Getting up early all week with Java the Pup finally caught up with Sharon tonight, so we welcome to the P.I.D. microphones a special guest co-host: Nicole Gilbert, who stepped in and demonstrated a maturity beyond her years.
We discussed some of the hot topics of the day and gained some insight on the way American teens view the world. (And Derek learned that "bogus" is not a word currently in use by people under the age of about 35.)
Show topics:
• Dubai pulls out of ports deal
• Students create plant that glows when thirsty
• Police State USA and Big Brother's Most Cool Tool

We continue through our First Anniversary Podcast and Pitch-In Supper Week–and still no casseroles.
But at least the bunker's gas service has been restored, and we didn't even have to suffer through weeks of ear-splitting rock music blaring from speakers behind a police barricade while black helicopters hover overhead. So we've got that going for us.
Show topics:

Trial opens in Susan Polk murder case
Murder charge dropped against mother of nine dead babies
18 bodies found in Baghdad bus
UN expert: Israeli settlers harassing Palestinians
Democrats data mining
AG Gonzales defends Gitmo, questions Geneva Convention
John Stadtmiller's interview of Karl Schwarz and Dr. Doug Rokke on depleted uranium

Things are getting very interesting in the Middle East, so it's fitting that our interview tonight features Israel-based author and investigative journalist Barry Chamish. It was a discussion we plan to continue in the near future; Barry is recovering from a mild stroke, and we thank him for his brief overview of the situation in Israel, Iraq, and Iran.
Show topics:
• Barry Chamish's website
• Barry Chamish's articles
• The Pipeline to War: Daniel Pipes and the Cartoon Intifada
• Dubai ports deal is nothing compared to Ptech
• Michael Chertoff and the sabotage of the Ptech investigation by Jeff Wells
• Ptech Raid/Investigation archive
• Iraq's ‘Hutu Radio': Who's trying to stir up a civil war?
• The time-warp family that walks on all fours (yeah, right)

It was one year ago that we began this program with the idea of helping to publicize the message we're putting into our books. We quickly realized that the podcast was a better way–or at least a more timely way–of getting the message out. We've also learned a lot from the people we've interviewed over the last year, and we hope you have, too.
To business:
• Wackenhut guards say Homeland Security HQ insecure
• Port security: Russian arms dealer funnels guns, drugs through UAE
• Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and WWII port security
• AC-130 flying gunships return to Iraq
• Iranian nuclear bombshell?
• Israeli special forces reported inside Iran
• ‘Blackstar' orbital plane shelved at Area 51
• Indian cult kills children for goddess

It was a beautiful Friday here at the bunker, interrupted only by the unexpected appearance of a man from our local gas company. He announced that a leak had been discovered outside and that a work crew would be out within a couple of days.

An hour later, a truck pulled up and two men with detection equipment began searching for the leak. All well and good–except that one of the men was smoking a cigarette.

We're still here, and the leaky gas pipe–it's not a big leak, we're told–will be fixed by early next week.

On to the show: We offer a brief tribute to two of our favorite actors, Darren McGavin and Don Knotts. Both men passed away this week, and the world is poorer for their passing but blessed by the body of the work they leave behind.
In other news:

• The Busby Report: Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?
We recommend downloading this PDF file and reading the report
• Paying off credit card brings Homeland Security investigation
• CENTCOM blogger team fights info war on terror
• Madonna eyes Israel house to await Messiah

We conclude our three-part interview with Karl W. B. Schwarz, president and CEO of Patmos Nanotechnologies, about the scourge of depleted uranium.
Show topics:
• Karl Schwarz's website
• "Have DU, Will Travel": Bush's Hometown Paper Devotes Entire Issue to Depleted Uranium
• U.S. signs $38 million deal for depleted uranium tank shells
• NE Intelligence Network: October OU Bombing was a “Failed Terrorist Attackâ€
• Bill Clinton advises Dubai as Hillary attacks US ports deal
• Second Dubai Company Comes under Scrutiny
• Billions in Army contracts for Sen. Feinstein's husband
• Baghdad morgue pressed to stay quiet as violence continues
• Stealth sharks to patrol the high seas

Part two of our three-part interview with Karl W. B. Schwarz, president and CEO of Patmos Nanotechnologies, about the threat posed by radiation from depleted uranium munitions that have been used extensively in the Balkans and the Middle East since 1991.

Show topics:

• Karl Schwarz's website
• "Have DU, Will Travel": Bush's Hometown Paper Devotes Entire Issue to Depleted Uranium
• 1/3 of returning soldiers seek mental health care
• Magnitude 3.4 quake in SF Bay
• Expansion of FBI DNA database debated
• Falwell denies report that he believes Jews don't need Jesus

Tonight, we begin the first of a three-part interview with Karl W. B. Schwarz, president and CEO of Patmos Nanotechnologies, about a new report that shows that the threat of radiation posed by depleted uranium munitions is not limited to those parts of the world in which they've been used. There is good reason to believe that radioactive dust from the Battle of Baghdad in 2003 was detected in England, nearly 3,000 miles away!
Show topics:
* Karl Schwarz's website
* The Busby Report: Did the use of Uranium weapons in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe? (PDF document — please download and read)
* 68 killed in Baghdad
* Dubai funds Neil Bush's company
* British-based company buys New York power company

We kick off the last week of February by connecting some dots with our all-seeing eye of all-seeingness:

20% of the people on the neighboring island of Reunion are sick with this crippling fever
Crippling fever reported in France — Mauritius and Reunion are popular vacation spots for the French
Halliburton tried to hide evidence of radiation spike in U.K.
Surprise: Halliburton took over radiation monitoring just about the time we dropped thousands of DU rounds on Baghdad
Turkey’s PM says attacks on Shiite holy places are provocation
Is this Erdogan’s way of saying he knows that this fight is a setup?Ancient sun temple discovered in Cairo
Big Brother Lives: Total Information Awareness survives in spite of Congress
Just LOOK at that logo! Someone at DARPA was poking fun at us conspiracy theorists
Southern Malaysia state bans hunt for Bigfoot–by foreigners
Aw, nuts–there goes our shot at getting on Coast to Coast

All over the world, people are taking up arms against one another. Here in the U.S., we’re still fuming about the president’s insistence that operations at 21 U.S. ports (that’s 21, not the six they told us) would be turned over to an Arab-owned firm.
Something out there is enjoying all of this.
Show topics:

21 U.S. ports identified in DPW transfer
Weeks before ports deal, UAE gave $100M for Katrina
Is DPW on a Du-buying spree?
Why the mosque at Samarra is important
Nigeria: 130 Christians killed over cartoons of Mohammed
Christians retaliate: Muslims hacked to death and burned