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Media Matters with Bob McChesney

The Top Under-Reported Stories of the Last Year — 29 Jan 2012 — Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips of Project Censored review some of the Top 25 most un- and under-report stories of the last couple of years. They also explain why the mainstream media ignores or misreports all of world's most important stories.
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(GP comment:  Their list is a good one, though they somehow miss the continuing #1 story of the last century: Banksters Pillaging World via Control of National Monetary Systems.)

The Shortwave Report

World News Round-Up — News reports from around the world — 03 Feb 2012
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Uprising

Supreme Court Rules Against Unauthorized Use of GPS Tracking Devices — 24 Jan 2012 — The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled that GPS tracking devices placed on vehicles by law enforcement during surveillance operations must be treated as a type of search, regulated under the 4th amendment and requiring a warrant. Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee says this is good, but the fine print in the decision leaves a lot of open questions about other privacy issues.
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One Radio Network

Ellen Brown:  62 Million Homes May Be Foreclosure-Proof — 02 Feb 2012 — Ellen Brown explains how the big banks' MERS/robo-signing fiasco relates to the shadow banking system. It's such a mess, that technically, 62 million homes could be foreclosure-proof. She points out that it's just the big banks that have run the con game—your locally owned banks are clean (and mortgages held there are perfectly serviceable). She further explains why public banking—that is, where the benefit of managing the money goes to the public, not to banksters—works well at the state level, and maybe even at the county level.
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Financial Sense NewsHour

Chasing Madoff—The Real Story Behind the Largest Ponzi Scheme in History — 02 Feb 2012 — Jeff Prosserman of the new documentary "Chasing Madoff" discusses the story of Harry Markopolos and his ten year struggle to expose the scam being run by Bernie Madoff. Finding himself ignored by SEC regulators and trapped in a web of deceit, the unassuming securities-analyst-turned-vigilante-investigator now feared for his life and the safety of his family.
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GP comment:  Fascinating interview. But the important thing to remember is that Madoff is only the tip of the corruption iceberg and was thrown under the bus to give the complaining rabble a fall-guy.

One Radio Network

Why Austrian Economic Theories Are Failing — 01 Feb 2012 — Andrew Gause's discussion topics include... how the banksters slowly squeeze profits out of the system; the tricky tactics of the banks in mortgage court; how Austrian economic theories are failing because the Fed is not playing by the rules of the market; "urban gold" and "full-bodied money"; what the collapsatarians are missing; and the Obama mortgage/foreclosure plan—a re-election special.
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Dan Carlin - Common Sense

Up Your Class — 01 Feb 2012 — Dan Carlin discusses the obvious hypocrisy of those who not only don't want to discuss the growing class divide in the US, but won't even admit the term "class" applies to the country. The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one.
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King World News

Gerald Celente:  We Must Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple — 29 Jan 2012 — Celente discusses the continuing desperate monetary game being played by the Fed and the EU central bank, with the bottom-line result of stealing money from the public via loan arbitrage and inflation. He also talks about the NDAA in the context of the recent "urban military exercises" in LA and a coming bank holiday during which the US dollar will be devalued.
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Financial Sense NewsHour

The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown — 25 Jan 2012 — Detlev S. Schlichte discusses the history of fiat currencies, fractional reserve banking, and cyclical collapse of banks and national currencies. He talks about the breakdown of modern economic theory and the fallacy of mathematical models. He says the present crisis is the unavoidable result of continuously expanding fiat money, which could ultimately lead to a complete collapse of the monetary system.
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Democracy Now

Nader on Obama's State of the Union Address — 25 Jan 2012 — Responding to President Obama's State of the Union address, Ralph Nader aptly observes that Obama's criticism of income inequality and Wall Street excess are in contradiction with his record in office. Where's the action on that issue in the last three years? That Obama says one thing and does another should be evident to all by now. Nader also criticizes Obama's lauding of the lawless militarism of the US, especially in Iraq: "[Obama is] very committed to projecting the American empire, in Obama terms."
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Russia Today / The Keiser Report

Mike Ruppert:  Peak Oil Means the Current Debt Restructuring Schemes Will Fail — 26 Jan 2012 — Mike Ruppert and Max Keiser discuss the copyright war between Hollywood, the tech community, and civil libertarians; the NDAA as a prelude to worsening economic conditions and civil unrest; non-solutions on EU debt; and the geopolitical standoff over Iranian oil.
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Two Beers With Steve

Economics, War, and the Broken Window Fallacy — 21 Jan 2012 — Basing their conversation on Henry Hazlett's book Economics in One Lesson, Steve Patterson and Chris Stefanick explain the fallacy in the widely held belief that wealth can be created through destruction, in particular, that war stimulates economic prosperity.
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Unwelcome Guests

