AMPB RREPORT #90

Dear Readers,

     I’m still waiting for that “change”.  I don’t see it happening yet.  Still us radio rebels continue our struggle.  One of my favorites right now is an angry guy who goes down into his basement and makes videos for youtube.  The show is called “The Stench of Truth” and I recommend it highly.  We still have a little free speech in this country so let’s use it before we lose it.  I see the ever-widening powers of federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and I get concerned.  I see regular military troops at traffic stops and I get concerned.  I see outbreaks of never-seen-before contagious diseases and I get concerned.  During the Bush years, it felt sort of like Germany in 1938.  Now we have Obama and it’s starting to feel like Germany in 1941.  I’m currently reading “The Rise of the Fourth Reich” by Jim Marrs.  I would also recommend that to you.  I’m not all gloom and doom though.  What I see is most Americans going about their daily activities, reporting for work, paying their taxes, and obeying the law.  That’s where our strength is-in the people.  Folks are worried.  They have good reason to be worried, but if we all can keep it together and hold our “leaders” accountable, I have faith that we as a nation can pull through.  Here in Berkeley, our local pirate station will be celebrating ten years on the air come july 31.  There are plans for a big party.  I’ll update you in the next newsletter two months from now.  Until then, keep on fighting for freedom and support your local micro-power station.     -Paul Griffin (for the AMPB)

STATION ALERT

The Prometheus Radio Project Storms Capitol Hill

Last week, from April 22-24, 2009, Prometheus wrapped up our third Low Power FM Leadership days in DC.  It was a great trip; we made significant headway on our campaign to expand low power FM, traded stories with allies from around the country, and made (radio)waves with our giant corporate robot street theater piece!

Over 50 people, representing diverse communities ranging from farmworkers from Florida and Oregon, artists and musicians from Chicago to New Jersey, media activists and youth organizers from Atlanta to Detroit, low-wage workers from Baltimore, members of the faith community from rural North Carolina and radio programmers from Idaho to New York City, gathered in Washington DC to demand more Low Power FM radio through the passage of the Local Community Radio Act. Watch the You tube video, check out the photos, or listen to Free Speech Radio News story on the events.

The days of action began with a three-hour lobby training at St. Stephen's Church.  Members of the Allied Media Project, Detroit Summer, the Media Mobilizing Project, and People's Production House presented on media justice and the importance of telling untold stories in the building of movements to end poverty.  Members of the United Workers and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers shared stories about their campaigns for better wages, decent working conditions, economic human rights, and the role that media played in these campaigns.  Lobbyists from US PIRG, the Consumer's Union, and the Media Access Project shared lobbying tips and provided an overview of the Congressional landscape of today.  

On Thursday, April 23, 3 dozen people, including local participants as well as people from across the country, marched from Union Station to the Capitol Steps chanting, "Low Power Radio for our communities."  We were being trailed by a Big Robot Puppet, which represented the Corporate Media and the powerful broadcast lobby industry.  Upon arriving on the Capitol steps, the street theater piece "Corporate Media vs. Community Media" began, in which we struggled to take the giant microphone away from corporate media and gain access to the airwaves. 

We met with over 46 Congressional offices and were assured support, through cosponsorship, in a number of the visits.  Later, a the policy briefing, Representative Doyle (D-Pa.) assured his continued support for the Local Community Radio Act and enthusiastically announced that Chairman Boucher was also "inclined" to move this legislation to a vote.  Liz Humes from WRIR-LP in Richmond addressed the importance of Low Power Radio to Emergency Response.  Pop-musician Nicole Atkins from Neptune City New Jersey voiced the importance of Local Radio to musicians. Although she has a large following around the word, she still faces difficulties when she tries to get her music played on the radio stations in her own town. Erubiel Valladares, from KPCN-LP spoke of the importance of Low Power Radio in the farm worker community of Woodburn, Oregon where he lives and organizes.  Cheryl Leanza from the United Church of Christ and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights released a report on Minority ownership of Radio and the ability of Low Power Radio to diversify the media landscape. Parul Desai from the Media Access Project moderated the Panel and gave an important recap of the 2003 MITRE study which disproves the National Association of Broadcasters claims about interference caused by LPFM (an opposition which had originally been an obstacle to expanding LPFM).  

On Friday, April 24, Low Power Radio advocates brought their demands to the Federal Communications Commission, asking the FCC to grant more rights to LPFM stations so that larger stations cannot take over Low Power signals.  Many groups spoke of their inability to get a radio station unless FCC gives preference to LPFM license applications over the satellite repeater signals of preexisting non-local stations.

After taking it to the streets, to our Congressional Representatives, and to the FCC, there was only one place left to go: the White House!  Over 40 of us met with Susan Crawford, who is responsible for technology issues on President Obama's transition team, and Jim Kohlenberg, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Chief of Staff.  There in the White House Conference Room we demanded that President Obama's words of support, as demonstrated through former cosponsorship of this legislation and his call to diversity media ownership, be transformed into action.  We delivered a letter, signed by groups from across the country, expressing support of Low Power FM Radio and demanding that President Obama release a statement in support of the legislation.

After our hard days of advocacy and action we spent some time reflecting on our next steps, and how grassroots folks will continue to lead the way in the fight for more local community radio.  People headed back to their homes with a heightened commitment to this work.  Whether using their existing stations to inform people of the legislation, working to pass City Council Resolutions, setting up more lobbying visits in their home districts, or doing political education in their communities about the importance of community radio, we are organizing to win.  We will expand Low Power FM radio to towns and cities across the country.  Join us in the fight!

