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FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Corbett Report

Hour Money—Direct Community Exchange vs. Usury Parasitism — 26 Mar 2013 — Monetary reform activist Wayne Walton of MtnHours.com talks about the "Hour Money" system and how it can be used as an alternative to bankster-controlled currencies to foster local business and rid the economy of usurious debt, monetary manipulation, and the parasitic financial elite.
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good The Real World of Money

Cyprus—The Players, the Motives, and Where the Bodies Are Buried — 20 Mar 2013 — Andrew Gause gives the background on why there's so much hoo-hah over the financial situation in Cyprus—who the player are, what their the motives are, and where the bodies are buried. Other discussion topics include.... how TPTB will be stealing our money in the future; money printing madness; the Monetary Decontrol Act of 1980, a cornerstone in the control of money; how war is a tool for keeping inflation at bay; a close look at the balance sheet of the FDIC.
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The Real World of Money, 27 Mar 2013
Andrew Gause:  Dealing with the Vital-Organ Tumor That is the Bankster-Controlled Money System
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good King World News

Gerald Celente on the Elites' Continuing Financial Warfare — 23 Mar 2013 — Gerald Celente's discussion topics include... continuing financial warfare of elites vs. the people (and against other elites), with Cyprus being the current flashpoint; the Ponzi scheme of massive money printing and manipulation of interest rates; the likelihood of bank holidays; and why it's all leading to a new global hot war.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen Between The Lines

Nader on the US Minimum Wage — 27 Mar 2013 — A majority of minimum-wage workers in the US work for the top 50 multinational corporations, whose CEOs make about $10 million a year on average. Ralph Nader points out that America's minimum-wage workers are losing ground. He suggests that the least congress and the president can do is move to a $10.50 minimum wage, which would catch up with the actual value of the minimum wage in 1968.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen The Lifeboat Hour

Mike Ruppert on Cyprus, Russian Oligarchs, and European Banksters — 24 Mar 2013 — Mike Ruppert's discussion topics include the machinations of the financial proxy war being fought in Cyprus; parallels between the old Holy Roman Empire and emerging trends in Europe; deadly weather as part of the chaotic changes in the world.
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Guns & Butter, 20 Mar 2013
Michel Chossudovsky on Pope Francis' Involvement in Brutal Regimes in Latin America
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Making Contact, 13 Mar 2013
Ten Years Later—Counting the Costs of War in Iraq
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King World News, 24 Mar 2013
Paul Craig Roberts on Banksters, Billionaires, and Wealth Disparities
No longer available from host site.   12:22

MEDIA, INTERNET & PRIVACY

Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen On The Media

The State of the News Media — 22 Mar 2013— The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism has released its annual "State of the News Media" report, detailing the health, or in this case the frailty, of mainstream US media online and off. The report contained a litany of grim statistics about the consumption and economics of news. Host Bob Garfield discusses the finding with Pew associate director Mark Jurkowitz.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen On The Media

How Personal Finance Media Led Us Astray — 22 Mar 2013 — For over 20 years, a voracious personal finance industry has tried to help us make smarter investments and sound financial choices. And it's created a number of stars—television gurus and best-selling authors—in the process. Too bad the brilliance of their advice doesn't match their shining personalities.
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(GP comment:  "Investing" as a legitimate moneymaking activity is conceptually wrong, and those who continue participating will eventually reap the bitter harvest they sow.)

