The Rant of the Rings - The Return of the Rant

The conversational adventures of slackers Frank and Steve from Zotte Park. Comedy, snark and sadness ensues. In this episode, Frank and Steve discuss Peter Jackson's film adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings", and Frank has a list of things they could have kept in/left out of the film. We also bleeped out the swearing in this episode, and we will go back and bleep out the previous episodes soon enough. Share with your friends, play on Shortwave.

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505 - Consumerism, Food & Native History for Thanksgiving

News You Need to Know: How Covert Action Endangers Us; Between the Lines interview: Root Causes of Environmental Decline; Jim Hightower: The Walmartization of Thanksgiving & The Good Food Movement; Hidden Histories: Thanksgiving Day; NH Gazette Fortnightly Rant: And the Winner is..., 11/14/2014; Mumia Abu-Jamal: The Politics of Betrayal; Outside The Box: Katie Sierra; music.

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Comments on Joan Baxter interview & more

Phil comments on the interview with Joan Baxter, and other recent interviews and news articles, including the interview with Stephen Kimber, and a Globe and Mail article about Paul Kagame. Joan Baxter, at joanbaxter.ca, posted an essay about "Sir" Bob Gildof and Bono, and the arrogant and money driven "charity work" that fills their pockets. In this weekend's Globe and Mail, Geoffrey York writes that Quebec priests were most likely murdered by soldiers loyal to Paul Kagame. The Canadian government is very quiet so as not to "offend" Rwandan President Kagame.

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Remembering Thomas Sankara

Joan Baxter is a Canadian journalist, development researcher, anthropologist, and award-winning author. She divides her time between Canada and Africa. She authored, "Dust from Our Eyes: An Unblinkered Look at Africa," which contains a chapter on Thomas Sankara. Joan Baxter takes the listener back to the future --to the time of Thomas Sankara's 1983 revolutionary victory and to his assassination in October of 2014, and subsequently to the present massive revolt against President Blaise Compaore, who fled into the protective arms of his friends and relatives in Cote d'Ivoire. Joan Baxter described Thomas Sankara as an anti-imperialist who promoted an economic policy based on producing and consuming locally, securing the country's natural resources and creating equality (including women). He captured the imagination, strength and respect of his People. His revolution represented the colonizing powers' worst nightmare--a "Cuba" in Africa.

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Orange Sunshine

sunriseoceanbender.com

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#351 -- Conspiracy and Class Power (Part 1)

Americans are trained to dismiss any claim of concerted wrongdoing among the elites as a "conspiracy theory." Parenti argues that conspiracies are real and normal--just one tool among many that the wealthy and powerful use to advance their personal and class interests. He discusses several claims first dismissed as "conspiracy theories" and now accepted as historical fact--for instance the Gulf of Tonkin fabrication and the FBI infiltration of civil-rights and antiwar organizations.

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Ferguson & Beyond; Walmart Arrests Dozens Who Sit-Down

Walmart Arrests Dozens Who Sit-Down For $15/h Wage & Full-Time Hours Martha Sellers and Maria Camarena, Walmart employees talk about workers and their supporters arrested outside a Walmart store calling on the company and its owners "the Waltons "to end the illegal threats to and retaliation against workers calling for $15 an hour and consistent, full-time work at the country s largest private employer. Hundreds of supporters rallied outside the store in Pico Rivera, CA the site of the first Walmart strikes in 2012 to buoy the strikers " meanwhile the Walmart behemoth brings in $16 billion in annual profits and its owners build on their $150 billion in wealth, the majority of Walmart workers are paid less than $25,000 a year. ******************************** The Fire Next Time: Ferguson & Beyond Communities Organize Even were there to be an indictment of police officer Wilson in Ferguson, or of officer Pantelo for the strangulation of Eric Garner justice would remain elusive. As long as police have license to kill Black and Brown men and women, and as long as people of color are economically marginalized, and state policies that intimidate, harass, criminalize and result in the imprisonment of targeted Black and Brown people persist there is no justice, no peace! Thenjiwe McHarris discusses the significance of the protest movement in Ferguson and of UN Hearing she recently attended in Geneva where Ferguson was being discussed by The United Nations Committee Against Torture which heard testimony by the parents of Michael Brown

