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Featured Stories

• A Short History of Corporatism
• Nutritional Supplements—Are You Getting What You Pay For?
• Animal Rights and We the People
• The Kennedy Assassination and the Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy

All Story Categories

• Financial, Empire & Elites
• Corporations & Globalization
• Media, Internet & Privacy
• Energy, Peak Oil, Sustainability & Resilience
• Biodiversity, Species & Animal Welfare
• Environment
• Health
• Food, Nutrition, GMOs, Agriculture & Gardening
• Cool & Cosmic
• History & Learning
• Music & Fun

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

9/11 Wake-Up Call / Unwelcome Guests

Paul Craig Roberts on Empire, Official Lies, and Public Delusions — 22 May 2013 — Paul Craig Roberts' personal history as a power-structure insider suggests that he should be on the side of those who run the US empire. And indeed, in many previous interviews he has often avoided the really difficult topics. But here he lets it all out, throwing a flurry of a bare-knuckle punches at the establishment. In a noteworthy moment, he explains why the official story of 9/11 cannot possibly be right. He also laments the delusional state of most people in the US, where even the most educated and politically active cannot wrap their brains around the true state of things.
Part 1:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:18
Part 2:  Go to page  |  Download/Listen   30:07

(GP comment:  Interview is from late 2012 but is still 100% relevant.)

The Lifeboat Hour

Michael Ruppert:  This is Not Protest, This is Revolution — 02 Jun 2013 — Michael Ruppert discusses the horrendous suppression of protesters on in Turkey. Have the people of the world have finally had enough of the dehumanizing rule of The Powers That Be and their corp-gov fascist state? He also discusses the likely official malfeasance in the incendiary events in Wollich, UK (Islamist killing of UK soldier Lee Rigby) and Florida (Chechen immigrant killed while being interrogated by the FBI).
Download/Listen   55:00

KunstlerCast

Charles Hugh Smith:  Taking on Empire with Soft Power — 23 May 2013— As the glove slips quietly off the iron fist of ruling power, Charles Hugh Smith thinks there is little to gain by confronting the corrupt ruling structure with violence-based tactics. Rather, he sees mass disengagement from the system as the way to bring it down. James Howard Kunstler adds that he hopes for the day when all US citizens with student debt will organize and choose a day to simply all stop payments.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   35:24

Solari Report / Corbett Report

Fitts and Corbett on Japan, TPP, Tracking, more — 07 Jun 2013— James Corbett and Catherine Austin Fitts discuss a variety of topics, including Abenomics in Japan and contagion in other markets; nuclear policy in Japan and the current status of Fukushima; the dark shadows of the Trans-Pacific Partnership; the inexorable move to electronic currency; the clever ways TPTB are getting us to help them track us.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   45:00

The Power Hour / Corbett Report

James Corbett on Money Pumping, Gold, and One-World Currency — 31 May 2013 — James Corbett's topics include... the weird relationship between the central banks' money printing and the big banks' toxic assets; inflated money supply = inflated stock markets; inflation isn't coming, it's here; suppression of gold prices, pimping of national currencies, and preparing for a single world currency.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   40:30

The Real World of Money

Andrew Gause on Gold, Energy, and Collapse vs. Boom — 05 Jun 2013 — Andrew Gause's topics include ... collapse or correction in gold; "paper gold" risks; privacy vs. tracking and control; the ups and downs of fracking in Texas.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:01:00

(GP comment:  Gause is very good on financial matters; not so good on energy matters. The only way the US will be energy independent by 2018 is if fuel demand has fallen by 60%. And if something has caused that to happen, well, good luck to us all. )

Project Censored

The Continuing Issue of Poverty in the United States — 20 May 2013 — In the first half of the show, we get excerpts from the movie Ain't I A Person,which covers the plight of people trapped in modern poverty by the country's expanding structural unemployment, continuing racism, and the 30 year attack on the social safety net in the US. ~~ The sociology professor Sheila Katz discusses increases in urban poverty and the 50th anniversary of the "War on Poverty" effort in the US.
Download/Listen   49:19

Free Speech Radio News

Florida Man Ends Up Dead During FBI Questioning About Boston Bombing — 31 May 2013— For five hours, the FBI interrogated Ibragim Todashev in his Florida home last week regarding what he knew about the Boston bombing suspects. By the end of the session, the unarmed suspect had been shot 7 times, including once in the head. Some are calling for a civil rights investigation into the death of Todashev.
Audio no longer available from host site (fsrn.org) 5:16

(GP comment:  Sounds like the Boston False Flag Conspiracy is tying up loose ends. )

CORPORATIONS & GLOBALIZATION

Guns & Butter

A Short History of Corporatism — 05 Jun 2013 — "Move To Amend" honcho David Cobb provides an excellent review of corporate rights throughout history—how they attained those rights, the nature of the men who helped them become powerful, and the impact that corporate power is having on our democratic republic and our sovereignty. Also discussed is the proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution, which would abolish the idea that a corporation has constitutional rights and overturn the idea that money equals speech.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:52

(GP comment:  Every American should hear this.)

