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From 3pm PACIFIC: Broadcasting live here & simulcast on:

·         Roots Up Radio &

·         Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden

At 3:30 Paul Rogers – University of Bradford. Paul Rogers is professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, northern England. He is openDemocracy’s international-security editor; his weekly column for the site has been published since September 2001. He is a consultant to the Oxford Research Group, for which he produces a monthly security briefing. Bradford’s peace-studies department now broadcasts regular podcasts on its work, including commentary from Paul Rogers on international-security issues relating to his openDemocracy columns.

Among his books are:

·         Losing Control (Pluto Press, 3rd edition [forthcoming], 2009);

·         A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century (Pluto Press, 2006);

·         Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control (Routledge, 2007);

·         & Why We’re Losing the War on Terror (Polity, 2007 – The Nation article)

AT 4 PM Avner Levin – Ryerson University. Since their inceptions in 2007, Dr. Levin has been:

·         Chair of the Law & Business Department

·         Director of the Privacy and Cyber Crime Institute

Professor Levin first taught at Ryerson on a part-time basis in 2002, and became an Assistant Professor in 2003. He was awarded early tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. Professor Levin is a frequent media commentator on issues of privacy, surveillance law and business.

Prof says young people have unique sense of Facebook privacy Ryerson University professor Avner Levin, a keynote speaker at the Youth Privacy Online: Take Control, Make it Your Choice! conference said in the study that young people have a notion of online privacy that is not shared by business managers and executives. He said the latter view all information posted online as public.

A “digital divide” exists in Canada between young people who see information posted online as private and older people who see it differently … Levin said the difference in perception becomes an issue when young people enter the workforce. If they have not taken steps to control access to their personal information online, he said, it can be viewed by older people who run organizations and who can use online social networks to check on employees or job applicants.

“A digital divide exists between how youth perceive network privacy and how the older generation of managers and executives perceive it,” Levin said. “Young people believe that information shared with their personal social networks is considered private as long as its dissemination is limited to their social network. Organizations, on the other hand, don’t recognize this notion of network privacy. They believe that any information posted online is public and deserves no protection.”

At 4:30 Friend of the Show, Franklin ‘Stimulator‘ López from subMediaTV returns with an update on his tour Hopium: Confronting Fascism in the Obama Era an evening of video montage of his latest works, mixing culturejamming, news, radical commentary, music and action radical films, including:

·         Excerpts from a film, END:CIV. END:CIV is the first feature film to analyze our culture’s addiction to systemic violence, industrial capitalism and environmental exploitation, as evidenced by the current epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based on the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, and the runaway success of director Franklin Lopez, END:CIV asks: if your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist? Join the FaceBook group, End:Civ

·         Ground Noise And Static – A video report on the protests that occurred in connection with the Democrat and Republican National Conventions. Ground Noise & Static is a manifesto. ‘Stimulator‘ went to Denver and St. Paul to take the pulse of the movement. Corporate media would cover the platitudes and posturing of the politicians, we were interested in something else, a story hidden in plain sight, captured in the now-classic street chant, “This is what democracy looks like.”

·         Plus other short films and mashups, including excerpts from radio/web/TV show “It’s the End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine“.

Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His most recent book, Engaging the Muslim World (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), was published this spring. He has appeared widely on television, radio, and on op-ed pages as a commentator on Middle East affairs, and has a regular column at Salon.com. He has written, edited, or translated 15 books, and authored 65 journal articles and chapters. He is the proprietor of the Informed Comment weblog on current affairs.

Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! A Century of Frenzy over the North-West Frontier By Juan Cole

WHAT, what, what, What’s the news from Swat? Sad news, Bad news, Comes by the cable led Through the Indian Ocean’s bed, Through the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Med- Iterranean — he ’s dead; The Ahkoond is dead! – George Thomas Lanigan

Despite being among the poorest people in the world, the inhabitants of the craggy northwest of what is now Pakistan have managed to throw a series of frights into distant Western capitals for more than a century. That’s certainly one for the record books.

And it hasn’t ended yet. Not by a long shot. Not with the headlines in the U.S. papers about the depredations of the Pakistani Taliban, not with the CIA’s drone aircraft striking gatherings in Waziristan and elsewhere near the Afghan border. This spring, for instance, one counter-terrorism analyst stridently (and wholly implausibly) warned that “in one to six months” we could “see the collapse of the Pakistani state,” at the hands of the bloodthirsty Taliban, while Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the situation in Pakistan a “mortal danger” to global security.

