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WEEK ENDING 19 FEB 2010

 

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WEEK ENDING 19 FEB 2010

FEATURE STORY

ROME IS BURNING
ROGUE FINANCIAL BARBARIANS ARE SACKING THE CIVILIZED WORLD

image of ancient Rome engulfed in flames; feature story is ROME IS BURNING - ROGUE FINANCIAL BARBARIANS ARE SACKING THE CIVILIZED WORLD King World News — 15 Feb 2010
Some people think "the government" wields an unseen hand, manipulating financial markets behind the scenes. But Jim Sinclair explains that the powerful unseen hand is actually attached to the international finance/banking cabal that has quietly taken control of most western governments (especially the US and UK).

The financial barbarians have such vast resources that they can manipulate financial markets at will, take down publicly held corporations, and even take down entire countries. Any individual investor that think they can follow mere charts and theories to succeed in the markets against such power is dreaming.

Go to page  |  Download/Listen   50:10

Related free video:
-- The Money Masters

Other Resources:
-- Jim Sinclair's blog

HOT & WHAT NOT

Sierra Club Radio

picture of rubber duck Slow Death by Rubber Duck — 13 Feb 2010 — In an experiment, two researchers measured dramatic changes in blood levels of chemical contaminants just from using everyday personal care products and food containers ~~ Other segments include a winter soup recipe and a chat about recent green movies
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   27:00

Related book by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie:
Slow Death by Rubber Duck:  The Secret Danger of Everyday Things

PBS NewsHour

Reactor Plan Renews Debate on Nuclear Energy — 17 Feb 2010 — Obama wants to raise spending on nuclear energy from $18 billion (under Bush) to a whopping $55 billion. We hear a short debate on the two sides of the pros and cons of a "nuclear revival."
Watch  |  Download/Listen   12:38

Nutrition Diva

picture of strudel breakfast bars Is Skipping Breakfast Bad For You? — 17 Feb 2010 — Does skipping breakfast really degrade our functional performance or affect our health? Is there a "right way to skip breakfast"?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:47

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for week ending 19 Feb 2010...

Help Cure Sallie Mae's Sugar Addiction
...OR... Getting the financial parasites out of the student-loan body
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

Wall Street's Solidarity with Average Joes
...OR... Kings of Bonusworld down to mere millions in compensation
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

Max Keiser Radio

Global Debt-Bomb Explosion — 18 Feb 2010 — Topics include... Dow Jones Market Watch predicts global debt-bomb explosion ~~ Not only is Greece insolvent, so are the EU and UK ~~ Both Democrats and Republicans are working for the speculators, not the public ~~ Guest Paul Craig Roberts says the Fed and Treasury are trapped in a breakdown spiral
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   26:48

Democracy Now

Obama's New Nukes — 18 Feb 2010 — Nuclear activist Harvey Wasserman comments on the Obama Administration's new push towards nuclear power.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   11:16

picture of neuro-chemical link between stress and cells The Stress-Disease Connection
15 Feb 2010 — Dr. Gabor Maté talks about the inseparable interrelationship between our hormonal, immune, and neurological systems, and the scientifically indisputable role that emotions and stress play in overall health.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   20:28

Related books:
Wasserman: SOLARTOPIA!  Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030
Maté: When the Body Says No:  Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection

CounterSpin

Flack-Man Unmasked — 19 Feb 2010 — Segments include... (1) C-Spin's weekly unwinding of journalistic hoo-hah ~~ Corporate PR flacks disguised as cable-news pundits ~~ Did a local TV news piece on "Islamic radicals among us" spark a vandalism attack on a Nashville mosque?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:00

Media Matters

The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction — 14 Feb 2010 — Once upon a time, governments and major companies strove to make economic systems stable and consumer products reliable. Barry C. Lynn says that all changed when global financiers took control of things, squeezing every possible penny out of ever-cheaper products. The free-market freaks have also undone the buffering techniques and redundancies that previously ensured everything worked smoothly.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:43

Barry C. Lynn book:
Cornered:  The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

CATCHING UP ON...
GMO UH-OHs

Coast To Coast

Jeffrey Smith:  GMO Update
picture of cover Genetic Roulette by Jeffrey Smith 09 Feb 2010 — Jeffrey Smith provides a tour de force of information on GMOs, their effects on human health, and the duplicitous practices of the corporations that sell GMO seeds and products.
Download/Listen   1:00:00

Jeffrey Smith book:
Genetic Roulette:  The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods

Notes:
(1) The MP3 above is a mirror of KSFO's full-hour MP3, thus the clip contains news and commercials along with content. The meaty portion runs roughly from 10:00-29:00 and 38:00-58:00.
(2) You can see Coast To Coast pages for this interview or a list of latest shows.

