Left Out Program Notes for July 25, 2006

Welcome to Left Out, reality-based independent radio on WRCT 88.3FM, and on the worldwide web at leftout.info. Left Out discusses the news from a perspective left out of the mainstream media. Left Out is co-hosted by Bob Harper and Danny Sleator. Today's program is produced by Matt Hornyak. Listeners are invited to call the program at (412) 268-WRCT (9728), or to send email to bob@leftout.info.

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Announcements

Emergency Protest Against Israeli Terror:

Event Date: Wednesday, 7/26/2006 6:30 PM
Painted fence at the main lawn in the midde of
Carnegie Mellon University, Oakland.

Sponsored by members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee,
the Pittsburgh Organizing Group, and Pittsburgh Anti-Racist Action.

For more information see pgh-psc.org.

Israel's Attack on Lebanon

Iraq

The American Bar Association's Analysis of Signing Statements

The ABA has issued a scathing critique of Bush's use of signing statements.

Anyone who doubts we are living under an early American form of fascism need only read this little excerpt and ponder how far we have moved from the quaint notion - the way the Geneva Conventions are quaint - that the US is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people: ... link

Who Killed the Electric Car

This new movie documents the story of the development and demise of the electric car. link

GM recalled all of their EV1 electric cars, and shredded them. There is no other explanation for this other than that they simply want to to erase all memory that they ever existed. They were too good. They didn't wear out, they don't use fossil fuels, and they don't polute.

We'll cover this story in detail in a later program.

Sources

Truth Out
Common Dreams
Information Clearinghouse
Cursor
Tom Paine
The Independent
The Guardian
Consortium News


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