#248 -- The Censored News

An impassioned speech by MICKEY HUFF, Director of Project Censored, on how the media support Established Power--by producing news stories that are biased, censored, and full of omissions and false assumptions. And by suppressing news stories that would call official policies into question. Also, we'll read selections from Project Censored's top stories of 2011-2012 unreported by the corporate media. (One example: fallout from Fukishima caused 14,000 deaths in the U.S.)

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Civilian investigations body faces uphill battle rebuilding public confidence in police

David Eby is the outgoing executive director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. He was the final speaker at a forum looking at the challenges facing the new Office of Independent Investigations. His remarks follow a presentation by Richard Rosenthal, Chief Civilian Director of the Office of Independent Investigations in BC; Preston Gonu, a youth worker with the Carrier Sekani First Nation in Prince George and Doug King, a lawyer working to change dog-handling practices by the Vancouver police.

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Vancouver police refuse to change dog-handling practices

Doug King has spent two years investigating serious injuries caused by police dogs. He speaks here at a November 13 forum on the new civilian body to investigate police-related deaths and injuries. His remarks follow a presentation by Richard Rosenthal, Chief Civilian Director of the Office of Independent Investigations in BC and Preston Gonu, a youth worker with the Carrier Sekani First Nation in Prince George.

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Leveson report on UK press demands independent panel

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Dialect - Jim Robins, coping with a gambling addiction

growing up in and around Bristol and getting into scrapes with the police

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A First Nations perspective on police-related deaths and injuries

Last year Christy Clark created a civilian body to investigate the police. Preston Guno works with Carrier Sekani First Nation in Prince George. He talks about the current state of relations between First Nations and police. His remarks follow a presentation by Richard Rosenthal, Chief Civilian Director of the Office of Independent Investigations in BC, at a public forum on November 13.

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Investigating police-related deaths and injuries in B.C.

Last year Christy Clark created a new civilian office to investigate police shootings. The Independent Investigations Office opened its doors in September. On November 13, there was a public forum to discuss the new office and the challenges it faces. Director Richard Rosenthal started off the evening by talks about the mandate of the Independent Investigations Office.

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The Shortwave Report 11/30/12 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 Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

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WSQT Broadcast for November 29

Pirate Radio Song Station ID Palestine Today for November 29 War Update: Violence continues in Iraq Station ID SHARC and CCNV residents march on Mayor over homeless budget(updated) WSQT Interview with participant in Black Friday "mic check" at Wal-Mart Tar sands update: Indigenous nation warns off surveyors for another pipeline, confiscates survey gear Tar sands update: Houston refinery blockade kicks off hunger strike Between the Lines for week ending Dec 7 (not in audio, available from http://www.btlonline.org/download/121207-btlv128.mp3 )

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Paul Auster-Winter Journal

Writer Paul Auster has more than twenty books to his credit, but his latest may be one of his most personal. He chronicles his loves, homes and losses in "Winter Journal".

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Purple Tuesday 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, Youtube, Blogspot, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Last Fm, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Joanne Harris-Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé

Fans of the best-selling novel "Chocolat" will be thrilled to know that author Joanne Harris has returned to the small French town of Lasquenet and all the wonderful characters who live there for her new book, "Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé".

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Linda Svendsen-Sussex Drive

Check out the writing roster of any comedy show, especially the political ones and you will find them riddled with Canadians. Screenwriter turned novelist Linda Svendsen has dipped her pen in acid for her new story about politics, love and family set on Canada's most political street: Sussex Drive.

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Naomi Duguid-Burma

The country of Burma is slowly returning to the international fold. Author, photographer and food-traveller Naomi Duguid has roamed across the country, which is as large as the state of Texas, to prepare "Burma:Rivers of Flavor".

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Philip Norman-Mick Jagger

He is the front man for the most successful band in history. Teenage fans are still throwing themselves at him even though he is pushing 70. Philip Norman has written a massive and detailed biography of Sir "Mick Jagger".

