Minicast 5.5 : Continuing Gulf Coverage!

A follow up to the last mini episode of the podcast focused on the situation in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, featuring the podcast’s first interview with Jennifer Rexford, whose heartbreaking personal coverage of the situation and the struggle that thousands are facing has helped to open the eyes of the public. With some insight behind the scenes of the cleanup efforts, an alarming picture of corporate arrogance and negligence comes to light that proves how deadly this situation has become. Also with a follow up look at the costs of energy and a plea for a better, united front on this energy equation that will seemingly undo us all if we continue on the path we are currently treading.

MiniCast 5.5 : Continuing Gulf Coverage!

Links Promised in the Podcast

Please donate to Jennifer via paypal if you can. Send to jmrexford80@comcast.net thanks!

Wiki List of the World’s Largest Power Station

MiniCast 5 : Gulf in Crisis!

A mini episode of the podcast focused on the situation in the Gulf of Mexico since the BP Deepwater Horizon spill and the deteriorating health of those involved in the cleanup. Including some of the heartbreaking audio of Jennifer Rexford, who was hired by BP to help with cleanup efforts and is now dying from exposure to the toxic chemicals the company used to sink and break up the oil spill, the show examines reports from her and Al Jazeera sources that reveal the health crisis thousands in the Gulf are now facing as a result of these dispersants. And with reports of a new oil slick being investigated in the Gulf now, the situation for those in the region seems to be on a devastating and deadly course.

MiniCast 5 : Gulf in Crisis

Links Promised in the Podcast

Report from Current.com with Jennifer Rexford’s Video – this is a hard video to watch, but it needs to be circulated! PLEASE SHARE!

In depth report from Al Jazeera on the situation in the Gulf of Mexico

Report on the new spill being investigated in the Gulf

Episode 55 – Current Events, the PC Police!

In this new episode Rob goes over a little bit of feedback which covers Baja Arizona, southern Arizona liberals wanting to secede from more conservative north, gerrymandering, rape culture, sexism, American Apparel, 11 year old raped by group of older men then blamed by community for her attack, objectification and victim blaming, support from listeners, and overseas listeners. Then Rob sets his sites on the current events including breaking news from Libya, France jets launch first international attacks on Gaddafhi’s forces, ‘Mo’ Mohammed Al-Nabbous from Libya’s Al Hurra TV killed in firefight, Libya’s citizen led media, Japan’s nuclear situation seems to be stabilizing, radiation contamination discovered in groundwater, spinach and milk in Fukushima’s neighboring communities, Pakistani people’s angered response to government’s release of suspected US spy Raymond Davis, diplomatic immunity equals getting away with murder, US arrogance, tribal reprisals, US silent on subject of blood money paid for Davis’ freedom, US air strike in North Waziristan kills 38 civilians, Micheal Vick honored as a hero, community service requirement equals hero status, celebrity crimes forgiven and forgotten, hero worshipping the worthless, Agriculture Industry and Iowa lawmakers team up to criminalize whistle-blowing, corporate lawbreakers get less interference and public intervention, lying to farms to get work in order to record violations equals blowing up buildings, further redefining terrorism to stop animal rights advocates, Political Correctness, privileged lamenting over being asked to be more respectful and considerate, PC police, speciesism, Kansas lawmaker jokes about gunning down illegal immigrants, Kansas talk, feral pig hunting, slaughter is slaughter, poetry, and more.

Episode 55

Links Promised in the Podcast

Boing Boing article about Mohammed ‘Mo’ Al-Nabbous

Pakistans outrage over Raymond Davis release

Micheal Vick to be honored as a hero…yes, you read that right.

Iowa Bill can mean up to 10 years in jail for Exposing Animal Cruelty

Kansas Lawmaker’s immigrant assassination suggestion not taken as the joke he intended?

I just finished up recording episode 55 of the podcast which will be up shortly, and in it, I mentioned that France had started air attacks against Gaddafi’s forces in Libya. Now I have just learned, that the U.S. and Spain have also begun attacks there as well. Aimed at enforcing the UN’s no-fly zone and demands for a cease-fire, the bombings have begun. To all of the Libyan people, please be safe.

