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• Exposing the Myths of Fracking
• Financial Parasites and the World You Live In
• Corporations—A Century of Propaganda Pays Off
• How Big Food Targets Children

All Story Categories

• Financial, Empire & Elites
• Corporations & Globalization
• Media, Internet & Privacy
• Energy, Peak Oil, Sustainability & Resilience
• Nuclear
• Biodiversity, Species & Animal Welfare
• Chemicals, Pesticides & Toxics
• More Environment
• Health
• Food, Organics, GMOs & Agriculture
• Cool & Cosmic
• History & Learning
• Music & Fun

FINANCIAL, EMPIRE & ELITES

Guns & Butter

Financial Parasites and the World You Live In — 18 Sep 2013 — Global commentator Michel Chossudovsky explains how financial speculation and domination of political decisions by financial elites is at the root of many problems, including excessive debt, the wide income gap, and incessant imperial adventures. He sees the propagandistic media, elite control of both sides of politics, and resulting control of bona fide reform movements as our biggest hurdles.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   59:50

Meria Heller Show

Warmongering Propagandists Starting to Fall Flat — 01 Sep 2013 — Super-aware human David Icke gives an excellent review of the games that the minions of TPTB have been playing in the last decade, from 9/11 to the military action in the various countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. In particular, he calls out the incessant propaganda that has been associated with these efforts—a strategy that is now failing as so many of their lies are exposed.
Download/Listen   59:29

Lifeboat Hour

All the Madmen — 08 Sep 2013 — Michael Ruppert and Carolyn Baker discuss the Syria situation and how it plays into the potential for the psychopaths that run the world to start WW III. Is there some hidden upside for them to fostering a global apocalypse, or are they just insane?
Download/Listen   57:25

Keiser Report

Lee Camp:  Wit-ness the Insanity — 10 Sep 2013 — Anti-bankster warrior Max Keiser and topical comedian Lee Camp riff on the insanity of letting the financial parasites run the world.
Watch  |  Download/Listen   13:00

CORPORATIONS & GLOBALIZATION

TUC Radio

Corporations—A Century of Propaganda Pays Off — 03 Sep 2013 — Alex Carey explains how US corporations spent the 20th century crafting messages, creating "research" think tanks, and saturating brains with propaganda designed to subtly influence public opinion that, over time, made it easier and easier for elites and their corporations to break the unions, install pro-business politicians, and establish policies friendly to the wealthy and their enterprises.
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MEDIA, INTERNET & PRIVACY

On The Media

The Freelancer's War — 13 Sep 2013 — The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that nearly half of the journalists killed in Syria since the conflict began were freelancers. Several UK based newspapers have said they would no longer use freelance journalists in war zones; but, according to documentarian and teacher Richard Pendry, these same newspapers are still hiring freelancers, quietly, in a way that insulates the papers from liability.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:00

On The Media

Barrett Brown—Life in Jail for Linking? — 13 Sep 2013 — Barrett Brown is an independent journalist and activist who has been in jail for a year awaiting trial on a number of charges—chief among them, merely copying and pasting a link to leaked documents into an IRC chat room. Ed Pilkington of The Guardian talks about Brown's case and its implications for other journalists, professional or otherwise.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:24

ENERGY, PEAK OIL, SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

KWMR Post Carbon

Exposing the Myths of Fracking — 11 Sep 2103 — Richard Heinberg discusses the myth of US energy independence through fracking. He also addresses many interesting energy-related questions, including, "Which is better, coal or fracked natural gas?"
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   48:37

KunstlerCast

The Path to Sustainable Development vs. the Other Road to Serfdom — 12 Sep 2013 — JHK and Eric Zency discuss the problems of an infinite growth economy, the relationship between energy and money, and the fate of the planet.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   44:54

KunstlerCast

City Planning—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — 15 Aug 2013 — JHK talks with John Norquist, director of the Congress for the New Urbanism and four-term mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about the state of the American city, the future of the Great Lakes Region, and the difficulty of overcoming decades of bad choices regarding how we inhabit the landscape of our country.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   44:42

Green Front

Green Tea Coalition Makes Solar Happen in Georgia — 11 Sep 2013 — Shane Owl-Greason, one of the founders of the Green Tea Coalition in Georgia, discusses how an unlikely alliance between Tea Party Patriots and solar-power loving environmentalists led to a major adoption of solar energy in Georgia. ~~ Also in the show, Center for Environmental Health spokesman Charles Margules dishes the dirt on the 100+ hair products that were discovered to contain carcinogens.
Download/Listen   54:58

