Ft.Calhoun Nuke Plant under Water

6/16/11 Meria Heller’s take on the news: Nebraska Nuke Plant-Level 4 Emergency; Obama’s lies on Libya, costing us $2 Billion a day; Yemen, Syria next?; life expectancy drops in USA (no money for us); medicaid cuts; global cooling; Greeks go on National strike; Weiner resigns; infant formula and Type 1 Diabetes; wildfires in Fla & Arizona; Boston Bruins win the Stanley Cup; earthquake reports; dead in the middle of a rape; Pakistan grabs CIA informants; Stocks drop on Greece & US; Arms sales to Bahrain despite their human rights violations; $6.6 Billion missing from Iraq; US military bases hit in Iraq; Egypt arrests Israeli spy; high toxins in waters around Fukishima; Fukishima 20x worse than Chernobyl already; hackers break into Senate computers, IMF computers; Pelham cops TASER a COW; US drug war spending unjustifiable; Huge Gulf dead zone; more floods for Midwest; France in drought; explosion at Louisiana chemical plant; Obama on one term presidency;chicken meat and arsenic; bread and human hair; Israel’s Central Banker wants to run IMF (who benefits); FBI gets more power; and more “stuff”.

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Italians Join In Protests

2/14/11 Happy Valentine’s Day. Meria Heller with the news today. Threats in Moscow; Protests in Serbia, Iran, Yemen, Italy; Michelle Obama on Valentine’s Day; beating off a tiger to save her man; Bonuses at GM; will the Midwest flood in a thaw? Egyptian labor revolts; Labor slammed in USA – unions systematically voiceless; price of clothes to rise 10% food to triple; farm animals and new diseases; Alaskan oil pipeline unsafe; pharmaceuticals killing our troops; Is Clarence Thomas guilty of a felony? Fox News just makes up stuff; bad cop stories; earthquake reports abound; gassed by PG&E? can’t meet demand in Afghanistan; Pakistan wants to hang American; 4 pipelines blown in Pakistan; Algierian protesters beaten; Musharraf -arrest warrant for conspiracy to kill Bhutto; FBI trained Egypt’s torturers; Japan spies on Muslims for US; Israel wins against US students; Saudi threats in 2007 over oil; 100 dead birds in Illinois; Sarkozy speaks against multiculturalism; Greeks slam IMF; Repugs cutting essential programs for poor; Alcohol kills more than AIDS, TB; patsy gets 60 yrs for “killing” Chandra Levy; UK protests against Banks and High Street; what happened at NORAD? extending the Patriot Act? NYers want Spain to prosecute Bush; Illinois wants to raise minimum wage to 1968 pay; Obama cutting energy assistance to poor; Gabon protests; father convicted for son’s murders; Deutsche Borse taking over NYSE; Senator Kyl retiring; Donna Smith comes to Phoenix; Wisconsin Governor wants to use National Guard against workers; and more “stuff”.

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Conn Hallinan, journalist

2/17/10 Meria interviews Conn Hallinan, Analyst “Foreign Policy in Focus” and columnist for Berkeley Daily Planet. Is Afghanistan a “good war”? Is Yemen the new enemy? U.S. involvement in Yemen goes back forty years; Control of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea – China; Checkmating China; Afghanistan and Yemen are connected, the regional impact of Afghanistan on India and Pakistan; war games could go nuclear; no such thing as “a local nuclear war”; Giving India nuclear material a big mistake, starting a whole new nuclear arms race; India not a signer on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; scattering the Taliban we’ve made it worse; political differences cannot be solved militarily; energy security and Afghanistan, the crossroads to Asia and Caspian oil reserves; Controlling China’s energy sources; England’s 4th war in Afghanistan; will there be a draft? 3 Talibans in Afghanistan; the Taliban Peace Plan; surge won’t work; U.S. has been in Yemen since 1979; USS Cole; Underwear bomber; Port of Aden; Horn of Africa – the jugular veins of China; Africom  – why? End of old empires; solutions for future; Afghanistan-the graveyard of empires.

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