Eric’s Sounds of Jazz – 05/10/12
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May 11, 2012
A Bowl of Soul – repeat program – 05/04/12
Tom Cat – Muddy Waters – Blues – 1968Take Out Your False Teeth Daddy – Margie Day – R&B – 1953The Daylighters – Cool Breeze – R&B – 1962Rolling Down The Mountainside – The Main Ingredient – R&B – 1975That Ain’t The Way (You Make Love) – Reggie Garner – …
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The Vinyl Experience – 05/11/12
For Adam Yauch. “Adam’s Boutique”: Songs sampled on Beastie Boys Tunes Beastie Boys: Cookie Puss Steve Martin: My Real Name Issac Hayes: Walk From Reggios Billy Preston: Nothin From Nothin Blues Project: Flute Thing Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced Curtis Mayfield: Superfly Sweet: Into The Night Isley Brothers: That Lady …
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Stephen Lendman – Predatory Capitalism Failed
Listen to Stephen every Thursday @ 11am and Saturday & Sunday at 1pm (All Eastern Time) on his show “The Progressive Radio Hour.” Independent observers knew it long ago. Today’s global economic crisis provides added confirmation. In 2008, a staunch champion of the system expressed second thoughts. More on him below. An …
Ralph Nader – The Greediness of Brain Drain
The phrase “brain drain” used to mean, in the 1950s and ‘60s, the flight of professionally-trained people from dictatorships to find opportunity in the U.S. and other Western countries. Now “brain drain” is used in American media to mean an active U.S. government policy to attract foreign entrepreneurs, scientists, physicians, …
Martha Rosenberg – Processed Foods: 9 Things You Need to Know About the Food You Eat
Thanks to factory farming’s massive economies of scale, a lot of food today is disgusting or cruel or disgusting and cruel. Just when people stopped talking about cantaloupes with deadly listeria, “pink slime” hit the news. And just when people stopped talking about pink slime, ground beef treated with ammonia …
Russ Belville – Sativex (pharmaceutical marijuana) approved in ten more European countries
You want medical marijuana? Big Pharma is more than willing to sell it to you… International expansion of UK firm GW Pharma’s cannabis-based spray Sativex is well underway after a further 10 European countries recommended approval of the drug for multiple sclerosis patients. Health Authorities in Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, …
Leeann Brown – Chemical Agriculture Goes to the Mattresses: A Short History of the Pesticide Lobby
The U.S. Department of Agriculture began testing fruits and vegetables for pesticide residues in 1991 after the public became concerned about their potential risks to children. Remember Alar? In 1993, at the request of Congress, several top public health experts released a seminal report, Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children. …
Rady Ananda – New study: Amish prove raw milk promotes health in children
An international team of researchers recently confirmed that children who drink fresh milk – unprocessed and unpasteurized – have a better immune response to allergens and are far less likely to develop asthma. Researchers from Indiana, Switzerland, and Germany ran surveys and tests on Swiss and US children aged 6-12 …
John Feffer – Waiting for Copernicus: On the Slow-Death of Neoliberalism
It’s happening in Buenos Aires. It’s happening in Paris and in Athens. It’s even happening at the World Bank headquarters. The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last three decades. Europeans are rejecting austerity. Latin Americans are nationalizing enterprises. The next head of …
Andre Damon – Obama’s jobs program: A laundry list of corporate handouts
On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama made his first speech on economic policy since the official start of his reelection campaign, calling on Congress to enact a list of corporate handouts in the name of “creating jobs.” Obama kicked off his proposals with a right-wing tribute to the profit system, …
US Military Taught Officers: ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics For ‘Total War’ On Islam
The U.S. military has been teaching its future leaders that a “total war” against the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims will be necessary to protect America from terrorists, according to documents released today in a stunning story in Wired’s Danger Room. A cartoon included in the Joint Staff Forces College presentation …
Paige Aarhus – Africa’s Frankenfoods
In the sprawling hills of the Kangundo district in Kenya’s Eastern Province, just a few hours outside of capital city Nairobi, Fred Kiambaa has been farming the same small, steep plot of land for more than 20 years. Born and raised just outside Kathiini Village in Kangundo, Kiambaa knows the …
Pure Imagination – 05/11/12
On this episode of Pure Imagination, we had Mike Thompson from Deep Green Resistance, talk to us about their new unique movement. Lots of current events! Music by Karen Dalton, Chaka Khan and Rufus and Lemon Pipers. Lots of fun! Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.9MB) | Embed
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James Hansen – Game Over for the Climate
Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do If Canada proceeds, and we …