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MP3/AUDIO NEWS DOWNLOAD ARCHIVE

 

AUDIO NEWS CLIPS/DOWNLOADS FOR
WEEK ENDING 31 JUL 2009

FEATURE STORY

SPRAWLING TO OBESITY
THE SUBURBIA EFFECT

image of obese man getting out of SUV with fast food bag; feature story is SPRAWLING TO OBESITY - THE SUBURBIA EFFECT KunstlerCast — Jul 2009
In May 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics confirmed that the design of US communities (i.e. car-dependent suburbia) negatively affects the health of children (i.e. contributes to obesity). James Howard Kunstler explores the relationship between suburban sprawl and the declining health of Americans.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:32

HOT & WHAT NOT

GoldRadio.fm

Something Rotten This Way Comes — 29 Jul 2009 — Economic analyst Bob Moriarty sees HYPERinflation ahead for dollar-denominated countries and assets; he expects the stock market to crack up big-time this fall; and he feels positive that the US dollar is going to fail as the global reserve currency. Unfortunately, we at Grinning Planet agree with him on all counts.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   13:01

Max Keiser Radio

Neo-Feudalism — 29 Jul 2009 — Another great conversation between Max and Stacy. This one includes the brilliant metaphor that feudalism has reemerged in the following manner: The Wall Street and London banks are royalty, ruling over everything; the national governments are barons, enforcing the will of the royals; and the rest of us are (or soon will be) "debt serfs," living in relative penury and desperation.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:08

Free Speech Radio News

Headline News — 31 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Deaths in Afghanistan have increased 24% according to UN ~~ New investigation implicates Karl Rove in firing of federal prosecutors ~~ Funding For Yucca Mountain appears to be dead
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:30

Taxpayers Fund Lavish Executive Compensation Packages — 31 Jul 2009 — A new report from the New York Attorney General shows just how much of the money sent to bailed-out banks went into bonuses to top executives.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:54

Two Beers With Steve

Inflation or Deflation — 28 Jul 2009 — Chris Martenson, who did the marvelous Crash Course series, gives his take on whether we're headed for deflation or inflation, and what each scenario would mean for our personal economics.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:17:46

COOL & CLASSIC
ENERGY

Science Friday

Wind Energy Potential — 26 Jun 2009 — A pretty good discussion of a recent report that suggests wind power alone has the potential to meet our electricity needs.
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Download/Listen  22:13

Radio Zapata George

A Lump of Coal in Our Stockings — 18 Jul 2009 — A great interview with Richard Heinberg, who points out that "peak coal" will likely happen within a couple of decades, NOT a couple of centuries, as is widely thought. More importantly, the idea of "clean coal"—regardless of whether that concept is am oxymoronic fiction or not—won't even work on an economic basis if coal supplies are soon to become constricted and expensive. Heinberg's latest book, Blackout, covers all the issues surrounding coal.
Go to page (see July 18)
Download/Listen  43:40

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for 27-31 Jul 2009...

Small Shifts in the Direction of Environmental Policy
...OR... ANYTHING is an improvement over 2001-2009
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Building Neighborliness with Free Fruit
...OR... urban fruit foraging
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Should Charity Hospitals Be Charitable?
...OR... money talks, patients walk
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Why Support Corporations That Don't Support Us?
...OR... Honeywell no longer sweet on America
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Living On Earth

Cheyenne May Yield to Coal — 31 Jul 2009 — After holding out as a no-coal oasis amid mines and power plants for years, the Cheyenne Nation in eastern Montana is considering digging up its rich reserves.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:17

Green Brown Lawn — 31 Jul 2009 — Manicured grass requires a lot of water and, often, chemicals to keep it green. Now, some homeowners are undoing their lawns and making the new green brown.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:21

Cracking the Hard Rock Mining Law — 24 Jul 2009 — More than a century later, the hard rock mining law of 1872 is still in effect, and mining companies can still dig up uranium, gold, and other minerals on public lands without paying royalties and without cleaning up. A new effort is being made to take on this problem.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:55

Dandy Dandelions — 24 Jul 2009 — Dandelions are often dismissed as a lowly weed, but the flower is an engineering marvel, and it has some interesting food and medicinal properties.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:30
Related GP article: Natural Dandelion Removal

