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This week's guest is Harvey Wasserman, author of "Solartopia: Our Green-Powered Earth, A.D. 2030.".  He is also the editor of the website http://nukefree.org/
Go here to hear a podcast of the show:  http://feralcat.libsyn.com/
Harvey Wasserman is an expert on energy deregulation.  He wrote "The Last Energy War", a hard-hitting analysis of the disaster of electric utility deregulation in California.  He wrote a how-to guide for farmers and investors building their own wind farms.  We'll be asking Harvey about the outlook for turning this whole climate crisis around with alternatives to King CONG (coal, oil, nukes and gas) and make money while we're doing it.

On December 1st , we will have on Kevin Danaher (CA): Co-Founder and Director of Public Education, Global Exchange; Co-author, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots (2007); Executive Co-Director, the Green Festival and Director of the Global Green Center; known for his dynamic speaking style; green economy, alternative energy, energy independence.

Watch this video called "Mouseland" that Kiefer Sutherland put together:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqpFm7zAK90
The Ferals loved this video.

So how are the poor doing on the gulf coast?  Not as good as the well-to-do.  Seems that most of the reconstruction money is going to usual direction of up and not down.  http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/us/16mississippi.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1195225467-3MkGZaoVwvYgowkmeSEorw
So can you tell me why a  new report says that millions of trees blown over by the hurricane are rotting and giving off CO2 and not being used to build homes or create biomass?

As usual, I don't get it?  Our priorities are way out of whack.  We return to David Korten whose book "The Great Turning" offers us hope from the "Great Unraveling".  The old false story of rewarding the wealthy in order to grow the economy is still being told.  It's a crock.  The old false story that we need to take away any programs for the poor so that they can learn to work hard at low wages is also a big flim flam. Do you really believe that God rewards the righteous are rewarded with wealth and that they must rule over the poor?  These stories are used by common hucksters to steal your money.  These stories are meant to divide us and to keep us from our natural tendencies to form cooperatives and communities.  These stories are meant to isolate us and keep us from growing up.
The biggest hoax of all is that the majority of Americans embrace the "gospel of greed" and "survival of the fittest".  It's just not true.  Over 80% of Americans believe that we are on the wrong track.  They want a world that puts "people over profits, spiritual values ahead of financial values and international cooperation ahead of international domination."  These values are shared by conservatives and liberals. 

American don't have the wrong values, but we' ve given power to a small group of elites in the political and financial worlds who do have the wrong values.  The Friedmanreagonrubinistas are just flat wrong or just plain craven.  Their policies that destroyed unions, gave us NAFTA and left us the only nation without universal healthcare are bankrupt.  They are intended to make a small group of folks very rich and give the shaft to the rest of us.  The system is rigged.  And they really don't care. 

What to do?  Well we are trying here on our radio show to bring you guests like Francis Moore Lappe, Dean Baker, Harvey Wasserman and Norman Solomon to show a better way and to hear voices that don't get the coverage they deserve on the Fat Cat News.  We do have choices.  As the Hopis say "We are the ones we have been waiting for."

    

 

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