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Update on For The Record Production

As vet­eran users of this web­site (and vet­eran lis­ten­ers) know, I haven’t pro­duced new For The Record pro­grams for more than a year.

I reported that I had been obliged to sus­pend pro­duc­tion due to the pres­sures of the day job. (I live an artist’s lifestyle, using paid employ­ment to sus­tain myself while I do research, writ­ing and pro­gram production.)

This was a nec­es­sary obfus­ca­tion, under the circumstances.

In real­ity, I was seri­ously ill. I have main­tained my health very effec­tively over the years, on the balance.

I did let my den­tal health slide a bit, under the extreme pres­sures of the effort. A tooth became infected and the infec­tion spread.

I had to have major oral surgery and was hos­pi­tal­ized for a month. It was a very, very seri­ous situation.

Out of the hos­pi­tal and dan­ger, I am rehab­bing nicely and am await­ing the con­struc­tion and fit­ting of par­tial den­tures. I was unable to speak clearly for a long time, neces­si­tat­ing the hia­tus from broad­cast production.

For secu­rity rea­sons, I did not dis­close this when under­go­ing treatment–there are those ele­ments who wish me ill and I didn’t think it pru­dent to be com­pletely can­did, under the circumstances.

I will be resum­ing pro­gram pro­duc­tion very shortly. Until I have mas­tered my “new chops” and can speak with­out an imped­i­ment, the pro­grams will con­sist of rel­e­vant excerpts of the old Archive Shows with intro­duc­tions to be read by guest per­son­al­i­ties. This mate­r­ial will be new to the over­whelm­ing major­ity of listeners.

I will also be pro­duc­ing on-air inter­views with guests, with sur­ro­gate inter­view­ers pos­ing ques­tions which I will com­pose.
As soon as I am able, I will be back on the air in per­son. I do not think this will take very long, but, never hav­ing trav­eled down this par­tic­u­lar road, can’t say for absolute sure.

I have dri­ven myself relent­lessly for­ward for more than three decades and am com­mit­ted to the effort. Nonethe­less, being in my six­ties, I will be tak­ing more time to “smell the flow­ers,” so to speak.

From the feed­back I’ve got­ten over the years, it has become appar­ent that many (if not most) of the lis­ten­ers do not under­stand the truly Spar­tan and Her­culean nature of my effort over the years. I will be sus­tain­ing that effort, but will be a lit­tle kinder to myself.

I ask this of lis­ten­ers and users of this website:

  • Those of you who lis­ten on non-commercial radio sta­tions or net­works should make it a point to sub­scribe to those sta­tions dur­ing their fund-raising marathons.
  • Please do what you can to sup­port Yours Truly mate­ri­ally. As I said, I work a day job and, with med­ical bills to pay, can DEFINITELY use some finan­cial sup­port myself. Even­tu­ally, I will have a Pay­Pal account or some other but­ton on the web­site, but that will come later.
  • Lis­ten­ers who con­tribute via check or money order should under­stand that their con­tri­bu­tions are a gift. You will NOT receive any­thing for them, nor will you be able to deduct them from your taxes–I am not a non-profit cor­po­ra­tion. I have made my entire life’s work avail­able for free, with­out ask­ing any­thing in return. THAT is what peo­ple receive–again, there will be no gifts or pre­mi­ums sent in return. Click on the “Donate” page at the top of the web­site for more information.
  • Obtain the flash drive con­tain­ing the entirety of my life’s work , plus the anti-fascist books avail­able for down­load on this website.

Discussion

35 comments for “Update on For The Record Production”

  1. Dave, if you never pro­duced an addi­tional sin­gle thing your body of work would still stand as an incom­pa­ra­ble resource and life accomplishment.

    Posted by ironcloudz | October 12, 2012, 11:58 am
  2. One of the nice aspects of risk­ing sev­eral decades of your life to fight evil is that big life accom­plish­ments like that are also tiny in just the right ways. So take a big whiff and smell those roses, because if you hadn’t accom­plished as much as you have up to this point we’d prob­a­bly all be smelling a dif­fer­ent kind of flower by now.

