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INDEX FOR 11 MAY 2012   (Or just keep scrolling down!)

Featured Stories

• Joel Salatin on Biological Farming
• It's Wrong to Wreck the Planet
• How the World Really Works
• Hearts, Consciousness, and Shifting Paradigms

All Story Categories

• Financial, Empire & Elites
• More Hot & What Not
• Food, Nutrition & Organics
• Agriculture, Permaculture & Gardening
• Energy, Peak Oil, & Resilience
• Climate Change
• Habitat, Biodiversity & Species
• More Environment & Health
• Cool & Cosmic
• History, Learning & Fun

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

The Lifeboat Hour

Hearts, Consciousness, and Shifting Paradigms — 29 Apr 2012 — Michael Ruppert explains why the solutions to the current meta-crisis reside not in finding new energy sources or electing different leaders, they lie deep in our hearts, deep in our consciousness, buried under the bogus paradigms that have our world spinning out of control but yet still have us in their thrall. The political struggles will continue, but nothing will change until the 100th monkey wakes up—until enough people discard everything they "know" to be true and accept the incoming wisdom of our expanding minds.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:38

Democracy Now

The Growing US Surveillance State — 30 Apr 2012 — Former National Security Agency insider and now whistleblower William Binney discusses the illegal and anti-democracy activities going on in the NSA as well as the paltry oversight from Congress and the dirty tactics used against those speaking out about the increasingly broad monitoring of Americans. Also in the discussion are filmmaker Laura Poitras and computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   23:17

One Radio Network

European Elections—Money-Printing Paradigm Now Fully Engaged — 09 May 2012 — Gause's topics this time include... how the elections of European Socialist candidates are all part of the TPTB's global plans; monetary policy and how Lucy keeps pulling the ball away from Charlie Brown; how TPTB don't outlaw cash transactions but do discourage them; how mortgage bailouts are not for those who have been paying all along or who simply can't pay, but rather are for those who have struggled to pay and will continue to struggle to pay, for as long as they can.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:03:54

If You Love This Planet

Hugh Gusterson on the Devastation of Iraq — 04 May 2012 — Gusterson contrasts the pre-war society in Iraq with the situation after two US wars and the continuing occupation. The civilian deaths, the decline in women's status, the degradation of infrastructure and higher education—the US has done a remarkable job at having a far worse impact on the people of Iraq than Saddam Hussein.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:00

Russia Today / The Keiser Report

David Graeber on Weaponized Debt — 28 Apr 2012 — David Graeber discusses "weaponized debt"—a tool used throughout history by the moneyed classes to get leverage over the rest of us; the history of debt-based exchange; the coming Occupy spring offensive.
Watch whole show  |  Download/listen to this segment   12:50

The Greatest Truth Never Told

The Silver Bullet and the Silver Shield — 23 Apr 2012 — Chris Duane presents the evidence of the heavy manipulation and price suppression of silver by those that control the fiat currency systems of the world—the same forces that are wrecking the planet and slowly reinstating a system of debt serfdom. He explains that buying physical silver is a two-prong strategy against this trend: First, every ounce of physical silver purchased increases the pressure on the silver manipulators' leverage ratios. Second, owning physical silver, a traditional store of wealth, protects your assets.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   12:15

MORE HOT & WHAT NOT

NPR

Putin Elected To Third Term as President — 07 May 2012 — Vladimir Putin has been elected to a third term as president of Russia. With his first two terms as president, each at four years, plus this term at six years, plus the interim term as prime minister, Putin is well into his second decade of power.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:07

(GP comment:  A strong leader in Russia is a good thing for world stability.)

The Shortwave Report

World News Round-Up — News reports from around the world — 11 May 2012
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:00

On The Media

Calyx Aims to Downsize Big Brother — 04 May 2012 — A new internet service provider called Calyx is being designed to encrypt user's data in such a way that it will be inaccessible to anyone but that user. This means that if the government asks for your browser history or emails, Calyx will be technologically unable to hand them over. Nick Merrill of Calyx discusses the plan.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:23

FOOD & NUTRITION

Sea Change Radio

Know Your Fair-Trade Food — 08 May 2012 — Rodney North of Equal Exchange, the first organization that promoted socially responsible goods as "fair trade," updates us on fair trade issues. ~~ Then Evan Gillespie discusses the push for energy reform in California, including a solar bill of rights.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:00

AGRICULTURE, PERMACULTURE & GARDENING

Peak Moment

Joel Salatin:  Biological Farming is the Solution — 27 Apr 2012 — Joel Salatin explains how biologically based farming that integrates animals into the soil fertility cycle can revitalize farms, reduce pollution, offer superior animal welfare, and set us on the path to solving a number of broader societal concerns.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   26:20

(GP comment:  Salatin continues to amaze me with his broad grasp of what is wrong with agriculture specifically and the world generally, at the same time offering obvious and practical solutions.)

