Alison Weir Debates Palestine @ Commonwealth Club 4/1 (for real)

[Hal Womack 3-dan]

Friendly Greetings:

Alison Weir = one of the brightest spirits of the English-speaking
world, a brave & talented woman.
- Hide quoted text -


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Alison Weir <***@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Subject: Tues 7pm Debate on Israel-Palestine at SF Commonwealth Club
To:


[Please forward!]

I have been invited to take part in a debate on Israel-Palestine this
Tuesday evening, April 1, at 7 pm in San Francisco.

It would be excellent to have people attend. In addition, during the Q
& A period, even though many of us are tempted to challenge speakers
with whom we disagree, this merely gives them more time to convey
misinformation. It is usually far more valuable to bring up your point
through a question to one of those whose information you find
valuable, to give them more time to speak.

Following is the announcement and the line-up of panelists:

The meeting will start promptly at 7pm, Tue April 1st. - We recommend
you
arrive half an hour early.

The location is :
Commonwealth Club of California
595 Market St, 2nd Floor
San Francisco

The Motion for April 1st will Be :
"This House would tie US Aid to Israel to progress in the Peace
Process"

More specifically, the proposition will propose the US should stop
giving
military aid & support to Israel, until a peace agreement has been
reached
with 'the Palestinians' in the West Bank & Gaza.

We have six speakers lined up for this event.

For the motion :
5mins - James Dilworth (INFORUM)
8mins - Alison Weir, Founder, If Americans Knew
8mins - Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor, University of San Francisco;

Against the motion :
5mins - Jonathan Foerster (INFORUM)
8mins - Dr. Mitchell Bard, Author, Myths & Facts : Guide to the Arab-
Israeli
Conflict
8mins - Dr. Uri Bar-Joseph, Author & Snr. Lecturer Pol-Sci-,
University of
Haifa

Moderator : Jon Haron-Feirtag
Chairwoman for SFDebate (Opening & Closing) : Caroline Moriarty-Sacks

After the table speakers have spoken, the debate will open up to the
audience. Audience members may make their own statements of up to two
minutes in length, or may direct questions at the panelists.

We will take a vote before the meeting, and another at the end of the
meeting. It is fun to see how minds change during the course of the
discussion.

More information on this debate is available at www.sfdebate.org -
Please
feel free to forward this on to people you know who are also
interested in
this issue.

INFORUM is the Young Persons (under 35) division of the Commonwealth
Club.
Our SFDebate format encourages people to participate in political
discussion. The meetings operate in similar fashion to a town-hall
debate;
the panelists form the main points and then the audience is invited to
join
in.


Alison Weir
Executive Director
If Americans Knew
415.847.1782


If Americans Knew is a 501c3 tax-exempt organization. Donation checks
may be made out to "If Americans Knew" or you may visit our website
www.ifamericansknew.org to donate online.

[Stratum]

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
Alison Weir = one of the brightest spirits of the English-speaking
world, a brave & talented woman.

For the record, the Alison Weir I cited several days ago on
a list of people who would be an interesting interviewee on
a brainier kind of KGO is a British historian. She wrote the
bestseller _Six Wives of Henry VIII_.

[Hal Womack 3-dan]

TWO QUESTIONS FROM DAN STONE:

Anyone who goes to the Palestine-Israel debate tomorrow (Tuesday)
night might consider asking Alison or one of the other panelists-for-
the-Motion the following questions:

(1) "How can there be peace when israel steals Palestinian land every
day, every week, every month, every year of every decade via illegal
settlements ever since israel was illegally created in 1948? Is there
any wonder the Palestinians are fighting against this theft of their
land?"

(2) "Why did the UN violate its own Charter in 1948 to create israel?"

