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April 15, 2015, 1:36 a.m.
it's fund drive time at wrir again and i'm pulling double duty tonight hosting two shows!
i started at 11:00 pm playing some awesome blues as i took the reins for straight natch'l blues!
...and now on this edition of dog germs, everything kicks off with music from covenant, the labyrynth, and the rain within who will all be taking the stage at fallout this saturday here in richmond, and the day before at empire in springfield, va!
...and during these glorious 4 hours of me djing, please make a donation online and show your support for independent radio...the only kind of radio that matters!
upcoming shows:
djp & mrt, league of space pirates, seamonster, and victor villarreal on apr. 15th @ strange matter, richmond, va
covenant and labyrynth on apr. 17th @ empire, springfield, va
covenant, the labyrynth, the rain within on april 18th @ fallout, richmond, va
the blackout shift, scarecrow's curse, the cemetery boys, sight obscene, pain! on april 25th @ the riffhouse, chesapeake, va
spandau ballet on apr. 28th @ 9:30 club, washington, d.c.
velvet acid christ, mindless faith, venal flesh on may 1st @ fallout, richmond, va
aurelio voltaire and ego likeness on may 5th @ fallout, richmond, va
marilyn manson on may 5th @ the norva, norfolk, va
marilyn manson on may 6th @ the national, richmond, va
the replacements on may 8th @ echostage, washington, d.c.
laibach on may 11th @ black cat, washington, d.c.
pixies on may 13th @ the norva, norfolk, va
william control and the neuromantic boys on may 20th @ canal club, richmond, va
psychedelic furs on may 22nd @ the national, richmond, va
the psychedelic furs on may 23rd @ the norva, norfolk, va
billy idol on june 2nd @ the national, richmond, va
rob zombie on june 5th @ nteloswireless pavilion, portsmouth, va
wire on june 6th @ black cat, washington, d.c.
the rezillos on july 8th @ black cat, washington, d.c.
the adicts and reverend horton heat on sept. 13 @ the norva, norfolk, va
prong on oct. 1st @ empire, springfield, va
April 15, 2015, 1:31 a.m.
welcome to the dog germs exploration into the blues! actually all the credit goes to son house ii, the true host of straight natch'l blues, for hooking me up with most of the great tunes you're hearing on this awesome show tonight!
The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction - Artificial Intelligence, ONE
April 14, 2015, 9:40 p.m.
The anti nuclear campaigner and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott organized a two day symposium in February 2015 with an international panel of leading experts in disarmament, political science, existential risk, anthropology, medicine, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence. They addressed the risk of accidental nuclear war, recently proven facts about a global nuclear winter that can be caused by the unleashing of just a few nuclear weapons, the expanding militarization of space, the power and pathology of the US military industrial complex, privatization of the US nuclear weapons labs, nuclear war crimes in the Marshall Islands, as well as two of the vibrant movements to abolish nuclear weapons, a divestment effort under the title Don't Bank On The Bomb as well as ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
In this part ONE of a mini series the risk of artificial intelligence is addressed with audio clips from MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The bulk of the program references writing by Stephen Hawking, Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, and Tegmark and Frank Wilczek, both physics professors at M.I.T. They see Artificial Intelligence and its use in military and technological projects as a grave danger to human survival.
April 14, 2015, 9:06 p.m.
FCC's AM Radio Revitilization Plan April 15, 2015
April 14, 2015, 8:49 p.m.
Report about FCC's AM Radio "revitilization" plan, put forth by chairman Wheeler in an April 13 blog post.
April 14, 2015, 8:02 p.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 11 PM to 1 AM. Stream the show @ www.wrir.org
April 14, 2015, 8 p.m.
This week on Sea Change Radio we hear from noted environmental journalist, Andrew Revkin, about a recent Yale/Utah State survey and mapping project designed to capture American attitudes about climate change and related policy. With thirty years covering science and environmental issues for the New York Times under his belt, Revkin has a distinct perspective, one he uses to analyze the language and the findings of the study. He and host Alex Wise talk about whether the poll results signal a hopeful sign, how the environmental debate does and does not fall along the red/blue divide, and how political rhetoric shifts depending on the audience.
April 14, 2015, 7:37 p.m.
We spend the whole hour talking with Edward Baptist about his latest book, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. It gives you a glimpse of the world in a way that you never imagined before, or didn't understand thoroughly before. The expansion of slavery after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the US, making the South a continental cotton empire, and the US a global capitalist economic power.
April 14, 2015, 6:40 p.m.
Radio Curious honors Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in an archived conversation with Bernard Offen, a survivor of five concentration camps in Poland, when he was a young teenager during World War II. He now leads tours of these camps.
April 14, 2015, 2:16 p.m.
April 13, 2015, 9:11 p.m.
