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WEEK ENDING 22 JAN 2010

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DEBT POOLS AND DEAD POOLS
THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CON GAME ROLLS ON

Max Keiser Radio — 20 Jan 2010
Max and Stacy discuss the three main debt pools that have sunk the world economy over the last few years. They are: bank debt, personal debt, and government debt.

It turns out only one of the three pools has deleveraged significantly since the crisis began: bank debt. That's because the big banks have transferred their debt to the government debt pool. Ultimately, government will transfer the burden to the taxpayers' debt pool.

Also discussed is the fiat currency 'dead pool'. Which wavering national currency is most likely to follow the Iceland krona into deadly default or devaluation?

No longer available.

Related GP cartoons:
-- 'Mutual Funds' Joke/Cartoon
-- 'Federal Budget Math' Cartoon

Related GP articles:
-- Casues of the Financial Crisis
-- Plutocracy vs. Jobs, Health, and Environment
-- 2010 Predictions/Trends

HOT & WHAT NOT

Two Beers With Steve

Food:  Leaving Global and Industrial for Local and Organic — 17 Jan 2010 — How, in half a century, did we go from a system of predominantly local, fresh, healthy food to a system of over-processed, low-nutrient, industrial junk food? The guest is Chris Bedford, maker of the film What Will We Eat?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:10:23

Related item:
-- Watch trailer for What Will We Eat?  (on YouTube)

Living On Earth

Better Ideas for Obama — 22 Jan 2010 — Not everyone thinks President Obama should prioritize cap-and-trade as a solution to climate change; some say he should first invest more heavily in clean technologies.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:47

Better Salmon Farming? — 22 Jan 2010 — Problems with salmon farming have long kept the farmed version of the popular seafood dish on the Monterey Bay Aquarium's list of fish to avoid. A new fish farming technique may be able to clean up salmon farming.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:37

A New Electric Feel — 15 Jan 2010 — A wrap-up of the latest green cars from automakers.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:05

Scientists Push Against EPA Decision — 15 Jan 2010 — A study published in the prestigious journal Science says it is clear that mountaintop removal mining is an environmental disaster.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:42

Democracy Now

Headline News
22 Jan 2010 — Stories include... Haiti to relocate 400,000 from Port-au-Prince ~~ Obama proposes limits on bank size, trades ~~ NASA says previous decade was warmest on record ~~ Activists shut down West Virginia coal mine
Watch  |  Download/Listen   8:23

Supreme Court Removes Limits on Corporate Campaign Spending
22 Jan 2010 — In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations, unions, and other groups can spend unlimited amounts of money to elect and defeat candidates. Maryland lawmaker Jamin Raskin explains why he considers it the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case justifying slavery.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   7:50

Jamin Raskin book:
-- Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People

NPR

Aftershock Provokes More Panic, Looting In Haiti — 20 Jan 2010 — One of the most powerful aftershocks since last week's devastating earthquake jolted Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, prompting shaken residents to rush into the streets in fear and more desperate scavenging of the city.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:33

FBI Obtained Phone Records Illegally — 20 Jan 2010 — The FBI illegally obtained thousands of Americans' telephone records during the Bush administration, according to a scathing report by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:51

Supreme Court Eases Campaign Finance Curb — 21 Jan 2010 — The Supreme Court struck down the ban on corporate and union spending in federal and state elections.  (Grinning Planet comment: The fact is, politics is already swamped by corporate money. This decision just makes easier what was already being done with plain brown wrappers and knowing winks.)
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:05

On The Media

Is the Senate's Magic Number 60? — 22 Jan 2010 — The media reminded us over and over that the Democrats' 60th vote was at stake in the Massachusetts special election even though a bill only needs 51 votes to pass the Senate. It is ending a filibuster that requires 60 yay's. James Fallows says the media have done a poor job of clarifying this point, thereby obscuring a historic shift in the democratic process.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:21

Free Speech Radio News

Aid Slow to Reach Haiti As Shelter Becomes Priority for Survivors of Quake
22 Jan 2010 — Shelter is a primary concern for the country's more than 1.5 million left homeless by the quake.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:20

Activists Push to Abolish "Corporate Personhood" in Wake of Supreme Court Decision — 22 Jan 2010 — Thursday's Supreme Court ruling on election spending has already inspired a protest movement. The goal is to abolish the idea that corporations have the same constitutional protections as American citizens.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:11

Obama's Deadline for Closing Guantanamo Passes, Facility Continues to Operate — 22 Jan 2010 — Shortly after taking office in 2009, President Obama signed executive orders laying out a timetable to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility. The deadline was set for January 22, 2010, but the facility remains open. The Obama Administration has also announced that around 50 of the nearly 200 remaining detainees may be held indefinitely without trial.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:03