You Bet Your Garden

How to Make Successful Compost Without Fall Leaves — 28 Apr 2012 — Topics include... Greenhouses and high tunnels for sun-challenged gardeners. Goats for controlling invasives in pastures. Can bananas peels and citrus peels go into the compost pile? Solutions for tomato wilt, beyond rotation. How to cat-proof a garden fence. How to make successful compost without fall leaves.
Download/Listen   49:58
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KOPN Food Sleuth

Helping the Nation's Young Food Producers — 26 May 2012 — Lindsey Lusher Shute reviews a number of new initiatives designed to preserve farmland and help motivated young people be successful in farming endeavors. pairing young farmers with older mentor farmers and dormant farms; ensuring access to capital; and real estate agreements that keep farmlands as farms.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:15

NPR

Texas Battling Pollution From Poultry Production — 02 May 2012 — Texas has become the sixth biggest state in poultry production, with some operations processing a million chickens per week. But more chickens and processing mean more waste and pollution.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:42

ENERGY, PEAK OIL & RESILIENCE

Russia Today / The Keiser Report

Energy, Speculators, and Political Dog Whistles — 08 May 2012 — Max and Stacy discuss the US natural gas market, the associated speculative bubbles, and the Obama's delusions over future natural gas supplies. ~~ Leah McGrath Goodman discusses oil futures trading and why the price of gasoline is so high.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   25:45

You Bet Your Garden

"Food For All" Through Urban Raised Beds — 05 May 2012 — A local group is installing raised beds in food-challenged urban areas. It's a way to bring fresh food to low-income areas—and a way to improve resilience and build community. ~~ Other topics include adding a tall raised bed as a garden patio border and problems with starting plants in peat pots.
Download/Listen   52:14
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Radio EcoShock

It's Wrong to Wreck the World — 02 May 2012 — Kathleen Dean Moore delivers an excellent talk about the side effects of our boneheaded approach to living on the planet—that we are wrecking nature, particularly the stable climate. She argues that we adults have a moral obligation to the future to do something about it. She offers insights into the contradictions most of us find in our heads and gives a few suggestions on how we might tackle the climate problem before it's too late.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Radio EcoShock

Is It Too Late for Climate Action? — 09 May 2012 — Robert Rapier explains that the economic and political trends in the world strongly suggest that energy needs and demands for economic growth will continue to trump effective climate action. More broadly, Michael M'Gonigle explains his "Exit Environmentalism" concept, saying that we must recognize the environmental approaches that saw successes in the 1970s and 1980s have been stalled for two decades, and they will remain stalled until we address how money and power work.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

BIODIVERSITY, SPECIES & HABITAT

NPR

Preserving Mangroves — 30 Apr 2012 — Indonesia has the largest share of the world's mangroves—coastal forests that have adapted to saltwater environments. They play important roles in filtering water, buffering storms, providing habitat, and sequestering carbon. The challenge is convincing locals that they benefit more from protecting the trees rather than cutting them down.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:50

Sierra Club Radio

Carter Niemeryer, "Wolfer"—Wolves in the Northern Rockies — 05 May 2012 — Niemeryer discusses his transition from wolf-management black hat to wolf friend white hat, as well as some of the myths about wolves in the West, their recovery, and supposed wolf problems for humans.
Page to download whole show  |  Listen/download this segment   6:10

MORE ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

Living on Earth

Clearcutting and Chemicals — 04 May 2012 — After clearcutting, timber companies in Oregon spray the land with herbicides to prevent growth of unwanted species—that is, anything but the single tree species they will replant for the next clearcutting cycle. Though companies target the pesticides to their owned acreage, wind drift and water contamination make it inevitable that these chemicals find their way to neighboring land. Residents are worried that the chemicals are affecting their health.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   15:51

11.11 with Simran Singh

The Ecological Crisis and Active Hope — 26 Apr 2012 — The crisis of ecological sustainability unfolding in our world often drives people to one of two extreme positions: hopelessness, that nothing can be done; or denial, that there is no problem. Chris Johnstone says that in-between there lies our best response—"active hope," which involves being clear in defining what we hope for and then playing our role in the process of bringing that about.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   57:55

Sea Change Radio

In the Shadow of the Smokestacks — 24 Apr 2012 — Richmond, California is one of the many communities in America where economic and environmental injustice intersect. The Chevron Richmond Refinery saddles the area with chemical leaks and warnings for residents not to leave their homes. Greg Karras describes the local environment and the fight against the refinery's unnecessarily polluting practices.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:00

11.11 with Simran Singh

Addressing Health Issues with Mind-Body-Chakra Work — 03 May 2012 — The most sophisticated tests can't always find the source of a health issue, but there is one authority that always knows—your own body. "We intuitively perceive what we need for physical, emotional, and spiritual healing," explains Marie Manuchehri, a medical intuitive. "The biggest challenge for most of us is learning to trust our inner guidance." Manuchehri, a registered nurse, offers patients instructions to help them tune into your health at a deeper level.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   56:39

COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Beyond 50

The Synthesis Effect—Your Direct Path to Personal Power — 27 Apr 2012 — John McGrail explains his Method of Quantum Synthesis, which is designed to help activate and exploit the elasticity and creative potential of your mind, to reprogram the mental computer using self-hypnosis and several forms of meditation, while concurrently integrating an array of simple but powerful cognitive techniques that catalyze, reinforce, and accelerate the entire process.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:09

Coast To Coast / KSFO

Leonard Mlodinow on Studies of the Unconscious Mind — 05 May 2012 — Mlodinow reviews a slew of interesting case studies of how our subconscious affects our behavior—even though we're not aware it's happening.
C2C REF PAGE:  C2C show info page
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PART 2:  Download/Listen   1:00:00

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Awakening To Conscious Co-Creation

Shifting to Frequencies of Brilliance — 18 Apr 2012 — Christine Day explains her connection with the Pleiadians and how this experience has awakened her to her agreed-to mission of helping humanity wake up and shift to a new level of existence—while still retaining the experience of having been human.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:41

Red Ice Radio

Jay Weidner:  Howling at the Moon Landing — 26 Apr 2012 — Filmmaker and researcher Jay Weidner talks about his film series on director Stanley Kubrick and presents evidence that Kubrick directed the filmed, faked Apollo moon landings.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:02:07

(GP comment:  The topic of "fake moon landing" is pretty out there, but Weidner does make some interesting points.)

