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TWO WEEKS ENDING 18 FEB 2011

 

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TWO WEEKS ENDING 18 FEB 2011

GLOBAL REV, THE NEXT PHASE
IS THIS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE?

image of sillouhetted protesters; feature story is GLOBAL REV, THE NEXT PHASE - IS THIS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE? Equal Time — 15 Feb 2011 —
Ahmed Shawki explains that the Tunisian and Egyptian revolts reveal the capacity of the masses to overthrow seemingly unshakable dictators—a lesson that will not be lost on the oppressed and exploited people of the Middle East. The Egyptian military has suspended the constitution, leaving still-to-come the struggle to ensure a new democratic constitution that drastically reduces presidential power and guarantees human rights.

Audio no longer available from host site.   24:16

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NPR, 15 Feb 2011
Will Egyptian Uprising Spur Copycats In North Africa?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:35


Uprising, 17 Feb 2011
Gene Sharp on Non-Violent Struggle
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   27:36


NPR, 11 Jan 2011
Songs of the Revolution—Egypt's Uprising, Musically Speaking
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:57

Democracy Now

The Genie Is Out of the Bottle — 17 Feb 2011 — Massive public protests continue to sweep the Middle East and North Africa in countries including Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Iran—many being met with violent government crackdowns. Marwan Bishara and Noam Chomsky discuss the change coming to the Middle East and the Arab world.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   18:26

REAGAN REVISITED

The Real News Network

Reagan Celebration Hides Brutal History — 04 Feb 2011 — Lawrence Wilkerson and Robert Parry point out that, even though Ronald Reagan is largely hailed as a successful president by politicians on both sides and the public in general, may of today's economic and foreign policy problems can be traced to Reagan's presidency.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   27:43

Reaganomics Was Pro-Business, Not Pro 'Free-Market' — 05 Feb 2011 — Yves Smith discusses how President Reagan, contrary to his promotion of the free market, broke unions and intervened in markets when big business required it.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   7:54

Reaganomics Sucked Wealth Up; It Did Not 'Trickle Down' — 06 Feb 2011 — Michael Hudson casts a forensic economist's eye on the tax and regulatory changes enacted under Reagan that started the ball rolling for the owners of the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, real estate). The rich-get-richer free-for-all continued through the 1990s and 2000s and culminated in the banking and financial chaos we see today.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   8:33

Reagan Made S&L Crisis Vastly Worse — 07 Feb 2011 — Former S&L regulator Bill Black explains the Reagan administration's role in deepening the Savings & Loan crisis of the 1980s.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   14:52

MORE HOT & WHAT NOT

Democracy Now

Whole Show — 18 Feb 2011 — (1) Headline news ~~ (2) Uprising in Wisconsin—tens of thousands protest anti-union bill, as Wisconsin lawmakers leave state to stall vote ~~ (3) Egypt:  Massive crowd packs Cairo's Tahrir Square to mark one week since Mubarak ouster;  Egyptian students defiantly publish newspaper without government permission;  Egyptian uprising fueled by striking workers across nation ~~ (4) Ex-CIA analyst and 9-11 truth activist Ray McGovern beaten, arrested for silent protest at Clinton speech
Watch  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

Mercola.com

Ron Paul:  $16 Trillion Went to the Banks — 09 Feb 2011 — Congressman Paul discusses the $16 trillion in big-bank bailouts, the Fed, health care, and what ordinary citizens can do.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   15:59

Max Keiser

The Kleptocratic Ponziconomy—As We Like It?(On the Edge, Press TV) — 11 Feb 2011 — Catherine Austin Fitts explains that by exporting its inflation, the US is essentially running a global taxation system. She also explains how Bernanke is keeping the Ponziconomy afloat long enough to transfer wealth from North America to the emerging markets—the elites' new global center of operations. She says even if the flagging US system of empire can be kept going, the economic model is necessarily going to change.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   23:10

Banker Bonuses and Broken Bourses(The Keiser Report, Russia Today) — 15 Feb 2011 — Max and Stacy review the latest quest for bonuses by taxpayer-supported bankers ~~ Barry Ritholtz discusses how free-market exchanges have become a cabal of insider corruption, and also talks about the profit motive in global warming skepticism
Watch  |  Download/Listen   26:44

