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FOOD RULES
SIMPLE RULES FOR EATING SMARTLY... AND FIXING THE FOOD SYSTEM
Democracy Now — 08 Feb 2010
Author and food-system critic Michael Pollan discusses the entire spectrum of food issues. Topics include: industrial farms and pollution; politics, subsidies and food libel laws; grain reserves and commodities vultures; nutrition research and deceptive marketing; food's importance to social cohesion.
Pollan's core advice: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." Another of the rules found in his book: "Eat all the junk food you like—as long as you cook it yourself."
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Related movies on Amazon.com:
-- Food, Inc.
-- King Corn
Related book:
-- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
Related GP articles:
-- Rainbow Diet
-- Crisis Affecting Agriculture
Related GP cartoons:
-- Junk Food Cartoon
-- Funny Food News
King World News
John Williams: Shoveling Money into the Furnace — 06 Feb 2010 — John Williams says the data are clear: the government is on its way to more money printing; serious inflation is coming, and hyperinflation is still in the cards; the financial situation is about to get worse; states like California are in real trouble.
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Nutrition Diva
Should You be Worried About Mercury in Fish? — 10 Feb 2010 — The topic is mercury in fish: who needs to worry about it, how much they need to worry about it, and the smartest ways to worry about it.
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Free Speech Radio News
Iran: Protesters Clash, Enriched Uranium Back in the News
11 Feb 2010 — On the anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, protesters and government forces clashed on the streets of Tehran and in other cities. Meanwhile, in a speech President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that for the first time, Iran has processed uranium to an enrichment level of 20 percent.
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Haiti Relief Efforts Struggling — 11 Feb 2010 — One month after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake, the death toll has rise to 230,000 and many Haitians are still living in makeshift tents built out of sheets, plastic, and cardboard.... And the rainy season is coming.
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Iraq War Veteran Faces Extradition and Trial After Song Against "Stop-Loss" Policy — 08 Feb 2010 — Marc Hall spent 14 months in Iraq and was due to end his military contract at the end of February. Instead, like thousands of other soldiers, he received a stop-loss order that would continue his active duty and send him back to Iraq. So Hall recorded and released a song as a form of protest. Now he's in the brig.
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Democracy Now
Dennis Kucinich on US Assassinations, Corporate Money in Elections — 09 Feb 2010 — Dennis Kucinich is one of the few straight-shooters left in Congress. Here he comments on the Obama Administration's decision that US forces can assassinate Americans believed to be involved in terrorist activity as well as the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing unions, corporations, and other special interests to spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates.
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Flashpoints
Catherine Austin Fitts: Money on the Run — 10 Feb 2010 — Fitts says money players in the financial markets are behaving like a herd of sheep, running from wolves and hidden dangers, only to find each new safe place is not safe after all. She also talks about California's financial crisis and its relationship to the larger problems.
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CATCHING UP ON...
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Guns and Butter
The New Junk Economics – From Democracy to Neo-Liberal Oligarchy
10 Feb 2010 — Michael Hudson says ... A coming rise in interest rates will wipe out the pension funds ~~ The big banks have to take average people's remaining wealth to keep their profits rolling along ~~ Obama, as a supposed liberal Democrat, is doing the bidding of The Powers That Be in a way that Bush, a conservative Republican, could not ~~ "Neo-liberal economics" is actually the opposite of classical liberalism
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Michael Hudson Article:
Obama's Junk Economics (on Counterpunch)
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The Real News
Carbon Caps – Who Gets the Cash? — 08 Feb 2010 —
James Boyce points out that different models of carbon cap legislation serve different interests. He thinks the "auction, cap and rebate" approach is a better way to control carbon emissions than a model that gives
windfall profits to fossil-fuel-related industries. He also thinks carbon offsets turn the cap into a sieve, and that trading in permits creates a speculators' market.
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CATCHING UP ON...
EARTH CHANGES, SPACE STUFF |
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Two Beers With Steve
Peak Oil And It's Effect On The Healthcare Industry — 09 Feb 2010 — Dr. Peter Gray thinks the healthcare industry is overlooking a very serious threat—Peak Oil. Other topics include the US healthcare debate, medicinal marijuana, and the rampant use of tranquilizers by Americans.
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Jim Hightower
Three Hightower commentaries on the tactics and excesses of uber-rightwingers, 9-11 Feb 2010...
Getting to Know the Right Wing
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Corporations Want "The Lion's Share"
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Corporate Money Funds Right-Wing Attack on Senator's Office
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Food Chain Radio
The Food Safety Totalitarians — 06 Feb 2010 — Nicole Johnson explains how food scares caused by products from the industrial food sector are being used as an excuse by the government-corporate agribusiness axis to exert tighter control over small and local producers—who aren't causing the problems!
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Survival Podcast
CSAs and Modern Survival Philosophy — 05 Feb 2010 — CSAs are a good way to get fresh, local food. An established CSA relationship with a local farmer not only supports local agriculture but might prove to be a valuable asset if we encounter food scarcity in the future.
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Situational Awareness and Normalcy Bias — 03 Feb 2010 — We can improve personal security and safety by developing "situational awareness" in everyday activities. Also discussed: "normalcy bias" and how the rapid onset of stress can prevent us from acting decisively in a tough situation.
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Peak Moment
The Heart of Permaculture – Getting Beyond the Artificial World
Dec 2009 — We're reliant on fossil energy, trapped in a disjointed society, existing in sterile subdivisions, eating industrial food. Permaculture is part of the solution.
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American Radioworks
Chris Farrell: The New Frugality — Jan 2010 — As America wises up to the ills of consumer debt, Chris Farrell encourages us to develop a healthier relationship with our personal finances. But we have to go beyond balancing budgets; we have to decide how to live a good life, figuring out what we really value, and then putting our money behind those goals and beliefs.
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Chris Farrell book:
The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More and Live Better
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COOL & CLASSIC
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The Real News
Yemen: The Real Conflict — 01 Feb 2010 — Independent journalist Walid Al-Saqaf says there is a battle between Yemen's poor and suppressed factions against the country's dictatorship, and that is a better description of what's going on in the country than the West's appellation of "terrorism."
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Danny Schecter: Plunder—A Wall Street Story — Jan 2010 — Danny Schecter argues that one of the hurdles to solving the issues related to the financial meltdown is for the mainstream media to stop treating it as an economic story and start treating it as a crime story.
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Quirks and Quarks
The Neuroscience of a Gunfight — 06 Feb 2010 — We've seen it a hundred times in Westerns: There's a gunfight. The bad guy draws but the good guy draws faster and wins the fight. Does science suggest any reasons that the second gunfighter to draw actually does have an advantage?
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Does Swallowed Gum Get Stuck in Your Stomach? — 06 Feb 2010 — There's a motherly axiom that swallowed gun stays in your stomach for seven years. Is there any truth to it? What actually happens to gum when you swallow it?
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NPR
Science-Fiction Music Through the Ages
09 Feb 2010 — While modern songs like David Bowie's "Star Man" or The Byrds' "Mr. Spaceman" are well known space-alien songs, up-there/out-there musings appeared in American music as early as the turn of the 19th century. Science fiction and fantasy in music actually extends back hundreds of years, with the supernatural beings found in English and Scottish folk ballads.
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Radio Parallax
Phil Proctor of the Legendary Firesign Theatre — May 2009 — A fun interview with Phil Proctor, one of the driving forces behind the inimitable comedy troupe Firesign Theatre. The clip opens the classic Firesign bit, "Beat the Reaper."
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"Beat the Reaper" MP3 (on Amazon.com)
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