Bin Laden dead, Bahrain still occupied

We return with Islamic scholar and community leader Zafar Bangash, who interprets the death of Bin Laden and the continuing repression in Bahrain.

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Furious Common Sense Special

Spotlighting the ridiculous racist reaction from Reichwing media to Common and his poetry, with clips from Common's famous DefCom poem, Melissa Harris-Perry, Mumia on Assata Shakur, John Stewart, and more...

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Native Wisdom

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Dialect - Bristol Against the Arms trade Action Group

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The Shortwave Report 05/13/11 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. Free to rebroadcast. China, Japan, Germany, Cuba, and Russia.

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Paul Blanch, Nuclear Industry Whistle Blower, Money over Safety in Nuclear Industry

We discuss Japan and the U.S. What concerns do we share? What facts should be know? From this interview, 'One thing to know is that Indian Point is the worlds most dangerous nuclear plant with probably the highest level of on site radiation,'.says Paul Blanch.

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He Twice Ran and Won Olympic Marathons Barefoot

It is said that in the early part of World War II, it took 500,000 Italian soldiers to occupy Ethiopia, and one Ethiopian soldier to conquer Rome. 19 years later, this one Ethiopian solder, Abebe Bikila competed barefoot in the 1960 Olympiad marathon foot race in Rome, Italy, leaving all other runners in the dust. Abebe Bikila became the first African to win an Olympic Gold Medal.  Four years later he won the Marathon at the Tokyo Olympiad becoming the first person to win two Olympic Marathon Gold Medals. He became the hero of Rome Olympiad and for years to come a national hero in Ethiopia. In this edition of Radio Curious we discuss the film, "The Athlete," about the life of Abebe Bikila, with Davey Frankel and Rasselas Lakew, the writers, directors and producers of the movie.

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321123321 - Motivation

- completing da 1st 3rd Please see : http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/51627

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Goldstone Report: G. Bisharat, A. Horowitz, P. Weiss

On May 5th, 2011, Adam Horowitz and Philip Weiss, co-hosts of the Mondoweiss blog, and co-authors with Lizzy Ratner of "The Goldstone Report,: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict," spoke in Oakland on behalf of the Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) about the famous and controversial report on Israel's Cast Lead assault on Gaza from December 2008 through January 2009. They were introduced by Prof. George Bisharat of the UC Berkeley Law School who provided background on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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FUKUSHIMA Poison Released

According to the mainstream media, the nuclear accident is all over. Just the opposite is happening. Historic high levels of radioactivity. Mega radiation released again. Unconfirmed rumors of another reactor fire. Reactor 1 and 3 melted down. What we need to know.

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Hyrofracking and Heath Implications

Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor, is an internationally recognized authority on the environment links to cancer and human health. Steingraber’s highly acclaimed book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment presents cancer as a human rights issue. 32 States currently being fracked, NY is the only one with a temporary moratorium. The Catskill Mountain Area, the watershed for NYC, providing for 8 million people, is the biggest unfiltered water system in the United States.

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John Elder Robison-Be Different

It wasn't until he was in his 40s that John Elder Robison learned he had Asperger's Syndrome. He shares the difficult lessons he learned about coping in life in "Be Different".

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If Music Could Talk - May 8 - Guest : Guitarist Frankzig, Mother's Day

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Barrick Gold industry Piranha's

Linda Rose interviewed Friends of the Earth campaigner and ProtestBarrick.net editor about her trip to Canada to attend the Barrick Gold AGM.

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"Losing Our Cool" with Stan Cox

One of the "10 must-read environmental books of 2010 to read in 2011" -- Mother Nature Network Kansan Stan Cox, the most widely under reported environmental writers inside Kansas writes a salvo sequel to his first book "Sick Planet" with "Losing Our Cool." We are honored to deliver his voice to the A-Info Radio programming community. Also another fellow Kansan worker turned whistle-blower who has worked in many of the "fresh and waste water" municipal facilites in Kansas spills the beans; i.e. the infrastructure is hollow and about to collapse. A listener calls in angry and talks ..... without using the word "revolution." Enjoy and feel free to use this, try to tell others about Radio Free Kansas.

