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THE BANKSTERS' COUP D'ETAT
THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY
Flashpoints — Oct 2009
It's essential that we all grasp the fact that the Wall Street banks (and the wealthy elites who pull their strings) control not only vast stores of money, property, and other assets, they control everything via their infiltration of national governments, especially the US government.
Catherine Austin Fitts has been in the trenches with the banksters for a couple of decades and she has great insight into how the bankster takeover of the world was accomplished, including the role of banks and financial institutions, rating agencies, various US government bodies, and international trade agreements and enforcement groups.
There are two new parts to the series this week—4 and 5. For all series segments, see our Wall Street Fascism page.
PART 4: Download/Listen 8:23
PART 5: Download/Listen 30:15
Related book:
-- Michael Ruppert - Crossing the Rubicon
Related GP pages:
-- Causes of the Financial Crisis (article)
-- The Money Masters (free movie)
Related Sites:
-- Flashpoints home page
-- Catherine Austin Fitts Solari site
Democracy Now
3rd Quarter's "Economic Upturn" Wasn't — 30 Oct 2009 — Jonathan Tasini talks about the phony nature of last quarter's upturn in GDP, noting that real unemployment figures remain unchanged. Tasini is a candidate for US senate and author of The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves and the Looting of America.
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Bloomberg - On The Economy
Axel Merk - Debt Makes People Slaves of Money — 26 Oct 2009 — Axel Merk, manager of the Merk Hard Currency Fund, thinks the heart of our economic problems relate to too much debt and too much bailing out of failed enterprises. He is also author of Sustainable Wealth: Achieve Financial Security in a Volatile World of Debt
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Bill Moyers Journal
James K. Galbraith - Main Street Still Reeling — 30 Oct 2009 — The Dow is up, but Main Street Americans still reeling, facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values. Economist James K. Galbraith compares today's crisis to past economic crises and their attempted solutions.
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 30 Oct 2009 — Stories include...
Political rivals in Honduras reach power-sharing deal ~~ US and Colombia sign agreement on military base ~~ Thousands flee from massive oil fire in India ~~ Judge defends protest rights for logging activists in Oregon;
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Dozens in Congress Face Ethics Investigations — 30 Oct 2009 — As polls show a rising level of public distrust of the legislative branch, The Washington Post is reporting that dozens of congressional representatives and their staffers are under investigation for suspected ethics violations.
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Communities Cope with Toxic Legacy of Uranium Mining — 30 Oct 2009 — Some communities are still dealing with a deadly legacy of contamination from abandoned uranium mines.
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Afghan President Karzai's Brother Linked to CIA — 28 Oct 2009 — The New York Times is reporting that for the past eight years the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been paid by the CIA to recruit for an Afghan paramilitary force and act as a go-between with Taliban leaders.
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Israel Restricting Palestinian Access to Water — 27 Oct 2009 — A report released by Amnesty International accuses Israel of restricting Palestinian access to water resources in the Occupied Territories.
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Financial Sense News Hour
Richard Heinberg Interview — 31 Oct 2009 — Richard Heinberg is one of the world's most insightful thinkers about peak oil and other resource constraints and their likely impact on how we live in the future.
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Recent Heinberg books:
-- Peak Everything—Waking Up to the Century of Declines
-- Blackout—Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis
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On The Media
Saving Local Media — 30 Oct 2009 — A recent report from the Columbia School of Journalism included a half dozen ideas for how to salvage the Fourth Estate. One in particular—that local news outlets be allowed to apply for government-funded grants—prompted many skeptical responses. Leonard Downie, former executive editor of The Washington Post and co-author of the report, reacts to the reaction.
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Two Beers With Steve
Peak Oil Q&A — 28 Oct 2009 — In part 2 of the interview with Steve Crower on the topic of Peak Oil, some of the standard objections to the validity of the peak oil prognosis are addressed.
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Living On Earth
(Smart) Power to the People — 30 Oct 2009 — While the national government is just starting to talk about a smart grid, the city of Boulder, Colorado already has a few smart grid homes up and running. ~~ To the east, the EPA will begin a series of national workshops between developers, government leaders, and conservation groups about reclaiming brownfield sites for renewable energy.
