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At4:30 PM MST Rufus Griscom is the CEO of Babble Media, Inc., publisher of Babble.com, and the Chairman of Nerve.com, Inc. Rufus co-founded Nerve.com in 1997, which was originally billed as a smart online magazine about sex and culture. In the decade that followed he extended the brand to include an online dating service and a series of books. In 2001 he spun off a separate online dating technology company called Spring Street Networks, which was acquired by Various, Inc. in 2005. In 2006 Rufus founded Babble.com, a website for parents, with his wife, Alisa Volkman. Babble is backed by the venture capital firms Village Ventures and Greycroft Partners. He is the author of Dirt is Good for You: True Stories of Surviving Parenthood
Babble.com is the brainchild of the creators of Nerve.com, and has fast become the biggest name in parenting media. From their incredibly popular Bad Parent column comes a breakthrough anthology: a collection of brutally honest, eye-opening tales of imperfect parenting from a host of acclaimed writers and real parents alike. For any parent who has contemplated tossing their kid’s artwork, bribed their tots with candy, decided not to breastfeed or breastfed ‘too long,’ these essays are both candid and cathartic. Dirt is Good for You reveals the age-old truth that, despite our imperfections, our kids are growing up just fine. And they still love us.
At 6 PM MST Dr Bryant Welch returns. to the program to discuss his latest article
Bryant Welch has been a nationally-prominent psychologist/attorney and author for over thirty years. Dr. Welch graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School before receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976. He is also a Research Associate graduate of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dr. Welch is an experienced psychotherapist. He has provided over 35,000 hours of direct clinical care to individuals and couples from all walks of life. He is a Distinguished Practitioner member of the National Academy of Practice and holds the Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. In August of 2005, Dr. Welch was awarded the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Citation for his “seminal and unique contribution to professional psychological practice.”
Dr. Welch has written regular monthly columns in the mental health trade press for twenty years and is currently a blogger with Huffington Post. Most recently Dr. Welch has published his first book, State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press, June, 2008). The book is a psychological analysis of contemporary American politics. Political blog “Buzzflash” in its review said, “This is one of those few books — and a bit undernoticed — that is a virtual Rosetta stone to understanding how so many Americans are living in an alternative reality.”
·“A much-needed road map for policy makers and an unusually readable guide for every concerned citizen who wants to understand Canada’s choices in the Arctic.” – Thomas Berger
·“Who Owns the Arctic? is a great rebuke to the politicians who are all talk on sovereignty, climate change and the rights of the Inuit, the eternal stewards of Arctic lands.” – Tony Penikett, former Yukon Premier
Who Owns the Arctic?: Understanding Sovereignty Disputes in the NorthUnderstanding Sovereignty Disputes in the North
A topical and informed primer for the most urgent yet least understood geopolitical issue of our time—Arctic sovereignty. Who actually controls the Northwest Passage? Who owns the trillions of dollars of oil and gas beneath the Arctic Ocean?
Which territorial claims will prevail—those of the U.S., Russia, Canada or the Nordic nations—and why? And, in an age of rapid climate change, how do we protect the fragile Arctic environment while seizing the economic opportunities presented by the rapidly melting sea ice?
In this highly readable book, Michael Byers, a leading Arctic expert and international lawyer, explains the sometimes contradictory rules governing the division and protection of the Arctic and the disputes that remain unresolved. What emerges is a vision for the Arctic in which co-operation, not conflict, prevails, and where the sovereignty of individual nations is exercised for the benefit of all. …
At 6 PM MST – Keith Bolender, Freelance Journalist
Keith Bolender is an award-winning journalist, former community newspaper editor and freelance Toronto Star reporter, author of numerous articles on American foreign policy and US-Cuban relations, has worked in Cuba as an American media contact for Cuban information and culture. He is the author of Voices From the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism Against Cuba. [Pluto Press, (London, England) 2010.
The book examines the history of the more than 1000 acts of terrorism committed against Cuba since the earliest days of the Revolution, told through the personal testimonials of dozens of Cubans either directly victimized by the acts or who have lost loved ones. Included is the bombing of Cubana Airlines in 1976, the second worst act of air terrorism in the Americas after 9/11.
