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Due to the holidays, there will be no update for 25 Dec 2009. If you must have a news fix, you'll find that many of the feature stories in our 2009 audio news archive pages that are still relevant and timely. Normal updates will resume with the news feed for the week ending 01 Jan 2010.
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CAP AND BETRAYED
A CRITICAL LOOK AT CARBON TRADING
Democracy Now — 15 Dec 2009
This is an excellent conversation about using "cap and trade" as an approach to CO2 limits.
Referenced in the piece is the excellent short video The Story of Cap and Trade.
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Books mentioned in this clip:
-- Can We Afford the Future? - The Economics of a Warming World
-- Carbon Trading - A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatization, and Power
Related video:
-- The Story of Cap and Trade
Related GP articles:
-- Global Warming Hoaxes and Conspiracies
-- Global Warming and Tax Shifting
Media Matters
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood — 13 Dec 2009 — Allen D. Kanner discusses the effect of television, marketing, video games, and other forms of marketing aimed at children.
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-- Site: Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
-- Book: Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising
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PBS NewsHour
Rare Earth Minerals and China — 14 Dec 2009 — Rare earth metals have niche manufacturing applications that are critical to computers, cell phones, solar panels, and even some motors. Most people will be shocked to find out that China produces 95% of the global supply of these metals.
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CONFRONTING THE
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Democracy Now
Headlines — 18 Dec 2009 — Stories include... Confidential UN documents say proposed would still allow 3 degree C temperature rise ~~ 16 Killed in US drone attack in Pakistan ~~ US opens new Afghan assault as 30,000 troop deployment begins ~~ Fed Chairman Bernanke's reappointment forwarded to full Senate for vote ~~ Citigroup to get more bailout billions
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On The Media
Broad Minded — 18 Dec 2009 — Free Press policy director Ben Scott comments on the soon-to-be-proposed National Broadband Plan and on the importance of rewiring all of America for high-speed internet.
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Unsafe Sext — 18 Dec 2009 — According to polls released this month, "sexting"—the practice of sending and receiving naked photos over cell phones—is on the rise among teens. Slate's Emily Bazelon explains.
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The Searchers — 18 Dec 2009 — Anne Weismann , the chief counsel for Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, discusses the successful search for and release of 22 million "lost" Bush-era emails.
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The Real News
American Casino — 13 Nov 2009 — Andrew Cockburn, producer of the new documentary American Casino, reviews the bad decisions, corrupt actions, and venal characters that have turned our financial system into a high-stakes gamblers' paradise.
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Two Beers With Steve
Flight to Financial Freedom — 15 Dec 2009 — As the desperation grows among the Powers That Be, they're starting to make mistakes ... like Amazon.com trying to ban the new documentary The Secret of Oz only to have to retreat in the face of customer protests. Steve points out that the significance of the TARP bailout and other shenanigans was not that they were a theft of wealth but that they woke up the masses to what 'business as usual' really means on Wall Street and in Washington. But now action is required.... Get ready for 'swarm politics'.
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Diet Soap
John Shirley: The Mechanism that I Am — 16 Dec 2009 — A partial clip with an interesting conversation about how most of us are figuratively asleep as adults, living within a mechanistic set of behaviors, even though we did not start out that way as children. The interview is with John Shirley, author of Bleak History. The clip opens and closes with intriguing collages of cyber-punk musings.
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Bill Moyers Journal
Matt Taibbi & Robert Kuttner: Fading Hopes for Real Reform — 18 Dec 2009 — A conversation with Robert Kuttner and Matt Taibbi about the financial carnival. One major point: Republicans have historically been onboard with the Wall Street agenda, but "Corporate Democrats" are now climbing aboard to sell out us little guys.
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Max Keiser Radio
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Sierra Club Radio
James McCommons on the Future of Passenger Rail — 12 Dec 2009 — A conversation with James McCommons, author of Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service.
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WATER WORLD IN PERIL
IS THE U.S. HEADED FOR AN "AQUA SHOCK"?
Financial Sense — 05 Dec 2009
Susan J. Marks, author of Aqua Shock: The Water Crisis in America, gives us a tour through the problems faced by the US with fresh water in the coming century, from limitations on supply to chemical contamination and water's relationship to energy. As the fossil aquifers draw down and climate change reduces summer water from snow pack and glacier melt, will farms, cities, and all of us be able to adjust?
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More books:
-- Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
-- When the Rivers Run Dry: Water--The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
Related GP articles:
-- Water Pollution Solutions
-- Water Usage Quiz
Other GP resources:
-- Water Quotes
-- Environmental Movies about Water
Related videos:
-- Water Pollution Video: Poisoned Waters
-- Funny Water Supply Video
Related GP cartoons:
-- Water Cartoon: Clean Enough?
