6mins, 1.4 MB

*Death of the PLANTEM, aka Chicken George, aka John Taylor*

Merry Xmas to all the listeners of NimFM podcasts!!!!!!!!!!  Your support of this tiny little radio station makes us keep on keeping on. Be prepared for some big changes in the new year.

A continuation of the previous hour, Jack and I wax lyrical on many things including fearless mice and glowing cats... naturally land rights and morality rear their heads again. Enjoy dear listener.

Sorry for the gap in podcasts folks... hopefully they'll be more or less regular like a good set of bowels. As to what's contained within this podcast; that's a bit like trying to remember what I had for breakfast last Tuesday... but what I can say is that it contains Bo Kaan's new single "9/11" in its entirety. Jack & I hope you enjoy the various meanderings our minds took on that particular Friday morning. Now that I'm editing our own poscasts I'll pay a bit more attention to what we're saying... promise.
Bob

9m30s,  2.2MB

*Stony Chute rd. finally tarred*...............................*New Mardi-Grass poster out now*.................................*Happy Birthday to Red & Hedda.*

8mins, 1.8MB

****NATIONAL SCOOP. Nimbin protestors confirm asbestos dumped at Timbarra Gold Mine. NATIONAL SCOOP*** ..........................................*Tomorrow Stony Chute rd to be completely sealed* + *2 new bridges for Nimbin rd.* ..................................*NimFM's Adrienne Watt plans a doco on people's 'Centrelink' experience*

6 mins, 1.4MB

*Phil sells FUN-FRUITS to Wayne & Janine*.............................*Koa's bush tucker film premieres in Nimbin tonite*

10mins, 2.2MB

*Carols by Candlelight tomorrow with Val Mace*............................*Free Film Festival was a goer*..............................*Seed Parade tomorrow*.........................*Enviro Centre testing asbestos @ Timbarra Gold Mine*

11mins, 2.5MB

*Robbery at the Rainbow Cafe* ..............................*Peacenik Benny Zable gets robbed on train*...................................*SAS soldier visits Nimbin* ................................*Free Film Festival tonite*.............................*Disabled NimFM DJ, Joel, wins award.*

1.6MB 7mins

*Enviro Centre plans to protest against reopening of Timbarra Gold Mine*......................................*preparations for Seed Parade* ............................* Tech problems at NimFM*

(sorry posting so late; it's due to tech problems at station)

8mins, 2MB

*Men's 'Shed' van found.* .....................*New eatery 'Spangled Drongo' report*

the firey first show after jen returns from America full of herself and proud of her international fame, things get off to a bad start as she attempts to sit in Mark's chair and press buttons on the panel.

16.5 mb mono 32 kbps 90 min
Mark & Jen are back in the saddle for the usual round of verbal abuse contempt, and general swipes at local political correctors and fascism.

12.2 Mb 128kbps mono 14mins

Lisa McDonald of the AVSN  -  the Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network. Lisa talks about the details of the constitutional reforms proposed for the narrowly lost plebiscite for Venezuela's constitutional reform last week.

10.1Mb. 96kbps mono 14:50 minutes; Skype phone interview from Venezuela, Friday December 7 2007.
Fred Fuentes is in Venezuela for the long haul and sends regular reports back to Australia, as well as assisting in setting up brigades from Australia to see conditions in Venezuela on the ground. Fred was in the thick of the huge plebiscite that took place in Venezuela last week, for constitutional reforms designed to institutionalise the sweeping changes the Chavez government is implementing. The plebiscite was narrowly lost, after a ruthless campaign of sabotage and destabilisation by the Venezuelan business class and the CIA, which invested US$8million into the process. Fred gives us an informed and considered assessment of the plebiscite. We get a good analysis of why it did not succeed, what the result means to Venezuela, and most importantly,why the narrow loss was a Pyhrric victory for the Venezuelan right wing opposition.

11.7 Mb. 128kbps mono 12:47 mins

Nelson D'Avila, the Venezuelan Charge d'Affaires to Australia and Oceania addresses the Greenleft Weekly dinner in November descibing Venezuela's leadership role in resisting US pressures to eliminate socialism on the planet.

14Mb. 14:39 mins mono 128kbps.

Glebe Coroner's Court handed down a finding last month that the 5 journalists killed at Balibo in Timor Leste in 1975 were murdered by an invading Indonesian force which both the Australian and Indonesian governments at the time were denying  was in progress, or even planned. The Coroner recommended that there should be further investigation to establish whether this act constituted a war crime.

Jim Dunn, who was the Australian Consul about that time, and who has since been active in the United Nations and Human Rights bodies to claim justice for the East Timorese people talks about the significance of this finding, and what it means for the Timorese, the Australian and Indonesian governments, and the families of the murdered newsmen.