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CATEGORY: FINANCIAL — 31.MAR.2014
It's Our Money with Ellen Brown
Using Eminent Domain to Stem Big-Bank Foreclosures —
Cities around the country have been ravaged by foreclosures following the mortgage loan scandals of recent years. Big banks have been wheeling and dealing these finance contracts, often illegally, to execute fraudulent takings of property or have been profiteering via high servicing fees. But they may now be facing their Achilles Heel, as bold government leaders devise plans to force the banks to the negotiating table by challenging their legitimacy of title. The pioneer of this eminent domain legal strategy, Prof. Robert Hockett of Cornell University, discusses the legal rationale and the probability of its success in Richmond, CA and elsewhere.
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59:02
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 29.MAR.2014
Fresh Air
Redeployment' Explores Iraq War's Physical And Psychic Costs —
In his short story collection, former Marine Phil Klay takes his experience in Iraq and clarifies it, lucidly tracing the moral, political and psychological curlicues of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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5:30
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL — 28.MAR.2014
The Real World of Money
Gause on Gold Games, China and the Dollar, Bubbles/Bursts, Bankster History, more —
Andrew Gause's topics this time include ... leveraged asset purchases, bubbles, and bursts; why easy credit is coming back; the physical-gold shell game; why there is no such thing as the free market; the real reason for the 1973 OPEC embargo; the bankster coup during/after the Revolutionary War; why the War of 1812 was once again really all about the banksters; is China's accumulation of gold a preparation for dumping the dollar?
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Original Show Pub Date: 26.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 25.MAR.2014
Uprising
Gideon's Army—The Court System and the Courage of Public Defenders —
A 1963 Supreme Court ruling in the case Gideon v. Wainwright resulted in a phrase we know well: "You have to right to an attorney... If you cannot afford one, one will be provided for you at no cost to you." Public defenders typically handle hundreds of cases at a time—almost exclusively for poor people—and are chronically overworked and underpaid. Who are the public defenders and why do they keep doing the work they do? A new documentary called Gideon's Army profiles three young public defenders as they struggle to do their job despite overwhelming challenges. Director Dawn Porter talks about the issues in the film.
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18:24
Original Show Pub Date: 20.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL — 23.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
Big Banks, Mortgage Fraud, and the Un-Justice Department —
A new internal report says the Justice Department was publicly beating its chest about successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in actuality it was ranking the task as a low priority. The Justice Department's inspector general says despite playing a central role in the nation's continuing financial crisis, mortgage fraud has been deemed either a low priority or not a priority at all. And the fraud continues, as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document appears to guide lawyers step-by-step on how to fabricate missing documents to foreclose on homeowners.
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15:53
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL — 21.MAR.2014
EconTalk
The Complexity of Accounting for Externalities —
Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with host Russ Roberts about the implications of Ronald Coase's views on externalities. Legislating away externalized costs is the preferred approach of the left, and a totally unregulated market is the preferred approach of the right. Both extremes present public policy challenges when one person's actions affect another's rights. Examples discussed include pollution, cigarette smoking, and racism.
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50:08
Original Show Pub Date: 24.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL, EMPIRE — 20.MAR.2014
C-Realm Podcast
Enclosing Abundance —
KMO talks with Kevin Carson, author of The Homebrew Industrial Revolution about the technologies that seem poised to end the dominance of capital-intensive production methodologies and break the stranglehold that capitalists and government minions hold over our lives. Included here are clips from Jeremy Rifkin describing the current state of human affairs as we transition from the Second Industrial Revolution to the Third. Going forward, says Rifkin, capitalism will be a much diminished force in human affairs.
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Original Show Pub Date: 12.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL — 19.MAR.2014
The Keiser Report
The Bad, The Innocent, and the Wall Street Shuffle —
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert's topics include the North Korean's peoples' fawning over Kim Jong Un as the model for the financial media fawning over the markets and Vinnie the Goombah, the financial Mafioso. ~~ Then Chris Whalen talks about a financial system replete with fraud and why the failure to restructure and punish means the fraud problem is still with us. He also talks about the surprisingly stiff whacks the Wall Street fraudsters are taking as the settlement period of the Detroit bankruptcy proceeds.
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25:46
Original Show Pub Date: 15.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 18.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
NSA Adding Malware to Web Sites and Computers —
New disclosures from Edward Snowden detail how the NSA is massively expanding its computer hacking worldwide. Software that automatically hacks into computers—known as malware implants—had previously been kept to just a few hundred targets. But the news website The Intercept reports that the NSA is planning to spread the software to millions of computers under an automated system, codenamed Turbine. The Intercept has also revealed the NSA has masqueraded as a fake Facebook server to infect a target's computer and exfiltrate files from a hard drive.
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5:27
Original Show Pub Date: 17.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL — 17.MAR.2014
ExtraEnvironmentalist
Positive Money —
Incorrect narratives of money have misdirected and befuddled our thinking on finance and currency. Ben Dyson explains why journalists, academics, economists and citizens have so much difficulty talking in an intelligent way about our money system, why our monetary system is broken, and how it can be fixed. Then, Brett Scott describes leverage points where activists can disrupt global financial flows to support ecological and social initiatives.
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Original Show Pub Date: 10.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 17.MAR.2014
On The Media
FOIA's Report Card —
The Freedom of Information Act has been around since 1966, but according to a new report card, federal agencies haven't yet mastered the art of disclosing. Sean Moulton of the Center for Effective Government, which just released The Access to Information Scorecard 2014, explains this sobering look at government transparency.
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6:43
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 14.MAR.2014
KunstlerCast
Charles Hugh Smith on the Deep State —
JHK and Charles Hugh Smith yak about the "deep state"—the overarching ruling apparatus that makes decisions without needing the consent of the people or the elected government. This conglomeration includes the intelligence agencies and parts of the Department of Defense; selected corporations and university research institutions; and the black budget. Smith says many overestimate the power and talent of the deep state, and given sufficient push-back from the sheeple, the Deep State will be willing to "throw Wall Street under the bus."
