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KR Weekly News In Review 16 July 2013
July 16, 2013, 3:51 p.m.
"Ice Disappearance Accelerates"
earth times article
July 16, 2013, 1:19 p.m.
FLORIDA JURY AND PROSECUTORS TERMINATE TRAYVON YET AGAIN
An arguably incompetent prosecution of racially-profiling lethal stalker GEORGE ZIMMERMAN led to an acquittal of all charges this weekend by an all-female Florida jury in his fatal shooting of teenaged African-American TRAYVON MARTIN.
Protests erupted overnight in dozens of American cities, expressing the unlikely hope of a federal civil rights prosecution, after the nation's top two law-enforcement officials fumbled the basis of such redress, accepting an incompletely-researched FBI report which declared, on the basis of interviewing holster-sniffer Zimmerman's friends and colleagues, that he evinced "no racial bias" - despite his long history of 911 calls invariably blaming black youths for local burglaries.
Attorney General ERIC HOLDER gives faint praise for a successful federal prosecution at a Howard University "Delta" convention;
Presidential spokesperson JAY CARNEY deflects a question about the disproportionate gunshot killings of black youth, blaming Congress for inaction;
LISA GRAVES, director of the Center for Media and Democracy, analyzes the hidden hand of the reactionary legislative lobby ALEC (which infected 34 states with Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law in great detail, when the Trayvon martin murder was first beginning to gain national attention;
NSA WHISTLEBLOWER EDWARD SNOWDEN STRIKES THE EMPIRE BACK
Political refugee EDWARD SNOWDEN answers the pro-NSA-surveillance attacks of Democratic Party "liberals" AL FRANKEN, NANCY PELOSI and BARACK OBAMA;
SNOWDEN spoke over the weekend in a surrealistic Moscow [press conference about the White House s global intimidation effort to deny his rightful claim to political asylum. The multilingual event is presented in full, edited for radio in the English language;
FRANK SINATRA - "My Way"; and
A MEMORIAL FOR TOSHI SEEGER, LATE WIFE OF PETE SEEGER
And finally, we mourn the passage and celebrate the life of TOSHI SEEGER, the late wife of folk legend PETE SEEGER for nearly 70 years. Toshi was a creative manager, founder of the Newport Folk festival and "Clearwater" environmental movement, and, as Pete shared during performance in a recent mayoral forum at NY's Cooper Union hosted by your reporter, that Toshi had written a new set of children's lyrics for his peace anthem "Turn, Turn, Turn."
PETE SEEGER - "Turn, Turn, Turn".
Hackney Renters, ZAD (zone a defendre) - Klaxon Radio, 52 Commercial Road, DJ All Exit
July 16, 2013, 12:58 p.m.
New Releases/Classic Standards; June 14, 2014; Set #1
July 16, 2013, 12:14 p.m.
New Releases/Classic Standards; June 14, 2013; Set #2
July 16, 2013, 11:59 a.m.
July 16, 2013, 10:50 a.m.
Continuing on this morning with a mix of new-to-me older releases and newer releases from the past year. Enjoy!
Millions of tons of coal to be exported through Vancouver
July 16, 2013, 10:43 a.m.
As U.S. energy companies shift from coal to shale gas, the industry wants to export its thermal coal through Vancouver to Asia. Eoin Madden explains why we should be concerned about a tripling of coal trains running through White Rock. Eoin Madden is climate campaigner with the Wilderness Committee.
July 16, 2013, 10:39 a.m.
I'm throwing this together on the fly from a collection of CDs that have arrived at the station over the past year. Some I've played off of before, but most I have only heard once before sharing them with you. Enjoy!
July 16, 2013, 8:53 a.m.
Guest Host, Nicole Gnazdowsky, helps countdown the Top 20 with Anthony Enman plus an interview with Matt Lyall from "Gold & Youth" and we have the !entertainment 411 with Stephen Carlick, Senior Editor for exclaim!
JULY 17, 2013 - EXPERTS SPEAK OUT _ PART 4
July 16, 2013, 7:25 a.m.
This is the fourth segment of the audio version of the movie "9/11 Explosive Evidence: Experts Speak Out". You'll hear the scientists explain why explosives had to have been used in the collapses of the three WTC towers, and they'll tell you why the government version of events is fraudulent.
When Toothache Fills Your Skull
July 16, 2013, 5:47 a.m.