Unspinning Our "Urban Nightmares" — 21 Jan 2012 — Steve Macek, author of Urban Nightmares, debunks some of the myths surrounding the lives and morals of inner-city slum dwellers—myths that have largely been fed by mainstream media coverage that is out of proportion with the facts. ~~ Then Gabor Mate, challenges traditional understandings of drug addiction. He explains that the primary factor is not the addictive quality or availability of drugs, it's the unhappy psychological factors in an individual's life that create the right conditions for addiction.
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Corbett Report

Bob Chapman:  Behavior By Political Elites — 23 Jan 2012 — Chapman discusses bad behavior by political elites and a public unaware of the approaching freight train of a new central bank. He explains why a US-Europe embargo on Iranian oil will prove unworkable. The only end game possible for TPTB is to keep building the financial house of cards until it begins to collapse, then they will have a war, as they always do. Meanwhile, the US political carnival whirls on.
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Press TV / On the Edge with Max Keiser

Gonzalo Lira:  It's Go Time — 20 Jan 2012 — In the US, Lira says we are seeing a transition from a democratic republic to a dictatorship, though the elites are maintaining the illusion of democracy—for now. It is one of the purest forms of fascism—the merger of corporate and state interests—that the world has ever seen. NDAA's indefinite-detention provision is the "ding-ding-ding" that should be alerting us all that it is "go time." He notes that under Pinochet's ruthless regime in Argentina—which he experienced firsthand—the people were not fooled by the propaganda. But in the US today, most people are fooled.
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Moyers & Co.

David Stockman:  The System Is Rigged — 20 Jan 2012 — David Stockman was Ronald Reagan's budget director, and then went to Wall Street and did what all creatures there do—made a pile of easy money. In this interview, he discusses the failings of rigged-market capitalism, especially in the financial sector.
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(GP comment:  Interesting how guys like Stockman are content to make a crapload of money inside the system and then, in their cozy retirement years, criticize the hell out of that same system. But even now, he does not discuss the real problem—that the big banks control the public monetary system.)

Media Matters with Bob McChesney

Josh Silver:  All Issues are Stalled Until We Getting Money Out of Politics — 22 Jan 2012 — A year ago, after the Supreme Court's "Citizen's United," Josh Silver realized his work on internet freedom would be stalled by the problem of big money influencing politicians. So he now pushes solutions that will take back our government. He points out that the silver lining of Citizens United is that it has awakened the general public to the problem of the corrupting influence of money in politics.
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(GP comment:  Campaign finance reform is an important issue, but THE issue is the bank-controlled money system. You won't solve the money-in-politics issue until you throw the moneychangers out of headquarters.)

On The Media

Facebook 'em, Danno — 03 Feb 2012 — Europe has long taken a harder line towards global internet companies who make privacy incursions against their users and Facebook is no exception. In the last few months, a couple of high-profile cases have seen European privacy fears realized. Do the experiences of European users tell us something about Facebook's prospective practices in the US.
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SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

KunstlerCast

Get Used to Being Uncomfortable — 26 Jan 2012 — James Howard Kunstler and Duncan Crary discuss Americans' deepening despair over the country's economic, cultural, and religious decay. Given that the leaders of the feckless Democrat and Republican parties are incapable of truth-telling—and given that a majority of citizens seem incapable of truth-seeking—the majority should prepare for an era of uncomfortably sinking into the muck of decline.
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The Trust Horizon — 19 Jan 2012 — James Howard Kunstler discusses citizens' growing mistrust for the US government and other centralized operations, linking this concept to "The Trust Horizon," a phrase recently offered in The Automatic Earth blog. As the economy contracts, more people are forging their own trust networks at a very local level. Other topics include: local currencies, silver coinage, and bartering.
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New Culture

The Bodhisattva of Collapse — 26 Jan 2012 — KMO of the C-Realm Podcast gives a presentation to the VAL2011 audience, examining the choice that all collapse-aware individuals face: Try to wake up the unaware masses—many of whom clearly prefer to remain unaware—or leave the clueless to their fate and concentrate on interaction with the small percentage who "get it."
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NPR

Farmers Take Back Land Slated For Housing — 23 Jan 2012 — The housing bust left a number of planned developments unstarted. Some of that land is finding it's way back to farmers.
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(GP comment:  Contrary to what everyone in this story seems to think, the reclamation will be permanent—there will be no next housing bubble in the US.)

