Dear Radio Friend,

            The latest Shortwave Report (September 17) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (3.3MB) (29:00)

This week's show features stories from China Radio International, the Voice of Russia, and Radio Netherlands.

From China- OPEC has decided to increase its oil production beginning Nov 1st, but it's only symbollic since they are exceeding that amount now. China opposed attempts to include Taiwan in the UN and the General Assembly blocked the effort. China is opposed to the resolution passed in the US Congress regarding Hong Kong, and asked the US to stop selling weapons to Taiwan. N Korea invited a British diplomat to view the explosion site set off to build a dam, which the western media alleged may have been a nuclear device. The Sudanese foreign minister has asked the international community to not be swayed by US propaganda about Darfur.

From Russia- The fighting continues at escalated levels in Iraq- here's a report of last Sundays events. The so-called reforms introduced by Putin this week to combat terrorism have received much global criticism- here's an attempt at justification and a comparison to what the US government has implemented since 9/11.

From Netherlands- A press review concerning Russia's so-called political reforms, which appear totalitarian to many obervers- however it is pointed out that similar changes are occuring in many western nations. Another press review on a book linking the torture in Abu-Ghraib to Donald Rumsfeld, and a commentary on European nations being dragged into terrorist conflicts created by the US, Israel, and Russia. A British human rights lawyer presents evidence of torture by US and British troops in prisons other than Abu-Ghraib. Turkey is threatening to withdraw all support for the US in Iraq unless the US stops bombing a Turkeman town in N Iraq. Spain is hosting a summit with France and Germany to repair European unity that was damaged by the former Pres Aznar’s decision to send Spanish troops to Iraq.

      All that plus times and frequencies for listening at home. It's free to rebroadcast, please notify me if you're airing it and haven't notified me in the last month, please mention the website if you only air a portion. If you just want to listen and have a slow connection, try the streaming version- lower sound quality but good enough and way easier if you don't have a high-speed internet connection. If streaming is a problem because of your slow connection, download the smaller file- it takes 20 minutes or less, and will play swell in any mp3 player application (RealPlayer, Winamp, Quicktime, iTunes, etc) you have on your computer.

This program will be aired on Friday evening at 7pm on KZYX/Z Philo CA, you might be able to stream via http://www.kzyx.org

There are several other streams that work better-  http://www.freakradio.org  Freak Radio Santa Cruz (96.3fm) now streams this program on Friday at 9:00am (PDST)

Also check out LavaLamp Radio (Japan)- http://www.radiolavalamp.org

streaming the SWR, check out the schedule.

And the Partytown streams are great and informative- http://www.partytown.com/radio

I hope you'll listen and air this if you're connected with a radio station. I am still wondering how to get financially compensated for the 25 hours I put into this program weekly- any ideas are appreciated. Any stations rebroadcasting this (or listeners) are welcome to donate for production costs. You can do so through the website. Many thanks to those that have donated! No Guilt! (maybe a little)

link for broadcast edition-

http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/swr_9_17_04.mp3   (13.3MB)

link for smaller file and streaming-

http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml

       ¡FurthuR!      Dan Roberts

-- ...the essence of the evil government is that it anticipates bad conduct on the part of its citizens. Any government which assumes that the population is going to do something evil has already lost its franchise to govern.

Philip K. Dick