The Swine Flu Hoax

by W.C. Moore

 One hasn't had to go very far lately to become thoroughly acquainted with the highly propagandized issues regarding swine flu.     But, unfortunately, the majority of what you've learned from the mainstream sources amounts to little more than a promotional campaign for specific vaccines designed and marketed by the pharm-chem industry. Anyone who has done a dab of in-depth research into the highly controversial issues of the origins of AIDS may well be aware from the earliest research of Dr. Robert Strecker, and later of Dr. Len Horowitz highlighted in his book, "Emerging Viruses", that animal viruses cannot normally cross species by themselves.    An elaborate bio-engineering process is required through which viral components are recombined ultimately with human blood cells to produce a contaminant which can live and thrive in humans. Dr. Horowitz recently produced a 10 minute video alert, available on YouTube,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBeKB7aKzOs  which provides many of the details tracking the origin of this current swine flu outbreak from Mexico to the U.S. and the collusion among key operatives within the CDC and Novavax Inc. of Bethesda, Maryland.    And this alert comes from Dr. Patrica A. Doyle DVM, PhD Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics Univ of West Indies.    " PLEASE, PLEASE, DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED TO PREVENT THIS FLU.    Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic?  It only infected recruits at Ft. Dix.    Why?   Because I believe that the so called Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they were given.   Whether the government developed the Swine Flu 1976 virus and infected the recruits as a means to test the public to see if people would comply with a call to take vaccination against Swine Flu, or the recruits became infected via contaminated vaccine they were given as part of the recruit regimen, that outbreak was as phony as they come.    I was one of the people duped into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick.    I was sick in bed for three months after taking the vaccine."For info warriors such as myself, it's sometimes hard to fathom how legions of an ill-informed public can still take the bait on repeated curtain calls of this nature, but an awakening process is at least underway.    As of 5/12/09 there had already been 147,500+ viewings of the Horowitz alert video, and there have likewise been many other heads-up mailers circulating on the internet focusing on the issue as well.     Sadly though, there will remain a lion's share of those who suck up to the network airheads.    There's yet another YouTube piece called, "Creating a Nation of Zombies",  www.brasschecktv.com/page/506.html that clarifies this side of the coin very well.    But not to worry, it's likewise a short that won't eat up nearly as much of your time as "Night of the Living Dead".

 W.C. Moore is a former co-programmer of San Francisco Liberation Radio and Systems Engineer for Westwood One Broadcasting, San Francisco.

'Anaconda' harnesses wave power

By Christine McGourty 

Science correspondent, BBC News 

A new wave energy device known as "Anaconda" is the latest idea to harness the power of the seas.

Its inventors claim the key to its success lies in its simplicity: Anaconda is little more than a length of rubber tubing filled with water. Waves in the water create bulges along the tubing that travel along its length gathering energy. At the end of the tube, the surge of energy drives a turbine and generates electricity.

The device is being developed by Checkmate Seaenergy Ltd, which has been testing a small-scale 8m-long prototype in a wave tank owned by the science and technology company Qinetiq. Paul Auston, chairman of Checkmate, says the tests have proved the concept works. The company is now looking to raise £7m from investors to build a larger version to test at sea. "We've seen excellent results in scale-model testing, and now we are gearing up to attract the necessary investment to develop Anaconda and begin producing the first full-sized units for ocean testing within the next three years," he told BBC News.

"The UK is known for its engineering excellence and politicians from all parties have been keen to challenge companies to come up with renewable energy projects that can be sold around the world.

"With Anaconda, we have an invention that changes conventional thinking and it can help to meet government targets for cutting CO2 by providing renewable wave energy from our coastal waters.

"It will also help cement the UK's world-leading position in this technology." The co-inventor of the device, Professor Rod Rainey of engineering design consultants Atkins, has been working in the field for several decades. He said: "The beauty of wave energy is its consistency. However, the problem holding back wave energy machines is that devices tend to deteriorate over time in the harsh marine environment.

"Anaconda is non-mechanical. It is mainly rubber, a natural material with a natural resilience, and so has very few moving parts to maintain." The long-term plan is to have hundreds of these devices offshore where waves are big, in northern Scotland for example. Other potential locations would be on western seaboards - off the coast of America, Australia, Ireland and Japan, to name a few. It is claimed that a group of 50 full-size Anacondas - each 200m long - could provide electricity for 50,000 homes. Professor Godfrey Boyle, an expert in renewable energy at the Open University, said the device sounded quite promising. If the required investment capital can be raised, the team "could be on to a winner", he said.

But he cautioned that the developers would need to achieve very long lifetimes for the device and the very high reliability required to withstand decades of battering by the waves - combined with low capital and maintenance costs and high-energy conversion efficiency.

AMPB LINKS ON THE WEB:

Aide resigns over Air Force One fiasco — Biden not involved

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/05/09/aide-resigns-over-air-force-one-fiasco-resigns-biden-not-involved/

Everything You Need to Know About Oil, Gas, Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan and Obama

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/139983

Tucker: Bilderberg to Exploit Swine Flu Hysteria to Strengthen World Health Regulations

http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20090508_tucker_bilderberg.htm

Swine Flu May Be Human Error; WHO Investigates Claim

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=afrdATVXPEAk&refer=worldwide

US Military Deaths in Iraq War at 4, 285

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/08/us/AP-US-Iraq-US-Deaths.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

Report: FBI Mishandles Terror Watch List

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/fbi-gets-f-in-handling-terror-watch-list-ig-finds/

Huge U.S. camp arises in Afghan Desert of Death

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSISL43643820090507?sp=true

After Boston Crash, Cellphone Ban May Loom

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/09/us/AP-US-Trolley-Crash.html

Zadari: Osama was an “Operator” for the United States

http://www.infowars.com/zadari-osama-was-an-operator-for-the-united-states/

Max Keiser: Vampire Bankers Speculating on the Corpse of Chrysler and Workers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N61NZv-XLYA

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Media Breakthrough! 9-11 Press for Truth to Be Shown on Mainstream Television

http://www.911blogger.com/node/20021

Rumsfeld greeted as ‘war criminal’ at White House Correspondents dinner

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=3418

Obama adminstration reverses itself, won’t release detainee abuse photos.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/13/obama-cancels-photo-release/

Blogging Can Kill You

http://mideast.blogs.time.com/2009/05/05/blogging-can-kill-you/

NY FED chair resigns, Arlen Specter’s dubious website

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA8PSz6fRCc

Thousands join Army to escape recession

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6251988.ece

AMPB RECORD CHART FOR THE WEEK ENDING:  5/16/09

#   TITLE - ARTIST - LABEL

1   WELCOME TO MALI - AMADOU & MIRIAM - NONESUCH

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

3   WITHIN MY WALLS - THE IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT - CUMBANCHA

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

5   BIG BLUE BALL - VARIOUS ARTISTS - REALWORLD

6   PUTUMAYO PRESENTS SALSA - VARIOUS ARTISTS - PUTUMAYO

7   DESTINY - GLEN WASHINGTON - VP

8   AT CARNEGIE HALL - BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB - NONESUCH

9   LIVE VOL. 1 - MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA - JAJOUKA

10 DAY BY DAY - FEMI KUTI - MERCER STREET

11 KNOWLE WEST BOY - TRICKY - DOMINO

12 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO AFROBEAT REVIVAL - WORLD MUSIC NET

