Control freak mayor George Ferguson's "budget debate ... a charade"

https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/36846/

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Reggae Explorations #035

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In the Shadow of the Wizard

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This Week in Radio News: Goncalo F. Cardoso for Feb. 13-20, 2016.

The show surveys the current Republican candidates for president about their internet policy, especially broadband access and privacy issues. Then tune in Gonçalo F. Cardoso's "A Study into 21st Century Drone Acoustics," an album with 17 recordings of different radio-controlled drones, from consumer models to military bombers. Also, James Clapper, US director of national intelligence, testifies before Congress about how intelligence services might use the internet of things for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and more. And the show ends with a short Congressional hearing of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology about three radio bills from Feb. 11. Also, The Beatles' "I'm Looking Through You" is included.

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Earth First! Update - 11 Feb, 2016

Radical, No Compromise Environmental News with an emphasis on Biodiversity and Direct Action

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Celt In A Twist February 13 2016

New album fr. Aoife O'Donovan salutes Vancity's Stanley Park! + Valentine's wish fr. Jim Moray. xo fr. Celt In A Twist!

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worldbeatcanada radio february 13 2016

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Sounds Irish 2-9-16

Sounds Irish is a weekly program coming straight from County Wicklow in Ireland, hosted by Joe Bollard, one of the elder statesmen of the Irish show band scene. Each program features a variety of Irish and Irish-related songs from many different genres, along with a healthy dose of banter from your host. Please consider adding Sounds Irish to your stations' weekly lineup of programs. All we ask is that we know where the show is being aired so that we can give mention on the program. To contact the show, it is best to send email to Joe Bollard directly at everton274@sky.com The 2-hour program is posted weekly in multiple parts for broadcasters to insert their own breaks.

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The Shortwave Report 02/12/16 Listen Globally!

A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK World Radio Japan, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, China Radio International, and Sputnik Radio.

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562 - Voting in the Primaries, Voting With Your Life

News You Need to Know: Defense As A Protection Racket; Between the Lines interview: Public Land Advocates Confront Militia Group; NH Gazette's Fortnightly Rant: A Change for the Weird, 1/22/2016; Jim Hightower: Something is happening 2-1-16, Sander's populist surge 2-4-16; Between the Lines interview: Bernie Sanders Supporters Beyond the Elections; Trews: The True News: 299; music.

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UpFront Soul #2016.08-Hour 2 - February 22-28, 2016

We'll hear the latest from Laura Mvula, celebrate Black History Month with Rasheed Ali, and hear a Fela Kuti/De La Soul mashup.

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CPR News, February 11, 2016

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UpFront Soul #2016.08-Hour 1 - February 22-28, 2016

We'll hear the latest from Laura Mvula, celebrate Black History Month with Rasheed Ali, and hear a Fela Kuti/De La Soul mashup.

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Negotiating Madness: North American Political Confusion in Black and White

In this dispatch of FWR, TheAngryindian (using unedited audio statements from right-wing internet radio programmes) asks the pressing question: 'Are large numbers of the North American general population really as theologically bizarre, as potentially violent (#Ammosexuals) and as functionally illiterate about the political system of their own country (and claimed beliefs) as they appear to be? If so, what does this mean as we move towards the vote in #Election2016? And further, is it possible for those who suffer from various forms of American Exceptionalism to admit that when it comes to local, national, international and many progressive issues, their opposition to a more inclusive society is based upon nothing more than rank ignorance and/or unreasonable social fears about needed 'change'? Is the problem really one of human stupidity or simply a bad case of political ignorance which can be easily repaired through education and a will to understand rather than believe? EXTRAS: Poet Vladimir Vysotsky : 'The Hunting of Wolves' / (archived audio) : Payroll the Pimp (American Pimp) – 'Pimping 101' podcast. All this and much more on, 4WR. The official internet radio broadcast of the Aboriginal Press News Service/ANG

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UpFront Soul #2016.07 - Black History Month- Hour 2 - February 15-21, 2015

As we celebrate Black History Month, we feature funk, soul, and jazz designed to inspire and empower from Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Gil Scott-Heron, interspersed with the voices of civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more.

