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Democracy Now

Backlash Against "Corporate Personhood" Grows at State and Municipal Level — 05 Jan 2012 — Adding to a growing nationwide backlash against the US Supreme Court's "Citizens United" ruling on non-person campaign contributions, California lawmakers have introduced a resolution that calls on Congress to overturn Citizens United. The New York City Council has just passed a similar resolution, echoing measures passed in Los Angeles, Oakland, Albany and Boulder. A panel of guests discusses the trend.
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Colbert Report

Bernie Sanders on Corporate Personhood — 03 Jan 2012 — Senator Bernie Sanders mixes it up with Stephen Colbert, calling on Americans to support his proposed "Saving American Democracy" constitutional amendment and help overturn the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision, which affirmed the free-speech rights of corporations, i.e. that they can spend unlimited dollars to influence elections.
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Unwelcome Guests

Chris Hedges:  Nonviolent Citizen Resistance Is All We Have Left — 31 Dec 2011 — In a speech before a college audience, Chris Hedges says that the traditional mechanisms by which political and social reform can happen are broken beyond use, beyond repair. Electoral politics is now a waste of time; action must be more direct. If we don't take down the psychopathic bankster/corporate beast—and soon—all remaining opportunity for self-governance will be lost. It comes down to a simple question for each of us: Am I a rebel or a slave?
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One Radio Network

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Andrew Gause:  Fed Helping Banks Get Away with New Crime Rampage — 30 Nov 2011 — Gause explains the $85 billion NY Fed loan to European banks. More broadly, he explains that the Fed has decided to help the banksters get away with their new crime rampage rather than turning state's witness and pleading guilty to being complicit in the banks' previous, lesser crimes. Other topics include: every country is inflating together; trillion is the new billion; the newly announced official figure of $727 trillion in outstanding derivatives is low—try $1.04 quadrillion.
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THE CORPORATE PROBLEM

Grinning Planet Introduction

There's a lot of talk about the problem of corporate personhood and corporate political influence. We agree these are problems. But let's not forget that there are people—with names—who continue to promote this fascistic system of governance and pillage. In the end, THEY must be held accountable.

TUC Radio

Corporations and Propaganda—A History — 11 Nov 2011 — This is an excellent, if brief, review from writer Alex Carey of the broad, relentless use of propaganda by corporations to not only influence consumer behavior, but also to shape citizen attitudes and voting patterns, thus greasing the skids for their bought-and-paid-for politicians to be able to easily pass favorable policies.
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(GP comment:  This one's from the archives but remains very relevant today.)

Financial Sense NewsHour

K Street Documentary—The Best Government Money Can Buy — 08 Dec 2011 — Francis Megahy and Jim Puplava discuss the "lobbying industry" in Washington DC. Politicians now spend 75% of their time fundraising, while the number of lobbyists in Washington has more than doubled since 2000.
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(GP comment:  This is worth a listen, though there is nothing really new here—the problem has been going on for decades. It's almost funny that it's talked about here as a revelation.)

               

               

SO MOVE YOUR MONEY ALREADY!

Grinning Planet Comment

Nov 5 was targeted as "bank transfer day"—a day when masses of people should move their money out of big banks and into locally owned banks and credit unions. But even in October, the move was already gaining steam. ABC News reported that in that month, credit unions gained 650,000 new customers and the major banks lost $4.5 billion in deposits. Woo-hoo!

C'mon, folks—this is one of the few ways that just about everyone can participate in the battle against the banksters. If you have any money in any accounts managed by big banks or their subsidiaries, move it! And every time you use a credit card—whether you pay off you bill each month or not—you feed the big banks. So pay by cash or check (or barter!). And, of course, if you have anything in the stock market beast—ditch that too!