Free Speech Radio News

DOE Approves Export Site in Maryland to Send Fracked Gas Abroad — 12 Sep 2013 — Environmentalists and communities in Maryland are raising concerns after the US Department of Energy gave the okay for a private energy company to vastly expand a liquefied natural gas site on the Chesapeake Bay. DOE announced conditional authorization to allow the energy company Dominion to use the Cove Point Terminal to house and transport gas extracted through hydraulic fracturing to other countries.
Audio no longer available from host site (fsrn.org) 6:47

(GP comment:  The US continues its path to third-world status—in this case, becoming a natural-resource exporter as it endures pollution and impoverishes its populace.)

NUCLEAR

Living On Earth

US Reactor Safety In Light of Fukushima — 09 Sep 2013— Japanese authorities are unable to control the radioactive water leaking out of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. Now the government plans to install a wall of ice around the facility to contain the contaminated water. Ed Lyman of the Union of Concerned Scientists explains why the new ice-wall plan is likely an act of desperation. He also explains why some American reactors are at risk for the same kind of flooding disaster.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:39

BIODIVERSITY, SPECIES & ANIMAL WELFARE

Quirks & Quarks

Cultured Meat—Flesh or Fantasy? — 07 Sep 2013 — A scientist created a burger made entirely of meat cells grown in a laboratory, and then he had the burger cooked by a chef and tasted by two food critics—all to much fanfare. But cultured meat—meat grown without animals—is still a long way from supermarket shelves, given that this particular burger cost a couple hundred thousand dollars to produce. Does lab meat really have the potential to supplant normal meat and thereby reduce the animal welfare impact of our diets?
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   24:53

Quirks & Quarks

Happy Sea Otters Means Healthy Sea Grass and Ecosystems — 14 Sep 2013— Sea grass is found in many coastal regions around the world, but it is becoming increasingly threatened by chemicals found in agricultural and urban run-off, which create algal blooms that degrade the sea grass. But in one estuary off California's Monterey Bay, the sea grass is thriving in spite of the chemicals. Ecologist Brent Hughes explains how the sea otters there are a key factor in a food-chain effect that counterbalances the effect of nutrient runoff.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:10

CHEMICALS, PESTICIDES & TOXICS

Living On Earth

Data Gaps For Chemical Safety — 09 Sep 2013 — After an explosion at a chemical fertilizer plant in West, Texas killed or injured over 165 people earlier this year, Daniel Lathrop, a staff reporter for the Dallas Morning News, tried to get the official figures on how often these sort of chemical accidents happen. But he couldn't find out because nobody's keeping track, and that appears to be a deliberate strategy—one favored by the chemical lobby.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   6:49

Living on Earth

EPA Scraps Chemical Safety Rules — 13 Sep 2013 — Blocked for years by the White House Office of Management and Budget, two chemical safety rules have now been dropped altogether by the EPA. The Environmental Defense Fund's Richard Denison explains why this is bad news for public health.
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(GP comment:  Anyone out there still thinking Obama is a good guy?)

Living On Earth

Why Fish Have Different Amounts of Mercury — 09 Sep 2013— Deep sea fish tend to accumulate more mercury than those that swim in shallower waters. A recent study from the University of Michigan explains that sunlight plays a major role in mitigating the mercury pollution that otherwise will find its way into fish tissue. Lead author Joel Blum explains.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:10

MORE ENVIRONMENT

Unwelcome Guests

The Transportation Conspiracy — 31 Aug 2013 — This is a radio adaptation of Taken For A Ride, a 1996 documentary on how the logic of predatory capitalism drove the destruction of urban mass transit in the US—most notably streetcars—in favor of a more resource intensive method, automobiles.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:00:00

NPR

The Strange Case of How Acid Rain Is Making Waterways Too Alkaline — 13 Sep 2013 — Decades ago, because of acid rain, the pH of many fresh water rivers and lakes in the US became too acidic, thus degrading ecosystems and killing species. But these days, researchers are finding that acid rain has leached enough minerals out of the earth and put them into solution in waterways that many rivers are now too alkaline, which also is causing problems.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   5:18

C-Realm Podcast

Derrick Jensen:  Remember and Imagine — 04 Sep 2013 — Derrick Jensen explains how the mainstream media serves to normalize oppression and convince us that the insanity of our civilization is natural and the only way to live.
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(GP comment:  Jensen has been much more cogent in other interviews, but this is still worth a listen. He remains one of the most (brutally) honest commentators on what ails us.)

