Archived Shows - September 2005
Friday, September 30, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Immigrants rights activists call for a boycott against Greyhound Buses
for their dangerous, extra-legal collaboration with Homeland Security; also, the Presbyterian Church USA speaks out about border violence; the fight to name the Berkeley Post Office after legendary civil rights activist Maudelle Shirek; comic-activist Randy Credico, featured in the new film 60 Spins Around the Sun; headlines from the region; and Flashpoints en Espanol also hones in on the Greyhound strike.
01:00 Introduction. Regional Headlines Imm
igrant Rights: Boycott GreyhoundDennis, Miguel Guerrero
05:00 Immigrants’ Rights Under Attack
Rick Ufford-Chase, Moderator of General Assembly, Presbyterian Church USA
Juan Jose Gonzales, activist, immigrant rights
24:00 Maudelle Shirek Dishonored in Congress
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-California
Barbara Lubin, Exec. Director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Max Anderson, Berkeley City Councilmember
35:00 Sixty Spins Around the Sun: Randy Credico
Randy Credico, stand-up comedian and civil rights activist
Film playing this Sunday at World Film Festival
42:00 Flashpoints en Espanol
Miguel Guerrero, Juan Jose Gutierrez
Thursday, September 29, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Remembering the bloody 1965 CIA coup forty years ago today in
Indonesia; also, House speaker Tom Delay steps down after being
indicted for interfering in Texas State elections; news headlines from
occupied Palestine as Israel continues its siege against Gaza;
immigrants rights activists call for a boycott of Greyhound Bus because
of their alleged racism against immigrants; and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Tom Delay Indicted: Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen
16:00 40-Year Anniversary of Indonesia’s Massacre: Sylvia Tiwon, UC Berkeley Professor
Read more
about what happened in 1965...
46:00 Palestine News Headlines – Gaza Under
Siege: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine
News Network| Direct Action to Free Haiti!
Tomorrow, Friday 9/30/2005
8:00AM at the San Francisco Federal Building An international day of solidarity for the Haitian people That’s tomorrow at the SF Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate at Larkin starting at 8am. |
| MECA’s
NORMAN FINKELSTEIN EVENT!!! Thursday, October 6th at St. Joseph the Worker Church, 1645 Addison St. in Berkeley, 7:30pm, $20. Go to www.mecaforpeace.org for tickets and info. Also, Flashpoints will be airing an in-depth interview with Norman Finkelstein on Monday. Be sure to stay tuned for that! |
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Israeli occupation forces tightened the screws on Gazan’s, opening fire on civilian neighborhoods with helicopter gun ships and deafening aerial percussion bombs, while arresting over three hundred in sweeps through the West Bank; And A tribunal on Haiti condemns the US sponsored coup there and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report : Lynndie England gets three
years for Abu Ghraib; Tom Delay gets Amnesty calls for an investigation into the FBI murder of a Puerto Rican patriot; International scholars say Iraqi resistance is more patriotic than fanatic, and call for direct talks with al Qaeeda – But George W. Bush sticks to his guns, warning that Iraq is gonna get worse before it gets worse.
08:00 An Update on Haiti
Kevin Pina, Special Flashpoints Correspondent
20:00 Music Break - Resistance - So Anne
21:00 Ben Terrel, Haiti Action Net
Judith Scherr,Independent Journalist
Tom Griffin, Attorney and Investiagtor
Brian Concannon, Human Rights Lawyer
42:00 Israeli Continues Gaza Attacks
Ali Abunima, electronicintifada
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Israeli helicopter gunships and warplanes continue to slam missiles
into the occupied Gaza strip, we’ll speak with Kristen Ess about the
latest from Palestine, with Uda Walker on the connections concerning
the economic strangleholds and the systems of apartheid in Palestine
and between the US and Mexico; plus, pro-independence activist
Filiberto Ojeda Rios assassinated by the FBI in Puerto Rico; a poem by
Suheir Hammad; and the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Israel Continues Gaza Attacks:
Palestinian Economics
via the World Bank, and NAFTA in Mexico – It’s All Related.
Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network
Uda Walker, political education director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
Uda Walker, political education director, Middle East Children’s Alliance
40:00 Music Break
42:00 The Political Assasination of Filiberto Ojeda Rios in Puerto Rico: Deborah Santana, Professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, activist
52:00 Music Break
54:00 Poetry at DC Antiwar Protest: Suheir Hammad, Palestinian-American poet, www.suheirhammad.com
Monday, September 26, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Ariel Sharon orders a continuous attack against Gaza, at least four Palestinians are already dead and many are wounded, including children attacked by a missile fired on their classroom; also, our special correspondent Dahr Jamail reports on the ongoing killing fields of Iraq; plus, in a day of civil disobedience in Washington DC, Cindy Sheehan is arrested outside the White House while others are rounded up after blocking entrances to the Pentagon; we’ll feature speeches from the massive antiwar protests in DC and San Francisco;
and the Knight Report.
06:00 Israeli Air Strikes Against Gaza
Mohammed Ali, FP Correspondent in Gaza City
18:00 Killing Fields of Iraq
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent in DC;
30:00 Music Break
30:00 Protest and Actions in Washington DC
Andrea Buffa, Global Exchange, Frida Berrigan, War Resisters League
38:00 Voices from the DC and SF Protests
Cindy Sheehan, Maxine Waters, Ramsey Clark, Khader Hamadeh
Friday, September 23, 2005
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01:00 Intro, News headlines: DennisBernstein, Miguel Guerrero, Francisco Herrera, Juan Carlos, Akua Holt, KPFT Programmer
20:00 Live Music Break - Francisco Herrera
25:00 More Headlines: Dennis Bernstein and Miguel Guerrero
29:00 Apartheid
Schooling in America:
Jonathan
Kozol, author, The Shame of the Nation:
The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America38:00 Peace Rally Weekend: Richard Becker, International ANSWER (SF) and Miguel Molina
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol: Miguel Guerrero
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September 24, National March in San Francisco Gather
11 a.m. End
Colonial Occupation: Iraq, Palestine, Haiti... Volunteers
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Thursday, September 22, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
Putting the Bush Adnministration on trial for torture, abuse and
multiple violations of the Geneva Conventions; we'll talk with Jennifer
Harbury about her new book Truth, Torture and the American Way,
and her plans this weekend in Washington, DC for holding a mock
tribunal and presenting evidence against the Administration for torture
and high crimes; also we'll have a report from Texas on the
million-plus people fleeing from hurricane Rita; we'll have news
headlines from Palestine; plus, activists prepare to take on the
military recruiting headquarters in Oakland; and the Knight Report.01:30 The Knight Report: President Bush holds a press conference on the hurricane and on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Robert Knight
06:30 The Continuing US Program of Torture: Jennifer Harbury, author, Truth, Torture & The American Way
36:00 Update on Hurricane Rita: Renee Feltz, KPFT News Director
42:30 Week in Review: Palestine Headlines: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.pnn.ps
48:00 Rally In Oakland Against Military Recruiters: Simon Hanukai, performer, People Power Can End the Occupation, www.couragetoresist.org, www.destinyarts.org
53:00 Song: Judith Kate Friedman, musician
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Nationally-noted poet Sharon Olds refuses to break bread with First Lady Laura Bush at the National Book Festival; we replay our recent interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report: Five Iraqis are dead in the aftermath of the British raid in Basra, where local authorities demand an apology, while Iraq's socalled rime minister swears fealty to the UK, which insists it will remain in Iraq; Saddam Hussein defies what his lawyers say is a illegitimate trial set for next month; and we examine the clandestine mandat
e of
Britain's Special Reconnaissance Regiment in Iraq.06:00 Refusing to Break Bread with Laura Bush
Sharon Olds, poet
20:00 Music Break – P to the P – Michael Franti
22:00 George Galloway Speaks on Iraq, Palestine and Bush
George Galloway, British MP, author, Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
British troops make war on their Iraqi allies, killing a number of
US-trained police, we’ll examine why; also, tracking the vigilantes at
the US-Mexico border; a hearing on the latest police shooting of an
innocent youth in BayView-Hunters Point; Books Not Bars calls for an
alternative to incarceration and more support for our youth; an update
on the nationwide antiwar protest scheduled for this weekend; even in
the face of an oncoming hurricane, Cuban doctors still being prevented
from meeting the needs of desperate flood victims in the US; and the
Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Bomb-laying Britons busted and broken out in Basra belie British claims of a kinder and gentler occupation in "sovereign" Iraq
And
Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan is shaken but unarrested in New York's Union Square, where a Green Party activist was arrested for using a loudspeaker to protest police denial of an anti-war rally permit. Robert Knight
06:00 Iraq and the Ongoing Occupation: As’ad Abu-Khalil, professor, CSU Stanislaus; webmaster, angryarab.blogspot.com
20:00 September 24th March and Rally in SF: Richard Becker, International Answer Coalition (SF)
Volunteers & Donations Needed!
