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

Hold that fork! Block that barbeque! Do you know the source of the meat that’s sizzling on the grill? Can we trust meat inspectors to catch pathogens before they catch us? Join us as we step inside the poultry shed and the slaughterhouse to trace the trail of the industrial chicken from egg to processing to your plate.

Host: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer: Chuck Rogers
Associate Producer: Tammy Rae Scott, Kara Hochner
Production Engineer: Michael Schwartz
Music in this program: open- “Greazy Chicken” by Marc Ford, Shrapnel Records/Blues Bureau International; welcome- “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Youssou N’Dour, Putumayo World Music; break 1- “Come On In My Kitchen” by Robert Johnson, The International Music Company; break 2- “Fried Chicken Skin” by Tom Faulkner, Serrano Records; bottom of the hour billboard- “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Youssou N’Dour, Putumayo World Music; bridge 1- “Dimension 37” by Chris Surma; break 3- “Chicken” by Maceo Parker, UMG Recordings; close and credits- “Greazy Chicken” by Marc Ford, Shrapnel Records/Blues Bureau International.

This program was funded by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation .

Duration: 55:00 minutes

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Need help thinking like a chicken? Dr. Karen Davis, a chicken lover since her first rescued bird, she speaks for the birds through her organization United Poultry Concerns. Dr. Davis can tell you everything you ever wanted to know- or didn’t want to know about chickens.

Known as the “Godfather of Poultry” Frank Reese has made it his life mission to farm and breed turkeys, chickens, and ducks through humane production and safe processing. The name of his farm is Good Sheppard Ranch where Heritage turkeys are raised. A Heritage turkey has a long productive lifespan and has a lineage that can be traced back 100 years.

Curious about the sudden increase of immigrants moving to the state of Arkansas to work at Tyson Foods, Professor of Anthropology, Steve Striffler took a job at a local Tyson plant to see why. Dr. Striffler shares his experience as a factory chicken breeder in his book Chicken.

A modern Upton Sinclair, former USDA meat inspector and veterinarian, Dr. Lester Friedlander, once worked for the largest hamburger processing plant in the U.S. Dr. Friedlander became a whistle-blower when he felt that the USDA inspections weren’t thorough.

Temple Grandin invented livestock handling facilities that help reduce the stress levels of animals prior to slaughter. Grandin’s design is said to be more humane than previous facilities; so much so, that even McDonald’s meat plants use her inventions.

This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry talks with Pete Sepp of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) about efforts to pass a balanced budget amendment; Andy Roth of the Club for Growth has the Real Story behind the failure of the “super committee” on debt reduction; Adam Tragone of Human Events talks with Brett Decker author of the new book Bowing to Beijing; And, Col. Frank Ryan, USMC (Retired) has an American Radio Journal commentary on the Obama Administration’s lack of transparency.

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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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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
Read by Johnny Cash

The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln is one of the most famous speeches in American history. Perhaps you memorized parts of it when you were in school. In case you’ve forgotten it, here’s an opportunity for you to refresh your memory and to hear a memorable reading of The Gettysburg Address by Johnny Cash.

Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pa., on November 19, 1863, some four and a half months after the bitter and decisive Battle of Gettysburg. About 7500 soldiers lost their lives during the three day battle of 160,000 Union and Confederate soldiers in July, 1863.

The main speaker at the event was Edward Everett, a noted orator and politician who received his invitation to speak about 40 days before the event. He prepared a lengthy text and spoke for about 2 hours. The text of his speech is seldom read.

President Lincoln was invited to Gettysburg only about 17 days prior to the event and presided over something akin to a ribbon cutting ceremony. His presence and speech were not a big part of the main event.

President Lincoln wrote the bulk of the text for his speech in Washington, D.C., and then finished editing it after he arrived in Gettysburg. There is an amusing and enduring though false story that Lincoln wrote the speech on the back of an envelope while traveling by train to Gettysburg. In fact, there are early drafts of the speech on his Executive Mansion stationery and there are reports that he worked on the speech further while a guest of David Wills, the attorney who purchased the land for the cemetery and helped organize the event.

