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September 1, 2011

The Solution Zone – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Topic:  THE REAL PEOPLE’S PROTEST!! – October2011.org Guest: David Swanson – Author of “War Is a Lie” and “Daybreak and Progressive activist and blogger at DavidSwanson.org , WarIsACrime.org and toyysaction.org.  On October 6th 2011 people from across the nation …

Community Currency – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Exploding the 9/11 Myth – Sifting the Evidence Kevin Ryan is a chemistry laboratory manager with twenty-two years of professional experience. Through his work as Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), he began to investigate …

Energy Stew – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Simple One Minute Mindfulness A new book can help you be centered and clear in a minute. Donald Altman, the author of “The Mindfulness Code” has a wonderful new book, “One Minute Mindfulness”. In so many ways, this helps …

Freedom News Hour – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) This week, we look at how the Euro bailout may be falling apart due to dissension within Angela Merkel’s German government. Plus, guest Robin Koerner discusses his founding of “Blue Republicans” at the Huffington Post. Podcast: Play in new …

Expanding Mind – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Mystical Madness Bipolar breakdowns, mystical madness, and going off (and on) meds: a talk about being crazy in America with Gregory Pleshaw, author of “The Collapse of Time: Confessions of a Quantum Humanist”. Podcast: Play in new window | …

” Matthew Schofield ” – WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says

Posted on Thu, Sep. 01, 2011

Matthew Schofield | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: September 01, 2011 01:19:34 PM

A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2006 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

The unclassified cable, which was posted on WikiLeaks’ website last week, contained questions from a United Nations investigator about the incident, which had angered local Iraqi officials, who demanded some kind of action from their government. U.S. officials denied at the time that anything inappropriate had occurred.

“Peter Bacque” – Earthquake Caused Massive Nuclear Storage Casks to Move

by Peter Bacque

Last week’s central Virginia earthquake caused 25 spent-fuel storage casks — each weighing 115 tons — to move on their concrete pad at Dominion Virginia Power’s North Anna nuclear power plant.

The shifting of these massive casks holding used nuclear fuel was the first caused by an earthquake in the U.S., according to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

None of the metal cylinders was damaged and no radiation was released, Dominion Virginia Power said.

The Turning Point 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Affairs of The Heart Mike volunteers to be experimented on by aliens… A modern bedtime story, with monsters and mad scientists– Awesome! Overwhelming! Frightening! But, naturally, it all comes out OK in the end. Podcast: Play in new window …

“Ellen Brown” – North Dakota’s Economic Miracle—It’s Not Oil

http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/the-north-dakota-miracle-not-all-about-oil

North Dakota has had the nation’s lowest unemployment ever since the economy tanked. What’s its secret?

In an article in The New York Times on August 19th titled “The North Dakota Miracle,” Catherine Rampell writes:

Forget the Texas Miracle. Let’s instead take a look at North Dakota, which has the lowest unemployment rate and the fastest job growth rate in the country.

According to new data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today, North Dakota had an unemployment rate of just 3.3 percent in July—that’s just over a third of the national rate (9.1 percent), and about a quarter of the rate of the state with the highest joblessness (Nevada, at 12.9 percent).

North Dakota has had the lowest unemployment in the country (or was tied for the lowest unemployment rate in the country) every single month since July 2008.

Its healthy job market is also reflected in its payroll growth numbers. . . . [Y]ear over year, its payrolls grew by 5.2 percent. Texas came in second, with an increase of 2.6 percent.

Why is North Dakota doing so well? For one of the same reasons that Texas has been doing well: oil.

“Ari Berman” – The GOP War on Voting

In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year

As the nation gears up for the 2012 presidential election, Republican officials have launched an unprecedented, centrally coordinated campaign to suppress the elements of the Democratic vote that elected Barack Obama in 2008. Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy tests to bar black Southerners from voting, a new crop of GOP governors and state legislators has passed a series of seemingly disconnected measures that could prevent millions of students, minorities, immigrants, ex-convicts and the elderly from casting ballots. “What has happened this year is the most significant setback to voting rights in this country in a century,” says Judith Browne-Dianis, who monitors barriers to voting as co-director of the Advancement Project, a civil rights organization based in Washington, D.C.

“Robert Parry” – In Libya, a Bloodbath Looms

http://www.opednews.com/articles/In-Libya-a-Bloodbath-Loom-by-Robert-Parry-110831-711.html

August 31, 2011

By Robert Parry

NATO’s war in Libya, which began with high-minded declarations about “protecting civilians,” now appears likely to end with a bloodbath that will claim the lives of many civilians, albeit pro-Gaddafi civilians, not the earlier threatened anti-Gaddafi civilians.

Ali Tarhouni, a senior official of the NATO-backed Libyan rebels, summed up this Orwellian reality with a phrase reminiscent of the famous Vietnam War quote that “we had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Tarhouni was quoted by the Associated Press as saying “Sometimes to avoid bloodshed you must shed blood — and the faster we do this the less blood will be shed.”

The Gary Null Show – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) In lieu of a guest, Gary discussed health, his films “Knocking On The Devil’s Door” and “Death By Medecine”, and took your calls on various topics. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed

The Progressive Radio News Hour – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Guest: Nawal El Saadawi Saadawi is a leading Egyptian feminist, sociologist, physician, and important writer (including 27 books) on Arab women’s problems and related issues. Conditions in Egypt and Middle East uprisings will be discussed. Podcast: Play in new …

Cheater and The Rude – 09/01/11

Podcast Powered By Podbean Download this episode (right click and save) Jeff compares getting a colonic to the Republican candidates for president while Lee weaves a disturbing metaphor about them (even more disturbing than a colonic). Also, actual insights on Obama and Libya. Podcast: Play in new window | Download …