Radio Democracy Playlist 01/10/08

On today's show we spoke with peace activist Gareth Smith about the development of hypersonic technology at the University of Queensland. Hypersonics is a super-supersonic model of engine design which I think may be beyond the layperson's comprehension.

The good news: potential Sydney to London flying time of two hours;
The bad: a US$74 million dollar investment from the US Air Force, who Smith says are developing Hypersonics for new bombers named Falcon and Blackswift.

I can't personally substantiate this, but given the military's leading role in the development of technology, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable.

We also discussed the upcoming Land Warfare Conference, taking place in Brisbane and the Asia Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition in Adelaide, which was cancelled for fear of "feral anarchist" protestors.

We heard the responses of the big 3 environmental NGOs to the final Garnaut Report – see the blog post above.

Finally, Associate Professor Dick Bryan from the University of Sydney joined Radio Democracy to discuss the financial meltdown we are currently experiencing. We discussed the bailout, what alternatives there may be, and how we arrived to this point.

Check out the audio here – radio4all.net.

Música

The Drones – Minotaur (from their outstanding new album Havilah out on All Tomorrow's Parties)
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley – We're Gonna Make It
Talking Heads – Burning Down the House
Easy Dub All-stars – Money
GOD – My Pal