Voice of America, Pacifica changes April 14, 2015
April 13, 2015, 8:59 p.m.
Report about leadership changes at Voice of America and Pacifica Radio, made for April 14, but can run next few days (does not use words such as "today" or "tomorrow" only dates.
Spock Seizing Control of the Illuminati
April 13, 2015, 5:54 p.m.
Is Leonard Nimoy faking his death to take over the Illuminati?, Sam Bahour interview on developing the Palestinian economy, disgusted Israeli Jew speaks out, Greek oud music.
NCLR's Kate Kendall + global LGBT news + more!
April 13, 2015, 5:20 p.m.
Leafing through Kate Kendall's cookbook for legal conquest;
anti-marriage equality arguments meet absurdist theater; "Alert the media": Sir John Gielgud is fondly remembered in a "Rainbow Minuteâ; Ireland "adopts" justice for same-gender couples, Nicaragua requires "family" to be hetero only, Guam lesbians sue for marriage rights, the Vatican snubs a gay French ambassador, Mormons revert to type, and more LGBT news from around the world!
April 13, 2015, 2:21 p.m.
Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #46 - 4-17-15
April 13, 2015, 2:04 p.m.
Music for the Mountain is a weekly bluegrass radio program featuring that hard-driving bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes running the gamut from Bill Monroe to Sierra Hull.
The program is posted here in two sections for broadcasters to insert breaks for station identification, etc. Please be careful to add enough additional material as the length of the segments will vary from week to week
The Artistry of Bill Evans; 4/12/15; Set #1
April 13, 2015, 4:29 a.m.
The Artistry of Bill Evans; 4/12/15; Set #2
April 13, 2015, 4:25 a.m.
# 306 LocalNews and Current Affairs
April 13, 2015, 1:11 a.m.
New South Wales State election comments, Art Exhibition opening
April 13, 2015, 12:57 a.m.
Blue Knob Hall Gallery - Kunst Ausstellung - Kommentar mit Wolfgang
Oil Spills, Bomb Trains, New Threat to Our Drinking Water
April 12, 2015, 8:59 p.m.
Following the Deep Water Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the EPA opened several sub parts of the Clean Water Act to address the out dated and unscientific use of hazardous chemicals to deal with the spill. Dr. Ott encourages participants to file comments on the new rule making
and walks them through 10 key points to be addressed to protect communities and fresh water now that so much oil is being moved by train and pipe line. Community input into
the plan is key to assuring that the affected communities will not be victimized twice by removing decision making from the polluter to the EPA; remediation agents must be non-toxic or not used when drinking water is at risk.
The FCC and Pirate Radio April 13, 2015
April 12, 2015, 8:47 p.m.
Report about FCC Commissioner Michael OâRielly's proposal to silence pirate radio stations.
April 12, 2015, 3:45 p.m.
featuring new age, acoustic, ambient, sound excursions & chillout music ... Radio Lavalamp is an homage to an online / community radio station from Osaka Japan that broadcast in the first few years of the current millennium.
April 12, 2015, 3:40 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a homegrown mix that loves vinyl records, 78s, 45's, private press releases, all kinds of tapes and homemade cds. Each show features a freeform playlist of tunes released between the early 1900's and next week
Christina De Angelo - CFA Local 6546 - 4/11/15
April 12, 2015, 2:07 p.m.
Christina De Angelo is the Chair of the Grievance Committee with CFA Local 6546 on the U of I Urbana-Champaign Campus. She joins us in studio during the 2nd half hour to talk about the formation of the Local and their fight to be recognized by the University. The labor news stories during our first half hour focus on several labor issue including the upcoming Fight For 15 on 4/15.
WEFT 90.1 FM is in our Spring Pledge Drive and we'd like to mention that if you believe in non-corporate news on local, national and international workers issues, please donate online at http://weft.org/support/ to help keep us on the air.
The Big Tobacco Conspiracy Show!
April 12, 2015, 1:45 p.m.
It's time to light up a cancer stick and get down to brass tacks about tobacco!
Dredged from the vaulted archives of the FUNHOUSE, 1997's BSTF #117 "Smoke 'Em If Ya Git 'Em" show was one of my finest efforts--and then I went back in and retooled it into something even MOAR insidious than it was! You'll hear audiomontages of those cigarette theme songs and commercials that you haven't heard in a couple generations, but that's not all... I researched the HELL out of this one to deliver up a ten-minute Flooze's overview of the history of the insidious works of the Conspiracy's Tobacco Empire, including data manipulation, secret deals to kneecap the antismoking lobby, slave labor on third-world tobacco plantations, and the hybrid Y-1 tobacco plants that bear ultrahigh doses of nicotine--all themes reiterated in the congressional hearings where the weaselous Big Tobacco honchos got dragged into the light and grilled on live teevee! I can state with confidence that you can't be unaffected by this show--by the time it's over, you'll either have stopped smoking, started smoking, or made no change at all.