The ceremony was attended by approximately 15,000 people, and needless to say, President Lincoln’s two minute, 272 word speech was the most memorable event of the day.

Click here to listen to Johnny Cash’s excellent reading of the address, complete with accompanying music.

Read the text of Lincoln’s famous speech below:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

On this weekly radio address to the nation, President Obama spoke from Indonesia and told the American people that during his trip to the Asia Pacific, he has made progress opening up markets to support thousands of American jobs and keep us on track to double American exports by 2014.  The President’s trip underscores his belief that our businesses will always be successful competing around the world and that he will continue to do everything possible to create jobs for the American people.

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“Today, I’m speaking to you from Indonesia as I finish up my trip to the Asia Pacific – the region where we do most of our trade and sell most of our exports.  And over the past week, the progress we’ve made in opening markets and boosting exports here will help create more jobs and more growth in the United States.

Here in Indonesia, I was proud to join leaders from some of our nation’s top companies as they announced trade deals that will support nearly 130,000 American jobs and potentially increase U.S. exports by up to $39 billion.  Boeing, for example, will sell more than 200 planes to Indonesia that are built with parts from suppliers in more than 40 states.  And a deal to export GE engines will support jobs at plants in Ohio and North Carolina.

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The Republican Weekly Address was delivered by Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. Sen. Pat Toomey , a member of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, discussed the importance of “restoring economic growth and bringing our deficits under control.”

Sen. Toomey says, “The best way to revive the American economy is to reform our broken tax code. We should seize this opportunity to throw out this unfair monstrosity and replace it with a system that will lower tax rates for every single American, simplify the code, and get rid of the special interest tax breaks and loopholes that make this code the 70,000 page mess that it is. Our tax code has to go. Every bipartisan commission that has looked at our deficit crisis has come to the same conclusion: Pro-growth tax reform is a vital part of the solution. That’s why we Republican members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction have proposed a plan that replaces our current tax code with a simpler and fairer version that will encourage small businesses to expand and hire new workers and encourage creative hardworking Americans to open new businesses. Furthermore, this reform should be permanent so that job creators across America will know they will not be subject to the biggest tax hike in American history, which is currently looming a mere 14 months away.”

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White House Week in Review

This week, President Obama embarked on a nine day Asia Pacific tour focused on strengthening economic ties and renewing strategic relationships in the region. From November 11th  through November 19th, the President visited Hawaii, Australia, and Indonesia. While on the road, he spoke at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation,  met with Australian Prime Minister, addressed Australian Parliament, spoke with Australian troops and U.S. Marines, and attended the East Asia Summit.

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This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry talks with Tim Goeglein author of The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era; Adam Tragone of Human Events has an Off the Cuff talk with former Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Sam Rohrer about congressional redistricting; And, Dr. Paul Kengor from the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College has an American Radio Journal commentary on the need to record the stories of our vanishing war veterans.

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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.

In the past few years, natural gas fracking has become a near-household word as landowners in the path of drilling have mounted efforts to slow its rapid pace of development in the U.S. and worldwide. We continue our coverage of this crucial issue with a program about citizen efforts across partisan lines to raise questions about the downsides of fracking and promote what they consider to be cleaner, greener alternatives.

This program was funded by The Park Foundation

Guests:

Host & Executive Producer: Mark Sommer
Senior Producer/Editor: Gregg McVicar
Associate Producer: Naihma Deady
Production and Distribution Coordinator: Stacey Winslow
Field Recordist: Daniel Robison, Emma Jacobs, Jim Richards
Credits: Gabriela Castelan

Music in this program:  A United Earth I by Alan Stivell and Yousou N’Dour, Putumayo World Music; Helping Hand by Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma, Sony Classical; The Meeting by North Mississippi Allstars (feat. Mavis Staples), Songs of the South; The Tale Of Marcellus Shale by Mike Stout, CD Baby.

