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Featured Stories

• Jeremy Scahill:  The World Is a Battlefield
• Evidence on Health Risks from Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation is Clear
• Stealing From the Future
• Square Foot Gardening Primer

All Story Categories

• Financial, Empire & Elites
• Energy, Peak Oil, Sustainability & Resilience
• Nuclear
• Environment
• Climate Change
• Health
• Food, Nutrition Organics & GMOs
• Agriculture & Gardening
• Biodiversity, Species & Animal Welfare
• History & Learning
• Music & Fun

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

Democracy Now

Jeremy Scahill:  The World Is a Battlefield — 24 Apr 2013— Jeremy Scahill discusses a variety of themes on the increasingly dirty operations of the US and its counterterrorism policy. Topics include Obama's imperial presidency; how special ops have come to drive a new level of secrecy in military affairs; how the US studied the history of torture to refine its own torture tactics, and how Obama has essentially continued Bush II's policies on torture. Scahill also recounts some of the more interesting (and troubling) stories of various US enemies and their fates.
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King World News

Celente:  The Second Tragedy in Boston — 24 Apr 2013 — Gerald Celente says there were two tragedies in Boston—first, the marathon bombing; but second, the tragedy that isn't being talked about: the public's passive acceptance of martial law. He also discusses how super-national outfits like the IMF are using their monetary power to keep nations in line. But he's not a doomer—he thinks that young people, assisted by the knowledge of elders, can effect change.
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The Real World of Money

Andrew Gause on Weirding in PMs, Convergence in Currencies, and Takeovers in Europe — 24 Apr 2013 — Andrew Gause discusses the ongoing weirding in the gold and silver markets—weird enough that we may look back on this from the future as a pivotal period. He also discusses how the world is moving to a tri-part currency based on the dollar, the Euro, and the yuan—a single currency without being called that. He also reviews the evidence that the European Central Bank is denuding weaker member states of their gold and their sovereignty—all part of the long-term plan.
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Unwelcome Guests

Robin Upton:  Why Money Will End — 20 Apr 2013— Robin Upton explains why social, psychological, economic, and sustainability dynamics will eventually necessitate the end of money. Contrary to popular myth, money did not arise to supplant barter, but rather arose as a means of binding people to an exploitative system designed to primarily benefit the people who run it. The system managers continue fostering money myths to ensure their continued success. In the end, those mesmerized by the concept of money will recognize the con. But what comes after?
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On The Media

The Kill Team — 26 Apr 2013 — In a new documentary, The Kill Team, director Dan Krauss tells the story of the group of US soldiers convicted of murdering unarmed Afghan civilians. The documentary looks at the roles played by two soldier-whistleblowers as well as the clear-minded thinking patterns of the soldiers who committed the crimes. Krauss discusses the story and the difficulty of doing the right thing in a war zone.
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Guns & Butter

Primer on Public Banking — 10 Apr 2013 — Marc Armstrong provides the basic facts on how public banking works. In public banking, the financial benefit generated from the license to create money belongs to the public instead of the banksters. Such a plan generates a number of "buts" in the average listener's mind, and Armstrong does an able job of addressing them.
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(GP comment:  Moving to public banking, without abandoning the infinite growth paradigm, won't work in the long run. But it's a great first step towards recapturing governance for the will of the people and stopping the parasitic effect of the financial elites.)

Corbett Report

We Have Met the Terrorists, and They Is US — 20 Apr 2013 — The specter of terror is once again being raised to haunt the collective consciousness of the American psyche. But as the terror meme rears its ugly head, we see an understanding of false-flag terrorism creeping into the mainstream discourse. James Corbett explores the terror paradigm and identifies the ones who really hate you for your freedoms. Surprise, it's TPTB!
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The Real World of Money

Gause on Gold, Inflation, and Propaganda — 17 Apr 2013 — Andrew Gause analyzes the recent plunge in gold prices and explains why it is not a reason to fear owning gold (as TPTB would have you believe). Other topics include... how and why the mainstream media and the financial elites are propagandizing the masses; how we can tell inflation is NOT going down, as is being reported; whether or not deflation is possible; who really owns your bank deposits, you or the bank?
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Progressive Radio News Hour

