Episode 251: Let There Be Some Light

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In looking into sources of private propaganda, I am constantly struck on how far back it goes. Today I go back a hundred years to a time when the private electrical power industry was insisting on the title to this Episode 251: Let There Be Some Light.

In this episode, I read from: Jane Brox's book Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light; Chuck Collins' book, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions; Naomi Oreskes and Eric M. Conway's book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government and Love the Free Market; and an article from the magazine Home Power (issue #27, Feb/Mar 1992, p. 14, author Mike Sagrillo; sorry, I forgot to jot down the title of the article) on how those old home wind turbine and battery systems were put out of commission.

I play: the voice of D. L. Myers invoking the Powell Movement Stinger. Henry Giroux opens the show backed by KMFDM; and I close today with Julie & Rolf & The Campfire Gang doing "Over the Rainbow".

A quick note: I had several pics of advertising the wind turbines I mention at the close of the show. Not only are none of them live links (no surprise there) but a quick search for them has turned up bupkis. I am both perplexed… and conspiratorially minded to think that powered forces are out to erase that historic link. Maybe I should go to bed instead. If you turn up pics of these 1920s wind turbines, please drop a line in the comments below.