13 VICTROLA FAVORITES - VARIOUS ARTISTS - DUST TO DIGITAL

14 DEATH WAS TOO KIND - SUBHUMANS (CANADA) - ALT. TENTACLES

15 THE GOLDEN HOUR - FIREWATER - BLOODSHOT

16 TROUBADOUR - K'NAAN - A & M

17 AROUND THE WORLD - SENOR COCONUT - NACIONAL

18 SLIDE TO FREEDOM 2 - DOUG COX & SALIL BHATT - NORTHERN BLUES

19 COBA COBA - NOVALIMA - CUMBANCHA

20 UNRELEASED RECORDINGS - HANK WILLIAMS - TIME-LIFE

21 YES WE CAN - COCOA TEA - ROARING LION

22 IN C - TERRY RILEY - SONY

23 NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL ARABIA - VARIOUS - EMI

24 JAI GANESHA - EMAM & FRIENDS - ETERNAL

25 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO LATIN STREET PARTY - W.M.N.

26 VIPER OF MELODY - WAYNE HANCOCK - BLOODSHOT

27 MR. LUCKY - CHRIS ISAAK - REPRISE

28 KEEP IT HID - DAN AUERBACH - NONESUCH

29 BACH IN HAVANA - TIEMPO LIBRE - SONY

30 DAMN RIGHT REBEL PROUD - HANK III - THE SIDEWALK

31 VOICES - YANNI - YANNI WAKE

32 (SELF TITLED) - FINBAR FUREY - COSMIC TRIGGER

33 THE OPTIMIST - STAN HARRISON - EDGE ARTISTS

34 RADIO RETALIATION - THIEVERY CORPORATION - ESL

35 IRISH PIRATE BALLADS - DAN MILNER - SMITHSONIAN

36 FROM THE ROOT - ZAC HARMON - NORTHERN BLUES

37 YO BABA - FUNKADESI - (SELF RELEASED)

38 DEFINING COOL - J.C. SMITH BAND - COZMIK

39 SOMETHING'S WRONG - SCOTT H. BIRAM - BLOODSHOT

40 LUV IS THE FOUNDATION - ROCKER-T - EPIPHYTE

NEW ADDS (thanks for sending them!)

YEARS IN SIN SIN - MAD SIN - HEPCAT

EVERYTHING REPRISE VOLUME SEVEN - REPRISE

CAPTAIN FRED’S WORLD CRUISE #90

(this show is downloadable from www.radio4all.net and www.archive.org)

Omen (Reprise)-THE PRODIGY

C'Mon Baby-TRICKY

Judgement Day-SCOTT H. BIRAM 

Got To Be Free-GLEN WASHINGTON 

Burn You Up, Burn You Down-PETER GABRIEL

Bhangra Bros-FIREWATER

Abbey Rockers #1-THE SUPERPOWERS 

Puerto Rico Pa Gozar-CANDELA ALLSTARS 

Habibi-MELISSA AND DR. ALBAN 

Sekebe-AMADOU + MARIAM

The Forgotten People-THIEVERY CORPORATION

Wavin' Flag-K'NAAN

Mokihana-KANE'S HAWAIIAN

Quizás, Quizás-BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Let's Make History-FEMI KUTI

Because I Should-DAN AUERBACH 

This Too Shall Pass-IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT

Ten Thousand Miles Away-DAN MILNER 

Freight Train Boogie-WAYNE HANCOCK 

Se Me Van-NOVALIMA

Make A Better World-DOUG COX AND SALIL BHATT

Voodoo Dreams-SENOR COCONUT 

Drown In the Now-THE CRYSTAL METHOD

AMPB REPORT #90

a publication by the association of micro-power broadcasters

AMPB      PMB 22

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ampb@att.net

www.ampbreport.blogspot.com

Dear Readers,

     As we get into the new year, 2009 is starting to look a lot like 1984.  Of course I am referring to George Orwell’s book.  Read it if you haven’t already.  We see Obama backpedalling on most of his campaign promises, the economy worsens by the day and the wars show no sign of letting up.  Part of the so-called “war on terror” seems to include shutting down micro-power radio stations nationwide.  Here in Berkeley, our local station continues to get harassed.  If you have a “pirate” station in your town and you appreciate what they do, please won’t you let them know?  Even a letter of support could help.  If they get raided by the FCC, show up and let the authorities know you don’t approve.  Rally support and speak out.  Better yet, get your own transmitter and go on the air.  For those of you who want to stay legal, consider a small AM transmitter.  Contact  www.trutham.com for one of their type 15 packages.  Of course www.freeradio.org is still selling FM transmitter kits.  Check them out too.  The prospects for freedom are looking dim right now, so use your rights before they get taken away.  Please check out my new blog.  You’ll find this newsletter and other information there.  The URL is:

http://ampbreport.blogspot.com/

-Paul Griffin (for the AMPB)

Free 103 point 9 Gets a Full-Power License

The Greene/Columbia community radio project is a community-run media project, re-envisioning radio as an innovative platform for local participation. Our inclusive programming connects diverse voices, and distributes information across the public spectrum in New York's Greene and Columbia Counties. We will launch a 3,300-watt community radio station on 90.7-FM throughout Greene and Columbia Counties in 2010, and an online radio station in 2009. The project will be much more than just a radio station, including media training for youth and other members of the community, and a blog, local calendar of events and meetings, photography, and more. This will be an interactive multi-media project engaging the community to report about what's going on in Greene and Columbia counties.  To launch this radio station, members of the community in Greene and Columbia Counties in New York will have to become involved and help to form the station so it reflects the community. To do that we will hold many public meetings, as well as media training workshops. The aim is to create a new team of citizen journalists, radio hosts, DJs, and media makers who will make the Greene/Columbia radio project their own.