"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 â 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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Trayvon Martin Verdict, Texas Abortion Fight, Edward Snowden & Latin America
July 16, 2013, 12:45 a.m.
Footage from protests and analysis of Trayvon Martin verdict; Texas abortion rights struggles in context; Latin America stands up for Edward Snowden
July 15, 2013, 7:41 p.m.
Two articles summarizing recent reports on Israeli treatment of Palestinian children; anti-Arab snipes at NFL player Oday Aboushi; music.
July 15, 2013, 6:26 p.m.
Now that so many Syrian rebels have discredited themselves, their foreign sympathizers have attempted to discover a secular, democratic component.
But there are too many reports of Al Qaeda activity in the Fee Syrian Army.
The whole discussion of democracy rests on the "Arab Spring." Yet, money from Qatar has been flowing into elections to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and other countries since the initial outbreak in Tunisia. If the 1% dominate U.S. elections, can they not do so in other countries?
ENDA encore+Pat & Conan+"Born This Way"+more!
July 15, 2013, 6:15 p.m.
A blog and a book were both "Born This Way"; Conan O'Brien heals Pat Robertson's tummy ache; an effort to pass ENDA returns to the U.S. Congress; a Colombian judge says yes to a gay couple's marriage proposal, Kolkata Pride walkers question normalcy, the Tel Aviv LGBT Center massacre is redefined as a hate crime, and more global LGBT news.
Trayvon Travesty; Train Terror
July 15, 2013, 5:35 p.m.
Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report is today's featured guest. But first, Phil Conlon comments on the destruction of a small Quebec town by an undermanned locomotive. "Railways just love every new computer system," everything capital intensive, everything that involves less and less workers until the day they can have no more workers.
The train was on a 5 MPH speed restriction - they couldn't trust the track. When the infrastructure fails, and there's no workers, there's no fallback.
Glen Ford returns to the program to discuss the Trayvon Martin affair. This is an important moment in history. "It is well known the that the U.S. is a surveilliance state and an incarceration state." Black people have always known this. Once a white person can convince a jury that they were acting "reasonably," then the case against them disappears.
Zimmerman's profiling and stalking of Trayvon Martin was "reasonable conduct" to police. The onus is on the profiled one, and not the white vigilante. In the trial, the police acted as defense witnesses, rather than prosecution. They recognized a kindred spirit.
In a jury of one's peers, how is it that six white women ended up as a jury of "peers?" Ford explains the decline of Affirmative Action and the rise of a racist subjectivity.
July 15, 2013, 12:53 p.m.
"The Expendables"
How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants
Are Getting Crushed
Inside the new and exploitative
temporary economy
Written by Michael Grabell, for propublica
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0204
July 15, 2013, 11:55 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
July 15, 2013, 9:51 a.m.
Monroe Park is among Richmond's most historic public spaces. It's also 'home' to many of the city's homeless. Plans to renovate the park -- and to close it to the public while those renovations are undertaken -- continue to face resistance from some of Richmond's homeless advocates while meeting with support from others.
David Noble: A Wrench in the Gears
July 15, 2013, 9:23 a.m.
Jonathon Bullick discusses his new documentary on David Noble, a world-class critic of automation and the processes of technological change. Noble is remembered for his outsized contribution to various movements, including Palestine solidarity.
He took nothing for granted: the "benefits" of corporate-designed automation, the "inevitability" of digital distance education, the "impossibility" of challenging the Israel lobby and the U.S. military.
Bullick's documentary shows what it means to be an uncompromising activist at a time when the powerful are clamping down on every aspect of human life.
The Motherland Influence: July 14, 2013
July 15, 2013, 1:44 a.m.
Two hours of African, Latin & Caribbean music.
Lots of reggae today!
July 15, 2013, 1:21 a.m.
Two hours of Congolese popular music.
July 14, 2013, 11:47 p.m.
Robert Andrew Scott brings you experimental, psychedelic and folk music of the late-60s; post-punk of the late-70s / early-80s; synth-based pop / noise / punk; 20th / 21st century composition; dreamy / shoegazing pop; and exotic world music styles.
439 - Economic Problems & Solutions
July 14, 2013, 8:51 p.m.
News You Need to Know: Obamas Coup For Democracy; Between The Lines Underreported News; BTL interview: Super Rich Tax Avoidance; BTL interview: Sustainable Economic Models; BTL interview: Parents' Group Confronts Climate Change; Outside The Box: Gun Control; music.
