2014

Professor David Keith: A Case for Climate Engineering (ONE of TWO)

By MariaSeptember 17, 20142014

Harvard Climate Scientist David Keith makes the case that global warming and CO2 pollution have become so severe that dramatic measures have to be researched immediately and applied by 2020. He is suggesting spraying particles from airplanes into the stratosphere to create a haze that will reduce solar radiation.
He names possible substances, including aluminum. However, his material of choice is sulfuric acid because it mimics volcanic explosions. He admits that such global intervention will damage the life protecting ozone layer, cause droughts and floods and will do nothing to resolve the expanding damage to the planet by still rising CO2 emissions.

He says that we need to artificially cool the earth because we are too slow to cut back on CO2 [ . . . ]

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Poisoning the Sky (TWO of TWO)

By MariaSeptember 10, 20142014

Geoengineering with Chemtrails – A community investigates and fights back
For several years the IPCC and the British Royal Society have shown images of air planes spraying into the atmosphere and call it Solar Radiation Management, SRM. In fact spraying from airplanes is one of the best loved methods of SRM proponents because it is so cheap. However they claim that the program is not yet being deployed. In part one you heard from residents of Shasta County in Northern California. They began testing rain and snow after spraying events and found chemical that only appear after airplane activity has obscured the sky. They are beginning to name the chemicals in chemtrails, among them aluminum, barium and strontium. For that they [ . . . ]

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Poisoning the Sky (ONE of TWO)

By MariaSeptember 10, 20142014

Geoengineering with Chemtrails – A community investigates and fights back
On July 15, 2014, residents of Shasta County in remote Northern California took unprecedented action before their Board of Supervisors. They were giving testimony on a phenomenon of recent years: the appearance of lingering white trails in the sky above, that join to create a haze; and on their discovery that after these hazings rain, snow and surface water in ponds contain toxic chemicals, among them aluminum. They brought the issue before the Shasta County Supervisors as a matter of public health and an issue of citizen’s right to know.
Residents submitted test data from California licensed labs showing the presence of aluminum, barium and strontium in snow and rainwater after hazing [ . . . ]

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Harvey Wasserman: From Fukushima to Solartopia! (TWO of TWO)

By MariaAugust 26, 20142014

How the Green-Powered Earth Revolution can defeat King Cong, Coal, Oil, Nukes and Gas
Long-time no nukes activist Harvey Wasserman said he was honored to speak to a full hall at the Unitarian Universalists Fellowship in Berkeley, CA, on Hiroshima Day 2014. Here is the culmination of his one hour talk. From his first direct engagement against nuclear power in 1973, the defeat of two reactors in the Montague Valley of Massachusetts, 4 miles from his organic farm, to his outspoken truth telling about Fukushima, Harvey Wasserman has been an anti nuclear campaigner and a pioneer of renewable energy.
At the same time he has been researching and monitoring the nuclear industry and their criminal accidents in his dozen books and [ . . . ]

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Harvey Wasserman: From Fukushima to Solartopia! (ONE of TWO)

By MariaAugust 19, 20142014

How the Green-Powered Earth Revolution can defeat King Cong: Coal, Oil, Nukes and Gas
Only someone who worked tirelessly to defeat nuclear power for over 40 years and has not stopped to this day – someone who lived and built a renewable energy utopia for the same 40 years – can take the frightening topic of Fukushima and give energy for a way out. Harvey Wasserman says that we are in the fight for our lives. We must and can build the green powered earth before the next nuclear meltdown. In this Hiroshima Day 2014 speech he lays out how it can be done.
Harvey Wasserman lived on an organic farm in Massachusetts when he and his community prevented a nuclear power [ . . . ]

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, Arjun Makhijani (Part TWO of TWO)

By MariaAugust 12, 20142014

Hiroshima Day Archival Special
In common history Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima represent the beginning and the end events of World War II suggesting that the attack on Pearl Harbor forced the US into war and the bombing of Hiroshima saved the lives of up to one million US soldiers who might have been killed in an invasion of Japan. With help from long ignored or classified information Arjun Makhijani re-analyzes both events. This talk, given to Nuke Free Now in August 2012 near the Los Alamos Weapons Lab, presents thought provoking information about why and how nuclear weapons were developed and who really was in control of their use.
Makhijani asks how it had been possible to exclude almost all military and [ . . . ]

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From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, Arjun Makhijani (Part ONE of TWO)

By MariaAugust 5, 20142014

Hiroshima Day Archival Special
Disarmament is more urgently needed now that nuclear weapons have spread far beyond the original weapons states and there are even voices in Japan’s parliament today that call for nuclear weapons. And Makhijani shows that we can only find the path back from the abyss if we are clear and honest about how nuclear weapons were invented and first used. And there is much information in this talk that has been shunned or kept secret.
Questions raised in this part are: Why was the US fleet moved from San Diego to Pearl Harbor? Does the Japanese attack have anything to do with the US oil embargo? What were the original goals of the Manhattan Project and why and [ . . . ]

