WCOM 103.5 FM: Listener supported, volunteer powered community radio.
Facilitating the exchange of ideas and music with particular regard for those who are overlooked or under-represented by other media outlets. Providing a space for media access and education to our community.
The Furious George Show brings noteworthy anti-war, environmental, and social justice news from around the world, and provides some of the best underground hip-hop and old school beats to help kick off the shackles. The Furious George Show brings an electronic mix of beats, news clips, and zany sounds that will keep you moving.
Andrew "Furious" George has been a microradio broadcaster since 1998-- before LPFM was legally established by FCC rulemaking in 2001. 2008 marks a decade of furious broadcasting, which began with the creation of Free Radio Asheville and the Southeastern Association of Microbroadcasters in Asheville, NC. WCOM has been the most recent home for the Furious George show since Carrboro-Chapel Hill LPFM microradio kicked off in 2004.
Furious George's radio show can be found on WCOM Chapel Hill-Carrboro LPFM at www.communityradio.coop, and also on Free Radio Santa Cruz at freakradio.org.
FRACK YOU! You Fracking Frackers!!! HERE is the show spotlighting the egregious arrest of a journalist (Josh Fox) as he attempted to record a U.S. House Hearing of the Subcommittee On Energy, where Republikans threw out first-amendment rights in order to hide facts about illNatural Gas Drilling and FRACKING. Plus new music from Modeselector, Dailon, crazy lukid, bullion, monster house mix, and the new brainfeeder mix.
You may have missed it, but 90% of new power plants in the US burn natural gas (equals 1/3 world’s natural gas production), but we only have 2% of worlds natural gas deposits. And, the process of getting this gas, through injecting chemicals into the earth to push the gas out-- FRACKING -- sounds like a crazy conspiracy -- too extreme to be true. Flaming tap water, dead animals, secret chemical formulas, mysterious illnesses afflicting whole communities, and people afraid to speak up. Essentially: Drillers inject vast quantities of water, sand and chemicals underground so that oil and natural gas will flow. The technique has been around for decades, but there are now new large discoveries near the Marcellus Shale, a rock bed the size of Greece that lies about 6,000 feet beneath New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Fracking also is used in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and other states-- including potentially NORTH CAROLINA.Chemicals used in the drilling process includ benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene.high levels of chloride, calcium and sodium. Speaking of Death and poison, Halliburton, which came under fire for its role in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, was busted dumping·32.2 million gallons from 2005-2009àfluids containing diesel fuel underground without first getting government approval.Halliburton and BJ Services Co., violated the Safe Drinking Water Act by failing to obtain permission from state or federal authorities to use the diesel fuel.Gas companies don't have to tell residents, state agencies—or even hospitals—what chemicals they use at drilling sites because hydraulic fracturing is specifically exempted from the Safe Drinking Water Act through a provision nicknamed “the Halliburton Loophole.” You can thank Dickhead Cheney -- a onetime Halliburton CEO,-- for his illegal Energy Task Force. The 2005 energy law prevents the EPA from regulating fracking. The exemption is commonly called the "Halliburton loophole," in reference to the company's pioneering role in fracking. A 2005 law exempted all chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing except diesel fuel from federal regulations aimed at protecting drinking water. In 2003, three of the largest drilling companies signed an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency to eliminate use of diesel fuel in coal bed methane formations in underground sources of drinking water. That agreement, coupled with the 2005 law, led many to assume the industry had stopped using diesel fuel altogether in hydraulic fracturing, the lawmakers wrote in a letter to EPA. Halliburton was the only one of nine major energy companies that refused the EPA's request.
Even if you replaced all the coal-fired power plants with gas-fired power, we would only could cut carbon emissions by 30 percent.. This will not solve climate problem, and potentially make things worse. Advocates for natural gas routinely assert that it produces 50 percent less greenhouse gases than coal and is a significant step toward a greener energy future. But those assumptions are based on emissions from the tailpipe or smokestack and don’t account for the methane and other pollution emitted when gas is extracted and piped to power plants and other customers.
Conservation is the only real solution. Add solar and wind, and we just may save ourselves. Unfortunately, 92% of all energy production takes us backwards. Let's hope it won't take the Greenland Ice-sheet melting before we figure it out.
Furious Outrage Against PIPA/SOPA Censorship HERE is the show spotlighting the fight against internet censorship and big corporate media's SOPA/PIPA bills in congress, with clips from DemNow, TED, Mark Foire, Daily Show, and more... brought to you through a series of tubes. Music from FlyLow, Boards of Canada, FlyAmSam, Lukid, Bboys, and more. Guest DJ: Skebby-1 Kanobi (a.k.a. Scurious George; a.k.a. Skee George)
Furious First Week of the Presidential Puppet Show HERE is the show rocking in the new year with Distract-o-tron, Journeys into the mind of a wall st banker, DJ The Homeostasis, killer turkey returns, and more. New and old, including plenty of das rascist, tribe called quest, beastie boys, gasslamp killler, lorn, low end 7, and more. Old School homeostasis in the house.
Furious Best of 2011 Finale HERE is the show wrapping up the year with a sample of all the great underground hip hop, bass-head beats, and wacked-out sounds from 2011. Lupe Fiasco, Asher Roth, MonoPoly, Gaslamp Killer, Mary Anne Hobbes, Beastie Boys, Lukid, and more. Clips from FunnyOrDie, Revenge of the Turkey, Rev. Billy, Bleak Friday, and more.
Furious Climate Occupations HERE is the show covering the climate justice protests going down in S. Africa at the COP 17, including clips about Abigail Borah interrupting the U.S. delegate, Occupy Cop 17, Greenpeace, Occupations at DC, and Gov. Rick Perry bareback's Santa. New Music from Teeb's Collections, Lukid's Foma, Low Limit, Modeselecktor, and more.
Scientists say we have about 5 years before we reach the tipping point: irreversible, intensifying climate-related extreme weather patterns. Btw: 2011 = recording breaking number of $billion weather catastrophes, (more than all of the 1980's COMBINED.) And, let's not forget 2010 = THE hottest year on-record, ever. Hottest Ever. And, this is just the tip of the melting ice-burg: when the heat cranks up to records set in 2010, climate scientists believe the outer-shelves of the Greenland ice-shield could crack at any time, bringing a 2 meter (6ft) rise worldwide. yeah... NYC, SFO, Miami, etc. etc. And, today, the UN negotiations are flailing predictably, under corporate influence and inept gov puppets.
This week 12-years ago, we shut down the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, WA... had the whole thing shut down, and the meetings collapsed 4 days later. Today, Occupatistas are doing the same at different scales (three months long vs. 1 wk, etc.). Some are new players, with climate denialists joined COINTELPRO. The movement didn't go anywhere since the globalization protests and the wild-old environmental campaign days; the world has simply got more f*cked, and more people have come to the movement. One day, everyone will be an environmentalists. Or, die denying it.
Life seems so fearfully dire and inspiring at the same time. Occupy Global Justice. Occupy Ecology. I'm Furious!
