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Vandana Shiva: Genetically Engineered Food and the Militarization of Agriculture (TWO of TWO)

By MariaOctober 21, 20142014GMOs, Organic Farming

REPEAT of The only recording of the 9/10/13 talk at IONS
We owe Vandana Shiva a huge debt of gratitude for having been one of the first to explain that modern trade agreements are no longer just about setting tariffs at the borders but rather increasingly global bills of rights that give corporations power over national laws and regulations, all in the name of maximizing their profits.
In this wide ranging Question and Answer exchange she explains the so-called investor – state suits before unaccountable trade tribunals where corporations can sue governments when they feel that their profits are being curtailed by state laws to protect health, safety, labor, the environment or other so-called obstacles to trade.
Shiva gives an update on the [ . . . ]

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Vandana Shiva: Genetically Engineered Food and the Militarization of Agriculture (ONE of TWO)

By MariaOctober 14, 20142014GMOs, Organic Farming

Rebroadcast of the only recording of the 9/10/13 talk at IONS
Dr. Vandana Shiva, trained in Physics with a dissertation on Quantum Theory; born in Dehradun, India, the daughter of a forest conservator and a farmer, is one of the great ecologists of our time. She has written over 20 books, including Water Wars: Pollution, Profits, and Privatization; Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge; Monocultures of the Mind; and The Violence of the Green Revolution.
Vandana Shiva has challenged for decades GMO corporations such as Monsanto, large hydro dam builders, and governments, including her own, on issues of agriculture, genetic engineering, deforestation, abuses of science and technology, and globalization. She has started a movement from her birthplace in the foothills of [ . . . ]

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Shut Down the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (TWO of TWO)

By MariaOctober 8, 20142014

Given what we know today about earthquakes and Tsunamis the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, roughly half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles, would NOT be built and licensed. Why, after Fukushima, Diablo Canyon continues to operate – and why it should be shut down – is being discussed in this program in a conversation between Harvey Wasserman, Rochelle Becker and David Lochbaum.
In last week’s program they covered seismic problems. On that evidence alone, they say, the plant needs to shut down. However there is more. In this part you will hear David Lochbaum make the case that Diablo Canyon has never complied with fire safety standards. And you will find out [ . . . ]

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Shut Down the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (ONE of TWO)

By MariaOctober 1, 20142014

Harvey Wasserman, Rochelle Becker and David Lochbaum
The former Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) inspector for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, Dr. Michael Peck, wrote a statement held secret by the NRC until recently that seismic, tsunami and fire issues at the plant are so serious that Diablo Canyon needs to shut down until they are fixed. The NRC and the owner, Pacific Gas and Electric, disagree in their September 10, 2014, statements. Mark Satorius, the NRC’s executive director for operations said that there were no immediate seismic issues at Diablo Canyon, located on the ocean near San Luis Obispo, California.
Harvey Wasserman discusses with two anti nuclear experts, Rochelle Becker and David Lochbaum, why the plant is operating today. [ . . . ]

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

By MariaSeptember 23, 20142014

This is the second half of an hour with Harvard Climate Scientist David Keith, author of the book A Case for Climate Engineering. He says global warming and CO2 pollution have become so severe that dramatic measures have to be applied by 2020. He is suggesting spraying particles from airplanes into the stratosphere to create a haze that will cool the planets by reducing solar radiation.
He denies that spraying from airplanes has already begun and warns that this form of Solar Radiation Management, SRM, has the power to suddenly change the earth’s climate. The impacts – he says – will be different from country to country and North to South and can lead to war when some countries engineer the [ . . . ]

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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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