July 3 – Sabre Rattling In The Gulf; Global Warming and Record Fires, Floods and Heat; Liberal Mormons Step UP

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Part 1	We begin with reports today that the United States is adding military forces to the Persian Gulf just as Iran has announced missile tests. The former Senior Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Obama Administration Vali Nasr joins us to discuss both Pakistan’s opening of supply routes into Afghanistan and the increased deployment of U.S. naval and air forces in the Gulf.
Part 2	Then we look into the connection between global warming and record heat spells in the East and wild fires in the West with Michael Oppenheimer, professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University and a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. As extreme weather events become more frequent and destructive, we discuss the growing urgency to deal with the reality of climate change.
Part 3	Then finally Troy Williams, the Executive Producer of RadioActive, a progressive talk show on KRCL – FM in Salt Lake City, joins us. He has an article at Salon.com “Romney Boosts Liberal Mormons” and we discuss the growing divide between the conservative hierarchy of the Church of Latter-day Saints and younger more liberal Mormons who embrace gay rights and the Mormon Moment brought about by the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney who they feel is aligned with the conservative past, not the future of the faith.
	MUSIC: Stiff Little Fingers – No More of That; Xavier Rudd – Messages; Dirty Projectors – Cannibal Resources; Book of Mormon – All American Prophet