Powered by Podbean.com Download this episode (right click and save) Harry Potter Alliance – Good vs. Evil Battles in the Real World Guest: Andrew Slack , Executive Director for the Harry Potter Alliance www.hpalliance.org Topic: On the opening night of the newest Harry Potter film we feature a true to …
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Powered by Podbean.com Download this episode (right click and save) “Bang, Bang, you’re dead!” Used to be a game boys played with toy guns… Now, with “progress”, people can play video games where they have “fun” machine-gunning Vietnamese in sampans… And grown men sit at consoles on air force bases …
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Powered by Podbean.com Download this episode (right click and save) Updates: ‘fracking facts’- response to 60 Minutes’ piece on hydro-fracking for natural gas extraction; “Meet Your New Neighborhood Food Market” (Jim Hightower) truth about organic, local produce promoted by big markets like Wal-Mart, Whole Foods; Google’s flim-flam economics; S.510- who’s …
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A food crisis could overtake the world in 2011, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an agency of the United Nations.
Climate change, speculation, competing uses such as biofuels and soaring demand from emerging markets in East Asia are the factors that will push global food prices sharply higher next year, claims the FAO.
For more than a decade, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has been sounding the alarm about the neoconservative power grab that is destroying everything in its path, ensuring that there will soon be no justice, no civil liberties, no accountability — no Constitution. In early March 2008, Roberts wrote that regardless of the outcome of future elections, the power the Republicans accumulated in the executive branch, making it for all practical purposes a dictatorship, will remain.
On Sunday night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to blow a mighty wind up America’s ass (as they say in professional PR circles). America is lately addicted to lying to itself, and 60 Minutes has become the “go-to” patsy for funneling disinformation into an already hopelessly confused, wishful, delusional, US public.
On Sunday night CBS hauled Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, on board their flagship Sunday infotainment vehicle, 60 Minutes, to blow a mighty wind up America’s ass (as they say in professional PR circles). America is lately addicted to lying to itself, and 60 Minutes has become the “go-to” patsy for funneling disinformation into an already hopelessly confused, wishful, delusional, US public.
We live in an age in which punitive justice and a theater of cruelty have become the defining elements of a mainstream cultural apparatus that trades in historical and social amnesia.
How else to explain the electoral sweep that just put the most egregious Republican Party candidates back in power?
Killing microorganisms has become a national obsession. A pair of antimicrobial compounds known as triclosan and triclocarban are lately the weapons of choice in our war of attrition against the microbial world. Both chemicals are found in an array of personal care products like antimicrobial soaps, and triclosan also is formulated into everyday items ranging from plastics and toys to articles of clothing.