PLANET ERSTWILD (Fri 2pm-5pm CST) host James Moore offers yet another program highlighting a coterie of lit souls. Rebroadcast Monday, March 8 at 1am.

Choreographer/dancer/writer Emma Rainey talks about her nouveau cabaret dance performance evening coming up Fri & Sat March 12 & 13 at 8pm in celebration of spring at the new Cafe Paradiso. Called Cirque D'Amour, it features diva chanteuse Adrien Daller & others recreating Paris and more.

John Buckman is the founder of Berkeley, California-based recording label Magnatune, a pioneer in digital downloading, application of Creative Commons copyrights, and artist-friendly business practices, sometimes referred to as "fair trade music."

An accomplished software programmer, Buckman is thought to be the first to use the term open music, an expression derived from the open source software community, in which he has been active. It refers to music that is shareable, available in "source code" form (individual tracks), permits certain forms of derivative works (i.e. remixes), and is made available at no cost for non-commercial use. Since founding Magnatune, Buckman has signed more than 250 recording artists across multiple genres. Buckman also chairs the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization, and has been profiled by Forbes, Inc. Magazine, and The Economist.[wikipedia]

Investigative jourmalist Murray Waas reports that Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a still-highly confidential FBI report, admitted to federal investigators that he rewrote press talking points in July 2003 which made it much more likely the role of then-covert CIA-officer Valerie Plame might be revealed.

Cheney conceded during his interview with federal investigators that in drawing attention to Plame’s role in arranging her husband’s [former ambassador Joe Wilson] Africa trip reporters might also unmask her role as CIA officer but denied he had done anything on purpose that would lead to the outing of Plame as a covert CIA operative. [Click on Plame's pic for full story.]

Planet Erstwild host James Moore discusses these revelations and implications, and

Tune into Planet Erstwild Fri 16 Nov @ 2pm

Take a trip down some very interesting alleys

Neil Young, David Bowie and much more . . .

[rebroadcast from 5 Jan 2007]

Today on Planet Erstwild, James will feature a talk given just last night at MIT by Joseph Cirincione, compliments of David Goodman of the Independent Broadcast Information Service. Cirincione describes why some nations have nukes and others do not and what can be done to impede or stop proliferation.

Following the talk, James will be joined by BBC filmmaker Stuart Tanner to discuss the issues raised and other current events.

Joseph Cirincione is Senior Vice President for National Security and International Policy. Prior to joining the Center for American Progress in May 2006, he served as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years.

He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007), Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats (Second Edition, 2005), and co-author of Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (March 2005). He teaches at the graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.