Show #47
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008To listen to the podcast immediately, just scroll down to the bottom and hit the play button.
This week, Mitchel reads the first half of “The Secret Bailout of J.P. Morgan: How Insider Trading Looted Bear Stearns and the American Taxpayer”, an extremely informative article by Ellen Brown, http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/banking-bailout.php , which holds that far from “rescuing” Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan Chase — one of the largest banks in the world — had a hand in intentionally sinking Bear Stearns’ stock and STOLE that company with the help of a $55 billion loan from the Federal Reserve. But before that, Mitchel discusses the news items, below.
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***Mohawk elders beaten and hospitalized at Canadian border. Read article at http://narcosphere.narconews.com/ and send letters of protest to:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper harper.s@parl.gc.ca
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty mcguinty.D@parl.gc.ca
United Nations unat@un.org
Indian Affairs Minister Strahl.c@parl.gc.ca
Brantford Mayor Michael Hancock 519-759-3330 nborowicz@brantford.ca
Ontario Attorney General 416-326-2220 or 1-800-518-7901
Minister Ontario Aboriginal Affairs Michael Bryant Lars.Eedy@ontario.ca ;
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Mitchel continues his discussion of the death of the world’s oceans, today focusing on dozens of dolphins who beached themselves and died in England, as a result of British military operations in their waters. Story from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/06/10/eadolphin410.xml
Also:
- Rhode Island School to implant computer chips in students’ bags
http://www.naturalnews.com/023445.html
- Kids born in Los Angeles will have breathed 344 times more toxic air by the time they are 18 years old than the EPA considers acceptable for lifetime exposure.
http://counterpunch.org
- Pinkwashing: Corporations seduce us into buying, buying, buying …. to supposedly fight against breast cancer.
http://www.prwatch.org/node/7436
- Sign a new petition to the presidential candidates demanding that they endorse a new treaty banning cluster bombs signed by 111 nations (but not the U.S.) http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1493/t/2765/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2214
MUSIC:
The Neville Brothers, With God on Our Side (Dylan)
Sweet Honey in the Rock, Wanting Memories
Hoyt Axton, Epistle
OPENING THEME:
Mario Savio, Berkeley, 1964
Jefferson Airplane, Volunteers
Save New York City’s Parks from its Predatory Mayor, Mike Bloomberg!
<http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com” target=_blankhttp://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com/>http://www.washingtonsquarepark.wordpress.com
Rejin Ley’s blog on ecology and urban environment
<http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/” target=_blankhttp://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/>http://urbanbotany.blogspot.com/
And, send in your own songs, poems and ideas to
mitchelcohen@mindspring.com
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Order a copy of Mitchel Cohen’s two Poetry Books:
One-Eyed Cat Takes Flight, and
The Permanent Carnival
both available for $14 + $1.81 each in stamps
beautiful artwork on the covers painted by Haideen Anderson.
write to MitchelCohen@mindspring.com (or paypal to that address)
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