July 14, 2013, 6:11 p.m.
Each week, Marc and Kim throw in their two cents for what's new in theaters, what's new on DVD, and TV on DVD releases. This week: Only God Forgives, 42, Evil Dead, Regular Show, Shoah, and more
July 14, 2013, 6:11 p.m.
July 14, 2013, 3:44 p.m.
We've got an extra special guest host for this afternoon's Songs From The Big Hair!
Current owner/operator of Snake Oil Recording and former singer/guitarist of Richmond's own beloved Rocket 69, Daneil "Dan-O" Deckelman is taking over studio 1 at WRIR world headquarters to play his favorite 80s metal, punk, post punk, power pop, etc....!
A (proxy) conversation with a Turkish Anarchist & Metal
July 14, 2013, 3:39 p.m.
This week's episode of the final straw features our light-handed curation of another project's work. We bring y'all an english language interview with members of a Karakeok Autonome (http://www.karakok.org/), a Swiss-Turkish anarchist grouping related to the International of Anarchist Federations. The interview was conducted, translated and rerecorded by our comrades at Anarchistisches Radio Berlin. Their work can be found in multiple european languages at http://aradio.blogsport.de . Check them out.
The latter half of the show is metal and crust. This episode features a track from the new Damascus, Syria-based thrash project called Anarchadia, as well as new tracks from SF's Deafheaven, LA's Solus and Aberdeen's Fifteen Dead.
Cheers!
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Broadcast One Hundred Twenty Nine
July 14, 2013, 3:19 p.m.
Radio Thrift Shop is a low-tech, DIY, freeform celebration & exploration of music from the last century of recorded sound and music in all genres ... including 78s, reel to reels, cassettes, 8 tracks, vinyl records and even endangered cds. Each week I play an ecclectic blend of tunes released between 1900 (more or less) and next week. Radio Thrift Shop is music and culture in the spirit of free radio
July 14, 2013, 2:46 p.m.
DMR 07 11 13 playlist
Secret Chiefs 3 "The 4 (The Great Israqi Sun)"(show theme song) from the cd "Book of Horizons" (Web of Mimicry)
Arrington de Dionyso "Nama Bersembunyi" from the album "Malaikat dan Singa"
Tetuan "Rangoon" from the album "Qayin" from www.tetuan.bandcamp.com
Arrington de Dionyso "Tak Terbatas""Cahaya Bahaya""Tenga Halusinasi" from the album "Malaikat dan Singa"
Lichens "Kopernik Tripnote" from the album "LÃtió Fólk"
ì´ìê°, ê¹ëì (Lee Sang Kang) "(Jungjungmori)" from the album "êµì
-ëê¸ì°ì¡° ì 7ì§ (bamboo flute sanjo"
Josh Lay "Shroud of Ice and Bird Feathers" from the cd "This is a Tourniqet of the Light, the Black Obituary" (split with Crown of Bone, on Obfuscated Records)
Tarnminehead live in studio (first set, guest Guion Hughes)
Fursaxa "Karma""Poppy Opera" from the cd "Lepidoptera"
Tarnminehead live in studio (second set Blake T. Honeytwin) and interview
Rangda "Plain of Jars" from the cd "False Flag" (Sir Richard Bishop/Ben Chasny/Chris Corsano)
Lichens "Aenemonae" from the album "LÃtió Fólk"
Fursaxa "Russian Snow Queen" "Pyracantha" from the cd "Lepidoptera"
Third Ear Band "Water" from the album "Third Ear Band (aka "Elements", 1970)" pound for pound, the best band of all time--the Ustad
Fursaxa "Renounuos" from the album "Amulet"
Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz "Nachmiel" "Yaasriel" "Muriel""Aupiel" from the album "Abraxas: Book of Angels, vol. 19" (series of John Zorn compositions)
Bill Horist "Insects of the Divisible Insomnia" from the album "Guitar Weirdo (Solo Prepared Guitar Improvisations 2000-2012)" from CD Baby
Wei Zhongle "Hidden Kingdom" "Dog Star" from the album "Raised High/Brought Low" from weizhongle.bandcamp.com
Rangda "Waldorf Hysteria""Bull Lore" from the cd "False Flag"
Ensemble Pearl "Eat Happy" from the cd "Ensemble Pearl" (Boris/Sunn O)))/Ghost members)