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Fish-Kill Mystery — 30 Oct 2009 — Was a massive fish kill in a 38-mile-long creek on the West Virginia-Pennsylvania border due to an overgrowth of toxic algae, or was it pollutants from a nearby mining operation? Is the problem spreading?
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California and Big-Screen TVs — 30 Oct 2009 — Government-haters have reported that California will soon be telling people they can't have big-screen TVs. Really?
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One Radio Network
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Andrew Gause - 9x, not 2x — 28 Oct 2009 — Andy explains how the factors affecting reserves have more than doubled in the last year, but because of the 10:1 leverage of the fractional reserve banking system, the banksters can use that injection to create nine times more money to play with.
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Radio EcoShock
Smart Decline — 30 Oct 2009 — Bill Rees, originator of the ecological footprint, says we are already into overshoot. We can plan for an orderly reduction of resource use, or we can plunge through a series of disasters. ~~ Warren Karlenzig on Post Carbon Cities, including China's "eco-cities."
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Food Chain Radio
Farms or Fish? — 24 Oct 2009 — California's salmon fishery has gone extinct, and 600,000 acres of prime farmland have been abandoned. While residential and uses flow on unabated, the water situation in the nation's most productive food-generating area has devolved to a two-sided fight between those who want enough water left in the system to support a minimum population of fish vs. farmers who need the water to support crops.
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WHAT ARE AGRI-BUSINESS CHEMISTS DOING TO YOUR ORANGE JUICE???
Food Chain Radio — 18 Oct 2009
Alissa Hamilton, PhD, gives us a "peak behind the carton" at the crazy stuff the food industry does to the juice from a simple orange to keep O.J. in the grocery stores 365 days a year.
The agri-chemists have developed a product that is anything but "fresh-squeezed"—even when the carton says so. Hamilton's bottom-line advice: Look for "not from concentrate" juice made by small companies. Even better: Buy fresh oranges and squeeze your own!
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Alissa Hamilton book:
-- Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
Related GP cartoons:
-- Funny Food News
-- Chemistry Cartoon
Related GP articles:
-- The Rainbow Diet
-- Health Benefits of Organic Food
One Radio Network
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Dr. Russell Blaylock - Disturbing Facts on the Swine Flu Vaccine — 17 Oct 2009 — The 2009 swine flu is mild by historical standards, with relatively low hospital admissions and death rates. So why are The Powers That Be pushing so hard on the swine flu vaccine? Given the variability and mutability of flu-virus genetics, how could they predict a pandemic so far ahead of time and contract for hundreds of millions of doses of vaccine? How would the vaccine manufacturers know so far in advance how to craft a genetically accurate vaccine? Answer: They couldn't. It's all about money.
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From Homeowners' Real Estate Problems to Federal Reserve Owners' Lear Jets — 21 Oct 2009 — Andrew Gause answers listener emails. Topics include advice for those with real estate difficulties, info on the pitfalls of foreign-currency investing, and an explanation of how the owners of the Federal Reserve DO make huge profits, contrary to apologists' claims. Also noteworthy: Unlike the WebBots predictions, Gause's reading of the economic tea leaves does not presage an impending crash.
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Flashpoints
Catherine Austin Fitts - Anatomy of a Financial Coup D'Etat — 19-21 Oct 2009 — This multi-part series from alt-finance Catherine Austin Fitts covers how the bankster takeover of the world was accomplished, including the role of banks and financial institutions, rating (raiding?) agencies, and various US government bodies.
PART 1: Download/Listen 31:04
PART 2: Download/Listen 30:38
PART 3: Download/Listen 32:29
Resource Pages:
-- Flashpoints home page
-- Solari.com (Catherine Austin Fitts site)
Two Beers With Steve
Peak Oil: 90, 86, 19 — 22 Oct 2009 — Ex-oil industry wonk Steve Crower thinks the steep depletion curves of conventional oil wells will soon overwhelm all efforts to bring new supplies and alternative fuels online, leading to serious economic and social consequences. He's boiled the problem down to three numbers: 90, 86, 19.
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Financial Sense News Hour
How the Top Financial Chiefs Suppressed The Derivatives Warning Ten Years Ago — 24 Oct 2009 — This segment plays clips from the recent Frontline program The Warning, which recounts the deregulation of derivatives and the fight of one regulator against the tide. The hosts discuss the Frontline material and then offer thoughts about the possible triggers of "the next crisis."
