BikeSport 105

Sounds from Mt Whitney Stage Race, Big Orange goes Urban and Robert reviews ESI handlebar tape. NCNCA Junior State Road Race Champions

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#284 -- Surveillance Then and Now (R)

The National Security Agency & predecessors have been illegally spying on Americans for 95 years. Features selections from a witty lecture on NSA history by JAMES BAMFORD. Plus relevant music by ROY ZIMMERMAN and ANNE FEENEY. Question: If NSA sometimes ignores orders from the President, who DO they report to? Originally broadcast as NWN #18 (June, 2008).

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August 11, 2013

A little bit of this, a little bit of that, and before you know it you've enjoyed two hours of great music!

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Aussie equality+Putin's "gay problem"+Kevin's creator+more!

The Russian Olympics controversy burns brighter; art imitates life with "Archie"; marriage equality gets the last word in an Aussie leadership debate; a celebrity gay couple gets Uruguay's first same-gender marriage license, a Pennsylvania county leaps to "the right side of history", Pride blooms in Hanoi and Entebbe, while Stockholm and Amsterdam offer surrogate Pride to Russian visitors, anti-gay suppression fails in Armenia and Lithuania, and more global LGBT news.

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Class and Elections in Zimbabwe

Stephen Gowans has analysed the recent elections in Zimbabwe. We in the West look at Zimbabwe through the prism of our own experience. In our elections, we select from a group of parties that fundamentally agree on how power is divided. The modest differences between our political parties help establish the parameters of political discussion. In Zimbabwe, the two major parties represent different class interests. The country cannot alternate between the two without experiencing substantial changes in political economy. The elections in Zimbabwe, therefore, are far more contested, and involve social movements.

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The Rummage Issue VII

Musical Excerpts for Issue VII: Day Joy / Go to Sleep, Mess / Go to Sleep, Mess / Small Plates / 2013 Rudimentary Peni / Twitch / Cacophony / Outer Himalayan / 1989 Mulatu Astatke / Gambella / Sketches of Ethiopia / Jazz Village / 2013 Krar Collective / Guragigna / Ethiopia Super Krar / Riverboat / 2012 Various Artists / Musicawi Silt / The Rough Guide to Ethiopian Music / World Music Network / 2012 Dur-Dur Band / Garsore Waa Ilaah / Volume 5 / Awesome Tapes From Africa / 2013 Brian Wilson Shock Treatment / Raise Them Up / Operation Sun Probe / Starry Night / 2012 Heavy Midgets/TUNGS / Sierra Leone / Sisters / Bad Grrrl / 2013

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Brother Larry

(SOAPBOX #84) - Cindy celebrates February by hosting Larry Pinkney, previously a two time January guest (in 2009 & 2010) - in this month instead. Brother Larry Pinkney is an editorial board member of Black Commentator, a veteran of the Black Panther Party, the former Minister of Interior of the Republic of New Africa and a former political prisoner. He's the only American to have successfully self-authored his civil/political rights case to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He's been a distinguished activist and solidly established as an intelligent and perceptive commentator for a good time now. We recommend examples of his incisive and trenchant observations - here, here and here. Larry and Cindy analyze our nation's prospects, as President Obama heads into his 3rd year. Larry observes that Barack Obama has widened the bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and rained down bloody missile death from the skies - on Pakistani civilians. To award a Nobel Peace Prize for such Chicagoland-style gangsterism on a world scale is beyond absurd. It mocks the very idea of the Nobel Peace Prize itself. Black white and brown red and yellow people all need to be aware of that. (I thank you for your insights, my dear brother Larry.)

