316 - Mainstream Media vs. Wikileaks, Consumerism vs. Meeting Needs, Rich vs. Poor

News You Need to Know: The Art of Missing the Point; Between the Lines interview: Danny Schechter on Media coverage of Wikileaks; Hidden Histories: Bush Era War Crimes; WBAI News: Korea; Between the Lines interview: Obama’s Deal on Bush Era Tax Cuts; Outside The Box: Overflowing Drawer; If An Agent Knocks: Internet Communication; music.

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Latin Waves Interviews Robin Hanhel /Vandana Shiva

Part A -Robin Hanhel is a radical economist and political activist. He is Professor Emeritus at American University in Washington, D.C. The author of Economic Justice and Democracy. He speaks about the need to create a “New Green Deal” that would serve the role of protecting the environment while creating much needed jobs. He also speak about how we need to reclaim our democracy to make this happen. Part B - Vandana Shiva has been researching the impact of GMO Foods for the past 20 years, she speaks to Latin Waves about her latest book Soil not Oil. She speaks about the need to move away from an oil based economy and replace it with a Bio-diversity economy that would be produce more jobs, more food etc while saving the planet.

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Predictive Programming vs. Free Will in the Twitterverse - December 16, 2010

This episode: no matter how far we've gone, can we always turn around? Should we fight for our living standards? Why don't we try to make more specific plans to achieve local goals to help more people make better choices to resist the new world order? Can we push our politicians? Who's spying on us and why? What ideas do we get in fiction to accept later as fact? How seriously do we take stuff on Twitter? Why does our media focus our attention on nonsense? Should we just laugh all this off?

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0070: The Meshach & Malik Christmas Special

A very special Christmas edition. A Christmas show unlike any you've heard before! It features the kind of holiday tunes that make kids laugh, and probably some adults cringe, and it's hosted by a nine year old and a five year old!

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potluck Breakfast December 15, 2010

"hello darkness, my old friend" - Paul Simon Potluck Breakfast's Best of 2010 (part 1)! Enjoy jeff

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12/15/2010

no super new music tonight, but i will start off with 1 and 1/3 christmas songs--christmas cheer from al jourgensen with mark thwaite, and the misfits! also, thanks in advance to dustin of the show party of one who will be filling in for me next week while i'm in the great northern state of maine. he may be attempting 4 hours of christmas music, spanning his show and mine, so you may want to tune in and see if he can pull it off (if you can stomach that much christmas music).

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Voix de faits - 15 décembre 2010

Au menu cette semaine : - Le FRAPRU a une semaine occupée - Lancement de la Coalition régionale contre la tarification et la privatisation des services publics - Reportage sur le cercle de silence - Il faut sauver CKIA

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Dialect - Bristol's inter-faith minister, Rev. Nixie James-Scott

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Being 'Hungary' and Eating Ethnography

A cooking show teaching listeners how to cook three Hungarian dishes: -Rakott Krumpli: A potato and sausage casserole -Paprikas Csirke: Chicken stewed in Paprika -Palacsinta: Crepes. This episode is an experimental ethnography, looking at what kinds of conversation emerge from cooking and eating family recipes.

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History of Activism at SFU

What role do students and workers play in shaping University Life? SFU maintains a reputation for having a socially conscious faculty and student body because of student and worker movements in the university since 1964. Past campus leaders will help highlight these efforts to improve university life by sharing their experiences of university-based activism. Featuring. . . Mordecai Briemberg - former SFU Professor and Community Activist Marcy Cohen - Former SFU Student Leader and Hospital Employees Union, Research Director Jerry Zaslove - Founding SFU Professor Caelie Frampton - Former Coordinator with the Teaching Support Staff Union

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HUGE Educaction Cuts in Nova Scotia

In December 2010, the Nova Scotia government made a shocking announcement of proposed education cuts amounting to $200 million. Numbers that have been thrown out include up to 4,000 total staff slashed; 2,000 teachers out the door; hundreds of bus drivers off the road; hundreds more janitors and other staff given the boot as well; and, up to 70 schools gone. Even if this is just sabre rattling, these are some huge sabres. This is an interview with an anonymous teacher in Nova Scotia.

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Josh Hart: How to Protest and Win - Smart Meters and Bikes

Exposing the corporate SMART METERS conspiracy ! Revolt against the implementation by PGE! Electromagnetic pollution from Wi Fi and wireless networks , causing cancer. Josh describes how a home grown protest defeated a wealthy corporation. Followed by Bike protest.

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Marriage Equality and GLBT Teen Suicide Rates

Did you know that GLBT teens have a suicide rate that’s 3-4 times higher than their hetrosexual peers? This week, Dr Kevin talks to Jill Barkley, who is working with Maine Equailty, and Joanna Testa, from PRYSM (Proud Rainbow Youth of Southern Maine) about the effect marriage equality laws have on GLBT youth. How does knowing they have equal rights improve their self image? Do fundamentalist groups that oppose marriage equality consider GLBT youth to be disposable? Also, Dr Kevin offers his perspective on the difference between being a GLBT youth today, and what it was like to be a youth in the GLBT movement 20 years ago.