I only hope these actions have the desired effect, but often times once intervention begins, handing the reigns back over to those who need to be holding them does not go according to plan. The people of Libya asked for help, not occupation. And I truly hope that these countries who are now intervening do so on the terms of the Libyan rebellion that seeks freedom from Gaddafi’s tyrannical rule.

For more on the breaking story, you can visit Al Jazeera or CNN.

Episode 54 – Japan in Crisis Special Presentation

In this new episode Rob focuses his attention on Japan’s dark times, and the darker side of humanity that this tragedy and others like it tend to shine a spotlight on. By his lonesome once again, Rob discusses the anti-Japanese sentiment that has surfaced in the US in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami that followed. The nuclear threat, Pearl Harbor, WWII, Japanese-American Internment, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, casualties of war, comedians choosing their humor more carefully, can the karma talk, half-ass humanitarians, the Red Cross, poetry, music, and more.

Episode 54

Links Promised in the Podcast

Tumblog Karma Japan

Gilbert Gottfried Mistakes Tragedy for Comedy

Adventures in Tone Deaf Altruism

Al Jazeera’s latest live blog coverage 3/18

Breaking with the footage…
People screaming, people crying.
Tragic scenes of devastation
Tragic scenes of people dying.
This just in…

There’s panic in the streets
The reaper’s loosed from his cage.
While in our houses we sit watching
For all the world’s a stage.
The siren’s ringing in our ears
The fallout’s waiting to run free
The world outside our window crashes
And we view it all through our t.v..
It gets easier with distance,
Far from the chaos’ reach.
The abstract softens the impact,
At least that is what they preach…

Breaking with the footage…
People screaming, people crying.
Tragic scenes of devastation
Tragic scenes of people dying.
This just in…

There’s panic in the air
The reaper’s loosed upon the streets.
While the rest of us in the audience
Sit there glued to our seats.
The siren’s ringing in our ears
Mixing with other tragic sounds,
The world is burning up with rage
And we just turn the volume down.
It gets easier with distance,
The need holds the pain at bay.
The obligation dulls the senses,
Just one more useless thing they say…

Breaking with the footage…
People screaming, people crying.
Tragic scenes of devastation
Tragic scenes of people dying.
This just in…

So aptly titled it fills the airwaves,
You really need no other clues.
This just in…I have been broken,
By all of this breaking news!

(3/13/11)

Episode 53 – Current Events, US Spy Supplies Al Qaeda?

In this new episode Rob is flying solo once more (even though I spoke to the contrary on the last episode) and opens looking at Bernie Sanders taking on budget nonsense, representation of the rich, election cycle politicians, selective representation, before covering some feedback from the last episode which touched on marijuana, sexism of American Apparel, racism in the media, racism in the justice system, more on Arivaca and Tuscon tragedies, mainstream media failure before diving into the GOP threatened government shutdown, spending cuts, budget bullshit, schoolyard politics, 30 days extension, March 4th deadline, belligerent bargaining, seventeen year old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, Merced Farm Labor, labor violations, needless death, employee health and safety, involuntary manslaughter, community service, legal inequality, corporate law breakers catching breaks, Christchurch quake, Raymond Davis, TF373, Pakistan vs USA, spy games, Al Qaeda, weapons, nuclear material, biological agents, waging war against ourselves, global economy, supplying our enemies, Soviet Intelligence Reports, Jeff Cox and Wisconsin protesters, Former Indiana Deputy Attorney, live ammunition tweet, meeting peace with deadly force, Libyan genocide, Ghaddafi gets desperate and more deadly, protesters persist, WalkForChoice, Feb26th, MoveOn just move on, poetry, and more.

Episode 53

Links Promised in the Podcast

WalkForChoice 2011 – important nation wide event for choice happening Feb. 26th

SpeakTheVirus – *Persephone’s new podcast!

GOP Will Shut Down Government over Spending Negotiations

40 Hours Community Service for Killing 17 year old

“CIA Spy” Davis Was Giving Nuclear Bomb Material to Al-Qaeda, says Report

Cox in the Indiana Deputy Attorney’s Office …well one less than before.

