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Russell Brown – Inaugurated

wammo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:46:41 +0000

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From his power deprived hotel room in central Wellington Russell Brown deconstructs Barack Obama’s Inauguration speech and highlights some of the main messages America and the world can take from it. In particular the passage that reaches out to the “non believers”. Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.

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Te Radar: Fear and Loathing

wammo — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:20:31 +0000

Its the day after in Pahrump and Radar reports that the little town remains staunchly republican inside a state that has turned blue.

Radar describes what it was like as the polls neared closing and what he was wearing when he heard the results. The celebration parties may not have been as good as the ones put on in Las Vegas, but perhaps that is a blessing as Te Radar has a relatively clear head to digest and analyse the occasion.

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Barack the Vote

wammo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:53:08 +0000

Mariah Craven reports live from New York City where she voted at 6am today

Mariah explains some of the reported voting problems, what the candidates are doing on the final day, the size of the vote turnout and the importance of the day to America and to the rest of the world. The eyes of the planet are focusing on the US like never before.

Listen/Download Mariah Craven on the big vote

Russell Brown: Feel the Occasion!

wammo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:17:51 +0000

Before the votes are counted Russell give his thoughts on the US election campaign, the problems with the voting systems, and oh yes! Meanwhile the New Zealand election campaign takes a back seat but Russell gives his predictions for the polling booth outcome this Saturday.

Listen/Download Russell Brown on Making History

Show Me Shorts Film Festival

wammo — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:17:06 +0000

New Zealand’s only competitive short film festival is now in it’s third year with 41 films showing right across the country. One of the films is Chalk directed by Esther Cahill-Chiaroni. A story set just before Helen and Sam’s engagement party where a secret is unwittingly revealed. Show me Shorts kicks off in Auckland on November 6th before making it’s way round the country.

Listen/Download Esther Cahill-Chiaroni on Chalk

Joe Bennett: Laugh? I could have Cried

wammo — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:20:02 +0000

In the most political week of the year Joe mulls over the state of the American Empire and the dawning of a new dominant economic force in the East. And he’s got a new book out called Laugh? I could have Cried. His most memorable thoughts on dogs, games, language, travel, the idiocy of belief, and the swamping trivia that shape our lives despite our best intentions.

Listen/Download Joe Bennett on Empire Building

Debt clock out of digits

wammo — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:06:52 +0000

Mariah Craven reports that the Bush administration is reportedly talking about the government getting ownership stakes in banks.

After a small uptick this morning, the markets continued their downward slide. This comes a day after the federal reserve “and other leading central banks cut interest rates to help fight the credit crisis and stimulate the global economy. Incredibly the country’s debt has gotten so high that the national debt clock in New York City has run out of numbers.

In other news it’s 32 days to the election, which means voter registration will be closing in most places in the next couple of days. In some neighborhoods, there have been lines out the door at sites where people can register. Meanwhile, the New York Times discovered that tens of thousands of voters may have illegally been removed from rolls.

Listen/Download Mariah Craven in New York

Free trade could mean laptops seized at the border

wammo — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:44:08 +0000

Laptops seized and examined for illegal music and movies on the United States border could become a reality if the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) between New Zealand and the United States comes into effect.

ACTA could be included in a free trade agreement with the United States and New Zealand as part of talks to enforce each other’s intellectual-property laws, with residents of each country subject to criminal charges when violating the IP laws of another country. The Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America filed comments offering suggestions for the trade agreement.

To explain more on this is Computerworld journalist Grant Gross who is based in Washington DC

Listen/Download Grant Gross on ACTA

Paul Sheltus – Constitutions, Drugs and Elections

wammo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:35:07 +0000

Paul reports that Ecuadoreans voted Sunday on a new constitution that would significantly broaden leftist President Rafael Correa‘s powers. Rising drug related violence in Mexico is causing concern and Paul discusses what each of the two US election candidates have to offer Latin America.

Paul Sheltus is freelance journalist, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Will Rednecks Inherit the Earth?

wammo — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:42:04 +0000

In the lead up to the US elections we are hearing all kinds of terms to describe voter groups and demographics. Are “heartland voters”, “white working class voters” and “Hockey Moms” just another way of saying redneck?

Proud redneck Joe Bageant says that rednecks represent many of the worst traits in American culture and a few of the best. He also says that every thinking person in the U.S. and the world should be very worried, everyone that is except John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Joe Bageant is the author of Deerhunting with Jesus

Listen/Download Joe Bageant on Rednecks

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