HISTORY, LEARNING & FUN

Coast To Coast / KSFO

Webster Tarpley:  How the World Really Works — 02 May 2012 — Historian Webster Tarpley discusses the conspiratorial mindset, exploring the hidden forces—the oligarchy run by banksters—that shape government actions, especially wars. Topics covered include 9-11, the JFK assassination, foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and the current geopolitical action between the US-UK bloc and the BRIC block, with proxy wars in Syria and Libya.
C2C REF PAGE:  C2C show info page
PART 1:  Download/Listen   1:00:00
PART 2:  Download/Listen   1:00:00

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Unwelcome Guests

The Fascinating Story of Nick Leeson — 28 Apr 2012 — The connection between psychopathy, the modern money system, and the brainlessly hierarchical multinationals combined to give rise to Nick Leeson, a low-level financial gamesman whose infamous derivatives speculation in the mid-1990s led to the collapse of Barings Bank. This is a fascinating story.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:30

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INDEX FOR 27 APR 2012   (Or just keep scrolling down!)

Featured Stories

• Collapse Clarions vs. the Zombie Populace
• Deepwater Horizon—Two Years Later
• EFA Deathmatch—Omega-6 vs. Omega-3
• Debunking Economics

All Story Categories

• Financial, Empire & Elites
• Corporations & Globalization
• Media, Internet & Communications
• Energy, Peak Oil, & Resilience
• Climate Change
• Agriculture, Permaculture & Gardening
• More Environment & Health
• Food, Nutrition & Organics
• Cool & Cosmic

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

ExtraEnvironmentalist

Steve Keen:  Debunking Economics — 22 Apr 2012 — Steve Keen is one of the few economists who predicted the current financial crash. Here he offers a very comprehensible and sensible commentary on classical economics, from its fundamental flaws to the way it's used to control how populations and governments think and behave. Specific topics include flaws in classical economics, using classical economic theories to disprove themselves, where the economies of the Eurozone are headed by following the path of austerity, modern debt jubilees, and the alternative path forward.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:39:18

Post Carbon Institute

Joshua Farley:  Leverage Points Can Reform the Economy — 23 Apr 2012 — Speaking at the "Transition to a New Economy Conference," Joshua Farley provides an excellent analysis of the perverse incentives embodied by our current regulatory and tax structures, and he offers good solutions like shifting taxes from earned income (labor) to unearned income (investing) and unwanted outputs (pollution).
Watch  |  Download/Listen   16:19

King World News

Jim Sinclair:  Oil-for-Gold Deal a Historic Event — 25 Apr 2012 — In response to the US preventing Iran from using SWIFT to sell its oil internationally, China will buy oil from Iran using gold. This is a game-changer, says Jim Sinclair—it's a major economic player thumbing its nose at the global reserve currency (US dollar) and (re)establishing the principle of gold as money.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:30

King World News

The Rise of the Fascist State in the US in Well Underway — 17 Apr 2012 — Gerald Celente's comments include... The banksters are creating a debt bomb that will blow up and create a vacuum for a new bankster paradigm. The NDAA gives the US president the power to rescind rights even for a potential emergency. Spy agencies can now monitor your communications whether or not you are deemed a threat. Fascist states arise slowly, but the one in the US is clearly being built.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   15:13

The Shortwave Report

World News Round-Up — News reports from around the world — 27 Apr 2012
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:00

Uprising

Funding the Enemy—How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban — 23 Apr 2012 — Independent journalist Douglas Wissing chronicles how the US has, in effect, funded both sides of its war in Afghanistan, exposing a shocking pattern of counterproductive policies and a web of corruption.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   55:47

(GP comment:  As shocking a review as this is of the hopeless situation in Afghanistan, the reality is much worse, re: the true US motives for the war and how the CIA funds off-the-books operations from opium trade involvement.)

