Eric’s Sounds of Jazz – 06/01/12
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June 1, 2012
A Bowl of Soul – 06/01/12
June is Black Music Month Mas Que Nada – Sergio Mendes & Brasil’66 – Bossa Nova/Jazz – 1966 Manteca Theme – Dizzy Gillespie – Afro Cuban Jazz – 1954 How High The Moon – Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz – 1958 Get On Up – The Esquires – R&B – 1967 …
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The Vinyl Experience – 06/01/12
Sgt Pepper’s Birthday 6/1 Jimi Hendrix: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band George Burns: With A Little Help From My Friends Elton John: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds Status Quo/Kaiser Chiefs: Getting Better Hue & Cry: Fixing A Hole Bryan Ferry: She’s Leaving Home Frank Sidebottom/Eddie Izzard/Burnkit2600: Being For …
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Pure Imagination – 06/01/12
On this episode of Pure Imagination, we have Fateh Singh, Maritte Papic from Occupy Yoga, who talk to us about their practice with Kundalini Yoga and meditation for social change. Plus music by Charles Manson and Daniel Johnston. Yippee! Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.4MB) | Embed
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Karen Dolan – Disgusting: 7 Million Kids and Mothers Suffer Extreme Poverty in the Richest Country in the World
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Georgetown law professor Peter Edelman, to discuss his decades of anti-poverty work and his new book, So Rich So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty In America. Peter Edelman was legislative aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and accompanied Kennedy on …
Radio Free Science – 06/01/12
Celia Farber interviews author Liam Scheff about the fallacies of Darwinism and his new book “Official Stories.” liamscheff.com You can purchase Liam’s book here, with discount code 8FQRZ3S2 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (12.1MB) | Embed
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Karl Grossman – Nuclear Rubberstamp Commission
The resignation last week of the chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is another demonstration of the bankrupt basis of the NRC. Gregory Jaczko repeatedly called for the NRC to apply “lessons learned” from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant disaster in Japan. And, for that, the nuclear industry — …
Ray McGovern – The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’
In an extraordinary article in Tuesday’s New York Times, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” authors Jo Becker and Scott Shane throw macabre light on the consigliere-cum-priestly role that counterterrorist adviser John Brennan provides President Barack Obama At the outset, Becker and Shane note that, although …
Gavin Aronsen – No Disclosure, Please, We’re Contractors
Earlier this month, the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee approved the Keeping Politics Out of Federal Contracting Act [1] (KPOFCA), which would prohibit the government from forcing federal contractors to disclose campaign spending and lobbying expenditures as a condition for keeping their contracts. In response, 14 watchdog groups are urging senators [2] to block …
Danny Weil – The Washington Post, PBS and the Koch-Funded American Enterprise Institute Attack Community Colleges
There has been an interesting spate of “news” recently regarding the nation’s public community colleges. The timing of articles appearing in March and April seem suspicious as they all follow on the heels of the defeat of California Assembly Bill 515, which would have partially privatized the California community college …
Michael A. Smith, MD – Is Processed Fructose Stealing Your Smarts?
A new study from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) shows that what you eat can influence how you think. Specifically, the researchers were worried about all of the fructose in the American diet. They reported that eating a diet heavy in processed fructose over the long term alters your …
Exercise and a Healthy Diet of Fruits and Vegetables Extends Life Expectancy in Women in Their 70s
Women in their seventies who exercise and eat healthy amounts of fruits and vegetables have a longer life expectancy, according to research published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Researchers at the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University studied 713 women aged 70 to 79 years who took …
One in six cancers ’caused by treatable infections’
Bacteria, viruses and parasites cause around 2m cases of cancer in the world each year, experts believe. Of the 7.5m global deaths from cancer in 2008, an estimated 1.5m may have been due to potentially preventable or treatable infections. Scientists carried out a statistical analysis of cancer incidence to calculate that around …
Report: ‘Leading’ Companies Mislead Public on Climate Change Policies
Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists released an analysis of 28 ‘leading’ US companies who publicly express concern about climate change but, behind closed doors, support thinktanks and other groups that misrepresent climate science, exposing major differences between what they say and what they actually do regarding climate change. Looking …
Jeff Cox – Time Bomb? Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt
US and European regulators are essentially forcing banks to buy up their own government’s debt—a move that could end up making the debt crisis even worse, a Citigroup analysis says. Regulators are allowing banks to escape counting their country’s debt against capital requirements and loosening other rules to create a …