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35:14
Original Show Pub Date: 11.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 13.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
Senate Intel Chair Accuses CIA of Spying on Senate —
The spat between the CIA and its Congressional overseers has intensified after Senator Dianne Feinstein took to the Senate floor to directly accuse the CIA of spying on Congress as it probes the CIA's torture and rendition program. The Senate Intelligence Committee's report has yet to be released but reportedly documents extensive abuses and a cover-up by CIA officials. Feinstein says the CIA broke the law in secretly removing more than 900 documents from computers used by panel investigators.
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19:49
Original Show Pub Date: 12.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 12.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
From Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, State Power Lies About Massive Harm —
Noam Chomsky talks about multiple instances in the last 70 years when the government lied—and in some cases, is still lying—about the disastrous consequences for soldiers and civilians of it's military actions.
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5:27
Original Show Pub Date: 11.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 11.MAR.2014
King World News
Celente on Ukraine —
Trend forecaster Gerald Celente explains the banking and energy aspects of the US/EU play in Ukraine. The ultimate goal is to break Russia's power, which currently counterbalances Western interests in geopolitical affairs.
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19:18
Original Show Pub Date: 08.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 08.MAR.2014
The Keiser Report
Dmitry Orlov on Russia vs. the West in Ukraine —
Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert talk about bad free trade deals and discounted EU memberships. ~~ Then Dmitry Orlov explains the tug-of-war between the EU/US and Russia over Ukraine. Basically, Ukraine needed an economic lifeline; the EU deal stunk; the Russian deal was accepted; the West fomented revolution and their neo-Nazi allies got in. But Orlov says the current thugs in power have no legitimacy or popularity, and Ukraine will eventually end up in Russia's sphere because that's the only plan that really makes sense for Ukraine.
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25:45
Original Show Pub Date: 06.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 08.MAR.2014
CounterSpin
US Media and Rootin' Tootin' Putin —
There's a sudden chorus of mainstream media in the US claiming that Putin has lost his mind, proved not just by his invasion of Crimea, but also by his preposterous suggestion that the US has, on several occasions, acted lawlessly. Robert Parry says, on the contrary—Putin seems quite rational and coherent in stating his country's interests and in opposing US interference in the country of a key ally (Ukraine).
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8:43
Original Show Pub Date: 07.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 07.MAR.2014
Corbett Report / The Jack Blood Show
Ukraine and the Shadow of the Cold War —
James Corbett explains how Russia and the US are using Ukraine as yet another proxy war, seemingly heading the world towards a revival of the good ol' Cold War. Other topics include the backstory on the terror attacks in China and the unprecedented size of the current bond bubble.
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47:00
Original Show Pub Date: 04.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 04.MAR.2014
Unwelcome Guests
Leviathan Remixed—Resistance Audiocollage —
This is an audiocollage that gives different angles on the ongoing destruction of our sustaining ecosystems and the descent into totalitarian rule. Voices range from Aldous Huxley and Terence McKenna to Chris Hedges, with many others chiming in. Hedges calls the situation a "500-year rampage"; but McKenna challenges us directly: "We're talking about the fate of a whole planet. Why are people so polite? Why are they so patient? Why are they so forgiving of gangsterism and betrayal? It's very difficult to understand. I believe it's because the dominator culture is increasingly more and more sophisticated in its perfection of subliminal mechanisms of control."
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Original Show Pub Date: 22.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE — 04.MAR.2014
WWL/Garland Robinette Show
Celente: No Foreign Entanglements! —
Gerald Celente says no matter where you look on the globe, there is an increased level of chaos. Topics include Ukraine; US recession (depression); $6T on Iraq and Afghanistan wars; markets driven by cheap (Fed) money; protest zones; putting elected officials under the microscope; remembering the Founding Fathers' advice on foreign entanglements; the importance of reestablishing the rule of law and a focus on small business.
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28:42
Original Show Pub Date: 27.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: FINANCIAL, EMPIRE — 01.MAR.2014
One Radio Network
Andrew Gause: Banksters and Ukraine —
Andrew Gause explains how the financial Powers That Be are at the root of the struggles in Ukraine, though the mainstream media mentions none of this and sells it as "revolution." Other topics include ongoing take-down operations of developing nations' currencies, notably in Venezuela and Argentina; the possible real meaning of the name of "The Trilateral Commission"; why US manufacturing is not part of TPTB's vision of the future.
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Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: GMOs, CORPORATIONS — 20.MAR.2014
TUC Radio
The Safe Food Movement vs. the Agrochemical Giants —
Campaigns attempting to label genetically engineered food have swept the US, from California to Washington and on to Connecticut, Maine, Alaska, Oregon and Vermont. But the right to know about the food we put into our bodies is always challenged by a powerful and extremely well funded lobby that represents the interests of biotech/chemical corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, and BASF, as well as junk-food manufacturers such as Kraft Foods, Pepsico, and Coca Cola. Vandana Shiva and Andy Kimbrell update us on the evidence against genetically modified foods and the war with the corporations that profit from them.
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Original Show Pub Date: 05.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: CORPORATIONS, VEHICLES — 13.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
Nader: Regulators Complicit in GM Cover-Up of Safety Defect Tied to 13 Deaths —
After hundreds of complaints and 13 deaths, the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into how General Motors may have covered up deadly safety defects in its compact cars. Six GM models made from 2003 to 2007 could at times suddenly turn off while being driven. For 11 years, GM reportedly treated the defect as a matter of customer satisfaction, not safety. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader says federal regulators also failed to take action, declining to investigate despite a flood of complaints.
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11:17
Original Show Pub Date: 12.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: MEDIA — 25.MAR.2014
On The Media
Holding Journalistic Algorithms Accountable —
When an earthquake sent tremors through Los Angeles this week, an algorithm called Quakebot allowed the LA Times to release the news faster than any other media outlet. But how good was the story? Nick Diakopoulos of the Columbia Journalism School talks about what reporters—and readers—should keep in mind as algorithms increasingly play a role in newsrooms.
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7:31
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: PRIVACY — 24.MAR.2014
On The Media
Not-So-Private Metadata —
The NSA has defended its controversial surveillance program by arguing that it just collects "metadata," and therefore doesn't get enough specifics to violate the privacy of individual Americans. But computer scientists at Stanford Security Lab conducted their own simulation of the NSA program and found the metadata to be inherently revealing. Jonathan Mayer, one of the researchers on the project, gives examples of what can be learned from supposedly benign metadata.