One Radio Network

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Andrew Gause:  The Deficit-Reduction Illusion — 16 Feb 2011 — The tricks and word games behind deficit-reduction promises ~~ A deflationary depression is now off the table—it will be inflation ~~ The Fed's hand in geopolitical strategy ~~ The sale of the NYSE is a sign that the Fed bailout money is starting to be deployed ~~ The ins and outs of the MERS strategy for homeowners
Download/Listen   1:03:40

Financial Sense NewsHour

Chris Martenson and Gerald Celente on Oil, Ponzi, and Revolution — 08 Feb 2011 — Chris Martenson and Jim Puplava discuss peak oil investing as a delusion and preparedness as a active commitment. ~~ Gerald Celente discusses our bankrupt politics and Ponzi economics. Despite the swelling tide of youth revolution, he does not see the that happening in the US, at least not yet.
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QUICK FEED

NPR, 15 Feb 2011
WikiLeaks Supporters Fight Request For Twitter Data
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Media Matters, 13 Feb 2011
The Lone Lawman—FCC Commissioner Michael Copps
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:43


Uprising, 16 Feb 2011
Obama's Wireless Initiative—A Big Business Giveaway?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   11:18


Financial Sense NewsHour, 11 Feb 2011
David Morgan:  Silver Myths and Facts
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   42:48

NPR

FBI Faulted For Overstating Science In Anthrax Case — 15 Feb 2011 — A National Research Council panel has found that the scientific evidence alone is not enough to prove that microbiologist Bruce Ivins was the perpetrator of the anthrax attacks that killed five people in 2001.  (The case against Ivins stunk from the beginning. Something deeper and darker was at work there. --GP)
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   4:50

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for week 07-11 Feb 2011...

Global Bankers—Still Too Big to Fail, Too Corrupt to Tolerate
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Screw the Kochs—Pass the "No Corporate Personhood" Amendment
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DAVOS—If You Have to Ask He Price, You Aren't Elite Enough to Attend
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COLBERT QUICKIES

The Colbert Report, 15 Feb 2011
Arizona Guns and the Proposed Law of Unintended Consequences
Watch  |  Download/Listen   3:18


The Colbert Report, 15 Feb 2011
The Iranian Caper—Spooks, Nukes, and Stuxnet
Watch  |  Download/Listen   5:28


The Colbert Report, 14 Feb 2011
Hosni Mubarak Had a Rough Valentine's Day
Watch  |  Download/Listen   5:54

SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

On the Green Front

An Environmentalist Wakes Up to Peak Oil — 09 Feb 2011 — After hearing two presentations on peak oil, green media maven Betsy Rosenberg finds herself shocked into the realization that energy issues are not just about building more solar panels and hybrid cars. She interviews Asher Miller, executive director of The Post Carbon Institute, who talks about the twin national debts—in money and energy.
Download/Listen   55:00

Peak Moment

A Bakery CSA — 31 Jan 2011 — Like baking? Think your locale needs a good source for locally baked goods? Hear how one woman established a successful CSA where share members get fresh, organic, local baked goods each week.
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QUICK FEED

Financial Sense NewsHour, 17 Feb 2011
WikiLeaks, Peak Oil, and Shell's Doomsday Scenario
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   40:01


EarthBeat Radio, 10 Feb 2011
World on the Edge—A Discussion with Lester Brown
No longer available   57:00


Two Beers With Steve, 12 Feb 2011
Robert Glennon:  Unquenchable—The Water Crisis in America
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:36


Food Chain Radio, 13 Feb 2011
“That Ain’t Hay”—Monsanto’s Genetically-Engineered Alfalfa
Download/Listen   42:30
More Food Chain Radio


KunstlerCast, 10 Feb 2011
Eminem, "Imported from Detroit," and the Growing American Inferiority Complex
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   51:06


Two Beers With Steve, 05 Feb 2011
Aaron Lucich:  Awakening to the Food Revolution
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:23:07

Max Keiser

Greg Palast on Peak Oil and Petro-Dictatorships(The Keiser Report, Russia Today) — 17 Feb 2011 — In the first segment, Max and Stacy talk about topics that include "Guanxi schemes"—selling fictional forests for real money—while real farmland can't find even a virtual penny; plus SDRs—the latest in the "inverted pyramid of fiat currency nonsense." ~~ Then, author Greg Palast debates Max on what's more important—peak oil or oil dictatorships.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   24:54

Radio EcoShock

Population Overload — 11 Feb 2011 — Three voices with solutions for the population crisis:  Lisa Hymas of Grist.org on GINKs—Green-Inclined, No Kids. ~~ Clinical psychologist Ellen Walker—the good and the bad of going child-free. ~~ Plus the grand-daddy of the whole population movement, Paul Erhlich, author of the classic book The Population Bomb.
Download/Listen   1:00:00
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SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

