Latest Programs
A Big Band Showcase, Part 2; 3/22/15; Set #1
March 23, 2015, 4:29 a.m.
A Big Band Showcase, Part 2; 3/22/15; Set #2
March 23, 2015, 4:26 a.m.
The Motherland Influence: March 22, 2015
March 22, 2015, 10:29 p.m.
African, Latin, Caribbean music.
AMBIANCE CONGO: March 22, 2015
March 22, 2015, 10:21 p.m.
Congolese music.
Radio Performance Royalties 20150323
March 22, 2015, 9:11 p.m.
News report about a bill in Congress about performance royalities for radio stations.
March 22, 2015, 8:06 p.m.
March 22, 2015, 8:03 p.m.
March 22, 2015, 7:59 p.m.
Rev. Susie the Floozie's "Stop Making Synths! Show"
March 22, 2015, 5:01 p.m.
For what you are about to hear, I profusely apologize. Listen to how BAD this show really is: While reviewing this show in the bedroom, my lizard Jack weathered my atrocious attempt at singing, but when the music itself kicked in, he went absolutely batshit! I tried to soothe him, but he scratched and thrashed and struggled to get away from the horrible sound like he was being immersed in scalding water. I had to stop the show to calm him down. I am NOT kidding here. This show is THAT horrible--it can damage your goddamned biogram. I do NOT recommend the use of headphones. And if you're knocked up, PLEASE for the love of Dobbs skip this one--it's worse than sonic thalidomide.
I gathered the most fetid, ear-piercing synthesizer music I could find, and I'm afraid I outdid myself with a googol on it. How bad is it? I barely listened to it, and the tinnitus in my head is fucking shrieking off the hook. I am NOT liable for physical or property damage caused by this show--if you're stupidly fearless enough to give it a listen, that's your own deal. But I'm serious about your pets! Make damned sure that they're in a room far away from the speakers with the doors shut tight and fuckin' comforters nailed over them. REALLY.
March 22, 2015, 1:08 p.m.
Kevin Farrell is our in-studio guest and he discusses psychopathy and why so many corporate leaders exhibit this trait.
March 22, 2015, 1:05 p.m.
This week William speaks with Emily Horne and Tim Maly about their book "The Inspection House; An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance", which was published in October 2014 by Coach House Books in their Exploded Views series. This interview comes right before the authors book tour of locations in Canada.
From the book's website:
"In 1787, British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham conceived of the panopticon, a ring of cells observed by a central watchtower, as a labor-saving device for those in authority. While Bentham's design was ostensibly for a prison, he believed that any number of places that require supervisionâfactories, poorhouses, hospitals, and schoolsâwould benefit from such a design. The French philosopher Michel Foucault took Bentham at his word. In his groundbreaking 1975 study, Discipline and Punish, the panopticon became a metaphor to describe the creeping effects of personalized surveillance as a means for ever-finer mechanisms of control.
Forty years later, the available tools of scrutiny, supervision, and discipline are far more capable and insidious than Foucault dreamed, and yet less effective than Bentham hoped. Public squares, container ports, terrorist holding cells, and social networks all bristle with cameras, sensors, and trackers. But, crucially, they are also rife with resistance and prime opportunities for revolution."
In the interview, Emily and Tim talk about Jeremy Bentham's life, the intended and actual uses of the panopticon, the dangers of the well intentioned, and more!
The book has a lot of good stuff in it, history and analysis and humor. For more info about "The Inspection House" and about the author's Canadian tour, you can visit http://www.chbooks.com/catalogue/inspection-house
The Panopticam (live streaming & timelapse from the top of the cabinet in which Jeremy Bentham sits): http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/panopticam/
Metro.UK article on Jeremy Bentham's attendence record at the University College of London since his passing in 1838: http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/12/181-year-old-corpse-of-jeremy-bentham-attends-ucl-board-meeting-3879586/
Episode playlist: www.ashevillefm.org/node/11859
March 22, 2015, 12:58 p.m.
Sean Swain responds to a recent Judge's finding in his request for a resumption of his video visits and offers conciliation.
March 22, 2015, 12:35 p.m.
In addition to our weekly labor news David Johnson explores some of the contributions of the Irish on American labor history. He includes tributes to James Connolly, Bernadette Devlin and Irish music with labor and revolutionary themes.
March 22, 2015, 12:23 p.m.
Dr. Margaret Flowers joins us to talk about Net Neutrality, TPP - the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Single Payer Healthcare.
March 22, 2015, 12:11 p.m.
Two of world's top climate scientists speak out about severe challenges we face right now, and in the future. From the UK, Dr. Kevin Anderson, who pulls no punches. Then Rutgers scientist Alan Robock tells us why geongineering might not be a good idea.
MARCH 18, 2015 - PSEUDOSCIENCE at the WORLD TRADE CENTER
March 22, 2015, 11:23 a.m.
Cheryl interviews Kevin Ryan (www.digwithin.net) about his recent article "How Science Died at the World Trade Center". They discuss NIST and their pseudoscience and Kevin describes the 6 patterns involved in pseudoscience. Cheryl ends the show with
information about Niels Harrit's court case in Denmark against a journalist who called him a "crackpot" for his research into how the towers fell.