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White House Week in Review

This week, President Obama attended the G-20 Summit in France, announced new efforts to help put veterans back to work, ordered reforms of Head Start Programs, signed an executive order to cut waste in government, and welcomed the President of Portugal.

On this weekly radio address to the nation, President Obama spoke from the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego during Veterans Day, and he called on all Americans to rededicate themselves to serving our brave men and women in uniform as well as they have served us.  Today, there are more than 850,000 veterans unemployed, which is why the President issued a challenge to private companies to hire or train more than 100,000 post-9/11 veterans or their spouses by 2013, and he was pleased to see the Senate pass proposals in his American Jobs Act on Thursday to give businesses tax credits for hiring veterans.

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“I’m speaking to you from the bridge of the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in San Diego.  This is one of the biggest ships in the Navy, and on Friday it was home to one of the most unique college basketball games I’ve ever seen.  It also gave members of our military and our veterans a chance to unwind a little bit, and on this Veterans Day, I want to take this opportunity to thank all our men and women in uniform for their service and their sacrifice.

But this day isn’t just about thanking our veterans.  It’s about rededicating ourselves to serving our veterans as well as they’ve served us.  And right now, that’s more important than ever.

Last month, I announced that, as promised, we will end the war in Iraq by the end of the year.  Many of our military families will be welcoming loved ones home for the holidays.  At the same time, we’ve begun to wind down the war in Afghanistan.  And in the next five years, over a million servicemembers will transition back into civilian life – joining the 3 million who have already done so over the last decade.

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

The panelists begin today’s show by talking about the harassment allegations against Republican candidate Herman Cain.  They talk about the effect this will have on his campaign.  Further they talk about Cain’s political qualifications.

Next, the panel talks about President Obama’s reelection strategy.  Will he be running a negative campaign?

The panelists also talk about the French and German plan to help Greece with their financial debt problem.

Finally, they talk about the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland demonstrations.

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.  Mike Pesca sits in for Matt Miller and Chrystia Freeland sits in for Arianna Huffington.

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.
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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.

The panel discusses how the “war” in Libya has been very different from the war in Iraq.  They point out that the Libya war was more legal, had a better outcome, took less time, cost less money, and cost fewer lives.

The panel also talks about the nature of the military actions taken by President George H.W. Bush and by President Clinton.

The panel talks to several callers and answer their questions.

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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.

This week on American Radio Journal: Lowman Henry talks with Harmon Kaslow producer of the film Atlas Shrugged being released this week on DVD; Andy Roth of the Club for Growth has the Real Story behind the “super committee’s” deficit reduction deliberations; Adam Tragone of Human Events talks about GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain’s handling of sexual harrassment accusations with Jeff Lord of the American Spectator; And, Col. Frank Ryan, USMC (Ret.) has an American Radio Journal commentary on why being pro-union is not the same as being pro-worker.

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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.

 In this special edition of A World of Possibilities, two lives spent breaking the mold of both traditional and feminist perspectives are recounted in candid conversation, each with a focused sense of purpose – to use their unique sensibilities and life experiences to help heal a species and planet grievously wounded by fear, greed and ignorance of its own positive potential.

Guests:
Frances Moore Lappe, social activist, author of sixteen books, including the landmark Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
Wangari Maathai , Winner, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize; founder, Greenbelt Movement, Kenya
(Please 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- “Bida Mariadu” by Lura – Putamayo World Music; “Surfin” by William Orbit – Sanctuary Records; “A United Earth I” by Alan Stivell and Yousou N’Dour – Putamayo World Music; “M’envoyer Des Fleurs” by Sandrine Kiberlain – Putamayo World Music; “Nao Se Apavare” by Luca Mundaca – Putamayo World Music; “Pata Pata” by Miriam Makeba – Putamayo World Music;

Funding: Listeners Like You

Duration: 55:00 minutes

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