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Music For The Mountain Bluegrass - Show #26 - 11-27-14

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

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November 21, 2014

The Senegalese tinge; Afrobeat meets rap; a visit to southern Africa; the glorious global sound of brass-rock circa 1972

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The Nightfly #2014.47 Hour 2 - November 24-30, 2014

In hour 1, we serve up a banquet of soul food, feature a set of far-out flute tunes, and toast our nearest primate relatives with James Brown bandleader JC Davis, King Curtis, and The Wooden Glass. In hour 2, we'll give thanks with William DeVaughn, lay on the funk, soul, and jazz, break for a set hosted by late, great WERU DJ Charlie Oldham, and return once again to the Crescent City for a super set of New Orleans heavyweights.

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The Nightfly #2014.47 Hour 1 - November 24-30, 2014

In hour 1, we serve up a banquet of soul food, feature a set of far-out flute tunes, and toast our nearest primate relatives with James Brown bandleader JC Davis, King Curtis, and The Wooden Glass. In hour 2, we'll give thanks with William DeVaughn, lay on the funk, soul, and jazz, break for a set hosted by late, great WERU DJ Charlie Oldham, and return once again to the Crescent City for a super set of New Orleans heavyweights.

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Former CIA agent Susan Lindauer on Libya & Lockerbie CIA & TV lies

http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/35823/

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Bristol Arena costs up to £110m, now gagging order too

http://politicsthisweek.wordpress.com/2014/11/21/35823/

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CPR News, November 21, 2014

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"Jellophant in the Room"

This RADIOLA! is trying not to think about the obvious.

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!earshot 20 - November 21, 2014

Brian Cleveland & Anthony Enman count down the Top 20 albums charting this week from earshot-online.com, gets a look at music news with Stephen Carlick of Exclaim!, and much more!

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The Discreet Charm of Bosses

Satirical monologue on boss charms.

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Canada's 9/11: Advancing an agenda with False Flag terror

This episode of the Global research News Hour takes a closer look at the Ottawa SHootings with guests Richard Sanders of the Coalition Opposed to the Arms Trade (http://coat.ncf.ca) and Barrie Zwicker, author, journalist and media critic. Sanders explains that there are parallels between the way the Harper government is capitalizing on the Ottawa shootings to advance a militarization of domestic and foreign policy, and the way the Borden government of 1914 used the first World War to undermine the rights of Eastern European immigrants and other 'undesirables' seen as a threat to the capitalist order of the day. Barrie Zwicker goes one step further and makes the case that the shooting by lone gunman Michael Zehab-Bibeau may have been a false flag. That is, aided and abetted by elements of the State and Security apparatus.

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Sticky Tar Sand in your Earhole

Spotlighting the XL TarSands Pipeline DEFEAT in the Senate, for now, and the ongoing battle against the Kock Brothers, Climate Deniers, and more...

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Life Inside the Machine

(1st panel) Teach-In on why Technology will not save the world. 45 Scholars, Authors & Activists over two days provide an analysis on why immediate change is required in our thinking, behavior, values and economies. "We once Lived is contact with wild Nature, and in-close human community;connected, embedded. Handing the future to technology, innovation, industrialization, and expansionist growth, human connection is now largely with machines, manufactured projected imagery, and cyber systems, generated from far-away mega-powers. A new kind of alienation, from Nature and from self, has appeared. We are enveloped by manufactured imagery and tech processes: they immerse society and become part of each of us. Does "Nature" exist anymore? Are we happy now?"(Event program) http://ifg.org/v2/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ifg_program_FINAL-2.pdf

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The Shortwave Report 11/21/14 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, the Voice of Russia, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.

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CPR News, November 20, 2014

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Perchance to Dream

"Oh, sleep. Oh gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse..." writes Shakespeare. We spend a third of our life sleeping.So,it's time we got down and fluffy with the beauty of slumber and dreams through poetry, essay, skits and music.

