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July 25, 2012, 10:40 a.m.
One hour sample of the weekly online 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
Between the Lines' for the Week Ending August 3, 2012
July 25, 2012, 10:20 a.m.
Syrian Civil War, Stage for Latest Geo-Political Battle. Ron Jacobs; Aurora, CO. Massacre, Gun violence and Gun Control Laws; Lessons U.S. Progressives can learn from Greek Movement Resisting Austerity
July 25, 2012, 10:14 a.m.
One hour sample of the weekly online 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
July 25, 2012, 9:47 a.m.
One hour sample of the weekly online 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
July 25, 2012, 4:22 a.m.
More live music from the world's best concerts and live CDs
July 25, 2012, 1:36 a.m.
"...People donât like to think about that stuff. It seems too much like it might already be happening, but the causes are so distant, it makes you feel powerless. So you donât think about it. Which is what allows it to happen. Which is why everybody is always kind of depressed. Which makes it that much harder to find a way out of it all. Still, there are some things that you can do. And one of them is to bark at nonsense. Yes. Bark. Just do it. Everybody can bark. You just gotta get over the hump. Once you start barking it gets to be as natural as laughing.... "
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/bark-at-nonsense/
"Ethnic Cleansing and Resistance in Palestine"
July 25, 2012, 1:01 a.m.
Salman Abu Sitta, Founder & Director of the Palestine Land Society and the general coordinator of al-Awda the Palestinian Right of Return Coalition, discusses the theft of Palestine and the genocidal attempt to erase the Palestinian people from the face of the earth as the longest continual Ethnic Cleansing in history.
Guy Davidi and Emad Burnat, filmmakers, co-directors of "5 Broken Cameras," discuss the Palestinian resistance to this ethnic cleansing. Their film "5 Broken Cameras" won the World Cinema Directing Award at Sundance this year. This powerful documentary tells the story Palestinian resistance to brutal oppression by following a Palestinian villager who films the struggle of the people in his village against the Israeli army on a series of cameras. Nodal points in the struggle and the film are marked by the Israeli army smashing each camera. The film begins with his first camera recording the birth of his son...Each of the five cameras tells its own story before it is destroyed.
Jesse Cardinal & Greg Mack 7-23-12
July 25, 2012, 12:02 a.m.
On Wild Idaho Rising Tideâs (http://wildidahorisingtide.org/) Monday, July 23, Climate Justice Forum radio program, we gratefully talk with Jesse Cardinal, downriver coordinator for Keepers of the Athabasca in Alberta and co-organizer of the Third Annual Tar Sands Healing Walk at Fort McMurray, and Greg Mack, lead activist of Northern Rockies Earth First! in Moscow, Idaho. Jesse discusses the August 4 spiritual journey and First Nations resistance to tar sands exploitation, and Greg recounts the first ever suspension of a hydraulic fracturing drilling operation in the U.S., in response to a July 8 EF! blockade in a Pennsylvania state forest. Originally broadcast on KRFP Radio Free Moscow (http://radiofreemoscow.org/) between 7:30 and 9:30 pm PDT live at 92.5 FM and online, the show also covers regional and continent-wide climate activism news.
July 24, 2012, 6:36 p.m.
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
Weekly News in Review 24 July 2012
July 24, 2012, 1:55 p.m.
Why does the U.S. stockpile nuclear weapons yet threaten to "obliterate" Iran for getting one? ... Another mass shooting, this time in Aurora, those damn gun laws! ... Iraq has its worst day of mass bombings in two years (we really made things better there, eh?) ... Rebels bomb a National Security meeting in Syria ... Romney shamefully refuses to release tax returns, afraid of what they will show -- and there really are people who'll vote for this guy? ... and cheers (somewhat) for Ron Paul.
July 24, 2012, 11:29 a.m.
On 7/16/12, Cancer Action NY participated in a meeting on the subject of strategies whereby St. Lawrence County government would provide educational outreach on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) exposure minimization to the residents of the St. Lawrence River Valley. Dr. Susan Hathaway, Director of the St. Lawrence County Public Health Department, Sallie Brothers, Chair of the St. Lawrence County Legislature, Scott Sutherland, member of the St. Lawrence County Legislature, Jason Pfotenhauer, Deputy Director of the St. Lawrence County Planning Office and John Tenbusch, staff of the Planning Office, as well as Lewis M. Shepard, a founding member of Cancer Action NY and Donald L. Hassig, Director of Cancer Action NY were present. The meeting had been requested by Cancer Action NY.