    I don’t think I’ve ever been this inspired to go to the den­tist. Seriously.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | October 12, 2012, 12:58 pm
  3. Dave,

    I am very ter­ri­bly sorry that you had to go thru this awful period of ill­ness, and I do hope that your recov­ery is swift and sure.

    I wish you all the best of luck in the weeks and months to fol­low. And thanks for all the work you’ve done over the years.

    Sin­cerely,

    –Steve L.

    Posted by Steven L. | October 12, 2012, 8:08 pm
  4. For some­thing like twenty years now, I’ve found your work inter­est­ing and the mate­r­ial that you’ve cov­ered always invalu­able. It’s great that your audi­ence can look for­ward to the return of Dave Emory.

    Posted by Anthony Olszewski | October 12, 2012, 8:33 pm
  5. Dave,

    Thanks for your tremen­dous ser­vice to, and sac­ri­fice for, human­ity. I can’t express it enough. Thanks.

    Posted by GK | October 12, 2012, 11:49 pm
  6. Good on ya, Dave. I get that you’ve never pro­claimed the left posi­tion. Nev­er­the­less, I can’t think of any­one who clar­i­fies what the far right is about in prac­ti­cal terms bet­ter than yourself.

    Reserve one of those archive thin­gies for me.

    Posted by Dwight | October 13, 2012, 1:51 am
  7. Your research has been seri­ously invalu­able in time of intem­po­rate indul­gence. As a vet­eran lis­tener, I have not been taken aback moreso that at the ram­pant apa­thy of the peo­ple today. It depresses me to say this, but we are cus­p­ing on the end of our free­doms and, mir­ror­ing your words, the death of the enlight­en­ment. Many of us, espe­cially from the younger inter­net gens and gamers, seem blind­sided to what’s really in store for us and I only sound like a use­less cas­san­dra when con­fronting oth­ers on these issues.

    What the hell will it take to wake every­one up?!!

    How­ever, I wish you the best of recov­ery and you have been our Paul Revere!

    Posted by RJ | October 13, 2012, 8:23 am
  8. So sorry to hear about the hell you have been through. I do encour­age you to smell the roses just a tiny bit more. I do know what a Her­culean nature you have accom­plished. Maybe if more peo­ple had finan­cially sup­ported you, there might have been a lit­tle more bal­ance, but with doing a job and all the other things you do to bring the knowl­edge to us.... I will be send­ing you some money. You deserve to be sup­ported for the sac­ri­fice you have made your life be. You will always be my hero.

    Posted by ella seneres | October 13, 2012, 8:29 am
  9. Yor are a national trea­sure. It’s dif­fi­cult to express my admi­ra­tion more than adding to cho­rus of peo­ple here say­ing, thank you. I will be mak­ing dona­tions as I am able. In the mean­time, I will con­tinue to ‘spread the word’ as best I can. More than ever before, I believe in the mis­sion of this website.

    And thank you for teach­ing me that real­ity is stranger than fiction.

    To your health and happiness.

    Posted by GrumpusRex | October 13, 2012, 9:57 am
  10. you take care of your health because that comes first. and take all the time you want to smell the flow­ers. you have earned it, over and over again. even if you never do another pro­gram. “the cen­ter for med­ical con­sumers” is a great web site for health infor­ma­ton. i know what i speak of because i have used their web site to cure myself of some prob­lems when the doc­tors i went to had no idea as to what to do. also a book,“best pills, worse hills” by doc­tor stan­ley wolf.

    Posted by David | October 13, 2012, 1:36 pm
  11. Its great to hear that you are on the mend and look­ing for­ward to your return to the airwaves!

    Posted by Paul | October 13, 2012, 3:39 pm
  12. My heart goes out to you, Dave. You have pro­foundly effected my life and helped me to see the truth of things. Hell, you have helped me be a bet­ter par­ent to my sons. I have used your work to edu­cate my 20 and 30 year old because of your work. . You and your work have been a gift to the world.
    We are here for you Dave.
    My fam­ily got me through my fights with my ill­nesses. I’m still kick­ing.
    I con­sider you a mem­ber of the fam­ily.
    We are all here for you

    Posted by Tony Klein | October 13, 2012, 6:16 pm
  13. You’ve already done more than any of us prob­a­bly ever could. Tak­ing care of your­self is as much a gift and con­tri­bu­tion than any­thing else you can do at this point.