ENERGY, PEAK OIL, SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good ExtraEnvironmentalist

Permaculture Convergence—Replacing Ego-Centric with Eco-Centric — 19 Mar 2013 — Despite the massive destruction our species has wrought on the earth, we've also learned a tremendous amount about ecological systems in the process. As our old narrative of domination crumbles, an understanding of how to work with nature is emerging. Can we apply the ideas of permaculture to society when facing energy depletion, climate change and social breakdown? Will our future society be able to regenerate the planet? Speakers at the 2012 Northwest Permaculture Convergence discuss how permaculture approaches can address global challenges.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen Sea Change Radio

Voting For Solar, One Locale at a Time — 19 Mar 2013 — Adam Browning, the executive director of Vote Solar, explains his vision of affordable and widespread renewable power. While Vote Solar now has national reach, they concentrate on local initiatives. As Browning likes to say, "If your plan involves congress, it's a bad plan." ~~ In part 2, the discussion turns to the lessons we can learn from success stories like the German solar industry as well as high-profile flops like Solyndra.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen KunstlerCast

Real Abundance — 21 Mar 2013 — JHK chats with Ben Hewitt, a farmer from Cabot, Vermont and the author of The Town That Food Saved—How One Community Found Vitality in Local Food. His forthcoming book is Saved—How I Quit Worrying About Money and Became the Richest Guy in the World. The discussion centers on the homesteading life and ways people can unplug from the madness of society and find pleasure in a different way of life.
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NUCLEAR

Rating: 5 of 5 - Must-listening! Radio EcoShock

Deadly Myths of Nuclear Energy and Accidents — 20 Mar 2013— Alex Smith plays selections from the "Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident" symposium held in March 2013. Topics include.... how TEPCO and the Japanese government have systematically underestimated the radiation from the Fukushima accident; the unreported higher impact on women, children and babies; and why the dangers are far from over. Also discussed are why Chernobyl's supposed "wildlife haven" is merely propaganda and how nuclear activists in the US can't even win the no-brainers—issues where the right action is obvious but where the NRC still does the wrong thing.
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Unrated TUC Radio

Bob Alvarez on Spent Fuel Pools and Radioactive Waste — 26 Mar 2013 — Nuclear policy analyst Bob Alvarez explains why the US must learn lessons from the Fukushima disaster. Many US nuclear plants are similar to the Fukushima design, with dangerous fuel pools situated on the top of the buildings. Alvarez says we must demand that fuel be removed from the pools and placed in dry storage casks—a suggestion the nuclear industry resists because it is cheaper to keep the fuel rods in the pools.
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Radio EcoShock, 12 Mar 2013
Helen Caldicott on the Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
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ENVIRONMENT

Rating: 5 of 5 - Must-listening! C-Realm Podcast

Climate Change—Rapid, Unpredictable, and Non-Linear Responses — 20 Mar 2013 — Guy McPherson joins KMO to discuss the prospect of runaway climate feedback loops. McPherson reviews ten major feedback loops and explains why nine of them are already set to enter runaway mode, regardless of any future reductions in manmade greenhouse gases. The sum of these effects will cause a massive climate shift and lead him to believe that human extinction is a real possibility in the not-so-distant future.
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Living On Earth

Murders of Eco Activists on the Rise — 22 Mar 2013— As natural resources around the world grow scarce and the actions of those who would exploit them grow bolder and more desperate, environmental activists in countries like Brazil, Cambodia and the Philippines face increasing threats. UK journalist Fred Pearce discusses how this past year may have been the worst ever for violence against environmentalists.
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Between The Lines

Activists Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Face Political, Education Battles — 27 Mar 2013 — Blowing the tops off mountain ridges to get at the coal seams beneath—and dropping the rocks and other debris into mountain streams below—continues unabated, mainly in West Virginia, where the politicians are literally 100% behind the coal industry. Two activists with the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation toured Connecticut recently, speaking at area colleges and other venues. Paul Corbit Brown explains why people the US does not need to depend on coal, and why public education on the ills of coal mining is a good strategy.
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NPR, 21 Mar 2013
"Truce" Declared on Fracking Standards, But Many Environmentalists Dubious of Voluntary Approach
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HEALTH

Rating: 5 of 5 - Must-listening! Red Ice Radio

The Fluoride Fraud — 14 Mar 2013 — Dr. Paul Connett holds a PhD in chemistry and has specialized in environmental chemistry and toxicology. For 17 years, he has researched the literature on fluoride and has concluded that fluoridation of water is unhelpful at best and toxic at worst. Even the CDC has admitted that only topical fluoridation (as in fluoride toothpaste) is effective at reducing cavities. But the fluoride juggernaut rolls on at municipal water treatment facilities, propelled by ignorance, politics, and industry chicanery.
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(GP comment:  Excellent science-based review.)