Quirks & Quarks

Greenland's Grand Canyon Helping Keeping Ice Sheet in Place — 07 Sep 2013 — A team of researchers has announced the discovery of a huge canyon—on the scale of the Grand Canyon—cutting through the northern part of Greenland. Though the canyon had remained undiscovered because it lies under the Greenland Ice Cap, its presence may help explain why Greenland's ice cap has remained so firmly attached to the land. The canyon helps drain out meltwater that might otherwise lubricate the base of the ice and cause the whole sheet to slide off the land.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   8:09

HEALTH

Nutrition Diva

Should You Take Antibiotics and Probiotics at the Same Time? — 06 Aug 2013 — Many of us inevitably need to take a course of antibiotics, and we know it's important to counter the gut-damaging side effects of antibiotics by taking a probiotic. But should we go ahead and start the probiotic simultaneously with the antibiotic?
Download/Listen   7:18

One Radio Network

Taking the Mystery out of Health and Wellness — 03 Sep 2013 — Caroline Sutherland is a medical intuitive and practitioner in the fields of nutrition and energy medicine. Topics here include using pain as a diagnostic tool; addressing food allergies once and for all; the importance of hormone balance; practical, lasting solutions for weight loss; why, for most health issues, the first place to look is the gut.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:04:28

(GP comment:  The phrase "medical intuitive" may not engender initial confidence, but Sutherland has a keen sense of how the body works and offers well reasoned ideas on supplements and avoidances that can help specific health conditions.)

Natural Nurse

Guido Mase on Bitters, Aromatics, and Tonics — 28 May 2013 — Clinical herbalist Guido Mase discusses the appropriate health uses of the three main classes of medicinal herbs—bitter, aromatic, and sweet/tonic.
Download/Listen   56:00

One Radio Network

Jay Udani, MD on Fish Oil Supplements — 17 Sep 2013 — A research paper published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute recently caused concern for those taking fish oil supplements. But Jay Udani, MD explains that the story is not as simple as press releases sounded and "fish supplements bad" is not the conclusion to draw.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   27:45

Nutrition Diva

All About ORAC Values — 23 Jul 2013 — Monica Reinagel discusses ORAC values, which are a measure of how many antioxidants a food has. But it's not quite that simple—there are other factors, such as how fast your body can use antioxidants, as well as the possibility of overdoing supplements.
Download/Listen   6:00

Quirks & Quarks

The Encylco-pee-dia of Urine — 14 Sep 2013 — Urine has been used for millennia to detect disease, but the full chemical complexity of urine hasn't been explored until recently. Dr. David Wishart and his colleagues have just completed a comprehensive chemical analysis of urine, and found that it can contain upwards of 3,000 different substances. They think new techniques might allow us to discover much more from urine tests than we do currently, creating new ways to diagnose health conditions earlier and less invasively.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:41

Diet Science

Diatomaceous Earth—Nature's Scrubber — 02 Sep 2013 — Dee McCaffrey talks about the health benefits of diatomaceous earth (DE), a powdery substance with many uses, including pest control on pets, parasite control in livestock, and intestinal health in humans.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   7:53

FOOD, ORGANICS & AGRICULTURE

Food Sleuth Radio

How Big Food Targets Children — 12 Sep 2013 — Anna Lappe, project director at Food MythBusters, discusses the many ways Big Food aggressively targets children, at home and in schools. She also talks about ways parents and communities can fight back
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   28:15

Radio EcoShock

Growing in a Hotter Drier World — 17 Sep 2013 — How can we feed ourselves as the climate becomes unstable? Research scientist Gary P. Nabhan talks about adapting growing practices to a hotter, drier world.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   20:41

Living on Earth

Sustainable Shrimp Farming — 13 Sep 2013 — The United States imports over a billion pounds of shrimp annually. Most of it arrives frozen from environmentally destructive farms is Asia. One US company is using environmentally friendly techniques to produce a fresh, delicious product with a much gentler environmental footprint.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   12:14

(GP comment:  Also remember that US-produced Gulf seafood is highly suspect because of remaining contamination due to the use of Corexit during the 2010 BP spill.)

COOL & COSMIC
(AND POSSIBLY CATASTROPHIC!)