_________________

Background
: The 700,000 Arab residents living in Palestine were dispossessed of
their land as the israelis terrorized them out of it leading up to
1948. Then, in 1948, the UN violated its own Charter by creating
israel. The UN Resolution 181 partitioned Palestine. The Palestinians
rejected such an unfair imposition, but the UN, pushed by the u.s.,
went ahead and created israel anyway. The creation of israel was the
equivalent of militarily invading a country [Palestine] and setting up
a foreign entity [israel] to run it, similar to our illegal and
immoral invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
"[The UN] . . . was responsible for the partitioning of Palestine
through General Assembly resolution 181, creating the state of Israel,
while endorsing a Palestinian state and international status for
Jerusalem, neither of which were ever allowed to come into existence."
- Phyllis Bennis, Calling the Shots: How Washington
Dominates Today's UN
(Olive Branch Press NY, 1996; p. 211)

The following excerpt is from The Origin of the Palestine-Israel
Conflict (published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East,
distributed by If Americans Knew, pp. 8-9). You can download and read
the whole 40-page pamphlet at :
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html

The UN Partition of Palestine

Why did the UN recommend the plan partitioning Palestine into a Jewish
and an Arab state?
"By this time [November 1947], the United States had emerged as the
most aggressive proponent of partition . . . The United States got the
General Assembly to delay a vote 'to gain time to bring certain Latin
American republics into line with its own views.' . . . Some delegates
charged U.S. officials with 'diplomatic intimidation.' Without
'terrific pressure' from the United States on 'governments which
cannot afford to risk American reprisals,' said an anonymous editorial
writer, the resolution 'would never have passed.' - John
Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice"

Why was this Truman's position?
"I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands
who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of
thousands of Arabs among my constituents."
- President Harry Truman, quoted in "Anti-Zionism,"
ed. by Tekiner, Abed-Rabbo & Mezvinsky

Was the partition plan fair to both Arabs and Jews?
"Arab rejection was . . . based on the fact that, while the population
of the Jewish state was to be [only half Jewish] with the Jews owning
less than 10% of the Jewish state land area, the Jews were to be
established as the ruling body -- a settlement which no self-respecting
people would accept without protest, to say the least . . . The action
of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which
the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of
all peoples to self-determination. By denying the Palestine Arabs, who
formed the two-thirds majority of the country, the right to decide for
themselves, the United Nations had violated its own Charter."
- Sami Hadawi, "Bitter Harvest"

". . . the injustice done to them [the Palestinians] by Israel's
creation in 1948 . . ."
- Christian Science Monitor, editorial, July 18, 2007
[http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0718/p08s01-comv.html]


- Dan Stone

******************************************

__ Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ( John Adams, 1798)

__ If Americans are really interested in Peace, and having a Republic
instead of an Empire, they will do 2 things: (a) eliminate our
standing army; and (b) eliminate our permanent war economy that we
have had since ww2.

__ I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really
talking about peace.
-Bush, June 18, 2002 ("War is Peace," Big Brother double-speak in
George Orwell's 1984)

__ Please use the word "occupation" instead of "war." It has been said
that if we had used the word "occupation" instead of "war" after 2003,
we'd be out by now. Many Americans feel the need to endure a war until
it is "won," but they will not support an occupation. Any conflict of
any kind can be called a "war," and it only has one syllable. But, if
we really want to motivate Americans to pull out our troops, we should
call it an "occupation."

Daniel Stone
***@earthlink.net

======================================================

BTW I bought my ticket on the telephone for $5 this morning (Monday).
--HW

[Hal Womack 3-dan]

AN EXPLANATION FOR THE BARON:
ONE NIGHT STANDS WITH WEIR & LAPHAM IN SF

By Hal Womack 3-dan

http://www.flickr.com/photos/halwomack/
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack

Q = Should all honorable Americans, in cooperation with the
other Seven Billion law-enforcing members of our rainbow race, hang
the Clintons, Bushes, Bronfmen, Sulzbergerz,
Nancy Pelosi and the other DICTATA* bosses AFTOC**, with further
appropriate punishments to their several accomplices in war crimes?

A = By all means, as explained already in Appendix Alpha.


ALPHA:
{Already some
years ago on these newsgroups, I have proposed a certain ritual in
order that the words of the Psalmist may be fulfilled [58:11], "The
just man shall be glad when he sees vengeance; he shall bathe his feet
in the blood of the wicked."