With music and more by World Entertainment War, The Tubes, The Pair, Gary Paxton (the neckbearded goofy crooner who actually fucked Tammy Faye Bakker, eesh!), Norman Bates and the Showerheads, Archie Campbell interviewing a young Junior Samples, Shel Silverstein, and the smokin' hot JULIE LONDON. *Gnarrf!*
Hunger Strike at OSP Youngstown nears 30th day
April 12, 2015, 12:28 p.m.
This week we're joined by Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, one of 6 prisoners who are almost a month into a solidarity hunger strike at Ohio State Prison in Youngstown to press the Warden about current conditions at the prison. Among the issues the hunger strike is protesting include the inability of all new/incoming prisoners to OSP and those currently on the highest level of security (5B) to attend congregational religious activities, also poor quality of food presented by <a href="http://aramarkcorrections.com/">Aramark</a> (the company contracted to provide meals at OSP, and who's food services sparked the hunger strike in <a href="http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2014/01/29/hunger-strike-at-westville-in-in-sean-swain-radio-and-more/">January of 2014</a> at Westville Correctional Facility in Indiana) a lack of access to outside recreation for the prisoners and more. You may recall Hasan from a prior interview we did with him on the anniversary of the 1993 Lucasville Prisoner uprising which began because of some of the same issues and for which Hasan is facing the death penalty as an organizer of the beginning of the protest sparking the uprising as well as helping to organize the end of that uprising. The 1993 uprising resulted in the deaths of 9 prisoners (accused of being snitches) and one prison guard. To hear our interview with Hasan from October of 2013, click <a href="http://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2013/10/29/a-conversation-with-hasan-who-survived-the-lucasville-prison-uprising/">here</a>.
Also, Sean Swain speaks about the hunger strike at OSP, where he was formerly incarcerated, and the harsh realities of lack of access to human interaction, direct sunlight and the out doors.
There is a rally in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Columbus, Ohio on Tuesday the 14th of April at 3pm at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corruption, 770 West Broad St. The point of the rally is to deliver a list of demands to the officials of the ODRC and pressure them to change the conditions at OSP Youngstown, ending the hunger strike. The rally coincides with the 22nd anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising which started because of a denial of religious rights of muslim prisoners including Abdulla Siddique Hasan. More info at LucasvilleAmnesty.org
From that site:
"If you can't make it to Columbus, please be creative and find a way to support the hunger strike on Tuesday. Organize a solidarity fast like students at the University of Toledo did on Friday, with an evening "break the fast" get together. Or a call-in lunch, gather with friends mid-day and call the prison, Central Office, and The CIIC (numbers and scripts below). Or a letter writing party, write letters to officials, your local newspapers, and/or to the hunger striking prisoners.
Whatever you do, let us know by emailing Ben at Insurgent.Ben@gmail.com so he can share the stories with the hunger strikers and the world. Tuesday will be the 30th day of this hunger strike, if everyone can find a way to express solidarity on that day it will make a huge difference for these men's morale and resolve, as well as sending a strong message to the prison authorities that the hunger strikers are not alone in their protest.
There is also a rally in the works for at or near OSP on Saturday. Details will be posted at lucasvilleamnesty.org as they are confirmed."
If you'd like to write to Hasan, he can be reached at:
Siddique Abdullah Hasan
R130-559
OSP
878 Coitsville-Hubbard Rd
Youngstown, OH 44505
To get ahold of ODRC director Gary Mohr you can call 614-752-1150.
Or direct your mail to
Gary Mohr, ODRC Director, 770 West Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43222
or Email him via
drc.publicinfo@odrc.state.oh.us
and you can express your concern for the safety of the prisoners hunger striking at OSP.
More info and suggestions are up at lucasvilleamnesty.org
Playlist for the episode is here: http://www.ashevillefm.org/node/12054
Brushing the grass, hunger strike at OSP Youngstown
April 12, 2015, 11:56 a.m.
In this commentary, Sean talks about his first outside experience since 2012. His first direct sunlight, his first touch of grass, in the yard at SOCF Lucasville. He movingly speaks about conditions at Youngstown, where he was prior held, and the reasons for the ongoing hunger strike.
Melting Antarctica Will Shake the World
April 12, 2015, 9:55 a.m.
New science on melting Antarctica. From Tasmania, polar expert Dr. Roland C. Warner. Then the return of Marjory Wildcraft, with more tips on growing your own groceries. Radio Ecoshock 150415
April 12, 2015, 5:53 a.m.
Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland count down the Top 20 albums charting this week from earshot-online.com, chat with Find The Others, take a look at music news with Stephen Carlick of Exclaim!, and much more.