Altered Egos
April 2 2011 Review of News, Various Audio Clips From Around the World
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We begin the programme with a review of news, then move to audio clips on real estate bubble in China, the destructive aims of big pharma, brutal repression of teachers and the popular resistance in Honduras and word to Obama from Mr. Farrakhan.
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March 26 2011 Review of News, G-20 Policing Threat, Libyan No Fly Program is Illegal, Safety of U.S. Nuclear Industry, SLAPP Action in Quebec
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We begin the show with a review of news. The first audio clip will be about the G-20 policing fiasco from Toronto last summer, then we’ll hear a discussion of the push to steal Libyan oil, questions about the safety of the nuclear industry in the United States, the illegality of bombing Libya, and end with a SLAPP legal action in Quebec.
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March 19 2011 Review of News, Media Minutes, Planned Obsolence, Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel, UN NO FLY Zone over Libya
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Welcome to Altered Egos for March 19, 2011,
I’m Bob Hansen. We’ll begin the show with a review of news, and then we’ll hear the series Media Minutes, then we’ll hear a clip called the Light Bulb Conspiracy on industrial planned obsolescence, followed by a clip on the problems related to storage of spent nuclear fuel. We’ll close out the show with a clip on the United Nations’ sanctioned no-fly zone over areas in Libya in order to protect civilians.
March 12 2011 Review of News, G20 Policing Scandal Investigations,Food Commodities Have Moved Into the Stock Market,Hydro Rate Increases
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We begin the program with a review of news, and then we’ll hear a clip with an interview on Alert Radio of the Chief of the Fireweed Clan in British Columbia and his people’s position on the Enbridge Bi-Directional Pipeline project. Then we’ll hear several clips on the outcome of investiations into the actions of the police in Toronto during last summers’ G-20 fiasco. Next we’ll hear how the stock market has moved into the food sector with resultant record tying global food price increases. We’ll also hear a section from Media Minutes on the internet laws developing in the United States.
We’ll close the program with clips on a recent movie on John Lennon and an overview of skyrocketing hydro rates in B.C. as presented by John Calvert.
March 5 2011 Review of News, Annie Leonard on Democracy, Destruction of Faculty Unions in Ohio, Vancouver Womens Film Festival, Film Inside Job, Recent Financial Fraud
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We begin the program with a review of news, then we’ll hear Annie Leonard, the animator who created the ‘Story of Stuff’, with her latest project on Democracy. Next will be the Ohio Bill 5 that will destroy faculty unions, and then a clip about how this struggle that began in Wisconsin is now going national, as the American states begin implementing the austerity program that was agreed upon during the G20 meeting in Toronto last summer. Then a clip on the Vancouver Womens Film Festival, followed by a proposal to build the largest casino in western Canada in the city of Vancouver. Next will be a clip from the Academy Award winning documentary film ‘Inside Job’, and then some more information on the recent devastating financial fraud and the pursuit for justice against the perpetrators of this theft, and we’ll finish the show with clips on the revolutions in the Middle East.
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Feb 26 2011 Review of News, Media Minutes, Julian Assange Speaks Freely, Infectious Egyptian Revolution and Iran
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We begin the program with a review of news. Our first audio is from Media Minutes a part of which will explain the hugely successful Stop the Meter campaign in Canada, next we’ll hear three clips ‘who owns the rain?’, residue in fluoride purchased from China for water treatment in the U.S. and then a pre-9/11 protest clip about the Amtrak rail passenger ticket information system being linked to the Drug Enforcement Agency and those staff to enable the DEA to better speculate on who should be searched. Then a clip on democracy and the battle in Wisconsin. Next a clip from Kapput radio described as: Wiki Leaks, J.Assange, B Manning, Daniel Elsberg, Julian Burnside, "The Establishment", bbc news quiz excerpt, and more - collaged together with music from Paris Acid Reflux, John Lennon - Beatles - electronica - world music – samples. We’ll finish the day with two clips on the situation in the middle east.
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Feb 19 2011 Review of News, British Columbia Water Extraction Policy,B.C. Seniors Health Care Private vs Public,Wall Street Crooks Escape,Egyptian Revolution
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We’ll begin the first hour with a review of news.
Our first audio clip will be about water extraction in British Columbia, then we’ll hear about seniors health care. Next will be two clips on security certificates in Canada, a few clips on the economic disaster that came out of wall street and what has not been done about it. We’ll end the show with some audio on the Egyptian revolution.
