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June 27, 2010, 12:19 p.m.
Wrap-up of the past weeks news with Geov Parrish and Maria Tomchick of Eat the State!
Causes of the Cancer Epidemic in New York State, USA
June 27, 2010, 12:03 p.m.
Dr. Sherman has practiced medicine for several decades. Her patients were predominantly workers exposed to chemicals and suffering adverse effects of the exposure.
Dr. Sherman has thought carefully about the causes of excessively high cancer incidence in New York State. Her well supported position is that New York is downwind and downstream from a very large number of pollution sources. New York State is downwind from a large number of smokestacks that emit know and suspected human carcinogens in large quantities. These industrial facilities are virtually unregulated as a result of deficient enforcement efforts by US EPA and the state regulatory agencies, self reporting of emissions and prior notice of infrequent stack testing. New York State is down wind from a considerable number of nuclear power facilities. New York State, especially the St. Lawrence River Valley is down stream from the entire Great Lakes drainage basin. The fish in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River are heavily contaminated with dioxins and other persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The New York State Department of Health publishes an advisory document on chemicals in sport fish and game. It is recommended that girls and women of child bearing age consume no fish from Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. The vast number of industries located in the drainage basin of the Great Lakes have poorly regulated limitations on their waste water discharges due to the self reporting and deficiencies of enforcement described above. Dr. Sherman describes the St. Lawrence River as the sewer for the waste water discharge pollutants and the vast quantity of pollution that deposits into the Great Lakes drainage basin from the polluted air.
Dr. Sherman will be an expert panelist on Cancer Action NY's upcoming tele news conference on the subject of grassroots efforts to reduce the exposure of Americans to carcinogenic POPs that contaminate all animal fat produced and marketed in the United States. (see media advisory on Cancer Action NY website: www.canceractionny.org) Dr. Sherman makes the very important point that we can not expect the federal and state governments, which exist under the undue influence of many corporate overlords, to do anything substantial about reducing the public's exposure to POPs. Our tele news conference focuses on efforts to educate on the subject of exposure reduction at the local level in New York State.
June 27, 2010, 10:23 a.m.
We spin the best & worst of obscure records that corporate stations will not touch. Dig vinyl that hit LOW on the charts, or never hit the charts at all! Dig our vault of Garage Band, Rockabilly, Surf, Blues, Girl Groups, Psychedelic...
Know Your Toxins: Sodium Fluoride
June 27, 2010, 9:48 a.m.
Just when you thought that the bone cancer and IQ reduction and hypothyroidism and other ill effects of sodium fluoride couldn't get any worse...you find out that sodium fluoride isn't sodium fluoride. Find out what they're really putting in the water with Dr. William Hirzy and Dr. Paul Connett on this week's edition of The Corbett Report.
Why protest the G8/G20 in Vancouver
June 27, 2010, 12:47 a.m.
While some of Canadian civil society has actually been granted access within the G8 and G20 Summits, others remain locked outside. In Vancouver, the Vancouver Community Mobilization Network has been organizing a protest for June 26th in solidarity with marchers in Toronto. Marla Renn organizes with that network and she joined us to discuss why people decide to protest the G8 and G20.
I began by asking her about public opinion concerning the G8/G20.
June 27, 2010, 12:17 a.m.
Show 78: Second hour of Valley Free Radio's Afrobeat Show, Underground Spiritual Game
June 27, 2010, 12:04 a.m.
Show 77: First hour of Valley Free Radio's Afrobeat Show, Underground Spiritual Game
Universities legitimizing G8/G20 agenda
June 26, 2010, 11:41 p.m.
While the G8 and G20 Summits have come to Ontario, Vancouver was a site of these organizations' PR reach. The G8 University Summit took place May 20-22nd. It was met with protest and responding police violence and arrests. We spoke with Alex Mah from the Vancouver Community Mobilization Network about the role of this Summit in legitimizing the G8 agenda.
Paul Le Blanc on Socialism and Democracy 2.9
June 26, 2010, 11:03 p.m.
Fresh from the new site WeAreMany.org, we feature Paul Le Blanc speaking on the topic, âWhat does Socialism have to say about Democracy?â He gave this talk in Chicago, IL, last weekend at Socialism 2010.
6/23/10 - New Car Title Lending Law
June 26, 2010, 6:11 p.m.
Dana Wiggins, Responsible Lending Coordinator at the Virginia Poverty Law Center, explains what to watch, and what to watch out for, when the new Car Title Lending Law takes effect on October 1, 2010.
A Mavi Marmara Survivor - The Next Steps Toward Victory
June 26, 2010, 2:45 p.m.
When Israeli naval commandos stormed a Turkish ship loaded with humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza.They murdered 9 unarmed passengers. The oldest, Ibrahim Bilgen, was 61. the youngest, Furkan Dogan, a U.S. citizen born in Troy , N.Y., was just 19. Kevin Ovenden,
international organizer working to break the blockade of Gaza was an eyewitness to this horror and spoke at a packed meeting in Brooklynâs historic House of the Lord Pentecostal Church, pastured by the Rev. Herbert Daughtry. He spoke not only about the horror he witnessed but on the next strategic steps forward to ending the blockade and freeing Palestine.
#505 - The Matrix Deconstructed
June 26, 2010, 5:47 a.m.
This week's show attempts to deconstruct the matrix of illusion that surrounds money and economics that is used to disorientate citizens and keep them working hard for their corporate masters.
