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167 - Paying For Empire (A look at the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex)

2012-02-12T04:09:26Z

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{{Episode
|date=2003-05-17
|number=167
|title=Paying For Empire
|subtitle=A look at the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex
|image=167.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week, our main presentation is an in-depth look at the dollars costs of the US military machine. But first a couple of things directed at the question of why we in an ostensible democracy allow the government to throw our money at a bloated military while it denies us the things that would make our lives easier.
|description=The US has maintains a vast global military empire with bases in more than 120 countries, This empire is maintained in concert with a few dozen very large private corporations whose income comes almost exclusively from military contracts. This state of affairs has wide reaching impact on our domestic policies and arrangements that are seldom examined or even acknowledged. The collective deep pocket that pays the bill for this military-industrial complex, that is the average American taxpayer, has little idea what is being spent or how its being used. The military and its bottom line are above criticism - both political parties in Congress fall over themselves to fling the taxpayers' money at what is euphemistically called 'defense'.
|contributors=[[Joe Farahm Christopher Pyle]]
|credits=
}}

[[category:Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex]]

590 - The Power of Healthy Thoughts (Gut Feeling and The Placebo Effect)

2012-02-11T19:13:37Z

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{{Episode
|date=2012-02-11
|number=590
|title=The Power of Healthy Thoughts
|subtitle=Gut Feeling and The Placebo Effect
|image=590.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week, two angles on the mind-body connection which challenge the simplistic model of man as machine. First, [[Marc David]] speaks on the essential but often overlooked mental aspects of eating. Then we hear [[Ben Goldacre]] speaks on the placebo effect.
|description=In our first hour, [[Marc David]], author of ''The Slow Down Diet, Eating for Pleasure, Energy and Weight Loss'' challenges the idea of calorie controlled dieting. He highlights the presence fo neurons in the gut as evidence that digestion is a complex process that involves the whole person, in which mood and setting are important.

In our second hour we hear two radio shows on the placebo effect from the BBC Radio 4 series, ''Bad Science'' on the placebo effect. He starts by narrating on the history of the double blind trial. Then he reports on a wide variety of surprising results, establishing that different colors of placebo work better for different illnesses and that brand name placebos (or brand name aspirin) works better than generic ones.

|contributors=[[Marc David]], [[Ben Goldacre]]
|content={{mp3 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/590/DD030410.mp3 | name=Deconstructing Dinner | min=60 | author=Marc David}}
{{mp3 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/590/Placebo%201%20-%20Ben%20Goldacre.mp3 | name=The Placebo Effect (1) | min=28 | author=Ben Goldacre}}
{{mp3 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/590/Placebo%202%20-%20Ben%20Goldacre.ogg | name=The Placebo Effect (2) | min=26 | author=Ben Goldacre}}
|credits=Thanks to Coutney Coop Radio for The [[Deconstructing Dinner]] Podcast
}}

[[category:food]]
[[category:psychology]]
[[category:health]]

Bonnie Faulkner

2012-02-01T11:04:43Z

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{{Infobox Person
| name = Bonnie Faulkner
| image = Bonnie Faulkner.jpg
| image_size = 140px
| birth_date =
| known_for = Producing [[Guns and Butter]]
| website = http://www.GunsAndButter.org
| description = Independent Radio Journalist
}}

561 - $100,000,000 to Crack A Lone Nut? (Amerithrax, Gladio, 7/7 and The Conspiracy against Conspiracies)