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UpFront Soul #2016.07 - Black History Month- Hour 1 - February 15-21, 2015

As we celebrate Black History Month, we feature funk, soul, and jazz designed to inspire and empower from Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Gil Scott-Heron, interspersed with the voices of civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and many more.

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The Mixed Tape - February 9, 2016

Brian Cleveland plays a selection of new Canadian music. This week's episode features tracks from AA Wallace, Stefana Fratila, Mourning Coup, Rooms, SIRR, futurekids, Earthbound Trio, Penny Blacks, TV Freaks, and more.

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February 10, 2016

A Latin groove thing; Balkan singers, songwriters and rockers; music from tropical islands once colonized by France; a Doors love-in in Czechoslovakia, Mexico and Venezuela

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The Dirty War on Syria

Brendan interviews Tim Anderson about his important new book, "The Dirty War in Syria," which addresses the monumental lies and profound propaganda that has accompanied Washington's regime change operation in Syria.

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Nery Ramati, an Israeli attorney devoted to defending Palestinians from Israel's ravages

Our feature presentation this week is our own in-depth interview with Israeli attorney Nery Ramati. Ramati may be best described as an Israeli human rights attorney who represents a wide variety of clients all suffering the effects of the occupation in both Israel and the occupied West Bank of Palestine. He speaks to us about his work, his clients, the legal system within which he operates, and how that legal system works for (or against) Jews versus Arabs in a culture of occupation. In the United States, theoretically there is just one system of laws, and theoretically they apply uniformly to all who reside here. (In actual practice, there is outrageous discrimination between rich versus poor, white versus nonwhite, and big corporate versus little guy.) By contrast, as attorney Ramati points out, Israel has two explicitly different sets of official laws, one for Israeli Jews and another for Palestinians. Israel has some 50 laws that provide benefits, services, or protections to the Jewish population that it denies or does not extend to other populations. In the occupied territories where most Palestinians live, a harsh, arcane, military law system applies. For example, look at what happens when a child is caught throwing rocks. If the child is Israeli, the most he/she will face is a good scolding; if the child is Palestinian, he/she will face arrest, beating, a prison sentence, and sometimes death, all in accord with military law. We challenged attorney Ramati to explain what keeps him going despite the huge odds any attorney faces in the course of defending Palestinians. His answer: the vital importance of resistance to tyranny.

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Columbia: British activists aiding indigenous resistance against US takeover

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Roberto Gonzales: Lives in Limbo: Undocumented in America

Prof. Gonzales speaks about his new book, Lives in Limbo, Undocumented and Coming of Age in America,(UC Press, Berkeley), which examines the political history of US attitudes towards children born in the US to undocumented immigrants as well as their personal lives spent in political limbo. Gonzales comments on implications of xenophobia generated by Republican candidates, pushed by Donald Trump and lack of discussion by either Clinton or Sanders in their debates. He speaks about the contradictions and conflicts in Obama's efforts and private prisons used to house immigrants whose only crime is not having documents.

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Jeff Blankfort: News/Op: NPR/New Cold War/Israel Aid.

Blankfort summarizes sordid, abusive US history with Mexico; exposes NPR as National Propaganda Radio, its historic role, in pushing new Cold War against Russia; recalls involvement of Neocon Victoria Nuland, US, in pulling of Ukraine coup; notes departure of Haiti's Martelly, former Clinton favorite, from Haitian presidency; details Israels' efforts to get the maximum increase in US aid, that it may wait for new US president to do so; Blankfort sees Israel as a schnorrer, which in Yiddish and German means sponge, moocher, freeloader, etc.