What most observers don’t realize is that the doomsday rhetoric about this region at the top of the world is hardly new.

We’ll also share with your our earlier conversation with Douglas Rushkoff who analyzes the way people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other’s values. He sees “media” as the landscape where this interaction takes place, and “literacy” as the ability to participate consciously in it. Rushkoff is the author of eight best-selling books on new media and popular culture, that have been translated into over 20 languages, including:

·         Cyberia,

·         Media Virus,

·         Playing the Future,

·         Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say,

·         Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism,

·         and the novels Ecstasy Club, and Exit Strategy.

·         His writes essays and commentaries for NPR’s All Things Considered, Time Magazine, and CBS Sunday Morning.

·         Rushkoff lectures about media, art, society, and change at conferences and universities around the world. He hosts and writes documentaries for PBS, Channel Four, and the BBC. Rushkoff’s award-winning Frontline documentary “The Merchants of Cool“ was one of the most watched and most talked about documentaries of the year.

He has served as an professor of virtual culture at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program for the past four years, as an Advisor to the United Nations Commission on World Culture, on the Board of Directors of the Media Ecology Association and the Center for Cognitive Liberties and Ethics, and as a founding member of Technorealism. He is a Senior Fellow of the Markle Foundation, and a Center for Global Communications Fellow of the International University of Japan. We discussed his latest book Life.Inc. How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back

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At 3 PM PACIFIC Broadcasting live here and simulcast on http://www.Rootsupradio.com and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden

At 4 PM Craig Renke. In 2006 Citizen Investigation Team launched an independent investigation into the act of terrorism which took place at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. This exhaustive three-year inquest involved multiple trips to the scene of the crime in Arlington, Virginia, close scrutiny of all official and unofficial data related to the event, and, most importantly, first-person interviews with dozens of eyewitnesses, many of which were conducted and filmed in the exact locations from which they witnessed the plane that allegedly struck the building that day. Be forewarned: Our findings are extraordinarily shocking and frightening. They are also deadly serious, and deserving of your immediate attention. This is not about a conspiracy theory or any theory at all. This is about independent, verifiable evidence which unfortunately happens to conclusively establish as a historical fact that the violence which took place in Arlington that day was not the result of a surprise attack by suicide hijackers, but rather a false flag “black operation” involving a carefully planned and skillfully executed deception. If you are skeptical of (or even incensed by) this statement we do not blame you. We are not asking you to take our word for it, nor do we want you to do that. We want you to view the evidence and see with your own eyes that this is the case. We want you to hear it directly from the eyewitnesses who were there, just as we did. Please understand that this information is not being brought to your attention simply for educational purposes.

at 4:30 Michael Persinger – My primary philosophical goal is to discern the commonalities that exist between the sciences and to integrate the fundamental concepts. I assume that the human brain, its microstructure and intricate activity are the source of all human knowledge. To that end I have emphasised geophysics because it is a central focus for the physical sciences and neuroscience (originally physiological psychology) because it is a central focus for the emerging biosocial sciences. One of the major consequences of this bilateral interest has been the pursuit and discovery of subtle interactions between the geophysical/meteorological environment and human behavior.

Because scientific explanations and attributions are transient labels applied to the largely inferred and unseen shared sources of variance within numerical data (or verbal responses that serve as nominal data), I have pursued methodology and multivariate (statistical) approaches. Magnetic fields were selected as a focus because they are one of the few stimuli that evoke changes across all levels of scientific discourse. This perspective was summarized in ELF and VLF Electromagnetic Field Effects (1974) and Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events (1977). These approaches in conjunction with the goal of integrating concepts have influenced my decision to investigate interdisciplinary problems and to apply these skills both within academic and practical settings.

Within academic settings, I organized the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Laurentian University. This program was one of the first to integrate Chemistry, Biology and Psychology. The program was developed because there is a subset of students with integrative capacity who are not “A” students but who are extraordinary problem solvers who love to learn. Within clinical settings, I became a Registered Psychologist, specializing in Clinical Neuropsychology, in order to facilitate the integration of neurology, neuropsychology and psychology and to develop quantitative methods whose results could help facilitate the adaptation of people who have sustained mild to moderate brain traumas. Within the commercial setting, we have pursued the possibility that control of experience, from depression to memory, may be simulated by transcerebral application of complex magnetic field patterns associated with activity of either endogenous or exogenous ligands at the synapses.

