the blather #4

The Venezuelan Revolution

• a special blather edition on the Venezuelan revolution featuring an interview with Paul Benedek who has recently returned from Venezuela which he visited as part of the solidarity brigade.
• Benedek is the author of a new booklet: Venezuela: Diary of A Revolution.
  Click book cover for further details
  

• Music for the broadcast:
• --Quirpa de Santa Inés (I)
  --Vota NO (Grupo Madera)
• These Venezuelan songs can be downloaded here.
  

Further information about Venezuela is available from the following web sites:

• Green Left Weekly
• Venezuela Solidarity
• Venezuela Analysis
  

The blather # 4 : Ratbag Radio 8pm Sunday, October 30, 2005
Podcast/Mp3 download and streaming -- also broadcast over Pirate Radio Network overnight Sunday and overnight Monday from 10pm. Length: 45:42 mins. 41.8 Mb.

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the blather # 3

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• Another mix and match experimental edition of the blather
• Lead in tune/identifier > chat (on the big issues of the day) > selected music > more chat > end song example: The Red Flag interpreted by the New World Order Kazoo Orchestra
• Selected Music: Uh ah Chavez no se va (Grupa Madera) from http://216.72.128.20/mribas/
• Starting next Sunday the blather will be broadcast and uploaded every Sunday night. Program schedule: the blather on Sunday nights (RRT)
• Dave Riley is slowly cranking up broadcast-speak. Not quite DJ material but we’re going places here on Ratbag Radio. Stick with us on this journey.
• 14 minutes/12.8Mb
  
  

Mike Davis on The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

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PROGRAM NOTES:

• Show feed from Democracy Now! broadcast for Wednesday, October 19th, 2005, which features a long interview with Mike Davis, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. He is a renowned urban theorist, social historian and author of six books including City of Quartz. His latest book, which has just come out is, The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu.
• This is an important interview with a lot of information that is not being ciruclated about Avian Flu.
• For transcript. Visit HERE.
• Democracy Now! is a daily US based current affairs news and views hour from Pacifica which offers its own podcast feed which can be accessed here.
  
  

inner side Scooter: Love. Beasts and Revolution

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PROGRAM NOTES: length -- 30 mins/27Mb

CREDITS: The Rolling Stones, John Stewart and TDS, Scooter,Whoopie Cushion, Laughing Kids, Kevin Neland, Some Other Actor, Spike Milligan, HarrySecomb, Peter Sellars, Pink Floyd, Dave Riley, Audio from indyfilm"Join the Resistance: Fall in Love" read by Amy Ray from Indigo Girls . PLUS Dickie Richards

Scooter Webpage: http://acksisofevil.org/

Dickie Richards: http://www.talkwarrior.com

the blather

• PROGRAM NOTES:
  The new anti-terrorist legislation is due to wash over the great southern land and flush out the nasties. Will you be among them? Will the blather?
• Arab Hip Hop. My Land by Dam: http://www.dam3rap.com. Check them out and the wide world of Arab hip hop through the Dam rap portal.
• And finally, The Internationale rendered into sweetness by the New World Order Kazoo Orchestra.
• program: 15.03 mins/ 13.79MB
• Check out the blather's new theme. (Is it too loud for you? Is it blather-y enough?)
  the blather will also be broadcast over Ratbag Radio, Monday and Tuesday nights from 11pm on repeat cycle, every 15 minutes (or thereabouts) until 10 am the following morning --RRT -- Ratbag Radio Time.
• Contact the blather with suggestions, feedback, audio and other stuff

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Mindwalk

The good people at Mindwalk have taken up a LOR podcast and re-broadcasted it with additions. Check out their show. It's great!

PROGRAM NOTES: Firstly, Jody Paulson speaks of the Bush supporter whodesecrated a memorial in Crawford. A Seymore Herschedit by Kavi.org excerpted from Democracy Now. JohnLennon, Jello Biafra and Eminem inthe mix. A greatpiece by Paul Garcia featuring Bush and Jim Morrison. A Bill Burroughs / Jim Morrison classic, and finally arather biting podcast/audioblog from a fellow namedDave down in Brisbane Australia. Strong language used..

That said, if you enjoy Jody Paulsons fine work as Ido, please consider sending her a contribution. She produces these commentaries out of her own pocket, and times are very tough as all of you well know.

Send donations to: PO Box 427214, San Francisco, CA 94142 Special thanks to Skidmark Bob and Free Radio SantaCruz for their continuing support.

Mindwalk can be heard on Free Radio Santa CruzTuesdays at 1p as well as many other Pirate, LPFM, and internet radio stations world wide.

Credits: Jody Paulson, Skidmark Bob, Peter Gabriel,K77, Amy Goodman, Seymore Hersch, Paul Goodman, JohnLennon, Kieth LeBlanc & Jello Biafra Paul Garcia, GWB,Jim Morrison & The Doors, William S. Burroughs, JelloBiafra spoken word, Eminem, Green Lantern, Dave Riley

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the blather [Wed Oct 5]

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The blather: today's test & experimental broadcast is more of the same 'ol same 'ol with more vocal confidence than last time you missed it. Dave Riley offers a couple of readings and a few improvisational thoughts -- none of which are particularly interesting --beginning and ending with a musical medly on the kazoo.
Broadcast: 30 mins in length(REPEATS 0n the half hour) 8pm -11pm Ratbag Radio Time Wednesday, October 5. So tune in on the half hour to catch the broadcast.[RRT runs 30 minutes later in the centre of Australia and two hours later over there in the west]
Feedback: dhell@optusnet.com.au