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WEEK ENDING 15 JAN 2010

 

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GOOD FOOD, GOOD MOOD?
CAN WE EAT OUR WAY TO HAPPINESS?

image of smiling woman biting into a red apple; feature story is GOOD FOOD, GOOD MOOD? - CAN WE EAT OUR WAY TO HAPPINESS? Food Chain Radio — 09 Jan 2010
Overeating the wrong things can lead to weight problems and serious health issues like diabetes and heart disease. But food can also be part of the solution.

Dietician Elizabeth Somer says that by minimizing processed foods and instead focusing on real foods, eaten in the right amounts and at the right time of day, you can feel good physically, sleep better, and have a bright, shiny, happy mind.

Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:30

Elizabeth Somer book:
-- Eat Your Way To Happiness

Related GP articles:
-- Living Food vs. Dead Food
-- The Rainbow Diet

Related GP cartoons:
-- Food/Diet/Nutrition Cartoons

Related movie:
-- Fast Food Nation
-- Super-Size Me

HOT & WHAT NOT

One Radio Network

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The Owners of the Owners of the Federal Reserve
13 Jan 2010 — Andy Gause discusses the relationship between money, the US government, the Federal Reserve ("Fed"), the owners of the Fed (the big banks), and the owners of the big banks (the wealthy elites). He also predicts confidently that the Congressional investigation into "what happened with the financial mess" will be only for show.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:06:09

Max Keiser Radio

The Ecological Volatility Index
13 Jan 2010 — Just as financial markets have a volatility index—the VIX—Max suggests that it might be useful to track environmental issues with an Ecological Volatility Index. Other topics include the interconnectedness of consciousness between members of a species (and potentially between different species).
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:10

HAITI EARTHQUAKE

PBS News Hour

Haiti Stunned by Scope of Earthquake Destruction
13 Jan 2010 — A summary of the situation 24 hours after the earthquake hit.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen 5:54

NPR Morning Edition

Victims Outnumber Doctors, Relief Assistance
15 Jan 2010 — By Friday, international aid was trickling into Haiti but the scene was one of grisly, widespread devastation, with dead bodies everywhere. Two on-the-scene reports.
Report 1:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen 3:54
Report 2:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen 4:16

US Geological Survey CoreCast

The Geology of the Quake
12 Jan 2010 — A deeper look at the geological issues at play in the Haiti earthquake.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen 10:20

Democracy Now

Naomi Klein on Disaster Capitalism in Haiti — 14 Jan 2010 — Naomi Klein explains how the plutocratic vultures are already circling over Haiti, planning ways to exploit the disaster to further their free-market schemes.
Watch  |  Download/Listen 4:08

NPR

Monsanto GMO Ignites Big Seed War — 12 Jan 2010 — As its world-dominating "Roundup Ready" soybean strain comes up on its patent expiration date, Monsanto has plan for keeping farmers locked into its product.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:38

After E-Mail Attacks, Google May Pull Out Of China — 13 Jan 2010 — After Internet attacks from within China targeted Gmail accounts of human rights activists, Google announced that it might pull out of the country rather than continuing to censor search results on its Chinese site.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:42

Health Care Tax on Investment Income? — 13 Jan 2010 — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are still looking for ways to pay for the health bill. Democrats are considering a proposal to extend the Medicare payroll tax to dividend and investment income.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:51

King World News

Gerald Celente: 2010 and Neo-Survivalism — 09 Jan 2010 — Prognosticator Gerald Celente provides some examples of why he thinks the current picture of gerald celente financial crisis is really a financial crime. He talks about the number of people on food stamps, declining opportunities, and increasing subservience to the global oligarchy. He gives the reasons 2010 may see a new major terrorism event in the US—false flag or real. Celente sees politics-as-usual as so broken that a new political party will emerge by 2012. He notes the trend towards—and need for—"neo-survivalism." The good news: After the collapse, there will be a renaissance.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   46:43

Related GP article:
The Resilient Household

Free Speech Radio News

Headline News — 14 Jan 2010
Stories include... Suicide bombing in Afghanistan leaves 20 dead ~~ Nigeria agrees to allow armed US marshals on flights ~~ British judge calls for review of US extradition of Gary Mckinnon
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:41

Activists Sue Military and Police Over Spying on Anti-War Groups — 14 Jan 2010
Anti-war activists in Washington state are suing police officials and a military analyst who they say infiltrated and spied on their organization, violating their right to freedom of speech.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:27

CATCHING UP ON...
ONLINE PRIVACY

Coast To Coast

Search Engines and Privacy
05 Jan 2010 — Katherine Albrecht points out that many major search engine, including Google, record and track user queries. She points to one search engine that doesn't keep lists of queries. Also discussed: the pros and cons of airport full-body screening.
Download/Listen   1:00:00

Notes:
(1) The MP3s above are mirrors of KSFO's full-hour MP3's, thus the clips contain news and commercials along with content. The meaty portions run 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.

