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The Republican Weekly Address was delivered by Representative John Boehner of Ohio. Boehner outlined solutions for ending economic uncertainty, stopping government’s spending binge, and changing the way Congress does business. In the address, Boehner noted that this is a new approach that hasn’t been tried in Washington – by either party – and it is at the core of the Pledge to America, a governing agenda Republicans built by listening to the people.

“Hello. I’m John Boehner.

“Before I served in Congress, I ran a small business here in Ohio, and I saw first-hand how politicians in Washington can make it harder for small employers to meet a payroll and create jobs.

“In the final days of the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised to ‘change this country and change the world.’

“Well I don’t know about the world, but here at home, Americans haven’t experienced the change President Obama promised. One in ten of our fellow citizens is out of work. Our national debt has grown by $3 trillion Trust in government has fallen to an all-time low.

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On his weekly radio address to the nation, President Barack Obama called the recent comments by the GOP leadership, which put scoring political points over solving the problems facing the country, “troubling,” and asked Democrats and Republicans to work together to move the country forward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nMWVQS06kI

“Tuesday is Election Day, and here in Washington, the talk is all about who will win and who will lose – about parties and politics.

But around kitchen tables, I’m pretty sure you’re talking about other things: about your family finances, or maybe the state of the economy in your hometown; about your kids, and what their futures will bring.  And your hope is that once this election is over, the folks you choose to represent you will put the politics aside for a while, and work together to solve problems.

That’s my hope, too.

Whatever the outcome on Tuesday, we need to come together to help put people who are still looking for jobs back to work.  And there are some practical steps we can take right away to promote growth and encourage businesses to hire and expand.  These are steps we all should be able to agree on – not Democratic or Republican ideas, but proposals that have traditionally been supported by both parties.

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Left, Right and Center is a weekly half-hour radio broadcast and podcast produced by KCRW in Santa Monica.

The panel talked about the upcoming midterm elections.  They debated effects of the TEA Party and whether the current voter sentiments for change will result in a more coherent government.  They discussed whether the current economic conditions are worsening.  Will the new Congress be able to produce results?  What will be the fate of the middle class?

The panel also talked about the banks and Wall Street’s responsibility for the mortgage crisis the was partly responsible for the economic downturn.  Little action has been taken against the guilty parties.

The participants on the show are Robert Scheer who represents the left, Tony Blankley who represents the right, Matt Miller, the moderator, who represents the center, and Arianna Huffington, who represents the progressive blogosphere.  On this show Chrystia Freeman sits in for Arianna Huffington and David Frum sits in for Tony Blankley who are away.

At the end of this entertaining show the participants each have a 30 second rant to summarize the issue that each sees as most significant.

Click here to be taken to the Left, Right and Center home page where you can download or listen to the podcast.

This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry gets an overview of governor races from John Gizzi, political editor and White House correspondent for Human Events, the national conservative news weekly; Andy Roth of the Club for Growth has a final pre-election look at races for the U.S. Senate; and Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, USA has an American Radio Journal commentary on why this mid-term election is about more than which political party wins or loses — it is about the future of America.

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American Radio Journal is produced and distributed by the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc. The Lincoln Institute is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1993, the mission of the Lincoln Institute is: “To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research and related educational programs.”

The Lincoln Institute accepts no government money and is completely funded by philanthropic grant making foundations, corporations, and individuals.

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The following podcast is brought to you courtesy of A World of Possibilities and The Mainstream Media Project.

Hard economic times aren’t good for much, but they do get us thinking. As we sort through the wreckage of our private dreams, we ask ourselves how we could have done it differently – and how, given the chance, we might create an economy more equitable and reliable than the last one.

Guests:
David Korten, Author, Lecturer and Engaged Citizen
Hazel Henderson, President, Ethical Markets

(Click on a guest’s name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Credits:
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz

Music in this Program: Open – “Sweet Apocalypse” by Moby – Mute Records; “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Youssou N’Dour – Putumayo World Music; “Money Talks” by J.J. Cale – Fontana Island; “I’m Busted” by Ray Charles – Rhino / Wea; “Strapped For Cash” by Fountains Of Wayne – Virgin Records.

Funding: listeners like you.

Duration: 55:00 minutes

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On his weekly radio address to the nation, President Barack Obama called out the Republican leadership in Congress for vowing to repeal Wall Street reform, which will protect Americans from unfair practices in mortgage transactions and foreclosures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geyAFbSDPVk

Over the past two years, we’ve won a number of battles to defend the interests of the middle class.  One of the most important victories we achieved was the passage of Wall Street Reform.

This was a bill designed to rein in the secret deals and reckless gambling that nearly brought down the financial system.  It set new rules so that taxpayers would never again be on the hook for a bailout if a big financial company went under.  And reform included the strongest consumer protections in history – to put an end to a lot of the hidden fees, deceptive mortgages, and other abusive practices used to tilt the tables against ordinary people in their financial dealings.
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Global Oneness Day ~ The Global Oneness Project ~ Petition Declaring Our Oneness

This is a day – the first one in history – dedicated to celebrating and demonstrating our inner oneness and our outer diversity, a day when the greatness of the whole is reflected in the greatness of its parts.