To wit, AFTOC or "After a Fair Trial Of Course" we will hang a small
symbolic number of the chief criminals such as Bush, Kerry, Clinton &
Wolfowitz [Sharon being too old for this display in all decency] stark
naked by their left feet. While they are thus dangling, a surgeon will
open a vein in their forearms. The suitably selected Mistress of
Ceremonies will have legs bare from the knees down and on her feet
sandals, at most. Splish-splash & voila! Then the physcian will bind
up the arms of the prisoners and the guards will take them away to the
dungeons. 'Tis for this end that we raise our voices to sing (God
willing) "Hang them both, please, from a high tree!" And whatever
other such hanging verses and dangling participants our poets may come
up with in the course of the planetary police action. For such be the
true nature of the struggle by us, the law-enforcing Six Billion,
against the tiny minority of JAT. In the course of which we will both
spiritually transform and formally & politically unify our species,
thereby constituting the world democracy and beginning the third and
mature age of humanity after the infancy of the tribe and our present
perilous adolescence of civilization. "Of thee we sing." }


Newsgroups: alt.religion.islam, soc.culture.british, soc.culture.usa,
ca.politics, tx.politics
From: ***@sonic.net (Hal Womack 3-dan)
Date: 16 Oct 2004 02:44:15 -0700
Local: Sat, Oct 16 2004 2:44 am
Subject: Written In Blood: Bush-Bashing Ballad
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

I had in mind earlier to draft an explanation for
Baron Lewis Lapham of tonight's scene with Alison Weir
@ the Commonwealth Club, since the former appears
tomorrow night at City Lights Books. Joogle, however, has just dropped
a surprise ban on my posting, so at the moment I'm in suspense to see
if even this follow-up will pass through their censorship.

After we hang the Chene-Gang, I'd like to task Mr. Lapham with going
back to explore such historical questions as A) Whether Judah
Benjamin's assassination plot against Lincoln included explicit
coordination with financier Jay Cooke and B) Who was
the boss Jew for the assassination of President William McKinley? This
mystery figure would be the bridge between
Benjamin and Bernard Baruch in the line of succession of American
Jewish kings.