Russia Today / The Keiser Report

Michael Hudson on Fraudulent Conveyance — 24 Apr 2012 — Max and Stacy discuss student debt—the new debt virus. And can charitable donations absolve banksters of their sins? ~~ Michael Hudson discusses the "bailout for Greece"—which is really a giveaway to The 1% holders of Greek debt. He also discusses fraudulent conveyance—loans made with the intent of eventually getting the collateral property upon default.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   21:45

Russia Today / The Keiser Report

Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Banksters — 26 Apr 201 — Max and Stacy discuss the ongoing Ponzi racket being coordinated by government and Wall Street financial kings, and how the SEC is going after ratings companies that don't play ball. ~~ Then Max talks to Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. The Rev gives a tongue-in-cheek—but still accurate—analysis of the demons that possess banksters and the need to take direct action in response to the exploitative, highly destructive banking-warfare model.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   27:02

Financial Sense NewsHour

Charles Biderman on Economic Statistics — 26 Apr 2012 — Biderman explains why the economic numbers put out by the US government are skewed, ignore available real time data, and are subject to manipulation. On top of that, the talking heads in the financial media are not good enough investigative journalists to do anything more than rewrite government and corporate press releases.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   31:10

CORPORATIONS & GLOBALIZATION

MEDIA, INTERNET & COMMUNICATIONS

NPR

To Read Privacy Policies, Just Take A Month Off Work — 19 Apr 2012 — If you read all the policy agreements you must accept before you use software or use many internet services, exactly how long would it take? How much paper would you use if you printed them out and filed them?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:19

On The Media

State of the Book Publishing Industry, 2012 — 20 Apr 2012 — An examination of the current state of the publishing industry, including fears of Amazon becoming a monopoly and how the publishing houses might stand up to it. Other topics include...a Pulitzer snub for fiction; the problem of knock-off books; and the story of Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's attempt to challenge the mighty Amazon.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   51:59

ENERGY, PEAK OIL & RESILIENCE

Lifeboat Hour

Collapse Clarions vs. the Zombie Populace — 22 Apr 2012 — The discussion between Mike Ruppert and Dmitry Orlov includes... Between Romney and Obama, which will bring about "fast collapse" sooner? Is "Powerdown" really an option? If the markets will soon nosedive, should one short the markets? Why do most people have such a hard time getting out of zombie mode? What should do-gooder "collapse clarions" do about their inability to penetrate others' minds with the truth?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:39

Radio EcoShock

The Beginning of The End — 24 Apr 2012 — Chris Martenson explains why he thinks economic collapse will come before peak oil or climate disruption, and he give a few thoughts on what we average Joes and Janes should be watching for. ~~ Mat Stein explains how a solar flare could cripple our technological society. Additionally, the electrical grid going down could cause the world's nuke plants to "go Chernobyl." Less vulnerable grid transformers exist and are not too expensive.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Sea Change Radio

Floating Offshore Turbines—Not-In-My-Beachview Wind Power — 10 Apr 2012 — Habib Dagher discusses a new floating wind turbine project that is scheduled to launch off the coast of Maine in the summer of 2013. Unlike the much-argued-over Cape Wind project, these turbines are far enough away from land that it can't be seen from the coast. Dagher talks about the technology, its capacity for energy capture, and some of the challenges facing the offshore wind industry as a whole.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:58

KunstlerCast

Characterizing Life in Post-Peak America — 26 Apr 2012 — Fielding questions from a student audience, James Howard Kunstler's topics include... why the alternate-fuel fleet is a pipedream and why even a revitalized US rail network will be only a partial solution; why New York City has both unique advantages and challenges for the post-peak world; why condos will be particularly troubled as collapse sets in; how landscape monocultures concentrate poverty; a call for renouncement of student loans.
Part 1:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   50:14
Part 2:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   31:24

CLIMATE CHANGE

Electric Politics

Ocean Acidification—Current State of Science — 13 Apr 2012 — Barbel Honisch is co-author of the scientific paper "The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification," published in Science. The paper shows that the rate of change of ocean acidification is greater today, by at least an order of magnitude, than it has ever been during any period over the past 300,000,000 years. Rate of change, not absolute pH level, is what matters for species and ecosystem health.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   49:49

The Lifeboat Hour

Guy McPherson:  Walking Away From the Climate-Wrecking Juggernaut — 15 Apr 2012 — Guy McPherson left his tenured college teaching position. Once he realized the enormity of the climate challenge, he felt that he could not in good conscience keep teaching students how to be good gears in the machine that is destroying the planet. McPherson explains why industrial civilization and infinite growth must end immediately for humans to survive.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   56:46

Referenced books   (on Amazon.com)
-- Walking Away From Empire

Quirks & Quarks

Hot Coral—Making the Best of a Bad Situation — 14 Apr 2012 — In recent years, there have been increased reports of coral reefs, exposed to unusually warm water temperatures, suffering episodes of "bleaching." Dr. Simon Donner explains the bleaching process, why it's ultimately fatal for coral, and what the demise of the a coral reef can mean for a local ecosystem. He also discusses strategies for maximizing the amount of coral retained in a warmer world.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:35

DEEPWATER HORIZON—TWO YEARS LATER

Living On Earth

Revisiting the Gulf Deepwater Disaster — 20 Apr 2012 — The well is capped but the Gulf oil disaster is not over. Oil remains in the water and is taking a toll on the ecosystem. Biologist Doug Inkley summarizes the biological impact and explains how oily plankton is making dolphins and other marine life sick. Then the two co-chairs of the National Oil Spill Commission, Bob Graham and William K. Reilly, explain why industry and government get low marks on the goal of making deepwater oil drilling safer.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:49

NPR

Two Years Later, BP Spill Reminders Litter Gulf Coast — 20 Apr 2012 — Though the oil slicks have gone and the beaches no longer feel like WD-40, beneath the surface thee lies trouble in the ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico. As in the Exxon Valdez spill, there is no short-term fix to the pollution brought by the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:13