Red Ice Radio

Calling Dr. Frequency — 09 Aug 2013— There's alternative medicine, and then there is alternative existence. Sonia Barrett & Sharry Edwards discuss the scientific evidence for viewing the body's functionality on the basis of frequencies. More broadly, they discuss how important a person's chosen soul journey is to their health status.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   1:05:00

Meria Heller Show

Joseph Anthony on Cosmological Alignments and World Events — 08 Sep 2013 — Astrologer and deep thinker Joseph Anthony puts the machinations of The Powers That Be in the context of cosmological alignments. As people start waking up and tuning into higher frequencies, TPTB are running into more and more problems executing their plans—a prime example being their difficulties getting everyone onboard with the Syria take-out plan. In the second half of the show, he discusses the monthly outlook for the twelve signs.
Download/Listen   55:06

HISTORY & LEARNING

Corbett Report

Film, Literature and the New World Order—Gaslight — 16 Sep 2013_— James Corbett and Thomas Sheridan discuss Gaslight, the 1940 British psychological thriller that introduced us to the concept of 'gaslighting,' a pop-psych term that describes a process of intentionally and persistently warping a person's view of reality. They also talk about how this technique is used on a societal level by the psychopaths at the top of the power pyramid. You can watch Gaslight for free before listening to this show—it's available at Archive.org.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   40:00

Guns & Butter

Kevin Ryan, Following the Money and Power to "Another 19" — Aug 2013 — These clips feature Kevin Ryan discussing the details of his book Another 19—Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects, which, rather than the 19 unlikely Saudis who were fingered for the crime, focuses on 19 people from the realm of US politics, intelligence, and corporations who were more likely to have played a nefarious role in the events of 9/11/2001. The "other 19" group includes well known blackhearts like Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, George Tenet, Frank Carlucci, and Richard Armitage, but also lesser known players like Brian Michael Jenkins, L. Paul Bremer, and Barry McDaniel.
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(GP comment:  Ryan's analyses are quite thorough and it's well worth getting his insights on who was really behind 9/11. I have to admit, though, that I was worn out by the time I got to part 4. )

The Real World of Money

9/11 Special—Following the Money Where No Man Has Ever Gone Before — 11 Sep 2013 — Currency historian Andrew Gause reviews the financial evidence for 9/11 being an inside job. Topics include... Why it's clear that Building 7 was brought down by a controlled demolition; which criminal investigations disappeared with the demolition of Building 7; 300,000 tons of gold and the 9/11 connection; familial connections to 9/11—Obama, Bush, Marcos, Rothschild, Soros, and more.
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Part 1:  Download/Listen   1:06:00
Part 2:  Download/Listen   54:00

(GP comment:  The 9/11 analysis starts around 27:00 of part 1. I did not have time to listen to part 2 but include it here for completeness' sake. )

MUSIC & FUN

Fresh Air

Linda Ronstadt on Genres, Relationships, and 100 Million Records Sold — 17 Sep 2013 — Last month, Ronstadt revealed that she has Parkinson's disease and can no longer sing. In this conversation, she talks about a career that spanned country-folk, rock, Hispanic, and standards, resulting is massive record sales. Topics include her musical relationships with the Stone Poneys, Emmylou Harris, and Nelson Riddle, as well as some interesting non-musical sidebars. Numerous clips of her songs are played.
Go to page  |  Download/Listen   45:17

Pop Goes the World!

Pop Goes the Empire (Brit-Pop) — By the end, this set devolves to a punky/grungy pile of Brit sludge, but the first 3/5 is some pretty good boppy Brit-pop. Top tracks are... "Hollywood" by Codeine Velvet Club // "Beautiful Ones" by Suede // "Tonight The Streets Are Ours" by Richard Hawley // "You Stole The Sun From My Heart" by Manic Street Preachers // "Here Come The Good Times" by A-House // "We Are Sleepyheads" by Belle & Sebastian // "To Be Like I" by China Rats // "Hometown Unicorn" by Super Furry Animals // "Same Jeans" by The View.
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The Vinyl Experience

Summer BREAK — A nice set of pop and rock. Top tracks include... Blondie - "Accidents Never Happen" // Joni Mitchell - "Snakes And Ladders" // Supremes - "Up The Ladder To The Roof" // Cat Stevens - "Moonshadow" // Led Zeppelin - "Nobody's Fault But Mine" // Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
Download/Listen   1:00:00

Radio Parallax

Novelty Songs Through the Decades — 08 Aug 2013 — Don Rose discusses the characteristics of good novelty songs and highlights some of the most popular novelty songs of the last 50 years, including "The Curly Shuffle," "Camp Grenada," and "Sukiyaki."
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(GP comment:  Seems like Ray Stevens should have gotten a mention here...)

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