·         This Is Your Brain On God.

·         God On The Brain – BBC

We also spoke to Michael Nagler taught at UC, Berkeley, for over forty years, and founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program in which he taught the upper-division nonviolence course as well as meditation and seminars on the meaning of life. Prof. Nagler has spoken and written widely for campus, religious, public and special interest groups on the subject of peace and nonviolence for many years, especially since 9/11. He has consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations and is President of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education (www.mettacenter.org) and of PeaceWorkers, and on numerous other boards, and has co-founded Educators For Nonviolence. He has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970’s and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. In addition to his many articles on peace and spirituality, he is the author of America Without Violence (Island Press, 1982), The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran, Nilgiri Press, 1987) and The Search for a Nonviolent Future (Inner Ocean Publishing) which won the 2002 American Book Award and is being used in courses and reading groups around the world and has been translated into Italian, Korean, Croatian, and Arabic — among other books. In July, 2005 he co-hosted, with Rabbi Michael Lerner, the first national conference on Spiritual Activism, which has lead to the creation of a Network of Spiritual Progressives. Michael Nagler is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation, and has lived at the Center ashram in Marin County since 1970. He gives workshops for the Center’s meditation program around the World.

We also spoke with Marc Maron He has been host of The Marc Maron Show, and co-host of both Morning Sedition, and Breakroom Live all politically-oriented shows, produced under the auspices of Air America Media. He was also the host of Comedy Central’s Short Attention Span Theater for a year, replacing Jon Stewart. Maron has been a frequent guest on the Late Show with David Letterman and made 42 appearances on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, (more than any other stand-up performer). He was a regular guest on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and hosted the short-lived U.S. version of the British TV Rock Trivia gameshow Nevermind The Buzzcocks on VH1. Maron has been featured in his own specials on HBO and Comedy Central, as well as on comedy showcases such as the Cam Neely Foundation fundraiser, which also featured such performers as Jon Stewart, Denis Leary, and Steven Wright. He can briefly be seen in the film Almost Famous as the “Angry Promoter” who engages in quasi-martial arts fisticuffs with Noah Taylor, then chases the tour bus yelling “Lock the gates!” In May 2008, he toured with Eugene Mirman and Andy Kindler in Stand Uppity: “Comedy That Makes You Feel Better About Yourself and Superior to Others.” In January 2009, a collaboration with Sam Seder which had begun in September 2007 as a weekly hour-long video webcast became Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder, produced by Air America. Until its cancellation in July 2009 the show was webcast live, weekdays at 3PM Eastern, with episodes archived for later viewing as well. In its final incarnation, the show was quite informal, taking place in the (actual) break room of Air America Media, with the cafeteria vending machines just off-camera. This meant occasional distractions when Air America staff and management alike would occasionally come in for food and drink. Maron and Seder also held court in an online “post-show chat” with viewers, in an even less formal continuation of each webcast, after the credits had rolled. His first one-man show, Jerusalem Syndrome, had an extended off-Broadway run in 2000 and was released in book form in 2001. In 2009 he began workshopping another one-man show, Scorching The Earth. According to Maron (in Scorching The Earth) these two shows “bookend” his relationship with his second wife, Comic Mishna Wolff, which ended in a bitter divorce. During his career, Maron frequently appeared in the live alternative standup series he’d organized with Janeane Garofalo called “Eating It,” which used the rock bar Luna Lounge in New York’s Lower East Side as its venue from the 1990’s until the building was razed in 2005.

at 5 PM Ray DelPapa, from SOA Watch he was the main organizer for Saturday’s Miami Honduras Convergence Event   www.SOAW.org

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·         Roots Up Radio

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It’s First Amendment Friday. Your soapbox all topics are on the table.

At 4 PM Lt. Eric Shine will discuss his case.

At 4:30 Chris Mooney author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, a journalist-scientist team, offer an updated “two cultures” polemic for America in the 21st century. Just as in Snow’s time, some of our gravest challenges—climate change, the energy crisis, national economic competitiveness—and gravest threats–global pandemics, nuclear proliferation—have fundamentally scientific underpinnings. Yet we still live in a culture that rarely takes science seriously or has it on the radar.