Free Speech Radio News

Investigation Finds BP Cover-Up of Rig Explosion Two Years Before Gulf Disaster — 20 Apr 2012 — Greg Palast offers evidence that before BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster, it had another accident that involved the same flawed technology. They covered it up and did not apply the lesson to the Deepwater Horizon operation. That moves the Deepwater event from "accident" to "negligent homicide."
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:06

MORE ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

Red Ice Radio

Matthew Stein:  How We Got Into This Mess — 19 Apr 2012 — Mat Stein is best know as a guru of doom prepdom and for his warnings of big-ticket collapse scenarios like solar EMPs. But here he gives a very clear-headed summary of how we arrived at this ecological precipice: Fundamentally, the system incentivizes corporations (and politicians and the populace) towards environmental destruction. The logic of the trap is inescapable.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:30

Orion

Nature—False Idyll — 25 Apr 2012 — James MacKinnon reads aloud from his latest essay for Orion, "False Idyll." He says we have subverted our conception of nature to the parts of it we're comfortable with, losing sight of what it truly is.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   22:41

Beyond 50

Bryan Welch:  Beautiful, Abundant, Fair, and Contagious — 12 Apr 2012 — Welch, the head guy at Mother Earth News and a number of other media projects, discusses his thoughts on the best way to go about building the world we want. He notes that the traditional scare tactics of the environmental movement—however well grounded in facts—has not worked. Get people excited about innovative solutions is the only way to make it happen.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   33:49

AGRICULTURE, PERMACULTURE & GARDENING

You Bet Your Garden

Watermelons, Peppers, Pears, Kiwis, and More — 14 Apr 2012 — Topics this time include... tips for growing watermelons and peppers; pruning pear trees and thinning the fruits; worm composting vs. compost tea; how to grow kiwis anywhere in the US.
Download/Listen   52:15
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Biodynamics Now

Fighting Pests and Disease the Biodynamic Way — 16 Apr 2012 — Michael Phillips discusses his holistic approach to orcharding and farming and the importance of cultivating healthy soil and plants as a first-line defense against pests and disease. Other topics include apple varieties, medicinal herbs, and the community orchard movement.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:19:41

KOPN Food Sleuth

Jan Weber:  We Are All Complicit in Industrial Farming — 05 Apr 2012 — Filmmaker Jan Weber discusses the state of rural life, the sorry state that corporate agriculture has imposed on our farms, and how we might work our way back to a more hopeful future.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:15

You Bet Your Garden

Keeping Trees Safe from the Emerald Ash Borer — 21 Apr 2012 — Topics this time include... keeping trees safe from the emerald ash borer; natural pest controls for stink bugs; tips for propagating plants; more.
Download/Listen   52:15
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FOOD & NUTRITION

Nutrition Diva

EFA Deathmatch—Omega-6 vs. Omega-3 — 18 Apr 2012 — The question of omega-3 essential fatty acids vs. omega-6 EFAs is tricky but essential—there are few nutritional issues more important to basic health. In this clip, Monica Reinagel does an excellent job of explaining why it matters, and why a recent report on the topic is bafflingly bad.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:56

COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Wayseer / YouTube

Garret John:  The Wayseer Manifesto — All you rule-breakers, you misfits and troublemakers, all you free-spirits and pioneers.... Everything the establishment has told you is wrong with you is actually what's right with you!
Watch  |  Download/Listen   9:49

Clif's Wujo

Web Bot Update—Unknown Entities and Energies from Space — 20 Apr 2012 — Clif discusses some of his latest observations from Web Bot data, including... diaspora language and "1.289 million dead" still in the language; radiation increases coming; how the "Israeli mistake" relates to Fukushima; holes in time-space that can bring extra energy to earth or be exploited by unfriendly extraterrestrials.
Download/Listen   53:37
More Clif's Wujo

(GP comment:  Is Clif High is part of a long term psy-op? Or is he what he says he is, a old bald guy with a knack for languages, programming, and analysis? Toss a coin. I don't put much faith in the accuracy of the Web Bot predictions, but like a good B-grade monster movie, Clif High never ceases to be fascinating and fun.)

Energy Stew

The Misleading Mind and the Wisdom of Buddhist Psychology — 31 Mar 2012 — Our minds are always needing to tell us their opinions and our survival depends on good judgment. The question is the clarity and objectivity that our minds employ. Karuna Cayton discusses how our minds mislead us, how we create our own problems, and how Buddhist psychology can help us solve them.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:28

C-Realm Podcast

Sigil Magic and the Portal of Chapel Perilous — 25 Apr 2012 — Sigil Magic is a widely used form of magical spellcasting, common to many cultures throughout history. Host KMO and guest Erik Davis discuss the potential benefits and possible side effects of such practice.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:59

HISTORY, LEARNING & FUN

Orion

Luis Urrea:  Manifest Destiny — 25 Apr 2012 — Luis Urrea reads an engaging essay about manifest destiny, the pull of the American West, and why all (im)migrations should receive equal consideration and respect.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:30

The Voice of Middle Earth

Beorn to Rock — In Episode 10, the excellent Tolkien-inspired music includes "King of Morning, Queen of Day" by Horslips and "Magician in the Mountain" by Sun Forest. The narrated segments include the history of the ursine character Beorn and a review of some rare Tolkien books.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   58:31

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INDEX FOR 13 APR 2012   (Or just keep scrolling down!)

