The Shortwave Report 02/07/14 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. Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK World Radio Japan, and the Voice of Russia.

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How Big Corporations Get Big Tax Breaks

As Congress tightens the national budget belt, big corporations are getting monster tax breaks, with the help of high paid lobbyists. Tom Ashbrook talks to Christopher Rowland and David Cay Johnson about how corporations get tax breaks. Christopher Rowland is the Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe and an author. (@globerowland) David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and columnist at “taxanalysts.com.” and an author. (@DavidCayJ) Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Big Corporations Lobbying For Big Tax Breaks The Myth of a Polarized America Morris Fiorina argues that Americans are far less polarized than the public is led to believe by the media and political pundits. Morris Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University and an author. Source: Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Morris Fiorina, "Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America" Music includes Soylent Gringo - Let Start A War (Part 1), Man of God - Eliza Gilkyson (Paradise Hotel), Charles Lindbergh, Dave Lippman - Geithner, Capitol Steps - Hillary's Way, Reverend Billy - First Amendment Song, Dave Lippman - Food Clothing, John Prine - Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore, Capitol Steps - Help Me Romney, Makana - We Are The Many, Reverend Billy - They Have Taken Our Houses, Pete Seeger - Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator, Mamborama - Cuba Te Llama

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Interview with Sara Friedlander

Interview with Sara Friedlander, multi-media artist of Santa Cruz, whose recent work "Stonewalled in Jerusalem" reflects her visit to the sacred city and deep emotional impact it caused within her. Sara is engaged in outreach efforts to expand access to this visually stunning and provocative work of art; readings.

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If Music Could Talk - Feb 2, 2014 - Special Guest Eva .. Day of Yemanjá

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Heroin Addiction - Philip Seymour Hoffman

Dawud Wharmsby cant-u-see ABC Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Sheds Light on Heroin Addiction. David Pakman Arrests in Philip Seymour Hoffman Death ENTV Philip Seymour Hoffman Predicted His Own Death RT Breaking the Set - What Phillip Seymour Hoffman's Death Exposes about War on Drugs Brainwash Update.mp3 The Big Picture - Philip Seymour Hoffman didn't have to die The Young Turks Here's The REAL Cause Of Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death, Says Wingnut Philip Seymour Hoffman Dead - Could Legalization Have Saved Him Louis Mucciolo A Day in the Death of Donnie B Wisdom of the Crazy Old Man

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Celt In A Twist February 9 2014

exclusive interview w/ the 5th Beatle of The Chieftains,piper Carlos Nunez +new Cetlic fr.Orkney w/The Chair & Battlefiled Band.

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worldbeatcanada radio february 7 2014

Mad Caddies' mayhem,the interview,the assault,Nistha Raj-Hindustani violin&beatbox+new Habib Koite!

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Toxic Tour of East Chicago, Indiana -

Part 1: Thomas Frank, former Director of the the Indiana Harbor Shipping Canal (IHSC), urban planner and contributor to the defunct Marquette Redevelopment Plan for Green Industry and Living lays out the history of the area once known as "America's Workshop" because of the concentration of steel mills, oil refineries and related industries in the area where the northern tip of Indiana touches the Southern tip of Lake Michigan. The area, once known as the Everglades of the Mid-west due to it's biological diversity is now one of the most polluted areas in the US, yet its water shed drains into Lake Michigan not far from where Chicago takes it's drinking water. While Chicago continues to de-industrialize its economy, the reverse is the case for Northern Indiana. British Petroleum has built the largest Tar Sands refinery in the US there, in Whiting, Indiana and multinational corporation ArcelorMittal operates the most productive integrated steel mill in the world with but 1/10 of the workers previously necessary 50 years ago. In fact the biggest employer in the area are the gambling casinos with their low wage service jobs. Thomas Frank provides an accounting of what exists but is rarely talked about and what might have been had not British Petroleum become the areas economic feudal master. Part 2: Take a narrated driving tour and encounter the nit-ti gritty of the ecological distopia that industry has created. Franks presentation could not due justice to the scope and nature of the contamination or the hubris of the oil corporations for we visit areas where oil actively seeps into waterways. We visit Marktown, a once Utopian community, of the English model, built by the owner of a steel company for his workers. It is now surrounded by toxic industry and being pressured by BP to cease existing all together. We visit the site of the largest oil spill in the U.S. that sits on the shore of Lake Michigan yet nobody is held accountable, nor is it being cleaned up.

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Switzerland In Sound February 6 2014

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Dangers of moving oil by rail

The derailment of an oil train in Lac Mégantic last year killed 47 people and spilled millions of litres of crude oil into the town. Since then, a number of other fuel trains have derailed. Yet transportation companies insist that it’s safe to move dangerous goods by rail. Roger Annis has been researching the expansion of the oil-by-rail industry.