Call 415-821-6545
24:00 Music Break - War - Bob Marley
25:00 US Refuses Cuba Aid in Katrina Relief Efforts: Gloria LaRiva, activist
34:00 SFPD Shoots Teenager in the Back: Mesha Irizarri, founder, Idriss Stelley Foundation, writer with SF Bay View Newspaper
41:00 Books Not Bars: Jay Imani, Ella Baker Center and Books Not Bars
51:00 Photographer at the US-Mexico Border: Francisco Dominguez, photographer/artist
Please join Books Not Bars and Van Jones for: “SPIRIT OF FREEDOM: Honoring the Families of Incarcerated Children.” THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22, 7-9 PM First Congregational Church in Oakland, 27th and Harrison For more information or to RSVP, call Monet at 510-428-3939 x 228 or email her at monet@ellabakercenter.org
Monday, September 19, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: A special report on the profound psychological impact of the flood on the poorest people of Louisiana; also, we continue our series of poets in a time of war, with the visionary teaching work of Annie Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report.
Robert Knight
06:00 Report on New Orleans.
Kevin Weston, editor, Youth Outlook,
correspondent for Pacific News Service
18:00 Seeing Annie Sullivan: Poetry
Denise Bergman, poet
Friday, September 16, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: A people’s clinic pops up in the Algiers section of New Orleans, where people have started to rebuild their own community after being abandoned by the Federal government; plus, poetry through the floodwaters with Aurora Levins Morales; how to fight military recruiters from harvesting our kids for Bush’s illegal war; a celebration of 25 years of our sister show La Onda Bajita;and Flashpoints en Español.
01:00 Report from New Orleans’ Common Ground Health Clinic
Scott Weinstein, registered Nurse
09:00 Poetry Through the Floodwaters
Aurora Levins-Morales, FP Poet-on-Assignment
21:00 Stop Military Recruiters from Harvesting Our Kids!
Aimee Allison, Conscientious Objector Counselor, activist
30:00 La Onda Bajita 25th Anniversary Celebration
Miguel Gavilan Molina and Dennis Bernstein
42:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, September 15, 2005
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Today on
Flashpoints:
A free-wheeling interview with British parliamentarian George Galloway
on Iraq, Palestine, the New Orleans flood, Christopher Hitchens and the
criminal Bush administration; a report from the field in Louisiana
about the poor communities that have been abandoned by the Feds; a
roundup of weekly headlines from occupied Palestine; and the Knight
Report.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
05:00 George Galloway: on War, Occupation, Palestine and the Bush Junta. George Galloway, British MP for East London
More about Galloway's book at rense.com
40:00 Dispatch from Aftermath Region: Kevin Weston, Editor-in-Chief, Youth Outlook; contributor to Pacific News Service
52:00 Music Break – When It's Sleeping Time Down South - Louis Armstrong
54:00 News Headlines from Occupied Palestine: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine News Network, www.pnn.ps
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll hear from our Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina, who was released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; over 114 dead in Iraq after a series of car bombs, and many more killed in a US attack on Tal Afar, we’ll speak with Robert Fisk about the latest slaughter; plus, assessing the environmental catastrophe in New Orleans; as the state of Texas plans to murder another black woman at midnight tonight, activists are mobilized to save the life of Frances Newton; and Laila el-Haddad talks about Palestinians reuniting with their families across the Gaza-Egypt border after decades of separation.
