Joe, Getch and Mike talk conspiracies, on the day after Christmas...or was it Doomsday?  Only one way to find out.

Special, two-part, two and a half hour Holiday Week show.

Part One: What is a conspiracy? Joe does the news, Getch finds conspiracies in the news. Call-ins from James and Grey (No, not like the aliens)

Conspiracy Theorists are necessary, The Greed Virus 12,000 years ago, The Ruling Elite, WW1, Pearl Harbor and 911, Iraq, Building 7, Physics of Tower Falls, Nazis in the Antarctic. 

Part Two: The 8pm DJ was a no-show, so we talked for another hour.  Money Conspiracy, Corporate income -v- Middle Class income, Lucky Joe, Moon Landing, Princess Di, Marilyn Monroe, Libor Weirdness.

Look for Mic Check Radio joining Occupy Media soon.

Music:

"Monster" Steppenwolf

"The Big Heat" Stan Ridgway

Joe, Getch and Mike talk conspiracies, on the day after Christmas...or was it Doomsday?  Only one way to find out.

Special, two-part, two and a half hour Holiday Week show.

Part One: What is a conspiracy? Joe does the news, Getch finds conspiracies in the news. Call-ins from James and Grey (No, not like the aliens)

Conspiracy Theorists are necessary, The Greed Virus 12,000 years ago, The Ruling Elite, WW1, Pearl Harbor and 911, Iraq, Building 7, Physics of Tower Falls, Nazis in the Antarctic. 

Part Two: The 8pm DJ was a no-show, so we talked for another hour.  Money Conspiracy, Corporate income -v- Middle Class income, Lucky Joe, Moon Landing, Princess Di, Marilyn Monroe, Libor Weirdness.

Look for Mic Check Radio joining Occupy Media soon.

Music:

"Monster" Steppenwolf

"The Big Heat" Stan Ridgway

Jo Littler is the author of "Radical Consumption: Shopping for Change in Contemporary Culture" She joins us to talk about the ways we can change the consumer culture through our choices as shoppers.

Lauren Regan gives an update on the Keystone Pipeline Blockade in Texas. She has taken on the lead defense of protesters at the scene.

Things are getting pretty tense down there.

For the news fans, Joe managed to get in an hour of news updates.

Music:

Tom Lehrer: A Christmas Carol

Psuedosufis: Consumer Mayhem: A Christmas Carol

Discussion about the UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar with Niranjali Amerasinghe, Director of the Climate Change Program with the Center for International Environmental Law. www.ciel.org

Niranjali has worked on a range of issues, including compliance, REDD+ [Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation], international coal financing, and the intersection b

Sarah Anderson is the Director of the Global Economy Project  at the Institute for Policy Studies, and co-author of the IPS reports:

"A Pension Deficit Disorder: The Massive CEO Retirement Funds and Underfunded Worker Pensions at Firms Pushing Social Security Cuts"

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/pension-deficit-disorder

The CEO Campaign to 'Fix' the Debt: A Trojan Horse for Massive Corporate Tax Breaks

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/ceo-campaign-to-fix-the-debt

Michael Perelman is our favorite economist and he lets us come to him when the economic landscape is perplexing. He teaches economics at Cal State Chico and is the author of 19 books. 'The Invisible Hand-cuffs of Capitalism' is his most recent. We turned to Michael to explain the fiscal cliff. 

Noam Chomsky "is an American linquist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, historian, political critic, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years." wikipedia

Jerry, Liz and Shannon took questions from their listeners and Mr. Chomsky answered just about all of them. 

Liz, Jerry, and Shannon produce AirOccupy out of 1380 AM Goliath Radio in Daytona Beach, Florida.  Catch them every Tuesday on the Occupy Media Podcast.  

This week, AirOccupy hosts David Cobb of Move to Amend. 

Next week: Noam Chomsky.

Sue Sierralupe is back to talk about Occupy Medical. The clinic is administering pertussis vaccinations for Lane County. 

Aleksandra Perisic checks in from Occupy Wall Street with news on the Rolling Jubilee and Occupy Sandy. 

Liz Myers joins us from AirOccupy. We talk about AirOccupy joining the Occupy Media Podcast, and brainstorm ways to build a national Occupy media platform. 

http://rollingjubilee.org/

http://strikedebt.org/

http://whystrikedebt.tumblr.com/

http://airoccupy.com/

http://www.goliathradio.com/

AirOccupy's listen live link:  http://www.goliathradio.com/level2/listenlive.aspx

Music:

Woody Guthrie's "Pretty Boy Floyd"

Kris Hermes is the co-founder of the Grand Jury Resistance Project

http://grandjuryresistance.org/

Mark Taylor Canfield is an independent journalist with Free Speech Radio News, Daily Kos and others. He covered the story of the Northwest Activists who have been targetted by a federal grand jury. Two are in prison for contempt, another awaits prison.

Joe reads the news.

Big News: Air Occupy will be joining Occupy Media Podcast.

AirOccupy broadcasts out of Daytona Beach. Hopefully we will have their first podcast up by the end of the week.

They will be interviewing Noam Chomsky on December 11th. 

Music:

Peter, Paul, and Mary: Blowing in the Wind

Jeffrey Smith is the Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology. He is the country's foremost expert on GMO's. and the author of 'Seeds of Destruction' and 'Genetic Roulette.' He is also the director of the movie, 'Genetic Roulette: The Gamble of Our Lives.'

We were joined live by: 

Harry MacCormack is the proprietor of Sun Bow Farm, a GMO activist, and the co-founder fo the Corvallis Saturday Market, Oregon Tilth, and the Ten Rivers Food Web.

Chris Hardy is a farmer and an anti-GMO activist in Ashland, Oregon. He is also the founder of GMO Free Jackson County.

Sabrina Siegel is a spokesperson for GMO Free Oregon.

Harry MacCormack - http://sunbowfarm.org/

Chris Hardy - http://gmofreejacksoncounty.org/

http://friendsoffamilyfarmers.org/

Jeffery Smith - http://responsibletechnology.org/,  http://nongmoshoppingguide.com/,  http://geneticroulettemovie.com/

Music:

'Just Say No to GMO'   Mike Adams, the Health Ranger