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Economics of Happiness

(SOAPBOX #83) - Cindy welcomes Helena Norberg-Hodge, an analyst of the impact of the global economy on cultures and agriculture worldwide and a pioneer of the localization movement. The destructive impact of globalization on our children is no less destructive than its historical impact on the Ladakh, an isolated Himalayan culture described in countercurrents.org here. Over the past three decades, Ms. Norberg-Hodge has studied this process in numerous cultures around the world and discovered that we are all victims of these same psychological pressures. In virtually every industrialized country, including the US, UK, Australia, France and Japan, there is now what can only be described as an epidemic of depression. In the US, a growing proportion of young girls are so deeply insecure about their appearance they fall victim to anorexia and bulimia, or undergo expensive cosmetic surgery. Why is this happening? Too often these signs of breakdown are seen as 'normal:' we assume that depression is a universal affliction, that children are by nature insecure about their appearance, that greed, acquisitiveness, and competition are innate to the human condition. What we fail to consider are the billions of dollars spent by marketers targeting children as young as two, with a goal of instilling the belief that material possessions will ensure them the love and appreciation they crave. But the reality is that consumption leads to greater competition and envy, leaving children more isolated, insecure, and unhappy, thereby fuelling still more frantic consumption in a vicious cycle. In this way, the global consumer culture taps into the fundamental human need for love and twists it into insatiable greed.

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Afghans for Peace!

Cindy welcomes Canadian resident PhD student Spogmai Akseer, representing that whole group of Aghans world wide, both internal and abroad, who take a stance against war and occupation in Afghanistan and demand that the Afghan people be allowed their right to self determination. That group is formally known as Afghans for Peace. They present a non-propagandized "view from the inside" of Afghan reality. Spogmai Akseer pretty strongly contradicts the "official" line that we are in Afghanistan to sell war profiteering to the American public "protect the women" and rebuild a nation. Sorry, boyz and grrlz: the truth is Afghan women are steadily getting into worse and worse shape. Just as Malalai Joya told us back in November 2009, nobody can very much tell any difference between Karzai's warlords and the warlords of the Taliban. Rebuilding a nation? Spogmai tells of the rampant profiteering and corruption in the country today. She tells us of schools built but never used because of no heat, no water and no utilities - in the Afghanistan's frozen winters. Just don't miss her view from the inside!

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2013Aug12: Redskins Training Camp Deal Drives Business Down

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I'll Be The Fish Swimming In Your Heart

"This show is 110% … one of the most consistently awesome programs we have come across." The Sunrise Ocean Bender sets sail every Monday morning, 1 – 3 a.m. on WRIR lp 97.3 FM, to find something for your ears, and something for your head … From psych to prog to pop and whatever tributary we can find on the way … and right back around again. There might be a map, but the destination is up for grabs. If it all goes right, we may just get lost. Meet me at the muster station … it might be a long week.

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The Motherland Influence: August 11, 2013

Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.

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AMBIANCE CONGO: August 11, 2013

Two hours of Congolese music. This edition: music played, composed, recorded and pressed by Verckys & Studio VeVe.

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Crime Thought

from http://www.ashevillefm.org/the-final-straw This week on the show we interview Bay Area author Alden Wood about his book "Crime Thought; Theorizing CrimethInc." published in 2012 by Little Black Cart. In this interview we discuss the anarchist publishing project CrimethInc., which has been active and extremely prolific since the early 1990's. It serves as an entry point for many people who are just becoming acquainted with anarchism as a political ideology. We discuss CrimethInc.'s successes and shortcomings as a unified front of political analysis, as well as possible jumping off points for people interested in exploring anarchism further. Check out the LBC page for the Alden Wood book at Little Black Cart: http://www.littleblackcart.com/Crime-Thought.html Also, take a look at Crimethinc.'s website where you can find articles, propaganda and their podcast. http://crimethinc.com The show will be streaming online at ashevillefm.org for the week of August 11th

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Broadcast One Hundred Thirty Nine

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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At The Show Episode 58: Live at the Fillmore West

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Fukushima FUBAR!

This week on the Soapbox, we replay a show from 2011, just a few short months after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The news from Fukushima Dai'ich is dire, so we again hear the words of one of the world's most pre-eminent physicists; Dr. Michio Kaku

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Warning Shots July 5th: Fast Food workers strike, forced settlment in China

This episode of Warning Shots covers Fast food workers strikes across the United States and forced settlement of nomadic indigenous peoples in China. Hosted By Jon Wilson Over the last several months fast food workers across the US have gone out on strike demanding unionization, better working conditions and wages. Scott Price talked with Martin Rafanan who is an organizer for Jobs with Justice in St Louis Missouri. In China's most recent five year economic plan announced in June of last year Nomadic Pastoralists in Tibet, Inner Mongolia and the Xinjiang Autonomous Region are facing forced re-settlement by the Chinese goverment into new homes. over 1.5 million nomads are to be settled into more than 240,000 new homes. Scott Price talks with journalist Hannibal Rhodes about the plan and its affects on the indigenous populations.