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Morgan Downey - Oil 101 — 17 Oct 2009
Host Jim Puplava and guest Morgan Downey discuss oil and its importance to society. They agree that oil supplies will remain tight from here on out, as alternatives and new oil discoveries overall failing to keep pace with depletion, with prices staying more up than down.
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Morgan Downey book:
-- Oil 101
Radio EcoShock
Resilient Cities for Transition Times — 23 Oct 2009 — California green guru Warren Karlenzig on post-carbon cities ~~ A conversation with Anita Burke, a former Shell Oil executive, now a anti-corporate activist ~~ Planning for the "long emergency"
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Free Speech Radio News
FCC Opens Public Comment Period on Rules to Regulate the Internet — 22 Oct 2009 — The FCC has opened up a public comment period on proposed rules that will regulate the openness of the Internet in the future.
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US State Department Reports on Alleged War Crimes in Sri Lanka — 22 Oct 2009 — James Ross of Human Rights Watch discusses a report released by the US State Department detailing a series of alleged war crimes by both the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers during fighting earlier this year.
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KunstlerCast
Is NYC The Green Metropolis? — 22 Oct 2009 — Inspired by the book "Green Metropolis," James Howard Kunstler examines the idea of Manhattan as a "green" city. Kunstler believes that the city is in good shape now but that financial and energy problems in the future may turn its newest skyscrapers into one-generation buildings, outlandish monuments built during the twilight of an empire.
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Related book:
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability ... by David Owen
-- Book format
-- Audio CD format
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Democracy Now
Oil Industry Playing Hardball / CIA Sniffing Around Social Media — 22 Oct 2009 — Whole Show ... (1) Headline news ~~ (2) University of Alaska professor Rick Steiner says he lost his federal grant funding for being an outspoken critic of the oil industry. ~~ (3) A new NY Times investigative series examines the worsening pollution in the nation's water systems ~~ (4) The Central Intelligence Agency has invested in a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media sites, including blogs, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon.
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CounterSpin
A Fairer Deal for Music Artists? — 23 Oct 2009 — Segments include... (1) C-Spin's weekly unwinding of journalistic hoo-hah ~~ (2) The Performance Rights Act would require broadcasters to pay royalties that would be split between recording artists and record companies. It naturally faces strong opposition from industry. ~~ (3) During Open Access Week, hundreds of academic, research and advocacy groups have shown support for free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research.
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Living On Earth
Health Risks of Nuclear Power and Testing — 23 Oct 2009 — The radioactive chemical strontium-90 is released during nuclear explosions and by nuclear power reactors. As it accumulates in bones and teeth, researchers have used baby teeth to track the link between this exposure and cancer.
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Energy's Hidden Costs — 23 Oct 2009 — The power we use comes with a hidden price tag in the billions of dollars, and now the National Academy of Sciences has broken down those costs.
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Building Green with Less Green — 23 Oct 2009 — The owner of this super energy-efficient, solar powered house in Maine used technology he calls "state of the shelf," rather than state of the art. His goal was a green house that's as economically affordable as it is environmentally sustainable.
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Government Greenbacks for Greener Homes — 23 Oct 2009 — A government program titled "Recovery through Retrofit" looks at financing green renovation projects in individual homes. Meanwhile local towns are experimenting with bonds linked to property taxes to pay for energy efficiency modifications.
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Related GP pages:
-- Home Solar Energy Article
-- Solar Energy Books
PBS News Hour
Yoo's Tenure Questioned Over Bush Torture Policy — 20 Oct 2009 — Should an otherwise good college law professor be barred from teaching just because he's implicated in potential war crimes?
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CDC Chief: H1N1 Poses More Risk for Kids, Young Adults — 20 Oct 2009 — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers his thoughts on the swine flu and vaccine.
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Barofsky: TARP Program Fueled Public Distrust — 21 Oct 2009 — Inspector General Neil Barofsky explains the long-term damage to credibility done by the bailout money and the lack of transparency in how it was doled out.