Democracy Now

"Move Your Money" Campaign Grows — 01 Nov 2011 — As participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement continue protesting the record profits made by banks bailed out by taxpayer money, a group of grassroots activists are urging people to move their money out of the banks deemed "too big to fail" into local community banks and credit unions.
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NPR

Banks Relent on Debit Card Fees — 01 Nov 2011 — Bank of America canceled plans to impose a $5 monthly fee on customers who use debit cards, and other banks have taken BofA's experience as a cautionary tale to avoid such direct fees. (But they will get their pound of flesh in other ways. Move your money! --GP)
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Guns and Butter

Catherine Austin Fitts:  Unpacking Mr. Global — 02-09 Nov 2011 — Catherine Austin Fitts discusses the organized criminal activity known as the global financial system. Specific topics include... collateral fraud in the housing market; the black budget and financing of a "breakaway civilization"; debt being used to reengineer national governance; missing trillions from the federal government's books; the theft of the Baby Boomers' retirement funds; blackmail of congress; private defense contractor control of databases.  (Fitts remains one of the most cogent, comprehensive analysts of what's really going on. This is essential listening. --GP)
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Retirement Heist—How Corporations Plunder Pension Plans — 22 Oct 2011 — Ellen E. Schultz discusses some of the many ways corporate elites have been systematically stealing from their workers' pension plans. Where did the money go? Important activities like restructuring, mergers/acquisitions, and, of course, executive bonuses and retirement plans.
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 (GP comment:  This is an important part of the larger story of how the elites are in the final phase of their push to recapture the portion of wealth that temporarily shifted to the worker class in the 20th century.)

Colbert Report

Whales Aren't People — 26 Oct 2011 — PETA has filed a lawsuit claiming that whale performers are slaves and should be freed from SeaWorld under the Thirteenth Amendment. Funny man Stephen Colbert eplains the obvious: Whales aren't people. But corporations are.
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One Radio Network

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Andrew Gause:  Our 'Free Trade' System Is Controlled and Manipulated — 26 Oct 2011 — Topics include: Why "free trade" as it is practiced today is not the answer. ~~ How what is going on in Europe will affect the US. ~~ Why long-term bonds are the worst idea right now. ~~ How fiat currency can actually work well. ~~ What's the scoop on Obama's latest plan for mortgage payers and student loans.
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NPR

What Is The Basis For Corporate Personhood? — 24 Oct 2011 — As the OWS movement fingers "corporate personhood" as one of the ills it says must be addressed, a legal expert offers background on the evolution of the concept in the US.
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Fresh Air

Unlike Most Marxist Jargon, 'Class Warfare' Persists — 04 Oct 2011 — The phrase "class warfare" is often used by the defenders of the plutocracy whenever people start point out the facts of the vast wealth inequality on the planet. Understanding a little about the history of the term in helpful.
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Democracy Now

US Postal Service Insolvency---A Manufactured Crisis? — 27 Sep 2011 — Are the dire warnings about fiscal insolvency and an impending collapse of the United States Postal Service real or manufactured?
 (GP comment:  The problems are partly real. But the bankster class will use the legitimate problems to delegitimately harvest the wealth found in USPS real estate, pension funds, and benefits.)
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The Lifeboat Hour

Vermont—Not Necessarily the Free-Thinking Haven You Think It Is — 11 Sep 2011 — Guest host Carolyn Baker interviews Robert Wagner, a candidate for the Vermont state senate, who explains that the feed-the-corporations, squeeze-the-people model thrives in Vermont just like it does in most US states.
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Russia Today / The Keiser Report

The Welfare Disconnect — 13 Jul 2011 — Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss current economic events, including..... People of all economic strata in the US receive some sort of largess from the government, though the media, elites, and even the middle class don't recognize the benefits they themselves are receiving, instead perceiving welfare only as a lower-class phenomenon. Max and Stacy also discuss the debt woes in Italy, the laughable insufficiency of penalties for bad corporate behavior, and how the Martindale roulette strategy applies to banks and their love of derivatives.
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Democracy Now

Supreme Court Denies Class Action Status in Wal-Mart Gender Bias Suit — 21 Jun 2011 — The US Supreme Court unanimously dismissed the largest class action lawsuit in history, filed by 1.5 million current and former female employees of Wal-Mart, who say they were paid less and promoted less often than their male counterparts. The court found women who worked at Wal-Mart did not have enough in common to constitute a "class" in the lawsuit but did not comment on the merits of the discrimination charge.
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Media Matters with Bob McChesney

Ralph Nader:  We're Losing Power — 12 Jun 2011 — Nader explains why we're continuing to lose control of our political and media systems—it's all about corporate influence on politicians. He says the internet is a wonderful tool, but it is not "the answer." People need to get out of their comfort zones and step up to the fight that must come, and come soon.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