Classic Q! The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
March 22, 2015, 7:11 a.m.
Once again, weâre taking this week to revisit a CLASSIC Q REWIND with our sweet 16 episode, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra! If memory serves, Savage had a âboneâ to pick with this one. We hope you enjoy, look for another NEW show next week.
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Episode 16:
We got all âScientificâ and stuff when we took on the âBâ movie spoof from 2001 THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA In an attempt to pay homage to the bad monster/alien films from the 1950âs, DirActor Larry Blamire sends us on a quest as a bad scientist and wife, a mad scientist and skeleton, two aliens and their escaped pet are all searching for the elusive element âatmospheriumâ â think âYoung Frankensteinâ but with a wee smaller budget. We also talk about our top 3 films that have skeletons in âem!
CAST campaign to end unfair tolls on the Severn Bridges with John Warman
March 21, 2015, 4:08 p.m.
WP, Reflections On Nonviolence
March 21, 2015, 3:25 p.m.
Continued reading of "Witness in Palestine", including journal entry entitled Reflections On Nonviolence.
David Krieger, Tim Wright, Dr. Helen Caldicott
March 21, 2015, 1:53 p.m.
Final session of two day symposium organized by Helen Caldicott. Moderator is Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will
March 21, 2015, 9:44 a.m.
In the March 2015 Taxcast: Democracy for sale: how our politics are heavily reliant on tax haven-friendly donors. Also, we ask: why is HSBC shutting down offshore accounts in Jersey? Are we in the final few years of the corporate income tax? Is Australia's exempting of big companies from new transparency rules a joke? Plus more scandal and analysis you won't find anywhere else.
This Week in Radio News: Anna Ramos 20150321
March 20, 2015, 7:08 p.m.
This week's radio news includes an FCC auction of FM frequencies this summer; the costs of pirate radio and streaming apps; FCC Chair Wheeler testifies at oversight hearing; FCC Enforcement Bureau cuts; pay-to-play on the radio, and an interview with Radio Web Macba's Anna Ramos.
Reviving the Strike: How Workers Can Regain Power and Transform America
March 20, 2015, 5:16 p.m.
Strike Back !
Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Unionism Today
featuring
Joe Burns
In his books Reviving the Strike and Strike Back labor Lawyer Joe Burns argues that if the American labor movement is to rise again, it will not be as a result of electing different politicians, the passage of legislation, or improved methods of union organizing. Rather, workers will need to rediscover the power of the strike. Not the ineffectual strike of today, where workers meekly sit on picket lines waiting for scabs to take their jobs, but the type of strike capable of grinding private and public sector employers to a halt often with the solidarity of community and labor alliances. This is what happened in the strike waves when private sector unionism grew exponentially in the 1930 s " 1940 s and during the 1960s and 1970s, when teachers, sanitation workers and many other public employees rose up to demand collective bargaining rights in one of the greatest upsurges in labor history.
#368 -- A Sad Heart At the Supermarket
March 20, 2015, 3:12 p.m.
Why is supermarket shopping so tiring and depressing? Maybe it's the constant vigilance required to prevent your getting fleeced.
KD contrasts the supermarket's celebration of deception, swindling, and bad faith (all legal) with the eccentric charm of the small shops of Pittsburgh in the 1970s.
Adding to the critique of corporate agro-marketing are two short talks by JIM HIGHTOWER and a song by DAVID ROVICS.
March 20, 2015, 2:30 p.m.
How MI5 tried to recruit me: Bristol radio presenter Mohamed Makawi
March 20, 2015, 2:29 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/bcfm-politics-show-with-tony-gosling-12/
Tom Watson on Met police protecting MPs & other prominent criminals
March 20, 2015, 2:20 p.m.
https://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/bcfm-politics-show-with-tony-gosling-12/
March 20, 2015, 1:53 p.m.
This RADIOLA! notes occasional glimpses of the lawn.
The Stepford Paradigm and Gay Assimilation: The Angryindian Speaks With Bruce La Bruce
March 20, 2015, 11:30 a.m.
TheAngryindian speaks with avant-garde Canadian film director and author Bruce LaBruce (bruce labruce,com) about the odd attitude shift from traditional, spirited confrontation in Homosexual politics to the recent, 'assimilation-by-any-means' orientation of many North American activists, including the GBLTQ 'progressive community'. This (adult) discussion touches on various subjects related to internalised Homophobia and it's relationship(s) to class-war; economic disparity; mainstream media saturation and conventional xenophobia. This dispatch is conducted (of course) with hard language and heavy subject matter being raised and deconstructed freely. Hint: this may not the right dispatch for over-sensitive ears.
US Creates and Uses Terrorist Groups To Create Mayhem
March 20, 2015, 11:19 a.m.
Bangash explains how the US created the Sunni militia, which became Al Qaeda and then ISIS in Iraq.
Bangash points out that both the Shia and Sunni want to get rid of the barbaric ISIS, and they are moving forward in a careful and methodical manner (to avoid landmines and snipers). Once Tikrit is liberated then the destination is Mosul. There are no Europeans nor Americans telling them how to fight.