-- Funny Water 'Joke News'
EconTalk
Going on a Debt Diet — 07 Dec 2009 — Megan McArdle discusses approaches to managing personal debt, including the anti-debt program espoused by Dave Ramsey. Fiscal discipline is compared to discipline in other areas of life, such as dieting.
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Scientific American
Seven Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense — 03 Dec 2009 — This clip takes on a few of the common red herrings of the climate discussion, including manmade CO2 vs. natural sources, water vapor as a greenhouse gas, CO2 from volcanoes, the "hockeystick" graph(s), and whether the climate is really cooling, not warming.
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Democracy Now
Headlines — 11 Dec 2009 — Stories include... US criticized for rejecting "climate reparations" ~~ Study warns of CO2-related ocean acidification ~~ Thousands protest Obama outside Nobel ceremony ~~ Report says Blackwater played key role in rendition, Iraq-Afghanistan raids ~~ Mining giant fined $1.79 billion
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NOT-SO-COOL & CLASSIC
THE WORLD'S MELTING ICE |
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Food Chain Radio
An Amish Autism Anomaly — 05 Dec 2009 — Veeeerrrryyy interesting .... that Amish children and at least one alternative-medicine cohort of children have much, much lower incidences of autism than children from the general populace. So what is it about Western medicine and/or our modern industrial lifestyles that is causing autism?
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News #1 — 11 Dec 2009 — Stories include... Financial reforms pass the US House ~~ Europe ponders tax on executive pay and speculative financial transactions ~~ Simmering Israeli-Palestinian trouble in West Bank ~~ Yemen refugee camp numbers ballooning amid fighting in north
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Headline News #2 — 10 Dec 2009 — Stories include... Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize, defends need for war ~~ Social conservatives' riders removed from appropriations bill ~~ Extrajudicial killings in oil-rich Nigeria exposed
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Lawmakers Question Treasury Secretary Over Extension of Bailout Program — 10 Dec 2009 — Treasury Secretary Time Geithner faced a skeptical government oversight panel as he reported on the future of the TARP program used to save the big banks.
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A Silver Lining in the Leaked Climate Proposal? — 09 Dec 2009 — A leaked climate proposal from the Danish government was criticized for advantaging rich nations at the expense of African nations. But the text also appears to be giving life to a serious push for stronger emissions reductions.
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Guns and Butter
Webster Tarpley: Obama Declaring War on Pakistan — 09 Dec 2009 — Webster Tarpley talks about the importance of central Asia to the US energy strategy, the escalation of the US wars in Central Asia, and the de facto inclusion of large portions of Pakistan as part the Afghanistan war.
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KunstlerCast
'The Long Emergency' US Tour, Part 2 — 10 Dec 2009 — James Howard Kunstler predicts how various regions of the United States will fare during the energy crisis that he anticipates is coming. In this segment, "The Long Emergency" comes to the US Great Plains, the Upper Midwest, the Mid Atlantic and New England. He also talks about issues with fresh water scarcity.
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Related book:
The Long Emergency
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Radio EcoShock
Bulldoze Suburbia? — 11 Dec 2009 — Is it foolish to hope for eco-cities, while tax revenues collapse? Richard Register says it's late, but cities across the world, rich and poor, are finding solutions—because they must. ~~ Elizabeth Grossman on the chemical toxins in our homes and bodies. ~~ Prashant Vaze on trying to an "economical environmentalist" by slashing personal emissions—despite job and family and all that.
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Related books:
- EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature by Richard Register
- Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry by Elizabeth Grossman
- The Economical Environmentalist: My Attempt to Live a Low-Carbon Life and What it Costs by Prashant Vaze
Diet Soap
John Bowe: Nobodies — 09 Dec 2009 — John Bowe talks about his book Nobodies, which exposes one of the dark sides of our modern economic empire—there is an ongoing global slave trade based on extortion, manipulation, fear, and violence.
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John Bowe's book:
Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
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CLIMATEGATE! ... IS GLOBAL WARMING A CONSPIRACY TO CONTROL THE WORLD?
Radio EcoShock — 04 Dec 2009
Does a set of leaked emails from climate researchers throw the entire science of global warming into doubt? The US Senate held a hearing to discuss it. The first half-hour of this show provides coverage, including answers to some tough climate questions and a few standard red herrings.
In the second half of the show, things lighten up as we snuffle around the world of the hedgehog with author Hugh Warwick, author of The Hedgehog's Dilemma.
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Related:
-- More coverage of the leaked emails from The Real News
-- Radio EcoShock climate page
Related GP article:
-- Global Warming Hoaxes and Conspiracies
Other GP pages:
-- Global Warming Books
-- Global Warming Movies
-- Global Warming Quotes
King World News
John William on the Realities of the US Economy — 04 Dec 2009 — John William discusses the realities of the US economy—staggering unemployment, the Fed's inability to stimulate the economy, the consumer's inability to spend, looming hyperinflation, and the coming collapse of the US Dollar. He also offers ideas on how listeners can prepare themselves for this crisis.