We invite you to join untold thousands of people in cities and villages around the world showing what it means and how great it feels to live in unity, diversity, harmony and compassion.

And if we can do it on this shared day, then there is hope that we can do it every day!

Visit the following sites in support of Global Oneness ~ Celebrating The Oneness of Life:

Global Oneness Day – http://www.global-oneness-day.org/

Petition Declaring Our Oneness – http://humanitysteam.org/sai/oneness-petition/what-is-it

Global Oneness Project – http://www.globalonenessproject.org/

Working With Oneness – http://www.workingwithoneness.org/

Kalliopeia Foundation – ?http://www.kalliopeia.org/programareas.html

Global Oneness Day is a day set aside and embraced by individuals, communities and nations each year to celebrate, discuss, demonstrate and thus experience our commonality while embracing our beautiful cultural diversity – a shared day to embody unity, diversity, harmony and compassion.

We also want the United Nations to recognize this day because unity, diversity, harmony and compassion – founding U.N. ideals – are also important to the common interests of the international community.

The Republican Weekly Address was delivered by Senator John Thune of South Dakota.  He talked about unemployment and the need for a new direction in Congress.

Hello, I’m Senator John Thune of South Dakota. As you’ve probably noticed, we have an election coming up in a little over a week.

President Obama has been running around the country trying to reelect Democrat members of Congress.

But if the conversations I’ve had with voters are any indication, the president should spend less time campaigning to save the jobs of Democrats in Congress, and more time trying to create jobs for the American people.All across South Dakota and the country, I’ve heard from people who aren’t fooled by President Obama’s well-written speeches. They have serious concerns about our economy, and they are all too familiar with the Administration’s failed policies.

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Mark Levine’s Inside Scoop on Washington

Mark Levine hosts the Raucous Caucus with Terry Kester and Garland Nixon from Washington DC.

Here’s how Levine provocatively describes today’s discussion:

“Money is the Root of All Evil
Money is the Mother’s Milk of Politics
Does anyone see anything wrong here?
The Raucous Caucus looks at who’s financing the midterm elections.

We discuss how foreign countries (Russia, China, etc.) and multinational corporations (oil, pharmaceutical, etc.) with the help of five lawless Members of the United States Supreme Court (Scalia, Roberts, etc.) have taken over the Republican Party and made sure it follows their dictates, rather than We the People.

Will we ever see democracy again?”

Click here to listen to this podcast.

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The Inside Scoop is nationally syndicated on the Head-On Radio Network and iTunes. The show can be heard on radio weekdays, 5-6 pm Eastern, and can be seen on television Monday 7-8 pm Eastern.

Since June 2003, Mark Levine has given listeners The Inside Scoop from political players inside the Beltway – news that the Media almost never reports and those in power in the Government do not want you to know about. Mark welcomes all during his talk radio hour, and he particularly values calls from folks who disagree with him.

Visit Radio Inside Scoop.com to access more information and additional podcast shows.

Left, Right and Center is a weekly half-hour radio broadcast and podcast produced by KCRW in Santa Monica.

The panel talked extensively about the recent NPR firing of Juan Williams and discuss the differences between news media and opinion media.

The panel also talked about the mortgage problems.  Looks like it may cost a lot of money to fix.

Finally, the panel talked about the upcoming elections and debate about who is likely to turn out to vote and who is not.  They closed with a short discussion of the austerity measures going on in Britain.

The participants on the show are Robert Scheer who represents the left, David Frum who sits in for Tony Blankley who represents the right, Matt Miller, the moderator, who represents the center, and Arianna Huffington, who represents the progressive blogosphere.

At the end of this entertaining show the participants each have a 30 second rant to summarize the issue that each sees as most significant.

Click here to be taken to the Left, Right and Center home page where you can download or listen to the podcast.

This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry talks with pollster Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports about key races in the upcoming November election; Andy Roth of the Club for Growth has the Real Story behind tightening polls in U.S. Senate races; and Col. Frank Ryan, USMC (Ret.) has an American Radio Journal commentary on the need for more than two party choices on the ballot.

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American Radio Journal is produced and distributed by the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc. The Lincoln Institute is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1993, the mission of the Lincoln Institute is: “To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research and related educational programs.”

The Lincoln Institute accepts no government money and is completely funded by philanthropic grant making foundations, corporations, and individuals.

To listen to the broadcast click here.

The following podcast is brought to you courtesy of A World of Possibilities and The Mainstream Media Project.

As we seek ways to make both our economies and food supplies more sustainable, we would do well to look at what worked for hundreds of years before modern technology gave us both greater productivity and greater vulnerability. In this program we visit with specialists from around the world who are combining the newest techniques of sustainable agriculture with ancient practices of subsistence forest farming to create food production systems robust enough to weather the unpredictable extremes of climate change.

