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Jeff Farias
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6/30/2009 4:36 PM
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Jeff Farias is FIRED UP!
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By Jeff Farias on
2/23/2010 7:19 PM
At 00:00 – Michael Parenti returns! is the acclaimed author of more than twenty books, including, most recently, Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader; The Assassination of Julius Caesar; SuperPatriotism and The Culture Struggle. The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Nation, and Antioch Review, are among the countless publications that have praised Parenti’s work.
Michael rejoins us today in conversation about...
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By Jeff Farias on
2/22/2010 6:43 PM
At 01:00 – Paul Armentano deputy Director of NORML returns !
We will look at the results of a recent study on the effectiveness of medicinal marijuana.
‘Gold Standard’ Studies Show That Inhaled Marijuana Is Medically Safe and Effective
…“The results of a series of randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials assessing the efficacy of inhaled marijuana consistently show that cannabis holds therapeutic value comparable to conventional medications, according to the findings of a 24-page report issued earlier today to the California state legislature by the California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (CMCR).
Four of the five placebo-controlled trials demonstrated that marijuana significantly alleviated neuropathy, a difficult to treat type of pain resulting from nerve damage.
At 01:30 – H.P. Albarelli Jr....
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By Jeff Farias on
2/18/2010 7:15 PM
At 00:15 we share our earlier conversation with the inimitable Paul Krassner
Krassner calls himself an investigative satirist. Don Imus labeled him “one of the comic geniuses of the 20th century.” (Imus has since apologized for that quote.) And, according to the Los Angeles Reader, “Krassner delivers 90 minutes of the funniest, most intelligent social and political commentary in town.” On the other hand, a couple of FBI agents went to one of his performances and stated in their report, “He purported to be humorous about government policies.” His FBI files indicate that after Life magazine published a favorable profile of him, the FBI sent a poison-pen letter to the editor, complaining: “To classify Krassner as a social rebel is far too cute. He’s a nut, a raving, unconfined nut.”
“The FBI was right,” says George Carlin. “This man is dangerous–and funny; and necessary.”
ABC newscaster Harry Reasoner wrote in his memoirs, “Krassner not only attacks establishment values; he attacks decency in general.” So Krassner named his one-person show Attacking Decency in General,
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By Jeff Farias on
2/17/2010 6:44 PM
At 00:15 – Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Richard Gage, AIA, is a San Francisco Bay Area architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects. He is the founding member of AE911Truth. He has been a practicing architect for over 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction, including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings.
Most recently he worked on the construction documents for a $400M mixed-use urban project with 1.2 million square feet of retail, parking structure, and 320,000 square feet of mid-rise office space—altogether about with 1,200 tons of steel framing.
Mr. Gage became interested in researching the destruction of the WTC high-rises after hearing the startling conclusions of a reluctant 9/11 researcher, David Ray Griffin, on the radio in 2006, which launched his own unyielding quest for the truth about 9/11.
At 00:45 – David DeGraw from Media Channel...
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By Jeff Farias on
2/11/2010 6:26 PM
The podcast is Kevin Booth filmmaker. From the creators of American Drug War the long-awaited sequel -How Weed Won the West- now on DVD. With California and the rest of the country going bankrupt, one business is booming.
How Weed Won the West is the story of the growing Medical Marijuana industry, focusing on Los Angeles with over 700 legal dispensaries doling out the buds. Following the story of Organica, a southland dispensary which was raided by state and federal agencies in August of 2009, the film shows that although much has changed with Obama in office, the DrugWar is nowhere near over.
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By Jeff Farias on
2/10/2010 6:37 PM
“It’s like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy. [W]hatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different.”
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By Jeff Farias on
2/9/2010 7:08 PM
The podcast here is Pam Walton, Producer/Director, of a documentary on the Raging Grannies. Walton has two masters from Stanford University, one in Education and the other in Communication (Film and Video Production). Walton is an award-winning independent video producer.
We also heard from two of the film's subject's Granny Ruth Robertson and Granny Gail Sredanovic.
Her work has screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, and has been included in the prestigious International Public Television Screening Conference (INPUT). Her documentaries have aired on PBS member stations in major American cities, are broadcast nationally on MTV’s LOGO, and distributed by New Day Films. From 1989 to 1999 Walton was a lecturer in the Department of Communication (Film and Video Production) at Stanford University. Her films include:
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By Jeff Farias on
2/8/2010 6:42 PM
At 5 PM MST David Swanson returns !
We will discuss his recent article Top 10 Problems with America Killing Its Own Citizens
Assassinating non-Americans is just as illegal as assassinating Americans. The leap here is not to victims of a different citizenship but to the legalization of murder. Whatever happened to Law, courts & trials?
David Swanson, author, blogger, and activist. He is the author of “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union“ and of the introduction to “The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush,” by Dennis Kucinich. Swanson served as press secretary for Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential...
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By Jeff Farias on
2/3/2010 6:39 PM
At 4:30pmMST – Cara Bautista from Peace Action West. Cara Bautista is the Deputy Political Director for Peace Action West & head coordinator for the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World, a national coalition for nuclear disarmament, and is also lead on the residual forces issue in Iraq.
Cara has worked at Peace Action West since 2004 on a variety of peace and security issues, from diplomacy with Iran to opposing new nuclear weapons. Through Peace Action West’s PAC, Cara spent several weeks in 2006 on the mid-term elections to help put progressive leaders on foreign policy in office. She traveled to Washington to knock on doors and educate voters, and coordinated volunteers in New Mexico on a congressional campaign.
Peace Action West advocates for a foreign policy that embodies the best values of the American people. As a...
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By Jeff Farias on
2/2/2010 7:20 PM
At 00:30 Gail Davidson from Lawyers Rights Watch Canada to discuss the Omar Khadr case.
(LRWC) is a committee of lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law internationally by protecting advocacy rights.
LRWC campaigns for advocates in danger because of their human rights advocacy, engages in research and education and works in cooperation with other human rights organizations. LRWC has Special Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
At 02:00 Rodrigue Tremblay author of The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles The central message of the book is that it is not necessary to be very religious to act morally, and that on the contrary, when people are religious...
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