This Week in History – August 14 2009

A quick rundown of this week in history!

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‘On Bodies’ Interviewed by Jeffrey Mackie

Jeffrey Mackie talked to the Montreal rock group ‘On Bodies’. They discussed the creative process, their upcoming work and their recently released CD ‘Throat Demos’.

Click HERE to here the Interview (with “Spectors & Ghosts” at the beginning and “Alert” at the end)

“On Bodies” website

Greg Palast: Proof of Illegal GOP “Caging Lists” in 2004 U.S. Presidential Elections

In the face of disturbing questions about Gonzalez’s competence to head the Justice Department and honesty during congressional testimony, President Bush has maintained his support for the embattled attorney general. New questions about the firings arose after testimony by Monica Goodling, an assistant to Alberto Gonzalez when she spoke about the involvement of Arkansas U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin in an illegal scheme to challenge African American voters during the 2004 election, known as “voter caging.”

Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Greg Palast, about the confidential emails he obtained from the 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign outlining the GOP voter challenge program, and the evidence of a larger scandal that prompted Griffin to resign.

Real Player Interview is HERE

The Daily Show: “The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend.”

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Caitlin Howden of “Uncalled For” on the Friday Morning After

Caitlin Howden on the Improv group “Uncalled For” joins Jeffrey Mackie from CKUT’s “Friday Morning After” to speak about improvisation and the Montreal “Fringe Festival”.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

“Uncalled For” website

Montreal Fringe Festival link

Sara Miles Discusses “Take This Bread” with Jeffrey Mackie

Jeffrey Mackie, of CKUT’s “Friday Morning After”, interviews San Francisco-based author Sara Miles. She is the author of Take This Bread: a Radical Conversion. It is the personal story of an unlikely convert. For more on the author she can also be found at saramiles.net.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Canada’s Role in Supplying Lab Animals for Testing

Canada’s role in supplying specially-bred animals for laboratory testing both in Canada and abroad remains a tightly-knit secret. Recently, an article in The Gazette appeared and exposed how passengers on a flight to Paris became aware of a shipment of beagles on their Air Canada jet when they heard the dogs screaming from the belly of the plane. Canada does laboratory testing on up to 2 million animals each year. It also supplies an unspecified amount of animals to Europe for this same purpose.

“We were shocked to hear some flight attendants say this goes on regularly – dogs get shipped to Paris for experiments.” Because Quebec’s animal protection law is vague and weakly enforced, the province provides a steady source of dogs for laboratories both here and abroad, animal rights activists said.

Liz White, a Director at the Animal Alliance of Canada, joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio in Montreal to discuss some of the issues surrounding this practice and the efforts of animal activist groups to learn the truth. (11:30)

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Beck – “Strange Apparition”

Playlist May 25th

ALAMO RACE TRACK Summer Holiday
ALBERT HAMMOND, Jr. Holiday
BABY EAGLE Some Things We Lose
BEASTIE BOYS Check, Check It Out
BECK Strange Apparition (The Information)
BEN’S SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA Rockets
BUSDRIVER Casting Agents and Cowgirls
DAVID AND THE CITIZENS The End
DJ CYBER RAP I Remember What It Was to Be Twenty-One

Akido Discusses His New Album “Blink”

Interview with electronic musician and composer AKIDO
who’s just released his new album “BLINK” by Stephane Bougeant of CKUT Radio’s “Friday Morning After”.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Bush Rollback Will Hide Data on 600,000 lbs of Toxic Chemicals in California

The Bush Administration has adopted regulations that will dramatically roll back Americans’ right to know about chemical hazards in their neighborhoods, allowing California industries to handle almost 600,000 pounds of toxic chemicals a year without telling the public, according to an investigation of federal data by Environmental Working Group (EWG).

Bill Walker is Vice President at the Environmental Working Group and he joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to discuss the effects this dicision will have on local communities’ right-to-know what Industry is doing.

Listen to mp3 of Interview HERE

Human Trafficking at W’s Palace (US Embassy in Baghdad)

Illegal immigration and human trafficking have been the subject of many political debates in the past few years. The US State Dept created the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (http://www.state.gov/g/tip/) and creates a yearly report on this subject.

David Phinney, journalist and broadcaster, and Rory Mayberry, ex-Kellogg, Brown & Root employee, joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to detail facts surrounding human trafficking at the construction site of the new US Embassy in Baghdad. Planeloads of South Asian persons have been basically kidnapped and forced to work in dangerous and fatal conditions to build the new 104 acre complex.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Jason Camlot and Todd Swift Interviewed by Jeffrey Mackie

Jeffrey Mackie interviewed poets and academics Jason Camlot and Todd Swift at The Blue Metropolis Literary Festival. Camlot and Swift are the editors of ‘Language Acts: Anglo Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century’. ‘Language Acts’ is a critical collection of essays by many noted writers on the pertinent issues concerning contemporary Anglo-Quebec poetry.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Arctic Monkeys – “Teddy Picker” (live at Later… )

The Noisettes – “Scratch Your Name”

Patrick Wolf – “The Magic Position”

The Beatles – “Money (That’s What I Want)”

Martin Luther King, Jr. – ‘Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence”

By 1967, King had become the country’s most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his “Beyond Vietnam” speech delivered at New York’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 — a year to the day before he was murdered — King called the United States “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”

Time magazine called the speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.”

Link to mp3 and Transcript 

Elk City – “Cherries in the Snow”

Tyson Slocum: Big Oil, Hot Profits & Global Warming

Tyson Slocum, Director of the Energy Program at Public Citizen (http://citizen.org), joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radio to discuss his report, “Hot Profits & Global Warming: How Oil Companies Hurt Consumers and the Environment”.

The Five largest oil companies in the world have a combined profit of over $440 Billion since 2001. Mr. Slocum discusses where those profits are going, the mergers which have allowed them still maintain access to Billions in govt subsidies and a first-hand account of the environmental destruction taking place in the Tar Sands in Alberta, Canada.

mp3 of Interview is HERE

Public Citizen’s Energy Program website