This program was funded by The Christensen Fund.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

At the height of the second wave of feminism the world saw Magda Pollard emerge as the face of Guyana and the Caribbean in the struggle to end all forms of discrimination against women, for which, it can be agreed, she has left a lasting legacy.

Despite the prevailing mindsets believing that the world operates on the psyche of men, Magda Pollard believes, some progress has been achieved in influencing this mindset, though women are yet to hit the glass ceiling as they should.

In 1993, it was the recognition of her work to create a liberating and sustaining environment for women that earned her the Caribbean Community’s Triennial Award for Women, which she shares with other Guyanese greats such as Justice Desiree Bernard and the late President Janet Jagan.

At home, she received two of the country’s highest national awards – the Cacique Crown of Honour and the Arrow of Achievement.
It was in 1980, one year after the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted by the UN General Assembly, that Ms Pollard was appointed the first Women’s Affairs Officer at the CARICOM Secretariat and worked to get Caribbean government to agree to sign on to and ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It was Ms Pollard’s task to get governments in the region to put in place such national action plans.

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On his weekly radio address to the nation, President Barack Obama laid out a policy agenda that would strengthen our economy and create jobs right here in America by offering tax incentives to businesses that hire new employees, making the research and experimentation tax credit permanent and providing a tax cut for clean energy manufacturing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppi7KJsSnnE

After a decade of hardship for middle class families, and a recession that wiped away millions of jobs, we are in the middle of a tough fight to rebuild this economy and put folks back to work.

Winning this fight will not depend on government alone.  It will depend on the innovation of American entrepreneurs; on the drive of American small business owners; on the skills and talents of American workers.  These are the people who will help us grow our economy and create jobs.

But government still has an important responsibility.  And that’s to create an environment in which someone can raise capital to start a new company; where a business can get a loan to expand; where ingenuity is prized and folks are rewarded for their hard work.

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The Republican Weekly Address was delivered by House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana. Pence called for immediate enactment of Republicans’ Pledge to America in the face of continued uncertainty surrounding the state of the economy. Rep. Pence talked about how this governing agenda includes clear and positive plans to help create jobs, cut spending, and make Congress more open and accountable.

“Hello, I’m Mike Pence of Indiana.

“These are difficult times in the life of this nation. Families are hurting, American businesses are struggling. In the city and on the farm, the economic policies of this administration have failed.“Wherever I go, everyday Americans tell me they’re tired of runaway federal spending, bailouts and takeovers.

“And they tell me they’re worried that everything they’ve worked for could someday be gone.

“This week, the world rejoiced as 33 miners emerged safely from months of dark captivity in a deep Chilean mine.

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This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry talks with Jeff Lord of the American Spectator about how Obamacare is forcing the sale of the Catholic hospital in which Vice President Joe Biden was born; Andy Roth of the Club for Growth has the Real Story on the historic nature of the possible Republican wave election on November 2nd; And, Dr. Paul Kengor of the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College has an American Radio Journal commentary on the influence American communist Frank Marshall Davis had on a young Barack Obama.

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American Radio Journal is produced and distributed by the Lincoln Institute of Public Opinion Research, Inc. The Lincoln Institute is a 501c3 non-profit educational foundation based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Founded in 1993, the mission of the Lincoln Institute is: “To promote the ideals of free market economics, individual liberty, and limited government through the conduct of public opinion research and related educational programs.”

The Lincoln Institute accepts no government money and is completely funded by philanthropic grant making foundations, corporations, and individuals.

To listen to the broadcast click here.

The following podcast is brought to you courtesy of A World of Possibilities and The Mainstream Media Project.

The U.S. designs nifty iPhones and deadly weapons, but in measures that really matter, like education and green tech, we’re being upstaged by other nations. In recent years, we have been systematically dis-investing in our collective capacity for innovation. Why is the engine of American ingenuity running off the rails, and what needs to be done to get us back on track?

Guests:
John Kao, Chairman and CEO, Kao & Co.
Esther Dyson, EDVenture Holdings

(Click on a guest’s name to listen to their full unedited interview.)

Credits:
Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producers: Naihma Deady, Matt Fidler
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: “Behind the Mask” – Eccodek – White Swan; “A United Earth I” – Alan Stivell and Youssou N’Dour – Putumayo World Music; “Forever Unanswered” – Eccodek – White Swan; “Creative Engine” – Knifeinwater – Pan Records; “Them Changes” – Bobby McFerrin – Capitol Records.

Funding: listeners like you.

Duration: 55:00 minutes

Click here to listen to the podcast.

Left, Right and Center is a weekly half-hour radio broadcast and podcast produced by KCRW in Santa Monica.

The panel talked about the recent news that several banks will suspend taking action on home foreclosures while they sort out some problems that have recently come up.  The panel debates about who actually owns the mortgages.

The panel talked about General Jim Jones, President Obama’s national security advisor, who left the administration this week.  They debate where this leaves the US position in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Finally, the panel talks about whether the President’s job approval rating hurts the Democrats in the upcoming national elections.

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