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Democracy Now
25 Mar 2009 — Patient Zero in Derivatives Plague was in AIG — After the news summary, a discussion with Matt Taibbi, author of the recent article "The Big Takeover – How Wall Street Insiders Are Using the Bailout to Stage a Revolution"
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CounterSpin
27 Mar 2009 — Environmental Disasters and the Media — The Exxon Valdez and Three Mile Island incidents were seen as watershed revelations of institutional failures. They engendered activism and calls for reform. But the corporate media rarely engage in meaningful discussions of such topics. Two guests talk about why: marine biologist Riki Ott, author of
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,
and Harvey Wasserman, longtime nuclear activist and co-author of
Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation.
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Bill Moyers Journal
27 Mar 2009 — Campaign for Economic Fairness + William Greider — (1) A grassroots campaign for economic fairness for working people in Chicago has run up against the city's powerful political establishment and corporate giant Wal-Mart. (2) William Greider thinks the ongoing "grand transformation of government" feels more like trying to restore the old order that has demonstrably failed.
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Crop To Cuisine
23 Mar 2009 — Cool Cuisine and Fresh Food — (1) A look at the food-sustainability philosophy espoused in the book
Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite out of Global Warming.
(2) An interview with R.J. Ruppenthal, author of
Fresh Food From Small Spaces,
a handbook for people living in urban areas that want to live sustainably through food.
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Peak Moment
23 Mar 2009 — Creating a Home Graywater System — We're hearing a lot more about limitations on water supplies. Graywater systems are one way to get more value out of our water before it returns to nature for recycling. Trathen Heckman takes us on a step-by-step tour of how to make a safe, ecological, and legal home graywater system.
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Living On Earth
27 Mar 2009 — Full Show — Including... EPA re-evaluates mountaintop removal mining ~~ Dueling coal ads ~~ Lessons learned from Exxon Valdez and Three Mile Island ~~ Drilling for oil in Central Park ~~ Robofish reports on pollution ~~ Finding alien life on Earth
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Media Minutes
27 Mar 2009 — ISPs Snooping Deeper on Internet Users' Data? — The open nature of the Internet will be lost if Internet Service Providers are allowed to use a technology called Deep Packet Inspection to snoop on Internet users' data and communications. EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" guide shows you how to legally protect your computer data against government spying.
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Radio EcoShock
27 Mar 2009 — Voices from Below — Economic damage report, including... Treasury madness, empty factories, "Will Work for Food", Nashville tent city, car living, and tips for surviving the crash.
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Free Speech Radio News
27 Mar 2009 — Obama Announces Plan for Pakistan and Afghanistan — Hours after a deadly attack in northwest Pakistan, President Obama announced what he is calling a new US strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Critics say the plan is more of the same.
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23 Mar 2009 — Taxpayers to Buy Up Toxic Assets — The Treasury Department announced plans to buy up troubled assets they say are clogging the financial markets. The Treasury Department will partner with private investors to purchase the bad assets, in the latest plan to spend taxpayer dollars to stimulate the markets and repair the economy.
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On The Media
27 Mar 2009 — "War" Is Over — Whatever your feelings about "The War on Terror," at least the phrase was clear in its intent. Obama is replacing the Bush-era phrase with the jibber-jabberish "'Overseas Contingency Operation." (Can you say "newspeak"?) This clip explores how our leaders use language as a tool to clarify or obfuscate.
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27 Mar 2009 — The Infinite Shelf — With Google having settled its copyright suit with authors and publishers, the company is now poised to be a modern Library of Alexandria, with full texts of millions of titles online. Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library, loves the access but wonders at what cost.
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Free Speech Radio News
20 Mar 2009 — Headline News — Including... US deficit will be larger than expected ~~ Court rules military contractors must answer civil lawsuits ~~ Palestinian unity talks break with little unity
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20 Mar 2009 — Sri Lanka Fighting Setting Up Humanitarian Crisis — The Sri Lankan military says it's poised to capture the last positions of the Tamil Tiger rebels. But international concern is mounting over the humanitarian crisis there—the intense fighting has trapped thousands of civilians in the war zone.
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20 Mar 2009 — The Constitution and Other Illusions — A commentary by Mumia Abu-Jamal
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19 Mar 2009 — Two Million Iraqi Refugees Struggle to Survive — Over the past 6 years, about two million war refugees have fled their homes in Iraq and now live in Syria and other neighboring nations, including Jordan. But refugees are not legally allowed to work, and in some cases, child refugees are denied the right to an education.
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18 Mar 2009 — Locals Struggle for Water Rights in Chile — Water rights in Chile have been wholly privatized, meaning not just water treatment or distribution, but the rights to the water in rivers, canals and even mountain snowcaps and glaciers.