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In Greenland, Ice Unlocks Climate Change History — 19 Oct 2009 — As they have been doing for decades, scientists are continuing to develop the historical climate record by extracting ice cores in Greenland.
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Democracy Now — 15 Oct 2009
JPMorgan Chase garnered massive profits for the third quarter. More broadly, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that major US banks and securities firms are on track to pay their employees about $140 billion this year—a record high. Meanwhile, on Main Street, foreclosures are at record levels and the broadest measure of official unemployment is at 17%.
How is this possible? Former bank regulator William Black explains that the banksters' recipe for success includes speculation on a grand scale, massive accounting fraud, and control of regulators and legislators. A year after the meltdown began, little has changed. The financial sector is still speculating, still lying, still colluding, and still making enormous profits at the expense of the real economy and working people.
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Related books:
-- William Black book: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
-- Ellen Brown book: Web of Debt
Related interview:
-- William Black on Bill Moyers Journal
Related movie:
-- The Money Masters (watch free online)
Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 16 Oct 2009 — Stories include... UN Human Rights Council votes to accept damning report on Israeli actions in Gaza ~~ New wave of refugees fleeing war zone in Pakistan ~~ Protesting French farmers take over the Champs-Elysees
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5:28
Activists Push for Single Payer Healthcare in California — 16 Oct 2009 — While some worry that a public option goes too far, others say it doesn't go far enough.
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UN World Food Program Faces Crisis — 16 Oct 2009 — At a UN summit in Rome, leaders discussed ways to address food security with regards to climate change, internal conflict, migration, and funding for food programs.
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Argentina Farmers Fight Soy Industry Monoculture — 16 Oct 2009 — In Argentina, transgenic soy mono-culture farming has been widely adopted to support the beef industry, but the move has displaced traditional food production and small farmers.
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Living On Earth
Keeping Current on Electric Cars — 16 Oct 2009 — Jim Motavalli gives an overview of how automakers are doing on electric vehicles.
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Max Keiser Radio
WW III -- The Currency War — 14 Oct 2009 — Max Keiser theorizes that World War III will be fought not with bullets and bombs but rather with devious manipulation and outright destruction of other countries' currencies. Of course, as with any war, the elites will profit and the people will suffer, but at least the yacht fleets of the world will remain afloat.
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Radio EcoShock
Killer Nature — 18 Oct 2009 — Scientist Peter Ward on past extinctions—and the next one. ~~ Host Alex Smith offers his thoughts on the darkening future.
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Bill Moyers Journal
Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson on Wall Street Banksters — 09 Oct 2009 — Congresswoman Marcie Kaptor declares that the US has suffered a financial coup d'état—and then she and Bill Moyers go through the supporting evidence. Simon Johnson adds his two cents on the multi-trillion-dollar big-bank looting operation.
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Media Matters
Reconsidering Capitalism / Big-Media Blues — 11 Oct 2009 — (1) Host Bob McChesney has a good conversation with Michael Moore about his latest film, which takes aim at the uber-capitalist system. They also discuss politics-as-usual, activism, and the emerging struggle between the entrenched powers and we the people. ~~ (2) Sue Wilson discusses some perplexing questions about media, for instance: How can it be that conservative talk radio has increased its presence at the same time popular public opinion handed the Congress and White House back to more progressive elements of the political spectrum? Could it be that right-wing radio is really CORPORATE radio?
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Gary Null Radio
Time's Up — 13 Oct 2009 — Gary offers commentary and information on ... why the "Mediterranean diet" works; the importance to health of oils from nuts and seeds; and how green tea can reduce stress. ~~ Keith Farnish explains why the mainstream environmental movement has lost its way. Farnish runs the
EarthBlog
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Antioxidants and Healthy Hair / Vaccines — 14 Oct 2009 — Antioxidants can help protect against radiation damage and may help you keep a healthy head of hair ~~ How your depleted chi can be restored ~~ An update on vaccine issues from Gary and guest Jane Burgermeister
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Zapata George Radio
James Howard Kunstler - A Failure of Consensus — 10 Oct 2009 — James Howard Kunstler rejects the idea that the blame for the ongoing financial crisis problem rests solely on the government; instead, what we have is a failure of consensus about the nature of our predicament (and, therefore, the appropriate solutions), as well as a failure of our leaders in Washington, local government, universities, and mainstream media to address issues honestly. Meanwhile, we're collectively wasting time and resources in a doomed quest to sustain the unsustainable.