For every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; 46 percent of Americans reject evolution and think the Earth is less than 10,000 years old; the number of newspapers with weekly science sections has shrunken by two-thirds over the past several decades. The public is polarized over climate change—an issue where political party affiliation determines one’s view of reality—and in dangerous retreat from childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile, only 18 percent of Americans have even met a scientist to begin with; more than half can’t name a living scientist role model.

At 5 PM Paul Armentano, Deputy Director at Norml, drops by to discuss his book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? & to discuss the actions of President Obama’s drug czar Gil Kerlikowske.

Never before has a book explored in such depth the significant differences between the two substances—in terms of impact on health and community safety—and the illogical manner in which our government and our society react to the use of each one.

Marijuana Is Safer is designed to appeal to many different audiences. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it provides an introduction to the plant and its effect on the user, and reveals the truth behind some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For the millions of Americans on the opposite end of the spectrum, who want to help advance the cause of marijuana policy reform—or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice—this book supplies the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments to friends, family, co-workers, and elected officials.

At its core, however, this is a political book. It has been written with the goal of achieving significant public policy reforms in mind. The authors examine past efforts to change marijuana laws in this country and argue that the key obstacle to reform is the widespread—and inaccurate—belief among a large segment of society that marijuana is as harmful as, if not more harmful than, alcohol. By correcting this misunderstanding and producing a general consensus around the idea that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, the authors posit that advocates of marijuana policy reform will win the public debate and marijuana legalization will be inevitable. More than just theoretical, this book explains how the “marijuana is safer than alcohol” message has already succeeded in changing attitudes in Colorado, a state of more than five million people.

After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that “marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit,” Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said the next target will be “the biggest gateway drug of all, mother’s milk.”

While ramping up efforts to ensure that no human suffering can be relieved by doctors prescribing marijuana, Kerlikowske said his office will soon begin two new initiatives: first, to outlaw breast feeding and baby formula; and then a campaign to urge teenagers to avoid marijuana by increasing their use of alcohol and tobacco. – ‘Outlaw Mother’s Milk’ Says Drug Czar, HuffPo, Don Parker, ‘Purveyor of Immodest Proposals’, 23.Jul.09

At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. We expect an update from activist, teacher, Iraq war Vet Leonard Clark and author Deborah O’Dowd.

Tune in for the Saturday Progressive Line Up:

·         3pm America at Work with Roman Ulman

·         5pm The Progressive Coalition with Lennie Clark

·         6pm The David Link Show (best of)

Our goals for change and making you the focus of our common dreams are ongoing! Tune in and contribute to our efforts with your voice! We are coming to you live for 3 hours and want you calls! Join us at http://www.thejefffariasshow.com for an informative and interesting conversation about issues affecting our world!

Tune in Sunday from 9 AM – noon for Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge

At 3 PM PACIFIC Broadcasting live here and simulcast on

·         Roots Up Radio

·         Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden

It’s First Amendment Friday. Your soapbox all topics are on the table.

At 4 PM Lt. Eric Shine will discuss his case.

At 4:30 Chris Mooney author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future

Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, a journalist-scientist team, offer an updated “two cultures” polemic for America in the 21st century. Just as in Snow’s time, some of our gravest challenges—climate change, the energy crisis, national economic competitiveness—and gravest threats–global pandemics, nuclear proliferation—have fundamentally scientific underpinnings. Yet we still live in a culture that rarely takes science seriously or has it on the radar.

For every five hours of cable news, less than a minute is devoted to science; 46 percent of Americans reject evolution and think the Earth is less than 10,000 years old; the number of newspapers with weekly science sections has shrunken by two-thirds over the past several decades. The public is polarized over climate change—an issue where political party affiliation determines one’s view of reality—and in dangerous retreat from childhood vaccinations. Meanwhile, only 18 percent of Americans have even met a scientist to begin with; more than half can’t name a living scientist role model.

At 5 PM Paul Armentano, Deputy Director at Norml, drops by to discuss his book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? & to discuss the actions of President Obama’s drug czar Gil Kerlikowske.

Never before has a book explored in such depth the significant differences between the two substances—in terms of impact on health and community safety—and the illogical manner in which our government and our society react to the use of each one.