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Democracy Now
19 Mar 2009 — Whole Show — Including... Headlines ~~ A must-hear interview with Robert Scheer on AIG bonuses, the "backdoor bailout" and why Obama should fire Geithner and Summers ~~ Tariq Ali talks about the odd handling of 'socialism' in the United States as well as hot spots Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Living On Earth
20 Mar 2009 — LOE stories...
Jack McEnany On Trees and The Wood Economy
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Norwegian Company Wants to Manufacture All-Electric Car in US
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CounterSpin
20 Mar 2009 — AIG's Executive Bonuses + Mexico's Drug War — The AIG executive bonuses account for less than one percent of the money taxpayers are turning over to the insurance giant in the largest of the corporate bailouts, but the story has riveted public attention and outrage. ~~ CNN has been telling viewers that the war among Mexican drug cartels is a threat to all of us. How real is the recent round of scare stories about Mexico and the drug war, and what interests are served by it?
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Terra Verde
17 Mar 2009 — Peak Oil and Environment — The depletion of oil and other finite resources is often forgotten when pondering environmental solutions. Post Carbon Institute Executive Director Asher Miller and Tom Stokes, Coordinator of the Climate Crisis Coalition, explain why we cannot ignore peak oil. Related GP article: Peak Oil and Environment
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KunstlerCast
12 Mar 2009 — #55: Meaningful Work in a New Economy — Kunstler believes that as the old economy dwindles, there will be many opportunities for local entrepreneurs to create useful work in their communities. The discussion also covers the struggling media industry and new opportunities for weekly community publications.
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05 Mar 2009 — #54: Retooling Suburbia — Though it may be possible to retrofit the suburbs, Kunstler doesn't believe that Americans will have the money to remake some of the worst suburbs into more traditional, mixed-use neighborhoods. In the second half, Kunstler explores the topic of future population decline in the US, with food availability playing a pivotal role.
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Democracy Now
12 Mar 2009 — Whole Show — Including... Headlines ~~ Movement against crippling rates on student loans ~~ Michael Parenti: economic crisis the inevitable result of "capitalism's self-inflicted apocalypse"
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Living On Earth
13 Mar 2009 — Cartoon with a Message — In Jim Toomey's syndicated comic strip "Sherman's Lagoon," his cast of aquatic characters live in the South Pacific and ponder environmental issues about the ocean. Toomey tells LOE about how he uses humor to educate his readers.
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13 Mar 2009 — Science on Hold — Despite President Barack Obama's recent focus on science, his two nominees for high-profile science positions are stuck in Senate limbo. Anonymous Senators have put holds on the confirmation of Jane Lubchenco, picked to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and John Holdren, chosen as the president's special assistant for science and technology.
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13 Mar 2009 — Mapping Climate Change — Satellites play a critical role in monitoring and preserving the world's tropical forests. The eyes in the sky have revolutionized our world view but they may not be up to the task in the future.
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Free Speech Radio News
13 Mar 2009 — Headline News — Including... SC governor threatens to not take stimulus money ~~ Pakistan's president agrees to deal with opposition ~~ Justice Department dispenses with "enemy combatant" title
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12 Mar 2009 — Obama's Pick to Head FDA Faces Tough Job to Reform Agency — As the new FDA head, former New York health commissioner Margaret Hamburg will not only need to steer a new course for the ailing agency—which has recently come under sharp criticism for its mismanagement during a recent salmonella outbreak—but she'll also have to navigate the delicate balance between pharmaceutical companies and consumer advocates.
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11 Mar 2009 — Treasury Geek Kashkari Demurs on Destination of Bank Bailout Funds — Congressional panels spent the day searching for how bank bail out money has been spent. Lawmakers pressed Neel Kashkari, the Treasury official in charge of spending $700 billion in an attempt to relieve the frozen credit crisis. But Kashkari says it's bad business to ask the banks to divulge all the details.
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11 Mar 2009 — Los Angeles Times Reporters Sue Parent Company — Former and current L.A. Times reporters are suing the parent company, Tribune Media, and its CEO. They say executives broke the law when they approved a leveraged buyout that risked employee pension funds.
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On The Media
13 Mar 2009 — The Net's Mid-Life Crisis — The basic architecture of the Internet hasn't changed since it was conceived 40 years ago. But what was once the playground of wonks is now the main staging area for the global economy and open to an array of security vulnerabilities. OTM talks with Internet experts who ponder a vexing conundrum: how to increase security without simultaneously hampering innovation.
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13 Mar 2009 — Leak Proof — The site WikiLeaks posts leaked documents from anonymous whistleblowers worldwide, even if those documents pose a danger or could potentially lead to loss of life. Julian Assange, the site's investigations editor, explains why Wikileaks publishes almost anything it receives.
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Radio EcoShock
13 Mar 2009 — Will There Be Riots? — (1) Officials and billionaires predict global riots. Opiners include Michael T. Klare, defense correspondent for The Nation and author of Rising Power, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy. ~~ (2) Relocalization pioneer Jason Bradford on community alternatives, including food-based currency. (3) Horrible Climate News.
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06 Mar — The Confidence Man — From films like
The Sting and
The Music Man
to modern-day confidence men like investment crook Bernard Madoff, flim-flammers and con artists have been with us for a long time. This interesting piece explores the theme, exposing some human nature in the process.