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5:48
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: MEDIA — 21.MAR.2014
Uprising
Killing the Messenger—The Deadly Cost of News —
Fifty-two-year-old Swedish journalist Nils Horner has become the latest casualty in the on-going undeclared global war on journalists. Today, the leading cause of workplace-related deaths for journalists is murder in the line of work. While the murders of foreign war correspondents like Nils Horner and Daniel Pearl make international headlines, it is often local journalists who are in even more danger while doing their work. A new documentary, Killing the Messenger: The Deadly Cost of News, explores the dangers facing journalists in war zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Mexico, relating harrowing tales of bombs, sniper fire, days in captivity, and fallen fellow journalists.
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23:06
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY, MEDIA — 11.MAR.2014
News Dissector
Hoover’s FBI and the Lapdog Press —
Communications scholar Matthew Cecil discusses the themes of his book “Hoover's FBI and the Fourth Estate: The Campaign to Control The Press and The Bureau's Image Topics include the magnitude of Hoover's secret surveillance and blackmail program; how he honed the technique of saying the right thing while doing the wrong thing; the mainstream media's general complicity in promoting a positive image of Hoover and the FBI during instead of doing investigative reporting.
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55:10
Original Show Pub Date: 06.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: MEDIA, INTERNET — 10.MAR.2014
On The Media
Crimean Journalism Take-Down Reversed by Internet Archive —
Despite the seizure of their office and most of their files and equipment by masked gunmen, the journalists at the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism were prepared: over the weekend they had backed up their entire web history through the Archive-It service from the Internet Archive. David E. Kaplan, executive director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and one of the coordinators of the effort, explains how they managed to pull it off.
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5:27
Original Show Pub Date: 07.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: COLLAPSE — 29.MAR.2014
C-Realm Podcast
Sci-Fi Dystopia and Distinguishing Collapse from Catastrophe —
KMO welcomes Chad Hill, the author of the Hipcrime Vocab blog, to carry on the conversation about the future. It may seem a mere artistic choice that science fiction has transitioned to squallid depictions of dysfunctional futures and away from Utopian visions of people and societies liberated from drudgery and conflict by advanced technology and good governance. But many of these trends reflect the reality of our increasingly Orwellian techno-fascist society.
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59:50
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENERGY — 28.MAR.2014
Living on Earth
Electric Utilities Fight Home Solar and Net Metering —
Utility companies want to scale back a key incentive for homeowners to install solar panels—net metering, a policy that allows homeowners to sell or bank their excess solar power on sunny days. Bryan Miller of the Alliance for Clean Energy details utilities' attempts to reduce or do away with net metering.
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6:52
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: COLLAPSE — 26.MAR.2014
C-Realm Podcast
NASA Study Explores Two Paths to Collapse —
KMO and Frank Aragona of the Agroinnovations podcast discuss a NASA-funded report that details how growing inequality and resource depletion both have the potential to bring about the fall of our globalized industrial civilization. Other topics include ... global warming trends; land grabs in Africa by powerful nations attempting to secure the ability to feed their populations; the photosynthetic ceiling; and human appropriation of net primary production.
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1:00:00
Original Show Pub Date: 19.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: PEAK OIL — 17.MAR.2014
Peak Prosperity
Heinberg: The "Oil Revolution" Story Is Dead Wrong —
With the US fracking boom and media headlines touting our destiny as the new "Saudi America", many pundits have been quick to pronounce Peak Oil dead. Even Richard Heinberg began wondering whether he had gotten it wrong when he wrote The Party's Over more than a decade ago, so he went back and reexamined the data and predictions in that book. The good news—and the bad news—is that the predictions were startlingly accurate, and we are right on schedule for energy descent.
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49:42
Original Show Pub Date: 08.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: RESILIENCE — 15.MAR.2014
Beyond 50
When Disaster Strikes—Extreme Cold & Solar Storms —
Mat Stein shares his tips for emergency planning. He talks about two extremes: crisis survival in extreme snow and ice conditions during the winter when technology fails and a solar storm that will take down the electrical grid. Stein says the chance of super solar storm is 100%; the only question is when. Such a disaster would also cause meltdowns in most of America's 104 nuclear reactors, since the cooling water there is kept moving by electric pumps. Stein says compared to many things society spends money on, it's not that expensive to harden the grid, and it's stupefying that we haven't done so. But given that we haven't, what should an individual do to prepare?
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41:15
Original Show Pub Date: 07.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: COLLAPSE, EMPIRE — 12.MAR.2014
The Lifeboat Hour
The Horror and Beauty of Collapse —
Mike Ruppert reads part of James Howard Kunstler's worthwhile essay, Are You Crazy To Continue Believing In Collapse?, which explains the factors that have allowed the elites to keep their Ponzi scheme going a lot longer than many predicted they could. Ruppert cautions us not to get too wrapped up in the machinations of the TPTB (like Dem-GOP politics, proxy wars, etc.)—constant engagement in negativity cannot be part of a positive outcome. He also talks about some of the dire climate predictions of Paul Beckwith. Finally, he reminds us of Terrence McKenna's comment that a human birth is a beautiful thing but, in its way, also a horrific experience. Similarly, as the horror of collapse unfolds, we must remember to see the beauty in the rebirth of humanity.
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58:00
Original Show Pub Date: 09.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENERGY — 11.MAR.2014
Sierra Club Radio
Mosaic—Direct Investment in Clean Energy —
Mosaic is an investment company that links small- and medium-capital investors with solar energy projects in the US. Company founder Billy Parrish explains how it works, discusses current successes, and talks about the vision for 100% clean energy in the United States.
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12:45
Original Show Pub Date: 01.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENERGY — 03.MAR.2014
Sea Change Radio
Renewed Energy for Renewables —
Can the winds of Wyoming power an air conditioner in Southern California? It may be happening soon! Wind energy consultant Shalini Ramanathan gives us a peek into new advances in the wind industry. Then, Michael Kyes, the mayor of Sebastopol, California, discusses his town's controversial-yet-effective solar power ordinances, which are helping get Sebastopol off of fossil fuels and making them a trailblazer in the shift to sustainability.