Sustainable World Radio

Growing Color—How To Create Beautiful Dyes From Plants — Rebecca Burgess shares her techniques for "growing and harvesting color" She talks about her favorite dye plants and the impact that chemical dyes have on the environment. Plants, minerals, and insects can yield brilliant, vibrant hues, and the natural dyes produce little waste, are nontoxic, and are easy to make at home.
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ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

Democracy Now

The Politics of Fracking and Water Contamination — 02 Feb 2012 — As citizens in areas affected by natural gas fracking find more and more water contamination, both the president and a majority in congress seem intent on still more fracking. Interviewees here include Gasland filmmaker Josh Fox, who was handcuffed and arrested in early February as he attempted to film a congressional hearing on the controversial drilling technique, as well as Wyoming farmer John Fenton, who already has more than two dozen gas wells on his property.
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Democracy Now

The Atomic States of America — 24 Jan 2012 — Nuclear power has drawn wide political support, with both Republicans and Democrats advancing a pro-nuclear agenda even in the aftermath of last year's Fukushima. Sheena Joyce, co-director of the new documentary "The Atomic States of America," discusses the film and the local health issues that inspired it.
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Living On Earth

Hanford—The Godzilla of Environmental Cleanups — 03 Feb 2012 — The Hanford nuclear facility in Washington state is the largest, most complex, and most expensive environmental cleanup effort in the world. Reporter Peter Eisler discusses the project, which is being designed on-the-fly. BTW, it's also over-due, over-budget, and still quite dangerous.
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Radio EcoShock

Forever Planting — 01 Feb 2012 — (1) Wes Jackson explains "natural systems agriculture"—a more productive, efficient, and climate-friendly approach to farming. ~~ (2) Michael Raupach discusses carbon-to-soil solutions, including biochar.
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NPR

Upstart Car Service Butts Heads With D.C.'s Taxis — 31 Jan 2012 — A new service called Uber lets you request a car from a mobile phone and pay for it by credit card. It's available in several cities, including D.C. But the service is finding a roadblock to success—the D.C. cab commission.
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WNYC / The Leonard Lopate Show

The State of Fresh Water Around the Globe — 25 Jan 2012 — Upmanu Lall of the Columbia Water Center and Sandra Postel of the Global Water Policy Project discuss the state of fresh water around the globe. Topics include desalination, regional differences in freshwater availability, energy's relationship to water, and externalized costs of water use.
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NPR

Pythons Blamed For Everglade's Disappearing Animals — 31 Jan 2012 — The Florida Everglades are infested with Burmese pythons, which are not native to the area. Scientists have discovered the pythons are having a devastating impact on the populations of local wildlife.
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Living On Earth

New Transportation Bill—Trying to Sustain the Unsustainable — 03 Feb 2012 — The proposed US legislation would encourage private companies to build toll roads alongside federal highways, cut Amtrak subsidies and pay for infrastructure with money from new oil drilling. Past transportation bills have supported bicycling and walking infrastructure, but this one threatens both.
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GP comment:  Apparently they did not get the memo—The Auto Age has peaked.

Orion Magazine

The Planet's Going Down—Are You Ready to Fight? — 19 Jan 2012 — We find ourselves in an outrageously beautiful and weird place where we can appreciate the conceptual beauty of the planet but seem incapable of acting in ways that preserve it. The vast majority of environmentalists are "market-based environmentalists," attempting to minimize their damage in a system that is utterly destructive and doomed to self-annihilation. That's not going to be good enough. Panelists include Paul Kingsnorth, Lierre Keith, and David Abram.
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Beyond 50

Naomi Call:  Fountain of Youth Exercises — 20 Jan 2012 — Naomi Call discusses the secrets of aging gracefully. She draws upon the wisdom of yoga, chi practitioners and indigenous people, melding mind-body practice with nutrition.
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FOOD & NUTRITION

Nutrition Diva

Nutrition Traps — 23 Jan 2012 — Monica Reinagel explores three of the top "nutrition traps": assuming "natural" and "organic" snacks are healthy; overeating whole grains; worrying too much about occasional binges and not enough about everyday behavior.
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COOL & COSMIC

ExtraEnvironmentalist

Getting Past the Foam—The Role of Alcohol in Humans and in Nature — 01 Feb 2012 — Stephen Harrod Buhner discusses the historical role of alcohol in the human experience as well as its role in nature. The usual role of alcohol today is much different than its more ceremonial and healing role in traditional societies. And once your hear Buhner explain the alcohol-related chemistry of plants, you'll never think about that fruit tree outside your window the same way again.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Paul Von Ward: Reality Check on 2012 Predictions — 15 Jan 2012 — Von Ward offers a pragmatic analysis of concept that some cosmic shift in 2012 will magically fix everything. He suggests that we'll be better off believing in solutions that replace the current ruling architecture with one that acts in the interests of the masses, with deeds, not just words.
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Note:  MP3 mirrors KSFO's full hour; meat typically runs from 10:00-29:00 and 38:00-58:00.

GP comment:  This is a good discussion, though there are those of us who understand the need for practical solutions but at the same time sense that something bigger is brewing.