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disRespect - All News 9 Dec 2010

All news show features articles culled and condensed form major Canadian media (who are credited in the broadcast) that are of interest to people studying or experiencing disadvantage or disability

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T. Thorn Coyle: Being Who We Truly Are: Part 2

In Part 2 of this discussion, T. Thorn Coyle, Dr Kevin, and Olivia Stefanino take on the issue of: What do you do if you are exceedingly different from your family, and they cannot accept who you are? Can letting go of the combative energy help defuse the situation? Can you really learn to accept yourself to the point where having your family’s acceptance is no longer so important? They also talk about the value of having a spiritual practice to help us stay centered, and giving ourselves time to step back from hostile situations to allow ourselves to heal and integrate. Also, what inspires you? What are the things you feel are worth taking risks to achieve? Are we sometimes afraid to even admit we have a desire for something? Do we feel unworthy of having desires? And what can we do about it? To wrap up the show, Dr Kevin, Thorn and Olivia tell us about the desires they have for themselves in the coming year. This is a program you won’t want to miss!

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T. Thorn Coyle: Gender Fluidity and Spirituality: Part 1

In Part 1 of this discussion, Thorn tells us about her spiritual journey and how it was shaped by her gender fluidity and need to follow her own path. Today, Thorn and Dr Kevin discuss the role that gender plays in spirituality and our understanding of God/Goddess. Does God have a gender? Is God asexual, androgynous, or the first hermaphrodite? And why are so many people in today’s modern society afraid of gender and sexual fluidity when it was acceptable and understood to be a normal part of life in tribal cultures around the world?

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Takes on the World: Omar Barghouti on BDS

After 14 minutes of news/opinions by host Jeff Blankfort, Omar Barghouti, a founder of the movement, discusses history and accomplishments of the BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) movement targeting Israel in which he answers critics of the academic and cultural boycott and why Israel can be considered an apartheid state. He also analyzes the failed "peace process" and the lack of a mandate by PA to negotiate anything. Finally, he speaks of how the Palestinians honor Rachel Corrie , Tristan Anderson, and international volunteers who have put their bodies on the line to end the Israeli occupation

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The Continuing Cover-up of the Monster Behind the Gulf Oil Spill and Howling Against the Madness

Larry Everest reveals the continuing cover-up by the Obama administration and BP of the real causes behind the catastrophic Gulf oil spill last spring. Everest shows how the dynamics of "profit above everything" that is the engine of capitalism led to the BP spill and will continue to savage the environment. Drooker talks about the continuing importance of the poem Howl and the challenges and joy of designing the animation sequences for the film on Allen Ginsberg's seminal poem Howl and then creating a graphic novel based on those images and the poem itself.

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Le Cercle du silence (court)

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Josh and Otto's "Best of" 2010

In no way are all these albums from the year of Twenty-Aught-Ten, but they're all things we found during this fine year. Enjoy! JB&OK

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Between the Lines Week of December 24, 2010

Results of Negotiations at Cancun, Mexico Climate Summit;National Women’s Health Status Report Card;Political pressure to Prosecute Julian Assange/ Wikileaks

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Jazz For The Asking PRG 012 Hour 2

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Longest Night

Long songs for a long winter night. Again, nothing under 7 minutes. Them's the rules.

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Jazz For The Asking PRG 012 Hour 1

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Labor Express for 12-13-10

This is the full 12-13-10 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. One unique aspect of our coverage of worker’s issues over the past year here on Labor Express Radio has been the number of stories we have aired regarding environmental issues in working class communities. As we approach the end of 2010, and as world leaders discuss climate change policy in Cancun at COP 16, we will air today one more episode focused on this issue. First, we will hear from one of Chicago’s oldest and most important environmental justice organizations, LVEJO or the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. They we will talk about their critique of the negotiations in Cancun and of some of the work they are currently engaged in here in Chicago. And later in the program we will hear from rail yard workers, members of Teamsters Local 705, who are worried about the effects of rail yard pollution on their members and the working class communities that surround the yards. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English language labor news and current affairs radio program. News for working people, by working people. Labor Express Radio airs every Monday morning at 10:00 AM on Chicago's Sound Alliance, WLUW, 88.7 FM. For more information, see our website at: www.laborexpress.org and our homepage on Archive.org at: http://www.archive.org/details/LaborExpressRadio or page at Radio4All.net… http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/series/Labor+Express+Radio

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I am Spartacus

This week: 1. Worldwide student revolts 2. Goodbye Dollar 3. Domo Arigato Mr. Kyoto 4. boemtjak VS soi 5. Cop 16 Caravan

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Meet Revolutionary Communist Party spokesman Carl Dix

Wide-ranging interview with Carl Dix, national spokesman for the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA. This was inspired by the RCP's recent release of a draft CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic In North America.

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Holiday Show # 2

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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Electricity That Sucks

Vampire power refers to the electricity electronic appliances and devices waste just by being plugged in, even when they're switched off. Did you know that when you point your remote control at the TV to turn it off for the night, that appliance isn’t really off? In the middle of the night, at the witching hour, your TV, in standby mode, continues to suck power, like a sinister vampire draining electricity off the grid while you sleep blithely unaware. This purely wasteful electricity consumption is said to amount to around 10% of residential use for the average American household. The good news is that the solution is very straightforward. By utilizing technological innovations that already exist, and changing some simple everyday habits, we can put a stake in the heart of this problem. This week on Sea Change Radio we talk with Maria Vargas who explains how the federal government’s Energy Star program is trying to raise awareness and promote more responsible energy consumption, and with Alan Meier, senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a faculty member at UC Davis and the foremost authority on standby power. While this broadcast focuses more on the progress being made by the Energy Star program, critics assert that the program's binary "yes" or "no" system is less helpful to consumers than graded scale systems like in Europe - and also that the program certifies too many products.

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