February 12th FMA Runsheet

all times EST

www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

listen live on the web – http://www.ckut.ca

For Listener Comments, Requests and Shoutouts: fridaymorningafter@hotmail.com

7-8am

00 Fusion Opal – theme intro

02 show preview and greetings

-plug website www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

05 ads/promos

-thank you to Dusty’s montroyal/parc for providing the breakfast

08 Weather

10 Community Listings

15 Headlines from CiTR – Vancouver

20 Interview w/ Rebecca Erol

English/Turkish Photographer - Experiences in Istanbul and Photographic Expositions


Rebecca Erol
Editorial & Photography Services
www.rebeccaerol.com

40 Municipal Headlines w/ Craig Sauve

57 8am warning and 8-9am preview

8-9am

00 Democracy Now! headlines

http://www.democracynow.org

10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation

-As the American political establishment continues to argue amongst itself as to who poses the greatest “terror” threat to the US – Democracts like vice Prsident joe biden say Pakistan while the Republicans are still ranting about Iran, former gun-slinging Texas congressman Charlie Wilson died this past week at age 76.

-Charlie Wilson was the man responsible for engaing US Congress to arm the Aghanistan “freedom fighters” in their efforts to repel the invading foriegners, who at that time in the early 80s were the soviets. The legacy of that decision was one that gave birth to a great sense of civic and national pride in all afghans as they were ultimately succseeful, once again, in repeling an invading foriegn force.

-What we are seeing today in Afghanistan is that the Afghans who were armed and trained to fight in defense of their land, life and culture during the 80s are being replaced by foriegn contractors who are hired by NATO and other foriegn entities to do the work that should be done by the indigenous people.

-There are currently more foriegn, independent contractors, who are legally accountable to no one, then there are foriegn soldiers, who at the very least are accountable to the Geneva conventions and universal law. Even after Obama’s recent troop surge, there are over 100 000 foriegn contractors in Afghanistan as compared to about 70 000 foriegn soldiers.

-The foriegn contractors are comprised mainly of ex-criminals, bounty hunters and other ne’er do-wellers who have become  mercenaries with neither the discipline nor the morality to be integrated into an official army, which means they are even more in need of accountability then regular soldiers, with the afghan civilian death toll evidence of the price paid.

-Iraq has already suffered close to a million civilian deaths, if not more, based on the “destruction with impunity” carried out by a foriegn invasion force that felt no limits to their actions. As a result, this week, Iraq ordered out of the country all mercenaries from the Blackwater company. This is too little too late as Blackwater has since changed its name and the damage has been done, but Iraq is sending a message to all foriegn contractors, the governments and entities like NATO who employ them, that it is the mercenaries who are one of the root problems.

-Unfortunately for Afghanistan, because either NATO does not understand or care about the basic problems that mercenaries continue to cause, the vast majority, if not all of the private contractors that are expelled from Iraq are going to head straight for Afghanistan without missing a beat, or most importantly for the mercenaries themselves, a paycheck.

15 Candian Headlines

1/-Harper`s press secretary getting his facts about Omar Khadr wrong on a Newsworld Interview :

Khader was never accused of planting roadside bombs, he has been imprisoned for 8 years because of his proximity to the scene of the death of an American soldier who was killed by an American hand-grenade. The story according to the other American soldiers in the unit is that they threw the grenade to where Khadr was and he threw it back when it exploded and killed the American soldier.

Even if that story is true, it underlines and validates Khadr’s lawyers claims of self-defense. The more likely story is that, based on testimony from the same American soldiers in the unit that met with Khadr that day, in the confusion, killed their own soldier in a “friendly-fire” incident and instead of admitting this have let the then-15 year old Khadr rot for the last eight years of his life in Guantanamo.

-The current government has not changed its stance on repatriating Khadr despite three Supreme Court of Canada orders to do so – a lack of respect for Canadian legal authority that hasn’t even been shown by the Taliban.

2/ Canada`s exemption from Buy American regulations in the States. Here`s the catch: in return Canadian Government and Federal spending projects are now going to be opened up to all American companies. Instead of our tax money going back into Canadian companies, we are going to see more of what we saw last year with American companies contracting our army. Free Trade on crack…

3/ Russell Williams, base comander at Trenton canadian Army Base implicated in the disapearence of 5 women at the base. Continuing the “Destruction with Impunity” culture and attitude that the canadian army has sullied the image of Canada with around the world.

20 weather

25 Bike Report w/ Tom

30 Interview w/ Yves Engler

Book Launch – Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid

Feb 27 – Divan Orange

Yves’ fourth book, after his most recent “Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy”, outlines the history of Canadian complicity from the creation of Israel and the expulsion of the Palestinian people in 1947 until today’s military and financial support and ties in the continued oppression of the Palestinian people all with an eye towards refining the system of apartheid which is meant to justify it all.

45 Michael Werbowski Presents

55 Community Listings

55 Fusion Opal – outro- plug website http://www.fridaymorningafter.wordpress.com

00 jazz amuck w/ John B.