Robert Neimeyer, PhD, an expert in grief and bereavement, shares profound insights with me on the nature of loss and how to integrate it into our emotional and spiritual lives. This moving hour is about life itself. – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (11.2MB) | Embed
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Author and climate advocate Chris Mooney-The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science and Reality-joins Climate Crock’s Peter Sinclair to discuss the political fallout of Super Storm Sandy and prospects for moving the Congressional conversation forward to include the prospect of a carbon tax. Next a scientist who has …
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Dr. Rasmus provides updates to the Fiscal Cliff negotiations in Washington over the past week, since his in depth analysis in last week’s show. He then discusses the important connections between the ‘Cliff’, the distorted US tax system, and the three decades of growing Income Inequality in the U.S. – …
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“The People’s Attorney,” Alton H. Maddox Jr., for decades a legal strategist and litigator of precedent-setting criminal and civil-rights cases in New York City and in the South, discusses a range of issues with Utrice Leid in the first of a series of wide-ranging interviews. Related articles Leid Stories …
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The push in the US for GMO industry to dominate our food supply Mr. Kimbrell is both the Executive Director of the International Center for Technology Assessment and the Executive Director of the Center for Food Safety. He is one of the country’s leading environmental attorneys, and an author of …
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What exactly is it that Israel intends to do with the Palestinians now in the territories that it has just opened for home construction for Jewish settlers, thereby extending its policy of occupying and annexing what are legally Palestinian lands? The U.N. General Assembly’s overwhelming vote last week to grant …
Secret information on counter-terrorism shared by foreign governments may have been compromised by a massive data theft by a senior IT technician for the NDB, Switzerland’s intelligence service, European national security sources said. Intelligence agencies in the United States and Britain are among those who were warned by Swiss authorities …
When the smartest guys in the room designed their credit default swaps, they forgot to ask one thing – what if the parties on the other side of the bet don’t have the money to pay up? Credit default swaps (CDS) are insurance-like contracts that are sold as protection against default …
Whenever I speak about the systematic abridgment of basic rights in the post-9/11 era, there is a point I try to make that is quite elusive yet, in my view, of unparalleled significance in understanding the implications of allowing this to happen. When a government is permitted to transgress the …
Industry leaders will have no problem closing nuclear reactors that don’t generate expected profits. Exelon, the Chicago-based company that owns 17 of the 104 U.S. reactors, recently saw its stock price drop below $30 a share, the same level as mid-2003, and a whopping 70% below its peak of over …
Most progressives have long embraced a clear alternative to the conservative story that prosperity flows best from a “free market” unfettered by government regulation and taxes. The standard progressive response: government incentives and spending are essential to spur the creation of jobs, and unions and regulations can make them “good jobs.” President …
On today’s Connect the Dots health, food, and environmental journalist whose blogs appear on the Huffington Post and Alternet speaks with Larry Schweiger- President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation about climate change and the climate cliff. Related articles Connect The Dots – Sandy and Climate Change – 11/14/12 …
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On October 2nd 2012, world farm animals day, three animal rights activists in Israel got branded with a hot steel brand, in the same way farm animals are branded in factory farms. See more footage of this demo: http://www.269life.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/269calf Thanks to Flori Saban
Both the White House and House Republicans, publicly at least, are digging in their heels deeper and deeper in the so-called negotiations over what we call, alternately, the fiscal cliff, the fiscal slope, the austerity bomb, or the cable-talk-show topic of last resort. Whatever logic either side pretends to have …
This is not a sci-fi fantasy, it is real. Our personal DNA and the DNA of just about every living organism on the planet is being changed in ways that we cannot even imagine through the process of horizontal or lateral gene transfer, courtesy of the biotechnology industry and geo-engineering programs. …