00:01 Kevin Pina Out of Jail Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent in Haiti
16:00 Massacres in Iraq. Robert Fisk, award-winning reporter for Independent of London
32:00 Environmental Disaster in New Orleans
Brad Knickerbocker, Christian Science Monitor
46:00 Frances Newton Scheduled to be Executed
DeLloyd, executive director, SHAPE Community Center, Free Frances Newton Committee
52:00 Crossing over the Gaza-Egypt Border. Laila el-Haddad, journalist, http://www.a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ (view pictures of Gaza and read her blog)
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
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Coverage of the John Roberts Hearings: Pacifica National Affairs Correspondent Larry Bensky, WBAI's Deepa Fernandes, and Free Speech Radio News' Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitch Jeserich anchor with live news reports on breaking stories from New Orleans. (Mitch Jeserich, Deepa Fernandes, Larry Bensky)
Monday, September 12, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Our jailed Haiti correspondent Kevin Pina released without charges after being held behind bars over the weekend; also, we’ll have a special update on the situation in New Orleans and down South with Jeremy Scahill; on the Block Report, we feature the harrowing story of Fred Hampton, Jr.’s rescue of five families from Mississippi; Laila el-Haddad talks about a ghost town becoming a playground in Gaza; and the Knight Report.
01:00 Knight Report
06:00 Kevin Pina Out of Jail.
Kevin Pina, FP Special Correspondent in Haiti
14:00 Report from New Orleans
Jeremy Scahill, independent journalist, producer with Democracy Now!
34:00 Fred Hampton, Jr. in Mississippi. JR and Rashida, the Block Report
5:42 Music Break
43:00 Gaza, the Settlements and Israeli Policy. Laila el-Haddad, journalist,
Friday, September 09, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Haiti special correspondent Kevin Pina arrested by death squad police and facing grave danger; also, we return to the wreckage of the South, asFEMA’s chief is sacked for incompetency, we’ll have a report from ouremergency correspondent Malik Rahim, who is spearheading a grassroots initiative to return infrastructure, medical services and human rights to the area; plus, a flood update from Mississippi; Cuba’s response to the tragedy; a commentary by Miguel Gavilan Molina; andFlashpoints en Español.
5:01 Update from New Orleans.
Malik Rahim -- To help Malik Rahim's effort to rebuild New Orleans go to www.rebuildgreen.org
16:00 Kevin Pina Arrested
Marguerite Leurent, Haitian Lawyers Leadership Council
31:00 Report from Mississippi
Duncan Campbell, reporter, UK Guardian
40:00 Commentary.Miguel Gavilan Molina
43:00 Flashpoints en Español. Miguel Guerrero
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011-509-222-0354
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Thursday, September 08, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints:
We’ll go back down South for an update on the situation as well as to
Houston for an update around the Astrodome and in the city, we’ll also
feature a collage of people picking up the slack left by Bush and the
feds and trying to meet the needs of tens of thousands pushed out of
their homes; we’ll hear a brand-new poem by Palestinian-American poet
Suheir Hammad; and from exile, the Knight Report with Robert Knight.01:00 The Knight Report: Robert Knight
06:00 Notes from New Orleans: Jordan Flaherty, editor, Left Turn Magazine, Union Organizer Tish Stringer, Indymedia Houston
40:00 Grand Lake Theater Donations: sound collage by Nora Barrows-Friedman, with Dennis Bernstein
53:00 Poetry: Suheir Hammad, poet, www.suheirhammad.com
To help Malik Rahim's effort to rebuild New Orleans go to www.rebuildgreen.org
Read Bill Hackwell's account of experiences with the ANSWER delegation relief effort (FP 09/06/05)
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: We’ll feature a breaking story on how the federal government has vetoed a
crucial microtransmitter radio project for the Astrodome; we’ll hear the stories of two Bay Area survivors who were shot at by local police in New Orleans; we’ll speak with a young man who is doing what the feds should be doing, re-establishing infrastructure in parts of flooded New Orleans; plus, we’ll speak with Makani Themba-Nixon of the Praxis Project on her view on the federal breakdown and her call for a real investigation into the tragic abandonment of black people in this country; sounds from a protest today at UC Berkeley; and from exile, the Knight Report.
01:00 The Knight Report. Robert Knight
06:00 Federal Government Denies
Radio Project Access to Astrodome
Tish Stringer, Houston Indymedia Camp Katrina aftermath media project at the AstroDome.
14:00 Update. Malik Rahim. To help Malik Rahim's effort to rebuild New Orleans go to www.rebuildgreen.org
30:00 New Orleans Report. Laurie Solinsky,
retired respiration therapist.