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30:00
Original Show Pub Date: 18.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: NUCLEAR — 31.MAR.2014
Warrior Connection
Depleted Uranium and the Legacy of Dirty War —
The US military uses depleted uranium in many of its munitions because it makes for a denser payload. They claim that there is no radiation risk, but the evidence is clear that use of DU munitions affects not only combatants during warfare but that DU also leaves a legacy of contamination in ex-battle zones for years after combat operations have ceased. Several experts discuss radiological weapons, explosives, hazardous materials policies, and military reports on the topic of DU.
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58:55
Original Show Pub Date: 27.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: NUCLEAR — 27.MAR.2014
Fairewinds Energy Education
Nuclear Power—Their Profits, Our Risks —
During the three long and frightening years since the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, the world has heard less and less from mainstream media about this manmade disaster. Money, power, and engineering hubris were put ahead of the lives and health of the people of Japan and the northern hemisphere as radiation releases continue to leave the site and migrate into the environment. Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen calls this the greatest industrial disaster of all time. Here he gives an update on the state of Fukushima Daiichi three years later and cites Germany as a reason to believe the future will be just fine without nuclear power.
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10:53
Original Show Pub Date: 12.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: NUCLEAR — 12.MAR.2014
Fairewinds Energy Education
Radiation Leaking from Nuclear Waste Site Accident —
Nuclear accidents happen not only at power plants, they also happen at nuclear waste storage sites. Located near Carlsbad, New Mexico, a Department of Energy (DOE) experimental dump is attempting to store radioactive waste from the US weapons program. On February 14, 2014 there was a nuclear safety failure at the site. Arnie Gundersen pieces together what happened and explains the major concerns about the facility, the accident, and the lack of transparency at the DOE.
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12:03
Original Show Pub Date: 06.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: NUCLEAR — 08.MAR.2014
Green Power And Wellness
The Crazy Train That is the Nuclear Power Establishment —
David Lochbaum and Susan Stranahan of the Union of Concerned Scientists give us the layman's version of what went wrong at Fukushima, what design (cost-saving) choices were made during the construction phase that exacerbated the disaster, and why numerous US reactors face similar potential calamities. They also reveal many examples of shockingly irresponsible decisions by companies that run nuclear plants and by their ostensible overseer, the Nuclear Regulator Commission.
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58:35
Original Show Pub Date: 04.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT (CHEMICALS) — 29.MAR.2014
NPR
Toxic Chemical Dioxane Detected In More Water Supplies —
West Virginia's drinking water crisis earlier this year highlighted an unsettling truth about tap water: Treatment plants test for only a fraction of the chemicals in use. The chemical 1,4-dioxane, which is used by industry to dissolve oily or greasy substances—and likely causes cancer—is one chemical that is being detected now that it's being tested for.
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3:49
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: CLIMATE, EMPIRE — 26.MAR.2014
Red Ice Radio
Climate Change, Geoengineering, and the Collapse of Civilization —
Dane Wigington is a former employee of Bechtel Power Corp, with an extensive background in solar energy. When he began to lose significant amounts of solar uptake due to ever-increasing "solar obscuration," Wigington undertook an investigation that has turned into a 10-year quest to understand and document government geoengineering programs, their impact on the weather and climate; their use for political pressure, military conquests, and land grabs; and their impact on environmental and human health. He explains why he thinks all this tinkering with earth's natural systems has gotten out of control, setting us up for catastrophic collapse.
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53:19
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT (POLLUTION) — 25.MAR.2014
NPR
25 Years After Valdez Spill, Alaska Town Still Struggling With Aftermath —
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil into the pristine water. At the time, it was the single biggest spill in US history. Today, its legacy is a lasting social and economic disaster.
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7:19
Original Show Pub Date: 24.,Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT (TRANSPORTATION) — 24.MAR.2014
Living On Earth
Boosting Public Transit —
Congestion and smog in Paris are bad enough that authorities are taking aggressive measures to deal with the problem. Can bold steps taken in an iconic city abroad make Americans more accepting of the actions necessary to solve transportation woes in US cities? Former Massachusetts Transportation Secretary Fred Salvucci explains why public transit is a key to limiting congestion and reducing emissions from cars. in spite of this, many cities with public transit, including Boston, aren't keeping up with growing demand and infrastructure requirements.
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9:50
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT — 23.MAR.2014
Sea Change Radio
Little By Little—Nanoparticle Technology —
In a relatively short period, ultra-small nanoparticles have become ubiquitous in modern products. And probably in the environment, too. We don't really know about the latter because no one has bothered to test what happens to nano products when they are disposed of. Though most people don't pay much attention to nano, the technology is found in everyday applications, from making toothpaste whiter and sunscreens more transparent to making hair dryers hotter and clothing more stain-resistant to making food more visually appealing. Journalist Heather Millar talks about the pros and cons of nano.
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Original Show Pub Date: 11.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: POLLUTION — 20.MAR.2014
NPR
Oil Industry Gets An Earful As It Eyes Florida's Everglades —
Drilling companies have new interest in southern Florida's Big Cypress preserve. The prospect of large-scale operations, with or without fracking, worries environmentalists and residents.
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3:57
Original Show Pub Date: 13.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT — 12.MAR.2014
Living on Earth
New Rules Will Reduce Fuel Sulfur and Air Pollution —
Sulfur in gasoline makes automobile engines less efficient and creates more pollutants. The US EPA has released new regulations to cut the amount of sulfur in gasoline. Dan Greenbaum from the Health Effects Institute explains how the new rules are expected to save money and prevent more than 2,000 premature deaths.
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5:18
Original Show Pub Date: 07.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: CLIMATE — 10.MAR.2014
Against the Grain
Ocean Acidification—A Basic Problem —
Carbon dioxide generated by the burning of fossil fuels is being absorbed into the oceans with already serious (and potentially catastrophic) consequences for marine life and, eventually, human life. Meg Chadsey describes the phenomenon of ocean acidification and the myriad physical and civilizational threats it poses.
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53:00
Original Show Pub Date: 24.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT — 08.MAR.2014
Exploration
Our Oceans—Pollution and Plunder —
Dr. Robert Callum discusses the devastating effect human activities—some intentional, some not—are having on the health of the oceans and the sea life in them.