Guns and Butter

Eyewitness Iran — 29 Jul 2009 — Reporter Reese Erlich gives a first-hand account of what has been going on in Iran since the election and resulting turmoil. Erlich is the author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:53

Bloomberg - On The Economy

Dollar To Lose More Value Than Other Currencies? — 27 Jul 2009 — Investment guru Axel Merk comments on currency fluctuations and inflation. Specifically, he talks about the potential for a further fall in the value of the US dollar and why that makes a difference for us in the US.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:33

Financial Sense News Hour

The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide — 25 Jul 2009 — An interview with Martin D. Weiss, author of The Ultimate Depression Survival Guide: Protect Your Savings, Boost Your Income, and Grow Wealthy Even in the Worst of Times
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   36:08

COOL & CLASSIC
SCIENCE

Science Friday

Fish and Mercury — 16 Jan 2009 — Good information about how to navigate the troubled seas of "high-in-mercury fish".
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Download/Listen  28:40
Related GP article: Fish and Mercury

Quirks and Quarks

08 Nov 2008 — Otters and Eagles — Otters are a keystone species, so it's no surprise that when killer whales start overstaying their welcome at the All-You-Can-Eat Otter Buffet, the consequences range from ecosystem imbalances in the kelp forests to a change of dining habits for eagles.
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Download/Listen  9:42

One Radio Network

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Sharp Market Downturn Coming in September — 24 Jul — Gerald Celente gives his take on the economy, including... some numbers that show we're already in a depression; the Goldman Gang and the rest of the banking mafia; and how the founding fathers warned us about the central bankers taking over the country. Celente is predicting a sharp market downturn in September.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   21:24

AUDIO NEWS CLIPS/DOWNLOADS FOR
WEEK ENDING 24 JUL 2009

FEATURE STORY

MEET THE FED...
THE FINANCIAL DEATH STAR
RUN BY THE GLOBAL ELITES

image of death star shooting green ray; feature story is MEET THE FED... THE FINANCIAL DEATH STAR RUN BY THE GLOBAL ELITES GoldRadio.fm — 22 Jul 2009
A good short discussion of how the Federal Reserve is coming into public consciousness as a super-secret private banking organization that in the past year has been funneling trillions of taxpayer dollars to Goldman Sachs and other big banks/investment firms.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   14:00

Related stuff:
Rubino book: The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It
YouTube video: Marc Faber: More Helicopters?
Rep. Ron Paul's "Audit the Fed" page
GP article: Causes of the Financial Crisis

HOT & WHAT NOT

Free Speech Radio News

Headline News — 23 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki visits US ahead of Kurdish elections ~~ Georgia tries to secure water rights to pull Atlanta through drought ~~ Kyrgyzstan opposition leader drops out before national polls close, claims election fraud
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:20

Health Care Industry Heavily Influencing Lawmaking Efforts — 23 Jul 2009 2009 — Two stories about how health industry lobbyists are getting prime access at The White House and on Capitol Hill
Story 1: Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:09
Story 2: Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:31

Community Activists Respond to Foreclosure Crisis in Hard-Hit Detroit — 22 Jul 2009 — In Detroit, where some homes are currently on sale for prices similar to a used car, community activists and some government officials are responding to the crisis with new solutions.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:37

Federal Agency Withheld Information on Hands-Free Cell Phone Risks — 21 Jul 2009 — It turns out that the safety issue related to cell phone use while driving is not whether your hands are on the wheel but whether your brain is paying attention to the conversation instead of the road. So why did the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration suppress the study results?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:33

Food Chain Radio

#643: Government Safe Food — 18 Jul 2009 — The latest bill in the US House of Representatives to "fix" food safety has lots and lots of new proposed regulations, many of them vague and open to (mis)interpretation by agribusiness-friendly bureaucrats. Whether intentional or not, this bill may be the death blow that forces our remaining small, local farmers out of business, leaving us with nothing but corporate-produced industrial food.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   43:04

