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Military moving to drones that jam and hack for Dec. 4, 2015
Dec. 2, 2015, 10:04 p.m.
A new paper says the U.S. military will move beyon radio-controlled drones to drones that jam signals and hack radio wave infrastructure.
Dec. 2, 2015, 8:27 p.m.
Three versions of "Kemekem (I Like Your Afro)"; Brazilian samba-soul and Afrobeat; 1970s West African funk; Latin soul
Dec. 2, 2015, 5:07 p.m.
Zafar Bangash explains the warmongering motivations of Turkish President Erdogan wanting a no-fly zone over Syria: (1) To continue supplying weapons to the terrorist groups (2) To prevent the Kurds in Syria from hooking up to the Kurds in Turkey, esp. the Kurds in the Kurdistan Workers Party.
Bangash adds that Erdogan started the attacks on Kurdish areas to create fear and hate for the Kurds so he could garner support of the November elections. His false-flag strategy worked for him.
Turkey shooting down the Russian plane and murdering a Russian pilot was illegal and violated international law. Russia was invited by Syria to help fight the terrorists, and the Russian plane did not violate Turkish airspace.
Erdogan has created a crisis situation that has potential for blowing up into something serious (possibly world war). Syria has now deployed lethal S-400 missiles with a range of 250 kilometers.
Bangash points out that the Russian air force helps the Syrian army by enabling their military to carry out ground operations that have cleared out the terrorists in mountain areas.
Bangash makes the connection between Turkey stealing oil from Syrian wells and Erdogan family involvement in the oil business.
Aspiring to Rule the World: US Capital and the Battle for Syria.
Dec. 2, 2015, 5:01 p.m.
Stephen Gowans lays out the imperialist thinking that defines the United States Empire âAspiring to Rule the World.â He shows the class content of US foreign policy with billionaires, esp. those on the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) ruling all that is to be ruled -- controlling political positions, political wars, political media and, thereby, political âthinkingâ of the masses, who too commonly buy into the deception.
Gowans points to the irony of the US claiming it must intervene in the Middle East to preserve security of oil supply to US that helps the US people maintain a standard of living. But, as he states, the US has never been reliant much on Persian Gulf oil.
Gowans relates this âthinkingâ to the current war against Syria and shows why Syria fails the US hegemony test: 1) Syrian government, rather than moneyed interests, plays a significant role in the economy and (2) Syria is the last bastion of an Arab nationalism that rejects the idea of US economic domination of the Arab heartland.
RFID: the secret spy in your home - used and loved by NATO
Dec. 2, 2015, 2:55 p.m.
Dec. 2, 2015, 1:23 p.m.
The Mixed Tape - December 1, 2015
Dec. 2, 2015, 10:58 a.m.
Spoken Word: 8 minutes
100% CanCon
62% FemCon
62% Maritime artists
U.S.-Turkey fighting dirty war against Syria
Dec. 2, 2015, 10:03 a.m.
Steven Sahiounie describes the effect of the Russian air-force on the Syrian People and on the military. The Russian presence gave the Syrians hope and the Russian air power bombarding and killing of terrorists allowed the Syrian military on the ground to regain strategic northern areas.
Sahiounie gives many examples of the West fighting the Syrian people rather than ISIS such as: : bombing water pumps rather than the terrorists, not coordinating with the Syrian government, closing embassies which exasperated the refugee situation, Paris ignoring names of terrorists that Syria provided them two years ago, protecting the caravans of oil ISIS smuggled from Syria into Turkey.
Syria has global friends-- especially Iran, Russia and Hezbollah --who will challenge a NATO no-fly zone, which could lead to World War 3.
Between the Lines for the Week Ending December 11, 2015
Dec. 2, 2015, 9:41 a.m.
If Paris Climate Summit is a Turning Point, Governments Must Go Beyond Current CO2 Reduction Pledges; In Childrenâs Climate Change Lawsuit, Judge Affirms Stateâs Obligation to Protect Future Generations; Toxic Rhetoric Feeds Violent Attacks on Planned Parenthood Clinics People for the American Way
Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan
Dec. 2, 2015, 9:29 a.m.
Dec. 2, 2015, 9:27 a.m.
The first hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Dec. 2, 2015, 9:14 a.m.
The second hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Dec. 2, 2015, 8:54 a.m.