Keith Bolender teaches at the University of Toronto:
Until his inspiring life was tragically cut short, John F. Kennedy commanded the world’s attention today, his legacy is still very much alive. This rich visual biography tells an unusual personal story by collecting rare memorabilia, everything from doodles and diary entries to drafts of major addresses. Hundreds of photographs and a compelling narrative by presidential scholar Chuck Wills uncover the remarkable tale of an intensely private man, from his rivalry with his older brother and his persistent courtship of Jackie to the inner workings of a historical presidency. Dozens of removable facsimiles and a 60-minute audio CD featuring some of Kennedy’s most famous speeches, including his inaugural address and his speech at the Berlin Wall, capture an intimate look at one of the most revered figures in American history.
A writer, editor, and consultant specializing in American history, Chuck Wills’s most recent books include Boom Times, Hard Times, a history of America in the 1920s and 1930s, and two young-adult books on daily life in America in the 1940s and 1950s. He has written or contributed to numerous other works on American history, including Daily Life in Colonial America and a series of historical albums on the American states.
In addition to his historical work, Wills has a sideline in popular culture, technology, and music, including co-authoring 2003’sGrateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip. He lives in New York City.
at 5 PM MST – James W Douglass author of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
In James W. Douglass’ outstanding new book, “JFK and the Unspeakable,” the author explains the title in his introduction.
Coined by spiritual writer Thomas Merton, The Unspeakable refers to “an evil whose depth and deceit seemed to go beyond the capacity of words to describe.”
Regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Unspeakable succeeded due to deniability by the nation’s citizens of the horrifying truth of the event and to plausible deniability by the government agencies responsible for the murder.
The Warren Report gave us the unspeakable in prose, with a void at the center of its almost one thousand pages. Remember Merton’s description of the unspeakable. It sounds as if he is describing the Warren Report:
It is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken even before the words are said; the void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss. It is the void out of which Eichmann drew the punctilious exactitude of his obedience … The Warren Report is a monument to the unspeakable. Yet it provoked no revolution. That void of citizen response remains at the heart of our national security state. The unspeakable that rules us now took power on November 22, 1963, and was confirmed by the Warren Report. By denying the void at the heart of our system, we have allowed it to undermine everything. The unspeakable rules by the power of our denial.
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Is it not our right as a people to abolish the military-industrial complex and its intelligence agencies that have murdered our leaders and millions of other brothers and sisters? As we begin to be jolted out of our long sleep … how can we come together again? What are the present seeds of that nonviolent revolution needed to abolish war, poverty, and racism, a global Poor People’s Campaign? Must we begin by facing our own denial of the blood of the Sixties?
Compassion is the most powerful force on earth and in heaven.
– Compassion and the Unspeakable in the Murders of Martin, Malcolm, JFK, RFK, James W. Douglass,
keynote address to the International Thomas Merton Society, Mobile, AB, 13.Jun.97.
TJFS interview (Tues.20.Jan.09) with Abraham Bolden, author of The Echo from Dealey Plaza , an account of his time as the first African American to serve as a member of the White House Secret Service.
An internationally recognized expert on the subject, Zeskind ties together seemingly disparate strands—from neo-Nazi skinheads, to Holocaust deniers, to Christian Identity churches, to David Duke, to the militia and beyond. Among these elements, two political strategies—mainstreaming and vanguardism—vie for dominance. Mainstreamers believe that a majority of white Christians will eventually support their cause. Vanguardists build small organizations made up of a highly dedicated cadre and plan a naked seizure of power. Zeskind shows how these factions have evolved into a normative social movement that looks like a demographic slice of white America, mostly blue-collar and working middle class, with lawyers and Ph.D.s among its leaders.
When the Cold War ended, traditional conservatives helped birth a new white nationalism, most evident now among anti-immigrant organizations. With the dawn of a new millennium, they are fixated on predictions that white people will lose their majority status and become one minority among many. Blood and Politics concludes with a look to the future, elucidating the growing threat these groups will pose to coming generations.