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Mexico and Paper Currencies Unraveling — 10 Oct 2009 — (1) It's not front-page news in the US, but events in Mexico are getting serious. As government oil revenues fall with the failure of the Cantarell oil field, the federal government has experienced massive budget shortfalls and the drug cartels have ramped up crime and assassinations against the oil industry and local government officials. ~~ (2) There is a battle being waged by The Powers That Be to prop up its fiat currencies. Despite this, is the world questioning the worth of paper currencies by increasing its acquisitions of precious metals?
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KunstlerCast
Urban Thinkers - Cities and Houses and Parks, Oh My! — 15 Oct 2009 — James Howard Kunstler offers his thoughts about a few of the 20th century's best architects and designers, explaining why their work remains important to our everyday lives today.
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Related GP article:
-- Home Solar Energy
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WORSE THAN JUST A PAIN IN THE REAR?
The Gary Null Show — 07 Oct 2009
Gary Null reviews the evidence regarding the safety and efficacy of vaccines in general, with a particular focus on the H1N1 vaccine. If you are unsure about whether you or your loved ones should get the H1N1 vaccine—or any other vaccines—you should listen to this.
Each segment begins with a discussion of vaccine issue and then moves into topics related to general health. At the end of part 2, there is a short interview with Gerald Celente, who addresses the economy and the banking system.
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Related Gary Null movie: "Vaccine Nation"
-- Watch online for free
-- Check out DVD on Amazon.com
Gary Null books:
-- Get Healthy Now! - A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment, and Healthy Living
-- The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-Based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Well Being
Related Grinning Planet cartoons:
-- How a Virus Invades the Body
-- Things People Would Rather Not Hear a Doctor Say
Two Beers With Steve
The Money Masters — 04 Oct 2009 — Pat Carmack, producer of the film The Money Masters, explains why the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and "fractional reserve banking" were key factors enabling the big banks to become the ruling powers in the world. One important insight: Being on a gold standard is no panacea—we were on a gold standard during the financial crises of the Great Depression era. Carmack recommends forcing banks to adopt "100% reserve banking" and putting the power to create money back in the hands of the government, where the profits from the interest can benefit citizens, not bankers.
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Related item - The Money Masters video:
-- View for free
-- See DVD on Amazon.com
Food Chain Radio
The Food Pirates -- Corporations, Banks, TARP Money, and Foreign Farmland — 03 Oct 2009 — Devinder Sharma gives a brief history of the Green Revolution in India and then exposes the fact that the world's biggest corporations, working hand-in-glove with corrupt governments, are buying up some of the planet's best farmland. This is driving poor farmers out of farming and setting up a future food crisis in these countries. The most shocking revelation: Some of the big banks that were bailed out are using TARP money to buy farm land in foreign countries!
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Related GP article:
-- The Green Revolution Myth, Norman Bourlag, and World Hunger
Max Keiser Radio
The Oligarchs Are Doing What Oligarchs Have Always Done — 07 Sep 2009 — Max and Stacy do an audio tour of Europe, giving brief overviews of the financial issues facing various countries. They make the point that the world's ruling oligarchs are now doing what ruling oligarchs have always done: using a crisis to transfer wealth to themselves from the lower classes.
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Free Speech Radio News
Headline News — 09 Oct 2009 — Stories include... Suicide Bombing in Peshawar kills 50 ~~ Lawsuit filed against mandatory H1N1 vaccine ~~ Senate Judiciary Committee extends portions of Patriot Act
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Surprise Decision Awards Nobel Peace Prize to Obama — 09 Oct 2009 — Barack Obama was not on anyone's list of top contenders for the Nobel Peace Prize, but Friday morning he was pronounced the winner to the surprise of many people, including himself. Some say he has not yet achieved enough in his presidency to deserve the prize, especially in comparison with some of the other candidates for the honor.
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On the 8th Anniversary of War, Afghans Opine on Security Conditions — 09 Oct 2009 — As the world marks the 8th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, the Obama administration is considering sending even more troops there. Kabul residents give the view from the ground.