Awakening To Conscious Co-Creation

Jim Self on the Shift in 2012 — 11 Jan 2012 — We've been hearing about "The Shift" for so long, it's hard to believe that it's finally here! But what precisely is shifting? What are we moving from? What are we moving toward? And, more importantly, what difference is it really going to make to your world? Jim Self discusses the shift and offers some powerful tools to navigate through these exciting yet challenging times.
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LEARNING & HISTORY

Fresh Air

No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition... (Not Anymore, At Least) — 23 Jan 2012 — Cullen Murphy traces the history of the inquisitions run by the Pope's enforcement team centuries ago, describing the types of tortures and punishments, how they were meted out from village to village, and how the world eventually got past this particularly dark chapter of religion and politics. He cautions, though, that today we find ourselves with many of the same circumstances that led to the rise of sanctioned torture.
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DIRTY FINANCIAL GAMES

C-Realm Podcast

The Big Game of Financial Musical Chairs at Chez Ponzi — 18 Jan 2012 — Nicole Foss plumbs the depths of the global Ponzi financial system. She points out that most of those who are still playing the markets—or even trusting the banks—are going to find themselves coming up short in the end. She stresses the need for relocalization and resilience actions, calling cash "a pile of unmade choices." Beware, though—central authorities will be working to discourage relocalization, lest it interfere with the conveyance of wealth from the periphery to the center.
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Food Chain Radio

US Farmers Lost $1.2 Billion in MF Global Scam — 07 Jan 2012 — GP comment:  This discussion is a bit naïve in terms of the overall understanding of the deep part played by corruption and manipulation in "collapses" like MF Global's. But it is still worth listening to for its insights into how the MF Global scam affects US farmers.
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WAR DRUMS

Uprising

Media Coverage on Iran Fuels War Fervor — 12 Jan 2012 — Peter Hart explains how mainstream media coverage routinely ignores important facts in favor of parroting the US State Department and DoD positions on events related to Iran.
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The Lifeboat Hour

Iran the Fulcrum in WW III — 15 Jan 2012 — Michel Chossudovsky and Michael Ruppert discuss the geopolitics of the Iran-Israel-US conflict, how players like China and Russia are changing the game, and why there will be no choke-off of Iranian oil supplies. Among the other discussion topics: How the populace is complicit in war and the evolving police state.
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Navigating the Depressing Reality — 08 Jan 2012 — Mike Ruppert discusses the situation between the US and Iran and takes listener questions, such as... "What about the Iran-anthrax connection?" .... "My girlfriend thinks I'm crazy to worry about peak oil and collapse, because Jesus will save us. What do I do?".... "How does a right-thinking person navigate the depressing reality of what's happening?"
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EYE IN THE SKY ... AND EVERYWHERE ELSE

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE

C-Realm Podcast

Mark Robinowitz:  Management of Mainstream World Views — 11 Jan 2012 — Mark Robinowitz of OilEmpire.us discusses the delusional thinking over growth-based economics; how "limited hangouts" work in the world of propaganda and perception management; the faux truthiness of even the supposed best of mainstream media (NPR) and progressive media (Democracy Now); and the management of mainstream world views by the corporate media.  (Excellent discussion. --GP)
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Democracy Now

Michael Copps:  It's Not Too Late, But We Must Act — 12 Jan 2012 — Michael Copps, who recently retired as one of five FCC commissioners, discusses media-related topics, including internet neutrality, media consolidation, access to broadband in the US, diversity in media ownership, and free speech in media.
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OCCUPY—THE YEAR BEHIND, THE YEAR AHEAD

Uprising

The Future of Occupy Wall Street—A Roundtable Discussion — 13 Jan 2012 — Four people of diverse backgrounds who have been intimately involved in the Occupy movement discuss events on the ground so far and strategies going forward. Guests include David DeGraw.
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Press TV / On the Edge with Max Keiser

Dissecting Occupy Wall Street — 13 Jan 2012 — Activist, author, and filmmaker Danny Schechter discusses the Occupy movement—how in six weeks it became a world phenomenon and how it is regrouping and morphing in response to the cold weather and the evictions. Max poses questions such as: When will Occupy get serious and demand an end to the (financial) war?
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MORE HOT & WHAT NOT

The Shortwave Report

World News Round-Up — News reports from around the world — 20 Jan 2012
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Gerald Celente:  NDAA May Be Prelude to "Economic Marshall Law" — 18 Jan 2012 — Gerald Celente calls the new NDAA law, with it's "indefinite detention for US citizens" provision, the most egregious violation of the US constitution since that historic document was drafted. He thinks the reason it has been quietly implemented is that the president may declare a bank holiday or other temporary economic shutdown, during which the dollar will be devalued. The NDAA provision could be used to sweep up protesters and critics.
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On The Media

A Wild Week in the Battle for the Internet — 20 Jan 2012 — This week saw more then its share of internet drama. The US Government led a massive operation against the website MegaUpload. And dozens of major websites staged a blackout in protest of two proposed laws—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). Techdirt's Mike Masnick discusses the implications of the proposed legislation and the foment online.
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Democracy Now

