{"article":{"id":293930,"heading":"&quot;KPFK has a $500,000 deficit \u201c !!  Can this be true?","author":"a KPFK payor","created":"2016-08-19 13:10:07","modified":"2016-08-23 22:47:38","last_modified":"Wed, 24 Aug 2016 05:47:38","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Alan Watts said in 1950&rsquo;s :   &ldquo;the future of KPFA [and KPFK] is in danger ..&rdquo;     So then and still now.   <br><br> So KPFK is in financial danger and turmoil, and it has been said barely able to survive and avoid banktrupcy.  <br><br> It has been revealed that : &ldquo;KPFK has a $500,000 deficit &ldquo; !!  what ? How can this be ? Who is going to rescue Our Radio Station ?  <br><br> Even with their yet-again ---elections to their local station board happening now  -- [only need $25 contributed in year or 3 hrs of volunteer work ] - call station to inquire if you are 'in' -               818 985 2711 x 0. <br><br> Who or How has this  organization been run into the ground &ndash; to be killed off and then maybe stolen by others waiting in the shadows &ndash; wanting to take over any or all of Pacifica&rsquo;s valuable stations and FCC licenses ??                    <br><br> Why have audits not been completed since 2014 and the actual numbers revealed ?          <br><br> A non-profit organization does not mean no one involved does not profit. There are valuable advantages and benefits therein, everywhere else an NGO or do-gooder organization plays their cards.          <br><br>  But they pay staff, buy properties, manage monies and then set a false image of being &lsquo;poorer than any other corporations&rsquo; and &lsquo;only helping their benefactors&rsquo; and not themselves or their owners. False images, at KPFK and Pacifica and also at other such organizations, hiding their accesses to Power, politicians, wealthy donors and government fundings too.   <br><br>                                            Alan Watts      <br><br> Alan Watts in 1973 shortly before he died had 2 good  spiritual lectures &ndash; called &ldquo;changes&rdquo; and &ldquo;hidden belief systems&rdquo; that sound now like he was describing KPFK !  <br><br> But then it was more Asian &lsquo;eastern&rsquo; spiritual translations for the &lsquo;western mind&rsquo; which Watts did so well when America was curious but not  yet understanding Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and other mind opening understandings.           <br><br> Opening minds to more than western religious views thus emerged.     <br><br> [Alan Watts&rsquo; words = excerptions of a talk = is here below,  and with a bit of editing, &amp; expanding are also included here]:          <br><br> &ldquo;&hellip;the wind is blowing, trees are waving&hellip;the curious thing is very few people are aware of it&hellip;. we recluse ourselves in our personalities &ndash; not something that is inside our skin but it is also everything around us too...       <br><br>   When you look &ldquo;outside&rdquo; your eyes you are looking at the &ldquo;real you&rdquo; , as nature happening out there, the you that is the [context you exist within].       <br><br> Nature is wiggling all ways and all the time. Everything in nature depends on everything being in nature.        <br><br> When you see nature &ldquo;out&rdquo; there it is YOU, in your fullness and all that is necessary instead of the &lsquo;acting&rsquo;, &lsquo;doing&rsquo; and even &lsquo;accepting&rsquo; &hellip;&rdquo;            <br><br> What I really want    the kinship between I and thou&hellip;so what do I want ? I don&rsquo;t know ?  or &ldquo;who are you &ldquo; and Bodidharma said &ldquo;I know not&rdquo;&hellip;. there is a beginning stage of not-knowing and an ending stage of not-knowing&hellip;   but there is also a middle-stage. It changes, what satisfies for a little while&hellip;. then it changes to not being satisfied.     <br><br> The basic story here is this:  <br><br> 1. You have it &ndash;  [satisfaction is here  =you already have all you need and are ] <br><br> 2.  You don&rsquo;t know yourself, you never can  [there is so much inside, deeper called &lsquo;unconscious&rsquo; that is You of which you get glimpses but do not &lsquo;know&rsquo; consciously, nor can you &hellip; so try meditating and notice what happens&rsquo;] <br>  <br>            <br>  <br> 3.  The godhead is never an object of it&rsquo;s own knowledge  - just as the knife edge doesn&rsquo;t cut itself &ndash; nor does the light illuminate itself -  <br><br> 4.  It is same as &ldquo;I love &ldquo; and &ldquo;I let go&rdquo;&hellip; so don&rsquo;t try to force or control&hellip; <br><br> The  principle is:  any time you voluntarily let go of Control, then you have ACCESS to power&hellip; <br><br> .because you are wasting energy all the time in self defense&hellip;      <br><br> When you stop defending, then you find that the energy is available &ndash;it is  then you are One with the divine energy  <br><br> &ldquo;The more you give it away the more it comes back &ldquo; <br>  <br> There is no way of holding on to it = the control \/ energy...     Why ?    <br><br> ....means you don&rsquo;t have to &ldquo;let go&rdquo; because THERE IS NO-THING TO HOLD ON TO....     you suddenly find you have Power &ndash; the enormous access to energy \" <br><br>                             secretive KPFK     <br><br>  KPFK is slowly falling apart ?    <br><br> The \"somethings happening\" show that previously began at 12am to 6 am = and was heard nationally [on line too] by those who could access their learnings not available in their locale = has been reduced to 1\/2 of the time to EDUCATIONAL programming, and the 3 hours have not been regained nor returned, to all the dedicated KPFK paid-up Members and listeners.         <br><br>  Another begging-drive for $$$$ has been now scheduled.. Yet again and again and apparently never-ending scheduled every other month for a month or longer !   <br>  <br> But ...there are no volunteer or phone-pledge answering people - who dedicate their work for FREE and no other benefits - available from 12am to 5 am !   So from 3am to 6am Tuesdays-Fridays  there is only the broadcaster staff and his girlfriend there to 'answer phones' and take care of all the other work required to broadcast on-air.          <br><br>  How can it be that management at KPFK has been unable to provide assistance while demanding the program elicit monies and loyalties with no 'help' ?  <br><br> How can there be no security\/staff\/volunteers allowed during night hours when the program-originator is expected to raise his share of MONEY while alone in broadcast studio ? <br><br> Another bit of 'what happens inside KPFK' that is seldom or hardly ever known in the NON-Transparency that hides difficulties behind Iron Walls of Silence and gag orders and fake-images of what is 'only heard on-air].             <br><br> Notice that there are only 2-3 websites, blogs that even discuss and reveal any of the dangers\/ the machinations\/ the inner conflicts &amp; factions \/ the financial concerns \/ <br>  <br>  the lapses and neglected requirements, as are audits, complying with CBC for getting funding, and much more !  huh ?    What is happening to and in KPFK ? Why won't the management and staff tell us the truth ?  <br><br> We pay for it !!! <br><br> <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/KPFKcommentators.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"What we dont know that affects the organizations we pay $$$ to support ! ?   And no one is talking, to KPFK listeners\/ sponsors\/ stakeholders.  And also some of Alan Watts' words  are included here too. ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2016\/08\/293930.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}