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Former Soldiers with Cancer Say Military Exposed Them to Toxic Sites — 08 Oct 2009 — Former US Army members who suffer from cancer, leukemia, and lung damage told the US Senate today that the military made them live and work at sites known to be toxic.
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CounterSpin
Iran and the Nuclear Bomb / Banks and the Bailout Bomb — 09 Oct 2009 — Segments include... (1) C-Spin's weekly unwinding of journalistic hoo-hah ~~ (2) Iranaffairs.com analyst/blogger Cyrus Safdari shares his thoughts on mainstream media coverage of the story about Iran's nuclear program. ~~ (3) Much of the corporate media's reporting on the bank bailout scheme goes something like this: For all its flaws, it has pretty much worked; we've avoided a great depression and are backing away from the abyss. Nomi Prins says, "Really?"
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Living On Earth
Acid in the Arctic — 09 Oct 2009 — Arctic waters are rapidly turning acidic, due to absorption of carbon dioxide. New research predicts parts of the Arctic Ocean will be corrosive enough to dissolve the shells of clams and mussels in the next decade, endangering the entire Arctic food chain.
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Chemical Reform — 09 Oct 2009 — Under current implementation of the US Toxic Substances Control Act, the EPA has relied on industry to police itself. Reforms proposed by the EPA administrator would give the agency greater authority to protect the public from harmful chemicals.
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Benign Design for the Environment — 09 Oct 2009 — An Arizona research center has set up a mini semiconductor manufacturing plant designed to use less water and save money.
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Radio EcoShock
Beyond 4 Degrees — 09 Oct 2009 — We are heading past the 2 degree C warming "safe mark." Scientists ask "Now what?" and "How bad can it get?" ~~ A digest of Professor John Schellnhuber's presentation at Oxford "4 Degrees and Beyond" ~~ Comments from geologist/solar activist Jeremy Leggett, author of the new book The Solar Century.
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KunstlerCast
The Death and Life of Great American Cities — 08 Oct 2009 — Jane Jacobs was recently named as the planet's #1 urban-planning commentator. It turns out she's also a gregarious, beer-loving author who foresaw the currently evolving crisis. But when James Howard Kunstler interviewed her a few years back, she wasn't particularly interested in talking about the "long emergency issues" associated with a peaking in energy supplies. Here, JHK discusses her work and related topics.
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Related books:
-- Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
-- Jane Jacobs: Dark Age Ahead
-- James Howard Kunstler: The Geography of Nowhere
One Radio Network
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Steve Storch -- Bio-Dynamic Gardening — 05 Oct 2009 — Storch, a master practitioner of biodynamics, offers his thoughts on gardening through winter, root-cellaring, employing the energy of the earth to enhance your gardening results, and why now is a premium time for getting things ready for next year's growing season.
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Andy Gause - Dollar Death Seems Doubtful — 07 Oct 2009 — Andy recognizes the potential impact of pricing oil in something other than dollars—in the financial game, "oil is everything," he says—but he's not ready to believe that The Powers That Be are ready to leave the US dollar, which is the main means of their control.
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Natasha Campbell-McBride - Gut Flora and Healing with Animal Foods — 14 Sep 2009 — Dr. McBride covers the reasons poor intestinal health leads to many other health issues, the best remedies for a variety of maladies, the role of animal foods in the diet, and a "big picture" view of the food chain, which is really a food cycle. Her book is Gut and Psychology Syndrome.
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McAlvany Podcast
Dollar Demise—What the Big Money Managers are Saying Off the Record — 07 Oct 2009 — A recap of what some of the top financial gurus said at a recent conference. Views offered included:
-- Gold is a sure sign of debasement of currencies by governments.
-- The stock market has been "levitated" by central banks' unnaturally large infusions of liquidity.
-- Home prices MAY be bottoming, but there is definitely trouble ahead for commercial real estate.
-- The era of cheap oil in over.
-- Many big players remain overextended; there is a big de-leveraging yet to come.
-- Massive financial crises happen periodically for two simple reasons: greed and short memories.
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Tracking Tainted Food a Near Impossibility in U.S. — 08 Oct 2009
The piece examines assertions that a lack of tracking in the industrial food system is a cause of food-borne illness.
