Places & Things Radio Show Pt 1

One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Places & Things Radio Show Pt 2

One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Places & Things Radio Show Pt 3

One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Just Say Now

(SOAPBOX #67) - Cindy welcomes Tommy Chong to chat with him about legalization/decriminalization of marijuana, and the use of hemp for plastics and fuel. Tommy Chong is a marijuana activist, and a supporter of marijuana legalization and medical use of marijuana. (Only I really must apologize for something here, boyz and grrls: This episode's name is a blatant rip-off of Jane Hamsher's most outstanding and desperately needed Marijuana Legalization campaign.) We also speak with a San Francisco pot activist, Mesha Monge-Irizarry, who will talk about these issues from a local standpoint. Former Soapbox guest Ralph Lopez offers his EXPLOSIVE observations: He notes that the Wikileaks soldier who found the rocket launcher at the scene (last week's guest, Ethan McCord) says "No Attack Was Imminent." McCord discussed these observations in last week's interview. The massacre video showed 12 men, including two Reuters newsmen, standing on a street corner before being fired upon with the Apache's 30mm cannon, resulting in what appears to be unprovoked murder. The video caused an international outcry after it was leaked to the media by the government watchdog Wikileaks. The presence of the rocket launcher that McCord found was seized upon by defenders of the attack as proof that the attack was justified, and offered as evidence of an impending ambush. There's only one problem: Ethan McCord says "It ain't so!" Click here to read Ralph's article and listen to the interview. Today's discussion asks "Why is our nation jumping so rabidly on the Save Drug Cartel Profits bandwagon?" I mean, come on. Haven't we already tried prohibition, back in the 1920s & 1930s? Do we really need to guarantee the continuance of drug related carnage, exactly as bootlegging profits fed Prohibition carnage back then? It looks like we will need to use the power of NO to stop rewarding drug cartels with Marijuana profits and generate some desperately needed State revenue.

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Why to Say NO

(SOAPBOX #66) - Cindy interviews Ethan McCord, who became an unfortunate star of the Wikileaks "Collateral Murder" video, seen in the video carrying the wounded children from the bullet riddled van and Jud Newborn, PhD, co-author of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose, a companion volume to the recent Oscar-nominated German film, "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days." (There's a fascinating PDF Afterword to the book available here.) As the recent and newest Wikileaks revelations fade into undeserved obscurity - accepted and ignored by what was once an anti-war community - I feel I need to yell "WAKE UP" once again. So we've elected a new wearer of the Imperial Purple (mainly by virtue of NOT being George W. Bush). That doesn't mean we can go back to sleep, and just wait for our problems to get fixed. The murder of civilians hasn't stopped, the looting of our nation's wealth by corporate arms-merchants hasn't stopped, and the criminalization of dissent proceeds apace. As Hans Scholl (Sophie's brother) wrote in his diary after his first arrest by the Gestapo in 1937: "If you tear our hearts from our bodies, you yourselves will burn to death for it." Well people: America is also tearing the hearts of innocents out of their bodies. Wikileaks confirms it. Everybody knows it. Do you think we will be rewarded for it? What do you expect from a democracy, anyway? Come on folks: Democracy is what we have when our masters tell us what's right, and then we just do it. Only a fool would think that it has something to do with what we the people want. Our democratically elected "fearless leaders" all say so. I'm sure they must be right. Today's discussion delves once more into the power of NO, and how to say it.

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A trifecta of truth-tellers!

(SOAPBOX #65) - Cindy interviews ELaine Brower of World Can't Wait and Sustainable Orphanages for Haitian Youth, Matthis Chiroux of Iraq Vets Against the War, and Bobby Whittenberg of Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen, Tx. Cindy sez: "Hope you enjoy this week's show as I chat with Elaine, Matthis and Bobby about how to make a difference - one person at a time, if we have to." Today the latest Wikileaks revelation fades into ho-hum obscurity, accepted and passively ignored by what was once an anti-war community - back before our national empire's war crimes were enshrined by our Nobel Peace-Prize laureate, who became a progressive darling simply by virtue of NOT being George W. Bush. Of course, the murder of civilians hasn't stopped, the looting of our nation's wealth by corporate arms-merchants hasn't stopped, and the criminalization of dissent proceeds apace. But what do you want in a democracy, anyway? Come on folks: Democracy is what we have when the masters tell us what's right and we do it. Only fools would think it has something to do with what we the people want. Today's discussion examines the power of NO and how to say it.