Feb 12 2011 Review of News, Media Minutes, Ben Livingston and Weather Weapons, Richard Wolff on false economic recovery
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After a review of news, we hear the latest Media Minutes and they present questions about major media story focuses as represented in the new book 'Project Censored' and the experiment this April where adults and children are encouraged to turn off their computers, TVs and monitors for one full week. Next is a clip on digital cameras and their ability to place geographic data in the picture information and thus pin point exactly where the picture was taken. Then we hear Ben Livingston (in a clip titled 'Weather Wars'), the first person to seed a cloud and create artificial rain. He relates how this weather modification process was employed in Viet Nam during the war in the mid 1960s with dramatically successful effects, such that a new program was created at the Corona Naval Research Center with the objective of controlling global weather for military purposes. We finish the program with a clip from the program Redeye, on 102.7 FM Vancouver Coop Radio titled 'The Myth of the Economic Recovery', and is an interview of Richard Wolff, an author and economist by Manual Shulte.
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Feb 5 2011 Review of News, Media Minutes, President Reagans Legacy, Tunisian and Egyptian Pro Democratic Forces
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On Media Minutes an internet kill switch is discussed in terms of governments attempting to quell popular political movements. Paul Jay of therealnews.com interviews Lawrence Wilkerson and Bob Parry about President Reagan's legacy of reduced regulations on industry and the hiring of industry syncophants to manage those regulations for the public good, as well as the build up of the American military and the refusal of the Reagan government to adhere to the instructions from Congress in relation to trading arms with the Contras in El Salvadore and anti-Iraqi factions in Iran, which resulted in the cocaine for arms scandal are discussed. A proposal is offered to have banks in the U.S. manage the food stamp credit program.
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Jan 29 2011 Review of News, Media Minutes, G-20 Ombudsmans Report, US Fed Pulls Funding for Public Broadcasting and More
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Media Minutes discusses the withdrawal of U.S. Federal funding for public broadcasting. G-20 Ombudsmans report is highly critical of police at the G-20 in Toronto, Canada in 2010. Police officer caught on tape at the G-20 saying 'this ain't Canada right now'. U.S. doctors' special relationship with big pharma, and a proposal to offer free heart drugs at fast food restaurants. Wade Davis describes plans for major resource extraction in the headwaters of Northern British Columbia. The U.S. Financial Inquiry Report is finalized and does not recommend criminal prosecutions.
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Jan 22 2011 Review of News, Guantanamo Protests, Worldwide Nuclear Industry, Leaky Carbon Sequestration and more.
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We begin the first hour with a review of news, and then hear clips on Guantanamo Bay protests, the war against the internet, how private spy services are feeding whistleblower sites, the revolution in Tunisia and more.
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Jan 15 2011 Review of News, Raven Coal Project, American Oil Spill Commission Report, Chris Hedges and More
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Citizen journalist Tara reports in detail on the Raven Coal project on Vancouver Island. Chris Hedges speaks on his newest book, 'The Corporate War on the People. Jonathan Landay speaks on the lost opportunity to repay Afghanistan for U.S. policy that lead to civil war, while Rahimullah Yusufzai says that the Taliban can fight forever.
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Jan 8, 2011 Review of News and more
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We begin the program with a review of news, and then hear 5 clips from Catherine Austin Fitts on Alex Jone’s prisonplanet.com . We’ll hear from Michael Hudson on the realnews.com about taxation and then from Max Keiser as he asks if bankers are sacred.
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Jan 1 2011 Review of News, Huge Silver Purchase, Canadian Real Estate Overvaluations,
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We begin the program with a Review of News, and then we hear a clip about a campaign to purchase silver in the United States and an analysis of Canadian real estate prices. We’ll also hear about a U.S. study that concludes most minimum wage earners cannot afford the necessities of life and then offers a solution to this problem. We'll hear about a Bank Run Day in Europe, why Canada is now considered the best place in the world to carry out a stock market swindle, and that the world is tired of paying for the U.S. Military costs, and more, on Altered Egos.
