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July 14, 2011, 10:58 p.m.
When the polar ice caps melt, sea level will rise. Thatâs happened earlier in the history of the world, and it appears it will happen again.
In this edition of Radio Curious, the first of a two part series on global warming and sea level rise, we visit with Peter D. Ward, a paleontologist and professor of biology and earth and space sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is the author of âThe Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps,â in which he describes expected conditions in 2050, 2300 and 2500.
July 14, 2011, 8:17 p.m.
This RADIOLA! succumbs briefly and ever so slightly to feckless insouciance.
July 14, 2011, 7:18 p.m.
I got nothing to do. You got nothing to say. Everything is so fucked up. I guess it's natural that way. Everything falls apart" - Husker Du
Technical snafus, missed segues, despondency and apathy are the tale of the tape for this week's Potluck Breakfast. Consider yourself warned.
PLB is live Wednesdays on www.killradio.org from 8am-11amPST. Follow on Twitter: #ptlckbrkfst
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The Shortwave Report 07/15/11 Listen Globally!
July 14, 2011, 6:08 p.m.
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. Free to rebroadcast. China, Japan, Germany, and Russia.
Dialect - Bristol's squatting history as LibCons aim to criminalise squatters
July 14, 2011, 5:06 p.m.
July 14, 2011, 11:48 a.m.
Every Thursday 4-6pm PST on www.killradio.org
The NATO World Order - Africa Division
July 14, 2011, 9:26 a.m.
Glen Ford from Black Agenda Report discusses how the war in Libya fits into broader U.S. plans for dominance in Africa, and the retreat of the left.
In investigating Obama's role in U.S. militarism, Black Agenda Report doesn't mince words, and Ford doesn't sugarcoat the truth.
KOWA 106.5 LP FM - An interview with the 22nd Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravanistas
July 14, 2011, 2:43 a.m.
This was recorded when the 22nd Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravanistas departed Olympia, Washington enroute to Cuba.
Featuring Janine Solanki and Hap Bockelie.
For more information or comments you can contact us at kowa@riseup.net or at 360-352-1646.
July 14, 2011, 2:28 a.m.
Kumasi & Kiilu Nyasha discuss Pelican Bay Hunger Strike. Corrina Gould discusses protecting Sogorea Te aka Glen Cove. Jeffrey Blankfort discusses how the left justifies suppression of political dissent in countries targeted by US govt., e.g. Libya. Henry Norr, Gale Courey-Toensing and Jane Jewell discuss Freedom Flotilla 2 Stay Human and how Greek implemented Israel's siege on Gaza.
2011 28 Profile of Elizabeth T Jones, Chicken Photographer
July 13, 2011, 6:49 p.m.
Bucky Buckaw attempts to raises the ethical bar by propagandizing on decentralizing agriculture for the benefit of livestock, humans and the environment. This episode is a discussion with Elizabeth T Jones, a fine arts photographer who is exploring chicken photography.
Another US soldier killed in Iraq
July 13, 2011, 5:48 p.m.
Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday: Yet another US soldier was killed in Iraq, this time in Amarra, Iraq. This was the latest in the recent string of attacks that have killed at least 18 US soldiers this summer in Iraq.
Afghanistan, Today NATO is reporting the death of a soldier of unspecified nationality from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan, Yesterday: :NATO is reporting the death of a soldier of unspecified nationality from an IED blast in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan.
Afghanistan, Saturday and Sunday: NATO is reporting the deaths of three soldiers of unspecified nationality from insurgent attacks.
Afghanistan, Sunday: The Danish military is reporting the death of a Danish soldier from an IED blast in an area west of Patrol Base Line in the Upper Gereshk valley, Helmand province. Denmar has announced they will withdraw from Afghanistan this year. One country at a time, the "Coalition" is being whittled down, just like in Iraq.
Afghanistan, Monday: NATO is reporting the death of a soldier of unspecified nationality from a non combat related injury somewhere in eastern Afghanistan. Is this yet another GI suicide?
Afghanistan, Tuesday morning: Afghan President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, a man the Washington Post said was "evolving into a real US ally", was assassinated at his home in southern Afghanistan, an official reported. Sarday Mohommad, reportedly a member of Ahmed Wali Karzai's own security team killed him with an AK-47, according to a person who witnessed the killing. Yet the Washington Post reports three pistol shots were used instead, consistant with the report that one weapon was turned over to guards and a second, concealed weapon was used. The Taliban took credit for the execution, but some say he was killed for being a liability to the current government instead. He was an old-school warlord and strongman with a long list of enemies.