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Places & Things Radio Show Pt 4

One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Stop Civil Wrongs - by strong Civil Rights!

(SOAPBOX #64) - Cindy interviews legendary Civil Rights Attorney John Burris, a renowned and accomplished civil rights lawyer who has prevailed in some of the most notorious cases of police misconduct and civil rights violations in recent history. He was Rodney King's co-counsel in his civil trial against the LA PD, and Oscar Grant's mother's lawyer. If you've been in a cave the last few weeks you may not remember that Oscar Grant is the young African-American males shot in the back and killed by an Oakland police officer while laying helpless, face down on the ground. Mr Grant's killer was found guilty of "involuntary homicide," a slap on the wrist for this well-documented needless killing. Still, as John and Cindy first note, the most amazing thing about this is that a police killing of an unarmed, restrained victim actually went to trial at all. Mr. Burris remarked that in this era of police misconduct against African-American males, the verdict could have been the best that could be hoped for. THE MOST IMPORTANT BIT OF SENSE they contribute here is simply this: Don't just "accept" these trevesties of justice and decency. KEEP FIGHTING! Their discussion examines today's "Police State" now being imposed on the black community. Cindy and John have lots to talk about - and it's all good listening!

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Ann Wright....All Right!

(SOAPBOX #63) - Cindy interviews a noted woman of conscience, Ann Wright, former Army Colonel, Foreign Diplomat, and Anti-war Activist. Ann was in a small boat, just astern of the Mavi Marmara in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla - from which vantage point she closely observed the unprovoked Israeli attack on an unarmed mercy ship in International waters. Colonel Wright is an old friend of Cindy's; having helped her organize and operate Camp Casey during Cindy's famous mission to Crawford, Texas in 2005. (You remember: back when President Bush demonstrated to the whole world he was afraid to meet with her.) Today, we have a brand-new President, bringing brand new changes. Since that brand-new President still wants more sacrifices (of other mothers' children) for that noble cause, Cindy still wants to know what that "noble cause" might be. (Is that too hard to comprehend?) Certainly, the President of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth cannot be scared to explain to one mother just why grinding her once-living precious baby into just another corpse was a noble act, can he? After all, it's not like it's something he doesn't do every day. Every day he send out the children of other mothers to be turned into corpses, - or, if they're lucky, to grind the children of Iraqi or Afghan mothers into corpses instead. By now we've had two Presidents tell us "this is noble." Is it too much to ask the current wearer of Imperial purple just why it's noble to turn children into corpses? We're dying to hear your explanation. Cindy and Ann Wright have lots to discuss; it's all good listening!

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Ignorance with a Platform

All samples heard actually aired on broadcast Radio. Yes, really.

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Places & Things Radio Show Pt 5

One hour sample of the 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, Reverb Nation, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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KR Weekly News Special Report 8 7 13

"Climate change occurring 10 times faster than at any time in past 65 million years"

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"In The Clouds"

This RADIOLA! suggests that there's not enough room in Denial for all of us to live there.

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#659 - Countering Intelligence 2

This week we continue our look at the secret state with the help of Scott Noble's latest film, Counter Intelligence on the out of control apparatus of "national security services". The focus this week is on drug trafficking and False Flag operations. We supplement the adaptation with some classic Michael Ruppert on the narco-connection to US politics, Mark Crispin Miller on the phrase "conspiracy theory" and a speaker on the FSB and the Ryazan Apartment bombing of 1999.

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8/7/13 edition

the only new music i have for your audio-seeking ears is stuff from a new richmond metal band called hoboknife, which i will be playing some time in the 2nd hour of the show! we will start off with another track from skinny puppy's weapon! ...and just for you richmond (and the world!), the all-knowing and all-seeing frankie, aka oblivious man (just kidding!), will be joining us in the studio! ***upcoming event***: vaxsination: i am not mentioning this on the air, but i'm djing at fallout on wednesday, august 14th, 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: low on sanity vs. synthetic nightmare w/machine chop inc. on thursday, august 15th @ fallout, richmond, va cemetery boys, human services, opt out, asylum xiii, proceed the eye on friday, august 30th @ stone house lounge, norfolk, va velvet acid christ, the twilight garden, and venal flesh on tuesday, october 8th @ fallout, richmond, va nine inch nails on friday, october 18th @ verizon center, washington, d.c.