The Boston Bombers:  Terrorist Machinations or Totalitarian Manipulations? — 21 Apr 2013 — Host Stephen Lendman and guest Charles Derber discuss current geopolitical events, including... If there's more to the story of the Boston bombing, who benefits from the event, the way it was handled, and the effect on the public psyche? Was the Boston lock-down a test event in the meta trend towards a totalitarian state? Why does Obama sound good when he talks but look bad when he acts? Is the US weapons giveaway to Israel an attempt to placate them and avoid an attack on Iran?
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Making Contact

Arundhati Roy:  Jungles of Resistance — 17 Apr 2013 — Renowned Indian author Arundhati Roy says her country's government has declared war on its own people as they try to displace indigenous populations from resource-rich interior regions slated for mineral extraction. Her outspokenness earned her an invitation to spend time with some of the so-called "Maoist rebels" that live in India's jungles. Here, Roy gives the background of the conflict and takes us into the jungles of India to tell the engaging tale of how she met the rebels.
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On The Media

Duffel Blog Brings Oniony Tears to the Eyes — 26 Apr 2013 — The Duffel Blog is an Onion-style satirical website written by current and former military members. Here's a sample headline: "Decorated War Hero, Airborne Ranger Emasculated By Wife at Local Mall." Paul Szoldra, an eight-year Marine veteran and founder of Duffel Blog, discusses his site.
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ENERGY, PEAK OIL, SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

C-Realm Podcast

Stealing From the Future — 24 April 2013 — Mark Robinowitz of the Oil Empire web site notes that earth is over its carrying capacity, regardless of which problem—climate change, peak oil, water supplies, etc.—you wish to discuss. In this "peak everything" era, we're using everything as fast as we possibly can, with nothing but economists' assurances that there will be the same level of abundance in the future. Our most serious problem is "peak denial"—the general public is rejecting reality. He explains why the declarations of some environmentalists that extraction technologies have trumped peak oil are wrong, and he laments that climate change has come to dominate the entire discussion about sustainability. In particular, he comments that the typical environmentalist's position that we can solve climate though economic methods within the infinite growth paradigm is hopelessly wrong.
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Green Power and Wellness

Paul Gipe on the Alternative Energy Future — 22 Apr 2013 — Paul Gipe explains the nuts and bolts of how various alternative energy technologies are reshaping our world's energy systems and offers numbers on how we can achieve a sustainable energy future. ~~ In the short segment that precedes that, shutting down the San Onofre nuclear plant is discussed, and we also get the news nugget that former NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko has stated publicly that all 104 US nuclear power plants have safety problems that cannot be fixed.
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ExtraEnvironmentalist

Permaculture Possibilities—Integrated Solutions to All Problems — 17 Apr 2013— Our global systemic challenges—energy, environment, and economy—have become dramatically more severe over the last several decades. Permaculture offers a unique toolkit to address problems such as energy depletion, desertification, poisoned landscapes, and right livelihoods. But will low-tech solutions that "work with nature" be able to capture a public imagination predisposed to expect technological progress to enable "business as usual" forever? This is part 2 of 2 of EE's coverage of the Pacific Northwest Permaculture Convergence sessions.
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C-Realm Podcast

Grounded in Grief—The Emotional Baggage of Collapse — 17 Apr 2013— Carolyn Baker talks about staying sane in an age of madness and the danger of having a mental health professional reduce the large scale social phenomena of a society in the process of catastrophic transition down to individual mental pathologies—and affixing such labels to you.
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NUCLEAR

TUC Radio

Post-Fukushima Food Monitoring + Gender Matters in the Atomic Age — 16 Apr 2013— Cindy Folkers specializes in radiation impacts on health. She works with Beyond Nuclear, which has filed a petition with the US Food and Drug Administration to drastically reduce the amount of radioactive cesium permitted in food. Internal cesium contamination in children can lead to heart problems and other conditions. ~~ Mary Olson works for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service. Her talk is "Gender Matters in the Atomic Age," which explains why women as a group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation than do men.
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ENVIRONMENT