We began the meeting with a brief Cancer Action NY presentation on the subject of the 2010 World Health Organization (WHO) report titled, "Persistent Organic Pollutants: Impact on Child Health". Mr. Hassig then request that Dr. Susan Hathaway share her position on the validity of this WHO report. Dr. Hathaway stated that the report was not valid due to the fact that there were no epidemiological research findings supporting the conclusion that POPs exposure imposes disease risk.
What Dr. Hathaway stated is false. A great volume of peer reviewed scientific literature has been published on the subject of POPs exposure disease outcome. Many of the research articles are epidemiological studies in which a statistically significant correlation was reported between POPs exposure and disease outcome. The position that sufficient scientific knowledge does not exist upon which to base the conclusion that POPs exposure imposes significant disease risk is frequently taken by those who serve as spokespersons for chemical corporations and food corporations. Administrators of governmental public health agencies also take this position. Those who take this position almost invariably have a vested interest in suppressing the scientific knowledge, which serves as a basis for concluding that POPs exposure imposes significant disease risk at current levels of food supply contamination. Dr. Susan Hathaway has a vested interest, which determines the position that she takes. Public health agency administrators want to be comfortable with the politicians who have a say upon their continuing employment. Under corporate pressure, the politicians prefer to maintain government silence on the subject of chemical exposure health hazards.
The Chair of the St. Lawrence County Legislature, Sallie Brothers made a wise assessment of the opposition to being a part of educational outreach on POPs exposure minimization, which existed in the County Public Health Department and moved the meeting forward by soliciting ideas on how to proceed without the involvement of that part of county government. Mr. Pfotenhauer suggested that the Environmental Management Council (EMC) might be interested in having a link to POPs exposure minimization educational materials on their website. This idea met with the approval of all parties. Thus, a small step was taken toward the eventual creation of a POPs exposure minimization educational outreach within St. Lawrence County government.
July 24, 2012, 10:55 a.m.
On July 10th, 2012, David O. Carpenter, MD, Director of the State University of New York at Albany Institute for Health and the Environment, Barbara Warren, Executive Director of Citizen's Environmental Coalition and Donald L. Hassig, Director of Cancer Action NY conducted a news conference in the Legislative Correspondents Association Press Room of the Legislative Office Building in Albany. The following subjects were covered in great detail: (1) the scientific literature that supported the development of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) non-carcinogenic effects oral reference dose for dioxin; (2) the implications of the oral reference dose for public health protection; and (3) the controlling influences of corporate entities in the chemicals, agriculture and food sales sectors of the economy, which have caused EPA to fall short of warning the public concerning the dioxin exposure health hazard. (The Media Advisory is provided below for further information.)
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Media Advisory
7/6/12 For Immediate Release
State University of New York at Albany
Institute for Health and the Environment
David O. Carpenter, MD, Director
518.525.2660
Cancer Action NY
Donald L. Hassig, Director
315.262.2456
Citizen's Environmental Coalition
Barbara Warren, Executive Director
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News Conference: The Significance of the US EPA Oral Reference Dose
for Dioxin to the Protection of Public Health
Tuesday, July 10, 2012, 1:00 PM
LCA Press Room, Legislative Office Building, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY USA
(Presentations by Dr. Carpenter, Mr. Hassig and Ms. Warren will occur
in the order listed above.)
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published "Reanalysis of
Key Issues Related to Dioxin Toxicity and Response to NAS Comments" in
February of 2012. EPA sets forth a non-carcinogenic effects chronic
oral reference dose for dioxin in this document. Those who consume
average quantities of animal fats receive dioxin exposures in excess
of the oral reference dose.
The purpose of this news conference is to explain the significance of
EPA's non-carcinogenic effects oral reference dose to matters of
public health protection. Dioxin exposures at current levels of food
supply contamination are damaging the health of those who consume
average quantities of animal fats. The US EPA is struggling to move
forward with actions that address this food supply contamination
problem. That struggle is a defining part of EPA's history on
dioxins. The struggle to act on scientific knowledge when corporate
pressures oppose action is what deprived Americans of a dioxin
reassessment for nearly three decades.