Episode 52 – Current Events, Legislative Victim Blaming

In this new episode Rob is flying solo again with some extra ranty looks at the GOP’s latest war on women and choice, Rep. Gwen Moore, the murder of Brisenia and Raul Flores by white supremacists in Arizona, bailout recipients like McDonalds, vegansim, government agriculture subsidies, Texas Senate anti-choice measures, the rape charges against Julian Assange, Wikileaks, rape culture, Michael Moore, feminism, progressive men, revolution in the Middle East, floods in Sri Lanka, mudslides in Brazil, Tea Party of Tennessee wants to rewrite history textbooks, racist and privileged rewrites, conscience clause pharmacies, Christian double standard, Rush Limbaugh’s statements about Gifford shooter Loughner, irresponsible punditry, Rep. Larry Brown’s statements on HIV/AIDS sufferers, judging those in need not worthy, public servants not serving the public, poetry, music, and more.

Episode 52

Links Promised in the Podcast

The Abortion Gang’s blog

Story on Brisenia Flores

More no Brisenia Flores story

Some Bailout Recipient info

Texas Senate Anti-Choice Tactics

Democracy Now on Julian Assange

Reuters story on Assange

Michael Moore on why he posted bail for Assange

Tennessee Tea Party seeks history textbook rewrites

What Would Jesus Prescribe

Larry Brown’s comments on HIV/AIDS

Limbaugh on Loughner

In the wake of the devastating riots and oppression in Egypt, President Obama made a speech saying that governments around the world have a responsibility to listen to their citizens and to be responsive to the will of the public. He also urged authorities in Egypt to return the internet access back to the people, citing how important an open internet is to people, and in this day and age, it is a crucial tool of democracy.

But in order for his words to be more than hollow rhetoric, not only does the US government need to adjust its foreign policy, but we the people of the US need to hold these words in our memory banks and force our government to live up to them here at home as well. Obama and Congress need to listen to the people and kill the idea of the internet kill switch here in the US. Not talk about the evils of such a tactic meanwhile pushing forward on legislation here that would allow for the same action to be taken whenever the government deems it necessary.

And while we are talking about the people deserving a government that listens to them and is responsive, what the fuck, Obama? How can you stand there and say that shit with a straight face? If you really mean that shit, then explain to us how come Guantanamo Bay is still open. Why hasn’t the Bush Administration been tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and knowingly misleading the public to gain support for an illegal war? Why did you allow the GOP to effectively hold the people hostage so they could get the extension on the Bush tax cuts that the people were overwhelmingly in support of ending? Why is Congress pushing to repeal the HCR bill when a whopping majority of the public is against such a repeal? If the people deserve a responsive, listening government, then why the fuck don’t we have one, Obama?!

Oh, or is it really that you don’t believe any of what you said. And what you truly think is that the people don’t deserve a government that listens and responds to them, but instead they only deserve a government who will spit comforting platitudes at them in times of turmoil in hopes that no one will remember what you said when said times have passed. Because that is what your actions are really saying. Remember, they speak louder than your words!

Episode 51 – Current Events, Apocalypse Now?

In this new episode Rob is flying solo once more, covering the recent shooting in Tuscon, the current volatile political climate in the US, the Wikileaks papers, Julian Assange, investigating all charges of rape, Brogressives, when progressive men attack, Sady Doyle, Michael Moore, feminist allies failing, US vs EU on GM crops, Monsanto misfits, war over corporate crop interests, Apocalypse, end of days, massive fish and bird deaths worldwide, global warming, May Rapture, floods in Queensland AU, floods in Pakistan, Haiti one year later, violent erratic weather patterns, Obama and Michael Vick, music, and more.

Episode 51

Links Promised in the Podcast

Allen West chief of staff – If ballots don’t work bullets will

An Assassination?

Teabaggers paid to troll liberals online to enforce corporate propaganda

Russian News Site

Leaked memo sheds light on mysterious bee die offs and who is to blame

US vs EU on GM crops

Dead Birds Fall from the Sky

The European Union Times is keeping an updated list of these mysterious fish and bird deaths

Story from Wired on antibiotics going into food supply

Difference Makers Canadian Coalition SAVE and their new ad campaign aimed at the perpetrators of rape rather than the victims