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5/11/11 edition

tonight's show kicks off with block of awesome songs from the one and only my life with the thrill kill kult, who will be playing this thursday at fallout with 16 volt and twitch the ripper! in fact, i have a lot of music from bands playing here in richmond within the next week. it's like a dog germs version of activate!, maybe dog activate or activate germs? but i'm not as cool as mike rutz--that's the difference. also tonight, i have a new kmfdm remix by rotersand and new music from binary park and new old music from davos. upcoming shows: my life with the thrill kill kult and 16 volt @ fallout, richmond, va, thursday, may 12th danzig w/devildriver @ the national, richmond, va, friday, may 13th bella morte, dexter womweber, and point blank @ fallout, richmond, va, tuesday, may 17th social distortion, chuck ragan, sharks @ the national, richmond, va, wednesday, may 18th front line assembly, die krupps, cyanotic, and dj? acucrack @ jaxx, springfield, va, friday, may 20th

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Waiting for Haberdasher

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

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Voix de faits 11 mai 2011

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Frenchy Show Pt 1

One hour sample of a weekly four-hour online radio broadcast 10pm central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Program #3 (recorded 11 May 2011)

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Frenchy Show Pt 2

One hour sample of a weekly four-hour online radio broadcast 10pm central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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Frenchy Show Pt 3

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Frenchy Show Pt 4

One hour sample of a weekly four-hour online radio broadcast 10pm central time from KABF 88.3 FM Little Rock, Arkansas. Full details on the international works of Rural War Room http://www.RuralWarRoom.com

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BSTF 864 - Hurricane Spectacular 07 - MacBUSH!

Chapter 7 of the HURRICANE SPECTACULAR: "MacBUSH!" Our audio odyssey continues... The story takes an epic Shakespearean turn as Jeb Robertson Bush, tapped by the shadow cabal to seek out and slay his rogue brother George in the swamps, sees his world filtered through a Manichean mirror as he agonizes over the quandary of right vs wrong, good vs evil, truth vs lies. Back in the blasted bayous, the kidnapper Jack continues his own agenda of vengeance on the terrified George and FEMA's Michael Brown. Punctuated by torture and potty humor, the beaten-unconscious George's flashback casts light on the twisted genealogical skeins of the stormy interwoven Robertson/Bush history, throwing into sharp focus the longstanding rift between the two Bush brothers while a recurring "Fortunate Son" motif weaves its way through the tangled threads. Meanwhile, George regains consciousness only to realize that the worm is finally turning with his boyfriend Brown, who's now siding with their kidnapper. The lost president is plagued with this lingering, nagging question: Will his family take him back? The music in tonight's show includes "Never Follow the Yellow-Green Road" from the oddball electronic LP THE WOZARD OF IZ, an excerpt from the rap version of Dante's INFERNO by MicPwr and Mr Moe, FORTUNATE SON as interpreted by Bob Walkenhorst and by a drunken bar band playing an Irish pub on St Patty's Day with a sloppy SEVEN-MINUTE VERSION of that song! "MacBUSH!" is all neatly wrapped up by the rocking-ass song "Brother Jack" by Congo Novell at the end.

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Rassemblement National Etudiant

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Break The Stereo- I'll Be Around

Break The Stereo is on this week! 93.5fm in Nelson, B.C. The Detroit Spinners play "I;ll Be There, James Brown with Mother Popcorn, Jack McDuff "Rolling Stone" and Hang em High by Jimmy Smith and also played by Jackie Mittoo. Miss Funky Fox! by Exit 9. Great track! The Underground Vegetables with a version of Melting Pot along with the original by Booker T. Cymande play "Bra" and Bobby Hughes Combination! Along with a few more unmentioned tracks. Thanks for tuning in!

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Jeff Blankfort: News & Opinions

Blankfort gives news and opinions regarding stifling of uprisings in Bahrain, Syria and Yemen beibg tolerated by the US and Europe with the exception of Libya, of split in Iran between Ahmadinejad and Supreme Ruler Ali Khameni, India's deal to buy Iranian oil, a letter signed by 29 Democratic Senators warning Obama not to recognize Hamas, and Netanyahu's upcoming visit to the US where he will speak with Obama and address Congress.