"EPA says that the most sensitive non-cancer effects of dioxin are to
reduce sperm count and lower thyroid activity. The effects were
greatest when exposure occurred during childhood. We need to reduce
exposure to dioxin, especially to children."-David O. Carpenter, MD
"The most effective use of currently existing scientific knowledge on
the subjects of dioxin exposure and damages to health is the provision
of a warning to the general public making know the fact that
consumption of animal fats at current levels of food supply
contamination imposes a significant quantity of disease risk. The
oral reference dose for dioxin can be used to give this warning to
Americans. If EPA believes that it must share the work of warning
Americans with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), then the Agency
should move quickly to enlist the assistance of FDA."-Donald L. Hassig
"The release of this part of the dioxin reassessment by EPA after 27
years is an important first step in countering the pressure and
influence of the chemical industry.
There are 2 essential additional actions needed now to protect public
health: (1) reduce industrial dioxin discharges to zero rapidly; and
(2) provide advisories to the public about how to reduce dietary
exposures to dioxin."-Barbara Warren
Cancer Action NY submitted the following questions to the US EPA for
the purpose of determining EPA's position on the implications of the
new oral reference dose to matters of public health protection. EPA
provided answers which avoid the fact that animal fat consumption
imposes exposures in excess of the oral reference dose. The Agency is
attempting to avoid a politically uncomfortable reality that is made
ever so clear by the oral reference dose. Current levels of dioxin
exposure are significantly damaging public health. EPA is responsible
for minimizing harm to the environment and public health. This is the
time for EPA to take action on dioxins.
The 0.6 picogram dioxin TEQ/kg bw/day exposure estimate set forth by
EPA is for per capita exposure. Dioxin exposures for those who
consume average quantities of animal fats are higher than per capita
exposure because per capita exposure is an average including those who
consume animal fats and those who do not.
1. What does EPA estimate to be the current quantity of dioxin
exposure for those who consume average quantities of animal fat?
Estimated average adult dioxin exposures in the U.S. are slightly
lower than the dioxin reference dose (RfD). A recent study estimates
U.S. average background dioxin exposures to be about 0.6 pg
TEQ/kg-day. The RfD is 0.7 pg/kg-day.
2. In the 2003 draft of the agency's dioxin reassessment a per capita
exposure value of 1.0 pg dioxin TEQ/kg bw/day was set forth. EPA later
recalculated exposure using the same data but assigning no detects a
value of zero rather than one half the limit of detection as was done
in the calculation which produced the exposure value stated above. The
recalculation produced an exposure value of 0.6 pg dioxin TEQ/kg
bw/day. In the paper which presented the recalculated exposure value
the statement is found that the recalculated value should not be
viewed as evidence that dioxin exposure had decreased. Considering the
fact that assigning no detects a value of one half the limit of
detection is a well established practice for producing estimates of
dioxin concentrations, is it fair to state that per capita dioxin
exposure is approximately 1.0 pg dioxin TEQ/kg bw/day?
Estimated average adult dioxin exposures in the U.S. are slightly
lower than the dioxin reference dose (RfD). A recent study estimates
U.S. average background dioxin exposures to be about 0.6 pg
TEQ/kg-day. The RfD is 0.7 pg/kg-day.
3. Are a considerable number of Americans receiving dioxin exposures
in excess of the chronic oral reference dose?
Most Americans have low-level exposure to dioxins. Most dioxin
exposure occurs through the diet with small amounts of exposure coming
from breathing air containing trace amounts of dioxins and from
inadvertent ingestion of soil containing dioxins. While we all likely
have some level of dioxin in our bodies, the levels are low and
findings show that low-levels of exposure do not pose a significant
health risk.
4. What damages to health occur at exposures in excess of the oral
reference dose?
Exceeding the RfD for one day, or a week or more does not necessarily
means that an individual has a greater risk of health effects.
Constant exposure at higher doses than the RfD are more of a cause for
concern. However, it is not possible to determine an exact dose where
adverse effects will start to occur. Nor is it possible to determine
exactly how many days of exposure above the RfD it would take to cause
health effects. The derivation of an RfD generally includes scientific
assumptions and factors that account for uncertainty. Therefore, it is
designed to be public health protective. It is designed to be
protective even of sensitive subgroups.
5. Do current levels of food supply contamination impose significant
adverse health effects upon those who consume average quantities of
animal fat?
The U.S. food supply is one of the safest and most nutritious in the
world. Americans should eat a balanced diet and follow the Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, 2010. EPA and its federal partners such as
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S.
