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This Day in Hell: Monday, May 12th

Saturday, May 17th This is Hell! airs a live completely unedited and uninterrupted broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago. We're also streaming online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

this weekend, we go back to Iraq with Dahr Jamail.

Independent of "Independent Media," alternative to "Alternative Media," This is Hell.


The Headlines from Hell have been relaunched as the Nine Circles of Hell ... with our apologies to Dante. Each day, we'll offer you nine of the most hellish news stories our staff could find.

Listeners, please send news stories that you believe best fit into this funnel of media hell by clicking here. You can also email comments you have on any specific story and we'll be more than happy to post them at the site. The Nine Circles of Hell are currently updated through Friday, May 9th.

This is Hell. We're not here to create disorder, we're here to preserve disorder.


THIS WEEK'S QUESTION FROM HELL! FOR OUR LISTENERS:

We've talked with countless critics of America's new and easily hack-able computer election systems. Guests have told us how US courts are upholding laws that create obstacles to vote. We've become fully aware of the monied interests vast power in both of the major political parties. We've learned from past interviews about the vicious, malicious, pernicious and incestuous nature of the Beltway. Hell, there hasn't been a National Security Advisor who hasn't worked for, or worked for someone who worked for, Henry Kissinger since he held the post back in the Nixon administration!

So tell us, WHY VOTE?

Email your response by 10 AM (US central), Saturday, May 17th and we'll read at least a portion on the air.

Email your response by clicking here.


One of last Saturday's guests, John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," and the new paperback edition of, "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption." is making a couple Chicago area appearances.
Next Thursday, May 15th, he'll be at the Borders in Oak Park, 1144 Lake Street, for a talk and booksigning.
And Friday through Sunday, May 16th to 18th, it's the 2008 Green Festival at Navy Pier. John will be giving a talk on Saturday at 2 PM called, “Geo-Politics, the Future, and You: A Call to Action”


Saturday, June 7th, This is Hell! celebrates it's 10th anniversary by airing an all-listener request show. Every guest on our 10th anniversary show will be guests that were requested by our listeners.

We know, we know. The all-request show has now been rescheduled twice. However, due to sports programming which will likely abbreviate our broadcasts through May, and our desire to have the listener request show be a full four hours, it has had to be rescheduled again.

And what better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of This is Hell! by doing an all-request show?

Send your request and why you want that guest to be interviewed on This is Hell! by clicking here.

If you've sent a request for a certain guest to be interviewed on This is Hell!, there's no need to re-send your suggestion.


Nicholas Hale and his 'Fool Britannia' segment, which are featured on This is Hell!, have gone digital. You can now read Nicholas's writing by going to http://foolbrit.blog.co.uk/. Nicholas will be back on our show, live from Bristol, England, on May 10th.

And irregular correspondent Mike Dvorak is currently sailing from Portland, Oregon to Santa Cruz, California on a sailboat completely powered by renewable/sustainable energy including recycled plastic bottle sails and a biodiesel fuel engine. The trip is called the "2041, Voyage for Cleaner Energy" and the trip is being run by Robert Swan who was the first man to ever step foot on both the North and South Pole. Robert is now promoting renewable energy by traveling to the five largest carbon emitters in the world, starting in the US.
To find out more about the 2041 mission, visit http://2041.com/.
For trip details, visit http://2041.com/the-voyage.


Great tits cope well with warming


The official This is Hell listening center is located in Cary's Lounge, 2251 West Devon, in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood (also known as West Ridge and Chai Town).
We will not be at Cary's following this Saturday's, April 26th, show.
Saturday, May 31st, we return
to Cary's! Hang out with your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz and producer Drew Colglazier after the show from 3 PM till 8 PM.

Yeah, we know it's a long time. But with so many upcoming shows abbreviated due to special programming, we're taking a few weeks off from post-show drunkenness.


Podcasters our last show is streaming right now. Listen by clicking here. And if you want to listen in regular MP3, just click here.

On our last podcast, David Rothkopf introduced us to the 'Superclass'; Janet Redman explained carbon credits; and John Perkins talked about the 'secret history of the United States.'

Feel free to peruse our vast vault of past Hell podcasts by clicking on Archives.

The devolution will not be televised, it will be podcast every Saturday right after the show.


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Saturday's Hell, May 17th, 2008

This is Hell broadcasts live this Saturday beginning at 9 AM (US central). You can also hear us live online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

This weekend, our guests include:

And our irregular correspondents will be:

  • Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth from Chicago's south side.

Go ahead and email us any comments on our show, suggestions for future guests, events you'd like us to post, or news stories you'd like to share with our listeners, by clicking here.

To hear past shows, including last week's, go to our Archives.


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Today's Nine
Circles of Hell!

Go directly to each story below by clicking on the each Headline below or click on Today's Nine Circles of Hell!:

Cops go back to college

Rumors of immigration agents nearby send Oakland neighborhood into panic

Acquittal of cop may lead New York City to reform

The world's going to hell and it's time to make some big decisions

New US trafficking legislation redefines sex workers as victims rather than criminals

America's best, brightest and non-deployable all fighting in Iraq

Colombian describes life in President Uribe's intimidation nation

The fight over Pemex, Mexico's state-run oil company, is gonna get ugly

Bush administration, Pentagon cool with rocket fuel in drinking water


Moment of Truth


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