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59:50
Original Show Pub Date: 04.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: CLIMATE, POLLUTION — 06.MAR.2014
Radio EcoShock
New Data on Methane Leaks from City Gas Systems —
Last year a team of scientists drove a truck loaded with measuring equipment around Boston and found thousands of places where natural gas (including its prime component, methane) was escaping from decaying distribution pipes. A new study shows a similar situation in Washington, D.C. Overall, methane is 25-30 times more powerful a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, though short-term effects are even worse. Nathan Phillips reviews the study results and discusses the risks to trees and human health, as well as the climate change risks.
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20:00
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: CLIMATE — 05.MAR.2014
Radio EcoShock
The Climate Impact of Arctic Ice Loss —
Arctic ice expert Paul Beckwith discusses a newly released NASA study that has calculated the changing reflection of the sun's rays as sea ice increasingly diminishes during the Arctic summer. It's about 4% more heat absorbed now, compared to 1979, which doesn't sound like much, but NASA says it's huge, accounting for 25% as much global warming as all human-made fossil fuel burning.
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18:00
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT — 03.MAR.2014
Living On Earth
Plastic Microbeads Contaminating US Waterways —
Microbeads are tiny plastic spheres found in facial scrubs and other cosmetics. Sewage treatment doesn't remove them from wastewater, so they end up in lakes and streams. As Kara Holsopple of the Allegheny Front reports, they are a hazard to fish and to anyone who might eat the fish.
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5:11
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT (POLLUTION) — 01.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
Report Exposes Link Between Fracking and Toxic Air Emissions —
Residents who live near areas of oil and natural gas fracking have long complained that the industry's activities contaminate groundwater. A new investigation is shedding light on another concern: air quality. David Hasemyer and Lisa Song, two of the reporters who worked on the investigation, explain the findings.
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6:36
Original Show Pub Date: 27.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 29.MAR.2014
Nutrition Diva
Cancer Prevention—Beyond Good Diet —
The Centers for Disease Control recently hosted a meeting at which experts from several different fields discussed "Opportunities for Cancer Prevention During Midlife." Why midlife? As the authors wrote, "Positive changes during this phase of life have the potential to prevent cancer incidence later in life, making this phase an opportune time for targeted prevention efforts to facilitate healthy aging and increased longevity." Nutrition Diva agrees but thinks the recommendations outlined in their report make sense at any age.
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8:16
Original Show Pub Date: 11.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 27.MAR.2014
Beyond 50
Parent Essential Oils, Not Fish Oil —
Brian Peskin discusses a torrent of research that will strike us alternative-health types as wrong—that fish oils are not only unhelpful in solving most physical ailments, they oxidize so rapidly that they actually cause problems in the body. Peskin explains why the supplement industry promotes the seemingly "irrational madness" that leads so many health providers to unwittingly prescribe or recommend pharmacological overdoses of marine oils and other oils. Peskin's solution is Parent Essential Oils—those that the body cannot manufacture from other food substrates.
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52:07
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 21.MAR.2014
Fresh Air
In Digestion—What Happens To The Food We Eat? —
Mary Roach, author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, reviews some of the many fascinating details of the human digestive system, from the mouth on down. Roach wants readers to say not that "this is gross" but instead "this is interesting! ... and, OK, maybe a little gross."
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38:57
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: CHEMICALS, HEALTH — 18.MAR.2014
Living On Earth
BPA-Free Does Not Mean Safe —
Though those numbers on the bottom of plastics tell you what can be recycled, plastic waste now litters the earth and seas, and what once seemed an inert material can sometimes affect human health by mimicking estrogen. The ingredient bisphenol A (BPA) is now widely banned in baby bottles and children's sippy cups, but BPA-free alternatives may not be much safer. Recent research suggests Tritan, a BPA replacement, is also estrogenic. Mariah Blake, a reporter with Mother Jones, discusses the findings and the corporate dirty tricks designed to discredit anyone who finds fault with their products.
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10:37
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 15.MAR.2014
One Radio Network
The Truth About Artificial Sweeteners —
Janet Starr Hull talks about the damaging effects of artificial sweeteners. Topics include saccharin vs. aspartame vs. sugar alcohols vs. sugar vs. honey vs. maple syrup (vs. nothing!); health effects of artificial sweeteners; reversing artificial-sweetener toxification; the dark history of aspartame.
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1:02:56
Original Show Pub Date: 13.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 14.MAR.2014
Electric Politics
Healing by Hand —
It's difficult to say which is more astonishing: that it's possible to cure a fatal illness by opening energy gates with mental concentration, or that mainstream medical science has so blinkered itself that it refuses to examine the data. But data there is, in abundance. Dr. William F. Bengston, author of The Energy Cure, has been doing anomalous scientific research for decades and has produced revolutionary, consistently replicable results. The establishment medical journals, however, won't consider "these kinds of papers."
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40:43
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 11.MAR.2014
Against the Grain
Mammograms—Reevaluating the Risk-Benefit Calculation —
Do mammograms save lives? Not according to an extensive study of 90,000 women over a quarter century. Historian of science Robert Aronowitz discusses the history of mammograms and the problematic notion of risk. He says the strong bias of most doctors is to recommend standard mammograms and other supposed cancer preventatives, but this is not supported by science or outcome statistics. Then Ellen Leopold explores the Cold War medical use of the byproducts of the nuclear industry, as well as our exposure to radiation today.
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54:59
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 07.MAR.2014
ExtraEnvironmentalist
Addiction Thinking —
As the energy/technology revolution of the last 150 years granted us a surplus of leisure time and money, our ability to indulge in addictive behaviors rose. Today, screen-based addictions are piling on top of more traditional addictions like alcohol, drugs, food, and porn. Addiction expert Stanton Peele discusses the proper framing of the addiction concept and talks about ways to escape addictive behavior. Then Charles Eisenstein discusses our addiction to the stories by which we define ourselves and our civilization, as well as how we might respond in the future as the stories look less and less like reality.
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1:47:06
Original Show Pub Date: 27.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HEALTH — 04.MAR.2014
Peak Prosperity
Inflammation From Our Diet Is Killing Us Slowly —
Medical research now suggests that inflammation is a key factor in the aging process. In particular, diet-caused inflammation wears down our internal systems, resulting in impaired performance (e.g., leaky gut, weight gain) and disease (e.g., diabetes, heart disease). Dr. David Seaman discusses diet-based inflammation—how it arises, the damage it does to our bodies, and the dietary changes we can make to reduce our exposure to it.