#640: Not By Bread Alone — 27 Jun 2009 — When the USSR when kaput, Russia attempted to switch cold-turkey to capitalism. The disastrous results affected many aspects of everyday life, including the food system. Russians relied on informal social networks and urbann gardens for survival. In the US, the potential for a breakdown in the centralized food system is much greater than you think. How would we cope?  Related GP article: Food Security
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   43:24

PBS News Hour

News Wrap — 23 Jul 2009 — Top stories.
Download/Listen   3:33

High-Profile Profiling? — 23 Jul 2009 — In the wake of the unwarranted arrest of Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his own home, Ray Suarez and guests discuss the bigger issues at play.
Download/Listen   13:12

Twitter: Harmless Fad, or Web Revolution? — 22 Jul 2009 — In three short years, Twitter has become one of the web's most heavily used features. But is the micro-blog simply a fad, or a technological game-changer?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:49

California Strikes Deal to Close Billion Budget Gap — 21 Jul 2009 — Lawmakers in California agreed on a plan to close the state's remaining budget gap, ending weeks of stalemate that left the state's chief accountant having to issue IOUs to creditors.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:47

Jim Hightower

Instead of People Robbing Banks, Banks Are Robbing People — 23 Jul 2009 — Most of the robberies—which add up to tens of billions of dollars a year that bankers snatch from us—are pulled off with concealed weapons that have hair triggers and fire multiple rounds. The weapons are called "fees."
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

COOL & CLASSIC –
ONE RADIO NETWORK

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One Radio Network

The Dangers of GMOs-- And How To Protect Your Family — 16 Apr 2009 — A compelling interview with Andrew Kimbrell of The Center for Food Safety about the danger of genetically modified food; the problem of corporate control of seeds; and the lies, research suppression, and political infiltration used by Monsanto and others to monopolize the food supply. Kimbrell is author of Your Right to Know: Genetic Engineering and the Secret Changes in Your Food.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  1:04:33

One Radio Network

On the Trail of Chemtrails — 23 Jun 2009 — The true story of chemtrails is starting top emerge, but William Thomas has been digging into the issue for 10 years. He explains the difference between chemtrails and contrails and talks about the reasons our governments have been covering the skies with chemtrails.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  1:01:17

One Radio Network

The Powers That Be Steer You to the Game That Doesn't Matter — 09 Jul 2009 — Ian Crane walks us through the pernicious attack on the global population in the name of corporate globalization; the true intent of "harmonizing" trade rules; and the dangers of Codex Alimentarius, the plan to put control of the world's food totally in the hands of corporations. Meanwhile, the populace is dulled with unnutritious food, fluoridated water, and trifling entertainment. All according to plan.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  1:09:48

Max Keiser Radio

Makebelieve Things Like Leprechuans, Fairies, and Financial Markets — 21 Jul 2009 — Another radio blogcast from Mad Max Keiser and his savvy sidekick Stacy, as they wiggle, wobble, and weave their way through the unfolding economic hyper-reality. Wonderfully sarcastic and informative.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:00

Financial Sense News Hour

Energy Obesity — 18 Jul 2009 — An interview with Peter Tertzakian, author of The End of Energy Obesity: Breaking Today's Energy Addiction for a Prosperous and Secure Tomorrow. Tertzakian focuses on the most practical options that provide the highest leverage for resolving our energy problems and reveals how evolving habits, lifestyles, mind-sets, and innovations—that might seem improbable now—will help curb our insatiable energy appetite.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:15

Corbett Report

Paul Craig Roberts on Iranian Elections — 26 Jun 2009 — Former assistant Secretary of State Paul Craig Roberts exposes the untruths being put forth by the Western media about the recent Iranian elections and ongoing tensions.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   13:39

AUDIO NEWS CLIPS/DOWNLOADS FOR
WEEK ENDING 17 JUL 2009

FEATURE STORY

THE PARASITE CLASS AND THE SPECULATIVE ECONOMY

image of nasty looking parasite mouth; feature story is THE PARASITE CLASS AND THE SPECULATIVE ECONOMY C-Realm Podcast — 15 Jul 2009
KMO opens the show by reading a passage from Douglas Rushkoff's book Life Inc., which includes the assertion that assets, commodities, and derivatives compose a speculative marketplace that provides a mechanism for the parasite class (investors) to increase the value of their money merely by capitalizing on (or manipulating) scarcity. Ellen Brown, author of Web of Debt, follows up on this theme, discussing the deep level of malfeasance that characterizes the financial crisis and its supposed solutions.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   55:57

