Radioactivity with Rob Lorei Listen Here: Select 10/23/19 from the drop down menu Radioactivity: Interviews & Live Call-In Intro: Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Later in the program we’ll meet a Kurdish American now living in South Florida who will give us his perspective on the decision by the US to pull… Read more »
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Radioactivity Friday 10 20 17 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up— Can scientists develop a method to reduce the destructive power of hurricanes? After the hurricanes causing the deaths of hundreds and devastating property in Texas, Puerto Rico, The Virgin Islands, St. Maartens and Florida– We’ll talk with an award winning… Read more »
Two Vietnam Veterans Discuss Ken Burns’ New PBS Film The War in Vietnam
Radioactivity September 19 2017 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity I’m Rob Lorei. This past Sunday night PBS began carrying the latest documentary series from film-maker Ken Burns called The War in Vietnam. The film begins with a search for the causes of the war—going all the way back to the French colonization of Vietnam in… Read more »
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Women’s Show 8/10 – Medea Benjamin, Ms. Ray Acheson, & Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom
Fire and Fury…….the hour of reckoning is at hand……. All this is happening on the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. “When will they learn? When will they ever learn?” (Pete Seeger) Flowers don’t make it to the graveyards any more, they are already being burned to ash by climate… Read more »
A Tampa Filmmaker’s Trip to Mongolia Leads to a Film about Domestic Violence
Last Saturday a new film about domestic violence called “The Circus Saved My Life” was shown at the Tampa Theater. The film is by Stewart Lippe who, in addition to being a film maker, is also a circus performer. Lippe says he had no intention to do a film about the topic but as he… Read more »
Colombian Peace Activist Discusses End of 53 Year-Long Civil War
Camilo Romero discusses Colombia’s civil war and peace deal A peace process is beginning in Colombia that is designed to end a civil war in that South American country that’s been going on since 1964. Camilo Romero is a Colombian citizen who has spent time in both the U.S. and Colombia. He graduated from New… Read more »
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Greg Palast Has the Scoop on the President’s Election Integrity Commission
Human rights workers arrested for investigating labor conditions in Ivanka Trump’s factories Three labor rights investigators were arrested in China in May while they were looking into working conditions at factories that make shoes for Ivanka trump — the president’s daughter. After a month in custody they have been released, but now they face trial… Read more »
Small scale monumental concepts: Eduardo Chillida at the Dali Museum
Honey we shrunk the monolith. That could be an alternative title to the new exhibit at the Dali Museum in Saint Petersburg. The Spanish sculptor, Eduardo Chillida, is showcased in the museum’s first sculpture display in its new building. Chillida is best known for his monumental pieces set in public spaces. But, the showing, Memory,… Read more »
Professor William Orman Beeman Discusses U.S.-Iran Relations on Radioactivity Friday
The Trump Administration’s tough talk on Iran: Is it true? This week, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States will conduct a “comprehensive review” of its policy toward Iran, warning that leaving the country “unchecked” could increase threats around the world. Tillerson told Congress late Tuesday that the White House will consider… Read more »
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FBI Agent and Author Joe Navarro on Radioactivity Wednesday
FBI agent recounts the spy ring that went from West Germany to Tampa Host Rob Lorei interviewed Joe Navarro, a veteran FBI special agent who was able to uncover one of the smartest spies of the Cold War era — a spy with a photographic memory, an Army veteran who spent time here in Tampa,… Read more »
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Columnist Scott Maxwell on Radioactivity Friday
Columnist Scott Maxwell on the investigation into Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi A southwest Florida prosecutor assigned by the governor to investigate a bribery complaint against President Donald Trump and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has found insufficient evidence to move forward. Fort Myers-area State Attorney Stephen Russell presented Gov. Rick Scott last week with… Read more »
Visiting Students from Sweden on Radioactivity Tuesday
Students visiting from Sweden give international perspectives on the United States For the past few years, WMNF has hosted groups of Swedish high school students who have traveled by ship across the Atlantic to Florida. They’ve come from Gothenburg, on Sweden’s southwest coast — just south of Oslo, Norway and just north of Denmark. Host… Read more »
USF panel examines foreign policy in Trump era
Depending on which foreign policy expert you ask, President Trump is either carrying out essentially a continuation of decades of U.S. policy overseas or he represents a new and dangerous wildcard; both points of view were represented by panelists Thursday in a conference at the University of South Florida in Tampa on “The Trump administration and… Read more »
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Sadhguru’s Inner Engineering on Radioactivity Thursday
Local Practitioners Discuss Yogi Sadhguru’s Inner Engineering Program Yoga has taken off in the U.S. since the 1960s. In a few days, internationally known yogi Sadhguru, who has reached over 100 million people worldwide through his yoga and meditation practices, will teach his ‘Inner Engineering’ program in Tampa April 29-30 at the Tampa Convention Center…. Read more »