Massive Layoffs Hit The RIAA: Maybe Focus On Building Business Rather Than Suing Customers Next Time?

from the just-a-thought dept

Details have been spilling out over the last few days that the RIAA has been making pretty massive cuts to staff. We already knew that EMI was cutting back on its support of the RIAA/IFPI, and it seems that with the rest of the RIAA's major label supporters also having economic troubles, the writing is on the wall that the RIAA is about to go through a major transformation. I'm sure some will somehow "blame piracy" for this turn of events, but it's hard to see how that's even remotely the issue. The real issue is that the RIAA has basically managed to run one of the dumbest, most self-defeating strategies over the last decade. Rather than helping major record labels adjust to the changing market, it continually, repeatedly and publicly destroyed its own reputation and the reputation of the labels -- each time shrinking their potential market by blaming the very people they should have been working to turn into customers. They may claim that they "had" to take this strategy because it's what the labels wanted (and, indeed, that was Hilary Rosen's excuse), but that's ridiculous. It was evident to pretty much anyone who took the time to understand the issues back in the mid- to late-90s, that the internet represented an opportunity to those who embraced it. The RIAA's decision to fight progress and its own customers at every turn has been nothing short of a complete disaster. That the group is now being gutted is the inevitable result of a poor strategy that could have easily been avoided.

BBC's secret war with the pirates 

By Chris Hastings, Public Affairs Editor 

Previously unseen documents from the BBC archives disclose how the corporation was so alarmed at the rise of the stations that it launched a secret “dirty tricks” campaign to have them shut down. The files show the extraordinary lengths to which the corporation went to undermine their new rivals, which operated without restriction from ships or wartime forts outside British territorial waters. Measures included lobbying acts such as The Beatles, Cliff Richard and Ken Dodd to ban their records from being played by the stations and blacklisting pirate DJs such as Tony Blackburn and Simon Dee. The BBC banned its own presenters from broadcasting any reference to Radio Caroline, the most popular of the pirates, and suppressed audience research on the stations’ popularity. Bosses also put pressure on the Conservative Party not to support the pirates. The public broadcaster, which had a monopoly of the radio waves at the time, even complained about an episode of the ITV spy thriller Danger Man which was set aboard one of the ships, claiming that the show gave pirate stations undue publicity. It was also upset by a review in The Sunday Telegraph of one pirate programme which, although critical, would have “drawn attention” to the station. This newspaper has obtained the documents ahead of the release of a new British comedy film, The Boat That Rocked, by the makers of Notting Hill. It stars Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans and Bill Nighy in a story of the often farcical attempts to close down a fictional pirate radio ship inspired by Radio Caroline. However, the official papers suggest that the on-screen events are not far removed from reality. They disclose how the BBC routinely taped Radio Caroline’s output, in the hope that its DJs would say something derogatory about Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, which they could pass on to Downing Street. Nonetheless, a report of Caroline’s coverage of Winston Churchill’s funeral in 1965 concluded: “They proceeded to play music of such a funereal character that it made our own solemn music sound like a wedding march”.

In 1964, the BBC introduced a ban on employing anyone involved with the pirate stations. A list of names included Tony Blackburn, Simon Dee, Tom Lodge, Doug Kerr, Chris Moon, Gerry Duncan, Terry Withers, Errol Bruce and Bobby Brown, all pirate DJs. When Dee quit Radio Caroline in 1965 so he could work at the BBC, some managers argued for the ban to remain. However, he was eventually allowed to join the corporation and other former pirates would follow. The BBC believed that the pirates were part of attempts to break up its monopoly via the backdoor. Its dirty tricks campaign was prompted by the reluctance of politicians to take action against the stations, for fear of alienating young voters. The BBC conducted extensive research into Radio Caroline, which had ships off Felixstowe, Suffolk, and the Isle of Man, including finding out how many of its listeners were under 21 – the voting age, at the time – so it could prove to MPs that a ban on the pirates would not damage their election prospects. However, the corporation decided not to release its research because “the potential disadvantages to the BBC outweighed the potential advantage… some aspects of the report could be interpreted in such a way as to be favourable publicity for Caroline”. The BBC’s campaign did nothing to dent the success of the pirates which, by the mid-1960s, had audiences in excess of 20?million. The campaign ended in 1967 with the introduction of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, which made it illegal to work for, advertise on or supply pirate stations. They all closed with the exception of Caroline. A month later the BBC launched Radio 1, its first pop music station. Commercial radio was not introduced until 1973.

NEW MUSIC FEE COULD CRIPPLE RADIO

by Bob Lonsberry

Government is the enemy of business. And as it is business and not government that brings prosperity to Americans, it often follows that government is the enemy of the people. Which is extra disappointing as the Founding Fathers intended the government to be the servant of the people. In this world, however, the government is the servant of the special interests. Like millionaire entertainers and the billionaire companies that employ them. The latest example is the radio you listen to. The government is attacking the American radio industry. Last week, another Democrat senator called for hearings and laws to rein-in conservative talk radio. But this week, the attack is on music radio. This week, the Congress wants to bankrupt it. Here’s the background. Every time a song is played on the radio, the person who wrote that song gets paid. That’s because singers and recording companies have traditionally cut songwriters out of most of the profit from record sales. Money for the songwriters comes from licensing fees that radio stations pay to organizations representing song writers and publishers. It’s been that way forever.