Guantanamo—10 Years On — 10 Jan 2012 — It has been 10 years since the United States began detaining people at its military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Discussion topics include the history, politics, trends, and future of the prison. Guests include a very lucid former prisoner, Gitmo's ex-chief prosecutor, and Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
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Unwelcome Guests

Exposing the Machinery of Empire — 14 Jan 2012 — The quotes and reports in this sound collage paint a clear picture of how the world's central bankers use the corp-gov axis to run the central-banking/warfare model and how they use the mainstream media to "manufacture consent" in our supposedly free society. The material is from a radio adaptation of the 2011 movie Ethos.
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Wendell Berry:  Americans and Their Unsettling Contradictions — 07 Jan 2012 — An essay from Wendell Berry reviews how our behavior often oddly contradicts our stated core beliefs. ~~ Then Robin Upton presents a brief history of plutocracy, tracing the origins of the plutocratic class, highlighting the Rothschild Formula and explaining how the super-rich have used the organs of the state to try to cement their control.
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Freetopia:  In the End, Big Brother's Free Lunch is Very Expensive — 07 Jan 2012 — This hour features the soundtrack to "Freetopia," a quasi-fictional video parable by Mike Adams, about citizens' urgent need to resist big government and the illusion of better living through largess. ~~ A reading from David Graeber's book Debt discusses the history of slavery.
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Financial Sense NewsHour

Karl Denninger:  Leverage—How Cheap Money Will Destroy the World — 18 Jan 2012 — In an excellent interview, Karl Denninger explains how banksters and governments use inflation creep to steal about 5% of our wealth every year; talks about the difference between good debt and bad debt; discusses the distinction between appropriate wealth gaps (based on innovation in manufacturing) vs. inappropriate wealth gaps (like Wall Street sharpies getting wealthy by doing nothing more than manipulating money).
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One Radio Network

Andrew Gause on the History of Money — 18 Jan 2012 — Andrew Gause continues his fascinating exploration of the history of money, keeping it relevant to today's bankster problem. Topics here include... Did JFK's printing of silver certificates in the summer of 1963 lead to his assassination? What was J.P. Morgan's involvement the early Federal Reserve, and how did WWI fit into the bankster angle? How and why did the US go bankrupt in 1934? What is the difference between a fiat currency and unbacked currency?
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ExtraEnvironmentalist

Step One—Understand You're Inside the Matrix — 19 Jan 2012 — Author and historian Morris Berman discusses Americans' delusional sense of exceptionalism and self-adoration, and their ignorance of the deep propagandistic system that envelopes them. The cultural bankruptcy and unwavering "America's #1" attitude—in spite of vast evidence to the contrary—will yield little opportunity for significant change in the US, at least until the current political-cultural-economic carnival falls of its own weight.
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Russia Today / The Keiser Report

Warren E. Pollock on Wealth Confiscation and Bank Holidays — 19 Jan 2012 — Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert discuss "419 scams." ~~ Max then talks to financial blogger and semi-retired Wall Street executive Warren E. Pollock about MF Global, wealth confiscation, and bank holidays.
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SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

Energy Bulletin / WORT–A Public Affair

Heinberg, Kunstler, Foss, Orlov & Chomsky on the Energy Problem — 02 Jan 2012 — Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, Nicole Foss, Dmitry Orlov, and Noam Chomsky engage in a panel discussion about the status of energy in the US, as well as the politics and public perception of the topic.
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ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

Sea Change Radio

The US Chamber of Commerce—The Nation's Top Pollution Advocacy Group — 17 Jan 2012 — What is the United States Chamber of Commerce? Many Americans hold the misconception that it's a government agency. It's not. Rather, it's the most significant lobbying group in the United States, and it's almost always a formidable foe of environmental protections. Environmental ethicist Philip Cafaro explains the role that the Chamber plays in promoting constant growth, and how that premise inherently contradicts environmental sustainability.
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NPR

Cleaner Air in L.A. Port Comes at a Cost To Truckers — 18 Jan 2012 — Big rigs coming into the port of Los Angeles have been one of the most significant sources of air pollution in California for many years. But now new emissions standards have cut down on air pollution from the trucks. But truckers aren't happy with how much of the cost has been put on them.
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New Recycling Company Springs From Old Mattresses — 18 Jan 2012 — Old mattresses are among the worst kinds of household waste—most recycling companies won't touch them, and landfills would rather not have them either. But a new business in Nashville that started as a college project hopes to move mattress recycling into the mainstream.
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Sea Change Radio

Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity — 11 Jan 2012 — Ecologist Eric Berlow discusses how understanding the complexity of a system can point to a simple key that will unlock a solution to fixing a problem in the system. This can apply to many things in the world, including ecosystems.
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Radio EcoShock

The Brutal Logic of Climate Change — 18 Jan 2012 — "The future is impossible," says Dr. Kevin Anderson, former Director of UK's top climate research institute, the Tyndall Centre. His speech in London lays out our awful tilt toward an unlivable climate.
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NPR

Labs Size Up New Guidelines For Rodent Cages — 16 Jan 2012 — Scientists do experiments with millions of rats and mice each year, to study everything from heart disease to cancer and diabetes. Recently, some new recommendations about how to house female lab rodents and their babies caused an uproar.
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(GP comment:  True to form, NPR avoids any discussion of the real animal welfare issue—whether it is moral for us to use other species in a way that inflicts intentional, chronic harm on them.)