Featured Stories

• The Food Conspiracy—And How to Escape Its Health Traps
• All Hail the Money Junkies
• Autism—What Portion Genetic, What Portion Environmental?
• Incredible Edible—Getting Local Food Going

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• Financial, Empire & Elites
• Media, Internet & Communications
• Energy, Peak Oil, & Resilience
• Habitat, Biodiversity & Species
• Pollution, Chemicals & Pesticides
• More Environment
• Health
• Food, Nutrition & Organics
• Cool & Cosmic
• History, Learning & Fun

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

News Dissector

Gerald Celente:  All Hail the Money Junkies — 06 Apr 2012 — Celente talks about trends with the bankster banks and the money junkies; the utter hopelessness of the fixed political system and the two US duopoly parties; the stupidity of sentiments like "my country, right or wrong"; and the austerity that is coming to America.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:31

NPR

Supreme Court OKs Strip Searches For Minor Offenses — 02 Mar 2012 — The US Supreme Court has ruled that guards may routinely strip search even minor traffic offenders when they are arrested and detained. The court's 5-4 ruling came in the case of a New Jersey man who was arrested because of a computer error.
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(GP comment:  Just remember that totalitarian states usually come about one step at a time.)

The Shortwave Report

World News Round-Up — News reports from around the world — 13 Apr 2012
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Uprising

How the WTO Undermines Public Health, Consumer, and Environmental Protections — 09 Apr 2012 — The World Trade Organization regularly trumps national laws designed to protect consumer safety, worker rights, and clean air and water, essentially serving as a corporate backdoor for deregulation. Any national law or regulation that the WTO identifies as a "technical barrier to trade" is on the chopping block. Lori Wallach of Public Citizen outlines the problem and recounts some of the recent transgressions.
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On The Media

We Have to Pay to Read Safety Standards? — 13 Apr 2012 — Government-transparency advocate Carl Malamud believes documents that define safety standards should be easily accessible to all citizens—for free. Yet many of these standards—from the design of bicycle helmets to water treatment components to hazmat suits—are copyrighted creations of the industry organizations that have promulgated them. Malamud has a plan to make a point—this system must change.
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MEDIA, INTERNET & COMMUNICATIONS

Free Speech Radio News

Police Use of Warrantless Tracking of Cell Phones Widespread — 02 Apr 2012 — Police across the country routinely use cell phone information in investigations, but documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show that many city and state law enforcement agencies track private cell phones without first getting a warrant.
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Russia Today / The Keiser Report

The Peer-To-Peer Revolution — 07 Apr 2012 — Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation discusses BitCoin and other fascinating developments in the world of communications, virtual partnering, and cooperative efforts. Is a decentralization revolution beginning? ~~ In the first half, Max and Stacy discuss how Wall Street gamblers now betting on BitCoin, the anti-Wall Street currency; and they talk about how Wall Street firms "legally" commingle customer funds with the speculative accounts.
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ENERGY, PEAK OIL & RESILIENCE

Unwelcome Guests

Getting Local Food Going — 07 Apr 2012 — Pam Warhurst is one of the founders of "Incredible Edible," a local group that aims to increase the amount of local food grown and eaten in the UK town of Todmorden. She explains the process that resulted in this successful "grow local" movement. The town council, local businesses, schools, farmers, and the whole community are all involved.
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Download/Listen   59:30

Post Carbon Institute / NPR-WYPR

Richard Heinberg on the Roots of the Global Economic Slowdown and "The New Normal" — 04 Apr 2012 — Richard Heinberg discusses the global economic slowdown, saying the roots of it are in the peaking of energy supplies, the never-ending economic growth approach, and bailouts for Wall Street while main street crumbles. Even if the latter problem were addressed, there is no getting past peaking energy supplies. Since energy is the foundation of wealth, a lower level "new normal" is coming, and most people will find it very challenging.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   49:03

Radio EcoShock

Fukushima, Nuclear Powerdown, and Post-Peak Japan — 04 Apr 2012 — Warren Karlenzig provides an update on Japan after its tsunami and nuclear accident, with a particular focus on the power shortages and how that has affected daily life. It's a glimpse at the "powerdown" scenario described by peak oilist Richard Heinberg, only this one's not voluntary. ~~ Helen Caldicott gives a short interview, refreshing us on the two-headed nuclear dragon—energy and weapons.
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You Bet Your Garden

Pollinators, Peppers, and Paths — 31 Mar 2012 — Topics include... pollinators beyond honeybees; dealing with poison ivy infestations safely; the difference between pimento, red bell peppers, chili peppers, and paprika; and growing your own saffron. Also, when is wood-chip mulch in a path composted enough to safely go in a garden bed?
Download/Listen   52:15
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BIODIVERSITY, SPECIES & HABITAT

NPR

Polar Bears, Melting Ice, and Species Preservation — 03 Apr 2012 — Polar bears depend on sea ice, but that habitat is slowly disintegrating. The bears do sometimes hunt on land but cannot feed themselves sufficiently in that environment alone. Zoos are trying to figure out the best way to keep a number of them in captivity—to preserve the gene pool.
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Sierra Club Radio