============================

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
Anyone who goes to the Palestine-Israel debate tomorrow (Tuesday)
night might consider asking Alison or one of the other panelists-for-
(1) "How can there be peace when israel steals Palestinian land every
day, every week, every month, every year of every decade via illegal
settlements ever since israel was illegally created in 1948? Is there
any wonder the Palestinians are fighting against this theft of their
land?"
(2) "Why did the UN violate its own Charter in 1948 to create israel?"
_________________
Background
: The 700,000 Arab residents living in Palestine were dispossessed of
their land as the israelis terrorized them out of it leading up to
1948. Then, in 1948, the UN violated its own Charter by creating
israel. The UN Resolution 181 partitioned Palestine. The Palestinians
rejected such an unfair imposition, but the UN, pushed by the u.s.,
went ahead and created israel anyway. The creation of israel was the
equivalent of militarily invading a country [Palestine] and setting up
a foreign entity [israel] to run it, similar to our illegal and
immoral invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
"[The UN] . . . was responsible for the partitioning of Palestine
through General Assembly resolution 181, creating the state of Israel,
while endorsing a Palestinian state and international status for
Jerusalem, neither of which were ever allowed to come into existence."
- Phyllis Bennis, Calling the Shots: How Washington
Dominates Today's UN
(Olive Branch Press NY, 1996; p. 211)
The following excerpt is from The Origin of the Palestine-Israel
Conflict (published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East,
distributed by If Americans Knew, pp. 8-9). You can download and read
the whole 40-page pamphlet at :http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
The UN Partition of Palestine
Why did the UN recommend the plan partitioning Palestine into a Jewish
and an Arab state?
"By this time [November 1947], the United States had emerged as the
most aggressive proponent of partition . . . The United States got the
General Assembly to delay a vote 'to gain time to bring certain Latin
American republics into line with its own views.' . . . Some delegates
charged U.S. officials with 'diplomatic intimidation.' Without
'terrific pressure' from the United States on 'governments which
cannot afford to risk American reprisals,' said an anonymous editorial
writer, the resolution 'would never have passed.' - John
Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice"
Why was this Truman's position?
"I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands
who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of
thousands of Arabs among my constituents."
- President Harry Truman, quoted in "Anti-Zionism,"
ed. by Tekiner, Abed-Rabbo & Mezvinsky
Was the partition plan fair to both Arabs and Jews?
"Arab rejection was . . . based on the fact that, while the population
of the Jewish state was to be [only half Jewish] with the Jews owning
less than 10% of the Jewish state land area, the Jews were to be
established as the ruling body -- a settlement which no self-respecting
people would accept without protest, to say the least . . . The action
of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which
the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of
all peoples to self-determination. By denying the Palestine Arabs, who
formed the two-thirds majority of the country, the right to decide for
themselves, the United Nations had violated its own Charter."
- Sami Hadawi, "Bitter Harvest"
". . . the injustice done to them [the Palestinians] by Israel's
creation in 1948 . . ."
- Christian Science Monitor, editorial, July 18, 2007
[http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0718/p08s01-comv.html]
- Dan Stone
******************************************
__ Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ( John Adams, 1798)
__ If Americans are really interested in Peace, and having a Republic
instead of an Empire, they will do 2 things: (a) eliminate our
standing army; and (b) eliminate our permanent war economy that we
have had since ww2.
__ I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really
talking about peace.
-Bush, June 18, 2002 ("War is Peace," Big Brother double-speak in
George Orwell's 1984)
__ Please use the word "occupation" instead of "war." It has been said
that if we had used the word "occupation" instead of "war" after 2003,
we'd be out by now. Many Americans feel the need to endure a war until
it is "won," but they will not support an occupation. Any conflict of
any kind can be called a "war," and it only has one syllable. But, if
we really want to motivate Americans to pull out our troops, we should
call it an "occupation."
Daniel Stone
======================================================
BTW I bought my ticket on the telephone for $5 this morning (Monday).
--HW

[xeno]

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
Q = Should all honorable Americans, in cooperation with the
other Seven Billion law-enforcing members of our rainbow race, hang
the Clintons, Bushes, Bronfmen, Sulzbergerz,
Nancy Pelosi and the other DICTATA* bosses AFTOC**, with further
appropriate punishments to their several accomplices in war crimes?

how is anybody going to get a fair trial in wacky-womack-rainbow-
world? for starters, there's nothing resembling DICTATA
on the planet.

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
..."After a Fair Trial Of Course" we will hang a small symbolic number of the chief criminals...

apparently, you have nothing else better to do than have violent
infantile fantasies.

["Buck" @Cowtown.net>]

You are one mentally ill fuck!

That's It!!!