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40:33
Original Show Pub Date: 22.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: FOOD — 31.MAR.2014
Food Chain Radio
The Modern Diet and the Jungle Effect —
Dr. Daphne Miller once had a patient. The person was originally from a jungle area south of the border but had lived in the US for many years, acquiring the subtle ill health effects of modern living. When the patient returned to her jungle home for an extended visit, all the nagging health complaints that had crept up on her vanished. The patient—and the doctor—wanted to know why.
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42:37
Original Show Pub Date: 22.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FOOD — 24.MAR.2014
Nutrition Diva
Farm-Raised vs. Wild-Caught Fish —
Eating at least two servings of fish or shellfish per week appears to reduce the risk of heart disease, delay the onset of Alzheimer's and dementia, and (if you're pregnant) make your baby smarter and healthier. Although meat, poultry, and fish are all good sources of protein, seafood is low in saturated fat and high in omega-3 fats. But when you get to the fish counter, does it make a difference whether you buy wild-caught or farm-raised fish?
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9:13
Original Show Pub Date: 04.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: DIET, NUTRITION — 19.MAR.2014
Diet Science
"Calories In, Calories Out" Formula is Flawed —
Dee McCaffrey explains that the "Calories In vs. Calories Out" concept of weight loss is flawed because it ignores the dysregulation of metabolism-related hormones that is driven by many food additives and overloads of simple carbs.
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9:28
Original Show Pub Date: 10.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FOOD — 15.MAR.2014
Diet Science
A Predictably Cheesy Move by Kraft —
Kraft has pledged to eliminate the artificial preservative (sorbic acid) they use in some of their sliced "cheese products." But will the new preservative really be any better?
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8:31
Original Show Pub Date: 03.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: GMOs, AGRICULTURE — 06.MAR.2014
Food Chain Radio
GMOs and “The Stomach Study” —
Howard Vlieger, an independent crop and livestock nutrition consultant, discusses the troubling results of his study on the long term consumption of GMOs on the stomachs of pigs.
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42:36
Original Show Pub Date: 16.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: GARDENING — 23.MAR.2014
You Bet Your Garden
Local Seed Banks, Asparagus Tips, Wildflowers on City Lots, Monarch Butterflies, more ... —
Master gardener Mike McGrath's tips include ... the benefits of starting a seed bank in your town; how to make that asparagus you planted last year happy; what crops might be a good idea for a few acres of ex-pasture; putting wildflowers on a bare city lot where a building was torn down; ways we can help the threatened monarch butterfly do better.
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52:58
Original Show Pub Date: 15.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: FARMING — 18.MAR.2014
Food Chain Radio
To Catch a Thief —
Perhaps farming wasn't hard enough already. So Universe created a class of criminals that specialize in large-scale stealing from large-scale farms. They steal equipment, pump wiring, farm chemicals, even whole loads of harvested crops. Sgt. Mike Chapman of the Fresno County Task Force talks about the problem of farm thieves.
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42:49
Original Show Pub Date: 01.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: GARDENING — 14.MAR.2014
You Bet Your Garden
Winter Damage—Can This Plant Be Saved? —
Has this miserable winter done damage to your poor plants? Mike McGrath discusses how to tell if those precious plants are really dead—or just pining for the Fiords. Plus: Author Miriam Goldberger discusses adding wildflowers to your landscape for beauty and for supporting native bees. Other topics include hanging tomato plants (or not); horse compost basics; clever fences for clever groundhogs.
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52:58
Original Show Pub Date: 08.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE, SPECIES — 10.MAR.2014
Food Sleuth Radio
Pollinator Problems—Honeybees and Beyond —
Eric Lee-Mader of the Xerces Society explains how food production is dependent upon beneficial insects for pollination. Topics include honeybees and colony collapse disorder; pressure on native pollinators; dependence of modern agriculture and plant species on pollinators; conservation as a solution.
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28:15
Original Show Pub Date: 27.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: GARDENING — 07.MAR.2014
You Bet Your Garden
Worm Composting, Rat Poison, Raspberries, more... —
Master gardener Mike McGrath answers green-thumb questions... Should your new raspberries go in a raised bed? (No) Can you add too much coffee grounds to plant areas? (Yes) How can you deal with rats—other than poison? (Agh!) Can you use worms to improve your composting? (Yup)
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52:58
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE — 04.MAR.2014
Red Ice Radio
Farmwars—The Anti-GMO Battle —
Barbara Peterson lives on a small ranch in Oregon where she raises geese, chickens, goats, and horses. Yet this rural lifestyle is threatened by regulations, policies slanted towards corporate agriculture, and invasive GMO technology. Topics include how to grow your own food, small-scale animal agriculture, and healthy recipes.
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1:11:29
Original Show Pub Date: 17.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: GARDENING — 03.MAR.2014
One Radio Network
Geoff Lawton—Create Your Own Paradise on Earth with Permaculture —
Geoff Lawton is a permaculture consultant, designer and teacher. Topics here include off-grid living; solar and wind power; waste management; healing the land; using problems to create solutions; permaculture as a weapon against GMOs; intensive rotational grazing; profitable farming.
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1:22:00
Original Show Pub Date: 24.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: SPECIES — 31.MAR.2014
Living On Earth
The Extreme Life of the Sea —
Life in the ocean is a longstanding mystery to most humans. Even with modern technology, we're still learning new things about the ocean. A new book, The Extreme Life of the Sea, sheds an entertaining and informative light on some of the ocean’s oldest, oddest, fiercest and strangest creatures. Coauthor and biologist Steve Palumbi discusses the work.
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11:53
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: ANIMAL WELFARE, EMPIRE — 26.MAR.2014
Democracy Now
FBI Goes Non-Linear on Animal Rights Activists —
Over the past decade, Ryan Shapiro has become a leading freedom of information activist, unearthing tens of thousands of once-secret documents. His work focuses on how the government infiltrates and monitors political movements, in particular those for animal and environmental rights. Today, he has around 700 Freedom of Information Act requests before the FBI, seeking around 350,000 documents. That tenacity has led the Justice Department to call him the "most prolific" requester there is and claim his dissertation research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology would "irreparably damage national security." Shapiro discusses his methodology in obtaining government documents through FOIA requests, and the details that have emerged therein about the crackdown on animal rights activists.
