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Chuck Harder starts this episode of his show, For the People, by making several statements. These include that the idyllic country of Scotland has a higher crime rate than NYC, that our crime rate remains relatively low due to our police forces, and that crime is highest were there are no jobs. And with that as an introduction, his guest Robert Thomas Raming takes over. He also issues some statements. Several of them might be considered rather inflammatory: our elected officials are bought and paid for; we don?t really have a two-party system (it?s all the same with different names); a cancer has been taking over America for the last 100 years; the global elite are plotting the demise of America and they are close to winning. Whew!
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Mr. Raming has written a book that details his beliefs called ?War and Death of the American Dream?. You can own it by clicking here.

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Hopefully you have never found yourself in the position of someone stealing your credit card information. What a mess that can be! Eric Jackson, author of ?The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia and the Rest of Planet Earth?, has some words of wisdom on Chuck Harder?s Show, For the People. Check your statements monthly and make sure that all debits are of your making. And if someone should steal your card or the information on it, cancel it and then ask for a new one with all new numbers. Jackson is what Harder calls an online expert. At one time he managed the marketing operations of PayPal; now he is President of World Ahead Publishing. So much of our techno world evolves around being able to pay for things through PayPal now that we hardly give it a second thought but there are some caveats. Be cautious about paying for anything from outside the country online- if there is a problem, you have little recourse. And never- repeat never- give out your debit card with pin number or your checking account number. And the online relief efforts for such natural disasters as Katrina (and now Rita)- make darn sure they are legit. There are lots out there that sound official but the only thing your money relieves is some low-life?s empty pocket. Click here to listen to the other words of wisdom and click here if you wish to own Mr. Jackson?s book.

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You and I may be able to cut back on our driving by car-pooling or making one trip for many things instead of many trips for one thing. But what do you do if you?re a farmer and you have to use fuel- a lot of it- to mow the hay and harvest the corn? This is one of many problems that face the family farmer and are discussed by Chuck Harder and his guest, Katherine Ozer. Katherine is the executive director for the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC.net). CAFTA and NAFTA are on the agenda as well. And on a very personal level, how would you like it if the product or service you are selling actually cost you more than double that to produce? That?s what our American farmers are facing. It costs, according Ozer, an average of $3.60 to produce a bushel of corn. The farmer gets paid $1.50 per bushel. Click here to listen to the whole episode.
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We have been so wrapped up in the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina (and rightly so) that we have forgotten that there have been other hurricanes that have also caused extensive damage. For years, the benchmark for destructive hurricanes was Camille of the summer of 1969. This was a category 5 with sustained winds of 190 mph. Philip Hearn is the guest of Chuck Harder and he has written a book on this ? Hurricane Camille: Monster Storm of the Gulf Coast. What Philip says is that there is now a new benchmark- Katrina. The winds were not as fierce nor was the storm surge as high as Camille so why would the new crown go to Katrina? Because of the damage done. And why was the damage so much more extensive? Well, look at the building right on the coast and the casinos on the barges and the oil rigs in the Gulf and?. You get the picture. Chuck and Philip ask lots of questions, such as what bank is going to lend money? And what insurance company is going to take a gamble? And do we need to regulate coastal development ? But the biggest question is this: Won?t we ever learn?!?
Click here to listen to the whole podcast and click here if you wish to own Mr. Hearn?s book.

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Chuck Harder starts off the first part of his show, For the People, by telling his listeners what he did this weekend. He spent a lot of time reading news reports from other countries regarding their impressions on the aftermath of Katrina. We?re not talking about the ravaged coastline or even the disaster of the Superdome. What we are talking about here is the looting that occurred following the flooding of New Orleans. Chuck reports that the Japanese, for example, were astounded that so much looting took place. After a major earthquake in Japan there was minimal looting- only three people were arrested for looting and none of them were Japanese. How, they wondered can you steal from your own people? How indeed?
After Katrina came to town, the Wal-Mart store there was minimally damaged. But the looters arrived with a vengeance that outmatched Katrina. When they were done, the only thing remaining in the store was a rack with some Country and Western CD?s.
The other thing Chuck did over the weekend was talk with a biographer of FDR. Why would Chuck want to talk about FDR? Because he was the author of WPA- a program designed during the Depression that gave people a job, not a handout.
Following a short break Chuck comes back with his guest, John M. Barry who wrote the book, ?Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America?. The thesis in the book is that the Federal response to this disaster changed the culture and policies in that area of the country and that this is when American people began to believe that the federal government was responsible for taking care of them instead of them taking care of themselves. Is there a tie-in with what we are seeing in the American public?s behavior of late, do you think? Click here to listen to the podcast to see what you think.

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Yesterday Chuck Harder had a guest on his show, For the People, who described his company?s vision for getting rid of the debris in New Orleans and helping to build it again. Today, Chuck has another gentleman as a guest with a little different way of handling the problem. The guest today is Les Blevins from Advanced Alternative Energy Corporation (AAECorp.com). His plan is to bring a portable system to New Orleans that combusts the debris and turns most of it into BTU gas that can then produce energy. He calls it a thermo-conversion system- a combustion and gasification process. What about the fluorescent bulbs and batteries and other types of toxic materials, asks Chuck? And, adds Chuck, does Blevins think that he stands a chance of getting a contract against the big boys like Halliburton? Click here to listen to his responses.