·Zeskind’s rigorously researched and eloquent book is a definitive history of white nationalism.” —Publishers Weekly
·“Zeskind offers a well-placed warning ” —Kirkus Reviews
·“Recommended for all libraries.” —Stephen L. Hupp, Library Journal
·“Exhaustively researched, Blood and Politics is not only a brilliant account of the origins, modes of operation, collaborations, and internecine disputes of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denier, and anti-Semitic groups in America, but alerts us to the fact that despite—or perhaps because of—significant improvements in race relations and changing demographic patterns, we are likely to witness a resurgence of their activities.” —Drew S. Days III, Professor of Law, Yale University, and former U.S. Solicitor General
·Zeskind is a brilliant scholar whose unusual methodology, leavened with mordant humor, includes shoe leather investigation of the highest order. Time after time, in locations across the country, he and/or his associates attended survivalist expos, militia meetings and neo-Nazi marches (sometimes secretly, sometimes openly) to document what was said and done. At times, the reader feels like a fly on the wall. Zeskind has also collected a huge cache of newspapers, magazines, books and other “white-ist” publications, as he calls them. This trove of information became the basis for the insights he provided to many reporters (including this writer) over the years, as well as the documentary foundation for Blood and Politics. – Racial Hatred: Made in America, Rick Hellman, Moment
A MacArthur Award recipient, he has written for The American Prospect, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He has testified before a Parliamentary Subcommittee in the United Kingdom, given public lectures at universities in London and Berlin.
…The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) is a different kind of organization.
We didn’t hesitate to point at the racism motivating the Tea Party protests. We are dedicated to countering the machinations of anti-immigrant organizations with hard facts and a principled call for human rights for all. We understand that the fight against ant-Semitism is central to any battle to curb white nationalism. We don’t hesitate to expose efforts–whether from the right or the left–to undermine the sovereignty of native peoples; guarantees that were written into treaties long ago and violated by the United States government from the start. We support the reproductive rights of all women, and oppose doctor-killers, clinic bombers and bigotry against gay men and lesbians. And IREHR is just getting re-started.
I invite you to take a look at IREHR.org to see what we are doing and how we are taking on these and other key issues. …
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At 4:30 MST Flux Rostrum returns. As a Writer/Director/Editor FluxRostrum’s digital shorts “DotCompost Heap” & “WOOD” were selected for The Malibu International Film Festival 2002, “Public Housing and Black Panthers in New Orleans” and “N.O. Evictions” were screened at the Anthology Theatre in NYC March 22nd 2006 as part of a program from Third World News Reel entitled “imMEDIAcy“. “Public Housing and Black Panthers in New Orleans” was also screened at the 6th annual Anarchist Film Festival on 7.May.06.
Many FluxRostrum Films have been aired on FreeSpeech TV as part of the Blacked Out Media show and on numerous public access channels world wide, including Manhattan Neighborhood Network and PeraltaTV. Get That Camera! has aired on FreeSpeech TV, screened at a variety of film festivals and was aired on The Documentary Channel. Flux has worked as part of several collectives that regularly contribute footage and/or finished pieces, such as “Watch This!”, “Mandate?” & “The Iraq War 3rd Anniversary Special”, to FreeSpeech TV. Several videos from Flux’s time in Post Katrina New Orleans have been screened at Columbia University, film festivals and are available for rent on-line @Liberation Video. Flux has contributed protest footage to several feature films and documentaries including “the F Word” (Tribeca Film Festival) and Still We Ride (Bike Film Festival). As well as contributing footage to Democracy Now, Deep Dish TV and French Television projects.
At 5 PM MST Linda Nathan author of “The Hardest Questions Aren’t on the Test”
Linda Nathan is the founding headmaster of the Boston Arts Academy, the city’s first and only public high school for the visual and performing arts. BAA sends over 95 percent of its graduates to college—all residents of the city of Boston.
Under her leadership, the school has won state, national, and international recognition and awards. These include a Massachusetts Compass Award, a “Breaking Ranks” award from the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and a Mentor School award from the Coalition of Essential Schools.
Linda was instrumental in starting Boston’s first performing-arts middle school, and was a driving force behind the creation of Fenway High School, recognized nationally for its innovative educational strategies and school-to-work programs.
We spoke earlier with Professor Curtis Doebbler, a well-recognized international Human Rights Attorney.
Dr. Doebbler is an expert in international law, particularly international human rights law. He has earned law degrees from New York Law School in the United States. Nijmegen University in the Netherlands a Meesterstitel in European law, comparative constitutional law and international law and London School of Economics and Political Science Ph.D. in public international law, specialized in international human rights law. He has also been awarded a diploma in Public International Law by the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law in the Den Haag, Nederland.