The US is Already a "Total Information Surveillance" State — 09 Jun 2011 — Roger Tolces, a private investigator specializing in electronic counter-measures, spoke about ways the United States is being brought down by elites and multinational corporations. Our constitutional rights have been eroded by the Patriot Act, and any electronic media you use is routed through the NSA, including your credit card statements, IRS records, phone calls, medical records. And by the way, they have a "back door" into your personal computer. Tolces thinks the attempt to dissolve the United States, its constitution, and its military is an agenda of the elite-owned multinational corporations who seek to turn America into a "consumptive colony." He warned of a coming currency collapse, and suggested that the massive surveillance already in place will be used to monitor and arrest people that protest the economic downgrade.
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Sierra Club Radio

The Yes Men:  Coal Cares (Uh Huh) — 28 May 2011 — Activist group The Yes Men recently set up a spoof web site to bring light to the human health impacts wrought by the mining and processing operations of Peabody Coal. When the company complained that they were being singled out, The Yes Men did the only logical thing—they expanded the focus of truth on all coal companies.
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Russia Today / The Keiser Report

Matt Taibbi Strips Down the "Real Housewives of Wall Street" — 26 Apr 2011 — Max and Stacy report on movements in the silver market and how the world is fleeing the dollar. ~~ Matt Taibbi discusses the details of his latest expose on Wall Street's criminal activities of the last few years, "The Real Housewives of Wall Street."   (article link)
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Banksters Are Untouchable, Worse Than The Mafia — 18 Apr 2011 — Max and Stacy discuss Carl Levin's assertion that the CEO of Goldman Sachs should be investigated for lying under oath to Congress, as well as the general criminality among all of the big banks. ~~ Max interviews Janet Tavakoli, a credit derivatives expert and the author of Dear Mr. Buffett, about corruption and an absence of justice in the US financial industry.
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Jim Hightower

Workers Down, Bosses Up—A Morality Play
...OR... How CEOs Share the Pain All the Way to the Bank
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WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WITH THE MORTGAGE MESS?

Flashpoints — 19 Apr 2011
The new film The Wall Street Money Machine—which is subtitled "How Hedge Funds and Banks Worsened the Financial Crisis While Making a Hefty Profit for Themselves"—examines the craziness and criminality of the Wall Street banks' mortgage-backed securities schemes. The filmmakers discuss the disturbing details of the mess.

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Film's web site:
The Wall Street Money Machine

               

Unwelcome Guests

The Corruption of Money — 19 Mar 2011 — This is a very insightful analysis of how the concept of money as "good" has permeated our language, our frames of reference, and our consciousness—and undermined how we assign value to people, animals, material goods, and intangibles. None of it is an accident, of course.
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Against the Grain

Bob McChesney:  Capitalism and the Internet — 16 Mar 2011 — After 20 years of the internet revolution, what's the state of a medium that was supposed to create new, perhaps utopian, relationships between people around the world? Robert McChesney describes how capitalist interests have managed to enclose the non-commercial promise of the internet—and argues that it doesn't have to be so.
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Guns and Butter

Michael Hudson:  The Banksters Global Financial Crime Spree — 16 Mar 2011 — Hudson makes the case that "free-market economics" is simply central planning and control—in the hands of the bankers. Using Latvia's severe decline over the last few years as a template, he gives us an eye-opening look and how the bankers are pushing over the economic dominoes in Europe. And in the US, the march to privatize public assets is just beginning.
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Progressive Radio News Hour

The Corporate-Media Manipulation Machine—"It's Just Business" — 06 Mar 2011 — Mickey Huff of Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation offers a scorching review of the spintastic disaster known as mainstream media, recounting some of the important issues that either get ignored or get reported on inaccurately.
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Unwelcome Guests

Bernie Sanders:  Here's What's Really Going On — 12 Mar 2011 — These are excerpts from an amazing filibuster speech by Vermont independent senator Bernie Sanders, railing against the big-bank bailouts, big-corp rescues, the upward flow of wealth, and all the other ills of the reemergence of the robber baron era.  (GP comment:  It does not matter what political stripe you are—this is must-listening.... Hey! Idea for a new Congress: Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Bernie Sanders, and 532 clones of Bernie Sanders.)
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Max Keiser