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Art of the French Impressionists

Radio Curious visits with Melissa Buron, art historian and curator of the French Impressionist exhibit, Impressionists on the Water, currently at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, California. 

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08-04-13 Surviving Hate & Hurt

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Yell Fire! The Conviction of Bradley Manning, A Future of Fire for the Forests of the West and the Abortion Rights Freedom Riders Keep On Rolling

Sweet on the Bradley Manning Trial, the character of the trial, the outrage of the verdict, and the worldwide support for his courageous and honorable actions. Davidson on his most recent article, "The Great Burning: How Wildfires Are Threatening the West." the result of climate change and Tea Party Politics. Taylor reports from Fargo, North Dakota, the latest stop of the Abortion Rights Freedom Ride.

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The Milk Man Returneth

Josh from Mother's Milk fills in for the Haberdasher with a sexy-time theme. Much fun was had by all.

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Radicals Take on Prisons

Sin Barras-Without Bars - a look at fighting the oppression going on in our prisons. The Prison Hunger Strike in California, as well as various tactics for forming coalitions and reaching the People.

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KR Weekly News In Review 6 Aug. 2013

New jobs disproportionately low-pay or part-time

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Broadcast One Hundred Thirty Seven

Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. It's never the same program twice. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio

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Ambassador

(SOAPBOX #62) - Cindy brings us a most illuminating Requiem for the antiwar movement. Also, this Sunday (July 11th) she features Edward L. Peck, a one-time Deputy Director of Covert Intelligence Programs and retired career diplomat who served thirty-two-years in the U.S. Foreign Service, from 1956 until 1989. He's had a few "bumpy rides" - for example when he objected to invading Iraq prior to our March 2003 invasion, asking "when you take out Saddam Hussein, what happens after that? We don't have a clue. Nobody knows, but it's probably going to be bad." Not exactly fitting my pre-existing image of a career Foreign Service diplomat, he seems to be a real person - with a real heart! (So who screwed up by letting someone with a working conscience into our Foreign Service? How un-American!) He certainly offers a unique perspective on our international affairs. Most recently, he was in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and told of it here. They have much to talk about; it's all good listening!

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Bad Boy

(SOAPBOX #61) - Cindy returns! She welcomes that most famous ex-Weatherman poster boy of opposition to war: Bill Ayers - beloved by all launderies who wash out conservative underwear; if only for creating so many stains for them to eradicate. Today Dr. Bill Ayers is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the author of "To Teach: The Journey, In Comics," which uses the comic book format to reach out to teachers. He truly is a highly innovative expert in education, with lots to say - although not always conformist in content. Cindy and Dr. Ayers discuss some of those non-conformist thoughts in a perfectly delightful interview. They put opposition to this "war" into the historical context of the Vietnam war, and come away with the conclusion that we must build a real, living, anti-war movement in our country, and discuss how. The key is people's consciousness. And the way to build that? Talk to people. Cindy and Bill discuss the rhythm of resistance. They have much to discuss, and plenty worth listening to.

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Major Parties Only: A Love Story

(SOAPBOX #59) - Come on: what loyal American doesn't love the suppression of unpatriotic dissent? Cindy hosts the surprising president of Free and Equal Elections, Christina Tobin, currently the Libertarian Candidate for Secretary of State in California. She is a long-time opponent of restrictive legal requirements making it difficult for Independent and Third Party candidates to place their names on the ballot. Also, she's a mortal enemy of California's notorious Proposition 14. (Ralph Nader, leading advocate for third-party candidate and full voter rights, stated, "Unless defeated, Proposition 14 would establish a two-party tyranny that prevents other candidate choices for California voters from the November election ballot. In short, Proposition 14 wants to shut you up if you disagree with the arrogant, big two-party politicians." Such an approach is especially interesting when you consider the fact that, as we've often pointed out here, the supposed Left-Right opposition is only a stage act, as faked as "Professional Wrestling" - pure Kabuki Theater designed to distract the public from becoming aware of the fact that both sides identically serve exactly the same masters. (Here, we call those masters our "robber class," the secret and hidden true Emperors of America.)