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Science Friday — 02 Oct 2009
Paul Tukey explains how organic lawn care beats chemical pesticides and fertilizers every time, both in terms of expenses and results, as well as in terms of safety for kids, pets, and the local watershed. He adds that fall is the perfect time to work on your lawn.
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Paul Tukey book:
-- The Organic Lawn Care Manual
Related GP articles:
-- Lawn Care Tips
-- Organic Lawn Care
-- Dandelion Removal
Other Resources:
-- Food-Gardening Books
Related GP cartoons:
-- Fall Cartoon
Radio EcoShock
How Communities Survive Disaster — 02 Oct 2009 — Storms, floods, earthquake, attack, or employers closing—what are the tools to cope and recover?
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Two Beers with Steve
George Selgin on "Free Banking" / Interview with GrinningPlanet.com Founder — 28 Sep 2009 — What is the real definition of "money"? George Selgin gives us the scoop on that, and he explains how "free banking" works vs. the current central-bank model. ~~ In the first 10 minutes, there is an interview with Grinning Planet founder Mark Jeantheau, who gives the background on how the web site developed and where it's going. Cool!
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wsRadio / Coping with Caregiving
Health Care for a Post-Peak Oil World — 02 Oct 2009 — Jan Lundberg offers his thoughts about the difference between true healing and today's petrochemical-drug oriented medical system. The current "insurance debate" is seldom about real health care, especially when the constraints of post-petroleum living are factored in.
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On The Media
The Patriot Act and National Security Letters — 02 Oct 2009 — Much attention has been paid to three provisions of The Patriot Act set to expire this year, but civil libertarians say the focus should be on a less-noticed portion of the law having to do with National Security Letters.
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ACLU Releases 'The Torture Report' — 02 Oct 2009 — The American Civil Liberties Union recently launched "The Torture Report" to help keep public attention on the issue of "enhanced interrogation"—which most people simply call torture.
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The Twilight Zone - Shadow and Substance — 02 Oct 2009 — This week marks the 50th anniversary of Rod Serling's landmark television series, "The Twilight Zone." Serling used the sci-fi genre as a tool to tell larger stories of relationships and morality. His seminal work influenced the next generation of Hollywood writers and producers and still appears daily in reruns.
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Free Speech Radio News
Broad Measure of Unempolyment Now at 17% — 02 Oct 2009 — New monthly figures released Friday by the US Labor Department show a slight rise in unemployment to 9.8 percent. But these official statistics don't tell the whole jobless story.
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Iran Negotiates New Nuclear Inspections — 02 Oct 2009 — The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency is heading to Iran this weekend to secure the tentative agreement made at Thursday's nuclear negotiations in Geneva.
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As Rescue Efforts Continue in Indonesia, Philippines Braces for Another Typhoon — 02 Oct 2009 — The death toll continues to rise in Pacific nations hit this week by earthquakes, tsunamis and tropical storms. In Western Sumatra, Indonesia, rescue efforts are still underway two days after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated much of the port city of Padang.
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Greenpeace Activists Under Arrest After Action at Suncor Mine in Canada's Tar Sands — 01 Oct 2009 — Greenpeace says 23 of its activists have been arrested in northern Canada after they blocked operations at a Suncor oil mine in Alberta's tar sands region. Greenpeace says that the open-pit oil mining operations are creating an environmental catastrophe, polluting local water sources and generating high amounts of carbon emissions.
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Living On Earth
Mercury Rising — 02 Oct 2009 — The British Government's Meteorological Office produces the most widely respected and accurate climate models. The Office's new report shows that if we continue with high fossil fuel emissions, average world temperatures could rise at least 4 degrees Celsius within 50 years—a figure higher than previously thought, and twice the normally accepted "safe range."
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River Resurrection — 02 Oct 2009 — The San Joaquin river in California is flowing again after four decades, which could help resurrect the salmon fishery. But local farmers are worried that there will be a shortage of irrigation water for their crops.
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One Radio Network
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Clif High - The Shape of Things To Come — 28 Sep 2009 — Clif High gives a rundown of the latest Web Bots predictions, which include big trouble over vaccines, the collapse of the US dollar, an escalation in the Iran-Israel conflict, and severe "earth changes"—among other things!