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Now here?s a novel idea! Take all the contaminated buildings and homes in New Orleans, and all the debris, grind it all up and then recycle all the material, using new technology, into new decontaminated building materials. If this sounds like something in the future, it?s not, according to Chuck Harder?s guest, Barry Fisher of Prime Environmental International. One of the best things is that in a small way this company proposes to ?recycle? some of the people, too. They are set up to supply temporary housing for the local people that they will hire; they will train them, they will supply clothing for them, they will pay them; and at the end of the project (estimated to be 2-3 years) the people will be offered a job with the company. Sounds like a win-win situation all the way around. Click here to listen to this intriguing episode. Mr. Fisher suggests that if people wish they can go to PMISolutions.org to make a donation for the relief efforts.

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Peyton Knight has several concerns but at the top of his list is what he calls the weak efforts of the Republicans in the reauthorization of the ESA (Endangered Species Act). Peyton is the director of the National Center?s John P. McGovern Center for Environmental Regulatory Affairs, (NationalCenter.org). Boy, that was a mouthful.
Anyway, he and Chuck Harder have a conversation about this proposed reauthorization and the Center?s belief that it will be bad for endangered species and landowners alike. What other things are on his mind? How about that if we drill for oil in Alaska we could produce 1 and ? million barrels a day for the next thirty years and that would buy us time to increase our technology and get us out of the jam we are in. Wind power and solar power can?t supply what we need, he says. Click here to listen to the whole podcast.

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I remember when I was a little girl that Bill the Vegetable Man would drive through our neighborhood twice a week in his beat-up pickup truck. The back would be piled high with all types of vegetables-from luscious tomatoes to (ugh) turnips- that he had grown on his small farm. He would drive slowly through the streets, honking his horn, and the housewives would come out to see what looked especially appetizing that day. My feeling is that the Bill?s of that time don?t exist much in this time. When I go to the store I rarely see local produce; much of it comes from another country. We have become a nation where we depend on others outside of our borders for much of what we need. Tom DeWeese, of the American Policy Center (americanpolicy.org) and Chuck Harder from TalkStarRadio discuss this very thing. What they say is that we no longer have a value-added economy. And DeWeese also says that we either move toward self-sufficiency in this country or we will continue to move in a downward spiral. Click here to listen to this podcast. Oh, he also adds this tidbit: The people in Washington react to sound bytes and polls- not to the facts. Really?!?

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Most of us have heard of utopia or ShangriLa (or maybe even have seen the 1937 movie Lost Horizon). Jack Reed?s vision goes a little beyond these. He discusses his vision with Chuck Harder in this episode. Click here to listen to this discussion. He foresees a community that would lead others throughout the world to live not only in an ecological community but one where all is done for the highest good of all concerned. ?There is no fixing the system we?re in now- we need to change the model, belief system we are in now.? How does he purport to do this? He has formulated a consensus building process that would determine how decisions are made on the local level that would benefit all. Reed has written a book,The Next Evolution: A Blueprint for Transforming the Planet, which can be purchased by clicking here. Reed?s website is CommunityPlanet.org. Chuck doesn?t seem completely in agreement here-makes for some interesting listening.

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How much are you able to put away into your savings? If you are like many Americans, probably not much, if any. Talk Star Radio?s Chuck Harder and his guest, Alan Tonelson talk about the state of finances in the United States and it?s not a pretty picture. We are in what is called a negative savings rate. We are borrowing money from China. The net wage has gone no where since 1966- they call it wage stagnation. And on and on they go. Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the US Business and Industry Education Foundation (website is AmericanEconomicAlert.org) and has written a book entitled, The Race to the Bottom. To listen to the interview with Chuck, click here. To purchase Tonelson?s book, you may click here.

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Victor Mordecai is the guest of Chuck Harder and right off the bat you are thrust into a world of imminent danger. ?Islam is not a religion-it is a psychosis? says Mordecai. And the only way for Israel and America to survive the threat of Islam from taking over the entire world is to band together. Mordecai?s website is VicMord.com. To hear his thoughts as to why finding bin Laden will not stop the terrorism, how to stop the fanatics from taking over the world, the very real possibility of nuclear weapons already here on US soil pointing at us, and his predictions for the near future, you can click here. His book, ?Christian Revival for Israel?s Survival? is available by clicking here.

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In a situation such as the aftermath of Katrina it is important not to lay blame for what went wrong but to look for what went wrong and then look for ways to prevent it from happening again. In other words, learn from our mistakes. Dr. Peter Tarlow is a sociologist who has lectured to groups from Homeland Security and has been an advisor to the Dept. of the Interior. He is also founder and CEO of Tourism and More (TourismAndMore.com). On the Chuck Harder show, ?For the People? he shares his thoughts about accepting aid and help from other countries (a resounding yes), the need for a bullet-proof communications system, and building a new New Orleans 40 miles inland on non-toxic land. Good risk management is more effective than crisis management, he says. Sounds like my mom who used to say look before you leap. Click here to listen to this podcast.

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Jim Smith is back with Chuck Harder in this episode. Jim is president of the Florida Petroleum Marketers Association (FPMA.org) and I like this guy. He is commonsense rolled up with optimism. He tells it like it is. Says Jim- if the consuming public does not panic we will be ok. And that there needs to be responsible media who do not encourage panic in the people. And that people need to make short-term sacrifices-?low hydrocarbon diets? he calls it.
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