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Beyond 50

The Emotion Code — 15 Mar 2013— Dr. Bradley Nelson is the developer of The Emotion Code, a system for releasing the trapped emotions that block mental and physical healing. He shares the six underlying causes of diseases, plus inspirational stories of patients who have returned to health from so-called incurable diseases. Many are amazed to find out that their emotional baggage consists of discrete energies that became trapped during an emotional event in the past and how easily these energies can be found and removed.
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One Radio Network, 21 Mar 2013
Dave Stetzer on Dirty Electricity as a Source of Disease and Chronic Illness
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One Radio Network, 14 Mar 2013
In Control of Your Health — Understanding the Mind-Body Connection and the Integration of Western and Natural Medicine
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good One Radio Network

Our Wireless World—A Commercial Bonanza for Big Business, But a Train Wreck for Consumer Health — 21 Feb 2013— Cindy Sage, editor of the BioInitiative Report, discusses radio frequency emissions from cell phones, cell towers, WiFi routers, cordless phones, smart meters, and similar devices. Topics include the health effects of wireless radiation; why are there no safe levels for children; how RF energy can damage DNA and cause neurological effects; and why smart folks are "cabling up" instead of going wireless.
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AGRICULTURE & GARDENING

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good One Radio Network

Rebuilding the Foodshed—How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems — Droves of people have turned to local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food system. From rural outposts to city streets, they are sowing, growing, selling, and eating food produced close to home—and they are crying out for agricultural reform. Philip Ackerman-Leist discusses rebuilding regional food systems so they can replace the destructiveness of industrial agriculture, meet food demands affordably and sustainably, and be resilient enough to endure potentially rough times ahead.
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Sea Change Radio, 05 Mar 2013
Eco Beef:  Imported Grass-Fed vs. Home-Grown Industrial — Choose Vicely
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good Food Chain Radio

In the Beginning There Was Agriculture That Was Light on the Earth — 16 Mar 2013 — Many decades ago, Alan Chadwick asked the University of California at Santa Cruz for a small scrap of land to teach gardening, and then proceeded to turn university agriculture policy on its head by pursuing organic methods. Dr. Paul Lee, author of There Is a Garden in the Mind, discusses how this early effort helped give birth to organic farming and gardening; and what impact organic might have on our future.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen TUC Radio

The Future of Orchards in Times of Climate Change — 12 Mar 2013 — Farmers are not debating weather climate change is real or not, they are dealing with it already. Co-founder of the local food movement, ethnobotanist, and tender of an Arizona orchard, Gary Nabhan, explains the vast contribution orchards can make to mitigating climate change and resisting the impact of drought and heat.
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COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good 11:11 with Simran Singh

Neale Donald Walsch:  the Overhaul of Humanity — 07 Mar 2013 — From society to economy to environment to religion, Neale Donald Walsch observes that none of the major facets of the human enterprise are working. We are due for an overhaul—one that will result in a new way to be human. The overhaul is part of the process of humanity reaching its ultimate expression—divinity. In the meantime, we should stop worrying so much about "doing" and instead focus on "being."
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good The Lifeboat Hour

TPTB and Suppression of Expanding Consciousness — 17 Mar 2013 — Graham Hancock and Mike Ruppert discuss efforts by The Powers That Be to suppress expansion of consciousness—the one thing that truly threatens their control. At the corp-gov level, Hancock sees the US as a huge global problem. But at the grassroots level, he sees a great growing effort among the masses to break free from the structures of suppression.
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Rating: 3 of 5 - Good, worth a listen Energy Stew