Under new legislation, however, radio stations would also have to pay fees to the person singing the song, and to the company that owns the “master recording” from which the song comes. This would, essentially, be a doubling of the cost of broadcasting a song. The problem is, radio companies can’t afford that. The radio industry is in the midst of real turmoil caused by the economic downturn, layoffs have been and will be widespread. Radio companies literally are in a death struggle to survive. And this is too much. It is also unfair. See, the sponsors of the legislation say that radio companies make money playing the songs of singers and recording companies. In actuality, singers and recording companies make money because radio stations play their songs. It is not the music industry that helps radio, it is radio that helps the music industry. Without radio, there would be no recording industry. Yes, television and the Internet play a part in record sales and concert promotion, but the lion’s share of record promotion – and all of the music industry’s history – has been a free gift from radio. Every time a song is played on the radio, it is a free advertisement for that singer and that singer’s recording company. Record sales directly reflect air play. That’s why recording companies and singers have, from the very beginning, worked very hard to get their songs on radio. That desire is so great, in fact, that it has prompted tough radio-ethics rules and even federal laws to make sure that recording companies and singers aren’t bribing radio stations or disc jockeys. If you hear a car-dealer commercial on the air, the radio station didn’t pay the car dealer. Likewise, the radio station shouldn’t pay the singer. Both the car dealer and the singer are receiving airplay that makes them money. This would essentially be a national performance tax put on music radio. The exception, of course, is public broadcasting which is essentially exempt from the new fee and has two things that make it unique: 1. no listeners and 2. taxpayer subsidies. Another troubling aspect of this is that a lot of this money would be going out of the country. The largest recording companies are foreign – like Universal, Sony and EMI – and to take money out of the American economy in these troubled times, just to send it overseas, makes no sense. There is also the interesting fact that – just like the bailout and the salary cap – this new intention of government financially rewards those who supported the new president and financially punishes those who supported his opponent. Singers and recording companies – just like all the entertainment industry – lined up behind Barack Obama. The owners or executives of radio companies had a greater likelihood to support George W. Bush or John McCain. So this ends up being a policy that smells a lot like payback. The music industry is lining up behind this policy because, obviously, it brings it a great deal of money. Politicians are lining up behind it because we have entered the era of corporation bashing, and the phrase “big radio” has been coined with all the classist hatred of “big tobacco,” “big pharma” or “big box store.” But this is a case of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Singers sell CDs and downloads and concert tickets because radio stations play their songs. Without radio – or a lucky break on “American Idol” – most of the people in the music industry would be waitresses and short-order cooks, or standing in the welfare line. Far more importantly, radio is how most people listen to music. Sure, we have iPods and computers and a whole bunch of “new media.” But when you get down to it, plain-old radio is just what it always has been – America’s favorite, best and most convenient way to listen to music. And this new fee threatens to destroy that. It is framed as a fee for radio companies, but it really will be a fee on music listeners. It is a case of the government turning on the people. The special interests win – the millionaire singers and the billionaire recording companies – but the people lose, the people who just want to turn on their radio and listen to their favorite songs on their favorite stations. Maybe the American people should tell Congress to stand up for them, instead of the foreign recording companies and the Britney Spears of the world.

AMPB LINKS ON THE WEB 

Download and watch this, if you dare!

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Obama_Deception

Check out this podcast!

http://www.piratesweek.info/

One generation is all they need

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/136744

Booz Allen Hamilton-Staged Cyber Attacks

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=87140.0

Obama government fines company for links with Havana

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/march/mier11/multa.html

Still think your cell phone is safe to use?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12857411/

Another Florida Pirate Shut Down

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Feature_Stories/ODD_Drug_Radio.html?cxntlid=thbz_hm

This guy always makes sense.

http://www.house.gov/htbin/blog_inc?BLOG,tx14_paul,blog,999,All,Item%20not%20found,ID=090309_2735,TEMPLATE=postingdetail.shtml

Sacramento tent city is just one of dozens in an ailing America

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5898237.ece

Pirate Radio Ship Returns

http://www.mbmclub.com/auto/newsdesk/20090204175604mbmnews.html

Radio, Someone Still Loves You

http://londonist.com/2009/03/radio_someone_still_loves_you.php

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090313030704502

Letters from our soldiers

http://www.michaelmoore.com/books-films/willtheyevertrustusagain/index.php?archive=show

Ban Bush From Canada, Says Lawyer

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Bush+from+Canada+lawyers/1379603/story.html

The U.S. Financial System Is Effectively Insolvent

http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/04/global-recession-insolvent-opinions-columnists-roubini-economy.html

The Selling Out of America

http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/reports/sold_out.pdf

AMPB RECORD CHART FOR THE WEEK ENDING 3/14/09

# TITLE - ARTIST - LABEL

1   BIG BLUE BALL - VARIOUS ARTISTS - REALWORLD

2   THE GOLDEN HOUR - FIREWATER - BLOODSHOT

3   THE ROUGH GUIDE TO LATIN STREET PARTY - WORLD MUSIC NETWORK

4   KNOWLE WEST BOY - TRICKY - DOMINO

5   THE UNRELEASED RECORDINGS - HANK WILLIAMS - TIME-LIFE

6   COBA COBA - NOVALIMA - CUMBANCHA

7   DEATH WAS TOO KIND - SUBHUMANS (CANADA) - ALT. TENTACLES

8   DAY BY DAY - FEMI KUTI - MERCER STREET

9   AT CARNEGIE HALL - BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB - NONESUCH

10 DIG OUT YOUR SOUL - OASIS - REPRISE

11 YES WE CAN - COCOA TEA - ROARING LION

12 LIVE VOL. 1 - MASTER MUSICIANS OF JAJOUKA - JAJOUKA

13 ALL REBEL ROCKERS - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD - ANTI

14 PLUTONIUM BLONDE - LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - ROIR

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

16 RADIO RETALIATION - THIEVERY CORPORATION - ESL

17 KEEP IT HID - DAN AUERBACH - NONESUCH

18 IRISH PIRATE BALLADS - DAN MILNER - SMITHSONIAN

19 AROUND THE WORLD - SENOR COCONUT - NACIONAL

20 PUTUMAYO PRESENTS WOMEN OF JAZZ - PUTUMAYO

21 WITHIN MY WALLS - THE IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT - CUMBANCHA

22 AYOMBE! - VARIOUS ARTISTS - SMITHSONIAN

23 WAITING - CECILE - SOBE

24 JAI GANESHA - EMAM & FRIENDS - ETERNAL

25 (SELF TITLED) - FINBAR FUREY - COSMIC TRIGGER

26 CHARACTER - PNUMA TRIO - 1320 RECORDS

27 DESTROY ALL EVIDENCE - REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY - ALT. TENTACLES

28 VICTROLA FAVORITES - VARIOUS ARTISTS - DUST TO DIGITAL

29 MY NAME IS RED ROSE - ANTHONY RED ROSE - RAGGEDY JOE

30 DAMN RIGHT REBEL PROUD - HANK III - THE SIDEWALK

31 YO BABA - FUNKADESI - (SELF RELEASED)

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

33 FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT - ALANIS MORISSETTE - MAVERICK

34 DESTINY - GLEN WASHINGTON - VP

35 HAWAIIAN STYLE 5 - VARIOUS ARTISTS - NEOS

36 MR. LUCKY - CHRIS ISAAK - REPRISE

37 THE 3RD WORLD - IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE - VIPER

38 YOU ARE ALL MY PEOPLE - I'M NOT JIM - BLOODSHOT

39 CROSS MY PALM - ANNE FUREY - COSMIC TRIGGER

40 LIVE AT CANTERBURY HOUSE - NEIL YOUNG - REPRISE

NEW ADDS:  (Thanks for sending them, folks!)