David DeGraw: Standing Against Genocidal Neoliberal Policies — (On the Edge, Press TV) — 13 Mar 2011 — David DeGraw discusses the unfolding global, decentralized rebellion against the enslaving, genocidal, centralized economic policies of the neoliberal economystics. He says that social media have been important tools, but we should be aware of them getting co-opted by the tentacles of TPTB. Keiser and DeGraw also discuss the hacker group Anonymous and other potential approaches to fighting the financial mafia.
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Coast To Coast

Craig B. Hulet:  The New Robber Barrons — 10 Mar 2011 — Hulet draws a tread through the corporate/banking interests in the Middle East (which is why we are entangled there), Wisconsin (where TPTB have begun the final claw-back of workers' gains from the last century) and the banking-government axis (with the IG at the Federal Reserve just announcing that $9 trillion is ...uh... "missing"). ~~ In the early segment, there is a discussion of the numerous large earthquakes hitting now, with more possible in the immediate future.
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Financial Sense NewsHour

Wall Street Banks and the "Inside Job" — 26 Feb 2011 — A discussion of the new documentary Inside Job, which reviews the collusion, corruption, and thievery that brought on the financial crisis. Investment banker Daniel Alpert, who is featured in the film, joins Jim and John.
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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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The Real News Network

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

Democracy Now

The Corporate War on Civil Litigation — 25 Jan 2011 — Using the new film "Hot Coffee" as a springboard, we hear a discussion of "tort reform" and the already in-place, de facto barrier to civil suits—mandatory arbitration, the requirement for which is usually embedded in the fine print of any contract or agreement you sign, where the corporation pays for and controls the features of the arbitration. ~~ A former judge recounts just how far opponents of civil litigation will go to get their way.
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Corbett Report

To Avoid Catastrophe, Embrace Anastrophe — 24 Jan 2011 — Using two trenchant clips from It's a Wonderful Life—the ones where George Bailey explains the importance of community solidarity in the face of predatory capitalism—Corbett discusses the concept of "anastrophe," which is the conceptual opposite of catastrophe. Part of that process is for each of us to stop supporting the systems that benefit TPTB and instead focus on local and self-sufficient solutions.
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Fresh Air

Wall Street Finds Lucrative Market In Tax Liens — 14 Dec 2010 — A new breed of TV and Web infomercials has recently popped up, promising that investors can make lots of money in "tax liens."  (GP comment:  Every crisis brings out the get-rich-quick schemers and suckers. In this case, though, even the big banks and hedge funds are in on it. Surprise!)
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Coast To Coast

Russ Baker:  From Eisenhower to Today's Military-Industrial-Congressional-Banking-Oil Complex — 15 Jan 2011 — The tight relationship between the US government, its armed forces, and the industrial corporations that supply armaments, equipment, and services is a dominant feature in today's world. But even 50 years ago, President Eisenhower warned about the growing problem: "We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." Russ Baker walks us through the history of the military-industrial complex, adds some missing elements to that too-short phrase, and ties in some seemingly unconnected events.
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Russ Baker book:   (on Amazon.com)
Family of Secrets:  The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years

Democracy Now

Prophets of War — 21 Jan 2011 — William Hartung traces the rise of the military-industrial complex through the story of the nation's largest weapons contractor, Lockheed Martin.
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William Hartung book:   (on Amazon.com)
Prophets of War:  Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex

Gary Null Show

Devra Davis:  Data on Cell Phone Radiation is Conclusive — 11 Jan 2011 — Researcher and journalist Devra Davis reviews the numerous studies that have all concluded that cell phones held close to the body for extended periods damage DNA and can lead to cancer. She also recounts the various guerilla tactics used by the industry to refute the studies and to stigmatize the researchers that performed them.
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Gary Null Show

Food Safety Bill is Really a Food Control Bill — 31 Aug 2010 — After health news and commentaries by Gary, guest Scott Tips explains how proposed US legislation to "overhaul" some aspects of the food system is really designed to provide the corrupt corp-gov bureaucracy with more control and, in the long run, drive out the remaining small producers, leaving only the industrial-food giants.
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Guns and Butter

