Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (February 11) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
(NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Deutsche-Welle, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and The Voice of Russia.
From CHINA- Cambodian and Thai military forces are fighting over a disputed border temple. The drought in Northern China continues with the wheat crop in peril. The Arctic Sea ice is at its lowest surface area since monitoring began. Chile is experiencing a severe drought. Haiti has allowed a passport for former President Aristide. Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi denies paying for sex with a 17 year old, an act which may end his reign. Julian Assange has demanded that Swedish prosecutor come to the UK before he goes to Sweden.
From SPAIN- Spain's banned political party Batasuna has reemerged, rejecting the violence used by Basque separatists ETA. Oil-rich South Sudan is the newest nation on the African continent. Tunisia has suspended activities of the former ruling party to prevent further unrest.
From GERMANY- As I write this Hosni Mubarak is telling the crowds in Cairo that some powers will go to Omar Suleiman- clearly there are more demonstrations ahead. Here is a report from Wednesday on the new Vice-President Suleiman. Private Bradley Manning is being held in a maximum security military prison for allegedly releasing confidential material to Wikileaks- there are calls in London to intervene on his behalf.
From CUBA- Wikileak cables show that Omar Suleiman has been Israel's choice to lead Egypt for some time. George W Bush had to cancel a trip to Switzerland to avoid being arrested for war crimes. Hillary Clinton argued in Mexico that the US cannot legalize drugs because there is too much money in it. FARC rebels in Colombia have begun releasing prisoners. The World Social Forum began Sunday in Senegal.
From RUSSIA- France is currently chairing the G20, and preparing a full-scale reform of the world financial system.
There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line -
http://www.campusprogress.org/soundvision/780/big-stories-shortwaves
I was interviewed for an informative weekly radio show Mediageek, available at http://radio.mediageek.net
All that plus times and frequencies for listening at home. It's free to rebroadcast, please notify me if you're airing it and haven't notified me in the last month, please mention the website if you only air a portion. If you just want to listen and have a slow connection, try the streaming version- lower sound quality but good enough and way easier if you don't have a high-speed internet connection. If streaming is a problem because of your slow connection, download the smaller file- it takes 20 minutes or less, and will play swell in any mp3 player application (RealPlayer, Winamp, Quicktime, iTunes, etc) you have on your computer.
This program will be aired on Friday evening at 6:30pm (PST) on KZYX/Z Philo CA, you might be able to stream via
There are several other streams that work better- Freak Radio Santa Cruz now streams this program on Friday at 9:00am.(PST)
The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from or iTunes (search for "shortwave" in podcasts)
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I hope you'll listen and air this if you're connected with a radio station. I am still wondering how to get financially compensated for the 25 hours I put into this program weekly- any ideas are appreciated. Any stations rebroadcasting this (or listeners) are welcome to donate for production costs. You can do so through the website. Many thanks to those that have donated! No Guilt! (maybe a little)
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¡FurthuR! Dan Roberts
--"Would it not be simpler if the government dissolved the people and elected another?"
--Bertolt Brecht
Comments
How to notice the passing of peak fraud
Neoliberalism is neither new nor liberal. It is a fraudulent attempt of the failed system to execeed its historical expiration date by masquerading as an idealism. For that purpose it will exploit the ideals prostituted the most to attack the ideals corrupted the least. It differs from the colonialism of old insofar as the information age is different from the industrial era. When its analog predecessor only sought to develop without respect, the digital plagiarism of it also seeks to deconstruct without reason. It is, in fact, the tragedy of a species which happened to become too powerful before cleaning up its historical system failure.
The Old World is being called like this because it is the planetary agglomeration of landmasses which were devastated by ancient empires (and then bound to attack the rest of humanity). On one hand, Europe has to see itself as not the most devastated part of it, on the other this has corrupted it into the most devastating part of it. While this development wiped any memory of its own origin it cannot hide the fact that there still is more devastation to prevent in the future than to regret in the past. Humanity could not plausibly exist unless it was older than this system failure, and the mere fact it still does indicates that the latter is no longer misinterpreted as European only. It is not just one fringe peninsula but the geographical centre of the Old World which was burned by empires, and devastation can be found in any direction from there, most of it inflicted well before Europe was so brutally awoken from its natural slumber.
If the demission of the single most feared secret police tool in the Old World is a harbinger of peak fraud, and organised irresponsibility is going to be on the retreat from here on, this is quite telling of the news of the week: Not even Buddhist monks are being granted immunity from government entrapment schemes, let off any newer religions. The sick old man of Rome can shrug off prostitution affairs because it is an open secret that political dissidents in the West have even less sexual sovereignty, let off spiritual liberty. The trapped Australian spy chaser must insist on lawful law work like a diplomat in training because a surveillance regime surrounded by truth will bitterly cling to any useless farce, let off brainless persecution. The revolution in Egypt is forcing the invisible torturers of the world into duplicitous lip service because they know that their opponents know that removing oppressors is not for Arabs only but for anyone who has got them. The crazy lady in Washington City is choosing the the issue of drug war exit strategy to turn "Yes we can" into "No we can't" because freedom for the sacred plants is the single most reliable sign that peak fraud is passed.