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Shifting Sands

(SOAPBOX #58) - Cindy welcomes author/editor Osie Adelfang of an anthology, telling a story best capsulized as "Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation." Now this is significant, because Osie was raised as a Jewish Israeli girl in the USA, and was nourished with the "official" propaganda story of Jewish emigration into an empty land and their subsequent victimization by Arab predators. This "official" line somehow failed to tell Jewish children of the fact the land was already occupied - by Palestinians. Osie had quite a journey to come to understand what she really knew, what she really didn't know, and what she "knew" that just wasn't so! She was so alone. Even today, the "official" rendition of current events within Israel doesn't include inconvenient facts, like the recent worldwide Gaza freedom march. It was a *bleeping* difficult transformation, for all who did undergo it. It was a principal motivation for her book, so the book holds many poignant, meaningful stories. Osie and Cindy discuss much personally meaningful detail, and tell marvelous stories. The process of revising what you've always believed to be the "facts" of your life is always the most poignant of human experiences. Especially the mythology of "A land without a people for a people without a land" was especially difficult to confront and rectify. Osie tells Cindy of her own experiences.

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Behind the Media Curtain

(SOAPBOX #57) - Cindy talks with Eva Golinger, an Venezuelan-American attorney from New York living in Caracas, Venezuela since 2005 and author of The Chàvez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela, by Olive Branch Press, 2006, as well as of several other highly impressive documents. She and Cindy have both seen Venezuela from within Chavez's alleged "dictatorship." Both very much like it. It has indeed come to our attention that as Noam Chomsky famously remarked, "Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media." Well, our tightly controlled U.S. media absolutely forbids any realistic view of life in Chavez's Venezuuela today. Only here at Cindy's web site we are NOT "uniform and obedient," just as the Venezuelan media isn't "uniform and obedient" either. Read the documentation. You'll see. Eva and Cindy both want to give you at least a tiny glimpse of the view from behind that curtained window! Perhaps you might start by reading Eva's penetrating insight into U.S. supported efforts to delegitimatize and destabilize and destroy the democracy that is Venezuela today, as noted in her most excellent capsule document. Or you could read her most revealing interview.

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Courageous Insight

(SOAPBOX #56) - Cindy's guest is the very famous Daniel Ellsberg, affectionately remembered for his historical opposition to Richard Nixon and to the war in Vietnam. In today's current and highly disturbing times, his insight offers a brilliant perspective for analyzing current developments. Both Dr. Ellsberg and Cindy share close and personal experience of tragic destructions wrought through U.S. promotion of an imperial war. When he was asked what he thought about Western Civilization, Mohandas K. Gandhi replied "I think it would be a good idea." That is exactly the sense in which requests about their opinions of a War to promote the American Empire would promote an answer of: "A very bad idea!"

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Criminalized Dissent

(SOAPBOX #55) - Cindy welcomes three friends who were "guests" of our Gubbermint for 50 chilling hours during the opening of Camp Out in protest of our ever-surging Nobel Peace Prize Lauriate's addiction to: - to surging, (thereby killing lots of our soldiers, along with innocent Af-Pak civilians.) This week's show is about criminalization of protest and dissent. Cindy's guests are three Gubbermint "guests" who got arrested with her on March 20th: Elaine Brower, Jon Gold, and Matthis Chiroux. Elaine is with the World Can't Wait (WCW) and Military Families Speak Out (MFSO). Jon is an active 9/11 Truther, from way back. Matthis is an active war resister and member of Iraq Veterans Against the the War (IVAW). All three thought that D.C. officialdom this time was starting to get much nastier in repressing dissent than "back in the good ole days" - but all felt they had clearly done the right thing, and they all were happy for having made that choice.

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#283 -- Dog Day Afternoon at the Movies (R)

Three short documentary films on fossil fuels, pollution, and the environment: 1. "300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds" by the Post Carbon Institute (Richard Heinberg) 2. "The Story of Cap & Trade" by Annie Leonard 3. "The Story of Electronics" by Annie Leonard This is a rerun of NWN #178 (August 2, 2011)

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