Afghanistan, today: A bomb exploded against the motorcade of an Afghan governor on Wednesday, as he made his way to the funeral of President Hamid Karzaiâs brother. The attack wounded two Afghan troops, the government reported. The governor was en route to join thousands of mourners in the Kandahar province. The governor of Helmand province, Gulab Mangal, and the provincial chief of intelligence were unhurt in the attack. The bomb was detonated by remote-control, wounding two nearby soldiers, according to the governmentâs office.
Pakistan, Tuesday: US drone strikes continue to kill people even as Pakistani-US relations reach their lowest point in mnay years. At least 45 people were killed by missiles launched by U.S. drone aircraft in Pakistan's northwest in less than 24 hours, local intelligence officials said on Tuesday. The attacks started on Monday night, when US drones fired nine missiles into a alleged militant compound and at a vehicle in North Waziristan, killing 25 people. Another strike hours later in South Waziristan killed five people. Then on Tuesday morning, another drone fired two more missiles at another compound in North Waziristan.
Baghdad, Iraq, today: Three Katusha rockets hit the U.S. Embassy in west Baghdadâs fortified Green Zone on Tuesday, acording to a security source reporting to Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Baghdad, Iraq, Monday: 3 Katusha rockets scored direct hits on and in the Green Zone, wounding a member of the Iraqi Parliament and her sons. âOne of Al-Fadhila (Virtue) Partyâs Legislators, Kamila al-Moussawiâs sons was injured and a number of her guards, when they tried to save her and her family members, when their flat was target for a 3 Katusha rocket attack, targeted against the Green Zone early on Monday,â her office statement reported.
Baghdad, Iraq, Monday: Six rockets were fired into the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, reported state-run Iraqiya television. It added that the rockets had been launched from a neighbourhood south of the Iraqi capital. The attack caused no casualties, according to the report. Was this a second rocket attack in addition to the one that wounded an Iraqi legislator?
Baghdad, Iraq, Monday: Two elements of the pro-US al-Sahwa or Awakening militias have been killed and four others were injured in a booby-trapped car explosion in west Baghdad Abu-Ghuraib district on Monday, according to a Baghdad security source. The Sahwa or Awakening fighters are former Resistance fighters who turned coats to side with the US in 2007 and are regarded as traitors by nearly all current insurgent elements.
Kut, Iraq, Monday night: A U.S. Army patrol near Delta Base was attacked using an explosive charge in the city of Kut, the center of southern Iraqâs Wassit Province on Monday night, but losses were not known, an Iraqi police source reported. Wait a minute: WHAT US Patrol? WHAT IED? I though US combat operations in Iraq were over? Oh yeah-that's been said before. "Mission Accomplished?" I don't think so!
Mr Barrack Obama, now's the time to pull the plug on 8 and 10 years of useless war-bring all the troops home TODAY!
Montgomery County, MD pushing youth curfew
July 13, 2011, 5:45 p.m.
In Montgomery County, MD, upscale developers in Silver Spring are complaining to the police about young people under 18 hanging out. Due to curfews in DC and PG County, and maybe police harassment at Gallery Place, Silver Spring has become one of the few places people under 18 or young looking without ID documents can hang out without fear of arrest. Apparently the wealthy owners of Silver Spring's fancy new buildings don't like that very much! Everyone wants to make sure they don't have teenagers it seems!
At the request of the police, the county executive-and no doubt developers-Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Irvin, who represents Silver Spring, has introduced curfew legislation similar to DC's law, which DC cannot effectively enforce.
Councilmember Marc Elrich, to his credit, is saying the idea needs further study, a way of blunting the momentum and putting it on the back burner.
The complaints from business owners center on teens in general, yet they say this law is "needed" to prevent gangs from coming to Silver Spring in the future. This, in turn, means the real target of the law is young people of color-especially Montgomery County's Latino community. Out of fear of gangs that are not even going to Silver Spring, the police and developers want to see young people and expecially young people of color swept off the streets by armed police in ALL of Montgomery County, even places 20 miles from Silver Spring. They have gone so far as to propose that Rockville and Gaithersburg, where the proposed county law could not apply, would have to pass curfews too, for fear of becoming "curfew-free zones!"