Marijuana Is Safer is designed to appeal to many different audiences. For those unfamiliar with marijuana, it provides an introduction to the plant and its effect on the user, and reveals the truth behind some of the government’s most frequently cited marijuana myths. For the millions of Americans on the opposite end of the spectrum, who want to help advance the cause of marijuana policy reform—or simply want to defend their own personal, safer choice—this book supplies the talking points and detailed information needed to make persuasive arguments to friends, family, co-workers, and elected officials.

At its core, however, this is a political book. It has been written with the goal of achieving significant public policy reforms in mind. The authors examine past efforts to change marijuana laws in this country and argue that the key obstacle to reform is the widespread—and inaccurate—belief among a large segment of society that marijuana is as harmful as, if not more harmful than, alcohol. By correcting this misunderstanding and producing a general consensus around the idea that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, the authors posit that advocates of marijuana policy reform will win the public debate and marijuana legalization will be inevitable. More than just theoretical, this book explains how the “marijuana is safer than alcohol” message has already succeeded in changing attitudes in Colorado, a state of more than five million people.

After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that “marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit,” Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said the next target will be “the biggest gateway drug of all, mother’s milk.”

While ramping up efforts to ensure that no human suffering can be relieved by doctors prescribing marijuana, Kerlikowske said his office will soon begin two new initiatives: first, to outlaw breast feeding and baby formula; and then a campaign to urge teenagers to avoid marijuana by increasing their use of alcohol and tobacco. – ‘Outlaw Mother’s Milk’ Says Drug Czar, HuffPo, Don Parker, ‘Purveyor of Immodest Proposals’, 23.Jul.09

At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. We expect an update from activist, teacher, Iraq war Vet Leonard Clark and author Deborah O’Dowd.

Tune in for the Saturday Progressive Line Up:

·         3pm America at Work with Roman Ulman

·         5pm The Progressive Coalition with Lennie Clark

·         6pm The David Link Show (best of)

Our goals for change and making you the focus of our common dreams are ongoing! Tune in and contribute to our efforts with your voice! We are coming to you live for 3 hours and want you calls! Join us at http://www.thejefffariasshow.com for an informative and interesting conversation about issues affecting our world!

Tune in Sunday from 9 AM – noon for Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge

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At 3:30 Robin Harris is an analyst, consultant and writer on computer data systems. He has been messing with computers for over 30 years and has 25 years experience in the computer industry working for companies large and small. Leaving Silicon Valley for Sedona in northern Arizona four years ago, he began writing his own blog, StorageMojo, and blogging for ZDnet, as well as consulting for high-tech firms. A particular focus is the impact of massive computer infrastructures on society, politics and behavior. Robin holds degrees from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

RFID passports: a tragedy waiting to happen You’re strolling in the south if France when a van stops, men burst out and in seconds hustle you into the van. “American scum!” they hiss as they hood you. But wearing a Sorbonne t-shirt and no fanny pack, how did they know? Thank your government – and a bad storage choice. 

In a recent article Todd Lewan accompanied ethical hacker Chris Paget as he found chipped tourists around San Francisco’s Fishermans Wharf – from a van. Your Canadian flag patch won’t save you now.

Elvis, your e-passport is ready! E-passports not only threaten your personal safety traveling, the RFID chips are easy to clone and fake. How easy?

At 4 PM John Lindsay-Poland – Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean. Co-director of the FOR Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean, a position in which he has served since 1989, he served previously with Peace Brigades International as a peace team member in Guatemala and El Salvador, US staff, and co-founder of PBI’s Colombia Project. He is editor of FOR’s Colombia Update; founded the FOR’s Colombia Peace Presence team; and is author of numerous articles on U.S. militarism in Latin America, as well as books, including: Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (Duke University Press, 2003) and Inside Panama (with Tom Barry, 1995, Interhemispheric Resource Center).

U.S. Military Sites Set to Replace Plan Colombia. The United States is negotiating for the use of five military facilities in Colombia, in an agreement whose objectives include “filling the gaps left by the eventual cutting of [military] aid in Plan Colombia,” according to sources in Washington and Bogotá cited by an explosive article published July 1 in the weekly Cambiomagazine. If such an agreement is reached, it could constitute an end run around the struggles waged for years by human rights, religious, peace, indigenous, Afro-Colombian, women’s, and youth groups to demilitarize U.S. policy in Colombia. 

