![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Historical and contemporary conflicts around Israel - John August / Amelia Hunter
Reading from 'The Seventh Day' on the Six Day War, and the Combatants for Peace website. Also a story from an Australian POW to the Japanese, and how a work of art saved a life.
Keywords: Six Day War; War; Israel; Second World War; Japan; Australia
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| Freewill - John August / Amelia Hunter
Details of a discussion at Sydney Philorum on free will.
Keywords: philosophy; free will
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| Law discussion - John August / Amelia Hunter
Discussion of issues of local courts and administration of fines; their problems, and more general problems with traffic and speeding laws.
Keywords: politics; law; justice
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| Israel - Lebanon comment - John August / Amelia Hunter
A discussion of some issues in the then current (July 2006) Israel - Lebanon conflict. John August is sympathetic to Israel over its concern for the Hezbollah missiles - but equally critical of how genuinely Israel is trying to minimise civilian casaulties. A more detailed written piece is available at : http://www.philorum.org/speech/20060816IsraelLebanonConflictJohnAugust.html
Keywords: politics; israel; lebanon; war; conflict; peace
Downloads: 85
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| Society for Heterodox Economics Meeting, 2006 - John August / Amelia Hunter
Details of a paper on corporations John August presented at the Society for Heterodox Economists meeting at the University of NSW, Sydney, Australia in December 2006, together with a few thoughts on economics from the conference.
Keywords: economics; heterodox
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| Evolution and Sex - John August / Amelia Hunter
Challenging the idea that we don't know why there are sexes, or even why there are 2 rather than 3 or more, John August explains the evolutionary history of sex.
Keywords: sex; evolution
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| The New Vietnam Scholarship - John August / Amelia Hunter
A retrospective on Vietnam, drawing in particular from the (then) "New Vietnam Scholarship" of the 1980s
Keywords: war; vietnam; conflict; politics
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| Vegetarianism, Meat and 'Saving the World with Pesticides and Plastic' - John August / Amelia Hunter
Sadly, this is a lower quality recording ... the original archive noised it up. We discuss vegetarianism and meat eating, with reference to 'Saving the World with Pesticides and Plastic' by Dennis T. Avery and some other ideas.
Keywords: agriculture; vegetarianism; meat
Downloads: 89
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| Urban Exploration and the Sydney Cave Clan - John August / Amelia Hunter
A discussion of urban exploration - that is exploring drains and old factories - the people who do it, and their motives.
Keywords: urban exploration
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| Oil comment - John August / Amelia Hunter
Discussion of oil and the future - different ideas on whether we are running out, the alternatives, the implications
Keywords: politics; economics; environment; oil; resources
Downloads: 104
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| Community radio - special edition - John August / Amelia Hunter
John August talks community media and his segment 'The World and its Ways'.
Keywords: community media
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| The Secular Party of Australia - John August / Amelia Hunter
Details on the Secular Party of Australia, a new Australian party which plans to promote the separation of church and state along with maintaining freedoms against religious influence. A correction : Comprehensive Secularism involves the separation of Church and State (some say Church from State), impartiality between different belief systems, and the primacy of individual human rights over religious perogatives.
Keywords: religion; politics; political parties; secularism; humanism
Downloads: 110
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| Abolish State Governments in Australia - John August / Amelia Hunter
Discussion of the pros and cons of abolishing State Government in Australia.
Keywords: government; states; Australia; federalism
Downloads: 173
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| Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's UFO series - John August / Amelia Hunter
John August reviews the UFO series, from the 1970's, where Earth is defending itself from attack by aliens who abduct humans for use as spare parts.
Keywords: science fiction; Gerry Anderson; Sylvia Anderson; ufo; ufo series
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| The Whitlam Dismissal - An alternate history - John August / Amelia Hunter
Making use of the 'tachiscope' radio receiver, we listen on a report of an alternate history where Gough Whitlam did not stand down.
Keywords: Dismissal; Gough Whitlam; Australia
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| Appropriate Technology - John August / Amelia Hunter
Outlines the 'cloth filter' and indoor fires - a major source of pollution and deaths in third world countries, together with reference to an Engineers Without Borders event.
Keywords: appropriate technology; third world
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| Readings from "The Sun Goes Down" on WWII Japanese Soldiers - John August / Amelia Hunter
Readings from "The Sun Goes Down", a book of last letters from Japanese soldiers and suicide pilots
Keywords: japan; WWII; world war
Downloads: 238
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| Marshal Savage's plan for the Galaxy and Zubrin's plan for Mars - John August / Amelia Hunter
Considers ideas about space colinisation and exploration, including the the book 'Conquering the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps' by Marshall T. Savage, and also Robert Zubrin's plan for exploring and colonising Mars.
Keywords: space; space colonies; space exploration; Zubrin
Downloads: 155
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| Symbols - Pictograms, SMS, Inter-Civilisation and Inter-Species - John August / Amelia Hunter
A review of Bliss Symbolics, a pictographic language; research into how Australians and Japanese SMS each other; inter - civilisation communication to warn people of nuclear waste; and inter species communication via information attached to planetary probes.
Keywords: symbols; SMS; interstellar probes
Downloads: 181
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