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La marge a CKIA 19 novembre 2014 Sub Pop

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worldbeatcanada radio november 21 2014

New Afrobeats around the world:Afrorockerz fr. Minneapolis,Alma Afrobeat fr. Madrid + Jeff Martin fr. The Tea Party! Fresh album on tour. worldbeatcanada radio!

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Celt In A Twist

New Basco bigger than ever with Danish Radio Big Band + Galician,Australian&African Celtic in a Twist!

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Out of the Woods - Show #241 - 11-22-14

This version of the program is divided into 6 segments so broadcasters who desire to use this content can insert your station info, etc. The segments vary in length. Out of the Woods is an earthy, wires and wood, mostly acoustic program featuring some of the best new and established artists from the worlds of folk, bluegrass, singer-songwriters, alt.country, Americana, classic country, old-time, Celtic, and everything that falls in between. The show is an unpredictable mix flowing like a river between moods, often with an edge or in a melancholy minor key. On occasion, Out of the Woods features interviews and live in-studio performances with national and international touring musicians. Past guests have included artists such as Bela Fleck, Si Kahn, Brown Bird, Dana Robinson, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Kate MacLeod, Bill Bourne, Karl Shiflett, Rachel Bissex, Darryl Purpose, Bow Thayer, Cosy Sheridan and many others. Out of the Woods grew out of Jon 'Chip' Colcord's former acoustic programs, The Song Swap and Music For The Mountain, separate folk and bluegrass programs which aired in New Hampshire during the 1990s. As a child, Colcord grew up a ravenous music fan with an ear for both rock and folk, from Arlo Guthrie to Aerosmith. All of these influences converge on Out of the Woods to bring you a mix which is as much on the edge as it is down home. Folk music with a rock 'n' roll soul

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Dr Walid Khalidi on The Nakba

Welcome to another edition of This Week In Palestine, a weekly show hosted for many years by our beloved Sherif Fam, and continued in his loving memory by a committed group of his friends. Every week This Week In Palestine, brings you news and views from a decidedly Palestinian perspective, a perspective seldom heard in the United States. On today’s show we share with you a condensed version of a colorful, informative talk given by esteemed Palestinian scholar and historian Walid Khalidi, co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies. He gave this talk in 2009 as keynote on the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, or Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948. As Dr Khalidi explains, in biological terms: it's a mistake to regard the Nakba as a discrete event; 1947-1948 was merely when it was born alive; it was conceived in 1897, and it has lived its monstrous life in full force ever since it was born. Here (in text) is the URL for video of the intro and his entire talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxY1oUmpsqw English subtitles are available by clicking on the "CC" icon. Recently, our host has been reading on her commute to and from work about a “nakba” in our own backyard, the effort to destroy and disempower our Native Americans, and she can’t help noticing the similarities between the Native American narrative, and the Palestinian narrative. Many of the same key elements are there: the land theft, the violent removal of people from their ancestral lands, the attempts at cultural genocide, and the daily violation of human rights. And just as we cannot move forward in the United States if we do not acknowledge the brutality and injustice of our own past, Israel and Palestine cannot find peace and justice, if the state of Israel does not acknowledge its brutal and violent role in the Nakba. Stay tuned for another thought provoking segment of This Week In Palestine. Now let’s lend our ears to Dr. Walid Khalidi.

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Vinyl Underground Nov 12 2014

Heard Wed 8-10pm on local107.3fm in saint John New Brunswick. Also heard on Free Radio Edmonton!

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504 - Questioning Economic & Environmental Policy & Militarism

News You Need to Know: Escalation Should Not Be Our Only Vocation; Jim Hightower: A General Tells the Truth About War; Between the Lines interview: Candidates Avoided Economic Inequality Debates; Jim Hightower: CEO Pay; BTL interview: Climate Change Activism Strategy; BTL interview: Great March for Climate Action; Outside The Box: Asking the Right Questions; music.

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