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Phil Rees on The Killing of Bin Laden & US-Pakistan Relations

Rees, author of "Dining with Terrorists," analyzes implications of the killing of Osama bin Laden on US-Pakistan relations, the different priorities of both countries in Afghanistan, the role of the Pakistan ISI, the addiction of the Pakistan military to US funding, the problems of Pakistan as a nation, questions about the safety of its nuclear arsenal, and he explores the attitudes of the Pashtun based on his experiences with them in Afghanistan beginning with the war to oust the Soviet-backed government in Kabul to the US invasion in 2001.

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4/26/11 Cancer Action NY Public Forum on POPs Exposure Reduction

A Public Forum on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Exposure Cancer Risk and Exposure Reduction Education Tuesday, April 26th, 2011, 7:00 PM St. Lawrence County Human Services Building Second Floor Conference Room State Highway Route 310 Canton, NY Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are fat soluble environmental contaminants, many of which have been classified as known or suspected human carcinogens by government agencies, including: the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the National Toxicology Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, including furans and certain PCBs are the most extensively studied POPs. Brominated flame retardants are an emerging group of chemicals within the POPs category. Population wide exposure to POPs during the course of the past seventy years appears to be a major contributor to currently existing cancers in the industrialized world. POPs exposure of several consecutive generations is a plausible explanation of the occurrence of breast cancer in the 14 to 19 year old age group living at this time. POPs exposure reduction involves several areas of governmental activity. Food supply monitoring can detect accidental contamination incidents such as have recently taken place in Europe. The removal of excessively contaminated food from commerce is a highly important element of POPs exposure reduction. Increased monitoring of dioxin emission sources, including municipal and hazardous waste incinerators will provide data that is useful in reducing releases from these sources. Reducing open waste burning activity reduces POPs creation and thereby reduces POPs levels in food. Stopping the feeding of waste animal fat to food animals will lead to reduced levels of POPs in meats, eggs, fish and dairy products. Public education on the subject of POPs exposure cancer risk and exposure avoidance empowers individuals to make the decision to limit consumption of animal fat foods thereby reducing their POPs exposure. In 2010, the United Nations (UN) Environment Program (UNEP) in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN commenced a campaign to educate the world's citizens upon the subject of toxic and hazardous chemical exposure disease outcome for the purpose of creating progress on the path of transition from careless and harmful activities involving use and disposal of toxic and hazardous chemicals to acting with responsibility. Several categories of toxic and hazardous chemicals are addressed: (1) hazardous chemicals that are purposefully used in economic activity, (2) hazardous chemicals that are by products of chemical reactions or are created by industrial processes including, primary metals production, paper manufacturing and combustion of mixed solid wastes of which plastics are a component and (3) the chemicals listed in the Rotterdam, Basel and Stockholm Conventions. This campaign is aptly called Safe Planet. The campaign currently consists of an outreach on POPs body burden. Safe Planet additionally addresses right to know with regards to trans boundary movements of hazardous substances. Creating widespread awareness of the body burden problem is a highly important step toward full utilization of existing scientific knowledge to reduce POPs exposure disease outcome. Safe Planet is a wonderful example of government provided public educational outreach on POPs and metals exposure disease outcome and exposure reduction. In hopes of creating more such educational outreach programs within governments at the county, state and federal level, Cancer Action NY conducts a vigorous advocacy effort centered in the St. Lawrence River Valley and Northern Adirondack Mountains region of New York State. Our public forum constitutes an important element of both our advocacy work and our public education outreach program on POPs exposure reduction. Ruth Lunn, PhD, Director of the Office of the Report on Carcinogens housed in the National Toxicology Program gave a PowerPoint presentation covering the "Report on Carcinogens" (ROC), including: history of the ROC, process for classifying carcinogenic chemicals and the classification of several POPs, including, dioxin, PCBs, DDT, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorocyclohexane, chlordane, Mirex and Toxaphene. Dr. Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, environmental scientist and professor at St. Lawrence University, gave a PowerPoint presentation on the movement of PCBs from river/lake sediments to the atmosphere. This is an important part of the environmental science of POPs contamination of animal fat because it explains how PCBs, and other POPs including Mirex, which were released largely as constituents of industrial waste water have come to exist in the terrestrial part of the environment, contaminating forage crops and accumulating in the bodies of herbivores. Carnivores then consume the herbivores, which leads to accumulation of POPs at higher levels in the carnivores. The Cancer Action NY Public Forum was conducted for the purpose of educating the general public as well as policy makers on the subject of the cancer risk reduction benefits of POPs exposure reduction. The forum was one more step on the path of creating educational outreach programs within federal, state and county government health agencies that address the matter of POPs exposure reduction for the explicit purpose of cancer prevention.