Progressive Commentary Hour

The General Problem of Industrial Civilization — 22 Apr 2013— Gary Null, Derrick Jensen, and Guy McPherson present the bald truth of the state of the environment and the largely clueless humans that exist within it. Gary observes that the average person seems to have a shockingly poor understanding of environmental issues, with no personal investment in the problems, assuming they are something for government to solve. Derrick Jensen observers that local species are fast disappearing, indicating a subtle but massive slide going on in our ecosystems. It is insane to think all solutions to planetary sustainability problems must be suggested within the current exploitative, infinite-growth economic model that caused the problems in the first place. Guy McPherson agrees, but notes that people embedded within and dependent on industrial civilization are unlikely to solve the general problem of industrial civilization.
Download/Listen   55:27

The Gary Null Show

Jane Goodall and Vandana Shiva on the State of the Earth — 22 Apr 2013 — Jane Goodall discusses the importance of getting young people motivated to address the world's worsening problems—environmental and otherwise. The planet needs to them to get cracking, not be paralyzed by hopelessness or anger at the mess the two preceding generations have left them. ~~ Vandana Shiva discusses corporate domination of the planet's operating procedures and what me must do to fight it.
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Living On Earth

Denis Hayes on Earth Day — 19 Apr 2013 — April 22, 1970 was the very first Earth Day. Denis Hayes, its coordinator, talks about what Earth Day achieved in the early days, and how it might recreate that success in the face of today's environmental challenges. Hayes says the days of belching smokestacks on thickly polluted rivers are gone, but remaining are many less obvious problems—pollution that cannot be seen but is nonetheless a serious threat, and sustainability issues that challenge our core behaviors.
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Living On Earth

The World's Greenest Commercial Building — 19 Apr 2013— The Bullitt Center is a "deep green" eco building—a self-sufficient building designed to emulate a living organism, reusing available resources, and minimizing the need for external inputs. Reporter Ross Reynolds visits the Center with the man who dreamed it up, Denis Hayes.
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CLIMATE CHANGE

Free Speech Radio News

Rapid Melting of Ice Sheet in Andes Threatens Regional Water Supplies — 22 Apr 2013 — More evidence is showing that the world's changing temperatures are prompting record ice melt, putting at risk large ice sheets. Though much of the current focus has been on the massive ice reserves in Greenland and the Arctic, scientists are finding that glaciers high in the mountains, such as in the Himalayas and the Andes, are also receding. A study published in Science documents the rapid changes in an ice cap high in the Andes in Peru, where ice that took 1,600 years to form has melted in just the past 25 years, putting at risk vital water sources for the region.
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NPR

Increased Carbon Dioxide Levels Damage Coral Reefs — 17 Apr 2013 — Scientists have been worried about coral reefs for years, since realizing that rising temperatures and rising ocean acidity are hard on organisms that build their skeletons from calcium carbonate. Researchers on Australia's Great Barrier Reef are conducting an experiment that demonstrates just how much corals could suffer in the coming decades. ~~ In the second clip, a climate scientist from California has been conducting an experiment to see whether antacid can boost coral growth.
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HEALTH

Project Censored

Evidence on Health Risks from Cell Phone and Wireless Radiation is Clear — 23 Apr 2013 — Even cell phone companies advise caution on how you use your cell phone. Of course that's in the fine print; their public position is that there is no evidence of a problem Devra Davis explains why that's a flat-out lie, and why you should not consistently have the cell phone (or laptop) closer to your body than 10 mm. ~~ Topic in the second half of the show include poverty in the US.
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Beyond 50

The Myth of Autism, ADD/ADHD, and Chronic Fatigue — 17 Apr 2013— Dr. Michael J. Goldberg is considered a "lone wolf" in the medical community for his findings on autism and similar maladies. Goldberg explains why the evidence says that autism cannot be genetic, psychological, or developmental, but rather must be a symptom of a treatable neurological disease, probably due to a viral or fungal infection. The infection causes a dysfunction in the neuro-immune system. Illnesses such as autism, ADD/ADHD, and chronic fatigue syndrome all have different "labels," but are actually variations on the same thing: neuro-immune dysfunction syndromes (NIDS).
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FOOD, NUTRITION, ORGANICS & GMOs