At 4:30 Ed Hasbrouck – The Practical Nomad returns! . “To travelers around the world, Edward Hasbrouck is The Practical Nomad, the go-to authority on international travel, and an expert on airfares and how to get the best deals on the Internet”, says Business Week. Hasbrouck is the world’s best-known authority on around-the-world travel: consumer advocate, investigative journalist, blogger, author of the acclaimed Practical Nomad series of travel how-to and advice books, and consultant on travel-related human rights and civil liberties issues with the Identity Project of the First Amendment Project. The winner of a 2003 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award for investigative reporting from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation for his investigative reporting on the privacy of travel records, Hasbrouck has been in the forefront of efforts to protect the freedom to travel (as a human right recognized and guaranteed by international human rights law as well as as the First Amendment to the U.S Constitution), the privacy of travellers, and their right to control how their personal travel records are used by travel companies and government agencies. He has testified before the Transportation Security Administration, the Data Privacy Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security, and the California state legislature, and has been consulted as a travel privacy, civil liberties, and human rights expert by Congressional and Parliamentary staff in both the USA and the European Union, in addition to his work with the Identity Project. He has contributed articles on travel and privacy to Privacy Journal and Privacy International’s Privacy and Human Rights yearbook.

Google finally starts a travel guide service, sort of Travel was one of the first, and is one of the largest, sectors of e-commerce. Almost all of Google’s revenues come from the sale of online advertising. Not surprisingly, that has meant that sales of ads for online travel services are one of Google’s largest revenue and profit centers, and that Google makes more money from travel services than from almost any other product or service. Not only that, but Google’s business model is such that it makes money — on the closely-held secret spread between what advertisers pay Google to have their ads displayed, and what Google pays to Web sites to display those ads — even when the travel companies placing those ads are losing money. 

At 5 PM Michael Byers is a Canadian legal scholar and non-fiction author. He currently holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He blogs at Let’s Define Our Intent For A Nation. His published works include War Law, and Intent for a Nation: What is Canada For? (playing against George Grant’s Lament for a Nation). Byers is a regular commentator on CBC on programs such as The Current and The National, and writes for The Globe and Mail and other Canadian and international periodicals We will discuss Security & Prosperity Partnership (SPP), the Northwest Passage, the North Pole, & the remarkable cooperation taking place between the five Arctic Ocean countries

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At 3:30 Bruce Hood “SuperSense: From Superstition to Religion – the Brain Science of Belief” currently the Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre in the Experimental Psychology Department at the University of Bristol. I have been a research fellow at Cambridge University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT and a faculty professor at Harvard. I have been awarded an Alfred Sloan Fellowship in neuroscience, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Infancy Researchers, the Robert Fantz memorial award and recently voted to Fellowship status by the society of American Psychological Science.

At 4 PM Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. Her films, slide lectures and television appearances have been seen by millions of people throughout the world. She was named by The New York Times Magazine as one of the three most popular speakers on college campuses today. Her book, Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, won the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association for Women in Psychology in 2000. She is also known for her award-winning documentaries Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes, and Calling the Shots. Jean’s new book So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids, co-authored with Diane E. Levin, is available now. For more information go to, www.sosexysosoon.com.

At 4:30 Vanessa Richmond from the Tyee joins us to discuss her most recent article A Modest Proposal: Labels on Celebrities :Let’s stamp the stars with their giant eco-footprints for all to see!

At 5 PM Lawrence R. Velvel returns to our show to discuss his research on the Bernie Madoff Scandal. Dean Velvel is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. Early in his career he served as an attorney at the Department of Justice. Later he worked closely with Robert Bork and was involved in some of the largest antitrust cases in U.S. history. In the 1960’s and early 1970’s Velvel was associated with more cases that disputed the constitutionality of the Vietnam War than anyone else, famously suing Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon in federal court. In the book “The Judiciary and Vietnam ,” noted law professors Anthony Amato and Robert M. O’Neill described Velvel as “indefatigable proponent of legal tests of the Vietnam war…sustaining the momentum and spirit of a diffuse campaign.” In 1970, Velvel wrote “Undeclared War and Civil Disobedience: The American System in Crisis.” In 1988 he was one of the founders, and from inception has been the Dean of, the Massachusetts School of Law (MSL), a school which has introduced extensive reforms in legal education and which especially focuses on providing a quality, affordable legal education to the working class, mid-life people, minorities and immigrants. Velvel has been cited by the National Jurist as one of the nation’s leaders in the legal education reform movement and has been honored for his work in this capacity by the National Law Journal. Currently, Velvel is the editor-in-chief of MSL’s journal “The Long Term View.” He also hosts an hour-long television program on Comcast called “Books of Our Time” which is seen throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic states, and has been called the finest book-interview show on television by many authors. In 2006, he published a book of his online essays titled, “Blogs from the Liberal Standpoint” which received a ForeWord Magazine prize in the essays category. In addition, Velvel’s newspaper and law review articles have appeared in dozens of publications across the nation