One Radio Network

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Hope for the Chronically Ill — 03 Feb 2011 — Steven Hines, an advanced naturopathic doctor and researcher, discusses the origins of many of today's common health complaints and suggests solutions. Topics include digestive enzymes (standard and systemic); Lyme pathogens and related issues; GMO-contaminated food as a source of disease; measured approaches to probiotics; hidden infections and how to fight them; how fungal infections can be mistaken for cancer.  (This is a tour-de-force of valuable information. --GP)
PART 1:  Download/Listen   1:06:21
PART 2:  Download/Listen   53:45

NPR

The Tell-Tale Brain — 14 Feb 2011 — Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran describes several neurological case studies that illustrate how people see, speak, conceive beauty and perceive themselves and their bodies in 3-D space. Notably, problems with the "phantom limb" can be addresses with simple solutions based on brain behavior.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   18:33

QUICK FEED

Beyond 50, 04 Feb 2011
Dr. Sanjay Kapur:  Testosterone and Type 2 Diabetes
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   23:16


NPR, 06 Feb 2011
Is The 'CSI Effect' Influencing Courtrooms?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:28

Dr. William Wong

Intense Massage Not a Good Idea — 08 Dec 2010 — Dr. Wong answers listener questions, including:  bad massage leads to "man trouble"; regimen to prevent hair loss; bad Chinese food leads to bowel trouble; heavy strength training instead of calcium for bone density; internal and external yeast infections.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:34

MORE CATCHING UP

C-Realm Podcast

Gary Borjesson:  Humans and Dogs — 02 Feb 2011 — A discussion of canine obedience and behavior issues and the relationship between dogs and humans.
Audio no longer available from host site.

Diet Soap Podcast

Jefferson Cowie:  Staying Alive — 03 Feb 2011 — Cowie has attempted to bring to life the rather staid and depressing story of the economic decline of the working class since the 1970s by integrating it in a novel with the cultural themes (and diversions) that dominated the 1970s and 1980s.
Audio no longer available from host site.   1:07:47

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
Stayin' Alive:  The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Community Currency

Humanizing the Economy—Co-operatives in the Age of Capital — 20 Jan 2011 — John Restakis reviews the basic principles of cooperatives and explains their many benefits over the corporate model. In an important sidebar, Restakis notes that credit unions—which are banking cooperatives—have fared well during the big-bank crisis, even increasing their market share.
Sorry, audio no longer available from host site.   58:15

Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
Humanizing the Economy:  Co-operatives in the Age of Capital

COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Time Monk Radio Network

Clif High Interview — 04 Feb 2011 — Clif High, master of the Web Bot prediction program, talks about his findings as they have been presented in the Jan 2011 report. Topics include global rev, sun activity and earth changes, and food problems.
Available for download as a series of 9 MP3s:
1 ..... 2 ..... 3 ..... 4 ..... 5 ..... 6 ..... 7 ..... 8 ..... 9 ..... Total time: 2:00:00

Related pages:
-- Get above interview as static-image YouTube streams
-- More Clif High Interviews

Awakening To Conscious Co-Creation

The Cosmic Game in 3D — 09 Feb 2011 — Sonia Barrett steers our minds through a behind-the-scenes view of the closely controlled invisible system. This "cosmic game in 3-D" simplifies an understanding of science, consciousness and spirituality as a naturally intertwined experience.
Download/Listen   55:16

Coast To Coast

David Sereda:  2012—What Do the Mayans Know That NASA Can't See? — 30 Jan 2011 — David Sereda discusses his latest research on energies from the galactic plane, shifting sunrises and geomagnetism, the relevance of human body's electrical magnetic field, and biological effects driven by activity on the sun.
Download/Listen   1:00:00

Notes:
(1) MP3s mirror KSFO's full hours; meat typically runs from 10:00-29:00 and 38:00-58:00.
(2) C2C pages:  this show  |  latest shows

Colbert Report

Tingly Naughty Parts, Quantum Physics, and the Ability to Predict Future Events — 27 Jan 2011 — Researcher Daryl Bem discusses his theory of "extrasensory pornception" and speculates why a future event may be more predictable if it involves our arousal center.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   7:48

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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(50:49)

 
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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(1 hour)

 

 
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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(2:33)

 
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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(5:50)

 

 
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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(2:43)

 

 

   

 

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