He earned first degrees in journalism and English literature from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA.
His clients have included heads of state, governments, non-government organizations and, particularly some of the most vulnerable and oppressed individuals in the world. He has defended Saddam Hussein.
Dr. Doebbler practices law before the International Court of Justice, the African Commission and Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, the United Nations Administrative Tribunal, and the United Nations Treaty bodies. Almost all of his work is pro bono. We discussed his work on the Goldstone Report on Human Right violations in Gaza.
Dr. Michael Geist is a law professor at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. He has obtained a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. Dr. Geist has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law and was a member of Canada’s National Task Force on Spam. He is an internationally syndicated columnist on technology law issues with his regular column appearing in the Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen, and the BBC. Dr. Geist is the editor of In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, published in 2005 by Irwin Law, the editor of several monthly technology law publications, and the author of a popular blog on Internet and intellectual property law issues.
” … If ratified, many suggest it would criminalize peer-to-peer file sharing, subject iPods to border searches and allow internet service providers to monitor their customers’ communications.
Why You Should Care About It
ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers’ privacy and civil liberties, for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet, legitimate commerce, and for developing countries’ ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development.
ACTA is being negotiated by a select group of industrialized countries, outside of existing international multilateral venues for creating new IP norms such as the World Intellectual Property Organization and (since TRIPs) the World Trade Organization. Both civil society and developing countries are intentionally being excluded from these negotiations. While the existing international fora provide (at least to some extent) room for a range of views to be heard and addressed, no such checks and balances will influence the outcome of the ACTA negotiations.
The Fact Sheet published by the USTR, together with the USTR’s 2008 “Special 301″ report make it clear that the goal is to create a new standard of intellectual property enforcement, above the current internationally-agreed standards in the TRIPs Agreement, and increased international cooperation including sharing of information between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies. The last 10 bilateral free trade agreements entered into by the United States have required trading partners to adopt intellectual property enforcement obligations that are above those in TRIPs. Even though developing countries are not party to the ACTA negotiations, it is likely that accession to, and implementation of, ACTA by developing countries will be a condition imposed in future free trade agreements, and the subject of evaluation in content industry submissions to the annual Section 301 process and USTR report.
While little information has been made available by the governments negotiating ACTA, a document recently leaked to the public entitled “Discussion Paper on a Possible Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement” from an unknown source gives an indication of what content industry rightsholder groups appear to be asking for – including new legal regimes to “encourage ISPs to cooperate with right holders in the removal of infringing material”, criminal measures, and increased border search powers. The Discussion Paper leaves open how Internet Service Providers should be encouraged to identify and remove allegedly infringing material from the Internet. However the same industry rightsholder groups that support the creation of ACTA have also called for mandatory network-level filtering by Internet Service Providers and for Internet Service Providers to terminate citizens’ Internet connection on repeat allegation of copyright infringement (the “Three Strikes” /Graduated Response), so there is reason to believe that ACTA will seek to increase intermediary liability and require these things of Internet Service Providers. While mandating copyright filtering by ISPs will not be technologically effective because it can be defeated by use of encryption, efforts to introduce network level filtering will likely involve deep packet inspection of citizens’ Internet communications. This raises considerable concerns for citizens’ civil liberties and privacy rights, and the future of Internet innovation. …
Yet all we know for certain is it’s a treaty (.pdf) about beefing up intellectual property protections being negotiated in secret by the European Union, the United Sates, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Switzerland and New Zealand. …
“Because the text of the treaty and relevant discussion documents remain secret, the public has no way of assessing whether and to what extent these and related concerns are merited,” the groups said in a letter (.pdf) to trade representatives from the participating nations.
The groups include Consumers Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Essential Action, IP Justice, Knowledge Ecology International, Public Knowledge, Global Trade Watch, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, IP Left (Korea), Australian Digital Alliance, The Canadian Library Association, Consumers Union of Japan, National Consumer Council (UK) and Doctors without Borders’ Campaign for Essential Medicines. …” – Wired, Threat Level, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement: Fact or Fiction?, by David Kravets, 15.Sept.08
It’s Veteran’s Day formerly Armistice Day
The term armistice means a cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace negotiations. In the First World War ‘the armistice’ is generally referred to as the agreement between the Germans and the Allies to end the war on November 11, 1918.