43:00 Another Case of Government for Some.
Makani Themba-Nixon, thepraxisproject.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
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Photo: Eric Gay,
AP
Today on Flashpoints:
Bush’s Flood-disaster death count may rise to well over ten thousand,
as First Mother Barbara Bush, visits and insults thousands of victims
still stranded inside the Astro-Dome - We'll have reports from New
Orleans, Houston, and we’ll hear eye-witness accounts from those just
back from the hardest hit areas: Also students protest Bush's racist
response to the flood victims: We’ll also feature a report from Gaza
where
an Israeli tank opened fire on peaceful protesters: and from exile the
Knight Report with Robert Knight.01:00 The Knight Report: The Iraqi town of al Qaim is taken over by al Qaida as New Orleans continues to reel from the effects of al Katrina. Robert Knight
06:00 Hurricane Victims: Malik Rahim, San Francisco Bay View Reporter describes a goodwill and rescue mission in New Orleans.
20:00 Report from Houston: Akua Holt, KPFT News Reporter and Bill Hackwell of International ANSWER, provide first-hand accounts of refugees in the Houston Astrodome and the inadequate response from FEMA and the overly sensationalist media focus. Refugees are being dispersed around the country, displaced further and further from home and family. Some believe the intent is to prevent the poorest from returning.
39:00 Musical Break: Chuck D
42:00 Protests: Nia Amara, UCB student, and Bill Hackwell, International ANSWER
Also visit www.sparkplugfoundation.org for information on where to donate to aid flood victims
50:00 Palestine : Laila Haddad, Special Flashpoints correspondent discusses attacks on Palestinians in Gaza (Nora Barrows-Friedman)
Monday, September 05, 2005
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Today on Flashpoints: Today on a special Labor Day edition of Flashpoints, we feature voices from New Orleans, with special reports from Pacifica and community radio producers; we’ll hear from people in the streets, community leaders, activists, members of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ordinary people who are all fed up with the deliberate abandonment by the Bush administration; plus, a poem by Aurora Levins-Morales; and Daniel Ellsberg speaks about war, peace and resistance.
01:00 Voices from New Orleans
35:00 Poetry: Aurora Levins-Morales: "Silt of Each Other"
40:00 War, Whistleblowing and Resistance. Daniel Ellsberg
Friday, September 2, 2005
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01:00 New Orleans: Headlines from the region.
05:00 Report from New Orleans. Malik Rahim, activist
30:00 On Venezuela, US Policy. Eva Golinger, investigative journalist
43:00 Flashpoints en Espanol. Miguel Guerrero
Thursday, September 1, 2005
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Photo: REUTERS/Thaier
Al-Sudani
Today on Flashpoints:
We'll feature an in-depth report on the Iraqui Bridge
slaughter massacre; and an update on the bloody and endless US
occupation; we'll talk about what the Louisiana National Guard should
be doing instead of kill and be killed in Iraq; we'll feature an
interview with Michael Parenti on the hurricane and its aftermath; and
from exile in New York City, we'll have the Knight Report.01:00 The Knight Report: There is more chaos in New Orleans; a London bomber surfaces on videotape; Shi`a devotees bury their dead in Iraq; snd the Bush administration defends its murder of an Iraqi journalist. Robert Knight
06:00 The Slaughter Massacre on the Iraqui Bridge: As'ad Abu Khalil, Professor of Political Science at California State University, Stanislaus, and webmaster of AngryArab.blogspot.com. Also discussed is a recent NY Times Seymour Hersch article on US interference and bribes to solidify the Iraqi Constitution (Dennis Bernstein)
20:00 Musical Break
21:00 Louisiana National Guard Killing Stead of Saving Lives: Joe Ramsay, Military Families Speak Out discusses the relationship between US Imperialism and loss of services and security for the poor in the US.
Also read Greg Mitchell's article
41:00 Michael Parenti on the Louisiana Hurricane: Author Michael Parenti discusses the free market politics of the hurricane where those who can afford to evacuate can buy their way out, but the poor are left to die; where protection of property is more important than rescuing victims of the tragedy. Where are the billions of dollars of homeland security aid? Where are the Feds? Overseas, overextended, overpriced...