AGRICULTURE & GARDENING

You Bet Your Garden

Square Foot Gardening Primer — 13 Apr 2013 — Mike McGrath's topics include... the importance of regionally appropriate seeds; the proper way to trim outdoor flowers; clever ways of dealing (gently) with house-damaging carpenter bees. Special guest Mel Bartholemew discusses Square Foot Gardening, a method of highly concentrated planting in small spaces. The question of the week is about trees—do they really ever need mulch, and can a tree survive severed roots?
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You Bet Your Garden

Need Gardening Inspiration? Go On a Tour! — 20 Apr 2013 — Mike McGrath's topics include a creative solution for weedy driveways; care and feeding of asparagus; why sawdust is not a good mulch; raised-container gardening for people with back problems and other can't-bend-over-so-well issues. Special guest Laura Palmer of The Garden Conservancy discusses the annual "Open Days" garden tours around the US.
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Radio EcoShock

Wardeh Harmon on Food Dehydration — 17 Apr 2013— It's shocking that so many city folk say they are not interested in cooking or growing and preserving food. Don't they eat? Don't they read the headlines about toxic factory agriculture and fast-food restaurants? Maybe the just need to hear how its done. Wardee Harmon talks about different dehydration techniques that can be used to preserve a wide variety of food crops.
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BIODIVERSITY, SPECIES & ANIMAL WELFARE

On The Media

Undercover in an Industrial Slaughterhouse — 19 Apr 2013 — In the May issue of Harper's, Ted Conover, a longtime undercover journalist, details his undercover job as an federal meat inspector at an industrial slaughterhouse. Conover talks about meat safety, going undercover, and why it's necessary to bring a hidden world to light. The bottom line here is that not all slaughterhouses are full of profit-mad sadists, but all have their issues.
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Progressive Commentary Hour

Plight of the Honey Bee — 15 Apr 2013— This is a panel discussion on the current status of the honeybee industry. Pesticides and other factors are continuing to foster the decline of these important pollinators. Gary Null's guests are Larissa Walker of the Center for Food Safety; Dr. Neil Carman, who researches and assesses the evidence of genetic engineering's impact upon the environment and animal and plant life; and Steve Ellis, a commercial beekeeper and one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit asserting that the EPA is failing to protect America's bee population.
Download/Listen   56:00

HISTORY & LEARNING

Against the Grain

Thatcher's Assault on Labor — 17 Apr 2013— Nicholas Jones reviews Margaret Thatcher's legacy with a specific focus on how she subverted the UK miners' union as the key vector in her strategy to break the power of UK unions in general—which she did.
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Dan Carlin's Hardcore History

Prophets of Doom — 22 Apr 2013— Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city of Munster after Martin Luther unleashes a Pandora's Box of religious anarchy with the Protestant Reformation.
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MUSIC & FUN

The Vinyl Experience

Dear Margaret... — This is a split bill: In the first half, we get some mostly recent, mostly decent rock, with top tracks including Heartless Bastards - "Got To Have Rock And Roll" // Hollis Brown - "Down On Your Luck" // Grizzly Bear - "A Simple Answer" // and the Rolling Stones' classic "Time Waits For No One". In the second half, a half-dozen songs offer commentary on the reign of Margaret Thatcher and her ilk. Several of the songs are quite good, including The Specials - "Ghost Town" and Tears For Fears - "Sowing The Seeds Of Love." Several others are, um, about as likeable as Thatcher.
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The New Breakfast Snob

Putting on Ayers — A pretty good set of proggish rock, using songs by Kevin Ayers and his bands as a centerpiece. Top tracks include... Marc Almond - "Riding Free" // Kevin Ayers - "Love's Gonna Turn You Round" // Soft Machine - "Why Are We Sleeping?" // Curved Air - "Back Street Luv" // The Luck of Eden Hall - "Good Night Annie Berlin" // The Strawbs - "Round and Round" // Soft Machine - "She's Gone" // Camel - "Earthrise". There's also "Do You Feel Like We Do?" by Frampton's Camel—the original studio version, which is now really the alternative version, given the dominance of the version from Frampton Comes Alive.
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