WELCOME TO MALI - AMADOU & MIRIAM - NONESUCH

VIOLENCE AS FIRST NATURE - SUBMERGED - OHM 10M

DEFINING COOL - J.C. SMITH BAND - COZMIK

MEMORIES OF SUMMER... - THE BEYMAN BROTHERS - DHARMAMOON

SUN DOWN MOON UP - DEREK JONES - (SELF-RELEASED)

WORLD CRUISE #89

(This show can be downloaded from radio4all.net or archive.org)

Coalition-Tricky

Vampires-Thievery Corporation

Mandinga-Buena Vista Social Club

Goodie-Cecile

Around The World-Senor Coconut

Aaref Eh-Samo Zaen

Day By Day-Femi Kuti

A Place Not So Unkind-Firewater

If the Moon Loves You-The Master Musicians of Jajouka

Coba Guarango-Novalima

Oro, Oro-Finbar Furey

Rov Ha'Sha'ot-The Idan Raichel Project

Apocrypha-Immortal Technique

Big Blue Ball-Karl Wallinger

Lonely Road-Funkadesi

La Vida Tómbola-Manu Chao

Ain't Too Proud To Beg-Glen Washington

Tailgate Party-Koa'uka

Street Walkin'-Dan Auerbach

Big Idiot Buys A Pig-He Zemin - Huang Peiying

Workin' Man-Hank Williams III

Mind Your Own Business-Hank Williams

Stand Up-The Prodigy

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The AMPB REPORT is produced by the Association of Micro-Power Broadcasters.