FOOD & NUTRITION

Food Chain Radio

US Food Supply Permeated by Unlabeled GMO Ingredients — 14 Jan 2012 — Pamm Larry of LableGMOs.org and Thomas Wittman of the Genetic Engineering Blog discuss genetically modified organisms in the US food supply. Topics include how GM foods are made, why US foods are so contaminated with GM, whether these modified genes are safe to eat, and labeling of GMO foods.
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KOPN Food Sleuth

Alaska Wild Salmon and the Threat of Farm-Raised Fish — 12 Jan 2012 — Ann Mosness, a commercial fisherwoman and food/fisheries activist, discusses Alaska wild caught salmon, the families dependent on truly sustainable fishing, and the threats of farm-raised and genetically modified fish.
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NPR

Spiking Feed Costs Driving Organic Milk Shortages — 19 Jan 2012 — Some stores are seeing constraints in the supply of organic moo juice on market shelves. Farmers are feeling the pinch between organic hay and grain prices and wholesale milk payments.
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COOL & COSMIC

Awakening To Conscious Co-Creation

John Hagelin:  Religion, Physics, and Unified Consciousness — 28 Dec 2011 — John Hagelin studied both religion and physics at college, and as many of the concepts of the two have merged, his background has propelled him to expansive thought on the subjects of meditation, pure consciousness, personal and planetary peace, enlightenment, and the scientific truth of the unity of life.
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Beyond 50

Sonja Grace:  Predictions for 2012 — 06 Jan 2012 — Spiritual intuitive Sonja Grace offers predictions for 2012 and beyond. Her forecast includes a heightening of really good and really bad occurrences on a global level and an individual level; the Occupy movement will build more momentum in 2012; as more and more secrets are revealed, public disgust may translate into a major reordering of US government in 2013. She advises people to focus on shifting our personal energies away from the negative and towards the positive, which can result in a collective energy being generated to effect real change.
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More Cool & Cosmic:  Transformation, Consciousness, 2012 - Audio/Video

2012 PREDICTIONS — FROM WALL STREET WAGS TO WOO-WOO WONKS

King World News

Gerald Celente:  Top Trends for 2012 — 20 Dec 2011 — Celente's top predicted trends include .... "the technocrat takeover"—banksters usurping power everywhere ... "economic Marshall law"—a bank holiday, with devaluation of your money ... "Battlefield America"—the overt abrogation of citizen's civil rights ... "the climax is coming"—global war ... "going out in style"—how to survive and thrive in the new era.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

John Hogue:  2012 Predictions — 21 Dec 2011 — Among John Hogue's 2012 predictions are that Barack Obama will win reelection and that we are five years at most away from a severe, abrupt climate shift. He also discusses "prophaganda"—the way some people use faux prophesy to drive an agenda, as well as the unintentional boomerang effect of genuine prophesy counter-influencing people's behavior once they hear the prediction.
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ExtraEnvironmentalist

2012, Mayan Prophecy, Timewave 0, Collapse, and Debt Jubilee — 05 Jan 2012 — Several guest offer their 2012 prognostications and thoughts.... Mayan scholar Patricia McAnany clarifies some of the misconceptions about "Mayan 2012 prophecies." ~~ Dennis McKenna discusses Terence McKenna's Timewave 0 predictions and work on the cultural singularity. ~~ Mike Ruppert articulates the economic, societal, and geopolitical trends that are converging into a collapse scenario. ~~ Charles Eisenstein describes the necessity for a debt jubilee to relieve the burden crushing our national economies.
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John Michael Greer:  Dance the Apocalypso But Bet on Reality — 24 Dec 2011 — Greer gives a very intelligent review of the tendency among groups—from Christian zealots to new-age transitionists to beans-bullets-bullion survivalists—to plan their lives according to a coming mega-change. But the news of the death of society is greatly exaggerated, and it would be better to plan your responses to more data-supported problems like peak oil.
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THE PEOPLE VS. CORPORATIONS — KEEPING THE PUSHBACK GOING

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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MORE HOT & WHAT NOT