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Related page: Grinning Planet's page of Related GP article: Web Bots predictions and Clif High interviews
Militia Radio
Clif High - Web Bots Predictions — 24 Sep 2009 — Another good interview with Clif High about the possibility of world-changing events coming in the next year.
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Science Friday
Can Bats and Wind Power Get Along? — 02 Oct 2009 — New research finds that a relatively minor adjustment to wind turbines could greatly lessen incidents of bat deaths associated with wind power generation.
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80% Reduction in GHGs by 2020? What?? — 02 Oct 2009 — Lester Brown advocates cutting global carbon emissions 80% by 2020, which is far more aggressive than any plan currently being considered. He says this is the level of reduction that is actually needed to avoid catastrophic climate disruption, and he further asserts that we already have the technologies needed to get there—all we need is the will. Brown's book Plan B, v4.0 is available for free online.
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The Gary Null Show
Lester Brown on Global Food Supply / Mandatory Vaccines for New York Health Care Workers — 01 Oct 2009 — Lester Brown surveys the various threats to the global food supply, which include less availability of irrigation water and the ongoing financial crisis. The discussion also covers the effects of pollution on human health. ~~ Gary Null gives an update on the shocking situation with New York health care workers, who have been told, "Get the vaccine or you're fired."
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Vandana Shiva on Food and Agriculture — 28 Sep 2009 — Vandana Shiva explains how the same disastrous, corporate-driven food and agriculture policies that have brought Americans the worst diet on the planet are now being applied to India.
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KunstlerCast
Food in a World Made By Hand — 01 Oct 2009 — In James Howard Kunstler's novel World Made by Hand, the characters in the post-peak-oil world must overcome many obstacles but nonetheless manage to eat food that is in general delicious and a vast improvement over the current American diet. Kunstler talks about the lost ceremony of eating with family and friends as well as the tragic result our "fast food nation" has brought about.
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Financial Sense News Hour
Market Wrap-Up — 03 Oct 2009 — Topics include... Weekly market summary ~~ Energy policy considerations ~~ The tightest grain supplies in the history of the post-WWII era ~~ A discussion of the "October Crash Syndrome" with Michael Panzner, author of When Giants Fall – An Economic Roadmap for the End of the American Era.
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The Debate: Inflation vs. Deflation — 03 Oct 2009 — A summary of the deflation vs. inflation arguments that FSNH guest have presented over the past month or so.
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Bailout Nation — 26 Sep 2009 — Barry Ritholtz discusses the insanity of financial system that privatizes profit but socializes risk—i.e. the big banks and Wall Street gamble; if they win, they pocket the profits; if they lose, they get bailed out. He also contrasts government actions today against what was done during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and runs down the complete list of "who is to blame for this mess".
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RESOURCES, BIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE END OF GROWTH
When we get down to first principles in economics, biology, energy, and human behavior, we see that constraints on resources, environment, and debt capacity pose an imminent threat to the economic juggernaut that has brought unparalleled prosperity to so many. Watch peak oil / end of growth video.
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MONSANTO OR MONSATANO?
The documentary Bad Seed—The Truth About Our Food explains the dangers of genetically modified food and the dirty tactics used by GMO corporations and their government henchmen to keep their products on the shelves (and out of the news). If you weren't convinced GM crops were bad before, you will be after this. Watch video on genetically modified food.
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HOMEOPATHIC EMERGENCY!
When one is suffering from systemic imbalance, homeopathy may be just what the alternative doctor ordered. But what can it do when it comes to traumatic injury? Watch funny homeopathy video.
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STORE WARS
This is an excellent animated cartoon that spoofs Star Wars as it promotes better agriculture and food. It's stuffed full of great Star Wars food puns, with some fun visual humor too. We must fight the dark side of the farm! Watch funny video on organic vs. industrial agriculture.
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GANDALF STREET MAGIC
Gandalf roams the city streets amazing people (and familiar characters) with magic tricks. Watch funny Gandalf video.
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SUPERBOWL HALF-TIME SHOW — CENSORED!
A classic cartoon animation/parody of Donald Trump and Rosie O'Donnell as half-time commentators from football's Superbowl past. The spectacle, the celebrities, the glamour, the inhumanity! Watch funny halftime video.
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