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16:26
Original Show Pub Date: 25.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: SPECIES — 13.MAR.2014
Sierra Club Radio
The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction —
At one time, there were 3-5 billion passenger pigeons in the US, with some flocks large enough that their passing through an area could take days. Joel Greenberg, author of A Feathered River Across the Sky, discusses the reasons that the passenger pigeons were hunted, the intentional misinformation that allowed hunting to continue in the face of plummeting pigeon numbers, and the analogs of the pigeons' fate to pressures on species today.
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12:23
Original Show Pub Date: 01.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: SPECIES, HABITIAT — 06.MAR.2014
Living On Earth
Endangered Oregon Minnow Thriving, To Be Delisted —
A tiny minnow called the Oregon Chub was put on the Endangered Species
List more than 20 years ago. But the species has rebounded, and now officials want to make it the first fish ever taken off the Endangered Species List because of population recovery.
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5:43
Original Show Pub Date: 28.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: SPECIES — 05.MAR.2014
Living On Earth
Gray Wolf to Lose Federal Protection Due to Regulatory Trickery —
The US Fish & Wildlife Service plans to drop federal protection for the gray wolf on the basis of a taxonomic reclassification. Geneticist Bob Wayne explains the, um, scientific shortcomings of this action and the repercussions for wolves.
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6:14
Original Show Pub Date: 28.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: SPECIES — 01.MAR.2014
Resistance Radio
Mike Mease on Buffalo in the US —
Mike Mease is the co-founder and campaign coordinator for the Buffalo Field Campaign. He has spent the last 16 years living with and helping protect this sacred species in the Yellowstone ecosystem. Here he talks about the status of buffalo in the US west, the history of buffalo slaughter, and the continuing pressure from the cattle industry on the remaining protected buffalo.
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49:40
Original Show Pub Date: 16.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: EMPIRE / COSMIC — 21.MAR.2014
Progressive Commentary Hour
The New Age of Transhumanism and the Future Deconstruction of the Human Being —
Daniel Estulin discusses the themes of his book TransEvolution: The Coming Age of Human Deconstruction, which maps out The Powers That Be's vision for humanity. As humans increasingly embrace technology and internet-enabled connectivity, they are willingly changing their fundamental nature. How far will this trend go?
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55:09
Original Show Pub Date: 10.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: COOL & COSMIC — 19.MAR.2014
Expanding Mind
Complexity and Consciousness —
Stem cell specialist Neil Theise explores how self-organization, cell theory, and complexity relate to consciousness and the quantum foam.
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50:01
Original Show Pub Date: 09.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: COOL & COSMIC — 14.MAR.2014
Progressive Commentary Hour
Gregg Braden: Conscious Evolution and the Inertia of Old Science —
Gregg Braden explores how we can solve our critical problems by changing the way we think of ourselves and our world. He says that the mental and emotional constructs that are based on the science and politics of the last few centuries are false—necessarily so, as we discover that the underlying information is false. Awakening to new realities—as proved by emerging science—will lead us to a new consciousness and a new way of living.
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56:24
Original Show Pub Date: 04.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: COOL & COSMIC — 10.MAR.2014
Red Ice Radio
David Icke on the Perception Deception —
David Icke says, if we understand that the world we perceive is really just an energy field, a holographic representation of physical reality that we decode with our brains, then we must also understand that we have a great deal of choice in what/how we choose to decode. But TPTB understand how this works, too, and they work ceaselessly to influence our awareness of the matrix and what we choose to decode; that is, to alter our perception. He also discusses distortions in the normal positive flow of the matrix that result in inversions, ironically inverting major areas, making everything backwards: doctors destroy health, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the mainstream media destroy information, religion destroys spirituality.
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1:12:00
Original Show Pub Date: 28.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: COOL & COSMIC — 05.MAR.2014
Awakening to Conscious Co-Creation
Amit Goswami on Quantum Creativity —
Deep-woo physicist Amit Goswami discusses his concept, "Quantum Creativity." He says that if you can tap into the quantum-probability layer of how things work, you can be extraordinarily creative. Quantum physics says reality is a combination of possibility and actuality. We the observers influence the outcomes of the combinations with our consciousness.
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57:47
Original Show Pub Date: 19.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: COOL & COSMIC — 01.MAR.2014
C-Realm Podcast
Has Sci-Fi Abandoned the Utopian Alternative? —
KMO welcomes filmmaker Joshua Bregman to discuss why contemporary science fiction—on the screen at least, if not on the page—is stuck in a dystopian quagmire. What happened to the utopian vision of Star Trek? Were Francis Fukuyama and Margaret Thatcher right—are representative democracy and markets the highest expression of human civilization? Is self-interest the human trait via which we unavoidably devolve away from our potential utopian greatness? Topics include Star Trek TOS and movies; Bladerunner as a visual trendsetter that has become a stylistic black hole; She as a return to thoughtful scifi; why Avatar induces depression in some people.
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58:41
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY, COOL & COSMIC — 27.MAR.2014
Awakening to Conscious Co-Creation
Gold, Shamans and Green Fire—Romancing the Cosmic Stone —
Adventurer Lee Elders relates his decades-ago journey in Ecuador searching for gold and emeralds but ultimately finding something much more important. Highlights of the tale include a prolific gold-bearing river named Hell; a last will and testament whose century-old riddle led him to a dangerous, uncharted area of Ecuador; good shamans and bad shamans; unpredictable weather, precarious jungle trails, and pack-hunting jaguars.
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57:59
Original Show Pub Date: 05.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY, FINANCIAL — 23.MAR.2014
Guns & Butter
The Commons, Banking In the Ivory Tower, and Public-Private Partnerships —
Channeling founding father Ethan Allen, Jim Hogue offers a standing-ovation-worthy speech that excoriates the execrable, parasitic, traitorous (British) banksters and usurpers of citizens' rights. Also in this clip are worthy speeches from Charlie Eaton and Darwin Bond Graham on Wall Street profits vs. public capital at the University of California, how the murky world of interest rate swaps has affected higher-learning institutions, and the privatization (stealing) of public assets.
