Progressive Commentary Hour

Saving Planet, Saving Ourselves Part 2  Humanity is faced with its greatest challenges since it evolved on Earth 200,000 years ago.  Rapid climate change and the degradation and destruction of our environment. The Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene Age, and henceforth all atmospheric and geological changes in the near and long term future will have humanity's footprint on it. It is critical that people begin to understand what we are experiencing now with more frequent droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme weather conditions, and it what portends for the future. 

Saving Planet, Saving Ourselves Humanity is faced with its greatest challenges since it evolved on Earth 200,000 years ago.  Rapid climate change and the degradation and destruction of our environment. The Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene Age, and henceforth all atmospheric and geological changes in the near and long term future will have humanity's footprint on it. It is critical that people begin to understand what we are experiencing now with more frequent droughts, floods, wildfires and extreme weather conditions, and it what portends for the future.  For the next weeks starting this Tuesday December 12th at 7 pm ET on the Progressive Commentary Hour, Gary will be hosting an in-depth investigation and commentaries on the climate change and its impact upon the environment, our economy, health and well-being.  This will be a one of a kind series, and concluding with possible solutions that we can make as a society, as communities, and as individuals.  

climate change and the future of humanity Kevin Hester is a member of the Irish Republican Diaspora born in Aotearoa New Zealand as a result of both his maternal and paternal grandparents being involved in the reunification struggle, forcing  some members of the  family to escape Ireland for both  political and financial reasons. His maternal grandfather completed 28 days on hunger strike in jail in 1920 after being caught with unregistered firearms!  He  lives on an off-the-grid  small island in the Hauraki Gulf, 15 miles from the city of Auckland. Rakino islands' permanent population is  20 humans and thousands of birds The island is predator free if you exclude Homo-Sapiens.Kevin  has completed 16 Ocean passages on small yachts, over half of them as skipper. He was once arrested and charged with “Obstructing a nuclear ship in the course of its passage” and  was at the bombed Green Peace Rainbow Warrior within an hour of the detonation and the murder of Fernando Pereira in Auckland harbor, carried out by a large contingent of soldiers in the French DGSE in July 1985.He currently spends his time researching abrupt climate change, the collapse of complex societies, and the real-time unravelling of the biosphere Kevin is the host of radio program Nature Bats Last on the Progressive Radio Network, which airs every Tuesday at 3 pm Eastern Time. His articles can be found on his website is KevinHester.live. He lives to agitate another day.

Gary gives you an extra hour and plays a great video discussing The Clintons. Here is some info on the video and a link to finish the video if you like. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Clinton Chronicles: An Investigation into the Alleged Criminal Activities of Bill Clinton is a 1994 film that accused Bill Clinton of a range of crimes. The video, directed by conservative activist Patrick Matrisciana, was characterized by The Washington Post as a "bizarre and unsubstantiated documentary." The New York Times reported that it was a poorly documented "hodgepodge of sometimes-crazed charges." It helped perpetuate a conspiracy theory known as the "Clinton Body Count" about a list of associates Clinton was purported to have had killed. The deaths listed in the film have largely been discredited due to deliberate bias, weak circumstantial evidence, and coincidence. The film was produced by Citizens for Honest Government, a project of a Westminster, California organization named Creative Ministries Inc., partially funded by Larry Nichols, a long-time Clinton opponent, and distributed with help from the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who also appears in the film. Over 300,000 copies of the film were put into circulation. To promote the film, Falwell aired an interview with Matrisciana, who was silhouetted to conceal his identity as he pretended to be a journalist who was afraid for his life. Matrisciana later acknowledged that he was not in any danger, but that the interview was staged for dramatic effect at Falwell's suggestion

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS Looking at the state of our world ruthlessly and finding wisdom in the chaos Dr. Jim Garrison is the founding President of Ubiquity University and the Wisdom School of Graduate Studies, an international school of higher education built upon transformational principles of whole brain and whole systems learning. The university operates with partners in the EU, Australia, Southeast Asia, Mexico, South Africa, and other nations. As the co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation, Jim was instrumental in the founding of the State of the World Forum  to lay a template for a  more sustainable global civilization.  In the late 80s he served as the executive director of the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange, and founded the International Foreign Policy Association in collaboration with Secretary of State George Schultz and Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze. He is the author of “America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? and “Civilization and the Transformation of Power” Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. His websites are Ubiquity.University and WisdomUniversity.org         

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS   The new economic hit men  and the new sophistication of economic aggression For many years, primarily through the 1970s and 1980s, John Perkins was an economic hit man (EHM), a job to convince leaders of developing nations to accept economic conditions that benefit US private and government interests. He was a direct participant or witness to such dramatic modern events as the Saudi Arabian Money Laundering scandal, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the assassinations of Eucador’s and Panama’s  democratically elected presidents, and other government and corporate intrigues. John was a chief economist for a large international consulting firm advising the World Bank and IMF, the UN, Fortune 500 companies and many national governments. Since leaving his covert activities, John been a champion of indigenous spiritual cultures and environmental movements through his non profit projects Dream Change -- which has hosted educational events to help raise consciousness and inspire more sustainable ways of living --  and the Pachamama Alliance. After 911, John broke his silence with the publication of his international best seller that has just been fully revised and published as “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, to explain that rather than a corrupt specialized activity among select consulting and international construction firms in the past, the system of economic hit men has rather become more sophisticated, more devious, and more widespread, even through the halls of government, and is now intentionally bankrupting the US as it has done in the past with developing nations. His website is JohnPerkins.org  and  DreamChange.org        

Everything we have been told about Muammar Gaddafi is a western fabrication to further their new wold agenda. Please take the time to watch this documentary on this great leader and share it far and wide.