The third hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Dec. 2, 2015, 8:32 a.m.
The fourth hour of Rural War Room's four-hour weekly radio broadcast 10pm-2am central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Details on the international works of Rural War Room - Instagram, Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com @ruralwarroom - click Series above for full archive
Effects of Paris Attacks in Belgium
Dec. 1, 2015, 9:59 p.m.
Radio Curious discusses the terrorist attacks in Paris, France with Jean-Jacques Jespers, a retired television news anchor and journalism instructor in Brussels, Belgium and the affects of the attacks on his country, where one of the suspects is from.
FAA panel has some ideas for registering radio-controlled drones for Dec. 3, 2015
Dec. 1, 2015, 9:32 p.m.
An FAA panel has some proposals for regulating and registering radio-controlled drones.
Dec. 1, 2015, 9:26 p.m.
Carl Dix on outrage and resistance to police murder in Chicago and Minneapolis.
Ousmane Sembéne has been called the Father of African Cinema. "Sembéne!" tells the story of the novelist and filmmaker who fought a life-long battle to give African stories to Africans. We hear from Samba Gadjigo, co-director of "Sembéne!', and Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a Kenyan writer and intellectual about the film and Sembene's contributions to art and humanity.
Grateful Dread Public Radio at Nashville Fur-Free Friday Protest 112715
Dec. 1, 2015, 9:03 p.m.
Nashville Animal Advocacy protested at Regency Furs in Nashville's tony Green Hills neighborhood against the sale and wearing of furs as part of the global Fur Free Friday campaign.
Adalah human rights lawyer Nadia Ben Yossef speaks about Israel's Jim Crow laws
Dec. 1, 2015, 6:01 p.m.
Our feature presentation this morning is a speech delivered by Nadia Ben Yossef, a human rights lawyer and international advocate working to promote the rights of Palestinian and other Arab citizens of Israel, and Palestinians living under occupation. One out of every five Israeli citizens, living in Israel, is Palestinian. They live in a proclaimed Jewish state, where they are a segregated minorityâ¦by law. They do not have the same rights as Jews to education, property, land and home ownership, travel ability, or state benefits to name just a few. Think of the Jim Crow South in United States history, where Blacks were so blatantly segregated and discriminated against by law as well as practice. The parallels to the modern state of Israel as concerns the treatment of Palestinian citizens are chilling. Our Congressional representatives, at least most of them, would stand shoulder to shoulder in rejecting the re-introduction of Jim Crow laws in the United states, but they also stand shoulder to shoulder in supporting such a system of laws in Israel with billions of dollars of US financial support to what is a classic apartheid society. Unfortunately, the narrative is that we must support Israel because it is the "only democracy in the Middle East" (which it is not). We have to change that narrative to reflect the reality of the situation, and that is that we support with our tax dollars in Israel a state which is de jure deeply discriminatory to a major segment of its citizen population. The bottom line, we support there what we refuse to support here, and that we must change.
Nadia Ben Yossef works for an organization based in Israel that offers its non-Jewish population legal representation to defend their rights in this apartheid society. She serves as the international coordinator of Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights, as the organizations first US representative. She is currently developing Adalahâs US advocacy strategy to influence American policy and practice towards a human rights based approach in I/P. Nadia is a member of he New York Bar having earned her law degree from BC law school. She holds a BA degree from Princeton where she majored in Sociology.
We recorded Nadia Ben Yossef at a conference sponsored by Massachusetts Peace Action at Harvard University.
But before that:
We have been following the plight of Prof. Steven Salaita, who was offered a tenured position at Illinois University at Urbana Champaign, moved his family from west Virginia, but before he even began his tenure, was fired for making statements critical of Israel on Twitter. It seems major donors to the university put pressure on the Universityâs president Phyllis Wise, and she acquiesced by firing Salaita. The backlash has been enormous. Academics and their associations levied charges of the violation of Academic Freedom and free speech across the country. Speakers scheduled for conferences at the university pulled out. Some professors at the university resigned in protest, filling tenured positions at the university has been difficult because many refuse to teach there. Ultimately President Wise was forced to resign, and Salita filed a lawsuit seeking his job back. That lawsuit has now been settled. We quote from an article by Ali Abu Nimah in the Electronic Intifada.