Department of Agriculture do not recommend avoiding any particular
foods because of dioxin. Each food group provides important nutrients
needed for health.
Media Miscoverage on Ethiopia, Syria + Peacekeeper Park
July 24, 2012, 8:40 a.m.
You probably didn't know about the tremendous demonstration in Ethiopia, but Elias Amare explains it.
Phil takes a time out to remember Alexander Cockburn, from Cockburn's distinguished father, to his tenure at Village Voice. He also references the episode in which Cockburn stood up for Ralph Nader during his Presidential bid.
Then, the tragic anniversary of the death of Canadian Major Hess-Von Kruedener, killed by bombarment during a U.N. observer mission in Lebanon. The Major's widow, Cynthia, recounts the incident, and how the inquest has unfolded.
July 24, 2012, 2:31 a.m.
As promised/threatened in December of last year, when I refused to play any Christmas songs, we're doing a Christmas show! Take THAT, Jesus-lovers!
July 23, 2012, 9:08 p.m.
"Upon arriving in Denmark for a 14 month stay, Zuckerman was immediately struck by the absence of religion as he had grown accustomed to it in the United States. There was no televangelism. Sporting events did not begin with prayers to Jesus. Political ideas based in religious beliefs were considered unsound. There was no push to teach creationism in school, and no nationalized movements against homosexuality or abortion. So he set out to interview as many Danes as possible to understand their ideas about God, religion, death and the meaning of life and reports his results in a book entitled Society Without God...."
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/religion-denmark
July 23, 2012, 6:58 p.m.
Nachrichten Kommentar mit Wolfgang, Rainer's Grosskompost Versorgung
# 229 - Suicide CCXXIX - Paints Like Bob Ross
July 23, 2012, 6:20 p.m.
A Suicide is a media-mix-o-flavors. A taste of everything. Sports-Center for the WorldWideWeb (without the sports). The Cliff's Notes version of the Akashic Records. Enjoy this 229th edition.
Legalize love in Uganda! + global LGBT news + more!
July 23, 2012, 5:29 p.m.
Clerics call on Uganda to legalize love; commentator Janet Mason revisits her hometown; "Larry Kramer Acts Up Again" in a "Rainbow Minute"; the E.U. insists on respect for LGBT rights, gay Iraqis win Dutch asylum, DOMA appeals pile up at the U.S. Supreme Court, the Boy Scouts of America stays on the straight and narrow-minded, and more LGBT news from around the world.
Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
July 23, 2012, 4:41 p.m.
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TO THE MEMORY OF Chernobyl, Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (THREE)
July 23, 2012, 3:43 p.m.
This program presents the consequences of the Chernobyl explosion on the environment. How has the radiation affected, and continues to affect air, water, the soil, plants and animals. How does radiation move, disperse, bio-accumulate and enter the food chain. Specific examples are from studies on rivers and lakes, wild and domestic animals, birds, fish, fungi, bacteria, viruses, - studies that show that they were all affected, in varying degrees, but without exception. The closed 30 kilometer zone around the Chernobyl reactor and the contaminated lands of Belarus and the Ukraine are the world's first testing ground, a real life experiment nobody would dare to undertake on purpose, of the impact of chronic, ongoing radiation on life.
July 23, 2012, 1:25 p.m.
July 23, 2012, 1:13 p.m.
The GAY show!
July 23, 2012, 1:05 p.m.
The NO ENGLISH show!
The Stuph File Program - Episode #0153
July 23, 2012, 10:40 a.m.
An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain
If Music Could Talk - July 22, 2012
July 23, 2012, 10:39 a.m.
Remember When We DId The Moonshot?
July 23, 2012, 9:55 a.m.
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Olympics Special - the politics of the London olympics...
July 23, 2012, 6:27 a.m.
July 23, 2012, 5:57 a.m.
In July's Taxcast: Why there are no prosecutions at HSBC bank, a tax justice victory in Norway, new Tax Justice Network research reveals the amount of offshore wealth is higher than anybody thought. And we look at the temporary tax haven of the London Olympics.
July 23, 2012, 3:20 a.m.
July 23, 2012, 12:31 a.m.
"Once when I was visiting the island of LaGonave in Haiti, I taught an informal class for a group of teachers trying to advance their careers with a knowledge of English. As an exercise, we translated a short article entitled, âWhy Save Seeds.â ....
Transcript: AuthorNancyCasey.com/Carrots-cabbages