2012-02-01T05:48:36Z

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{{Episode
|date=2011-07-23
|number=561
|title=$100,000,000 to Crack A Lone Nut?
|subtitle=Amerithrax, Gladio, 7/7 and The Conspiracy against Conspiracies
|image=561.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=Focusing on the Anthrax attacks of 2001 in the weeks after {{Sep11}}, we look at the deep state's policy of blaming its false flag attacks either on nebulous foreign terrorist groups, or, as a fallback, on a domestic 'lone nut'. [[Mark Crispin Miller]] speaks on the changing use of the term 'conspiracy theory', researcher [[Daniele Ganser]] on NATO's Operation Gladio, ex-UK police researcher [[Tony Farrell]] on 7/7, and researchers [[Meryl Nass]] and [[Graeme MacQueen]] on the 'Amerithrax' attacks.
|description=Our main focus this week is the most expensive case in the FBI's history, their $100,000,000 investigation (the results of which may never be completely released) into the mailing of Anthrax in the weeks after {{Sep11}}. How did that attack, intimately linked to the threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror at the time, get effectively decoupled from the events of {{Sep11}} and come to be blamed not on a Muslim, but on a 'lone nut', the late US anthrax specialist, Bruce Ivins?

We start with [[Mark Crispin Miller]] on the phrase 'conspiracy theory', became current since the 1960s, when books began to be published which cast doubt on the findings of the Warren Commission. He mentions a declassified CIA report of 1967-04-01 recommending the use of "propaganda assets and friends in the media" to counter suggestions of conspiracy within the state by using a set of 5 arguments commonly used today.

We continue with [[Tony Gosling]] interviewing [[Daniele Ganser]] on Operation Gladio, an international conspiracy organised within NATO. Although it has been admitted that NATO planted bombs resulting in hundreds of people being killed or injured, why has no one been called to account? After some comment from [[Martin Summers]], [[Tony Gosling]] interviews [[Tony Farrell]] piece, a former principal intelligence analyst for South Yorkshire police. Charged with investigating terrorist threats, he reported to his bosses that Islamic terrorism was not a great danger. On learning that he did not believe the official narrative that 7/7 was the work of Islamic fundamentalists, but thought it was a false flag attack, he was promptly dismissed, and is now fighting a case for unfair dismissal.

Next we look at the Anthrax attacks carried out in US in the weeks following {{Sep11}}. The [[category:FBI |FBI]] closed their investigation in 2010 after an expenditure of around $100,000,000. Their full report is secret, but they conclude it was the work of a 'lone nut' inside the US military machine, the late Bruce Ivins. We hear Scott Horton interviewing [[Meryl Nass]], an anthrax expert whose testimony contradicts the FBI's report. After introducing anthrax and relating her experience of Bruce Ivins she highlights some shortcomings of the FBI's report. She concludes that the most likely source of the anthrax attacks was a conspiracy within the US deep state, but that the FBI investigation was instructed to deliberately overlooked a lot of important evidence by 'somebody at a high level'. This continues for a few minutes into our second hour.

Our main piece this week is [[Bonnie Faulkner]]'s [[Guns and Butter]], ''Connecting the Anthrax attacks to 9/11''. This hour long interview looks at the structural, historical and symbolic approaches to understanding the 2001 Anthrax attacks. When they occurred, the 'Hollywood style' anti-Zionism and pro-Muslim cues helped the two attacks become part of a single threat in the public mind - and Anthrax was sent not to random US politicians, but to those who were vocal in championing civil liberties against the [[:category:Patriot_Act|'Patriot Act']]. At the time, claims were made of evidence suggesting that foreign terrorists were behind the attacks, but the claim that Islamic terrorists were responsible quickly collapsed as evidence emerged that the form of Anthrax used was heavily suggestive of a source inside the [[:category:Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex |US military machine]].