What have we come to when rich suit-and-tie developers have the power to order police with guns to arrest or detain people simply for being under 18 and out at night? Don't they understand that just ONE negative encounter with the police is enough to turn many young people into permanent enemies of all law enforcement and all of the people who stand behind it? Don't they understand that the REAL gangs, including MS-13 and even a few jihadi groups, recruit in the very prisons they send people to?
In Iraq and Afghanistan, when people are treated as insurgents, many of them become insurgents. That was how the resistance in Occupied Iraq grew. It began with a few former members of the government attacking US troops, especially after an incident involving a US helicopter, a flag on a mosque, and police aggression against a crowd. Soon attacks mushroomed, and the US responded with a policing model of raiding people's homes. Many of those raided decided to become insurgents themselves, and withing months the war mushroomed. Less than a year later, those 4 Blackwater thugs were strung from that famous bridge in Fallujah, and it was ON!
WSQT (DC Pirate) Broadcast for July 13
July 13, 2011, 5:31 p.m.
Pirate Radio Song
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Palestine Today for July 13
Reportback from Code Pink vigil at Greek Embassy for Freedom Flotilla II
War Update: Two US troops killed in Iraq
Between the Lines short: Saudis urged dictators to crush Arab Spring
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4 arrested at protest against Colombia Free Trade Agreement
Song: Keep DC Wal-Mart Free
Montgomery County, MD considers youth curfew at request of Silver Spring
Pedicab update: Tourmobile behind Park Police harassment on Mall
Between the Lines short: Car mileage standards
July 4th Post parade: Checkpoints, 5 arrests, w sound from police attack
July 13, 2011, 3:20 p.m.
A 2:15 fact filled weekly reminder to all pet owners of the things that you can be doing for your pets. Your host Fagan Sanchez is a member of SPOT (Saving Pets One at a Time) and writes these tips with advice from a local veterinary.
Jeff Blankfort News & Opinions
July 13, 2011, 1:20 p.m.
Blankfort reports on hunger strike at California prisons & situation at Pelican Bay, on plea from American women on Gaza Flotilla boat, Audacity of Hope, trapped in Greece; on collaboration between Israel & Greece, Netanyahu lobbying for EU baiilout of Greece and Greece stopping boats from sailing from Greece to break Gaza siege and praised by Jewish groups; on Israelâs blocking Flytilla in Tel Aviv using Facebook with help from airlines; how Israeli went after activists at Ben-Gurion airport; how Congress passed bill threatening aid to Palestine Authority which was praised by ADL
No More Deaths on US/Mexico Border: N. Teter & M. Villegas
July 13, 2011, 12:25 p.m.
Teter &Villegas, undergrad & grad students from SF State Univ. report on their experiences as volunteers in Arizona desert with "No More Deaths,: a faith-based group that assists undocumented migrants on US/Mexico border. They describe intolerable conditions facing migrants from Mexico & C.A . forced by crackdown on urban centers to cross hot Arizona desert in search of work. They describe ways volunteers assist migrants within the law, how their work is sabotaged by Border Patrol agents, and how arrested migrants and all Latinos are abused by legal system & discriminatory laws.
BITE ME Film Fest 2011 Feature
July 13, 2011, 11:59 a.m.
Select interview cuts and the full feature from the BITE ME Film Festival 2011 in Toronto. The film festival took place from July 8-10 2011 at the NFB in downtown Toronto.
"BITE ME! Is a non profit arts, culture, media literacy and education organization. Its mission is to advance the publicâs understanding of critical social justice issues pertaining to self discovery & identity through the body, representations and interpretations of body perceptions and body images. BITE ME! explores, challenges and redefines the contested âbody beautifulâ wrapped in our experiences of the provocative and the every day. Join us for a 3-day exploration of body and identity stories from near and farâstories set to challenge the limits of traditional body image dialogue by addressing multiple imagesâbody images and experiences informed by diverse race, religious and cultural backgrounds, genders, sexualities, classes, ages, abilities, geographies and histories among other social identifiers. " (bitemefilmfest.com)
Interviews Robin Hahnel on economic meltdown, Greece and North America
July 13, 2011, 11:48 a.m.
Robin Hahnel has taught political economy at American University for 30 years. He has co-authored, along with Michael Albert, numerous books on participatory economics. Robin has been active in many social movements and organizations beginning with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and the anti-Vietnam war movement in the 1960s, and most recently with the Southern Maryland Greens and Green Party USA. His most recent books include Economic Justice and Democracy and Green Economics: Confronting the Ecological Crisis.
