CPR News, December 11, 2017

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Let's Have Homecoming - Show # 18

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Where Are the People? as Nuclear Age ends

The End of the Nuclear Age: Where are the People? A week of events organized by the Nuclear Energy Information Service to provide balance to the celebrations organized at the University of Chicago on whose campus the first experiment to produce a controlled chain reaction was conducted, December 2, 1942. Nuclear expert, engineer, and former nuclear utility vice-president Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Energy Education Corp, and Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, offer a sober counter to the promotional hype delivered at the official celebration of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction; an experiment conducted on the University's Hyde Park campus. Fields expressed disappointment that the University did not bring more of its resources into play for a holistic understanding of the event, but seemed to function as a prop to legitimate the celebration of the technology that resulted and which now provides the means for a small elite of men to destroy human civilization along with much of the biosphere under the guise of "security". Gundersen talks about his trips to Japan to collect dirt samples following the nuclear reactor explosions at Fukushima and his work with Japanese citizens who seek the truth about the levels of contamination they are experiencing; there is wide spread distrust of the Japanese government and the utility TEPCO. The internet, reports Gundersen, has proved key as a tool for accessing truth and challenging the lies of government and industry. He offers a story of how his work helped save a marriage, and the terrible social pressure placed on mothers to return, with their children, to communities contaminated with radioactive particles. He speaks of doctors under order from the Japanese government to diagnose the common effects of radiation as psychological in origin. And he reveals what he found in the dirt samples he collected and what a FOIA later revealed the NRC knew about the scale of the radiological contamination shortly following the nuclear reactor fires and meltdowns at Fukushima. He also comments on the Public Relations use of the 2020 Summer Olympics to decontaminate the country's image when the past six years have demonstrated the impossibility of decontaminating the land itself. Dr. Fields speaks about the cultural and social consequences of the Fukushima disaster, and the shared experiences of Americans and Marshall Islanders who were irradiated as a result of nuclear fall out from the nuclear bomb tests, the experimentation by US Government funded scientists, doctors and researchers on humans, and the misuse of science and medical ethics to deny people the scientific basis of their suffering. Both speak of the social stigma that being irradiated produces and the failure of the Japanese government, like the US Government to prioritize human health and well being over political and financial interests. Fields refers to Representative Ed Markey and his Committee's report on human radiation experiments, one of which took place on the University of Chicago's campus. She raises concerns over the absence of any public critical assessment, during the 75th anniversary, by the University or its scientific community, of the larger ramifications and the ethical course that Fermi's successful experiment has lead US and all of mankind on.

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Close Enough for Rock 'N Roll - Nazareth

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Songs From The Wood - Jethro Tull

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The Serpent is Rising - Styx

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Missing Persons EP - Missing Persons

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Morrison Hotel - The Doors

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Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

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Frequency Theory 1742 "Soft Robotics"

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Frequency Theory 1741 "Snakefoot"

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Frequency Theory 1740 "Apostle Strut"

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Back 'N' The Day - SBBradio

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The Artistry of Don Thompson; 12/10/17; set 1

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The Artistry of Don Thompson; 12/10/17; set 2

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Weekday World, December 11, 2017

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White Liberals to the Left - Black Conservatives to My Right and neo-Nazis in My Face - Stuck in the Middle w/ Colonial Hyper-Normalisation

FWR host @TheAngryindian, concerned with the mainstream acceptance of half-baked, Revisionist and chiefly pseudo-intellectual bollocks that is passing for ‘common knowledge’ during a period of international political instability. On the Afrocentric side of things, wild theories ranging from ‘Cleopatra was Black’ theories to the belief that Melanin as ‘sacred DNA’ and that Black Africans are genetically racially superior to other human beings, Western Europeans in particular. For many, those that lay claim to representing the African Vanguard ‘speak a truth’ (even when are wrong) and accept these pontificating talking-heads as the ‘legitimate’ Black Power/Black Liberation leadership and have accepted (as fact) many highly questionable ideas in search of an ideology that speaks to the Indigenous and African masses struggling to survive within North America. @TheAngryindian challenges the warped aspects of these perspectives and defines it as a (normal) but (detrimental) development based on desires common to oppressed peoples across the world: the pursuit of short-interest gains that do little politically (or economically) – but do serve to emotionally soothe the masses and those single-mindedly wishing for some sort of symbolic and/or actual payback against their institutional oppressors. The question is this: are we as focused on toppling the actual oppression as we are with ‘getting some’ against those who are actually oppressing us? In a haze of loud rhetoric, are many of us lost in the petty promise of indiscriminate revenge against ‘The Other’ while forgetting the original goals of the Black Liberation Movement in favour of a narrow, neoconservative (and frankly Europocentric) political ideology that seeks simply to replicate extant White Power and its institutions while making clam to a revolutionary advance no matter how superficial these efforts turn out to be? No answers are offered in this broadcast, but questions are asked and hopefully, thought will provoke the personal into positive and progressive action for the betterment of all and not just the few.