AMPB REPORT #77

AMPB REPORT #77
a publication by the association of micro-power broadcasters
Dear Readers,
The latest news is mixed, very mixed. On a sad note, San Francisco Liberation Radio suffered a defeat in federal court challenging the confiscation of their equipment (see story later in this edition). On the bright side, Rod Moses, owner of Radio Goldfield in Pahrump, Nevada was able to get a temporary permit to operate his low power station. The law firm of Leventhal, Senter and Lerman, which represents many big-time broadcasters, has challenged this stationÕs existence on the grounds that Moses was cited for broadcasting illegally after february 26, 1999, and that makes him ineligible for a LPFM license. Never mind that this provision of the ÒRadio Broadcast Preservation ActÓ was already thrown out of court as unconstitutional. It might be argued that the entire existence of the FCC and their ÒauthorityÓ might also be considered unconstitutional. Whatever... In any case, we salute Rod Moses and his stamina and hope he stays on the air forever. It should also be noted that one of the dirty little secrets about big-time radio biz is that just about everybody in the industry has violated a FCC regulation at one time or another, so letÕs just cut the crap here. This whole thing is about money and the big time guys donÕt want to share any of it with the little broadcasters. ThatÕs why class D stations (remember them?) got outlawed in the first place. So if you want to get a breath of fresh air, check out the Anarchist Book Fair in San Francisco on March 24th, then hop on over to the Long Haul Info Shop in Berkeley for a screening of ÒPirate Radio USAÓ. ItÕs a great documentary about the whole micro-power radio thing and the screening is a benefit for Berkeley Liberation Radio 104.1 FM. They could really use your help, so come on by. The address is 3124 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley and it starts at 6:30 PM,
-Paul Griffin (for the AMPB)
STATION ALERT
SFLR Loses One in Court
Federal agents acted legally in raiding the Castro neighborhood office of San Francisco Liberation Radio in 2003 and seizing equipment that was used to run the unlicensed, low-power "pirate" FM station, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Liberation Radio was not entitled to advance notice or a hearing before the raid by federal marshals and Federal Communications Commission representatives. The station had been denied a federal license and accused the agency of a politically motivated crackdown on so-called micro-broadcasters. Liberation Radio, which had broadcast music and "radical progressive'' politics on 93.7 FM for 10 years, was driven off the airwaves by the raid and now operates over the Internet. "Neither broadcasters nor listeners have a First Amendment right to engage in or listen to unlicensed broadcasts,'' the three-judge panel said in Wednesday's ruling, rejecting the station's argument that seizure of broadcast equipment without a hearing violates free expression.
The court also said advance notice might have allowed owners to move, hide or destroy equipment that was legally subject to forfeiture. Liberation Radio will probably ask the full appeals court to order a new hearing before a larger panel, said Katherine Alfieri, a lawyer for the station. She said the station might not have been able to save its equipment if it had been given a hearing before the seizure, but it was hoping to establish rights for anyone facing government interference with communication.
BOYCOTT MONSTER CABLE
Fighting the MonsterCity supports boycott of company that outsourced 120 jobsBy Chris Albon
› news@sfbg.com">news@sfbg.com On Valentine's Day, Yi Jun Huang, a smiling 65-year-old Chinese immigrant, walked into the Apple store near Union Square and handed the manager a large chocolate heart and a pink valentine as about 40 laid-off Monster Cable workers and their supporters rallied outside. It was one of several appeals to electronics stores to honor a boycott and stop carrying Monster products. Huang had worked in a Monster Cable factory producing high-end audio cables for 16 years and was fired last October with more than 120 mostly Chinese immigrant workers when the company decided to outsource their jobs. "The production manager openly told us that production was moving to Mexico," Huang said. Now, despite a boycott launched by the Chinese Progressive Association (CPA), a slew of protests by the workers, and a resolution passed Feb. 13 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors urging the company to address worker concerns, Monster Cable still refuses to budge. "A multibillion-dollar company should not springboard off their workers for the sake of profit and then kick them to the curb," said Shirley Lorence, an organizer with Rise Up, a caucus within the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. "That's wrong." The recently laid-off workers have an average tenure of eight years, with many having around 15 to 20 years, according to the CPA. Many workers are in their 40s and 50s. With these layoffs, Monster Cable broke from its previous policy of providing four weeks' severance pay plus one week for every year of service, and it did not offer job placement, retraining, or community support for any of the workers. The Board of Supervisors resolution asks Monster Cable, which spent $6 million buying the naming rights to the city-owned Candlestick Park, to give $2 million for a Worker and Community Transition Fund and its workers a more generous severance package. "We saw no evidence that times are tough," Huang said. "We know their sales are up to a billion dollars annually. We're the ones who work there, and there have been no signs that things are slowing down."
Leith FM sets course to capture pirate ship
ADAM MORRIS
IT was the pirate radio station which gave big breaks to DJs such as Tony Blackburn and Johnnie Walker. And now the last vessel from which the legendary Radio Caroline broadcast could soon be based at Leith Docks. Under ambitious proposals by community radio station Leith FM, the Ross Revenge would be moved from its temporary home on the Thames to the Leith shoreline, at a cost of around £50,000. If successful, it is hoped the project would not only provide the station with magnificent studios, but deliver a tourism boost for Leith. "We've seen the difference the Britannia has made to the area, which is astounding," said Leith FM chairman and presenter Stewart Lochhead. "But I think it's very mainstream too, and if we were to get the Radio Caroline boat, not only would it do Leith FM good, but it would give the area a bit more of a bohemian edge, bringing a different kind of tourist to the area." Not only does the Leith FM presenter - known for his part as one half of the popular Grumpy Old Men show - want to move the studios on to the ship, but he thinks a centre in honour of Radio Caroline could be established to boost visitor numbers. He is working closely with John Ritchie, who runs Newtongrange community radio station, Black Diamond Radio, on the proposal and the pair intend to make an approach soon. Leith FM was recently awarded a five-year licence and should be live to coincide with the Leith Festival at the end of May. "John and I remember the days of Radio Caroline in the 60s and thiswould be a great move for the station," he continued. "Our current offices are a touch cramped and to broadcast from the Radio Caroline ship would be something very special. "We had a lunch last Thursday where we discussed it and agreed we should try and pursue funding for it. "It's a shame for something like this to be lying unused in the Thames, it's got such a fantastic history. There's also a ship in the Orkney area which we may look at, although the Ross Revenge would be the main one because of the heritage, the history and the stories." Although public access is currently forbidden, the two studios on board the vessel are in good shape. The vessel, which would have to be towed, is maintained and owned by the Radio Caroline Support Group. The group has previously stated its intent to move the boat to a permanent quayside location in the UK. Radio Caroline itself broadcasts online and digitally from on-land studios in Maidstone and proprietor Peter Moore said while his ideal solution would be to keep the boat in the south of England, if a good enough offer came along he would have to listen. "It's an expensive business moving such a vessel all the way to Edinburgh, and I've not been approached by anyone from Leith FM about this as of yet," he said. "But everything has its price and of course I'm keen to keep the Radio Caroline brand alive." Leith Links councillor Marjorie Thomas said the idea to bring the former Grimsby trawler to Leith was an exciting one. "I think it's an excellent idea, and perhaps a place on the shore would be ideal. "Lots of young people come down to Leith to socialise and I think this would be the kind of thing they would visit."
