AMPB REPORT #92

Dear Readers,

Another 9/11 anniversary passes and still our government stands by the official version of what happened. The current president has even gone so far to connect 9/11 truthers to holocaust deniers. I don’t see the truth coming out any time soon. In Oakland, the 9/11 film festival was a two day event this year, and once again the best work seems to be coming from overseas. Featured films included 7/7 Ripple Effect (from the BBC), Kill the Messenger (France), The New American Century (Italy), and Anthrax War which was made by two americans (Bob Coen and Eric Nadler), but they had to get production funding from a french company. By the way, Anthrax War has a companion book called Dead Silence and I would recommend it to anyone concerned about the billions of dollars spent every year in america for “bio-defense”. It’s hard enough to get people to turn out for 9/11 truth here in the “liberal” bay area. It’s even harder when you live in the deep south, like our intrepid reporter W.C. Moore. His report is included later in this newsletter. Project Censored has released another of their Top 25 Lists. We have the links for you to make it easy. Congrats to Monkey from Pirate Cat Radio for his recent marriage and glowing commendation from the San Francisco City Council. He has also invented something called a Bacon Maple Latte, which seems to be getting very popular. I’d also like to salute everyone at FCC Free Radio for raising the jolly roger antenna and thanks to everyone who came out for the Berkeley Liberation Radio tenth anniversary party. As always, your support is appreciated! -Paul Griffin (for the AMPB)

FCC to propose 'Net neutrality' rules

The head of the FCC plans to propose new rules that would prohibit Internet service providers from interfering with the free flow of information and certain applications over their networks. The proposals would uphold a pledge Barack Obama made during the presidential campaign to support Internet neutrality and would bar Internet service providers such as Verizon Communications Inc., Comcast Corp. or AT&T Inc., from slowing or blocking certain services or content flowing through their vast networks. Without strict rules ensuring Net neutrality, consumer watchdogs fear the communications companies could interfere with the transmission of content, such as TV shows delivered over the Internet, that compete with services the ISPs offer, like cable television. Internet providers have opposed regulations that would inhibit the way they control their networks.

Praise for the Pirates

www.sfgate.com

Pirate Cat Radio has been the main pirate radio station broadcasting in San Francisco since San Francisco Liberation Radio was stormed by the Feds. A cafe and pirate radio studio, Pirate Cat Radio stands proudly on the corner of 21st and Florida in the Mission District. Local commercial radio is mostly a bad joke, run from corporations in other cities who choose the programming. Many radio show hosts don't live or haven't even been to San Francisco. College radio and pirate radio helps us all breathe a sigh of relief with local programming and live local DJs. Almost as cool as pirate radio is local government support. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi visited the cafe and radio studio to present a certificate of highest recommendation for outstanding service to San Francisco. Take that FCC. For the station's founder and manager and the 50+ volunteers who keep the station running with fine programming, it's a welcome pat on the tushie from our local government. Congrads Pirate Cat Radio. Thank you San Francisco. Here's the words from the cert: "The Board of Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco hereby issues and, and authorizes the execution of, this certificate of honor in appreciative public recognition of distinction and merit for outstanding service to a significant portion of the people of the city and county of San Francisco. Pirate Cat Radio, in recognition of your trailblazing efforts towards freeing the airwaves from corporate control, providing the community with training in radio broadcast skills, empowering voices ignored by traditional media outlets; and contributing to the advancement of the City's coffee culture through the unique creations of baristas of the Pirate Cat Radio Cafe; the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, extends its highest commendation!"

FALL OFFENSIVE CALENDAR

September 30th, Wednesday 7 P.M.

“Time for a new economic system”, speakers discuss alternatives to war economy.

Presenting Earl Gilman, Gerald Smith BLR 104.1FM, and others. Refreshments provided. Art House Gallery, 2905 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley

October 1st ,Thursday, 7 PM.

“ Poetry of Protest”, Local poets present work focused on the realities of war and

the current state of Americas Healthcare failures. Featuring Soul of BLR 104.1 FM, Katy Stuck, Bob Randolph and The CHAIRMAN. Open mike to follow. Café’ Mediterranean, Telegraph Ave. Berkeley. Between Dwight and Haste Streets.

October 2nd , Friday, 7 PM. ‘Single Payer Healthcare Not War’ Speakers’ Forum

and open mike at CODY’S PLAZA on Telegraph Ave. at Haste, Berkeley. With Michael

Delacour and Councilman Kriss Worthington.

October 3rd , Saturday, 1-5 P.M.

FREE Concert in the PEOPLE’S PARK, featuring world renowned Rhythm & Blues Artist Mr. JACKIE PAYNE, Dennis Wilmerth of the “Roving Tars”, and presenting Jada Simone, BLR 104.1 FM DJ and singer extrordinaire, Local Hip Hop artists GLOBAL

CULTURE and Yukon Hannibal, BLR DJ and Performance Artist.