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Speculative Injustice: Why Are Mainstream Leftists in the US Handing the International Far-Right the Sociopolitical Means to Co-Opt the Progressive Narrative?

@TheAngryindian wants to know: Why are North American mainstream progressives passively allowing the propaganda elements of the GOP/Republican Party to swerve (and confuse) public opinion without a firm challenge while as the same time, viciously condemning the US Anti-Fascist movement as ‘extreme’ regarding Direct Action against neo-Nazi street-fighters; Right-Wing domestic terrorists and other hard-line White Supremacist agitators that threaten to do physical harm to minorities and their opponents. The contradictions mentioned also extend to how People-of-Colour are dealing with the Trump Administration’s open embrace of White Supremacist ideologies and subversive intelligence aid from the Putin Government in Russia. Why is the African Left in the US still denying that the Russian Government (and Wikileaks) have been helping the racist elements within the GOP to demonise Africans in the United States as a social danger when Putin himself admitted that Russian hackers were involved while denying state sanction? The Russian government has helped the Republicans pursue legally-mandated as well as extra-legal discrimination against ‘Black Identity Activists’ and those supporting the #BlackLivesMatter movement confronting racist police brutality and mass incarceration, so why are some Afro-Leftists supporting the Kremlin, which is supporting the rise of the far-right back at home in Russia? EXTRAS: The usual news audio bits and pieces; words of Afro-theatre antiquity from Sis. Esther Rolle: ‘If You See a Devil Smash Him!’; advice from Bob Avakian and the usual sampling of socially-conscious PSA’s fill out our programme. The official internet radio broadcast of the Aboriginal Press News Service/ANG

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interviews with the late Poet/Author Eduardo Galeano

A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today. Eduardo Galeano , Poet and prolific author of several books including his famous Open Veins of Latin America and his latest Mirrors an almost universal history talks about the need for community and communion with nature. Also music by Dana Lyons “The Green and Blue”

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Episode 2017.15.1. Falling White Race, An Introductory to "Why White Lives Matter to Me"

This Episode began as an introductory to the promised White Lives Matter Episode – what it turned out as, was an introductory to itself. I had several topics to cover, including talking about Black Beings attempt to stop Karma from striking White People, explaining Karma as a social warning to rebalance White Society (a portion I am particularly proud of) and my overall commitment to Humanity (Saving White People? Controversy). In addition to those topics, and a couple more I didn’t speak about here, I touched on Fascism and Communism, how China’s treatment of Africa will decide how long it will stay atop the world’s economic order, the meaning behind the fall of White Rulership (especially for White People) and (among some other things) what goodness came from the Great Depression, White People were reminded of their Radical potential. This show was overstuffed and over packed, the original five topics which I envisioned would take less than 20 minutes to cover, spilled into over 60 minutes of content, touching on probably 15 additional topics. I hope you enjoy it and hope to hear from you concerning what I spoke about.

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Science of the Nasty Future

Warming underestimated. Our current path heads to worst 5 degree warming. Patrick Brown from Carnegie Institute with breaking science. From Lawrence Livermore, Ivana Cvijanovic explains retreating Arctic sea ice means more drought for California. Alex on disappearing climate info.

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The Stuph File Program - Episode #0434

An eclectic collection of interviews and odd news designed to entertain

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S2

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning - S1

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UNHCR Decision Puts Rwandan Refugees at Risk

The United Nations High Commission on Refugees has set a cessation date of December 31, 2017 that alters the refugee status of Rwandans in Congo Brazzaville who fled 1994 violence in Rwanda. The UNHCR decision would put refugees in a legal/political limbo. There is no certainty what steps the Brazzaville government will take. Concerned observers around the world are calling for a postponement of the decision and to ensure the rights of refugees who have a legitimate fear of a repressive Rwandan government.

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#510 -- Potpourri 6

A bit of this, a bit of that. Features more of Noam Chomsky's discussion (with Ralph Nader) on the ill effects of the growing concentration of wealth and power. Plus KD's "Press Review" of oddball newspaper stories and a song by Ethan Miller & Kate Boverman.

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Talk is Cheap

Sustainable designer / Truck Driver listens to and analyzes the media.

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November 24, 2017

This show featured a three part interview with the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement’s New York City chapter (RAM-NYC). The interview talked about RAM’s book Burn Down the American Plantation, their strategy for revolution, and what inspires them, among other topics. You can check them out at revolutionaryabolition.org.

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November 9, 2017

On this show, we aired the third and final part of our interview with Lynne Jackson and Jeanne Finley from Project Salam, which is based in Albany, NY. In the interview, Jackson and Finley discuss the criminalization of Muslim men, specifically Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hosain, who were entrapped by the FBI in Albany, New York and convicted on terrorism charges. This show also featured an interview with Amy Darwish of Montreal based Solidarity Across Borders. Amy talked to us about the government’s plan to build a new immigration detention centre in Laval in the coming years. For more information visit solidarityacrossborders.org.

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