One Radio Network

Andrew Gause on Banksters in the Time of the Founding Fathers — 04 Jan 2011 — Andrew Gause offers a fascinating historical review of the banksters' master plan to hugely profit during the post-Revolutionary War period in the US. Other topics in this two-hour show include: the difference between God-given rights and civil rights; the proper hierarchy among the federal government, state governments, people, and corporations; the surprising difference between a legislative tribunal and a court in the US; safe places for retirement funds and silver; the ongoing shenanigans of the Federal Reserve; Romney as the GOP candidate—so close to Obama in policy that it won't matter to TPTB which of them wins in November.
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Russia Today / The Keiser Report

How Do You Tell a (Bankster) Witch? — 05 Jan 2012 — Are banksters the way they are because they are "too alpha"? Max then channels Puritans and Monty Python: How do you tell a bankster witch? And is a focused tsunami of retribution coming against banksters? Max and Stacy also discuss the "indefinite detention" law just passed by Congress and signed by the president.
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OWS Protests Are Not Anti-Capitalist — 03 Jan 2012 — Max Keiser explains why the Occupy Wall Street and related protests are not anti-capitalist. He and Stacy Herbert discus the current crazy-quilt of EU financial arrangements and exchanges, as well as the role rumors play in corrupt financial trading.
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Silver Market Manipulation and Fraud — 28 Dec 2011 — Max and Stacy discuss JP Morgan Chase's central, controlling role in the derivatives market, how they manipulate the silver market, and how they influence Fed policy. ~~ Max and guest J.S. Kim discuss the murky world of silver market manipulation and fraud.
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Financial Sense NewsHour

Ann Barnhardt on MF Global and the Financial House of Cards — 04 Jan 2011 — Ann Barnhardt says the MF Global collapse was driven by JP Morgan in an illegal manner that cheated customers and perverted the entire financial system. Moreover, the MERC's decision not to bail out MF Global underlines that the system has reached a state where it CAN'T be bailed out. The Big Banks collectively are a house of cards that will collapse. You'd be better off with your money in small, privately held local banks, though that is no guarantee—in a big-bank collapse, the black hole may suck in EVERYTHING.
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(GP comment:  She's spot-on with her analysis of the psychopathic bankster-government cabal that runs things. Too bad she thinks a person must be churchy to have ethics.)

Dan Carlin - Common Sense

The Elephant in the Room ... and His Insane Donkey and Reporter Friends — 04 Jan 2012 — Dan Carlin offers an apt rant against the Sunday morning booblehead talk shows and the inept way the questioners interact with politicians and political candidates.
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(GP comment:  To expect the members of the Press-Politico Club of D.C. to do more than playfully jab each other in the ribs is to misread the game. It's totally fixed. The important issues are decided completely outside the electoral and media processes, so what we really watch is theatre to keep us entertained and distracted.)

SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH

Radio EcoShock

Fukushima—From the Big Lie to Truth & Consequences — 28 Dec 2011 — The Japanese government and TEPCO recently announced that all reactors at Fukushima are in cold shutdown, the situation is stable, and the crisis is over. Nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen explains what a "cold shutdown" status should mean and why Japan's declaration is nothing more than PR. The crisis will take 40 more years to resolve, and in the meantime, we'll be dealing with its radiation releases and all of the contaminated equipment and materials that have resulted from the accident and the efforts to contain it. ~~ In part 2, several guests discuss a new peer-reviewed paper that says the Fukushima accident may have contributed to 14,000 premature American deaths in Mar/Apr 2011 as the initial wave of radioactive air swept from Japan over North America.
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Fairewinds Associates

Fukushima—What Are the Challenges for 2012? — 29 Dec 2011 — Arnie Gundersen discusses the dangers to the containment infrastructure at the Fukushima disaster site if another earthquake or major aftershock hits the area. He also talks about the levels of radioactive air contamination in Japan and how the huge amount of solid radioactive waste presents an enormous disposal challenge. Finally, he discusses how nuclear promoters are still in charge of nuclear safety, a situation that is not in the public interest.
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NPR

Fracking Fingered in Ohio Earthquakes — 03 Jan 2012 — Seismologist John Armbruster explains the evidence that natural-gas fracking in Ohio has led to the earthquakes there. He says the injection of waste water from the fracking process created pressure on nearby faults, and he expects the quakes to continue—even after the process is stopped.
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Living On Earth

Fracking Wastewater Found in Pennsylvania Rivers — 06 Jan 2012 — Bromide has been found in Pennsylvania rivers, a likely side-effect of hydraulic fracturing during natural gas operations in the Marcellus Shale.
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New Recommendations for Lead Levels in Children — 06 Jan 2012 — An advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended a substantially lower standard for blood lead levels in children.
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Quirks and Quarks

Polar Bears and Sea Ice — 17 Dec 2011 — The greatest symbol of the Arctic is the polar bear. Its sheer size, its power, and its majestic bearing are emblems of the vastness, remoteness, and ruggedness of the frozen north. But the polar bear is in trouble—serious trouble. Dr. Ian Stirling discusses the iconic animal's habits, hunting techniques, and habitat, and ponders polar bears' uncertain future in a warming world.
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FOOD & NUTRITION