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John Banville-Ancient Light

Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville has a new novel which features some familiar characters from some of his previous books. "Ancient Light" is about love and loss, memory and the wishful thinking which frequently substitutes for clear recollection of the past.

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Purple Tuesday 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, Youtube, Blogspot, Twitter, Soundcloud, Reverb Nation, Last Fm, Google + http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Warren Kinsella-Fight the Right

Liberal Party of Canada strategist and long-time friend of former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, Warren Kinsella, has a new book subtitled A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse. Kinsella believes the left-leaning political parties in this country need to unite if they are to have any chance to "Fight the Right".

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Karen Dudley-Food For the Gods

Winnipeg writer Karen Dudley has carved out a solid career as a murder mystery writer with an environmental twist in her Robyn Devara series. But there is more to Karen than murder and mayhem. There is murder, mayhem, fantasy and food! Her latest book, "Food For the Gods", is set in ancient Athens and will leave readers laughing and hungry!

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Ross King-Leonardo and The Last Supper

It is probably the most famous painting ever. Author Ross King tells the story of how it came to be, how it survived and its future in his 2012 Governor-General Award-winning non-fiction book "Leonardo and the Last Supper".

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Tom Reiss-The Black Count

Alexander Dumas, the novelist who gave the world "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo", based some of the books on his own swashbuckling father. Like d'Artagnan, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas fought three successful duels in a single day. He was a Count, who discovered treasure and was wrongly imprisoned for years. Author Tom Reiss has found new documents, in a safe he had to crack open, which shed new light on this amazing man. The real-life story becomes all the more amazing because Dumas was born to a black slave and a white French aristocrat fugitive in what would become Haiti. Reiss calls his biography, "The Black Count".

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Shauna Singh Baldwin-The Selector of Souls

Award-winning novelist Shauna Singh Baldwin tackles the very difficult subject of gender bias, but especially Indian families choosing to keep male fetuses while aborting females in her new book "The Selector of Souls".

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Focus Asia Pacific November 30, 2012

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Michael Ennis-The Malice of Fortune

"The Malice of Fortune" by historical novelist Michael Ennis has been compared to Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose". Two of the protagonists in "The Malice of Fortune" are famous Renaissance figures, who met in real life and are thrown together in this new novel in the court of Duke Valentino, the man made famous, or perhaps more correctly infamous, in Machiavelli's The Prince.

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Doug Saunders-The Myth of the Muslim Tide

You have probably heard the rhetoric from some circles about how immigration from Muslim nations is going to undermine and then destroy western civilization. Author Doug Saunders had heard those concerns, but decided to get the facts. The result is his new book "The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?"

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Emily Schultz-The Blondes

Novels about plagues are popular, though admittedly, not as popular as blondes. Now author Emily Schultz is out with a new novel in which the fair-haired get quite literally 'hair-brained' and go on insane killer rampages. Add a pregnant grad student trying to get back to the baby's married and morally weak father who also happens to be her thesis adviser and you have the plot of "The Blondes".

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Debbie Macomber-The Inn at Rose Harbor

Author Debbie Macomber has more than 160 million copies of her romance books in print. Her latest, and the start of a new series is called "The Inn at Rose Harbor".

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Billie Livingston-One Good Hustle

All Sammie, the sixteen year-old heroine of "One Good Hustle", wants is for life to make some sense. But it doesn't. Her parents are con artists, she is couch-surfing through Vancouver and sex strikes her as just plain icky. Billie Livingston the author of "Going Down Swinging" and "Cease to Blush" has created another funny, but gritty page-turner.

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Liza Klaussman-Tigers in Red Weather

Tigers in Red Weather is the debut novel by author Liza Klaussman. The story is told from the perspective of five different characters, none of whom really seems capable, or willing to tell the truth.

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Karen Thompson Walker-The Age of Miracles

Karen Thompson Walker's first novel, as an editor turned novelist, is a dystopian coming-of-age story. "The Age of Miracles" begins with the sudden and unpredictable slowing of the Earth's rotation.

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