HOT & WHAT NOT

Democracy Now

Sotamayor, Goldman Sachs, and the Monroe Doctrine — 15 Jul 2009 — After headlines, segments include... Myth and reality on Sotamayor's views on race ~~ Matt Taibbi recounts his recent Rolling Stone article, which argues that Goldman Sachs is the king of market manipulation ~~ US lobbyists with Clinton ties have been hired to defend the Honduran coup regime
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for 13-17 Jul 2009...
Service fees now total 53 percent of big banks' income
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00
Hoosiers discover the hidden costs of privatization
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00
Proposed "TRADE" act aims to roll back WTO, NAFTA
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00
Wells Fargo bank is a runaway stagecoach of economic devastation
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00
The interminable price of our wars
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

Free Speech Radio News

Headline News — 17 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Protests restart in Iran ~~ Deadly bombs damage two hotels in Indonesia ~~ Planned Honduras mediation talks uncertain ~~ Obama administration overturns controversial logging plan in Oregon
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:11

Politicians Wrangle Over Funds for Unneeded War Planes — 17 Jul 2009 — Obama and the Pentagon say they don't need the F-22 and some other military hardware, but lawmakers with defense contractors in their districts want to preserve the funds.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:42

Nicaraguans Celebrate Sandinista Revolution — 17 Jul 2009 — In Nicaragua, people are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution. The Sandinistas successfully overthrew a bloody dictatorship, battled US interference (remember Iran-Contra?), and in the end, implemented land reform for over a million people and reduced illiteracy from 50% to 12%.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:17

US and Insurgents Clash In Pakistan — 17 Jul 2009 — In Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region today, a US drone attack killed at least four alleged militants. Pakistani government officials publicly have condemned such strikes as a violation of the country's sovereignty. In the Khyber region, militants blew up NATO tanks, killing at least one civilian. The violence continues during the first phase of the government program to return displaced people to their homes.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:36

Living On Earth

Full Show — 17 Jul 2009 — Segments include... Ethanol-driven push for more genetically-modified corn could contaminate the US food supply ~~ Transportation policy and the last hurrah for Happy Motoring ~~ An interview with Chris Mooney, author of the new book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:00

KunstlerCast

#71: Doomers — 16 Jul 2009 — Kunstler summarizes the concept of a "doomer" and discusses the work of a number of doomer authors, including Dmitri Orlov, John Michael Greer, and James Lovelock . While Kunstler does think the human system will be severely pruned, he believes that resurrection and redemption are great themes in the human story and that civilization has a few more cycles to go.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   31:15

Reality Report

Collapse Dynamics — 13 Jul 2009 — Noah Raford discusses "Collapse Dynamics: Phase Transitions in Complex Social Systems," describing how complex social systems become inflexible, leading to their collapse, and what strategies individuals aware of collapse might use to cope.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   58:52

Max Keiser Radio

The "Peasants Per Billionaire" Ratio — 15 Jul 2009 —Topics include... The emerging "work for free" model as a way of furthering the aristocracy ~~ Goldman Sachs and the "peasants per billionaire" ratio ~~ China and Japan move away from their dollar reserves ~~ the coming financial war.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:00

Media Minutes

Cyber-Politics — 17 Jul 2009 — Nominees to the FCC and Supreme Court face tough questions about the internet and First Amendment.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:00

COOL & CLASSIC & ECONOMIC

TUC Radio

Sex, Lies and Global Economics — 18 Mar 2009— According to our "modern" system of global accounting—as dictated by the UN, World Bank, and IMF—war and disease are positives on the balance sheet. Yet safe drinking water, clean air, animals in nature—even some people—inherently count for nothing. This is a good two-part collection of Marilyn Waring's thoughts on this problem.
Download/Listen, pt 1  28:29
Download/Listen, pt 2  28:29

Waring is author of Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth. The documentary Who's Counting – Sex, Lies and Global Economics gives and overview of her career and activism. More from TUC Radio here.

