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January 11, 2013

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Eric’s Sounds of Jazz – Bechet Ballads – 01/11/13

Show #20 – Bechet Ballads – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (50.3MB) | Embed

A Bowl of Soul – 01/11/13

You Got To Have A Job – Marva Whitney and James Brown – Funk – 1969I’m Just Thinking About (Coolin Out) – Jerry Butler – R&B – 1984Take Care Your Homework – Johnny Taylor – R&B – 1969Oh No Not My Baby – Aretha Franklin – R&B – 1970My Man …

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Vinyl Experience – Beatles and Stones – 01/11/13

House Of Love: Beatles and The Stones Beady Eye: Beatles And Stones Delaney Bramlett: Are You A Beatle Or A Rolling Stone? Captain Beefhart : Beatle Bones ‘N’ Smoking Stones Paul Simon: A Simple Desultory Phillipic The Clash: 1977 The Clash: London Calling Candy Slice (Gilda Radner): Gimmie Mick Nils …

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Exploration – Your Inner Fish – 01/11/13

Charles Seife: Sun in a Bottle, about fusion power’s promise for the future. Neil Shufin: Your inner fish, about our evolution from fish.           – Podcast: Play in new window | Download (13.4MB) | Embed

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Wake Up Call – Who Controls America? – 01/11/13

The overwhelming onslaught of rules and regulations is yet another factor rendering America unfit for human life! This trend would surely have been very hard to predict fifty years ago yet it is part of your daily lives in the U.S. today. Several examples of the invasive intrusions into your …

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Leid Stories – Oh Bummer: The President Disappoints – 01/11/13

From his white-male-dominated insider Cabinet to his intent to bypass Congress and legislate by executive order, it’s been rough going for President Barack Obama. But he deserves it. For, the man who (once again) sold himself to a distressed electorate as their standard bearer is proving himself to be a …

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The Gary Null Show – Solar Outbursts – 01/11/13

The role of solar outbursts in our ancient past and their effect on early civilizations   Dr. Robert M. Schoch is a professor of geology at the College of General Studies at Boston University where he has taught since 1984, after receiving his doctorate in geophysicists from Yale. Prof Schoch …

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Mass extinction forecast with 6C temperature rise

  Hobbit-sized humans, able to exist on less nourishing food, will have the best chance of survival in a warmer world, scientists say. LONDON, 7 January – Animals, including humans, will shrink in size to survive in a warming world, according to scientists studying the last time the planet’s temperature rose …

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Ray McGovern — The Grilling that Brennan Deserves

As Washington’s pundit class sees it, Defense Secretary-designee Chuck Hagel deserves a tough grilling over his hesitancy to go to war with Iran and his controversial detection of a pro-Israel lobby operating in the U.S., but prospective CIA Director John Brennan should get only a few polite queries about his …

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Bernie Sanders — The Soul of America

  Despite such terminology as “fiscal cliff” and “debt ceiling,” the great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do with financial issues. It is all about ideology. It is all about economic winners and losers in American society. It is all about the power of Big …

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How To Win The War For Your Mind

All battles, all wars, all fistfights and bar brawls, all conflicts in every place and in every time (except those conflicts in which both sides answer to the same puppeteer) begin and end as battles of the mind. No struggle is determined on strength of arms alone. In fact, the …

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Food System Fail: Up to Half of World’s Food Wasted

Up to half of all food produced in the world is wasted, according to a new report, which also implicates wasteful practices in the global food system that squander the planet’s water. The report released Thursday, Global Food: Waste Not, Want Not (.pdf), from the UK-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers notes …

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US Health Worse Than Nearly All Other Industrialized Countries

citizens suffer from poorer health than nearly all other industrialized countries, according to the first comprehensive government analysis on the subject, released Wednesday. Of 17 high-income countries looked at by a committee of experts sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the United States is at or near the bottom …