Democracy Now

Obama-Backed Trans-Pacific Partnership Expands Corporate "Lost Profits" Lawsuits Against Nations — 06 Jun 2013 — The Obama administration is facing increasing scrutiny for the extreme secrecy surrounding Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. The TPP is a sweeping new trade deal that will allow international corporate business rules to trump local and national laws on everything from healthcare and internet freedom to food safety and environmental protection. Two guests discuss the TPP: Celeste Drake, a trade policy specialist with the AFL-CIO, and Jim Shultz, executive director of the Democracy Center, which has just released a new report on how corporations use trade rules to seize resources and undermine democracy.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   15:52

MEDIA, INTERNET & PRIVACY

C-Realm Podcast

Erik Davis on Techno-Society and Honoring the Yuck Response — 22 May 2013— Erik Davis joins KMO for a conversation about the psycho-spiritual differences between the East and West coasts of the United States. Later, they examine the pressure on humans living in a techno-industrial civilization to adapt themselves from biological time (kairos) to the digital time of the clock and information technology (chronos). Erik explains how both techno-utopian and Luddite belief systems rest upon problematic notions of human nature. Sometimes technology elicits a "yuck response" from us, but just as that visceral reaction can steer us wrong, we discount it at our peril.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   57:10

CounterSpin

Coverage of Bradley Manning Trial + Misreporting on Disability Fraud Story — 07 Jun 2013 — (1) A wrap-up of recent mainstream-media ineptitude. ~~ (2) As Bradley Manning's court martial gets underway, journalists face obstacles in trying to report on it. Michael Ratner discusses the situation and the application of military secrecy to what should be of great public interest. ~~ (3) A recent "Planet Money" story explained how some parents are keeping their kids from learning how to read so they can get a disability check from the state. Wow, really?? Um, no. Journalist Neil deMause explains the canard.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   29:00

On The Media

"The Deciders" of Internet Free Speech — 31 May 2013 — There's a small group of men and women at big tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter who make decisions everyday about what "offensive speech" is pulled from their sites. The huge scale of those sites gives these "Deciders" enormous influence over the state of free speech on the web. George Washington University Law professor Jeffrey Rosen discusses.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:32

ENERGY, PEAK OIL, SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

KunstlerCast

Energy "Wishful Thinking" in the US — 30 May 2013— Tad Patzek, chair of the Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Department at the University of Texas, describes media reports that the US will soon be energy-independent as wishful thinking. He says flow rates, not reserve amounts, are the issue, and flow rates are trending down. Biofuels will not be able to replace fossil fuels. The American way of life will, in the end, be negotiable—declining energy availability and affordability will necessitate it. But a lower-energy world may prove to be just the kick we need to unplug our chaos-numbed minds from the world of distractions.
Download/Listen   35:45

C-Realm Podcast

Dmitry Orlov:  Survivors' Toolkit for the Five Stages of Collapse — 05 Jun 2013— KMO welcomes Dmitry Orlov back to the C-Realm to discuss the themes in his new book, The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors' Toolkit. Orlov presents case studies of people who responded adaptively to collapses of various sorts, including (1) how organized crime syndicates became a necessary way of doing business in post-Soviet Russia; and (2) the Roma (Gypsies) who have mastered the art of hiding in plain site, staying flexible, and maintaining a clear boundary between themselves and the larger societies in which they operate.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

The Lifeboat Hour

The Accelerating Demise of Our Industrial Society — 26 May 2013 — Mike Ruppert reviews the many signs that the demise of our industrial society is accelerating, as infrastructure collapses, as the rule of law increasingly does not apply, and as The Powers That Be have fewer and fewer options for keeping the game going. Although he empathizes with people who are still pursuing change through normal channels—for instance, protesting fracking at a county council meeting—he thinks such activities just end up being part of the theatre of the ruling class, a way for TPTB's minions to let caring folks have their tantrums but still do what the corp-gov empire demands in its unwavering effort to maximize profit and power at the expense of all else.
Download/Listen   53:50