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Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (ONE of TWO)

By MariaJuly 29, 20142014

– a classic from the film on radio archives of TUC Radio.
At age 22 Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a feminist economist. The film traces her quest to explore how the fate of women and of the earth are irrevocably tied up with the deadly pursuit of economic growth.
Marilyn Waring is the author of a book on women in the world economy entitled: “If Women Counted” to this day a persuasive and vivid argument against endless economic [ . . . ]

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Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (TWO of TWO)

By MariaJuly 29, 20142014

– a classic from the film on radio archives of TUC Radio
Marilyn Waring was only 22 when she was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament. She was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment. This segment opens with war. Under the GDP accounting system war is the biggest growth industry of all. A segment recorded in the Philippines shows that the labor [ . . . ]

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The Story of Aaron Swartz – Film on Radio (ONE of ONE)

By MariaJuly 16, 20142014

This program is based on the soundtrack of the 2014 movie: The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz. His death at age 26 in 2013 made the internet light up with grief and also anger at a judicial system that haunted and hunted him. He was facing 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for bulk-downloading from a site, JSTOR, that was freely available to Massachusetts Institute of Technology students.
“Aaron’s story touched a nerve with people far beyond the online communities in which he was a celebrity” said director, Brian Knappenberger. “This is the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his [ . . . ]

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Citizen Koch – A film on radio production

By MariaJuly 10, 20142014

Filmmakers Tia Lessen and Carl Deal worked with Michael Moore on Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, and made a movie, Trouble the Water, on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. They made plans to deal with money in politics and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision when in early 2011 a grassroots rebellion began in Wisconsin.
The newly elected governor Scott Walker, deeply funded by money from the Koch brothers, had proposed eliminating bargaining rights for public employees. Tia Lessen and Carl Deal captured – over several months – one of the most inspiring social movements of our time and the first large scale rebellion against money in politics. The images of teachers, nurses and fire fighters occupying the State [ . . . ]

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No More Destruction of Historic Indian Villages (TWO of TWO)

By MariaJuly 2, 20142014Native Americans

The American Indian Spirit Run calls Attention to Caltrans and Global Construction Corporations  
Some people call this the David and Goliath story, Native Americans, farmers, environmentalists, school teachers and students, a sizable minority in a small former logging town of under 5,000 inhabitants in Northern California stand up against one of the most powerful agencies in any state, Caltrans, the California Department of Transportation. And against the multinational corporation behind Caltrans, Hochtief and its subsidiary Flatiron. Why Caltrans had to go across the ocean to hand taxpayer money to a freeway builder is a mystery. Unless you believe that only the corporation that built the Autobahn for Adolph Hitler has the credentials to do this very difficult job.
The $210 million plus [ . . . ]

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Yumi Kikuchi and Fukushima Kids, Hawaii (ONE of ONE)

By MariaJune 25, 20142014

(Part TWO of last week’s program on “No More Destruction of Historic Indian Villages” will run next week to include breaking news)
On June 11, 2014, a group of friends on the Mendocino coast met to welcome Yumi Kikuchi. She and her husband co-founded Fukushima Kids, Hawaii. Since children are most vulnerable to radiation Yumi and her husband Gen are bringing them, and even their mothers when they are very young, to Hawaii for healing periods of three or more weeks.
Yumi has for over 20 years worked on campaigns against nuclear power plants with Dr. Helen Caldicott and the artist and activist Mayumi Oda. That’s why she and her her husband immediately after the Fukushima accident decided to take [ . . . ]

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No More Destruction of Historic Indian Villages (ONE of TWO)

By MariaJune 18, 20142014Native Americans

An over 20 year resistance to a 6 mile four lane freeway bypass through protected wetlands in Northern California took an important turn. A meeting was held in June 2014 between Native American tribal leaders who see their ancient village sites bulldozed – and environmentalists who for so long had worked in vain to stop or at least downsize the project by lawsuits, appeals to politicians and to the agencies empowered to prevent wetland and salmon stream destruction.
The gathering was held on June 8, 2014, across from the so-called Northern Interchange in full view of the wasteland that was once verdant marshes and ash groves. Even though Caltrans had been given archeological maps of the 14 Little Lake Pomo trading [ . . . ]

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The Loss of West Antarctic Glaciers, FOUR of FOUR

By MariaJune 11, 20142014Antarctic, Climate Change

An Interview with Professor Chris Rapley
When NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, announced at a press conference on May 12, 2014, that the loss of the West Antarctic glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment appears unstoppable I asked Professor Chris Rapley for his comments. As former Director of the British Antarctic Survey it had been his job and expertise to know all aspects of Antarctic research.
Born and educated in Britain, Rapley became an international scientist. 40 years ago he began a six year term with NASA’s Solar Maximum Mission. Then he lectured at the Department of Space and Climate Physics of University College London from 1981 to 1987 and became Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) at [ . . . ]

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