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US FDA Failures to Act on Citizen Cancer Risk Reduction Petitions: A Cancer Action NY News Conference

The establishment of the modern era US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took place in 1906 with passage of the Federal Food and Drugs Act. The FDA is responsible for safeguarding public health against the harm that results from exposure to toxic substances that contaminate food and consumer products. The record of FDA failures to act for protection of the public health in cases where large amounts of scientific knowledge support protective action is long and extensive. United States citizens who have observed these failures have sought to motivate FDA action by filing formal citizen petitions. FDA has responded to many of these petitions by either denying the petition outright or simply refusing to make any response to the petition. The founder of the Cancer Prevention Coalition, Samuel Epstein, MD, has worked for decades to motivate FDA to take actions that would greatly reduce the exposure of Americans to poisons. "I have submitted the following eight petitions to the FDA, to which there has not been any response."--Samuel Epstein, MD January 29, 2010 "Imminent Health Hazard from Hormonal Beef" January 12, 2010 "Imminent Health Hazard from rBGH" May 13, 2008 "Citizen Petition Seeking A Cancer Warning On Cosmetic Talc Products" May 11, 2007 "Citizen Petition Seeking the Withdrawal of the New Animal Drug Application Approval for Posilac-Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH)" October 22, 1996 "Citizen Petition Seeking Cancer Warninig On Cosmetics Containing DEA" May 12, 1995 "Citizen Petition Seeking A Medical Alert For All Women With Silicone Gel and Polyurethane Breast Implants" April 25, 1995 "Citizen Petition Seeking Labeling of Nitrite-Preserved Hot Dogs For Childhood Cancer Risk" November 17, 1994 "Citizen Petition Seeking Carcinogenic Labeling On All Cosmetic Talc Products" Elizabeth Henley, Esq., a citizen with no organizational affiliation, petitioned FDA to resume labeling birth control pills so as to inform consumers of the cancer risk associated with use. FDA denied this petition; Henley filed suit in the US Court of Appeals. The decision favored FDA. Attorney Henley considered this an experience of a failure of the courts to provide justice. Cancer Action NY petitioned FDA to produce regulations that would establish a prohibition against the feeding of waste animal fat to livestock and require the labeling of all foods containing animal fat so as to make known to the consumer the presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contaminants in these foods. "The FDA has failed to act on Cancer Action NY's citizen petition for POPs exposure reduction regulatory actions. Since the filing of this petition in January 2004, many Americans have received dangerous POPs exposures that could have been avoided. FDA is not doing the work that Americans created it to do. This is causing Americans to receive exposures to hazardous chemicals and develop cancers resultant from these exposures. These cancers could have been prevented. The FDA is a corrupt institution. The degree to which corporate interests control FDA is outrageous. It must be reformed. I have decided that filing suit in the US Court of Appeals will be our next step. Having had a considerable amount of experience being cheated as a pro se litigant I am not optimistic about the results. Regardless of that, suing FDA comes next."--Donald L. Hassig Corporate control of FDA is at the very core of failure to act when scientific knowledge supports action. This control exists in a number of forms. Upper level FDA administrators have close ties to the corporations that FDA is charged with regulating. Former Monsanto executive, Michael R. Taylor, was recently appointed as FDA's Deputy Commissioner for Foods. FDA administrators retire at an early age and seek employment in the corporations that FDA regulates. Cancer Action NY has contacted the office of Hon. William Owens, 23rd CD State of New York, seeking the assistance of his office in bringing about congressional hearings into the matters of corporate control destroying the public health protection function of the FDA and the great amount of harm that this corporate control has caused to the American public during the period of existence of the FDA.

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