BIODIVERSITY, SPECIES & ANIMAL WELFARE

Against the Grain

Animal Rights and We the People — Paul Waldau discuses many facets of animal welfare and rights, including... the legal basis vs. the moral basis for animal rights; the long history of civilizations having deep respect for animals; the problem of food animals in industrial agriculture; pets as a special category in modern life; animals used in lab testing; the difference between the concepts of animal welfare and animal rights; the intersection of human rights and animal rights.— 29 May 2013
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:00

Quirks & Quarks

Wings Hold Key in Bats' White-Nose Syndrome — 01 Jun 2013 — The bat population in North America is in serious decline as a result of an infectious fungal disease known as White-Nose Syndrome. It is an infection that only affects the skin of the bat, and is so named because it appears as a white mark on the bat's nose. But a new study has focused on the bat's wings, where the infection results in lesions similar to burns. The resulting skin damage causes dehydration, which causes the bat to warm up too often during hibernation and use up fat reserves too quickly.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   10:10

Quirks & Quarks

Malaria's Malign Modification of Mosquitoes — 01 Jun 2013 — The malaria parasite is one of the world's most fearsome diseases, causing 200 million infections every year worldwide, with nearly 1 million deaths. Part of the parasite's strategy seems to be giving superpowers to the mosquitoes that carry it. Researchers have found that mosquitoes infected with malaria are far better at finding human hosts than normal mosquitoes. They suspect that somehow the parasite is enhancing the mosquito's ability to smell human odors.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   9:19

NPR

Big-Mouthed Toucans Key To Forest Evolution — 31 May 2013 — The jucara, the dominant palm tree in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest, is dependent on the toucan—a bird with an almost comically giant bill that can be half as long as its body—to disperse its large seeds. But as more humans have moved into Brazil's Atlantic coastal forests, the increased hunting, logging, and farming have taken a toll on the number of toucans. Now scientists have discovered that the drop-off in birds is reshaping the forest as well—and that's not a good thing.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   3:20

ENVIRONMENT

Fairewinds Energy Education

Great Haste Made Great Waste at Hanford — 22 May 2013— The Hanford nuclear site, located on the Columbia River in Washington state, was built as part of the Manhattan Project to process plutonium for nuclear weapons. Operated until the end of the Cold War, decades of weapons production left Hanford the most contaminated nuclear site in the US, with a long history of short-sighted planning and cover-ups of radioactive waste leaks. In a project that is currently 10-years behind schedule, the DOE is attempting to build a vitrification plant at Hanford to process and neutralize the massive remaining amounts of radioactive waste. Nuclear policy experts Robert Alvarez and Arnie Gundersen discuss the ongoing environmental damage at the Hanford site.
Download/Listen   29:25

Living On Earth

Climate Action, REDD, and the Congo Basin — 31 May 2013 — REDD—a scheme that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation—could be the fastest, least expensive way to stall global warming AND preserve the Congo Basin's trees and ecosystems. Alex Chadwick and producer Christopher Johnson traveled to the Congo Basin to investigate the high stakes of protecting the carbon-rich forest, the wildlife, and people who live there.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   49:00

NPR

The Political and Economic Barriers to Solving China's Air Pollution Problem — 24 May 2013 — The state-run newspaper China Daily has called most of China's major cities "barely suitable for living." Such unusually blunt language from the Chinese government's English-language mouthpiece is a sign of just how bad conditions have become. Researchers say environmental technology is available to solve the problem, but political and economic interests stand in the way.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:00

NPR

Battling Deforestation In Indonesia, One Firm At A Time — 31 May 2013 — Environmentalists are trying to stop big corporations from cutting down rainforests to create paper products. With help from some unlikely characters, they've scored a success against one of the world's largest paper companies.
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NPR

New York, Chicago, and San Francisco Launching Bike-Share Programs — 01 Jun 2013 — New York kicked off a new bike-sharing program this week, with Chicago and San Francisco expected to launch similar systems this summer. The sharing programs are all check-in, check-out systems, with automated stations spread throughout the city, designed for point-to-point trips.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:19

HEALTH

Food Sleuth Radio

Nutritional Supplements—Are You Getting What You Pay For? — 23 May 2013 — Tod Cooperman is president of ConsumerLab.com, an independent tester of dietary supplements. He discusses typical issues with nutritional supplements, including whether products are what they say they are, contamination with toxics, and viability and shelf life.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:15

FOOD, NUTRITION, GMOs, AGRICULTURE & GARDENING

You Bet Your Garden

Home-Grown Potatoes Without the Digging — 18 May 2013— Mike McGrath offers tips on growing raspberries, the benefits of ants in your garden, the proper timing for putting out starts, and dealing with a leaning tree. In the question of the week he explains multiple strategies for growing potatoes well—and without the digging.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   52:58