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for 07-15 Jan 2010...

A Global Game That Never Ends
...OR... Let's play "Name That Country!"
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

Michael Chertoff Wants to See You Naked
...OR... Flying cattle class on Pervy Airways
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

The Poisonous Cloud of Corporate Immorality
...OR... Bhopal, 25 years later
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

Related GP article:
Background on Bhopal Disaster

Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal

More Bad Intel — 10 Jan 2010 — Mumia points out a fact that should trouble all of us: Presidents don't run the CIA, they are run by the CIA.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:24

Related book:
-- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
by Tim Weiner

The Real News

Wall Street's False Values and Structural Blackmail — 10 &12 Jan 2010 — Economics Professor James Crotty discusses the problem of excessive Wall Street compensation, financial bubble schemes, the too-big-to-fails, and the government as the built-in busted-bubble savior, all juxtaposed against hundreds of thousands of people losing their homes and millions of people losing their jobs. What should Obama and the Congress be doing about it?
PART1:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   10:00
PART2:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   7:33

Quirks and Quarks

Caught in a Fishing Web — 09 Jan 2010 — The overfishing pressure we've put on large predator fish stocks—the ones we most love eating—doesn't just affect the species we catch. It also has a big effect on the entire ocean food web.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:11

Nutrition Diva

Why We Overeat — 13 Jan 2010 — The diva explores portion size and "the environmental aspects of eating" as they apply to overeating and weight gain.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:28

Sierra Club Radio

Crude: Chevron vs. Ecuador — 09 Jan 2010 — An interview with Joe Berlinger, producer of the documentary Crude, about the epic lawsuit against Chevron related to the damage done during oil extraction in the Amazon part of Ecuador, including massive groundwater contamination.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:09

NOW

Targeting the Taliban — 08 Jan 2010 — A very good piece from a reporter embedded with the Pakistani Army in the troubled and pivotal border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   23:10

Media Matters with Bob McChesney

Analysis: Iraq and Afghanistan
10 Jan 2010 — There's quite a bit happening on the Iraq and Afghanistan war fronts. In this partial clip from the show, we're filled in by Tom Englehardt of the web site Tom's Dispatch.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   17:56

Media Minutes

How to Save Journalism
15 Jan 2010 — Media analyst Bob McChesney clears up long-held misconceptions about news production and discusses ideas about how we can have a vibrant American media that supports good journalism.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:00

EXPLORING THE
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS

DAVID ICKE

Creating Your Reality
Quantum physics has proved that the act of observing actually affects the characteristics of subatomic particles. David Icke provides a practical application of this concept: By re-conceptualizing our view of our personal situations, we can create positive change in them.
Watch  |  Download/Listen 6:13

Infinite Love is the Only Truth
David Icke points out that our waking dream state is different from our sleeping dream state only in that we believe the consequences of the former will necessarily be real.
Watch  |  Download/Listen 3:18

Bill Moyers Journal

Obstacles to Financial Industry Reform — 08 Jan 2010 — David Corn and Kevin Drum say the public intuitively knows that there is something rotten at the core of how Wall Street investment banks operate and how D.C. politicians are failing to do anything about it. But people are generally still shackled by the notion that Big Government is a larger threat than Big Corporations.
(GP comment: Both are a problem! It's a false choice, too.)
Watch  |  Download/Listen   53:29

Common Sense with Dan Carlin

We're Going to Have to Do MORE — 13 Jan 2010 — Dan says ... Our corrupt elected leaders and their "owners" make sure we don't blame THEM for the country's "kleptocracy" problem by keeping us pointing our fingers at each other. If we want it fixed, we the people are going to have to wise up and do more to fix it.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:18

JUST FOR FUN

Coast To Coast

picture of cover of Nicholas Meyer - Star Trek Memories Nicholas Meyer: Star Trek Memories
10 Jan 2010 — In the first clip, Nick Meyer talk about his screenwriting and directing on Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan—a wildly successful Trek film. In the second clip, a Q&A session includes topics like... Which of the original six Star Trek movies were the best? ...and... Who was the greatest Star Trek villain?
Part 1:  Download/Listen   1:00:00
Part 2:  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Nicholas Meyer book:
The View From the Bridge:  Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood

Related GP cartoon:
'Star Trek Digest' Cartoon

Notes:
(1) The MP3s above are mirrors of KSFO's full-hour MP3's, thus the clips contain news and commercials along with content. The meaty portions run 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.

 

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