Dear Radio Friend,

            The latest Shortwave Report (October 13) 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, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.

From CHINA- N Korea announced its nuclear test as a safeguard to peace on the Korean penisula- China discagreed as did everyone else. N Korea says it is US policy that will determine if there will be more nuclear tests. S Korea cancelled humanitarian aid because of the test. The new Thai Prime Minister says that martial law will continue indefinitely. Iran restated that it will not abandon nuclear development and that they are accustomed to the threats of sanctions.

From NETHERLANDS- An interview with the editor of the British medical journal "The Lancet," which estimated that over 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion by the US and England. Italian Parliamentarians were tricked into being tested for drug use, and 16 of 50 had been using cannibas or cocaine. Bolivia's President Evo Morales government is facing violent demonstrations and strikes by miners- Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs describes the situation.

From CUBA- The Chilean President has visited the detention center where she was tortured under the rule of dictator Pinochet in the early 1970s. Former Spanish President Aznar is hoping to rise from his political grave by meddling in Latin American political affairs, financed by the Bush White House.

From RUSSIA- Russia is strongly opposed to the US plan to bring anti-missle defense components to Poland and the Czech Republic. A commentary on the UN Security Council "fact-finding" mission being sent to Afghanistan.

There is an article about the Shortwave Report by Cassandra Roos on line at- http://www.campusprogress.org/soundvision/780/big-stories-shortwaves

 

I was interviewed for an informative weekly radio show Mediageek, available at http://radio.mediageek.net It will be posted Friday October 6th. 

  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 afternoon at 4:30pm (PDST) 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  now streams this program on Friday at 9:00am and Saturday at 11am(PDST)

The Shortwave Report may be downloaded as a podcast from http://www.radio4all.net > or iTunes (search for "shortwave" in podcasts)

Check out the amazing streams at http://www.radicalradio.org >

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_10_13_06.mp3 >(13.3MB)

link for smaller file and streaming-

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

       ¡FurthuR!      Dan Roberts

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

-Hermann Goering