In 1988 The United States Government signed The Civil Liberties Act into law, which paid reparations to Japanese-American citizens and residents who were unlawfully detained in interment camps after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

In the year 2027, a bill was introduced on the floor of the California State senate to create a reparations fund for African-Americans by taxing the income of white workers in the music industry.

This episode features:

Personal dictaphone recording of music critic Bob Hehr reciting a 1981 New York Times Article Latest British Invasion ‘The New Tribalism’ by Robert Palmer. Coastal Italy, date of recording unknown

Public Broadcast. Archival recording of television program Moyers and Company. Host Bill Moyers’ conversation with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. Host asks Coates to define “White Supremacy”. May 21, 2014. New York USA.

Unknown Archive. Recording from Officer Joseph Allen’s AlterEgo™ Intelligence Augmentation device. Content has been identified as Officer Allen’s memory of an activist (Medea Benjamin of Code Pink) intervention at The White House in Washington D.C. USA on May 23, 2013. Date and location of IA device recording unknown

In a former life Doctor Lawrence Atop, the Shamanic Entrepreneur, stole a bandmate’s intellectual property to make his own fortune in the American music industry of the 1990s.

What shaped Senator Gloria Drisk’s radical politics? In her youth, she witnessed her parents’ struggle against racial discrimination in the music industry and several nuclear accidents unfold on television.

The two favorite books of Dr. Lawrence Atop are The Function of the Orgasm by Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and Capitalism and Freedom by libertarian economist Milton Friedman. It is rumored that Atop bears a paradoxical tattoo on his scapula that reads “Free Love, Free Market”.

There is a Trappist monastery in Italy that most years generates millions in profit from their exports of cheese and coffins. The monks are also known for their large-scale philanthropic projects. A music journalist from The United States once visited there for the purpose of convincing the monastery to invest in African American owned businesses.

The first hit single of the band Hot Sects was a scathing commentary on the American economy by the band’s lead singer, Phil Clinton. The song was called “(Just) Bill Clinton” in reference to himself, Phil Clinton, an unemployed tradesman who felt that the working class was under the boot of reckless billionaire capitalists. So when the song said just bill Clinton it meant BILL Clinton, not Bill Clinton, as in – send Phil Clinton the bill, not the soon-to-be presidential candidate.

Many children that grow up in communes or intentional communities often reject their environment during adolescence.

In the final chapter of record executive Larry Fox’s autobiography he is deciding whether or not to purchase an 11 million dollar yacht. He ultimately grants himself the luxury.

While it may seem like the pilot of an armed drone 7000 miles away from the battlefield might not be traumatized by killing remotely, the opposite is true.