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At 3:30 Carolina González is a Brooklyn-based writer on culture, arts, immigration, education and political issues for alternative and mainstream newspapers and magazines. She was formerly an editorial writer at the NY Daily News and a contributor to the Progressive Media Project and New American Media Ms. Mag’s lead story on Sonia Sotomayor in the yet-unreleased Summer issue of Ms., which comes out Aug 4. She did extensive research & spoke with many legal experts to determine the key ways in which federal justices’ race & gender matter–most notably, it turns out, in cases of race & gender discrimination, where the very presence of a woman or minority Justice on a panel makes the other justices more sympathetic to the plaintiff. www.msmagazine.com

At 4 PM Sandra Cuffe Freelance journalist, photographer, contributing member: DominionPaper.ca MediaCoop.ca, and Honduras correspondent for UpsideDownWorld.org. We will get an update on this weekends events in Honduras.

We also spoke with Stephan Faris is the author of Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley, published by Henry Holt. Stephan Faris has covered Africa, the Middle East, and China for publications including Time, Fortune, The Atlantic Monthly and Salon.com. His article on The Real Roots of Darfur, published in April 2007 by The Atlantic Monthly, drew widespread comment for its exploration of the link between climate change and the development of the conflict.

At 5 PM David Borgenicht is the creator of the WORST-CASE SCENARIO® franchise, and the co-author of all of the books in the WORST-CASE SCENARIO® series. David is also the founder, president and publisher of Quirk Books (www.quirkbooks.com), the world’s foremost publisher of entertaining and informative “irreference” books. In dealing with life’s sudden turns for the worse over the past forty years, he has encountered alligators, mountain lions, rattlesnakes, and bears. He has escaped from bad dates, stowed away on trains, and sneaked into Disneyland. He has quieted screaming babies, dealt with nightmare bosses (and employees), and fended off bullies and con-artists. For its 10th anniversary, Chronicle Books is launching a new Worst-Case Scenario® format: Pocket Guides! These handy guides are smaller, more portable handbooks to tricky life challenges such as Breakups, Retirement, Dogs and New York City. According to Borgenicht, “I’m sad to say that ten years after we first published the original book, things don’t seem to have gotten any better. In fact, things are much worse.

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At 3 PM PACIFIC Broadcasting live here and simulcast on http://www.Rootsupradio.com and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm ,Sweden

It’s First Amendment Friday. Your soapbox all topics are on the table.

At 4 PM Lt. Eric Shine will discuss his case with Richard Block founding member of the National Mariners Association.

At 4:30 Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet. An index of his articles at Alternet

At 5:30 David Malsch with this week’s movie reviews and DVD releases. See David’s website

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At 3 PM PACIFIC Broadcasting live at www.theJeffFariasShow.com and simulcast on http://www.Rootsupradio.com and Jerva Westerort Local Community Radio – 91.1 Stockholm, Sweden

At 4 PM Elise Pearlstein has been producing and writing film and television documentaries for over 10 years. Prior to producing Food, Inc., Pearlstein produced Oscar-winning filmmaker Jessica Yu’s documentaryProtagonist about four men from different backgrounds who end up on a similar path of extremism. The film premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by IFC Films and Red Envelopment Entertainment. Pearlstein directed, produced and executive produced The Million Dollar Recipe, which became a critics’ favorite when it bowed on Bravo in 2005. The feature-length film followed seven contestants – both housewives and female executives – as they competed to win the coveted Pillsbury Bake-Off and take home a million dollar prize. From 2000 to 2005, Pearlstein produced and wrote five, prime-time documentaries for NBC’s Tom Brokaw and the late ABC news anchor Peter Jennings. Her award-winning NBC special for Brokaw, Your Kids, Our Schools, Tough Choices, probed inequities in public education and the controversial issue of school choice. For Jennings, she wrote and produced two episodes of his critically acclaimed, six-hour series, In Search of America. God’s Country, explored the culture clash of science and faith in a bible-belt town; Headquarters,examined globalization through Frito Lay’s efforts to spread potato chips to unsuspecting consumers worldwide. She also wrote and produced the MSNBC documentary, No Way Out: The Fall of Saigon. Smoke and Mirrors: A History of Denial, a feature documentary she co-produced and co-wrote about the tobacco industry’s sordid history, was short listed for the 2000 Academy Awards and won the 2001 Prism Award.