C-Realm Podcast

Natural Born Consumers — 17 Jun 2009 — KMO welcomes Duncan Crary (of the KunstlerCast) and Chuck Burr to the program to for a wide-ranging discussion that touches on humanism, sustainability, the concept of humans as natural born consumers, and the allure of apocalypse media (like zombie movies).
(Fascinating! --GP)
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  59:58

On The Media

Broken Record — 17 Jul 2009 — President Obama promised to bring transparency to the White House, but one opaque Bush Administration practice has continued unabated: off-the-record briefings where not even attendees' identities are made known to the public.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:34

Covering Big Food — 17 Jul 2009 — Robert Kenner, director of the forthcoming movie Food, Inc., found out that food-industry insiders rarely dish dirt and farmers who do talk suffer consequences. Kenner says the investigative process was positively Orwellian.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:27

Bill Moyers Journal

No Green Peace for Obama — 17 Jul 2009 — Some environmental activists are disappointed in Obama's progress on climate change and other green initiatives (or lack thereof) ~~ Robert Wright discusses his new book, The Evolution of God, which examines how the idea of God has changed through history.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   53:37

GoldRadio.fm

Kevin Kerr Interview — 15 Jul 2009 — Topics include the US dollar's slide and the prospects for alternative global reserve currency; the coming mismatch between oil supply and demand; doubts about this year's grain harvest.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   13:28

COOL & CLASSIC & OCEANIC

WNYC / Leonard Lopate Show

Ocean Garbage Patch — 22 Jan 2009— In the Central North Pacific, plastic outweighs surface zooplankton 6 to 1. Find out why the problem of garbage and plastic floating around in our oceans could be one of the most pressing environmental disasters we face now.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  21:11

Health Ranger Show

Depleted Fish and Threatened Oceans — Mar 2009 — An interview with Dr. Boris Worm, a marine biologist, who discusses the delicacy of the marine ecosystem and why overfishing threatens the survivability of penguins, whales, sharks and many other species. Also covered: plastic trash in the Pacific Ocean, aquaculture vs. wild fish harvesting, krill harvesting, seafood products labeling, and consumer advocacy.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  44:19

AUDIO NEWS CLIPS/DOWNLOADS FOR
WEEK ENDING 10 JUL 2009

FEATURE STORY

FLASHING LIGHTS ON THE CONSOLE

image of glowing red light; feature story is FLASHING LIGHTS ON THE CONSOLE C-Realm Podcast #160 — Jul 2009
A discussion between host KMO, Richard Heinberg, and Albert Bates about peak oil, peak coal, and general obliviousness among most people to the danger signs ahead. Heinberg now says it's too late to avert the consequences of Peak Oil; we should now focus on preparing for them. Bates says he's optimistic about civilization, except that the facts keep getting in the way. Richard Heinberg's just-out book is Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis. Albert Bates is author of The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook.

Go to page  |  Download/Listen   57:56

HOT & WHAT NOT

Free Speech Radio News

Headline News — 09 Jul 2009 — Stories include... Final day of the G8 meetings; climate change still top issue ~~ US drone attacks in Pakistan kill nearly 60 ~~ Environmental group sues to protect arctic from US pesticides
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:36

156 Dead Following Ethnic Violence in China — 10 Jul 2009 — Ethnic violence has left at least 156 people dead and more than 1,000 injured in China's Northwest Xinjiang autonomous region this week. The Chinese government blamed "outside forces" and "terrorist groups" but analysts say the violence stems from a series of unaddressed grievances among ethnic groups.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:31

Congress Reviews CIA Record on Information Disclosure — 10 Jul 2009 — A showdown is looming between congress, the president, and the CIA. Several months after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first accused the CIA of misleading her about torture practices in Iraq, new revelations are causing skeptics to take another look at how the agency communicates with Congress.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:08

Honduras Crisis Updates — 10 Jul 2009 — Is the recent military coup against Honduran president Manuel Zelaya a plot by right-wing elites? Or did he illegally attempt to extend his time in power? Congress is weighing the evidence. ~~ In a related story, while negotiations continue in Honduras over Zelaya's return, the new government has threatened to freeze bank accounts of Zelaya supporters.
Congress: Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:13
Bank accounts: Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