    Posted by R. Wilson | October 13, 2012, 9:12 pm
  14. mr emory, hope you recover soon and do all of the favorite things that bring you the most hap­pi­ness. thanks again for all the great info. get well soon and be happy.

    Posted by dsekou | October 13, 2012, 11:55 pm
  15. All the Best Dave. Take care of your­self, if you don’t then you can’t help oth­ers. Look for­ward to more great info and shows. Den­tures, one of the joys of aging ;)

    Posted by LarryFW | October 14, 2012, 1:16 am
  16. All the best Dave.

    Posted by GW | October 14, 2012, 6:50 am
  17. dave, my thoughts and prayers are with you at this time and wish you a com­plete and speedy recov­ery. as a long time lis­tener who goes back to mae’s world watch­ers, the work you have done and con­tributed to is already more than most researchers due in a life­time. a heart-filled thank-you for all the hard work and ded­i­ca­tion you have done in the past and were all look­ing for­ward to you regain­ing your health back as that is the most impor­tant thing of all whether or not you pro­duce any more for the record’s , your friend –gary

    Posted by latitude38 | October 14, 2012, 5:15 pm
  18. Yours for the revolution!

    Posted by Devil James | October 15, 2012, 5:04 pm
  19. thanks for the awe­some work and info over the years. Great to know you will be back soon. thank god for you.

    Posted by GeeMoe | October 17, 2012, 10:19 am
  20. Dave, Wel­come back, hope that will be the worst that ever hap­pens to you! Would love to pur­chase the flash drive when it’s avail­able (then I can finally pass on the hun­dreds of cas­sette tapes I assid­u­ously recorded over the years!)

    Posted by Stella | October 17, 2012, 11:27 am
  21. Thanks for all your out­put over the years. I think I have lis­tened to all the FTRs. Please find that bal­ance between your health and your mis­sion. I am sure we all would like to keep you around for awhile longer!

    Posted by Jack | October 17, 2012, 3:51 pm
  22. Mr. Emory

    Let it be know that there are also those who have lis­tened to you for at least 15 years and have attended many of your lec­tures that under­stand and bow in sus­tained humil­ity at your tremen­dous effort and con­sis­tently high level of pro­duc­tion. Your abil­ity to retain in that cra­nium of yours such a tremen­dous amount of retriev­able infor­ma­tion has always left us awe. Thanks for all that you have done to enrich us lis­ten­ers in all mat­ters of global fas­cism. Live long and pros­per. And do what­ever you want. We will still be here.

    Posted by RubyTuesday | October 18, 2012, 12:01 am
  23. Hi Dave.

    I let my teeth go too. A tooth located on the top right gum line grew infected. The infec­tion spread from the gums to the inside of the jaw bone. That infec­tion spread through­out my body for seven years. Dur­ing that time my hip sock­ets and shoul­der sock­ets were swollen. My knee was stiff and my lower back was also swollen. Both ears were swollen and painful. I also suf­fered from short­ness of breath and rapid heart beat. I can say with all truth that I almost died four years ago. My won­der­ful mom nursed me back to health.

    I had extremely expen­sive mul­ti­ple oral surg­eries over a five month period.

    Five months later, the infec­tion is finally drain­ing out of the upper jaw and I am feel­ing better.

    Take care of your­self, and look­ing for­ward to hear­ing your reports.

    Sin­cerely,

    William Dia­mond
    San Jose, CA.

    P.S. Your the great­est antifas­cist researcher and reporter of all time. You should of won the pulitzer prize and the nobel prize for your reports on how amer­ica lost world war two. Some­day I’d like to meet you and I will!

    Posted by William Diamond | October 19, 2012, 5:31 pm
  24. thanks dave i thought that u were lis­ten­ing to ur own shows and u went off the grid!! i good idea since ever­thing u have reported has all proven to be true!! wel­come back!! maybe u can share alex jones sat-com uplink or get a share of coast-to coast 20mil lis­tener base because your work has know trick­led down to mass media!! even in nyc wor is tak­ing ads for e-foods and emer­cency kits!! keep up the good work!!