The Bogus Business of War — 25 Aug 2010 — Dr. Robert Bowman, a retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, runs a blood-red thread through the bogus reasons for how the war machine operates, from Vietnam and Star Wars to the 9/11 inside job and the politics of the bank-corp-gov axis of weasels.
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One Radio Network

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Gerald Celente:  Orwell Couldn't Have Made This Stuff Up — 11 Aug 2010 — Among Celente's observations: The stock market is now pure gambling, a rigged financial game run by money junkies. There is no "revolving door between government and corporations"—it's a single entity; it's one door! He thinks it would only take enlightenment among 20% of the population for us to begin the process of recapturing the system.
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Uprising

The Google-Verizon Vision for a Privatized Internet — 11 Aug 2010 — Is Google about to put on a black hat and help kill "net neutrality" in favor of "big boys win again"?
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Against the Grain

Richard McIntyre:  The Rise and Fall of the Workers — 09 Aug 2010 — McIntyre offers a very intelligent analysis of workers rights in a historical context of civil rights and human rights.
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NPR

Genetically Modified Canola 'Escapes' Farm Fields — 06 Aug 2010 — In the face of assurances from Monsanto and the rest of the purveyors of genetically modified crops, environmentalists and food-safety experts predicted all along that if GMOs were grown in open fields they would eventually escape the "permitted area." GM canola has now been proven to have contaminated areas beyond its approved range. GMO escapes like this endanger the fidelity of organic and non-GMO crops.
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Democracy Now

Top Secret America — 19 Jul 2010 — (1) Bill Arkin, co-author of a series of reports in The Washington Post titled "Top Secret America," outlines the work and the findings. (2) Investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing, wonders why it took the Post so many years to finally look at this story. He adds his own information to the Big Brother picture.
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Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
Spies for Hire

Annie Leonard / Free Range Studios

The Story of Cosmetics — 21 Jul 2010 — Another excellent piece from Annie Leonard's "Story of" series, this time taking on personal care products. Unless you check your labels carefully---and avoid products with ingredients you can't recognize or even pronounce---the shampoo, makeup, and other products on your shelves are almost sure to contain a variety of toxics.  (It's worth watching for the fun graphics, but for those who just don't have time, the audio works fine on its own. --GP)
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The Real News Network

Bill Black:  Goldman Sachs Fine No Deterrence — 17 Jul 2010 — The recent SEC fine of Goldman Sachs was the biggest such penalty in history. Still, says Bill Black, when measured against Goldman's illicit profits and executive compensation, it's paltry, and it's no deterrence to future wrongdoing on Wall Street.
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Against the Grain

Keeping the Record on Mining Honest — 07 Jul 2010 — Beyond the environmental toll of mining, there is a human toll. "Dark and forbidding" is a phrase that describes the lives of many miners, who often toil for unconscionably low wages in one of the most dangerous industries in the world. Labor activist Mark Nowak discusses the propaganda war that keeps mining's profile low and its problems in forgotten corners of the social consciousness.
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NPR / Morning Edition

Massey Miners:  Disabling Monitors Was Common — 16 Jul 2010 — At the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, a methane explosion in April killed 29 workers. It turns out that the company made a practice of disabling methane detectors to avoid production delays.
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Media Minutes

Ever-Rising Internet/Cable Bills — 16 Jul 2010 — Media activists warn that insufficient regulatory oversight has resulted in higher cable and internet service prices, and the proposed Comcast-NBC merger will further this trend. ~~ In North Carolina, an industry-written bill to ban municipal broadband was killed by the legislature.
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Between The Lines

Corporate Media is Killing Itself — 14 Jun 2010 — John Nichols explains how corporate media is so profit-driven that it is cutting its talent so severely that it is delivering a product fewer and fewer people want. He says we need to derail the momentum towards a propaganda state and create a media that respects us as citizens and does not lie to us.
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The Real News Network

Ralph Nader:  The Rise of Informed Indignation — 12 Jun 2010 — Nader discusses the weak regulatory changes being proposed for financial institutions and says the American public needs to engage in a peaceful revolution to take back sovereignty from corporations, in particular big banks.
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Guns and Butter