Also, after the main feature:
The disturbing reports of interactions between the Israeli military and young people in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem continue. These clashes repeat week after week as the military continually enter the camp. Several youth have been arrested, some shot during these frequent incursions. This week there is a video of the arrest of a six year old boy, arrested while fleeing from the tear gas that was sprayed into his playground. We quote a report from the Maâan news service.
Finally, there is one more story to report this week and it has to do with the tunnels between Egypt and Gaza which Egypt has closed, cutting off a flow of goods which Gaza has depended on in the wake of Israelâs continuing siege. The tunnels have been a life line for Israel, but Egpyt, who has a peace treaty with Israel, has decided not only to close the tunnels, but to destroy them. We quote from a report from Mondoweiss news service headlined âEgyptâs destruction of Gaza tunnels leading to economic and environmental disaster.â
James G. Anderson Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard
Dec. 1, 2015, 5:02 p.m.
Professor James Anderson did much of the research resolving the mystery of which industrial chemicals destroyed the ozone layer over Antarctica. The urgent need to deal with deadly UV radiation led to the signing of the Montreal Protocol in 1989.
Now, almost 30 years later, Anderson is doing ozone research again. This time over the continental US. Harvard Magazine said as early as 2012 that Atmospheric Chemists report a serious and wholly unexpected risk of ozone loss over the United States in summer. And Anderson explains how climate change is a factor in this new phenomenon.
He also answers basic questions about the interconnectedness of climate systems, the fallacy of global average temperatures, how living and teaching in Boston/at Harvard influenced his views on climate change and much more.
The interview was posted on YouTube on July 21, 2015. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y12P76EYQJ8
On to Paris: Pacific Environment's Alex Levinson
Dec. 1, 2015, 4:16 p.m.
Many of us would like to be at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, kicking off this week in Paris. Well, today on Sea Change Radio, weâve got the next best thing. Alex Levinson is the executive director of Pacific Environment, an organization focused on environmental efforts in the Pacific Rim and the Arctic, and a Paris Summit participant. Host Alex Wise recently sat down with Levinson at Pacific Environmentâs San Francisco headquarters to discuss the goals and expectations of the Paris conference, how other Pacific Rim powers such as China and Russia view the climate change denial movement in the U.S., and the mess that humans have made of an already fragile Arctic ecosystem.
Dec. 1, 2015, 2:05 p.m.
Cyber Monday - 50% Off All Tracks
Dec. 1, 2015, 9:48 a.m.
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Show - A musical mid-life crisis -- a late-night search for meaning and happiness airs on WRIR LP Monday nights from 9 PM to 11 PM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
Court punts again on Prometheus case for Dec. 2, 2015
Nov. 30, 2015, 10:57 p.m.
The U.S. Court of Appeals was set to hear orla arguments on a Prometheus Radio case Dec. 3, but there are more delays.
Nov. 30, 2015, 7:55 p.m.
Paula Whitney with WDBX 91.1 FM Community Radio station from Carbondale, IL is our call-in guest. She talks about her show "Class Matters", environmental issues and the problems with corporate controlled political parties. Listen to this spirited show (extended length 1:11:20)
Episode 24 - How's your triglycerides this week?"
Nov. 30, 2015, 7:03 p.m.
Brought to you by your two favorite stoners recapping the days events, and their comedic take on the news. Listen live every Monday at 730ET/630CT at http://listen.chiampa.info
Nov. 30, 2015, 6:13 p.m.
World AIDS Day Special:Pioneering HIV/AIDS Dr. Michael Gottlieb!
Nov. 30, 2015, 3 p.m.
On this week's special World AIDS Day commemoration â with production assistance by Steve Pride and some music from the heart of the epidemic â our Rick Watts explores the past, present and future of HIV/AIDS with Dr. Michael Gottlieb, one of the first practitioners to identify and treat the disease (with excerpts from "They Are Falling All Around Us" by Michael Callen with Cris Williamson & Holly Near; "Until the Balance Tips" by John Bucchino; and "Friend in My Pocket" by Joe Bracco).
[Note: There's no "NewsWrap", our weekly international LGBT newscast, on this weekâs show â returns next week.]
Nov. 30, 2015, 11:34 a.m.
AMBIANCE CONGO: November 29, 2015
Nov. 30, 2015, 10:12 a.m.
Congolese popular music.