Dr. Lori Handrahan has over twenty years of humanitarian and human rights work in Central Asia, Africa and the Balkans. Her focus is gender-based violence, conflict/post-conflict environments, UN reform, and ending child sex abuse. Working with UNHCR -- the UN's Refugee agency -- she was its  first Gender Expert in emergency operations during the Darfur genocide, its Regional Gender Advisor in The Balkans, as well as CARE's Girls' Leadership Assessment lead evaluator in Yemen, and UNFPA's Gender-Based Violence Information Management System lead evaluator in Uganda. Dr. Handrahan completed her Ph.D. at London School of Economics an later taught at American University in Washington DC. Her work is published widely from academic journals to The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Huffington Post, The Washington Times, Forbes, The National Journal, The Daily Beast, and Fox News. Her book "Epidemic: America's Trade in Child Rape" was just made available this week by Trineday books, and is a thorough, detailed investigation into the data and issues that has turned the US into one of child pornography and underage sex capitols of the world.   Her website is LoriHandrahan.com

The localization movement to shift global and corporate power back to people and communities Charles Eisenstein is an independent scholar, speaker and author writing on themes about human culture and identity, economics, the evolution of human cultures, and the spiritual challenges of coping with a society and world in chaos.  In the past he has taught at Goddard College, Penn State, and lived and in China for many years.  Charles has degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University and has been active with other visionaries to develop progressive models of business and charity based upon a deeper ethical standard. He is the author of several books, the most popular being  "Sacred Economics" and “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible” – a collection of essays, which offers an alternative Story for humanity as an antidote to the malaise, frustration and paralysis preventing people from being vehicles for change.  His website is  CharlesEisenstein.net.  Helena Norberg-Hodge is an author, activist and filmmaker who is regarded by many as a pioneer of the global localization movement. Earth Journal included Helena among the 10 leading environmentalists worldwide.   Fluent in 7 languages, she studied in her native Sweden, Germany, Austria, England and the United States, specializing in linguistics, including studies at  MIT with Noam Chomsky. Since 1975, Helena has worked with the people of Ladakh (Lah-Dack), or “Little Tibet” in the western Indian Himalayas, to find ways of enabling its ancient culture meet the pressures from the modern world without sacrificing its social and ecological values. For these efforts she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’.  Helena is the founder and director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture based in the US and UK, an organization examining the root causes of our current social and environmental crises, while promoting more sustainable and equitable patterns of living. She is also a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, and a co-founder of both the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network.  Her book, "Ancient Futures", has been described as “an inspirational classic” and her documentary "Economics of Happiness" has received international acclaim. She is currently visiting the US and her website is LocalFutures.org

Dr. Len Saputo is a board certified physician in internal medicine and the Founder and Medical Director of Health Medicine Foundation in California, a nonprofit education foundation of integral healthcare providers and community leaders dedicated to a holistic vision of wellness.   He has been practicing since 1965 after graduating from Duke University’s medical school.  

Remarkable Mind America's tax crisis and how Washington is further increasing the gap between the elite and everyone else.  Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s finest and most important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. Dr. Paul Craig Robert’s recently called him “the world’s best economist.” He is currently the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends and was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign. Dr. Hudson has served as an adviser to the White House, State and Defense departments at the Hudson Institute, in addition to the United Nations Institute where he became a specialist in global economics.  He has written many books and important papers and articles, including his most recent "J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception," which explains how the global economy really works, and “Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy” that addresses the cause and effect behind the polarization of the 1% versus 99% emerged. His website is Michael-Hudson.com

  Charles Ortleb is a journalist, novelist and filmmaker who gained notoriety as the publisher of the gay biweekly New York Native between 1980 and 1996. The Native was the first major publication to take the AIDS epidemic seriously and question the AIDS hypothesis. the publication brought many important individuals such as Peter Duesberg to public attention. Rolling Stone journalist David Black claimed Chuck's New York Native deserved a Pulitzer and New York Times called in "visionary."  Chuck has also written several novels, plays. Celia Farber has called his novel Iron Peter, the "animal farm of the AIDS era."  His most recent book is a history of the early AIDS era from a real pioneer and insider --  "Truth to Power: The New York Native 1980-1996"  Chuck is also the host of the program "Truth to Power" heard every Friday at 4 pm Eastern time. You can find more information his books and writings at CharleOrtleb.com   Trisha Morrison is the widow of Tommy the Duke Morrison, two-time heavyweight boxing champion of the world and the co-star in the film "Rocky" where he played the role of Tommy Gunn. She has had a successful career in real estate and wholesale tour operations. She has also worked with fundraising for anti-drug programs to keep inner city kids free of drugs.  Trisha is a former Junior Wimbledon tennis player and has been a tennis coach in several european countries. 

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I am going to be focusing on what to do when disaster strikes PART 2. 

I am going to be focusing on what to do when disaster strikes. We just had the worst flooding in American History in Texas and Louisiana.  We had the worst storm in a long time in Florida, leaving 6.1 million Floridians without power.  How do you survive that? It is going to happen elsewhere. Montana has the worst fire in the State’s history... Idaho, Oregon, Washington State and California are on fire. We have natural disasters everywhere.  Yet, we are completely unprepared.  My entire show tonight will be addressing this, the future, the places we can live, the places we shouldn’t live, and what is going to happen to the value of real-estate, our homes, our apartments, condominiums in the places that are most likely to suffer continuing environmental disasters.