Monday, October 5th, 11 AM to 2 PM. Political Rally with Live Music, gathering at

University Ave. and Martin Luther King Blvd. Supporting ‘Single Payer Health Care

Not War’.

Promoting 911 Truth in the bible belt

by W.C. Moore

After having worked as an associative sponsor and host of the San Francisco 911 International Inquiry in 2004 alongside a group of dozens of volunteers, organizing a 911 Truth event as a sole promoter in a southern red state was quite a lonely and exhausting experience. Never-the-less, I consider the event went well, although not due to popular attendance. Merely by the numbers it was quite much a disappointment since I had only about 22 total attendees over both the early and evening presentations. However, from past experience and from an awareness of the mindset of bible belt folks down here, I was not especially surprised though it was a tad disappointing considering the outlay of promotion, advertising and foodstuff. But on the favorable side I had several people who were clearly moved and seemingly even shocked upon becoming apprised of information and testimonials they had never heard or seen before. And most fortunately, I did have 4 of my A-team friends and relatives who volunteered assist for the day of the event. Although I had mailed flyers to some 2 dozen persons whom I knew from earlier days, not one among them showed up. Several people who acknowledged that they were planning to attend, also were no-shows. I had put up flyers at numerous cafes and eateries, etc., more on that later. A few attendants had seen the ad I ran on the local cable channel outlet, sandwiched there among the funeral announcements and such. Some of the more interesting aspects were: a couple of ladies in attendance acknowledged they were from New York and that they had lost a friend in the catastrophe. As the presentation proceeded, with each startling and sobering testimonial that ensued, I noticed them looking at each other. I felt they were maybe on the fence, hoping against hope that our government was not involved but rapidly coming over in recognition that their worst nightmares had been confirmed - that their friend was indeed victim of a maniacal plot orchestrated by our own government. Several others expressed appreciation of the presentation and offered volunteer assist for possible future events. There were three or four of my friends/relatives who, although they had heard much of my talking and a few of my videos over recent years, just then had the disturbing reality gel for them due to the substance of the presentational videos. I spent weeks editing and carefully selecting short segments and did the video DJ approach of making mainly brief introductory commentaries between pieces to keep them moving quickly but to hold attention by keeping them short. At a few of the venues where I had placed flyers, I noticed them to be disappearing over a few days. Presumably, most were taken by truly concerned individuals, but a few may have been removed by conservatives who thought them shameful to imply government complicity. I do know that one person complained to the proprietors of a local eatery that such material should not be up on their bulletin board. But being a regular customer and having apprised most of the personnel about my presentation, they had no problem with them being posted. There was another location, a convenience store out in the country where a flyer had endured a bout of graffitti. At the top was written, "Join all the crazy people here'. And at the bottom it said, "UFO's and aliens will be there too". This was of note because the person had to have taken the flyer out if its plastic sheet protector, written the comments there-on and then replaced it back in the protector. One of my acquaintances who attended was a retired naval vet. He's been totally incredulous all along as to government complicity, at least in part because of his history with the military. But he complimented me on the quality of the presentation and then left fairly soon afterwards. I got the impression that he'd been moved by what he'd seen and that just maybe he was having a hard time dealing with it. Another friend, also from way back with whom I attended junior high was clearly a tad shocked with some of the revelations. He's one who had been avoiding looking at the 911 video I'd sent him over 2 years ago - in part because as he admitted, he was 'trying to get up the nerve to watch it." He also admitted that he planned to attend the earlier presentation for fear of a greater likelihood that someone might be taking pictures or license plates of attendees during the evening event. Also, the community center that I rented had a morning meeting scheduled for a group of mayors from around the county. The evening before, I had moved in most of my equipment and displays. The sign that I made for out front which said, "911 WTC Update", had been left within the room leaning against the back wall but facing towards the front. When we went in after their meeting I noticed that the sign had been turned around facing the wall so that its message was not visible to the mayors. Apparently the set-up crew figured it would disturb the mayors' sensibilities to merely have such a sign visible. If they only knew - the week before I had repainted the sign from its previous message, "911 Was an Inside Job", out of concern for the mindset of these fuddy-duddys.

W.C. Moore is a former San Francisco radio journalist now living in Georgia. For contact: gotowc@aol.com

and now, for your reading pleasure, The Holy Grail of the Unconscious

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html

Project Censored Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation

http://www.alternet.org/world/62728/

# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA

http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4276

# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business

http://www.progressive.org/mag_rothschild0308

# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?

http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/774/1/

# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6377

# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

http://www.indypendent.org/2007/11/19/homegrown-terrorism/

# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking

http://www.splcenter.org/legal/guestreport/index.jsp

# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2007/12/senator-whitehouse-has-taken-proper.html

#9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify

http://ivaw.org/wintersoldier

# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/21/cia_sere/

# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror

https://nacla.org/node/1499

# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/14/13170/1926

# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/10/iraq_billions200710

# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste

http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/outofcontrol/outofcontrol.htm