NASA - What Are They Hiding From US?
By W.C. MooreÊ
Having just returned from the 16th Annual International UFO Congress Convention, I can tell you beyond a reasonable doubt that whatÕs being hidden from us is quite over-whelming and NASA is only one among the culprits.ÊÊ But since NASAÕs moniker has oft been clarified as: Never A Straight Answer, I figure thatÕs a good place to start. ÊThe general public is largely unaware that NASA has for many years, at least since the beginnings of the space shuttle missions, maintained satellite links which have distributed camera feeds from the shuttles and more recently the International Space Station, to transponders which can be picked up by just about any scientific institution thatÕs technically equipped and interested.ÊÊÊ Truth be told, literally anybody who coughs up enough dough for the right type of receiver can also join in on the fun.ÊÊ Quite a few people from the private sector have done just that, and in the process have stumbled across some rather astonishing footage of anomalous phenomena (uh, UFOÕs to be perfectly clear).ÊIn the late 80Õs a former Canadian television station manager, named Martin Stubbs, had his eng tech crew set up one of their unused satellite dishes to receive this signal which he recorded 24 hours a day for the duration of the specific shuttle missions. At home, evenings while having dinner, he would fast forward through these stacks of tapes and hit the brakes when he saw anything that looked a tad peculiar.ÊÊÊ After editing hundreds of hours of these NASA down-linked images, he along with UFO Magazine, UK,Ê put out a 90 minute video called, ÒNASAÕs Secret Transmissions - The Smoking GunÓ.ÊÊ ÊÊWhat was captured that was so visually arresting was scores of spherical objects that buzzed around the shuttles like bees around a hive, albeit much more slowly.ÊÊ The full motion images might best be described as what youÕd expect to see if you were looking at a drop of pond water through a microscope.ÊÊ These were analogous to microscopic paramecium and amoeba in the way they moved squiggly fashion, but their size, which was able to be approximated by referencing the shuttle itself and known camera lens focal lengths, was determined to be 3Ú4 of a mile to 3 miles across!ÊBut that material, going back 7 to 8 years ago is now old stuff.ÊÊÊ The newer imagings, recorded the same way through NASAÕs own cameras, which should be acknowledged as quite a respectable authenticating medium, show similar bright objects that hover in very close proximity to the space station itself.ÊÊ One distinct and noteworthy object was clearly rectangular in shape, like a HersheyÕs candy bar, only white-silverish in color.ÊThis particular film, ÒNASA - What are they hiding from us?Ó, which ran in the film festival competition at the convention, showed numerous instances of this phenomena from an assortment of angles.ÊÊ Although NASA has flatly denied that the images suggest anything life-like from out of this world, one of the astronaut spacewalkers did step forward to talk about having witnessed something very unusual.ÊÊÊ Heide Piper was a crew member of STS-115 which returned to earth on September 22nd, 2006.ÊÊ It had previously been acknowledged that the shuttleÕs return had been delayed for a day because of what NASA referred to as a mysterious object near the Space Station.Ê NASA had initially referred to the phenomena which caused so much concern, particularly among the Russian scientists, as possibly some part of the Atlantis shuttle itself which had come loose and went floating in space.ÊÊÊ Then they said it was a plastic bag, then trash, and finally when theyÕd run out of anything else to call it, they simply referred to it as a mysterious object. ÊWhile standing at the podium during the welcome home ceremony with cameras rolling, space-walker Heide Piper started out by talking about something very peculiar.ÊÊ ÒIt was something that, something that youÕve never seen before.ÊÊ And when I finally got to go out the door that was something very different too.ÓÊÊÊÊÊ But just after having opened up with this acknowledgement and appearing to be ready to offer more descriptive details of the phenomena, her voice began to break as she suddenly became very shaky on her feet and literally fell into the arms of NASA personnel who lowered her to the floor.ÊÊÊ ÊNASA claimed that it was brought on by time spent in weightlessness and the adjustment back to EarthÕs gravity.ÊÊÊÊ The suggestion from others, not directly associated with NASA was that she was so traumatized by witnessing this bizarre space phenomena that she suffered an attack of post traumatic stress syndrome.ÊÊ But there is another explanation as to why it might be that an apparently physically fit and experienced astronaut would collapse upon merely recounting a visual sighting that was unusual.Ê ÊÊIt has been long acknowledged within Dr. Stephen GreerÕs Disclosure Project material that the black ops government does indeed have Ôoff-the-shelf technologyÕ that can remotely trigger strokes or even heart attacks if ÔtheyÕ feel the need for suppression of unwelcome revelations is urgent enough.Ê Although it is clearly conspiratorial in nature, it is also possible that NASA felt it had to stop her from the releasing of revelations that it considered top secret .ÊEven if you are fairly attentive to the daily news headlines, you most likely would have heard no more than just information about the female astronaut who fainted during a press appearance.ÊÊ Her actual words spoken and certainly this footage of her fainting were censored from the mainstream media.Ê Should you be interested, this presentation from March 3rd, 2007, by Jaime Maussan and Santiago Yturria Garza is accessible at the UFO Congress website:Ê ufocongress.com.ÊW.C. Moore is a commercial radio broadcast veteran of stations KFRC and K-101 in San Francisco, as well as a past co-programmer of San Francisco Liberation Radio.ÊÊ His website is: CareerinRadio.com and he can be reached at: gotowc@aol.com.
AMPB record chart for the week ending 3/17/07
# TITLE - ARTIST - LABEL
1 IN THE GRIP OF OFFICIAL TREASON - JELLO BIAFRA - ALT. TENTACLES
2 (SELF TITLED) - MOONDOG - HONEST JON'S
3 ONE WORLD, MANY CULTURES - VARIOUS - PUTUMAYO
4 REBIRTH OF A NATION - PUBLIC ENEMY - GUERILLA FUNK
5 THE OUTSIDER - DJ SHADOW - UNIVERSAL
6 GRAVEYARD SHIFT - SCOTT H. BIRAM - BLOODSHOT
7 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO LATIN-ARABIA - WORLD MUSIC NET
8 SOUKSONIK - JEF STOTT - SIX DEGREES
9 THE HEALING - STRANGE FRUIT PROJECT - OM
10 M'BEMBA - SALIF KEITA - DECCA
11 YELL FIRE - MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD - ANTI
12 STRICTLY THE BEST VOL.36 - VARIOUS ARTISTS - VP
13 RHYTHM OF THE RIVER - VARIOUS ARTISTS - RIVERBOAT
14 PUTUMAYO PRESENTS A NEW GROOVE - PUTUMAYO
15 AGAIN AND AGAIN - DESTANI WOLF - BRAVE WOLF
16 DIVA LA GRANDE - CANDYE KANE - RUF
17 FREEDOMÕS ROAD - JOHN MELLENCAMP - J. MELLENCAMP
18 COLORBLIND - ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND - WARNER
19 ANGEL VOICES - LIBERA - EMI
20 THINK GLOBAL BELLYDANCE - WORLD MUSIC NET
21 DJ SNOWBOYÕS AFRO-CUBAN KALEIDOSCOPE - EMUSIKA
22 DON'T TELL COLUMBUS - GRAHAM PARKER - BLOODSHOT
23 WAR, JOURNALISM... - ROBERT FISK - ALT. TENTACLES
24 MY NAME IS BUDDY - RY COODER - NONESUCH
25 FOOT FETISH - WOODLEG ODD - WOODLEG MUSIC
26 POLO CLUB - GREENSKEEPERS - OM
27 THE ROAD TO ESCONDIDO - JJ CALE / ERIC CLAPTON - REPRISE
28 WOMEN OF THE WORLD ACOUSTIC - PUTUMAYO
29 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO SALSA DURA NYC - WORLD MUSIC NET
30 SURYAGHATI EP1 - ZAMAN 8 & HAFEZ MODIR - SIX DEGREES
31 CRUCIAL REGGAE FROM OUTSIDE JAMAICA VOL.2 - SKANK
32 SUPER POP VENEZUELA - LOS AMIGOS INVISIBLES - GOZADERA
33 STEEL GUITAR HEART ATTACK - JON RAUHAUSE - BLOODSHOT
34 THE IN SOUND FROM WAY OUT! - BEASTIE BOYS - CAPITOL
35 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST - WMN
36 TONGUE BATH - XTATIKA - TZADIK
37 PUTUMAYO PRESENTS GYPSY GROOVE - PUTUMAYO
38 LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST - NEIL YOUNG - REPRISE
39 THE ROUGH GUIDE TO THE BLUES - WORLD MUSIC NET
40 MY TIME - HUTCHY - RUFF CUT
CAPTAIN FREDÕS WORLD CRUISE #71
this show is downloadable from radio4all.net or radio.indymedia.org
HELLO BONJOUR-MICHAEL FRANTI
RABBIT HOP-MOONDOG
AH GHANILEK-REINES DE SABA
BULA BULA-MABULU
DO YOUR KNOW-MR. VEGAS
LIGHTEN UP-BEASTIE BOYS
110TH AND 5TH AVE-TITO PUENTE
SHARA SAIDI-GAMAL GOMA
THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKINÕ-CANDYE KANE
SONO ONE DROP-JEF STOTT
TWISTED SENSE OF GOD-FINE ARTS MILITIA
BROKEN LEVEE BLUES-DJ SHADOW
JIM CROW-JOHN MELLENCAMP
ICE PICK-ALBERT COLLINS
SMINBE-TAMA
THE LOST SONG-THE CAT EMPIRE
18 WHEELER FEVER-SCOTT H. BIRAM
IÕM AFRAID OF AMERICANS-DAVID BOWIE (REMIXED)
HOLIDAY IN GUANTANAMO-JELLO BIAFRA
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