Morning Edition/NPR

Haitians Flee Capital, Rural Areas Have Little To Offer — 18 Feb 2010 — Half a million people have fled Port-au-Prince since January's earthquake, and it's part of Haiti's recovery plan that they don't come back. The city was overcrowded to begin with, and it would be expensive to rebuild it to withstand the next earthquake. But the countryside turns out to be anything but a panacea.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:25

More Americans Considering Community Banks — 17 Feb 2010 — Bailouts, bonuses, and bad business practices have many Americans frustrated with big banks. They're moving their money to community banks.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:56

How a Warming Planet Can Still Mean More Snow — 15 Feb 2010 — With much of the country hit by snow storms, the topic of global warming has become the butt of jokes. But most climate scientists don't see a contradiction between a warming world and lots of snow.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:57

The Real News

What's Behind the US Offensive in Marja? — 17 Feb 2010 — Historian and investigative journalist Gareth Porter says the US offensive in Marja is directed at preparing the American public to accept the idea of negotiations with the Taliban on an end to the Afghanistan conflict.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   10:30

picture of Pentagon-shaped octopus with gold bar, oil derrick, and missile in it's tentacles Engdahl on Greek Debt Crisis and Europe
16 Feb 2010 — William Engdahl provides some perspective on the Greek debt crisis. He also says Europe is resisting the economic tide that is sweeping towards Asia, even though it knows the American century of economic dominance is ending.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   9:12

William Engdahl book:
Full Spectrum Dominance:  Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order

One Radio Network

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The Marshall Protocol and Vitamin D Supplementation
15 Feb 2010 — Trevor G Marshall talks about the role of intracellular "L form" pathogens in the role of chronic disease, including many inflammatory diseases. He also says the recent spate of recommendations on oral vitamin D supplementation are mostly based on a misunderstanding of research results.
PART 1:  Download/Listen   35:26
PART 2:  Download/Listen   56:29

Forget the Fed, Watch China + Obama to Create Debt Commission
17 Feb 2010 — Currency historian and financial guru Andrew Gause covers the latest behind-the-scenes financial shenanigans and fields a few listener questions about personal finance. He also points out that the planet's central banks create money out of thin air; then the owners of the central banks, the world's big banks, use the notional money to acquire actual assets. What a great deal—for them.
PART 1:  Download/Listen   37:45
PART 2:  Download/Listen   42:54

Media Minutes

Goog-Net — 19 Feb 2010 — Google plans to build high-speed-fiber networks across the US ~~ Updating copyright law for the digital age
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:00

Talk of the Nation/NPR

picture of cover art from DVD The Most Dangerous Man in America 'Dangerous Man' Daniel Ellsberg Reflects
18 Feb 2010 — The Pentagon Papers provoked public debate about the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg, the man who stole them from the US government, is the subject of the documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America. Ellsberg talks about what it's like to blow the whistle on the government.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   16:55

Related DVD:
The Most Dangerous Man in America:  Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

All Things Considered/NPR

3,000 Miles of Mekong — 15-18 Feb 2010 — The Mekong River, one of the world's longest waterways, has a long and turbulent history. Michael Sullivan journeys the length of the Southeast Asian river and tells the story of the people who live along its banks.

PART 1:  At Mekong's Source In China, Past And Present Collide:
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:29

PART 2:  Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East:
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:19

PART 3:  Mekong Divides Different Worlds In 'Golden Triangle':
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:45

PART 4:  Cambodia's Fortunes Ebb And Flow Along The Mekong:
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:02

MORE COOL & CLASSIC & CATCHING UP

KunstlerCast

Big Slide Q&A — 11 Feb 2010 — JHK and the cast of the onstage version of his play Big Slide field questions from the audience.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   20:16

Congressional Oversight Panel

Elizabeth Warren: 3,000 Community Banks At Risk From CRE Defaults — 12 Feb 2010 — Elizabeth Warren, head of the Congressional Oversight Panel on the TARP and related matters, says $1.5 trillion in commercial real estate loan roll-overs in the next few years will be trouble for banks, especially small and mid-sized banks.
Watch on YouTube  |  Download/Listen   6:14

Living On Earth

Toxic Waste and Environmental Justice — 12 Feb 2010 — In Part 1, residents of a small California town think a nearby toxic waste facility is responsible for a recent increase in birth defects. In Part 2, we get an examination of the Obama administration's policy on environmental justice.
PART 1:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:56
PART 2:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:43

Blood Minerals Fuel Congo Conflict — 12 Feb 2010 — The global demand for minerals like gold, tin, and tantalum—which are essential to the electronics in portable devices like smart phones, MP3 players, and laptops—provides millions of dollars to violent groups competing for control of lucrative mines in the eastern Congo.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:53

Survival Podcast

The "Why" Behind Concealed Weapons Carry Permits — 12 Feb 2010 — A good review of the issues related to "concealed carry" of handguns.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   55:44

Radio EcoShock

Buying Into a Dying World — 12 Feb 2010 — One of the interesting snippets from the Worldwatch 'State of the World' 2010 Report:  To support the lifestyle, activities, and consumption of the average American, everyday an amount of raw resources is extracted roughly equal to a person's weight. No environmental issue can be solved until we escape the zombie-consumer mentality.
Download/Listen   1:00:00
Get more Radio EcoShock here

COOL & CLASSIC & COSMIC

Project Camelot

Richard Dolan:  Exo-Politics
Sep 2009 — Historian Richard Dolan is one of the top researchers into "exo-politics"—the study of UFOs, the potential of alien activities on earth, and government cover-ups. In this speech from Project Camelot's L.A. Conference, he talks about his research and findings.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   1:19:00

Dan Carlin

To Dum Two Vowt — 12 Feb 2010 — Dan Carlin runs through some of the logic and history on whether uninformed people should be allowed to vote. He also talks about how some people in the mainstream are finally beginning to say that two-party governance in the US is broken.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   55:57

JUST FOR FUN

Fresh Air/NPR

picture of main characters from Avatar James Cameron & Avatar:  Pushing The Limits Of Imagination — 18 Feb 2010 — James Cameron, director of the blockbuster Avatar, talks about the film's themes of nature, imperialism, and human rights, as well as the techniques used to achieve such stunning visuals.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   32:01

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