement facilities.

Attacks continued for nine hours. Two nearby villages were assaulted. "Full-fledged military operations" were premeditated, he said. Shumeria village's hospital was set ablaze. Crops were burned. Villagers were killed.

He accused permanent Security Council members of arming Syrian opposition forces. Al Qaeda elements are involved. He warned SC envoys, saying:

You cannot be arsonists and firemen at the same time.

On June 1, Syrian State media SANA reported initial findings of an internal judicial investigation.

It affirmed that "all the (Houla) victims belonged to peaceful families who wouldn't stand up to the state and had never joined protests or held up arms, who also had opposed the armed terrorist groups."

"The initial findings indicated that the victims were killed by fire at close distance and sharp tools, not by shellfire."

Eyewitness testimonies provided convincing evidence. Heavily armed terror gangs were responsible. Security forces weren't involved.

Hundreds of insurgents began slaughtering police and civilians. A well-planned military operation bears responsibility. US, UK, and other foreign security forces operated covertly in Syria since last year. Their direction was evident.

Successful guerrilla warfare depends on competent leadership. Western elements provided it against Gaddafi last year. They've targeted Syria for months.

Killer gangs used "mortars, machine guns, and anti-tank missiles." Police facilities were attacked. At the same time, civilian homes were invaded. Entire families were murdered at close range. Police and military forces weren't in areas targeted for carnage.

"(L)aw-enforcement members hadn't left their positions but defended themselves against the terrorist groups, which can be verified through the victims' images aired by satellite channels...."

They showed terrorist killings using "close fire and sharp tools, not shellfire as the images showed no signs of mashing, burns or traces of shelling buildings...."

In other words, Western enlisted death squads killed by "direct liquidation."

Civilian victims "belonged to peaceful families who wouldn't stand up to the state and had never joined protests or help up arms...."

They opposed terror gangs. Violence they commit provide provocations for Western intervention.

Internal investigations continue. Independent eye witness testimonies provide best confirmation evidence. So do satellite images showing no artillery or tank fire. None were positioned nearby.

US UN envoy Susan Rice called Syria's explanation "another blatant lie." She's been caught red-handed numerous times spreading spurious lies.

She called nonexistent Iranian nuclear weapons development an indisputable fact. Last year, she wrongly accused Gaddafi of supplying his forces with viagra to commit mass rape.

Those who know her best call her a pathological liar. She promotes belligerent humanitarian intervention. Power obsesses her. Death and destruction don't matter.

Her boss Hillary Clinton, Obama, and other top administration officials endorse like-minded policies. Violence and instability proliferate. Peace isn't tolerated. Body counts mount. Targeted leaders get blamed for Western instigated crimes.

It bears repeating. Who benefits from incidents like Houla? Clearly not Assad. Blaming him is unconscionable. Scoundrel media bear responsibility for regurgitating spurious misinformation and lies.

Their assault on truth continues. On May 31, The New York Times headlined "Clinton Says Russian Inaction May Lead to Syrian Civil War," saying:

She's furious about any nation blocking Washington's war plans. She accused Moscow of "propping up the regime at a time when we should be working on a political transition."

International law prohibits nations from interfering in the internal affairs of others, except in self-defense. Times writers didn't explain. Syrians alone have the right to decide who'll lead them.

Russia and China both block Western intervention. Belligerent administration remarks suggest it's coming.

Haitham Maleh opposes Assad. The Times featured his op-ed, headlined "A Peace Plan in Name Only."

He blamed Assad for escalated bloodshed. He accused him of "gruesome atrocities."

Civilians are targeted for having dared to speak up to the inspectors or are killed indiscriminately for protesting.

Credible evidence didn't accompany accusations. Assad opponents blame him for Western instigated violence. The Times features scurrilous reports in articles, commentaries and editorials.

"The West must now recognize that the regime has reached a point of no return, that resolutions are worthless and that the only future for Syria is without the Assad political dynasty," said Maleh.

He supports no-fly zone enforcement. Establishing one or so-called safe zones on Syrian territory assures war. Within 48 hours of no-fly zone imposition on Libya, NATO bombing began.

"The West cannot stand idly by," said Mahel. A former judge and alleged human rights lawyer, his comments belie his claimed credentials.

On May 31, a Washington Post editorial headlined "What the US should do about Syria?"

It should mind its own business. It should stop interfering in the internal affairs of other states. It should halt lawless belligerence. It should end its imperial agenda. Its officials should be held fully accountable for crimes of war and against humanity.

The Post endorses more of what should be condemned. It called Annan's diplomacy "feckless," and anti-Assad support from "Russian strongman Vladimir Putin" unlikely.

It endorses active US intervention. Doing so assures war. It urges safe zones in Syrian territory "defended by air power" and foreign troops.

It wants killer gangs given more weapons and intelligence. It claims most Syrians oppose Assad when, in fact, a sizable majority support him. It endorses aggressive intervention to topple him. Previous editorials and commentaries urged the same thing.

The Post features writers like Charles Krauthammer. He tilts far enough right to make him a belligerent. On April 26, he headlined"While Syria burns," saying:

Since last year, Assad committed massacres. He blames him for "disappearances, executions, indiscriminate shelling of populated neighborhoods," and killing thousands.

Hyperbole substituted for verifiable facts. He backs more aggressive intervention.

Post columnist Jennifer Rubin tilts as far right as Krauthammer. On June 1, her "Morning Bits" article included a section on Syria. It endorsed direct US intervention with or without Security Council authorization.

Like other imperial war supporters, rule of law principles don't matter. Might is right notions are good enough. Scoundrel media feature this type journalism. Wars follow. Deaths mount. One conflict begets others. Unless stopped, expect an eventual thermonuclear one.

All bets are off if it happens. Imagine irresponsible leaders risking it. Imagine media scoundrels supporting them. Imagine a potential worst case scenario. Imagine not doing everything possible to prevent it.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. His new book is titled How Wall Street Fleeces America: Privatized Banking, Government Collusion and Class War

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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