Ellen Brown: The Financial Hijacking of America — 09 Jun 2010 — Brown provides a brief history of banking and different ways to "create money." She discusses the Federal Reserve, bubbles and crashes, market manipulation, and recent changes in banking and accounting rules.
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal

Before BP — 06 Jun 2010 — Mumia recounts the days of the BP corporation as part of the British empire—a century before the company adopted the trendy "BP" name.
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TOXIC TWINS
COMPARING THE GULF OIL SPILL AND THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

Keiser Report / Russia Today — 01 Jun 2010 — Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss the astonishing parallels between the crises in the Gulf of Mexico and in the global financial system, from the "advanced technologies" used; the corporate malfeasance and lax regulatory environments that vastly increased the potential for the problems to grow to enormous proportions; and inept and duplicitous responses from all parties involved. Brilliant commentary!

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The Real News

William Engdahl:  The Gods of Money — 01 Jun 2010 — As Germany wrestles with the rest of the EU and the Wall Street banks, William Engdahl says we're seeing the final, horrible outcome in the US of the "dollarization" strategy begun in the 1970s. Other topics include the failed UK financial dream, Las Vegas money laundering, and the myth of the Green Shoots.
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One Radio Network

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Andrew Gause:  Bankers and the Civil War — 29 May 2010 — Andy talks about the role that the hegemony of Northern banks played in the civil war, and why Lafayette was really fighting on our side. Other topics covered include the benefits of state banks, the logic of current and future gold/silver prices, and how the big banks leveraged the bailout money into an amount of working capital nearly 10 times the original amount.
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Financial Sense NewsHour

William K. Black:  SDI's and Fraud — 15 May 2010 — (1) Gregory T. Weldon discusses Europe's problems. (2) William K. Black talks about the rampant fraud and criminality among the big financial-market players. Over the last decade, the game changed to pure fraud. Black also discusses SDIs—systemically dangerous institutions—which have gotten larger and more dangerous since the crisis began.
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Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries for week ending 07 May 2010...

Tax Dodging for Fun and Profit
...OR... G.E.—We bring good loopholes to life.
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Goldman Sachs Shows Us Its Abacus
...OR... Ahhh... Inscrutable financial wizardry really just fraud
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Who Would Want This Job?
...OR... Scheming to further shaft the shafted
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Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal

04 May 2010

Union Busting Rio Tinto Style
...OR... Squeezing the turnips, ever squeezing...
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Democracy Now

Wall Street Banks:  Bailout vs. Jail-Out — 28 Apr 2010 — Danny Schechter's new film—Plunder: The Crime Of Our Time—examines Wall Street as a criminal operation. This clip features an interview with Schechter and a few clips from his film. The song at the end is called "Economic Meltdown."
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Flashpoints

Michael Parenti/Victor Hansen:  Debate on the State of US Imperialism — 27 Apr 2010 — Author and social critic Michael Parenti debates military historian Victor Hansen about the state of US imperialism and globalization. Hansen presents the "benevolent global uncle" version of things; Parenti presents the harder-to-follow but more accurate portrayal of the US as the exploitation arm of transnational corporations.
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Guns and Butter

Russ Baker:  Infiltration, Influence, and Illusion — 21 Apr 2010 — Russ Baker gives a sampling of the deep, dark connections between top figures in corporations and politics—on both sides of the political spectrum. Nothing is what it seems on the surface.
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Referenced book:  (on Amazon)
Family of Secrets  (by Russ Baker)

Democracy Now

Looking Back at Bolivia's Water War — 19 Apr 2010 — Jim Shultz, founder of the Cochabamba-based Democracy Center, gives a snapshot of Bolivia ten years after Bechtel attempted privatization of Cochabamba's water supply.
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Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization

Free Speech Radio News

Nomi Prins on SEC Lawsuit Against Goldman Sachs and Accountability on Wall Street — 19 Apr 2010 — Former investment banker Nomi Prins comments on the substance and implications of the SEC's lawsuit against Goldman Sachs. Besides being flawed and rather late in the game, it does nothing to address the continuing broader problem of rampant speculation and lack of accountability for mistakes.  (And because it's a civil suit, not a criminal suit, there is no chance of any defendant going to jail. --GP)
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Referenced book:   (on Amazon.com)
It Takes a Pillage:  Behind the Bonuses, Bailouts, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street