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CounterSpin
Afghanistan: 30,000 More Troops — 04 Dec 2009 — President Obama has committed 30,000 new troops to the Afghanistan War. Can the effort there really be effective at protecting the Afghan population and defending the US against further terror attacks? Also, what's missing from the Afghanistan discussion?
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Two Beers With Steve
The James Howard Kunstler Interview — 01 Dec 2009 — James Howard Kunstler gives a good overview and discussion of Peak Oil and the massive changes that will be imposed on the American lifestyle by future energy constraints.
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The Looming Private Equity Crisis — 27 Nov 2009 — Some of us remember the raw deal America got from "leveraged buyouts" (LBOs) in the 1980s at the hands of guys like Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and the rest of the corporate raiders. Well, LBOs never went away. In fact, they got much worse, says Josh Kosman, author of The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis.
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Media Minutes
The Comcast-NBC Mega-Merger — 04 Dec 2009 — The Comcast-NBC merger will create a media behemoth that could spell disaster for consumer choice and diversity in media.
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Democracy Now
Eliot Spitzer: Geithner and Bernanke Complicit in Financial Crisis and Should Go
04 Dec 2009 — Eliot Spitzer, former attorney general and governor of New York, discusses the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. He notes that the Fed helped build the structure that now has collapsed.
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One Radio Network
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Andrew Gause: Nationalizing the Fed for Public Benefit — 02 Dec 2009 — Andy Gause disagrees with the movement to "End the Fed." First he wants to nationalize it, to repurpose it for public benefit. But you say you don't trust politicians with the power to print money? Well, says Andy, look what the big banks have done to us with their power to print money! He also comments on gold at $1200.
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KunstlerCast
'The Long Emergency' US Tour, Part 1 — 03 Dec 2009 — James Howard Kunstler predicts how various regions of the United States will fare during the energy crisis that he anticipates is coming. In this segment, "The Long Emergency" comes to the US southwest, Pacific northwest, the Rockies, and the southern states.
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McAlvany Podcast
Paul Craig Roberts: The Characteristics of a Failed State — 02 Dec 2009 — This discussion begins with how the corporate giants of the military, energy, finance, and health care sectors have a preponderant influence on governments and geopolitical affairs. The guest is Paul Craig Roberts, an economist who served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration.
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Financial Sense
Gerald Celente: Renaissance Revolution — 28 Nov — Gerald Celente says the only way we will escape the clutches of the emerging plutocratic-fascist state is to dump Wall Street, big-box stores, and agribusiness giants and return to the days of Main Street, mom-and-pop stores, and family farms. He says we need a renaissance revolution.
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More: Financial Sense News Hour home page
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Living On Earth
Cattle, Climate, and the Amazon — 04 Dec 2009 — There is a give-and-take relationship between the vast rainforests of the planet and global temperatures. Among rainforest regions, the Amazon is the most critical. Despite this, clearcutting marches on. Are there solutions?
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A SUBVERSIVE PLOT
This short presentation explains the great reasons to grow more of your own food—from peak oil to avoiding GMOs to redistributing power back to the people, away from the corp-gov axis of weasels. Watch reasons to garden video.
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YOU ARE HERE — THE OIL JOURNEY PRESENTATION
Though we have all become hooked on the technological and societal benefits of the cheap-energy age, that age is unavoidably about to end. In this good presentation on the peak-oil problem, we first see the proof, then we get a few thoughts on how we might navigate the transition.
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HERR HOPPE AND THE NUCLEAR WASTE
Metaphorically, nuclear waste is the energy elephant in the global livingroom. Cartoon character Herr Hoppe, however, finds himself with actual radioactive waste in his livingroom. Watch his humorous—and strikingly unsuccessful—attempts to get rid of it. Watch funny nuclear waste videos.
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FUNNY PROGRESSIVE MULTIMEDIA |
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THE STORY OF ELECTRONICS
The high-tech revolution's collateral damage includes 25 million tons of e-waste (and counting), plus poisoned workers and a public left holding the bill. This good electronic-waste video uses funny/clever graphics to accent its points.
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THE CHOCOLATE CHROMOSOME
Rumor has it that many women luuuuuuv chocolate. This Target Women bit exposes the dark, smooth, delicious underbelly of the cocoa-nuttiness. Watch funny video on women and chocolate.
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BRUNCHABLES
If you live in the bizarro world of insane food marketers, you might come up with some of these conveniently packaged kids' meals. Watch funny school lunch video.
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