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Open Face Radio Show Pt 1

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. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Open Face Radio Show Pt 2

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. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Open Face Radio Show Pt 3

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. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Open Face Radio Show Pt 4

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. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room on Facebook, Blogspot, Youtube, Twitter, Soundcloud, Google+, Tumblr, http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Let's talk - I may be Crazy but not as crazy as our government

Talk about the right, left, government and our fearless leaders. Who runs our country, the rich or the people? Originally aired on Blog Talk Radio 4-2-2011. Ignore links mentioned

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Between the Lines' for the Week Ending February 14, 2014

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Groundhog Day

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

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La marge a CKRL 4 fevrier 2014 Collaborations grunge vol 2

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2/5/14 low on sanity edition

tonight's show is going to be extra special! brandon (aka bob from accounting) is my guest! which means we will be talking about and playing some low on sanity, plus we'll be hearing some tracks from deist requiem and the cemetery boys! ...and for those of you that frequent the tidewater area, we will be hearing some tracks from asylum xiii, proceed the eye, and human services who are playing a gig in that area on friday! plus, i have a track from seattle-based band xy beautiful (a band you will be hearing more about in the weeks to come on dog germs!)! ...all this and much more if time and the law permits! ***upcoming event***: vaxsination: i am not mentioning this on the air, but i'm djing at fallout on wednesday, february 12th, 10 pm-2 am. there is no cover to get in...if you like the dog germs music, then you will probably like the vaxsination music! hope to see you all there! upcoming shows: asylum xiii, proceed the eye, and human services, february 7th @ roger's, portsmouth, va low on sanity, deist requiem, and the cemetery boys february 8th @ fallout, richmond, va skinny puppy on tuesday, february 11th @ the filmore silver spring, silver spring, md infected mushroom, february 26th @ the norva, norfolk, va infected mushroom, february 27th @ the national, richmond, va nachtmahr w/ludovico technique, march 31st @ fallout, richmond, va

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KR Weekly News in Review 4 Feb 2014

Harper's Weekly Review by Nathan Gross From Yahoo Finance "The Middle Class Is Steadily Eroding. Just Ask the Business World." The New York Times By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ February 3, 2014 10:29 AM

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ITHACA COMMUNITY MONEY (ONE of TWO)

During the Great Depression, when banks were closed so they could be audited, over 400 currencies called SCRIP were used in the US to buy food and services. When the banks reopened, sometimes several months later, SCRIP was replaced with the federal currency. Since the beginning of the financial crisis a resurgence of interest in alternative money systems has led to many new initiatives. The Ithaca Hours are the oldest printed paper currency in the US. Founded in 1991 by Paul Glover Hours have been in continuous use, their popularity rising and diminishing with fluctuations in the overall economy. Each paper bill is a small piece of art and a commentary on the federal currency. At the top it says: IN ITHACA WE TRUST - rather than In God We Trust. The currency is issued for the town of Ithaca and the surrounding farms - which means that the money will benefit local  exchanges and local jobs and can never go away as it does when we take dollars to WalMart.

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Broad Rock Branch, Richmond Public Libraries

Libraries have a wealth of resources, both print and electronic -- but they can also be a key social and cultural resource. Following the major renovation of the Broad Rock branch of Richmond Public Libraries, Branch Manager Cristina Ramirez has worked to increase the number of Latino-specific services provided to the diverse southside neighborhood. Broad Rock offers homework help and computer classes in both English and Spanish (and is currently developing a Spanish GED program). She's helped the library become a family-friendly community center that provides access to more than books -- for example, the Latino La Plaza Farmers' Market takes place (seasonally) effectively in the library's backyard. For more information, visit http://www.richmondpubliclibrary.org.

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The Kelly Alexander Show February 5 2014

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Dr. Gerald Thomson - Exposing Doctors Who Assist Torture; Prof. Patricia Gandara - Why Bilingual Education is Important--And Under Attack

Dr. Thomson is one of the authors of "Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror," by an independent panel of military, ethics, medical, public health, and legal experts. It details the role of doctors and other medical professionals in enabling torture. Prof. Gandara speaks on Bilingual education: why it's so important, and why it's the target of so many vicious attacks.

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Destruction of Canadian research libraries huge loss for science

The Conservative government plans to close seven of the 11 fisheries science libraries by 2015. Researchers says that it’s not clear how much valuable research will be lost in the process. Burton Ayles is former DFO regional director and the former director of science for the Freshwater Institute in Winnipeg.

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CultureWorks

CultureWorks emerged in 2009 from the Richmond Region Cultural Action Plan. Since then, they have engaged and convened Richmond region arts and culture nonprofits to encourage collaboration among local arts associations. Through the CultureWorks Grants program and other funding opportunities, they leverage resources to support a strong creative sector, and, by supporting discourse about and organizing projects around pro-social arts and culture (for example, a production of Shakespeare's "As You Like It" in Battery Park), they guide artists in giving back to the broader community. For more information, visit http://www.richmondcultureworks.org.

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Canada Border Services quota to strip refugees of status

According to a bulletin obtained by Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland through access to information legislation, the CBSA aims to deport 875 permanent residents this year. This revelation has outraged refugee advocates. Zool Suleman is an immigration lawyer in Vancouver.

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Political party funding: The Rolling Referendum

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Peter Gleick on the California Drought

2013 was the driest year on record in California, and the state’s snowpack is at 12% of what it should be. Considering that this state alone houses an eighth of the US population, maintains over 25 million acres of farmland with a GDP larger than that of Canada, the current California drought reaches well beyond the borders of the golden state. This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise talks with Peter Gleick, President and Co-founder of the Pacific Institute. They discuss the realities and implications of the current water crisis, how better agricultural policy may help lessen its impact, and look at some of the innovations that have been developed in other arid geographies.

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Rock O'Clock - February 3 2014

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