Mercola.com

The New UFOs—Unidentified Farming Organisms — 10 Dec 2011 — Dr. Don Huber, an agricultural scientist and expert in microbial ecology, discusses the unintended consequences of Monsanto's genetically engineered "RoundUp Ready" crops. His discussion includes glyphosate's impact on the health of the soil ecosystem, including a lower ability of non-weed plants to uptake nutrients; how genetic mutations related to glyphosate application could make certain human foods unsafe; and that the concentrations at which glyphosate is documented to be a potent biocide are lower than the levels of residues allowed in food. Perhaps most shockingly, he discusses a new, unidentified microorganism that is causing disease in a broad spectrum of animals that eat RoundUp Ready corn and soy—and most likely will cause human disease too.
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(GP comment:  If you want to avoid GMOs—highly advisable!—try this Non-GMO Shopping Guide from the Institute for Responsible Technology.)

Two Beers With Steve

The Nutrient Dense Diet — 29 Dec 2011 — Steve Patterson describes the improvements in the health of his family and several friends while following a nutrient-rich diet—that is, one loaded with fruits and vegetables.
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KOPN Food Sleuth

The 10 Pathogen-Food Combinations with the Greatest Burden on Public Health — 01 Dec 2011 —  GP comment:  This is interesting as far as it goes, but an essential point that is not discusses is that food-borne illness is almost exclusively a problem in the industrial food system. To avoid it, go with non-corporate organic, farmers markets, CSAs, and backyard gardens.
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More Food Sleuth Radio

Diet Science

Fiber and Colon Cancer — 19 Dec 2011 — Studies show that fiber cuts colon cancer. But do they distinguish between fiber from whole gains and fiber from fruits and vegetables?
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COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Awakening To Conscious Co-Creation

Timeless Essence, Infinite Being — 14 Dec 2011 — As a college student, Peter Russell noted that psychiatry professors were far less interested in consciousness than yogis were. So he studied eastern philosophy and yogic practice, exploring questions such as... What level of consciousness do animals and insects have compared to humans? Is every atom of everything brought into being by consciousness? Russell talks about such issues and discusses how meditation techniques can relax the mind and help you escape your self-limiting, self-centered existence and be happy, at peace.
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Time Monks Radio Network

Thrive—Occupying Our Evolution — 22 Dec 2011 — Interview with filmmakers Foster & Kimberly Gamble, the force behind the new film Thrive, which explores what's really going on in our world. It follows the money upstream, uncovering the global consolidation of power in nearly every aspect of our lives. Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness, and activism, Thrive seeks to empower us with realistic strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
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Coast To Coast / KSFO

Laurie Nadel:  The Sixth Sense, Conscious Intention, and 2012 Prophecies — 02 Jan 2012 — Laurie Nadel thinks the changing earth magnetics may be affecting the way we feel, affecting our consciousness, leading to a shift. She discusses how conscious intention can change our future bodies as well as the world, how Universal Laws govern the relationship between behavior and karma, and how there are interesting correlations among prophesies from the Mayans, Tibetan monks, and other spiritual entities regarding turbulent events and astonishing changes in this time period.
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Ralph Steiner on Tesla, Roswell, and Related Topics — 27 Dec 2012 — Ralph Steiner speculates about why Nicola Tesla's work remains classified more than a half-century later and whether the US government and its defense contractors have reverse-engineered the technologies of the alien craft that crashed at Roswell in 1947. Other topics include Mars anomalies, parallel dimensions, and the research being done at CERN.
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HISTORY, LEARNING & FUN

TED

Tying Yourself to the Mast—The Importance of Commitment Devices to Your Improved Future Self — Dec 2011 — Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. Daniel Goldstein makes tools that help us imagine ourselves over time, so that we make smart choices for our future selves.
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Guns and Butter

Evidence of Insider Trading Before 9-11 — 04 Jan 2012 — Paul Zarembka does his best to explain the evidence that unusual financial transactions around the time of the 9-11 attacks strongly suggest that someone knew something and made moves to hugely profit from the coming disaster on 11 Sep 2001.
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Sirhan Sirhan and the Assassination of RFK — 07 Dec 2011 — In this recording from June 2003, Lawrence Teeter speaks at the at the Coalition on Political Assassinations. Teeter, who was Sirhan Sirhan's attorney at the time, offers a litany of fascinating evidence the strongly suggests Sirhan was set up as the fall guy for the plot to kill Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
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On The Media

MST3K Lives! — 06 Jan 2012 — From 1988 to 1999, the TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 defined a comedic genre of making fun of bad movies—as the movies played. Now its creators have found a new outlet for their comedic talents, one that allows them to move beyond their previous fare of B-movies to take on Hollywood blockbusters. Their new effort is called RiffTrax, which offers MP3 audio files that users can download and play along with a rented DVD.
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