GoldRadio.fm

Californ-i-o-u — 10 Jul 2009 — John Rubino discusses the IOU mess in California, money-printing vs. gold-price manipulation, and the disingenuousness of Treasury Secretary Geithner—is he completely dishonest or merely incompetent? Rubino is co-author of The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   16:39

Living On Earth

Full Show — 10 Jul 2009 — Segments include... What's in your bottled water? ~~ Yahoo's plans to cut their CO2 emissions in half ~~ G8 evasive on CO2 goals ~~ Green building comes to your neighborhood
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:00

Explorations

Scary Fish Story — 07 Jul 2009 — A discussion about how much more plentiful sea life used to be, the devastating impact of modern fishing technology, the inefficiencies of how we use today's massive fish catch, and the impact of land-based pollution on the oceans. The interview is with Callum Roberts, author of The Unnatural History of the Sea.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:50

Max Keiser Radio

Lords of the Ponzi Universe — 08 Jul 2009 — Max and Stacy talk about the ongoing massive thievery being perpetrated by Goldman-Sachs, the lords of the Ponzi Universe; plummeting employment levels; and a new "super-national" currency.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:16

COOL & CLASSIC

Radio Parallax

Sun in a Bottle — 09 Apr 2009 — A very good discussion of the hocus-pocus history of fusion energy and its potential for the future. The interview is with Charles Seife, author of Sun in a Bottle.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  30:35

TUC Radio

Is Nuclear Power Coming Back? ... and Do We Need a Police State to Live with It? — 28 Jan 2009 — Two good speeches on the bogus arguments made by proponents of a "nuclear renaissance." the speakers are David Freeman and Arjun Makhijani, author of Carbon-Free And Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  28:59

Long Now

Michael Pollan - Deep Agriculture — 05 May 2009 — Michael Pollan, one of our most insightful commentators on agriculture and food issues, gives an excellent speech on transitioning from our corporate, GMO-crazed, industrial food system to a more organic, localized, small-farm-centric system. Pollan is author of In Defense of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  1:27:00

Crop to Cuisine

Animal Production and Local Meat — 15 Dec 2008 — Interviews, including... (1) Robert Martin of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Production explains the impact of industrial animal production on the environment, animal welfare, social health, and our wallets. ~~ (2) Frank Silva on the importance of preserving heritage breeds of animals ~~ (3) Robert Pincus with tips on sourcing meat from farmers' market distributors.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen  52:45

Jim Hightower

Selected recent Hightower commentaries...
Madoff's in jail but weak regulation and Wall Street excesses continue
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US food safety laws fingered as accomplice in E. coli's poisonous rampage
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00
Bankers are (still) behaving badly
    Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

On The Media

Look Who's Coming to Dinner — 10 Jul 2009 — The Washington Post, far from being the liberal rag claimed by the right-wing noise machine, is a highly connected tool of those in power, regardless of party. How connected? So much so that they were planning to offer a $25,000-a-plate dinner so lobbyists could come chat up administration officials and Post employees.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:16

The Silent Treatment — 10 Jul 2009 — A discussion of new media, old media, news suppression, and the struggle for editorial control, using the kidnapping of New York Times reporter David Rhode as an example.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:51

AUDIO NEWS CLIPS/DOWNLOADS FOR
WEEK ENDING 03 JUL 2009

FEATURE STORY

image of Batman looking our over the city; feature story is Becoming Batman - The Possibility of a Real-Life Superhero BECOMING BATMAN

Here's a fun summer detour into a totally non-newsy topic: Whether a committed individual could undertake a training regimen that would turn him into a real-life Batman—that is, with strength, agility, martial arts skills, etc, all honed to the extraordinary degree necessary to fight crime at the superhero level. The interview is with scientist Paul Zehr, author of Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero. Interview and MP3 from CBC's "Quirks and Quarks".
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   13:42

HOT & WHAT NOT

Free Speech Radio News

US Military Launches Operations in Afghanistan's Helmand Province — 02 Jul 2009 — The US has launched a new military operation against Taliban militants, with some 4,000 Marines landing in Afghanistan's Helmand province under the cover of darkness early Thursday. The goal is to re-establish the Afghanistan government's control over areas of Helmand which are dominated by the Taliban.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:36