Additional Panther Habitat Protected — 07 Apr 2012 — There are only 100-150 Florida panthers left. A new multi-party agreement will help protect panther habitat and extend their available range of movement.
Download/listen to this segment   6:14
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Living On Earth

The Continuing Plight of the Sage Grouse — 13 Apr 2012 — An update to a story about the Sage Grouse and how an unlikely alliance has come together to protect the bird, without putting it on the federal endangered species list.
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POLLUTION, CHEMICALS & PESTICIDES

Radio EcoShock

The Scandal of the Tar Sands — 10 Apr 2012 — David Schindler, an internationally renowned scientist working in Canada, talks about his team's research into pollution from the tar sands in Canada. Topics include increases in cancer in local Native peoples; heavy metals and toxic polycarbonates being spewed from smoke stacks; and tar-sands companies spending 100 times more on green-sounding marketing than they are on environmental protection.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   31:00

NPR

New Anti-Lice Machine Swaps Hot Air for Pesticides — 09 Apr 2012 — An expert on lice has come up with a new machine that gives a 30-minute treatment of hot air and kills both lice and eggs, avoiding the need for nasty treatments with chemical pesticides.
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NPR

Pollution Playing A Major Role In Sea Temperatures — 04 Apr 2012 — Tiny particles from power plants and fires—that is, air pollution—reflect sun energy back into space, resulting in less incident energy on the earth's surface. A recent study details the effect on sea-surface temperatures and regional weather.
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(GP comment:  Kind of old news, but perhaps part of new memering, a la the need for geoengineering to solve climate change.)

Free Speech Radio News

In India's Rajasthan State, Villagers Fight Polluting Industries — 05 Apr 2012 — Environmental degradation is a growing concern in modern India. And common people are bearing the brunt of the problem. Some villagers in western India's Rajasthan state recently won a legal case against industries that were polluting their land and water. Neighboring villagers are awaiting justice in a similar case still in court.
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MORE ENVIRONMENT

Living On Earth

Autism—What Portion Genetic, What Portion Environmental? — 06 Apr 2012 — New research has identified genetic risk factors for children to develop autism. But that still leaves the question of what triggers the onset. Other research suggests a correlation between exposure to chemicals and pollution.
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Radio EcoShock

Gundersen:  The Nuclear Accident at Fukushima Japan is Far from Over — 10 Apr 2012 — Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen reviews the status of the broken reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plants. Things there are still very dicey, with the possibility of fires or explosions that would spew radioactive particles into the entire Northern hemisphere and devastate Japan.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   26:00

CounterSpin

Don't Fracking Believe It — 06 Apr 2012 — You've heard the gas industry PR—their ads are all over television and public radio. And the message—that gas drilling is a safe, affordable path to energy independence—is being echoed by some pundits. Anti-fracking activists think otherwise, and they're challenging the media-industry line.
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Living On Earth

Mining Leads to Personal Poisonings — 13 Apr 2012 — Mining often causes water and air pollution that affects surrounding communities. But there is also a direct pollution component that can affect miners directly, from lead exposure for gold miners in Nigeria to silicosis for miners in South Africa.
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NPR

Mining the Ocean Floor — 02 Apr 2012 — Nautilus Minerals of Australia hopes to develop and expand undersea mining by extracting copper, gold, silver and zinc from the seafloor. Environmentalists are, um, less enthusiastic.
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(GP comment:  Gotta love the specious "better than mining it on land" argument.)

NPR

Rising Fuel Prices Driving FedEx to EVs, Biofuels, and NatGas — 02 Apr 2012 — FedEx burns 1.5 billion gallons a year of petroleum-based fuels, which means its bottom line is sensitive to oil price swings. This has the company looking hard at a future of all-electric in-city vehicles, long-haul trucks that run on natural gas, and planes flying on algal fuels.
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(GP comment:  Yada yada. This is typical green-energy utopian thinking that cannot succeed in the long run.)

You Bet Your Garden

Rain Gardens Improve Water Management and Add Beauty — 07 Apr 2012 — Lynn Steiner talks about how to incorporate rain gardens into your yard to improve water management, reduce runoff pollution, and add beauty to your property. Her book is Rain Gardens—Sustainable Landscaping for a Beautiful Yard and a Healthy World. ~~ Other topics in this show include: volunteer fruit trees from the compost pile; using reeaally old manure; understanding mushroom compost; the toxic problem of "tire mulch."
Download/Listen   52:15
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HEALTH

One Radio Network

Reactive Arthritis, Leaky Gut Syndrome, and the Cure — 09 Apr 2012 — Chronic joint pain is in some cases related to intestinal issues and food sensitivities. Barbara Allan explains how addressing these problems can completely resolve reactive arthritis and improve rheumatoid arthritis symptoms in some cases.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:18

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Conquering Arthritis, by Barbara Allan

One Radio Network

Pharmageddon—The Hijacking of Healthcare in America — 09 Apr 2012 — Dr. David Healy explains how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America. In the US, $3 trillion per year is spent on health care, but health outcomes are quite low relative to other modern countries. Worse still, side effects are becoming a leading killer and treating them now takes up 20% of health care expenditures. How did the drug companies capture our doctors and medical care?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:07:56

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Pharmageddon, by David Healy

