12/9/11 -- Sound of Erin. Irish and Celtic Music

12/20/11 - School Committee meeting in Belmont, MA.

12/19/11 - Belmont Municipal Light Dept. and Board of Selectmen meeting in Belmont, MA.

Democracy Now! 2011-12-21 Wednesday

• Headlines for December 21, 2011
• Bradley Manning's Defense Strategy on Display as Military Prosecutors Rest Case in Pretrial Hearing
• Iraq Combat Veteran Dan Choi Forcibly Ousted, Barred from Bradley Manning Hearing at Ft. Meade
• In Exiting Iraq, U.S. Military Discards Trove of Found Documents on 2005 Haditha Massacre of Iraqis
• With Pre-Caucus Focus on GOP Race, Occupy Movement Steps Up Activism in Iowa

Celebrating the Winter Solstice, Billie and guests discuss memories and feelings about the dark.

Cast: Billie Bivins

Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Emery N. Brown, M.D., PhD, Harvard Medical School and MIT Cognitive Neuroscience: Dr. Brown, a leading researcher in anesthesiology whose work has received considerable publicity lately, discusses the differences between types of unconsciousness and what these distinctions reveal about the structure of the brain.

Democracy Now! 2011-12-19 Monday

• Headlines for December 19, 2011
• Bradley Manning Hearing: Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower in Military Court, 19 Months After Arrest
• Adrian Lamo, Bradley Manning Informant, Defends Role in Turning in Alleged WikiLeaks Whistleblower
• Bradley Manning Faces Life Sentence, While Criminals WikiLeaks Exposed Have Suffered No Consequences - Glenn Greenwald
• Obama Prepares to Authorize Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens For First Time Since McCarthy Era - Glenn Greenwald on NDAA