Late Night with Mr. X & Just Julie has been posted for May 28, 2005.

Late Night with Mr. X has been posted for May 28, 2005! Another "Firecast" with Mr. X & Just Julie, which makes this number 3. In this installment, we talk about our photo shoot tomorrow for the local newspaper's article on Podcasting, Julie complaining that nobody interviewed *her* directly, using Doritos as a fire accelerant, and Mr. X & Just Julie smoke and then try to review a fine Cuban cigar (with a special appearance by...George Burns...?)

Interviews with Cindy and Baku from the Halliburton Protests, as well as interview with Nobody from 1919hemphill (1919hemphill.org) on youth activism and organizing.

Interviews with Cindy and Baku from the Halliburton Protests, as well as interview with Nobody from 1919hemphill (1919hemphill.org) on youth activism and organizing.

A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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In this week's program: Controversy over the leadership at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its crusade to make PBS and NPR look and sound more like Fox News is heating up on Capitol Hill, while conservative pundits go apoplectic over Bill Moyers' perspective on the problem.

UK (can be played right before the previous one)

What is the UK government doing in relation to these companies?

Corporations

Who benefit from these policies?

Is drilling and mining the only way of development?

Friends of the Earth underlines that aid is not the most important thing to help these countries.

There needs to be another model of development, different from the world bank and the international monetary fund, and that being in favour of life means to be against the model of the financial institutions.