|contributors=[[Mark Crispin Miller]], [[Tony Gosling]], [[Daniele Ganser]], [[Martin Summers]], [[Tony Farrell]], [[Meryl Nass]], [[Graeme MacQueen]]
|content={{mp3 | url=http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/50644/56796/71180/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/johnschwenk@juno.com/140-1-03_Failure_to_Report_Panel_96kbps.mp3 | name=Failure to Report Panel | min=57 | author=[[Mark Crispin Miller]]}}
{{mp3 | url=http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/53018/59355/73503/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk/2149-1-20110708180001.mp3 | name=Yorkshire police analyst: 7/7 was an inside job & NATO's Secret Armies| min=26 | author=[[Tony Gosling]], [[Daniele Ganser]], [[Martin Summers]], [[Tony Farrell]]}}
{{mp3 | url=http://dissentradio.com/radio/10_03_09_nass.mp3 | name=Scott Horton Interview | min=26 | author=[[Meryl Nass]]}}
{{mp3 | url=http://archives.kpfa.org/data/20110720-Wed1300.mp3 | name=Connecting the Anthrax Attacks to September 11th | min=60 | author=[[Graeme MacQueen]]}}
|credits=Thanks to [[Bonnie Faulkner]] from [[Guns and Butter]] for the [[Graeme MacQueen]] interview, to [[Tony Gosling]] for the interviews from [[Bristol Broadband Collective]], and to [[Scott Horton]] for the [[Meryl Nass]] interview.
}}

[[category:False_Flags]]
[[category:2001-09-11]]
[[category:2005-07-07]]
[[category:Amerithrax]]
[[category:FBI]]
[[category:NATO]]

585 - Institutionalizing Wage Slavery (Plutocracy, Money and Society)

2012-02-01T05:36:27Z

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{{Episode
|date=2012-01-07
|number=585
|title=Institutionalizing Wage Slavery
|subtitle=Plutocracy, Money and Society
|image=585.jpg
|image_caption=
|summary=This week, a range of voices on the topic of wage slavery. In our first hour, a [[Wendell Berry]] reading, ''The Ecological Crisis as A Crisis of Character'', a short video on fiat money, and ''A Brief History of Plutocracy'' by [[Robin Upton]]. In hour 2, the soundtrack of a video parable about big government, followed by continued reading of David Graeber's [[Debt, The First 5000 Years]].
|description=We start this week's show by reading chapter 2 of Wendell Berry's
''The Unsettling of America''. His broad social critique addresses issues such as the disabling impact of professionalisation and the perverseness of organisations which are centred around money. Next, a short video clip about Fiat money, which serves as introduction to the soundtrack of [[Robin Upton]]'s presentation to the 28th Chaos Communications Congress on the [http://altruists.org/ae901 History of Plutocracy], tracing the origins of the plutocractic class, highlighting the Rothschild Formula we looked at in episode [[577]] and how the super rich have used the organs of the state to try to cement their control.

In our second hour, we hear the soundtrack of ''Freetopia'', a video parable by Mike Adams, about citizens' urgent need to resist big government, especially in areas such as health. We conclude the show by returning to the [[David Graeber]] reading on the history of slavery.
|contributors=[[Wendell Berry]] (reading), [[Robin Upton]], [[Mike Adams]], [[David Graeber]] (reading)
|content=* [http://altruists.org/ae901 AE901 - A Brief History of Plutocracy] (19 slides) [[Robin Upton]]
{{mp3 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/585/TheUnsettlingofAmerica-Chapter2_64kb.mp3 | name=The Ecological Crisis as A Crisis of Character | min=28 | author=Wendell Berry}}
{{mp4 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/585/Freetopia%20-%20A%20video%20fable%20about%20what%20went%20wrong.mp4 | name=Freetopia - A video fable about what went wrong | min=20 | author=Mike Adams}}
{{mp4 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/585/28c3%20-%20A%20Brief%20History%20of%20Plutocracy.mp4 | name=28c3 - A Brief History of Plutocracy | min=27 | author=Robin Upton}}
{{mp4 | url=http://UnwelcomeGuests.net/archive/585/Fiat%20Money.mp4 | name=Fiat Money | min=4 | author=http://www.FourHorsemenFilm.com}}
|credits=Thanks to http://www.FourHorsemenFilm.com for the trailer
}}

[[category:inequity]]
[[category:money]]
[[category:wage Slavery]]