Sierra Club Radio

Change Chevron Campaign — 17 Apr 2010 — More than two decades ago, Chevron pulled out of its drilling operations in Ecuador, leaving a horrendous legacy of pollution for Amazon inhabitants. After 17 years of legal battles, the local people, who are still being harmed by the pollution hot spots, are adding public and shareholder pressure to bring about justice.
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Referenced web site:
Change Chevron Campaign

Bill Moyers Journal

The Interlocking Oligopoly — 16 Apr 2010 — Simon Johnson and James Kwak discuss how Big Finance grew so powerful, detail its role in the advent of "casino capitalism," and explain how the big Wall Street banks are now avoiding true reform by buying off our elected officials in the federal government.
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Referenced items:
Book: 13 Bankers  (on Amazon)
Article: How the Bubble Barons Protected Their Influence While the Economy Tanked

Agroinnovations

Michael Shuman:  The Small-Mart Revolution — 05 & 12 Apr 2010 — In part 1, Michael Shuman discusses the economic development policies of various levels of government around the United States (which is typically to favor large, non-local business at the expense of small, localized businesses). In part 2, Shuman discusses strategies for buying local, opportunities for local entrepreneurs, the prospects for relocalizing capital markets, and strategies for policy making.
PART 1:  Download/Listen   33:00
PART 2:  Download/Listen   34:29

Michael Shuman book:
The Small-Mart Revolution

Democracy Now

Matt Taibbi:  Looting Main Street — 12 Apr 2010 — Journalist Matt Taibbi details how the nation's biggest banks have been ripping off American cities with predatory deals.
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One Radio Network

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John Perkins:  An Economic Hit Man Hoodwinked — 06 Apr 2010 — Perkins' topics include: How Latin America is slowly throwing off the yoke of American corporate hegemony ~~ How the techniques used to create the housing bubble were similar to the tricks used globally by the IMF and World Bank to put developing countries in a debt trap.
Download/Listen   52:40

Andrew Gause:  The Deep Dark Truth of Sovereignty — 07 Apr 2010 — Andrew Gause explains the (raw) deal with the "Corporation of the United States of America." As bizarre and outrageous as his information about the corporate nature of our personhood sounds, it is correct. ~~ Other topics include the silver-market manipulation issue and the relationship between the money supply increases and price inflation
Download/Listen   1:05:09

Gary Null Show

Frances Moore Lappe — 16 Mar 2010 — A conversation with Frances Moore Lappe about democracy, fear mongering, and the reversal of fortune for the bottom 90% of the economy. Topics include how the "magic of the market" turned out to be a dirty trick; how we need to revise things so the rules tend to bring out the best in people, not the worst; and how we must recognize the dead ends offered by the blame game, polarization, and duality traps.
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Frances Moore Lappe book:
Getting A Grip 2:  Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want

Jim Hightower

Selected Hightower commentaries, Mar-Apr 2010 ...

Wal-Mart's Mechanical Inhumanity
...OR... OR -- WalMart -- The high cost of no heart
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The Rebellion Spreads to Wall Street Itself
...OR... Even some Wall Streeters recognize that TBTF is TBTE
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Foreign Corporations in U.S. Elections?
...OR... "The Senator from Deutsche Bank has the floor..."
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The Supreme Court's Corporate Wonderland
...OR... The only survey segments supporting political rights for corporations are plutocrats and political poltroons
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Greedhead Trophy Up for Grabs
...OR... Health insurance hucksters rival Wall Street Weenies for outright greed
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Media Matters

You Are Not a Gadget — 28 Mar 2010 — A Silicon Valley insider explains why sees danger in the concentration of power within small entities on the internet, and gives a historical context to today's issues.
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Referenced book:
You Are Not a Gadget  (by Jaron Lanier)

Against The Grain

Keeping Nations Down — 16 Mar 2010 — The tentacles of empire have been grasping at the poorer nations of the globe since the days of the conquistador. Today's methods are less overt but still big trouble for the world's poor.
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Rick Rowden book:
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism

Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Educational-Industrial Complex — 14 Mar 2010 — Mumia accurately observes that, just like with everything else, education today is about what big business wants, not about what students need.
Audio no longer available from host site...   2:16

Democracy Now

Greg Palast:  Vulture Funds Preying on African Debt — 03 Mar 2010 — Though Palast uses an overtly bleeding-heart delivery here, the facts are on his side—Western exploitation of Africa did not end with the formal abandonment of colonial rule.
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Living Hero

Vandana Shiva:  Fighting Corporate Patriarchy — 01 Mar 2010 — Shiva discusses the hegemony of corporations in Western countries and in her native India, particularly as it pertains to agriculture. She points out that we have transitioned from a traditional patriarchal society to a "corporate patriarchy"—domination by corporations.
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Related stuff on Amazon:
Vandana Shiva books

Prison Radio / Mumia Abu-Jamal

Corporate Supremacy
Feb 2010 — People are rightly outraged by the recent Supreme Court decision green-lighting unlimited corporate spending on elections; but the truth is, corporate interests have owned the political process—and politicians—for the better part of a century.
Audio no longer available from host site...   2:37

Flashpoints

Catherine Austin-Fitts Reviews The Facts on the "Financial Coup d'Etat"
Feb 2010 — Big-bank bailouts. No substantive changes to the system that supposedly necessitated the bailouts. These two facts tell Catherine Austin-Fitts that the government is essentially being held hostage by Wall Street interests.
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TED Talks

Peter Eigen: How to Expose the Corrupt
In his work with the World Bank, Peter Eigen realized that many of the world's most difficult social problems can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, working hand-in-glove with a money-trumps-ethics attitude in multinational companies.   (Posted on TED Feb 2010; filmed Nov 2009)
Download/Listen   16:22

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Morning Edition/NPR

More Americans Considering Community Banks
Feb 2010 — Bailouts, bonuses, and bad business practices have many Americans frustrated with big banks. They're moving their money to community banks.
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Media Matters

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

CounterSpin

Flack-Man Unmasked
Feb 2010 — Segments include... (1) Corporate PR flacks disguised as cable-news pundits ~~ (2) Did a local TV news piece on "Islamic radicals among us" spark a vandalism attack on a Nashville mosque?
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Max Keiser Radio

"Suicide Bankers" Leading Financial Jihad
Jan 2010 — Topics include...... How the "suicide bankers" are leading a global jihad against sound economic principles ~~ Will "dumping dollars" soon be declared an act of terrorism? ~~ As threats to the dollar increase, get ready for right-wing talkers to flip flop
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One Radio Network

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Andrew Gause: Taxpayers vs. the Big Banks
Jan 2010 — Back in 2008, all of the problem mortgages could have been paid off with a couple hundred billion dollars. Yet the banks claimed they needed $700 billion to avoid an economic apocalypse. Riiiiiight. Andrew Gause thinks that a much better fix for the economy would have been to use that money to massively stimulate the economy by giving $5,000 to every taxpayer—and letting the troubled big banks fail.
Download/Listen   1:10:13

The Owners of the Owners of the Federal Reserve
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.
Download/Listen   1:06:09

Sierra Club Radio

Crude: Chevron vs. Ecuador
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.
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NPR

Monsanto GMO Ignites Big Seed War
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.
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Jim Hightower

Flying Cash Registers
...OR... "Attention passengers, today's special is golden parachutes."  (Feb 2010)
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Agribusiness Profits, Mutant Germs... and Us
...OR... They have more than just a drug problem down on the farm  (Feb 2010)
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The Twisted Ethics of Corporate Trade Secrets
...OR... Worser living through chemistry  (Jan 2010)
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Nader's Novel Idea
...OR... Ralphing all over corporate power  (Jan 2010)
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The Poisonous Cloud of Corporate Immorality
...OR... Bhopal, 25 years later  (Jan 2010)
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Special

The Money Masters
More and more people are becoming familiar with terms like "central bank", "Federal Reserve," "money creation," and "fractional reserve banking." To better understand how such things affect the economic problems we face today—and that we have faced for three hundred years of tumultuous history—we strongly recommend The Money Masters, which is the authoritative documentary on the subject. It's long but worth it!
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