Robin Hanhel speaks to Latin Waves of the imminent default of Greece's nearly a half-trillion dollars of outstanding debt obligations. This would be a catastrophe for Greece, for its European creditor banks and for financial institutions everywhere. We discuss the connections of the crisis to the austerity measures imposed on Greece almost a year ago. What about Canada and the US who continue to promote a neoliberal market fundamentalist approach to the crisis?
July 13, 2011, 9:27 a.m.
Author of Creating Healthy Children Through Attachment Parenting and Raw Foods, Karen Ranzi joins Rebecca Faris, for a talk about how to raise healthy children
Between the Lines' for the Week Ending July 22, 2011
July 13, 2011, 7:32 a.m.
Obama Says Heâs Willing to Make Deep Cuts to Social Safety Net to get GOP Budget Deal; Class Action Lawsuit Re: Trust Accounts of Half a Million Native Americans; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Battles Cancer
July 13, 2011, 2:19 a.m.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check, talks about the importance of using facts to take on and expose the extremism of the anti-abortion movement.
Lance Tapley, Journalist and Author, talks about the nature of the Super-Max prisons that the torture inside their walls.
Manuel LaFontaine, All of Us or None, Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition, gives an important update on what's happening in the ongoing hunger strike by the prisoners in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit -- the SHU.
7/13/11 low on sanity/myotis edition
July 13, 2011, 1:38 a.m.
special guests have invaded my show tonight!!! low on sanity and yancy from myotis have joined us tonight to talk about music and shows and west virginia! plus, we will be hearing lots of music from both of these bands!
also, new music from dismantled and ostfront!
upcoming shows:
low on sanity (NEW REMIX CD AVAILABLE THAT NIGHT AT THE SHOW!), machine chop inc. (featuring yours truly!!!), myotis, and rivetta @ fallout, july 18th, richmond, va<<<-----FREE SHOW!!!!
dismantled @ the wave, july 18th, norfolk, va
fgfc820 @ fallout, august 12, richmond, va
Hot Enough to Fry a Dog's Brain
July 12, 2011, 11:03 p.m.
It's HOT! Let's Rock.
A Giant Free Musical Slurpee For Your Ears
July 12, 2011, 9:08 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
Classic Metal Covers: Bluegrass, Acoustic
July 12, 2011, 8:26 p.m.
Bluegrass masters Hayseed Dixie and Iron Horse fire off classic metal covers of Motorhead, Judas Preist, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Kiss, Led Zepplin and Guns & Roses also Def Leppard, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix and Van Halen from the "Pickin on Series" a crazy ass banjo version of Eruptrion from Crick Diefendorf and mellow acoustic Iron Maiden and Sabbath covers from Maiden United and Hellsongs.
July 12, 2011, 6:38 p.m.
More satire in this one and more full-length music so good for those who like to slice and dice. Sprinkled liberally with various tasteful profanities. With a nod to Marten at kapputradio for the inspiration to lighten up and have some fun!
July 12, 2011, 6:26 p.m.
So much of changing our behavior to become better stewards of our environment comes down to the little things. The stuff we usually donât think twice about at home. â like the milk we drink or the windows we look through. This week on Sea Change Radio, host Alex Wise first speaks to John Van Dine, the CEO of SAGE Electrochromics, the leading developer of dynamic window glass, which tints automatically to optimize daylight and reduce energy consumption. Then, we hear from Jennifer Bice, the owner of Redwood Hill Farm, who tells us how goats can be a more sustainable alternative to cows.
July 12, 2011, 10:39 a.m.
We breakdown the 2011 Bilderberg meeting in St. Moritz, Switzerland. We talk about the many notable attendees and the implications of this ulta-elite group of industry leaders and politicians meeting in secret. We also explain how there is historical precedent to show that many elections and world events are decided at the yearly meeting.
July 12, 2011, 3:04 a.m.
Onkalo is the first permanent storage for waste from nuclear power plants in Finland. Blasted into bedrock of the island of Olkiluoto on the shores of the Baltic Sea, it has to remain secure for 100,000 years.
July 12, 2011, 1:54 a.m.
After a couple of unrelated tracks at the beginning, we go through all my haven't-played-yet-stuff that has ended up in my folder on the WRIR server over the years. It's a random assortment of tracks that were mostly as much a surprised to me as they were/will be to you.