Most European countries celebrate Armistice Day or Remembrance Day to commemorate World War I. In the United States, Armistice Day became Veteran’s Day following World War II and became a day to remember all veterans.
I mean no disrespect to those who serve and I truly believe that we should set aside a day to honor our veterans and the sacrifices they and their families make in service of our country. We can honor our troops by ensuring they get the medical and psychological treatment they need post-conflict. We can honor our troops by providing educational opportunities and advancement in civilian life. We can honor our troops by ensuring that they not be put in harm’s way for any reason but legitimate national defense and not wars of choice for the profit of the well connected.
But when do we honor peace? Perhaps we should recommit to having a day to celebrate Armistice – the cessation of hostilities as a prelude to peace.
“After adamantly rejecting all attempted negotiations, the Honduran de facto government signed an agreement on October 29th ostensibly opening space for a potential resolution to the country’s four-month standoff. The agreement called for the formation of a unity government that will assume power and oversee the November 29th presidential elections. But even under the most favorable of circumstances, the terms of the peace agreement would transform Zelaya into little more than a figurehead president, drained of all his authority.”.
At 5 PM MST Suzan Mazur is the author of Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry. Her interest in evolution began with a flight from Nairobi into Olduvai Gorge to interview the late paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey. Because of ideological struggles, the Kenyan-Tanzanian border was closed, and Leakey was the only reason authorities in Dar es Salaam agreed to give landing clearance. The meeting followed discovery by Leakey and her team of the 3.6 million-year-old hominid footprints at Laetoli. Suzan Mazur’s reports have since appeared in the Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes, Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, Archaeology, Connoisseur, Omni and others, as well as on PBS, CBC and MBC. She has been a guest on McLaughlin, Charlie Rose and various Fox Television News programs.
At 5 PM MST Richard “Ishmael” Scott, a writer at Sibel Edmonds website Boiling Frogs Post.Ishmael acquired his moniker hunting submarines for six years as a Destroyer Sonarman and specialist on Anti-Submarine and Anti-Surface Warfare. As a member of Nuclear Weapons Handling Teams, he participated in Nuclear Weapons Acceptance Inspections, Nuclear Technical Proficiency Inspections and Technical Surprise Inspections. He then spent thirty years in the belly of the Telecommunications beast as a technician specializing in all phases of Broadband Carrier Network Operations for A.T. &T., Qwest, Level3, Allegiance and others. He was personally responsible for keeping A.T. &T.’s long distance service working out of San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake disaster. He research for Boiling Frog Post focuses on telecommunications privacy and nuclear weapons issues.
We will discuss his article “An Analysis of Warrantless Wiretapping-Part I“
So the questions I have are this.
1. Why is such an overarching, intrusive, draconian wiretap program necessary?
2. What mechanisms are there in place to prevent government-sourced private information from being shared with corporate entities?
3. Is the NSA positioning itself to take control of all telecommunications in the event of a national emergency?”
4. What national emergency might provide a trigger mechanism for the assumption of such control?”
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…The decision to “embed” with the Iraqis, to tell the Iraqis’ side of the story – or what he could learn of it – has won Dahr Jamail four Project Censored awards. He broke stories about American house raids, torture & use of white phosphorus in Fallujah. He has written for The Nation, The Independent, the BBC, Democracy Now, & continues to work principally with the InterPressService as editor & fact-checker for Ali al-Fadhily & Ahmed Ali, two Iraqi reporters working under pseudonyms in Baghdad & Baquba, respectively. And in his book, “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches From an Unembedded Reporter in Occupied Iraq,” …, Jamail supplies the Iraqi perspective he garnered from the four visits he made to Iraq between November 2003 & February 2005, spending a total of eight months in the country.
Jamail’s conviction that telling the Iraqis’ stories is a path to personal & perhaps national redemption provides his book with a focus, perspective & objective very different from the so-called “objectivity” of the “professional” journalist. Perhaps, because he is aware of his absence of “professional” credentials, this citizen journalist makes it clear he verifies his stories, checks his sources, & generally applies the standards “professional” journalism contents itself with paying lip service to. By adopting the standpoint of the occupied, he is forced to violate one of the most fundamental tropes of mainstream media reporting: the sacrosanct virtue, integrity & wholesomeness of US military personnel.