US Job Losses Increase in June — 02 Jun 2009 — The Department of Labor reports that the per-month number of jobs lost in the US increased in June. Thursday's figures dimmed recent optimism that arose from slowing job loss throughout the spring.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:45

Commentary: Michael Jackson, Master Entertainer — 02 Jul 2009 — From Mumia Abu-Jamal
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:32

GoldRadio.fm/Howe Street

Monetary Base Expansion Troubling — 30 Jun 2009 — Analyst Mike Larson says Helicopter Ben isn't kidding around—the Fed is creating money at a very fast paste, suggesting that inflation is in the future for dollar-based countries.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:48

 

COOL, CLASSIC, AND
NEWSY

American RadioWorks

May 2009 — From Sin City to Foreclosure City — This three part series starts off with a look at the plunging Las Vegas real estate market and the impact the economic downturn is having on people. It then examines the situation in Muncie, Indiana, which was made the most famous industrial town in middle American by a 1950s book. The third segment examines the FDR-era New Deal programs and discusses their possible relevance to today.
ARW podcast page:
Go to page
1. Foreclosure City:
Download/Listen  53:25
2. Hard Times in Middletown:
Download/Listen  52:36
3. Bridge to Somewhere:
Download/Listen  51:38

KunstlerCast

27 Mar 2009— New Orleans Revisited — A double-header from Kunstler that proves just how hard it is to make broad-stroke judgments about living arrangements that have evolved under one set of circumstances but now face a totally new set of circumstances.
Part 1: Go to page  |  Download/Listen  23:45
Part 2: Go to page  |  Download/Listen  11:55

 
COOL, CLASSIC, AND
FOODY

NOW

05 Jun 2009 — Food, Inc. — NOW talks with filmmaker Robert Kenner—the director of "Food, Inc."—which takes a hard look at the strange journey food takes on its way from farm fields to processing plants to dinner tables. What is the impact of the Bizzaro World of Food on our health, and what power do consumers have to take control of their food?
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Food Chain Radio

04 Apr 2009 — Lawyering Up for Food Safety — A conversation about the poor job the feds are doing on food safety. Given that the problem is 99.99% related to corporate industrial-food techniques, the obvious best solution for us is to focus our food dollars on local food from small farmers.
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Reality Report

16 Jun 2009— Farm Size vs. Productivity — An interview with Michael Bomford regarding his ongoing study of how farm size and level of energy inputs affects crop productivity and farming efficiency.
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Tree Hugger Radio

16 Jan 2009 — Sim Game: World Without Oil — an interview with Ken Eklund, creator of a game that allows players to strategize how best to deal with oil shortages.
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Science Friday

19 Apr 2009 — Algae Power — a good talk about some of the issues related to using algae as a carbon-neutral fuel source and scaling up algal biofuels to production levels.
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Steppin’ Out Of Babylon

06 Apr 2009 — Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire — Alexis Zeigler argues that finding alternatives to oil, clean-and-green or not, will fail to solve the underlying problem we have with energy. Changing ourselves and our societal structure is the only way out. Zeigler is author of Culture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire.
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C-Realm Podcast

03 Jun 2009 — #156: Insidious Hope — (1) an interview with yoga practitioner Danny Paradise, who explains the relationship between yoga, food, music, and overall health. ~~ (2) A nearly impenetrable but nonetheless intriguing commentary from Neil Kramer on the matrix control system of the Powers That Be, how consciousness really works, and the importance of imagination to breaking through the control mechanisms.
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Project Camelot

Mar 2009 — A Healed Planet and the Role of Free Energy — At Grinning Planet, we usually require proof of concept before putting any credence in a proposed solution. But what if the solution were so monumental and the attempted suppression of it was so ruthless (so those controlling the current approach could maintain their vaunted position) that proof of concept were nearly impossible? And what if increasing public awareness were a key factor in the eventual unleashing of said solution? With this in mind, we present this interview on "free energy"—a source of power far beyond anything we have now.
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