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Dec 25 2010 Review of News and more
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We begin the first hour with a Christmas song based upon soldiers in the trenches of World War I, then we’ll have a review of news, and hear two clips detailing the worlds largest environmental lawsuit, taking place in Ecuador. Next will be audio on the involvement of corporate and public media in the public’s perceptions of war, titled: ‘Empire Hollywood: Chroniclers of War’. We have a clip on the financial collapse of local governments in the United States, while retail investors purchase their highly questionalble municipal bonds. We’ll finish today’s show with a couple clips titled: ‘Capital is Powerful, Not Rational’
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Dec 18 2010 Review of News, Climate Talks Results, Canadian Climate Change Coverup Exposed in WikiLeaks, G20 Gag Order and Legalized Extra-judicial killings in the United States
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We begin the first hour with a Review of News, and then an audio clip of what transpired at the recent climate talks in Cancun Mexico, followed by a recorded interview of a G20 protester who’s been given unprecedented conditions of silence-a gag order. The U.S. has now legalized targeted killings of it’s citizens, when deemed to be politically necessary, and a clip on how governments fear debt more than an economic depression. A clip on Direct Action in Wisconsin. We’ll finish the show with a section related to food, but specifically about ‘carnism’, which is the theory of why we eat the animals we do eat.
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- Bob Hansen
- Cancun
- MP Olivia Chow
- Alex Hundert
- G20 gag order
- U.S. extra-judicial killing
- Human Rights Day
- Legalized Targeted Killings
- direct action in Wisconsin
- government fear of debt
- government preference for economic depression over debt
- Melanie Joy
- Ph.D.
- carnism
- Why We Love Dogs
- Eat Pigs
- and Wear Cows
Dec 11, 2010 Review of News and audio clips from Alternative Media organizations
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We begin the first hour with a review of news. Then we move to an audio clip of Maude Barlow at Cancun, Mexico, where the latest session of climate talks have been taking place. Next is a story of the use of water as a political and social weapon in Palestine. The third clip is about a successful direct democracy experiment in Chicago, and which is based upon a functional process in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The second hour will involve a clip on who benefits from the austerity programs, and more. You can hear Altered Egos by live stream or by podcast at chly.ca.
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Dec 4 2010 Review of News and Much More
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After a review of news, the Media Minutes episode discusses net neutrality; the effect of NAFTA upon Mexican workers, migration and the Mexican economy; American deficit hawks continue the post WW II attack on labour, as discussed by Paul Jay and James Crotty. Dylan Ratigan and Chris Whelan discuss the corruption in the American economy, in particular that the bailouts in the US are dangerous for the public and the money is being invested offshore. Malak Behrouznami of the Real News Network, interviews representative Jan Schakowsky on social security and the US Deficit Commission Report. A brief history of Julian Assange. Paul Jay interviews Lawrence Wilkerson, retired army officer and prior advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Paul Jay interviews Noam Chomsky on the most pressing political issue in the world at present. Paul Jay interviews Ray McGovern about the refusal of the New York Times to acknowledge the National Intelligence Estimate that states that Iran does not have nuclear weapons. Review of the new documentary, "You Don't Like the Truty: 4 days inside Guantanamo. Nigel Forage, Member of the European Parliament, speaks on the abject failure of the European Union concept.
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- Bob Hansen
- Noam Chomsky
- NAFTA and Mexican migration
- American deficit hawks and labour
- Dylan Ratigan
- Chris Whelan
- corrupt American economy
- Jan Schakowsky
- US Deficit Commission Report
- Julian Assange
- Lawrence Wilkerson
- National Intelligence Report
- Iran nuclear weapons
- You Don't Like the Truth-4 days inside Guantanamo
- Nigel Forage MEP
Nov 27 2010 Review of News, auto industry potential for change and more
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Review of News. Media Minutes. Russian Journalists still under threat. Helen Thomas is interviewed by Paul Jay of the RealNews.com about her recent resignation from the White House press corp, and that relationship to a comment she made about Israel. Paul Jay interviews Steven Diamond, an associate professor of law at Santa Clara University regarding the potential for General Motors and the other North American auto manufacturers potential to rebuild the American economy. The American Thanksgiving Day massacre of the Pequot people by the Pilgrims. A reminder of the rhetoric from the politicians during the Vietnam War, and a comparison to present American wars in Central Asia. Alex Wise, of Sea Change Radio, interviews Rolf Skar about the deforestation in Indonesia and its relationship to carbon emissions.
Nov 20 2010 Review of News, Noam Chomsky, TSA, China and Latin American economics and More
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Paul Jay of the Real Newsnetwork interviews Noam Chomsky about the drift to the right in American politics. Highly successful criminal lawyer Vincent Bugliosi wants to have G.W. Bush prosecuted for murder for the Iraq war. New Jersey legislature reacts against new measures being invoked by the Transportation Security Administration. Paul Jay interviews Kevin Gallagher on the economic relationship between China and Latin America. Jonathan Landay investigates alleged corruption at highest levels in Afghanistan
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