NPR

Integrated Aquaculture—How To Clean Up Fish Farms And Raise More Seafood — 06 May 2013— Marine aquaculture provides about half of the seafood we eat, but it produces a lot of water pollution as it does so. Enter integrated aquaculture, a technique that sees fish poop not as a waste problem but as an input to other marketable food crops.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:44

COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

HISTORY & LEARNING

Unwelcome Guests / Black Op Radio

The Kennedy Assassination and the Conspiracy-Theory Conspiracy — 25 May 2013— Lance de Haven-Smith, author of Conspiracy Theory In America, discusses "state crimes against democracy" as a modern phrase to update what used to be called "high crimes" in a constitutional context. He discusses the "conspiracy-theory conspiracy"—that is, the tactic taken by The Powers That Be to instantly discredit any person or movement that seeks to expose facts that are inconvenient to TPTB's agenda. He spends a good deal time discussing the Kennedy assassination and the broad implications of that (actual) conspiracy.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:30

On The Media

A Journalistic Civil War Odyssey — 17 May 2013 — In 1863, New York Tribune reporters Junius Browne and Albert Richardson were captured by the Confederate army in Vicksburg, Mississippi. What followed was an epic journey through an archipelago of Confederate prisons, a daring escape, and a perilous 300-mile trek to freedom. It's the subject of the book, Junius and Albert's Adventures in the Confederacy: a Civil War Odyssey. Author Peter Carlson discusses the highs and lows of the adventure.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   13:14

MUSIC & FUN

Pop Goes The World

The Man In The Skinny Black Tie Show — A decent mix of new wave and boppy punk. Best tracks include... "Almost Saturday Night" by Dave Edmunds, "Teacher Teacher" by Rockpile, "Someday, Someway" by Marshall Crenshaw, "So It Goes" by Nick Lowe, "Stay In Time" by Off Broadway USA, "Southern Girls" by Cheap Trick, "Outside" by Apache, "Mystery Achievement" by The Pretenders, "I'm The Man" by Joe Jackson, "Let Me Out" by The Knack.
Download/Listen   2:00:00

The New Breakfast Snob

Bloom and Gloom — A pretty good mix of rock, prog, alt, and funk, with only a handful of outright X's. Highlights include Phil Manzanera doing a very ELO-ish new song, " Swimming"; the Rolling Stones doing the wonderfully trippy "Citadel"; Brian Wilson doing an expanded version of the Beach Boys classic "Heroes and Villians"; and Roswitha doing the dream-poppy "Change." Other worthy tracks are Snakefinger - "The Garden of Earthly Delights" // Ginger Baker's Air Force - "Sweet Wine" // The Brian Jonestown Massacre - "I Want To Hold Your Other Hand" // Savoy Brown - "Lost and Lonely Child" // Jimi Hendrix - "Inside Out" // Marvin Gaye - "Far Cry" // Karlex - "Sleepless in Bandols" // Roxy Music - "Beauty Queen" // Angela Faye Martin - "No One Can Wake You" // Supertramp - "Nothing To Show"
Page for full track listing  |  Download/Listen   2:00:00

The New Breakfast Snob

A Day in the Record Store Life, Chapter One — A collection of passable rock that rarely rises above average. Good background music. The better tracks are ... Sopwith Camel - "Coke, Suede and Waterbeds" // Stats Quo - "Down the Dustpipe" // The Sweet - "It's Lonely Out There" // Etta James - "Quick Reaction and Satisfaction" // Roky Erickson - "Creature With The Atom Brain" // Deep Purple - "Sail Away" // The Turtles - "Grim Reaper of Love" // Good Rats - "Does It Make You Feel Good?" // Kooper, Bloomfield, Still - "You Don't Love Me" // The Move - "Useless Information"
Page for full track listing  |  Download/Listen   2:00:00

NPR

Summer Movie Preview—Kids, Theft, the Apocalypse, and Joss Whedon — 27 May 2013 — NPR film critic Bob Mondello explains that this will be a summer of Adolescents Triumphant, with kids overcoming parental units to tame a hostile environment, be it a planet (Shyamalan's After Earth), a woodsy suburban clearing (Kings of Summer), or a waterpark (The Way Way Back). It's also the Summer of the Steal, what with Now You See Me (thieving magicians), Bling Ring (thieving valley girls), and the documentaries We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks and Smash & Grab (about stealing the Pink Panther diamonds). And there's an odd plethora of Comic Apocalypses, with the world as we know it ending in pratfalls (The World's End, This is the End, and Rapturepalooza).
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