The first part is a speech by cognitive linguist, George Lakoff, entitled "Moral Politics". He explains the nature of metaphor and presents two contrasting approaches to parenthood, the "Strict Father" and the "Nurturing parent" models, linking these to Republican v. Democratic politics in US. I present some information I've uncovered about "economic literacy", and how business leaders used it to promote some of the worldview that Lakoff refers to as the "Strict Father" model.
The second hour revisits Lyn Gerry's reading of Richard K. Moore's "Escaping The Matrix" essay from episode #87, deconstructing the economic and political agenda of the 1980's in US/UK and beyond. We conclude with another lively deconstruction, by economist Michael Hudson, likening the FIRE (Finance, Insurance & Real Estate) sector to a parasite that lives on the host of the productive economy. Most obviously, it sucks money from it, less remarked upon, it numbs the brain of the body politic, through control of mass media, to present itself as essential to the health of its prey, the real economy.
June 25, 2010, 8:24 p.m.
Two hours of political dance music on the Emma Goldman Memorial Dance Party, commemorating the 141st birthday of the best-known American anarchist, who famously didn't actually say "If you can't dance, it's not my revolution"
June 25, 2010, 8:23 p.m.
Harper's version of women's rights & maternal health
June 25, 2010, 6:07 p.m.
The Harper government has put maternal health on the agenda for the G8 and G20 summits. Officially omitted from the program for discussion were abortion funding in development aid and climate change. Kasari Govender is the Legal Director of the West Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). She walks me through the complicated international human rights law surrounding G8/G20 policy.
Dialect - State secrets and Lies: The disappearance of our 'secure' data
June 25, 2010, 5:50 p.m.
25Jun10 Cllr Ron Stone (Lab) on Osborne's Emergency Budget
June 25, 2010, 5:02 p.m.
25Jun10 Secret Government, MI5, MI6 & the Council on Foreign Relations
June 25, 2010, 4:32 p.m.
Noam Chomsky - Economic Impact Of Post-WWII US Foreign Policy
June 25, 2010, 2:53 p.m.
Helen Simonson-Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
June 25, 2010, 2:51 p.m.
British-born American author Helen Simonson's hilarious debut novel "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" about racism and class in an English village.
June 25, 2010, 2:21 p.m.
"evil minds that plot destruction, sorcerers of death's construction" on the 175th episode of media monarchy w/ warpigs, betrayus & the mcchrystal moment - g20 questions, mobs, ads & a state of emergency - still spill, cigs & eugenics - feds, foia & culture jamming - food facts & fiction from food world order - killswitch & internet id on cyber/spacewar + sabbath music from cake and tons more...
Épisode 1 - Le 19 juillet 1936
June 25, 2010, 1:24 p.m.
Ce feuilleton est basé sur les mémoires qu'Antoine Gimenez, milicien du groupe international de la colonne Durruti, a écrit au milieu des années 1970.
June 25, 2010, 1 p.m.
A grandfather and grandson share some terrible secrets on India's "Dahanu Road"
Jane Roberts, founder of 34 Million Friends of UNPFA
June 25, 2010, 12:16 p.m.
Jane writes,
"Every person who has ever lived has come from the womb of a woman. When the world takes care of women, women take care of the world. education, health and gender equality are the cornerstones of women's empowerment, of alivable planet, and of a more hopeful world."
#121 -- David Ray Griffin on 9/11 & Afghanistan (2)
June 25, 2010, 11:37 a.m.
Griffin continues to demolish the Official Story of 9/11. This week he shows that cell-phone calls to passengers' relatives could not have been made from the 4 flights--as the FBI also has concluded. We know of hijackers & boxcutters only from these faked calls. In fact, Griffin argues, no good evidence has been made public that any highjackings occurred, and some evidence indicates that none did. Of the 8 pilots, NOT ONE entered the "Hijacking-in-Progress" code ("7500") into the transponder.
June 25, 2010, 8:42 a.m.
In the first hour, David Blume, author of "Alcohol Can Be A Gas", and Executive Director of the International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, spoke about the truth behind the Gulf Coast disaster. Blume focused on the dangers behind deep sea drilling, the hidden cost to all of life, and the futility of the clean up.
Blume offered solutions and discussed his newly created firm, Blume Distillation located in Santa Cruz, CAI.
Please visit his websites at www.blumedistallation.com.and www.permaculture.com,
In the second hour, Bill Waggoner, author of "Confessins of a Spam King", discussed the Internet Privacy. Waggoner discussed the ways in which Twitter, Google, Microsoft and Twitter collect users' personal information and transfer it to advertisers.
Please visit his websites at www.888freedom.
Lynette Mike began the third hour discussing upcoming Indian Market in Santa Cruz. Mike spoke about the dancing, cultural teachings and the importance of local natives coming together.
Mike was followed by Rena Whitestar who shared her native knowledge and wisdom regarding the Gulf oil spill.
June 25, 2010, 6:09 a.m.
June 25, 2010, 6:01 a.m.
Book two of Sawyer's WWW trilogy about the Internet coming to consciousness. This time Webmind is viewed as a threat to U.S. National Security.
Henning Mankell-The Man from Beijing
June 25, 2010, 5:26 a.m.
When Henning Mankell isn't aboard protest ships boarded and seized by Israeli commandos, he's a world famous novelist. His new book "The Man from Beijing" moves from Sweden to China to Africa and back in time to the building of the railway across the United States. A story of repression and revenge.
June 25, 2010, 5:10 a.m.
A 19th Century lower class woman found some of the first fossils of large marine life. But (and this will be a huge surprise) upper class men took the credit!