PLONK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
ONE NIGHT STANDS WITH WEIR & LAPHAM IN SF
By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halwomack/
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
Q = Should all honorable Americans, in cooperation with the
other Seven Billion law-enforcing members of our rainbow race, hang
the Clintons, Bushes, Bronfmen, Sulzbergerz,
Nancy Pelosi and the other DICTATA* bosses AFTOC**, with further
appropriate punishments to their several accomplices in war crimes?
A = By all means, as explained already in Appendix Alpha.
{Already some
years ago on these newsgroups, I have proposed a certain ritual in
order that the words of the Psalmist may be fulfilled [58:11], "The
just man shall be glad when he sees vengeance; he shall bathe his feet
in the blood of the wicked."
To wit, AFTOC or "After a Fair Trial Of Course" we will hang a small
symbolic number of the chief criminals such as Bush, Kerry, Clinton &
Wolfowitz [Sharon being too old for this display in all decency] stark
naked by their left feet. While they are thus dangling, a surgeon will
open a vein in their forearms. The suitably selected Mistress of
Ceremonies will have legs bare from the knees down and on her feet
sandals, at most. Splish-splash & voila! Then the physcian will bind
up the arms of the prisoners and the guards will take them away to the
dungeons. 'Tis for this end that we raise our voices to sing (God
willing) "Hang them both, please, from a high tree!" And whatever
other such hanging verses and dangling participants our poets may come
up with in the course of the planetary police action. For such be the
true nature of the struggle by us, the law-enforcing Six Billion,
against the tiny minority of JAT. In the course of which we will both
spiritually transform and formally & politically unify our species,
thereby constituting the world democracy and beginning the third and
mature age of humanity after the infancy of the tribe and our present
perilous adolescence of civilization. "Of thee we sing." }
Newsgroups: alt.religion.islam, soc.culture.british, soc.culture.usa,
ca.politics, tx.politics
Date: 16 Oct 2004 02:44:15 -0700
Local: Sat, Oct 16 2004 2:44 am
Subject: Written In Blood: Bush-Bashing Ballad
I had in mind earlier to draft an explanation for
Baron Lewis Lapham of tonight's scene with Alison Weir
@ the Commonwealth Club, since the former appears
tomorrow night at City Lights Books. Joogle, however, has just dropped
a surprise ban on my posting, so at the moment I'm in suspense to see
if even this follow-up will pass through their censorship.
After we hang the Chene-Gang, I'd like to task Mr. Lapham with going
back to explore such historical questions as A) Whether Judah
Benjamin's assassination plot against Lincoln included explicit
coordination with financier Jay Cooke and B) Who was
the boss Jew for the assassination of President William McKinley? This
mystery figure would be the bridge between
Benjamin and Bernard Baruch in the line of succession of American
Jewish kings.
============================

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
Anyone who goes to the Palestine-Israel debate tomorrow (Tuesday)
night might consider asking Alison or one of the other panelists-for-
(1) "How can there be peace when israel steals Palestinian land every
day, every week, every month, every year of every decade via illegal
settlements ever since israel was illegally created in 1948? Is there
any wonder the Palestinians are fighting against this theft of their
land?"
(2) "Why did the UN violate its own Charter in 1948 to create israel?"
_________________
Background
: The 700,000 Arab residents living in Palestine were dispossessed of
their land as the israelis terrorized them out of it leading up to
1948. Then, in 1948, the UN violated its own Charter by creating
israel. The UN Resolution 181 partitioned Palestine. The Palestinians
rejected such an unfair imposition, but the UN, pushed by the u.s.,
went ahead and created israel anyway. The creation of israel was the
equivalent of militarily invading a country [Palestine] and setting up
a foreign entity [israel] to run it, similar to our illegal and
immoral invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.
"[The UN] . . . was responsible for the partitioning of Palestine
through General Assembly resolution 181, creating the state of Israel,
while endorsing a Palestinian state and international status for
Jerusalem, neither of which were ever allowed to come into existence."
- Phyllis Bennis, Calling the Shots: How Washington
Dominates Today's UN
(Olive Branch Press NY, 1996; p. 211)
The following excerpt is from The Origin of the Palestine-Israel
Conflict (published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East,
distributed by If Americans Knew, pp. 8-9). You can download and read
the whole 40-page pamphlet at
:http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/origin.html
The UN Partition of Palestine
Why did the UN recommend the plan partitioning Palestine into a Jewish
and an Arab state?
"By this time [November 1947], the United States had emerged as the
most aggressive proponent of partition . . . The United States got the
General Assembly to delay a vote 'to gain time to bring certain Latin
American republics into line with its own views.' . . . Some delegates
charged U.S. officials with 'diplomatic intimidation.' Without
'terrific pressure' from the United States on 'governments which
cannot afford to risk American reprisals,' said an anonymous editorial
writer, the resolution 'would never have passed.' - John
Quigley, "Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice"
Why was this Truman's position?
"I am sorry gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands
who are anxious for the success of Zionism. I do not have hundreds of
thousands of Arabs among my constituents."
- President Harry Truman, quoted in "Anti-Zionism,"
ed. by Tekiner, Abed-Rabbo & Mezvinsky
Was the partition plan fair to both Arabs and Jews?
"Arab rejection was . . . based on the fact that, while the population
of the Jewish state was to be [only half Jewish] with the Jews owning
less than 10% of the Jewish state land area, the Jews were to be
established as the ruling body -- a settlement which no self-respecting
people would accept without protest, to say the least . . . The action
of the United Nations conflicted with the basic principles for which
the world organization was established, namely, to uphold the right of
all peoples to self-determination. By denying the Palestine Arabs, who
formed the two-thirds majority of the country, the right to decide for
themselves, the United Nations had violated its own Charter."
- Sami Hadawi, "Bitter Harvest"
". . . the injustice done to them [the Palestinians] by Israel's
creation in 1948 . . ."
- Christian Science Monitor, editorial, July 18, 2007
[http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0718/p08s01-comv.html]
- Dan Stone
******************************************
__ Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ( John Adams, 1798)
__ If Americans are really interested in Peace, and having a Republic
instead of an Empire, they will do 2 things: (a) eliminate our
standing army; and (b) eliminate our permanent war economy that we
have had since ww2.
__ I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really
talking about peace.
-Bush, June 18, 2002 ("War is Peace," Big Brother double-speak in
George Orwell's 1984)
__ Please use the word "occupation" instead of "war." It has been said
that if we had used the word "occupation" instead of "war" after 2003,
we'd be out by now. Many Americans feel the need to endure a war until
it is "won," but they will not support an occupation. Any conflict of
any kind can be called a "war," and it only has one syllable. But, if
we really want to motivate Americans to pull out our troops, we should
call it an "occupation."
Daniel Stone
======================================================
BTW I bought my ticket on the telephone for $5 this morning (Monday).
--HW