Julia Assante on Death, Life, and the Transition — 09 Mar 2013 — Many people fear death, and many of the constructs in media and society work to reinforce that fear. Other people treasure life and will hate to leave it but do not consider death itself a problem. What can we learn about the state of being dead from the millions who have either had near-death experiences and have temporarily experienced the other side or those who have been contacted in some form by the spirits of dead friends and relatives? Host Peter Roth and guest Julia Assante discuss.
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Clif's Wujo, 16 Mar 2013
Intersecting Myths — Nummo, Changer, Sky People, and the Abduction of Canoebuilder
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MUSIC & FUN

Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good The Sunrise Ocean Bender

An Inland Sea, His Symphony — This is a strong deep-cut set of mostly progressive rock with a few lighter songs mixed in. Top tracks are... "Driving to Amsterdam" by Khan // "Firth of Fifth" by Genesis" // "Postcard" by The Gathering Grey // "Bus Stop" by The Hollies // "Comfy's Honey Jar" by The Honey Pot // "Butterfly" by Beautify Junkyards // "Citadel" by Jack Ellsiter // "Greencroft Street" by Beaulieu Porch // "Prism On the Bend" by Icarus Peel // "The Catepillar Song" by The Soft Hearted Scientists // "All The World Is Love" by The Seventh Ring of Saturn // "Tobacco" by The Rockandys.
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Rating: 4 of 5 - Very good The Voice of Middle Earth

Episode 207—The Music of the Fauns + "Frodo Lives" — Greenman Took plays a nice selection of music by the Fauns, a German band whose music weaves in many Tolkienesque themes. The discussion segment includes a review of the phrase "Frodo Lives!" that became popular decades ago.
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Rating: 2 of 5 - OK; if you've got the time... A Bowl of Soul

Not Resisting Temptations — This set is based in the Temptations and related solo work. Top tracks are... "The Way You Do The Things You Do" by The Temptations // "I Can't Get Next To You" by Whisky Barons (Temptations Remix) // "If You Can Want" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles // "Baba Boom Time" by The Jamaicans // "High" by Skyy.
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Rating: 2 of 5 - OK; if you've got the time... The New Breakfast Snob

Whole Hog Grinder — This set starts of "eh" and ends even more "eh," but the middle third is quite good. The worthwhile rock nuggets include... Humble Pie - "As Safe As Yesterday" // Agitation Free - "Rucksturz" // Camel - "Dunkirk" // Triumvirat - "The Walls of Doom" // Pretty Things - "All Light Up" // Adnam Othman - "Budi Bahasa" // Super Furry Animals - "Fuzzy Birds."
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Rating: 2 of 5 - OK; if you've got the time... The New Breakfast Snob

Pretty Flowers on the Wall — Mostly "who cares"... but a few good tracks: Fairport Convention - "Mr. Lacey" // Roxy Music - "Ain't That So" // Blue Oyster Cult - "I Love The Night dup" // Jethro Tull - "My Sunday Feeling" // The Beau Brummels - "Deepwater" // Iron Butterfly - "Heavy" // Skip Bifferty - "Time Tracks" // Grateful Dead - "U.S. Blues"
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Fresh Air, 13 Mar 2013
ZZ Top Precursor "The Moving Sidewalks" — Where the British Invasion Met Texas Blues
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The two stereotypical sides of the climate debate are (a) climate change is a potential planet-killer and MUST be addressed; and (b) climate change is nothing to worry about, it's all part of a natural cycle. Guy McPherson reviews the scientific evidence that there is a third scenario: Climate change has already entered a runaway-feedback mode and there is now nothing humans can do to reverse the catastrophic level of warming that's coming—and coming soon. The good news? McPherson delivers his dark news clearly, with a great sense of humor, and with excellent insights into the human condition.  Watch climate feedback loop video(1:51:49)

 
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