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59:52
Original Show Pub Date: 12.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY — 20.MAR.2014
Against the Grain
The Vietnam War and the Secret Bombing of Laos —
The bombing of Laos was, and still is, the most protracted bombing of civilian targets in world history. Fred Branfman discusses the secret---and lied about---war waged by the US executive branch from 1964 to 1973. Branfman addresses Laos as a model for subsequent (and current) US force projection and military aggression; as well as today's tragic legacy of unexploded ordnance in Laos. ~~ Tacked on to the end of both clips, Nick Turse offers a disturbing discussion of the targeting of civilians by US troops in Vietnam during the war.
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52:52
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54:06
Original Show Pub Date: 04.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY — 18.MAR.2014
On The Media
The Re-Birth of the First Amendment —
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court made a decision in the case New York Times v Sullivan that would forever alter the way journalists practiced journalism. Andrew Cohen, contributing editor at The Atlantic and fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, explains why the First Amendment, thankfully, hasn't been the same since.
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10:02
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY — 06.MAR.2014
Awakening to Conscious Co-Creation
Conspiracy in Rome —
Robert Bauval will discuss some pf the topics in his book, The Vatican Heresy. Two powerful movements came together during the Renaissance in Italy in the 16th century: The first was the Hermetic Movement, which was inspired by an ancient set of books housed in the library of Cosimo de Medici and written by the Egyptian sage Hermes Trismegistus. The Movement expounded the return of the "true religion of the world," based on a form of natural magic, drawing down the powers of the heavens and incorporating them into statues and physical structures. The other, the Heliocentric Movement launched by Copernicus, directly challenged the Vatican's biblical interpretation of a geocentric world, which had been declared heresy by the Pope. Amazingly, the final result was an architectural plan with occult features and the building of a Hermetic Temple of the Sun right in front of, and blessed by, the Vatican itself!
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57:42
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY, EMPIRE — 05.MAR.2014
Red Ice Radio
The Death Squad Network —
One of President Eisenhower's acts was to establish an assassination team to be used against US enemies. Less than a decade later, that team would go rogue and play a pivotal role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Researcher Ole Dammegard has spent 30 years investigating high-profile assassinations, including those of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Che Guevara, and Salvador Allende. Dammegard talks in detail about the players in the assassination game, explaining the connections and the motivations.
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1:09:33
Original Show Pub Date: 26.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY — 03.MAR.2014
On The Media
DoD Still Sticking to It's (Long-Disproved) Story on Vietnam War —
Historical understanding doesn’t always move ahead. Case in point: In 2012, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of official US involvement in Vietnam, the Pentagon quietly launched VietnamWar50th.com. Historian Nick Turse noticed that the website's version of the war seems stuck in the past, with the DoD reasserting information long since debunked by journalists, historians, and the government's own Pentagon papers.
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7:07
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: HISTORY — 01.MAR.2014
Project Censored
The Untold History of the United States —
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips review the new DVD release of the Oliver Stone/Peter Kiznick film, The Untold History of the United States. Deeply researched by an American University team of historians, the 10-hour Showtime documentary series is a provocative challenge to the status quo of American history in the tradition of Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States. The film series covers the rise of the American empire and national security state from the late nineteenth century through the Obama administration.
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50:27
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Feb.2014
CATEGORY: MUSIC — 30.MAR.2014
The Vinyl Experience
Spring Springs Eternal —
A set of songs in celebration of spring. Top tracks are ... Zombies - "Time Of The Season" // XTC - "Grass" // Stranglers - "Always The Sun" // Simon and Garfunkel - "At The Zoo" // Allman Brothers Band - "Revival" // Outlaws - "Green Grass And High Tides Forever (live)" // Wilson Pickett - "Don’t Let The Green Grass Fool You" // Traffic - "Berkshire Poppies" // Talk Talk - "Life’s What You Make It."
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58:04
Original Show Pub Date: 21.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: MUSIC — 24.MAR.2014
The Vinyl Experience
Michael Fremer's Stereo-Files —
This is an interesting peak at some recent remasters, with commentary from vinyl maestro Michael Fremer. Top tracks are ... Rolling Stones - "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" // Weather Report - "Birdland" // Beach Boys - "In My Room" // XTC - "Senses Working Overtime" // The Who - "Underture" and "The Song Is Over".
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54:54
Original Show Pub Date: 07.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: MUSIC — 19.MAR.2014
The Vinyl Experience
New And Old —
A decent, eclectic mix of modern rock and classic rock. Top tracks are ... Nirvana - "Come As You Are" // Led Zeppelin - "The Immigrant Song" // Bonzo Dog Band - "I'm The Urban Spaceman" // Rolling Stones - "2000 Man" // Echo & The Bunnymen - "Never Stop" // Graham Parker & The Rumour - "Stick To Me" // The Reflections - "Just Like Romeo & Juliet" // Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer".
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57:02
Original Show Pub Date: 14.Mar.2014
CATEGORY: MUSIC — 13.MAR.2014
Sunrise Ocean Bender
For What's Ailin' You —
There are seven songs that make this set worth downloading. Fortunately, five of the seven are played in the first 20 minutes. The songs in the rest of the two hours vary from "OK but non-essential" to "beware the fuzztone drone attack"; except, of course, for those other two good songs. Whether it's worth wading through the whole thing to hear them or not is up to you and your ear bones. The superlative seven are ... "Forget Everything" by Os Noctambulos // "I Wanna Make It With You" by The Smoke // "Zookeeper" by The Melted Americans // "Don't Look Back" by 39th & the Nortons // "The Gypsies Graveyard" by The Higher State // "Monkey On My Back" by Sonic Jesus // "Rise" by This Other Kingdom.
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2:00:00
Original Show Pub Date: 06.Jan.2014
CATEGORY: MUSIC — 07.MAR.2014
A Bowl of Soul
Bootzilla Gives Me Fever —
This is (mostly) a decent mix of Motown, R&B, funk, and blues. Top tracks are "Masterpiece" by The Temptations // "Fever" by Little Willie John // "My Girl Josephine" by Fats Domino // "I'm Gonna Make It (I Will Wait For You)" by Diana Ross & The Supremes // "Bootzilla (Wind Me Up)" by Bootsy Collins.
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1:00:03
Original Show Pub Date: 28.Feb.2014
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