Black Agenda Radio – 1/23/12
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January 23, 2012
Prescriptions For Health – 01/23/12
Should participation in vaccine trials be mandated? Mainstream and complementary/alternative medicine points of view Can your shower curtain make you fat? Practical advice for avoiding environmental toxins MD’s fail to order preventive health screening Meprobamate AKA Miltown or Equanil is recalled in Europe after 50 years Vicki’s 20:20 Tips: …
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Pepe Escobar – The Myth of “Isolated” Iran
Let’s start with red lines. Here it is, Washington’s ultimate red line, straight from the lion’s mouth. Only last week Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said of the Iranians, “Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they’re trying to develop a nuclear capability. And that’s what …
Support Family Farmers in Suit Against Monsanto
On January 31, family farmers will take part in the first phase of a court case filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s GMO seed, which can contaminate organic and non-GMO crops and expose their farmers to abusive lawsuits by Monsanto for patent infringement. The judge has agreed …
Rick Nauert – “Herd” Mentality Explained
A new research study sheds light on a behavior that is consistent among many species – that is, making decisions based upon the actions of others. Scientists at the University of Leeds believe they may have found why humans flock like sheep and birds, subconsciously following a minority of individuals. …
Mitt Romney’s TOP FIVE Tax Giveaways to the Rich
While much attention has focused on Mitt Romney’s own shockingly low tax rate — a 15 percent rate far lower than that paid by millions of middle class Americans, less attention has been paid to the details of his tax plan. It’s a plan that would slash taxes on the wealthiest Americans and …
John Pilger – The World War on Democracy
Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, …
The Natural Nurse – 01/23/12
Host Dr Eugene Zampieron, ND,www.drznaturally.com interviews Christopher Vasey, ND. Dr. Vasey joins us from Chamby-Montreux, Switzerland. He completed his naturopathic degree in Paris, and began private practice in 1979. Since 1994 he has written books with a spiritual approach to health and nature. Available only in French, the books discuss the mystery of …
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Robert Shiller – Does Austerity Promote Economic Growth?
In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in verse – a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption. What then happened? The Price …
What Women Must Know – 01/23/12
Anti-Aging Wisdom for Every Generation with Donna Gates Donna provides cutting-edge medical information, practical health advise and spiritual wisdom. Download this episode (right click and save) Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.9MB) | Embed
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Edible Microchips, Biometric Identity Systems And Mind Reading Computers
As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, will we someday find ourselves living in a “scientific dictatorship” where virtually everything that we do, say and think is monitored and controlled by technology? To many of you that may sound like a wild assertion, but just keep reading. Our …
Nearly 7 million bats may have died from white-nose fungus, officials say
More than five years since the deadly white-nose fungus was first detected in a New York cave where bats hibernate, up to 6.7 million of the animals are estimated to have died in 16 states and Canada, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday. The estimate, drawn from surveys by …
Dean Baker – A Heaping Helping of Ridicule for the Fed, Please
In keeping with its policy of releasing transcripts with a five-year lag, the Federal Reserve Board just released the transcripts from its 2006 Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings. There is much there to cause pain and amusement. In the latter category, there is probably nothing that can beat Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner …
Big Agribusiness Influence Threatens to Override Public Interest in Greed Revolution
A new 30-page report that documents the growing influence of agribusiness on the multilateral food system and the lack of transparency in research funding has been released today by the international civil society organization ETC Group. The Greed Revolution: Mega Foundations, Agribusiness Muscle In On Public Goods presents three case …
Bill Quigley – Working and Poor in the USA
“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937 Millions of people in the …