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Broadcast One Hundred Thirty Eight

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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The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Fifty Years Later, Commemorating and Learning from One of the Great Moments in History - The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs, Freedom and Civil Rights with Prof. William P. Jones, civil rights and labor historian We'll probe deeply into the significance of the massive 1963 march and the movement it inspired with civil rights and labor historian William P. Jones . While in a resounding cadence, King lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all Americans would join together to realize the founding ideal of equality, the very power of King speech has also narrowed our understanding of the march which was organized by A. Philip Randolph, Pres. of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Prof. Jones reminds us that this was a movement of sustained grassroots organizing, linked locally to women's groups, unions, civil rights and faith-based organizations across the country - it was a movement of the grassroots. Prof. Jones restores the march to its full significance and with his fresh, compelling history delivers a new understanding of this emblematic event and the broader movement it propelled and what it instructs for building a movement now for Jobs, Freedom and Civil rights as we get ready to return once again to a masive March on Washington on Aug. 24 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first March to demand the implementation of its still unrealized goals of Jobs and Freedom. .

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Helen Caldicott: Nuclear Power, Radiation & Our Health, Part TWO of TWO

This is the conclusion of Helen Caldicott's keynote presentation at a public forum in Taipei, Taiwan, on July 7, 2013. Caldicott covers essential knowledge: How do radioactive iodine, strontium and plutonium affect the body? Why do the body and placenta mistake plutonium for iron and strontium for calcium and embed them in our organs and the fetus? Caldicott also covers the latest studies on birds in the Chernobyl and Fukushima exclusion zones by biologist Timothy Mousseau and she ends with a personal account of how she, as young med-student, was moved by the novel On The Beach. The author, Nevil Shute, describes how a nuclear world war III can poison the earth with radiation. The organizer of the Taipei forum was an antinuclear alliance of mothers called Mom Loves Taiwan. They are campaigning to prevent the opening of yet another nuclear power plant on Taiwan and are seriously concerned about the ongoing radioactive releases from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant and the risks of a future earthquake.

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AUGUST 7, 2013 - MICHAEL PARENTI on CONSPIRACIES - Part 2

This is part 2 of Michael Parenti's speech on "conspiracies" given at the Understanding Deep Politics Conference in May of 2010 in Santa Cruz, CA. The speech is followed by information on Fusion Centers and what there real role is.

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JULY 31, 2013- MICHAEL PARENTI ON CONSPIRACIES

This is the first part of the speech given by Michael Parenti at the Understanding Deep Politics in May of 2010. He talks about the term conspiracy and how it has been brilliantly used to stop any legitimate criticism of the powers that be. This show was originally aired in June of 2010.

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JULY 24, 2013 - EXPERTS SPEAK OUT - PART 5

This is part 5 of the film "9/11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out" produced by www.ae9/11truth.org. In this section of the documentary psychologists talk about why people can't let in the truth about 9/11 - cognitive dissonents, etc. It might be considered the most powerful part of the film. Cheryl also discusses the 9/11 12th anniversary conference taking place in Washington DC - www.911DCconference.org - on Sept. 14 & 15

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North Korea, Venezuela, Fast Food Workers Movement

Venezuela's election fight ends, North Korea and simmering U.S. tensions, fast food labor and right to unions and fair wages.

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RVA Live Radio#1

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Classic Media Network August 19 2013

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Episode 38: Versenaries on a Mission

UNSEEN LEGION RADIO - Hosted by the InaSoulbian Crew airs 9pm-midnight PST every Tuesday on www.killradio.org

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The Kelly Alexander Show August 10 2013

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Switzerland In Sound August 10 2013

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