Dr. Deborah Karnasiewicz, Founder and Director of the Women's Health and Fitness Expo, joined us to discuss the the 8th year of the expo including all of the information booths, speakers, screenings, and the mission and intention she had in founding and organizing this great local event.

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Population Series Part 3: We were joined by our guest cohost Dr. John Feeney and Dr. David Pimentel - one of the world's leading experts on the global food crisis and its relation to the human population and population growth. We talked in detail about issues such as food availability and it's distribution and the inefficiency of biofuels and how they fuel food shortages. We touched upon issues of the environment as species extinction, climate change, and malnutrition - topics which we will go into greater detail on in future segments of this series.

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Some Community Announcements >>

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Our program today focused on Earth's human population and its effect on food and resource allocation and distribution, energy, economy, etc and the effective ways which this issue can be addressed. President and Founder of the Population Media Center, William Ryerson, discussed the effective ways his organization combines the Social Learning theory of leading contemporary psychologist Dr. Albert Bandura, along with the serial melodrama developed by Miguel Sabido, to create positive role models to educate cultures all around the world as a modality for teaching about family planning, gender equity, and related issues.

David Paxson, founder and president of World Population Balance, joined us as well to discuss the population issues and his organizations approach towards changing the way people think and the choices they make regarding reproduction, energy consumption, and their impact on the environment.

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Dr. John Feeney joined Robert and I today to launch our 5 week series on population, energy, ecology, economy, and human rights. Trained as a psychologist, Dr. Feeney now writes and speaks about a number of core, yet underreported, environmental issues. Dr. Feeney's articles have appeared in a variety of publications such as the BBC News's Green Room and The Oil Drum. He also maintains a website "Growth is Madness!" where he posts his own writings and features articles from a number of experts in relevant fields (such as renowned ecological economist Herman Daly, anthropologist J. Kenneth Smail, and many others).

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During the first and last half hours Robert and I discussed some pressing news items (including Ron Pauls statements on the impending police state) and also aired an interview with Tim Sutton - Media Educator and Producer with the Children's Media Project in Poughkeepsie NY.

We began the program with some live music from Shabbat and Adir Cohen and news updates including Ron Paul Questioning the Chair of the Federal reserve on Capitalism, Fascism, and the governments increasing control of US citizens - as opposed the US citizen control of the government, the way it was intended to be.

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During the second hour we got a live update from Hebron with one of the Christian Peacemaker Teams, Paul Rehm, who joined us on Free Range Thought in February. Today Paul discussed with us the egregious violations committed by the Israeli Military against 3 Palestinian orphanages, and a number of schools, where the military issued six orders of closure and confiscation. Paul gives us a first hand account of the circumstance on the ground. (Part 2 Intro >>)

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We also spoke with Sherwood Ross is a Miami, Fla.-based public relations executive that has written for major dailies, magazines and wire services and worked in the civil rights movement. Sherwood discussed one of his latest publications titled "Bush Military Buildup Recalls Stalin And Hitler": Listen to Interview with Sherwood>>

More Music with Shabbat and Adir >>

In the last half hour of the program we heard more live music from Shabbat and Adir plus we spoke with Joel Kovel regarding a lecture/movie he is presenting at the Woodstock Community Center this Wednesday titled "Remembering Deir Yassin" on the forgotten history of Palestine.

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During the first half hour I aired an interview Professor Shadia Drury (Professor at AU Regina in Canada, Canada Research Chair in Social Justice, Director of the Masters Program in Social and Political Thought and Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Philosophy) in which we discussed the Neoconservative Straussian ideologues who have infiltrated the White House and Pentagon.

I also read Bertrand Russell's letter, composed 3 days before his death, regarding Israel's aggression towards Lebanon and the Palestinian people. Of particular note is his comment (which Prof Boyle elaborates on during the interview below): "The development of the crisis in the Middle East is both dangerous and instructive. For over 20 years Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to "reason" and has suggested "negotiations." This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence. Every new conquest becomes the new basis of the proposed negotiation from strength, which ignores the injustice of the previous aggression. The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annex foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate."

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During the 2nd hour of the program I aired an interview I conducted with Professor Francis A. Boyle - a leading American expert in international law expert , who teaches international law at the University of Champaign, Il. Professor boyle was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Antiterrorism Act of 1989, has served on the board of Directors of amnesty International ('88 - '92), represented Bosnia - Herzegovina at the World Court, and has published numerous books including: World Politics and International Law, The Future of International Law and American Foreign Policy, Foundations of World Order, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Palestine, Palestinians and International Law, Destroying World Order - US Foreign Policy in the Middle East before and After 911.

This interview was based on the lecture he gave at the Bertrand Russell Peace Lecture Series at McMaster University in Canada in January of 2007 - the text of which was recently published (along with appendices and updates) by Clarity Press under the title "Breaking All the Rules - Palestine, Iraq, Iran and the Case for Impeachment".

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During the last portion of today's program I was joined by Mario Torchio who runs the New Paltz Cultural collective and 60 Main to discuss the broad spectrum of events, activities, and items available at 60 Main Street in New Paltz including live music, open mic, movies, educational events, art openings, organic fair trade foods, beverages, and garments, as well as just a great open 'public' space in a non-alcohol environment for people to meet up and participate in what I think of as tribal relations - developing community. I was also joined by Kirouana Paddaquahum - medicine chief of the Thunder Clan - to discuss the housing crash and how it relates to the necessity for us all to act now to preserve the precious land of the Hudson Valley - much in line with previous conversations we've had regarding the Ulster County Citizen Park System.

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As the begriming of the 6th year of the occupation of Iraq nears, we spoke with Geoff Millard with Iraq Veterans Against the War about Winter Soldier - public testimony given by those who served in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan. Winter Soldier was first conducted during the Vietnam War and was very effective in bringing the reality of war to the American people, helping to sway public opinion and bring the troops home. Such was the intent of this Winter Soldier.

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We spoke with Army Psychiatrist Chris Miller, a Hudson Valley resident, who served in Iraq and has decided to refuse his deployment orders and participate in the illegal military actions in Iraq.

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This day we were most delighted to have in the studio with us the beautiful and wonderfully gifted singer/songwriter Meryl Joan Lammers along with local novelist Zoli Rozen - both of whom have graced this studio before. WE listened to some of Meryl's classics and some new tunes and we discussed Zoli's soon to be published book "Alex and the moon Go Dancing".

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