Media Minutes

Push-Back Hits Comcast-NBC Merger — 22 Jan 2010 — The FCC received more than 19,000 comments on Net Neutrality, representing a diverse array of individuals and groups. ~~ Strange bedfellows have joined together to stop the Comcast-NBC Universal mega-merger.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:00

Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal

Haiti on Our Minds — 17 Jan 2010 — Mumia says... The earthquake relief for Haiti comes against the backdrop of two centuries of abuse by more powerful countries. From colonial France to the modern-day US, Haiti has suffered under the boot heels of the global dominators.
Audio no longer available from host site...   3:57

One Radio Network

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Andy Gause: The Mechanisms of Power — 20 Jan 2010 — Andy talks more about the methods the Powers That Be use to evaluate opportunities, control economies and people, and take advantage of emergent situations—even disasters like Haiti. You may be shocked to hear that the Red Cross is part of their machinery. Other topics: buying coins; 401(k)s at risk; profits at the Fed; the hidden wave of inflation; economic recovery underway.
Download/Listen   1:08:54

Hidden Pathogens and The Marshal Protocol — 16 Jan 2010 — Guest Paul Albert adds to the unfolding story of a class of clever pathogens that cause human misery and avoid most attempts to treat or even detect them. The discussion includes The Marshal Protocol and reestablishing normal function of the body's Vitamin D receptors.
Download/Listen   1:42:35

Nutrition Diva

Is the Mediterranean Diet Healthy? — 20 Jan 2010 — The Mediterranean-style diet and lifestyle is very popular, at least as a theory. Does it really work?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:24

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for 20-22 Jan 2010...

Selling a City's Soul—for Chicken Feed
...OR... Big dog of corporate chicken wizzes on hydrants
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

The Twisted Ethics of Corporate Trade Secrets
...OR... Worser living through chemistry
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

Nader's Novel Idea
...OR... Ralphing all over corporate power
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   2:00

The Real News

Zbigniew Brzezinski on Geopolitical Strategy in Central Asia and the Middle East — 17 Jan 2010 — Geopolitical grand master Zbigniew Brzezinski discusses the history of US operations in Afghanistan and strategy in Central Asia. He also says an Israeli attack on Iran would be a disaster.  (While listening, keep in mind that Brzezinski is a power player from the shadow world and will only tell us what we're "allowed to know." --GP)
PART1:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   16:46
PART2:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   10:10
PART3:  Watch  |  Download/Listen   6:05

King World News

Bill Laggner: Why No Penalties, Prosecutions, Or Claw-Backs?
16 Jan 2010 — Bill Laggner says it's now beyond obvious that the Wall Street investment banks removed huge amounts of wealth from the system using unethical and illegal activities, yet there have been no penalties, prosecutions, or claw-backs; and still the executive bonuses continue, largely supported by taxpayer-funded bailouts and loan guarantees.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:13

Financial Sense News Hour

Chris Nelder: Energy Outlook for the 2010s — 16 Jan 2010 — Nelder discusses oil supplies, spare capacity, demand, and the outlook for oil prices. He also talks about the relative merits of renewable portfolio standards vs. more local solutions.
Download/Listen   13:51

Ned Schmidt: The Coming Rise in Food Prices — 16 Jan 2010 — Schmidt informs us that the US corn and wheat harvests are way off—the worst in 100 years—just as China and India are stepping up imports. Get ready for food prices to jump this year.
Download/Listen   13:01

Gerald Celente: 2010 Crash, 2010 Terror — 16 Jan 2010 — Celente predicts... The ongoing attempts to fix the economy are misguided and will fail ~~ US activity in Pakistan will in part cause new acts of terror in the US and other NATO countries ~~ A coming food crisis means we should all be getting prepared
Download/Listen   20:00

Related books and articles:
GP Article: The Resilient Household
Nelder book: Profit from the Peak

More Financial Sense Newshour:
FSN home page

Peak Moment

One Peak Oil Response: Downsizing — 18 Jan 2010 — This early-30-something couple went from $30,000 in debt and depressed about the troublesome future indicated by Peak Oil to debt-free and living happily and prepared.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   27:49

MORE COOL & CLASSIC & CATCHING UP

Diet Soap

The Crisis and The Growth Economy — 15 Jan 2010 — Takis Fotopoulos says that corporate capitalism and all its current failings should not be seen as "the problem"; rather, regardless of whichever polito-nomic system we choose, concentration of power is the real cause of our troubles.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   54:53

NPR

Got (Good) Milk? Ask The Dairy Evangelist — 10 Dec 2009 — One committed dairy farmer is out to prove to the dairy industry that better cow-management and milk-handling techniques produce moo-juice that beats the industry-standard milk in terms of taste, sales, and profitability.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:45

Agroinnovations

The Edible Acre Project — 11 Jan 2010 — Think a school-based food garden could be part of a good risk-mitigation strategy for future food shortages at the same time it strengthens your community? Start here.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   35:39

Related Agroinnovations podcast:
Felder Farm School  (go to podcast page)

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