# 15 Worldwide Slavery

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/Global_Slave_Trade.html

# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights

http://survey07.ituc-csi.org/pressrel.php?IDLang=EN&IDPressrel=6

# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights

http://us.oneworld.net/node/153160

# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers

http://www.truthout.org/article/13000-abuse-claims-juvenile-centers

# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction

http://ictsd.net/i/news/biores/9342/

# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record

http://www.mpp.org/

# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/22/nato.nuclear

# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid

http://revcom.us/a/108/awtw-food-aid-en.html

# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/4716

# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror

http://www.rense.com/general80/testi.htm

# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

http://www.truthout.org/article/eliot-spitzer-predatory-lenders-partner-crime-0

CAPTAIN FRED’S WORLD CRUISE #92

download from radio4all.net or archive.org

C'est La Vie - Amadou & Mariam

Tauba Tauba - Kailash Kher & Kailasa

All I Know - Julian Marley

Afrika Hot! - Dead Prez

Kamussekele - Dog Murras

Charanga E-350 - The Spam Allstars

America - K'naan

Invaders Must Die - Prodigy

Nobody Moves (Til We Say Go) - Street Sweeper Social Club

Cool And Collect - 10 Ft. Ganja Plant

Sine Language - The Crystal Method

Ibajekbe (What If) - Femm Nameless

Own Rebel - Prezident Brown

Look To The Sun - Lawrence Blatt

Should Have Done More - Watermelon Slim

Sixteen Is Too Young - Scotland Yard Gospel Choir

Pra Que Pedir Perdão - Ana Costa With Oswaldo Cavalo

Boris And His Felt - Dufus

Doghouse - The Twisters

Carnival Again - Biggie Irie

Spirit Dance - Ben Dowling

AMPB RECORD CHART

for the week ending september 19

# TITLE - ARTIST - LABEL

1 PULSE OF THE PEOPLE -DEAD PREZ-INVASION MUSIC

2 DANCE THE WORLD-VARIOUS ARTISTS-WORLD MUSIC NET

3 OM 5-VARIOUS ARTISTS-OM

4 (SELF TITLED) -STREET SWEEPER SOCIAL CLUB -S.S.S.C.

5 IN A DIS YA TIME-THE ITALS-VP

6 ESCAPE FROM THE CHICKEN COOP -WATERMELON SLIM-NORTHERN BLUES

7 DIVIDED BY NIGHT -THE CRYSTAL METHOD-TINY E RECORDS

8 THE MAGIC COUPLE-AMADOU & MARIAM-UNIVERSAL

9 COBA COBA REMIXED -NOVALIMA-CUMBANCHA

10 PARIS TO CUBA-MARIO GRIGOROV-WARM & GENUINE

11 BUSHROCK-10 FT. GANJA PLANT-ROIR

12 COMMON PROSPERITY-PREZIDENT BROWN -TOMORROW'S CHILDREN

13 THE COLOR OF SUNSHINE-LAWRENCE BLATT -LMB MUSIC

14 AWAKE-JULIAN MARLEY-TUFF GONG

15 IN MONSTROUS ATTITUDE-DUFUS-ROIR

16 SOCA GOLD 2009-VARIOUS ARTISTS-VP

17 INVADERS MUST DIE-THE PRODIGY-TAKE ME TO THE ....

18 BACH IN HAVANA-TIEMPO LIBRE-SONY

19 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO AFROBEAT REVIVAL -WORLD MUSIC NET

20 PUTUMAYO PRESENTS BRAZILIAN CAFE-PUTUMAYO

21 DARK WAS THE NIGHT -VARIOUS ARTISTS -REDHOT

22 TROUBADOUR-K'NAAN-A & M

23 ...AND THE HORSE...-SCOTLAND YARD GOSPEL CHOIR-BLOODSHOT

24 COME OUT SWINGIN'-THE TWISTERS-NORTHERN BLUES

25 LIVE FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-CLAPTON/WINWOOD -REPRISE

26 WORLD RISING-BEN DOWLING-VISION SOUND

27 REGGAE GOLD 2009-VARIOUS ARTISTS-VP

28 YATRA -KAILASH KHER & KAILASA-CUMBANCHA

29 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL ARABIA-VARIOUS ARTISTS-EMI

30 HERE I AM-GROUNDATION-(SELF-RELEASED)

31 (THE ALBUM)-WILCO-NONESUCH

32 PUTUMAYO PRESENTS SALSA VARIOUS ARTISTS-PUTUMAYO

33 FAR-REGINA SPEKTOR-SIRE

34 GET LUCKY-MARK KNOPFLER-REPRISE

35 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO AFRICAN STREET PARTY -WORLD MUSIC NET

36 SENTIMENTAL AND ANIMATED-VARIOUS-TRONE MUSIC

37 MONTEGO BAY-QUEEN IFRICA-VP

38 FROM THE ROOT-ZAC HARMON-NORTHERN BLUES

39 THE RESISTANCE-MUSE-WARNER BROS.

40 RACHMANINOV ETUDES-ALEXANDER ROMANOVSKY -DECCA

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