    Posted by mike | October 20, 2012, 9:25 am
  25. Very sorry to hear about this. Den­tal pain is indeed a hor­ror. One of the draw­backs of hav­ing “good teeth” early in life is that one tends to slide into bad den­tal health habits. Those bad habits serve you ill when age finally changes the story.

    For den­tal emer­gency nights, I’ve hit upon one use­ful solu­tion — pep­per­mint extract. Root canal in a bot­tle. Of course, one whiff of the stuff can alien­ate room­mates. But it alle­vi­ates the pain.

    Of course, what you went through obvi­ously required some­thing far more dras­tic than that temp solution.

    Per­haps some con­so­la­tion may be found in the case of Roger Ebert, a vet­eran broad­caster sud­denly bereft of the abil­ity to speak. He’s a bet­ter writer now than he used to be, and he was quite good before.

    On the inter­net, we are not sickly, vibrant, over­weight, skinny, homely, lovely, poor, rich, well-spoken or mute. We are beings of pure thought trad­ing ideas with other beings of pure thought.

    At least that’s the ideal.

    Posted by Joseph Cannon | October 22, 2012, 5:38 am
  26. Hello Dave,

    I am so sorry to read this. I have attended sev­eral of your talks and was hop­ing to attend more. I’m very sad there have been none and sad­der to learn why.

    I have been lis­ten­ing to you I think since the Nip Tuck days when I was going to col­lege at Foothill College.

    I have not done near as much as you in this area, but I feel that con­stantly delv­ing into hor­ri­ble and depress­ing aspects of life such as you and oth­ers report on can result in peo­ple ignor­ing their health or becom­ing depressed and iso­lated, not to men­tion get­ting older as we all are and how the real­iza­tions hits us that things do not seem to be “get­ting bet­ter all the time” as the Bea­t­les’ song goes.

    The big let­down of Obama and the specter of Mitt Rom­ney being elected is very upset­ting to peo­ple, as well as hav­ing the hope and change mes­sage dashed back in our faces.

    I am start­ing to find it more and more dif­fi­cult to keep informed and read­ing up on about these prob­lems because it seems there is no agree­ment on com­mon points of fact or com­mon inter­ests among peo­ple and so very lit­tle we can do except dwell within our own impo­tence. You need a part of your life for your­self that is pos­i­tive and affirm­ing and pro­tects you from this fas­cist ugliness.

    I hope to see and hear you again lec­tur­ing some­time. Please take care of your­self. Many of us appre­ci­ate your hard work and we would pre­fer you not run your­self into the ground.

    Best Regards, “a long­time fan”

    Posted by brux | October 22, 2012, 11:18 pm
  27. Dave,

    One thing that has always puz­zled me has been and is the pecu­liar and seem­ingly con­tra­dic­tory val­ues that “THE LEFT” what­ever that is, and whomever seems to have defined what that is has as regards the Arab/Israeli question.

    It has always seemed to me that Israel, ie. the Jews, Judeo-Christian cul­ture, Jew­ish sci­en­tists and crit­i­cal think­ing has con­tributed much to west­ern cul­ture and con­tin­ues to do so.

    It would be a cheap exag­ger­a­tion to say that Islamic cul­ture has con­tributed “ZERO” as in the zero, but Islamic cul­ture has been cen­tered in the main around all the things that we in the West have sup­pos­edly evolved beyond, blind faith, xeno­pho­bia, sex­ism, homo­pho­bia, total­i­tar­i­an­ism, etc.

    I would love to see the anti-fascist search­light shined on this sub­ject and the how or why of the this process explored and maybe explained. It’s some­thing I have never got­ten used to so nat­u­rally I tended to spec­u­late if this is some kind of covert oper­a­tion to insin­u­ate the germ of ugli­ness in the left and lib­er­al­ism that just goes against what seems to me to be right and correct.

    Its one rea­son I have always had so much trou­ble with Paci­fica Radio/Democracy Now which I oth­er­wise really admire. Their report­ing is so well done and pro­fes­sional except when it comes to any­thing to do with the Arab-Israeli issue and the Mid­dle East.