At 4:30 David Neiwert returns. Neiwert’s writing has appeared in the Washington Post, on Salon.com, and in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report. The author of three previous books on related topics, Neiwert won the National Press Club Award for Distinguished Online Journalism in 2000. His blog Orcinus, which reports on the crossover between the mainstream and the far right, received the Koufax Award for Best Series in 2003 and 2004. He is also the managing editor of the popular video blog, Crooks and Liars. His most recent book is The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right

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At 4 PM Elizabeth F. Loftus Elizabeth Loftus studies human memory. Her experiments reveal how memories can be changed by things that we are told. Facts, ideas, suggestions and other post-event information can modify our memories. The legal field, so reliant on memories, has been a significant application of the memory research. She is also interested in psychology and law, more generally.

Elizabeth F. Loftus | School of Social Ecology Center for Psychology and Law | School of Social Ecology

At 4:30 PM David Weinberger is the author of “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” (2002) and “Everything Is Miscellaneous” (2008). He writes frequently for many major journals, is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, advises start-ups and non-profits, and has been an adviser to two presidential campaigns. He is a Fellow at the Berkman Center. The Cluetrain Manifesto, posted in April, 1999, immediately became a touchstone in the digital culture wars. Its four authors – Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger – denounced the mainstream media’s portrayal of the Web as an extension of business-as-usual into a medium cheaper than paper and TV time. No, said Cluetrain in 95 “theses” (a number chosen for its resonant overstatement), millions of people weren’t flocking to the Web simply because they so loved online catalog shopping. The Web was a place where each individual had a voice, and each of those voices could connect with any and every other voice. The Web is a conversation. And — in Cluetrain’s most famous formulation — so are networked markets. http://www.JohoTheBlog.com

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At 3:30 Twila Brase President, Citizens’ Council on Health Care As president of the independent non-profit free-market, national health care policy organization, Citizens’ Council on Health Care (CCHC), Twila Brase also represents patients and citizens as a board member of the Patient Safety Institute. She is also an advisor to LifeSharers, an innovative organ donation initiative based in Missouri. In 2000, the Minnesota Physician magazine selected her as one of “Minnesota’s 100 Most Influential Health Care Leaders.” Ms. Brase’s recent activities include an op-ed published in The Washington Post, a press conference to support the “Parents’ Right to Say No Act” (opt-in consent for newborn genetic testing), authoring a extensively-documented report challenging “evidence-based medicine” (How Technocrats are Taking Over the Practice of Medicine: A Wake-up Call to the American People, January 2005), planning and moderating health care policy forums, most recently a forum on Evidence-Based Medicine, and being quoted by The Washington Times and The Washington Post.

At 4 PM Martin Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York and was the founder and first director of the Centre for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the CUNY Graduate School. He served on the boards of the Lambda Legal Defence team, the National Gay Task Force and was the co-founder of the Gay Academic Union. He has authored over twenty books, including James Russell Lowell, finalist for the National Book Award; “Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community”; Paul Robeson; “Stonewall: the memoir Cures: A Gay Man’s Odyssey”, “The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein”, for which he was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist and most recently, “Radical Acts” (The New Press), a collection of four political plays. Duberman has received numerous awards, including the Bancroft Prize, the Lambda Book Award, the George Freedley Memorial Award, the 2008 American Historical Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and, most recently, the Publishing Triangle’s 2009 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, which honors a gay or lesbian writer for his or her body of work. article

At 4:30 Robert Alexander is an expert in contemporary and historical Russia & author of “The Romanov Bride” Robert Alexander attended Leningrad State University and worked for the U.S. Government. He has been working as a partner in several Russian based businesses since 1990. Researching his novels as well as his continuous visits to Russia has made him an expert on historical and contemporary Russia.

We also have my interview with Mark Potok from the Southern Poverty Law Center on the growing problem of Neo-nazis in the US military.

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