[David Kaye]

I'm glad that the Commonwealth Club is broadcasting more political
leaders than Web barons these days. How many Sergie Brins can we
tolerate after all?

[Hal Womack 3-dan]

Full house of ~80. The resolution

The Motion for April 1st will Be :
"This House would tie US Aid to Israel to progress in the Peace
Process"

passed by a substantial margin both before and after the debate.

Discussion was lively and when the meeting was adjourned according to
schedule, many questioners were left still standing in the line for
the mike. How long will it take for MC's around the world to catch on
the Usenet angle?

Alison Weir was rock steady and sharp as the hound's tooth. On the
whole, a good show.

The Commonwealth Club emphasized that they were taping the program.
Will they broadcast it?

========================================================

Post by David Kaye
I'm glad that the Commonwealth Club is broadcasting more political
leaders than Web barons these days. How many Sergie Brins can we
tolerate after all?

[Tom]

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
Full house of ~80. The resolution
"This House would tie US Aid to Israel to progress in the Peace
Process"
passed by a substantial margin both before and after the debate.
Discussion was lively and when the meeting was adjourned according to
schedule, many questioners were left still standing in the line for
the mike. How long will it take for MC's around the world to catch on
the Usenet angle?
Alison Weir was rock steady and sharp as the hound's tooth. On the
whole, a good show.
The Commonwealth Club emphasized that they were taping the program.
Will they broadcast it?

That's why they tape it, so stations can broadcast it at some ungodly
hour. I know we used to play it back on KLIV way back in the MOYL
days.
Or was it on KARA?

[David Kaye]

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
The Commonwealth Club emphasized that they were taping the program.
Will they broadcast it?

Probably. They offer more programs than just the weekly one that is
distributed far and wide. KALW runs some that are not on the national
schedule, for instance.

[Jo Ann Malina]

Post by David Kaye

Post by Hal Womack 3-dan
The Commonwealth Club emphasized that they were taping the program.
Will they broadcast it?

Probably. They offer more programs than just the weekly one that is
distributed far and wide. KALW runs some that are not on the national
schedule, for instance.

You can listen to them online. There are also podcasts.
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive
I'm listening to one now on the dangers of being bathed in microwave
radiation, such as wi-fi (and cell phone signals, right?)

Roger Mudd will be talking about the news business on April 8 in San
Francisco. I look forward to hearing that one.