Americans may not be able – or willing – to put themselves “into Iraqis’ stories,” but Jamail reproduces Iraqi voices:
… The stories of Iraqis’ resourcefulness, hospitality, sense of humor & warmth; Jamail’s descriptions of shared meals & experiences that are spread throughout the book, are other angles, missed – in every sense of the word – by embedded reporters for whom the Iraqis are always “the other.” Jamail, instead, conveys Iraqis’ shock – because it has become his own – at the apparently wanton bulldozing of a grove of date palm trees that belonged to his interlocutors’ fathers’ fathers’ fathers, at a friend’s inability to get home from a shopping trip because she lost her American-issued biometric ID card, at the vastly inflated turn-out numbers in the Iraqi elections reported by the US media.
Jamail’s immediate & intense identification with the Iraqis he encountered & his ability to convey their experience makes for matchless reportage. His book is also very strong on deconstructing propaganda: This is what happened; this is what the US media, the Pentagon or the CPA reported. Jamail may have been reporting too close in to provide an outside perspective on how Iraqi society works: He ascribes sectarian violence largely to US troublemaking, but the basis & trends of Iraqi allegiance is not clear. One fixer describes an Iraqi policeman as a “US spy”; Jamail refers to “militants,” & certainly describes how they are created, but the patterns of loyalty, rivalry & leadership are no clearer from his unembedded perspective than they are in the mainstream media vocabulary of “insurgents,” “foreign fighters,” “Shia factions,” “Sunni tribesmen” … – Leslie Thatcher, t r u t h o u t | Book Review
At 5 PM MST James Schwartz IN PURSUIT OF THE GENE: From Darwin to DNA
The mystery of inheritance has captivated thinkers since antiquity, & the unlocking of this mystery—the development of classical genetics—is one of humanity’s greatest achievements. This great scientific & human drama is the story told fully & for the first time in this book.
Acclaimed science writer James Schwartz presents the history of genetics through the eyes of a dozen or so central players, beginning with Charles Darwin & ending with Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller. In tracing the emerging idea of the gene, Schwartz deconstructs many often-told stories that were meant to reflect glory on the participants & finds that the “official” version of discovery often hides a far more complex & illuminating narrative. The discovery of the structure of DNA & the more recent advances in genome science represent the culmination of one hundred years of concentrated inquiry into the nature of the gene. Schwartz’s multifaceted training as a mathematician, geneticist, & writer enables him to provide a remarkably lucid account of the development of the central ideas about heredity, & at the same time bring to life the brilliant & often eccentric individuals who shaped these ideas.
In the spirit of the late Stephen Jay Gould, this book offers a thoroughly engaging story about one of the oldest & most controversial fields of scientific inquiry. It offers readers the background they need to understand the latest findings in genetics & those still to come in the search for the genetic basis of complex diseases & traits.
OFTEN described as a noble quest for the truth, science can also be messy and duplicitous – never more so, as this book reveals, than in the search for the key to heredity, the gene. Yet rarely has science involved such inspiring and passionate figures – Mendel, Bateson, Morgan, Muller – whose names we may recognise but whose personal tales are relatively little told.
Here is the 100-year story of genetics with the setbacks and breakthroughs carefully explained, and the human story – including spells in Soviet prison camps and suicide attempts – thrillingly evoked. – New Scientistreview
At 6 PM MST Scott Long is Director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. For over a dozen years & on several continents he has documented & advocated against human rights violations based on sexual orientation, gender identity, & HIV status.
For five years he lobbied the United Nations on sexual rights issues; his work led to U.N. human rights mechanisms agreeing publicly for the first time to take up gay & lesbian concerns. He joined Human Rights Watch as a consultant in 2002 to develop a project on lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender people’s rights, & in March 2004 was hired as its director.
We will discuss the lifted ban on HIV AIDS travel.