Corbett Report

Genetic Engineering, Bioethics, and Scientific Hucksterism — 03 Apr 2012 — Jon Rappoport of NoMoreFakeNews.com discusses the academic discipline of bioethics, particularly as it pertains to genetic engineering. Themes include the false debate about money as a determinative tool in life and death situations, the roots of these problems in the eugenics mindset, and the brave new world of genetic pre-selection—for those who can pay.
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Living On Earth

The Battle Over Antibiotic Use on the Farm — 06 Apr 2012 — Eighty percent of all antibiotics in the US are being used for continual low-dosing of non-sick farm animals. This is helping create super-bugs that taint food and is partly to blame for reduced effectiveness of similar drugs in humans.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:19

FOOD & NUTRITION

Coast To Coast / KSFO

The Food Conspiracy—And How to Escape Its Health Traps — 03 Apr 2012 — James Colquhoun and Daniel Vitalis discuss the profit motives and methods of Big Food and Big Pharma; the importance of a high nutrient-to-calorie ratio; strategies for everyday detoxification; and the most important changes you can make in your diet.
C2C REF PAGE:  C2C show info page
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Diet Science

Milk From Conventionally Raised Cows Linked to Hormone-Driven Cancers in Humans — 02 Apr 2012 — A new Harvard study links excess hormones in milk from conventionally raised cows to certain types of human cancers. The hormones are not the ones added intentionally by the farmers; they are hormones the cows themselves are overproducing in response to the unnatural conditions they experience in factory farms. Milk from grass-fed cows and organically raised cows did not have the dangerous levels of hormones, and neither did raw milk.
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Sea Change Radio

GMOs—Unlabeled Experimental Foods — 03 Apr 2012 — Charles Margulis thinks American consumers have the right to know when they are eating genetically modified organisms (or, as he calls them, unlabeled experimental foods). He discusses the rise of GMOs, the movement pushing for more regulation of GMOs, and the substantial resistance that proponents of GMO labeling have encountered.
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NPR

The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger—Really? — 02 Apr 2012 — Mystery meat is just one of the problems with the fare available in the typical school cafeteria. But some schools are trying to get back to basics—which includes actually preparing food on-site rather than just reheating processed foods.
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COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Red Ice Radio

David Icke:  Wisdom is Knowing How Little We Know — 22 Mar 2012 — Many versions of the matrix reality have been proposed, and David Icke's is one of the most astonishing. Perhaps we can't know exactly what the truth is, but it's easy to see that what is before our eyes is falsehood. Truth seekers, no matter how well informed they are on issues like 9/11, Illuminati, corporate power, etc., can only really start addressing problems by going into their consciousness so they can get at the actual structures of control, which are not directly perceptible from our reality.
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Clif's Wujo

Coming Soon to Shombies Near You—The Personality Cults — 29 Mar 2012 — Clif High discusses the influence of the patriarchal hierarchical meme and how most people's paradigms are subconsciously built upon this meme. Most avenues to ease the pain of this entrapment are merely clever alternate paths within the trap system. As the transition in consciousness unfolds, those who are not ready to accept it will gravitate to charlatans and manipulators. The cults of personality will be dangerous because the charlatans and their followers are easily guided to ill purpose by the real puppet masters, The Powers That Be.
Download/Listen   35:20
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Time Monk Radio Network

The Evolutionary Event Horizon — 06 Apr 2012 — Jonathan Zap discusses the evolutionary event horizon, offering an interesting tapestry that weaves together psychology, mysticism, naturalism, and consciousness. Of particular interest was his sidebar on parasitism in terms of energy.
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Clif's Wujo

Clif High on JIT, Aquaponics, How to Find Work, and Re-Thinking the Process — 08 Apr 2012 — The Web Bot data point to a big drop in the Dow this year and increasing desperation among those squashed by the bad economy and the policies of TPTB. He suggests the need to change our work paradigm from having a job to having work. Greece, in it's debacle, is leading the transition to the calorie economy. The same process is about to begin in the US, which will damage the just-in-time retailing systems. Clif suggests backyard aquaponics as a resilient protein solution.
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Beyond 50

Guy Finley:  The Seeker, The Search, The Sacred — 23 Mar 2012 — Guy Finley talks about our common celestial bond across the globe. Despite differences between major religious traditions and philosophical systems in language and form, he explains how they can all work in concert to describe different aspects of a single compassionate, loving, divine intelligence. Within us is seeded a compelling need to fulfill what we are all created to be—if we can just get past those tough hurdles that find us in fear and doubt.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   39:07

HISTORY, LEARNING & FUN

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Archive

Logical Insanity--Atomic Bombs and Other Issues of Military Morality — 31 Mar 2012 — Using the "should we have used the a-bombs on Japan" question as a starting point, Dan Carlin explores the thorny eastern front of militarism—morality. Though many find the choices to be obvious, it's often the case that the question is not even the right one.
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NPR

Best Books (And Surprising Insights) On Lincoln — 10 Apr 2012 — Every modern politician wants to reference Abraham Lincoln in a way that shines light on themselves or casts shadows on their opponents. But who was Lincoln, really? Three historians discuss their favorite books about one of our most revered presidents.
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Referenced books:   (on Amazon.com)
-- Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald
-- Civil War: Battle Cry of Freedom, by James McPherson
-- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
-- The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, by Eric Foner

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