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CPR News, February 10, 2016

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A World of Chaos: Where Do You Stand? "The James Foley Story"; Joshua Oppenheimer, "The Look of Silence"

Brian Oakes and Clare Gillis on the life and work of James Foley, the assassinated journalist who is the subject of “Jim: The James Foley Story.” Plus, Joshua Oppenheimer on The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, on the massacres of almost a million people in Indonesia in the 1960s.

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When the FBI Knocks on the Door

The largest deployment of FBI agents for a political case since the Counterintelligence Programs against the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panthers, the American Indian Movement, and the Young Lords occurred on September 24, 2010. In a joint, national operation the FBI targeted homes and offices of people who had organized rallies against the post 9/11 wars. This time the accusation was "providing material support to foreign terrorist organizations". In the end this giant and expensive FBI operation did not yield a single charge. However the 2010 raids and the confiscated materials were used against two prominent activists who were affiliated with the peace movement: the Brown Berets co-founder Carlos Montez, and the Palestinian American Rasmea Odeh, leader in the Chicago Arab American community. Odeh was targeted in 2013 by the immigration officials for having left off her immigration application a fact that the whole world and the US State Department knew: in 1969 she had been tortured into a false confession by the Israeli army and spent time in prison. Now, in the early months of 2016 a response is expected from the Circuit Court to her appeal on a conviction for this so-called lie to 18 months in prison and deportation. Odeh is currently out on bail. In early January 2016 at the Third Unitarian Church, Chicago, Joe Losbaker brought the community up to date on the solidarity movement for Rasmea Odeh. Angela Davis, Danny Glover and the founders of Black Lives Matter have come out in Odeh's support. Joe Losbaker is chief steward and member of the executive board of Local 73 SEIU in Chicago. He begins the story on the day the FBI came to his door in September 2010 The meeting was recorded by Dale Lehman on January 10, 2016 and produced by TUC Radio in anticipation of the response by the Circuit Court to Rasmea Odeh's appeal of her conviction to prison and deportation. For updates and background information go to http://www.stopfbi.net/

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Salt Of The Earth: Farm Zero's Mike Fawcett

Farm Zero is a five year-old startup company that's a concept for sustainable agricultural systems that use sea water rather than fresh water as the core for growing fruits and vegetables. This concept could someday be a life-saver in places dealing with water scarcity and other resource poverty. This week on Sea Change Radio we talk to the founder of Farm Zero, Mike Fawcett, as he tells us about the company's technology and efforts in places like Oman and Grenada. Then we hear from writer Lauren Markham about the new generation of American hipster farmers, or "farmsters."

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CPR News, February 9, 2016

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A Visit With A Free BLack Woman - Boston - 1820 to 1840

Maria W. Stewart, was a free black woman who lived in Boston, Massachusetts, from the early 1820s to the early 1840s. She was the first American born woman to lecture in public on political themes and likely the first African-American to speak out in defense of women’s rights. A forerunner to Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, she was intensely religious and was regarded as outspoken and controversial in her time. For more than a century Maria W. Stewart’s life’s contributions have remained obscured, illustrating the double pressures of racism and sexism on the lives of African-American women. The life of Maria W. Stewart, a free black woman who lived in Boston, Massachusetts, from the early 1820s to the early 1840s is the topic of this edition of Radio Curious. Maria W. Stewart was personified by Chautauqua Scholar, Professor Sandra Kamusukiri, during the 1996 Democracy in American Chautauqua held in Ukiah, California. Professor Kamusukiri is an Associate Vice President Emeritus, of the Emeritus English Faculty of the California State University at San Bernardino. I met with her, posing as Maria W. Stewart, and began our visit when I asked Maria W. Stewart to explain the differences between the lives of free black women in the northern states and black women who were slaves in the southern states. The book that Maria W. Stewart recommends is the Bible. The book that Sandra Kamusukiri recommends is “Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches,” edited by Marilyn Richardson The program was originally broadcast in 1996.

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