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06 Mar 2009 — King Limbaugh — Analysis of... The hoo-hah over Rush Limbaugh as the possible new leader of the Republican party, as well as Michael Steele's obsequious act of fealty; plus a report from the Conservative Political Action Conference held in DC last weekend
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Free Speech Radio News
06 Mar 2009 — Unemployment Hits 25-Year High — Latest figures put joblessness at worst mark in quarter-century.
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03 Mar 2009 — Bush Era "Terror Memos" Revealed — The Justice Department released nine Bush Administration memos that assigned broad presidential powers after September 11. The memos state the president has the power to use the military within the United States against suspected terrorists, that the president has the right to conduct warrantless surveillance and searches within the US, and that First Amendment rights to free speech and freedom of the press could be suppressed.
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06 Mar 2009 — The Mess in Mexico — As unrest continues to escalate in Mexico, author John Gibler says that although the conquest of Mexico is largely buried in the pages of history, there is an ongoing struggle between a powerful, violent elite and everyday people who rebel. Gibler;s new book is called Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt.
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03 Mar 2009 — Honeymoon Over for Ethanol — It was only a couple of years ago when many environmentalists were swooning over ethanol, touting it as a cleaner-burning alternative to gasoline. But the honeymoon didn't last long.
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Guns and Butter
04 Mar 2009 — The Way We Were and What We Are Becoming — Financial economist and historian Michael Hudson provides an analysis of the latest in the Wall Street/banking bailout heist, including ... more free funds for insurance giant AIG; price and debt deflation; what 'free market' really means; the coming forced decline in US living standards; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome and neo-feudalism.
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Living On Earth
06 Mar 2009 — Full Show — Including... New EPA administrator promises big changes ~~ Obama pledges half a billion to start on Great Lakes clean up ~~ Challenges for public transportation ~~ Coal activists increasingly turning to civil disobedience
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NOW
06 Mar 2009 — They Killed Sister Dorothy — "Peasant people...don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around," once said Sister Dorothy Stang. Stang was a Catholic nun from Dayton, Ohio, who in 2005 was killed on a muddy road in the Brazilian Amazon she worked tirelessly to save. David Brancaccio interviews Daniel Junge on his film "They Killed Sister Dorothy," which tells the story.
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Media Minutes
06 Mar 2009 — Community Radio Act — The Local Community Radio Act of 2009, just introduced in Congress, could dramatically alter the radio landscape. Also, it's been a bad couple of weeks for newspapers, but the most devastating blow was the closing of the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News.
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CounterSpin
06 Mar 2009 — Whole Show — Featuring... (1) C-Spin's weekly unwinding of journalistic hoo-hah ~~ (2) Is Obama's health care reform plan "backdoor socialism"? Or are the politicos, pundits, and press getting it wrong again? ~~ (3) The mainstream media may have already moved on from the environmental catastrophe that occurred when a billion gallons of coal-ash sludge spilled into a town in Eastern Tennessee, but The Center for Public Integrity recently released a report titled "Coal Ash: The Hidden Story."
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Radio EcoShock
06 Mar 2009 — Trouble and Vision — Former CIA analyst Mike Whitney on the economic crash ~~ Host Alex Smith on the "Global Grand Bargain" (or new New World Order?) intelligence ~~ A conversation about elites and more
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Explorations
03 Mar — Michael Marriott on Nuclear Energy — Is there a realistic role for nuclear power in our energy future? Has the threat of global warming really convinced lots of environmentalists that we should go nuclear?
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TAR SANDS OIL — HEART OF ENVIRONMENTAL DARKNESS
What happens when pristine ecosystems and habitats meet environmental devastation on a scale the planet has never seen before? That experiment is fully underway in the tar sands oil production areas of Canada. See a slide-show review of the situation in this video on tar sands environmental destruction.
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GLOOP
This is a nice little video about the rise of plastics in our modern way of living. What started out as a product panacea in the end turns out to be a nightmarish pollution problem. Watch plastic pollution video.
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INTRODUCING THE S-MEN, DEFENDERS OF SCIENCE!
Who will defend our right to enjoy chemical pesticides, GMOs, mercury-laced vaccines, and fluoride-tainted drinking water? It's the S-Men, defenders of science! (Or not!) Watch funny science parody.
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YELP (WITH APOLOGIES TO ALLEN GINSBERG’S ‘HOWL’)
Technology can be addictive. Ohhhh.... sooooo.... addictive. In a tribute to Allen Ginsberg’s classic 1956 poem, "Howl," Tiffany Shlain's "Yelp" lampoons the cyber-addictions of our generation. Watch funny media connectivity video.
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ADOPT A BANKER
George has fallen on hard times. The bonus from his big-bank job isn't what it used to be, and the designer suits, sports cars, and magnums of champagne are getting harder to afford. Will you help? Watch funny banker video.
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‘YES OR NO’ GAME SHOW
Regis Philbin does a funny send-up of the classic "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire," boiling it down to the basics. Special guest appearance by Jewel. Watch funny game show video.
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