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SATURDAY
• 1 PM The Jeff Farias Show This Week
• 2 PM The Robert McDonald Show
• 3 PM America at Work with Roman and Liz
• 5 PM The Progressive Coalition Show with Leonard Clark
• 6 PM The David Link Show
• 7 PM In the Zone with Lt Eric Shine
SUNDAY
• 9 AM Sunday Morning Coffee with Sarge
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At 5 PM MST Dr Margaret Flowers returns to discuss her advocacy for single payer insurance.
BALTIMORE (Oct. 29, 2009) – Four protesters, including two doctors, were arrested at a “single-payer health care plan” sit-in at the CareFirst insurance company office in Baltimore Thursday.The protest, part of the “Patients Not Profits” campaign of the Mobilization for Health Care for All, was jointly organized by advocacy groups Prosperity Agenda, Healthcare-NOW!, and the Center for the Working Poor.Baltimore was one of 20 cities nationwide to host such protests this week, said Kai Newkirk, national coordinator for the Mobilization in a conference call Tuesday.Charles Loubert of Baltimore, Dr. Eric Naumburg of Columbia, Patricia Courtney of Millersville and Dr. Margaret Flowers were among about 30 protesters chanting “Single Payer Now, Health Care for All” outside the locked front doors of the insurance company office.
At 5:30 PM MST Katherine Spillar – Vice President of Feminist Majority Foundation and Executive Director of Ms Magazine
Women have become the majority of paid workers in the United States for the first time in history.
Ms. magazine has just released an in-depth feature, Paycheck Feminism, on what a majority-women workforce means for our social policies. Our nation must update an outdated social contract, crafted in the 1930s, to reflect the changed role of women today. Ms. proposes 5 next steps to bring Social Security, health insurance, family and medical leave, childcare, and payroll taxes into the new millennium.
…As we reform the social safety net for the 21st-century economy, we must make sure that women are not left behind. We are at a time of opportunity—the country as a whole is realizing the need to reform many of our New Deal programs that are so important to our economy and to American families. We cannot let this opportunity to increase the economic security of all women—now
50 percent of paid workers—pass us by once again.
At 6 PM MST Richard J.F. Day to discuss the history & misappropriation of ‘anarchism‘ in the mainstream media.
Richard Day’s Ph.D. thesis is a study of ethnic identity and state regulation in Canada since the arrival of the Europeans. It uses Lacanian and Foucaultian theory to analyze and critique the Canadian discourse on ‘ethnic and racial diversity‘ as a public problem requiring rational-bureaucratic solutions. It was published in 2000 by University of Toronto Press as Multiculturalism and the History of Canadian Diversity.
His current work focuses on the broader question of the articulation of social subjects with group identities such as those offered up by nations, states, and capitalist corporations. He is particularly interested in the possibilities for radical social change via the construction of alternative communities and polities. This has led to research into theoretical and practical models derived from western anarchism, Native American political theory, the anti-globalization movement, as well as feminist, postcolonial, and queer theories.
Every revolution has its counterrevolution — that is a sign the revolution is for real.
C. Wright Mills
In addition to his academic work, Richard maintains a commitment to strengthening co-operative (non-coercive, non-corporate, non-state) forms of social organization wherever and whenever possible, and is involved in various local and global activist projects.
We spoke earlier with Spider Robinson
Since he began writing professionally in 1972, Spider Robinson has won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, and countless other international and regional awards. Most of his 36 books are still in print, in 10 languages.
“Nobody’s perfect, but Spider comes pretty damned close“
– Ben Bova
His short work has appeared in magazines around the planet, from Omni and Analog to Xhurnal Izobretatel i Rationalizator (Moscow), and in numerous anthologies. The Usenet newsgroup alt.callahans and its many internet offshoots, inspired by his Callahan’s Place series, for many years constituted one of the largest non-porn networks in cyberspace.
In 2006, he became the only writer ever to collaborate on a novel with First GrandMaster of Science Fiction Robert A. Heinlein, posthumously completing Variable Star. That same year the Library of Congress invited him to Washington D.C. to be a guest of the First Lady at the White House for the National Book Festival. In 2008 he won the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Excellence in Literature.
His wife’s Jeanne film project Stardance is here looks like a must-see art project.
Diehard Callahan fans can meet up in many esoteric places, such as Second Life or Callahans.org, but remember, All Time Travellers Strictly Cash!Spider On The Web, the FREE podcast, is updated twice a month with fresh content.
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