    Can you enlighten me as to what or why this is and how it hap­pened? Did it indeed begin with the cor­rup­tion of what was a Left­ist insti­tu­tion such as Pacifica/Democracy Now or was this some­how a nat­ural out­growth or some prej­u­dice or anti-Semitism in the Left?

    If this says some­thing about the Left of some­thing about the way human beings are I think it is impor­tant to expose it for discussion.

    Thanks,
    Bruce

    Posted by Brux | October 24, 2012, 4:36 am
  28. Dave, I’ve never met you, but we had one tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion when I lived in the Bay Area and you took calls occas­sion­ally while broad­cast­ing from KFJC. I’ve appre­ci­ated your pro­gram so much over the years, and you seem like an old friend — a spe­cial friend that knows what’s goijg on and always tells the truth. What I really want to say is how much I’ve admired your ide­al­ism and self­less­ness in shar­ing your research and impor­tant life’s work over the years. Now you deserve a bit of time for your­self, some relax­ation, and some finan­cial sup­port from your lis­ten­ers. All the best and I wish you a speedy recov­ery to full health.

    Posted by Harold W. Hofstad | October 25, 2012, 9:52 am
  29. Hi Dave,
    I’m so sorry to hear about your trou­bles. Unfor­tu­nately, self­less peo­ple like your­self who have worked so hard to report the truth face mam­moth obsta­cles, and never reap the rewards of those who per­pet­u­ate the illu­sion.
    Please be kind to your­self because as some­one else said above, “if you never pro­duced an addi­tional sin­gle thing your body of work would still stand as an incom­pa­ra­ble resource and life accomplishment.”

    Posted by Roth | October 26, 2012, 10:32 am
  30. I wish you well from Spain, Mr. Emory; you’ve been a beam of hope with your amaz­ing work aswell as the WFMU per­sonel. Hope to hear ya again soon. Take care and have fun

    Posted by Charles Wipman | October 31, 2012, 5:36 am
  31. Dave,
    Wish­ing you con­tin­ued strength and for­ti­tude mov­ing for­ward. Yes, your archival work cer­tainly stands “...as an incom­porable resource and life accom­plish­ment.”. But your uniquely insight­ful efforts are needed now more than ever in the fight for what’s left of our frag­ile “democ­racy”.
    Best wishes-Vince

    Posted by VINCE | November 4, 2012, 6:15 pm
  32. Dave,
    We had some Evan­gel­i­cals over the other night, and as they expected me to say a pre-meal grace I was sure to men­tion you and your health sit­u­a­tion in that. So now I can hon­estly say you are in my prayers. I hope your health is improv­ing like the elec­toral col­lege map was last night.

    Best Wishes,
    GK

    Posted by GK | November 7, 2012, 7:37 pm
  33. GK, my friend, I was watch­ing the elec­tion for over 12 hours on Tues.....not only did Obama win Vir­ginia, but even Ohio and Florida, too, despite TPTB’s attempts to swing the elec­tion towards Rom­ney. And that really sur­prised me.

    What does have me a lit­tle wor­ried, though, is just how badly TPTB & the far-right could react to Barack Obama’s sec­ond term in office.

    If and when Dave gets back on the air, I’d like to see if he ever gets the chance to redo some of his pro­grams about the Klan, the Neo-Nazis, & the mili­tias, etc.. It could be that we could be see­ing the ‘90s all over again in that regard, and maybe worse........

    Posted by Steve L. | November 7, 2012, 11:37 pm
  34. “Obtain the flash drive con­tain­ing the entirety of my life’s work , plus the anti-fascist books avail­able for down­load on this web­site.“
    How can we do this? This thor­oughly researched archived mate­r­ial should have an easy way to get it in entirety? Some­one can han­dle this if you want?

    Posted by Mela Flatsan | November 9, 2012, 1:51 am
  35. Dave, very sorry to hear of the suf­fer­ing you have been expe­ri­enc­ing. We love you and appre­ci­ate your work very much. Bless­ings for thor­ough healing

    Posted by Yes-I Garvey | November 23, 2012, 9:18 am

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