Ferals Furballs of Truth on Democracy's Edge Talk

Glen Ford, radio host and long time journalist,  joins co-hosts Diane and Dave on their talk radio show.  Back in February 2008, Glen Ford warned that Barack Obama was no liberal.  Glen's website is blackagendareport.com and does real investigative journalism. Bruce Dixon and Margaret Kimberley are two of the regular contributors along with Glen.  Glen or Bruce are guests every Wednesday on Mark Thompson's Sirius Left "Make It Plain" talk radio show.  Glen is always way ahead of main stream journalists.  Listen to what he has to say of Obama.  If you had listened to Glen back in 2007 like I did, you wouldn't be surprised at the corporate bent of our new president. 

Matt Taibbi, author and investigative journalist for "Rolling Stone" visits "The Edge" Talk Radio.  Hosts Di and Dave ask Matt to elaborate on his latest post "Wall Street's Naked Swindle" and how there seems to be a whole lot of counterfeiting going on.  Di and Dave ask Matt some more questions.  What are "dark pools"?  Why is Goldman Sachs lobbying for even less transparency? Should Elizabeth Warren run for president?  Was health care "reform" decided a long time ago?  Does he still travel with a Viking costume like he did when he covered the 2004 Democratic primary?  Are we becoming Russia? 

The Edge Talk Radio talks to Dr. Paul Hochfeld, one of the Mad as Hell Doctors who journeyed from Portland, Oregon to Washington DC.  Dave and Di talked to Paul prior to his arrival in DC on September 30th.  And today Dr. Paul talks about staying in DC and although not invited getting into the President's doctors news conference on October 5.  He tells us that many of the Doctors for Obama he met there thinks that the single payer and national health care plan people are a bit delusional.   He also reveals how doctors are paid and how the AMA has a secret panel that devises evaluation or intervention codes.  Medicare subcontracts this job to the AMA that then is  paid 100 million dollars a year. These CPT codes are updated every 5 years by something called the RUC (Reimbursement Update Committee). They determine that dermotolgists get paid more than primary care physicians.   He bluntly tells us that specialists who make more than $500,000 aren't terribly interested in changing the system.  We have a huge crisis in not having enough primary care physicians.  They are paid far less than a specialist.Dr. Paul is smart, funny,  and determined to keep working towards a health care system where eveybody is in the system and no one is out. 

Stephen Kinzer, former NY Times foreign correspondent in over 50 countries for over 20 years covered many of the hot spots all over the world from Guatemala to the fall of the Berlin Wall to Turkey and Israel.  His book "Overthrow: A Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" is a must read for any serious student of foreign policy.  He gives some very unique observations about Afghanistan.  Did you know that we had U.S. soldiers doing voter registration there?  One soldier was killed registering voters.  Is that what they are trained to do?  FUBAR, is what it is.In the first half hour of "The Edge" talk radio, Dave and Di interview Stephen and in the 2nd Half Hour cough up more hair balls of truth from the crap we all digest throughout the week from the Fat Cat News and Bloviators of Blather.

Stephen Kinzer, former NY Times foreign correspondent and author of many books including "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq".  Stephen knows his stuff about Afghanistan.  He also recently visited Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel for his next book.  Get a sneak preview of his latest thesis on what we really should do in the Middle East.

Paul Hochfeld of Mad as Hell Doctors, is an emergency room doctor.  He is part of a group of doctors who are taking their case  for Universal Single Payer Health Care from Portland, Oregon all the way to Washington, D.C. with many stops along the way.  Smart and charismatic, Doctor Paul is mad about our broken political system that allows this pay or die health care debacle to continue.  Dave and Di ask you to join them and become Feral Cats of Freedom coughing up hair balls of truth from the crap we've all digested throughout the week from the fat cat news and bloviators of blather.

The Feral Cats of Freedom cough up hair balls of truth each week from the crap we've digested throughout the week from the Fat Cat News, bloviators of blather, the weasel wunderkind of Washington, and stupid goobers with misspelled signs.  This week we discuss the President's health care address to Congress, the latest Wall Street scam in "death bonds", and is capitalism dead?  Who is the next bunch to be sacrificed to the gods of money?Local Montanans weigh in on the way of the world with your hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger; the rancher and the trucker.

Democracy's Edge  Talk Radio in Bozeman, MT each week takes on the Fat Cat news and Bloviators of Blather.  This week Glen Ford, radio pioneer and editor of blackagendareport.com says that these are hard times but exciting times.  We are seeing the end of the parasitical finance class and perhaps the end of capitalism in its present form.  Having detroyed our industrial structure and shippe it overseas, the parasites are feasting on what is left in the U.S. i.e. the public sectors.  The are feeding on health care money and education.  They  want our social security along with anything else they can suck.  Always a visionary and not a big thinker, a HUGE thinker, Glen is one of our most admired guests.Join Dave and Di and become feral cats of freedom each week coughing up hair balls of truth.

Grow Up America.  Stop talking in cliches and weasel phrases.  I’m asking my fellow feral cats to write to radio stations and tell them to stop spouting garbage like NPR’s Christopher Joyce talking health care and repeating the mind numbing phrase “don’t let the perfect, be the enemy of the good”.  Can we get some cap and trade fines for our numbnuts no ‘nads weiners every time they say things like:“It’s not politically feasible”.  “It’s off the table”.  “What we have is a perfect storm.”

What’s Gone Wrong?  Stephen Zarlenga asks in his book “The Lost Science of Money”.  Well, it seems that if a nation and its people don’t control the money, they can pretend all they like that they are free, but they really aren’t.  When the people control their money, they decide what to do with it.  Will it be used to build and repair vital human infrastructure like our health care and our schools or will it go for warfare and real estate loans and banksters pockets? His book shows us how we allowed 1% of the population to own 50% of the wealth and receive 70% of the income.  Get the book at monetary.org.Join Di and Dave, the Feral Cats of Freedom as they cough up hairballs of truth with Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute.  Learn about money, morality and much much more on this alternative to the Fat Cat News.

Margot Kidder and Linda Kenoyer of Montanans for Single Payer discuss our screwed up health care system.  Listen to them rail on Max Baucus with the hosts of Democracy's Edge Talk Radio, Diane Kamp, the Montana Maven and Dave Zollinger, Deadrock Dave. 

Dr. Bob Putsch joins the Montana Maven and Deadrock Dave On Democracy's Edge Talk Radio in Bozeman, Montana.  Dr. Bob answers questions about what a single payer health care plan means.  A great humanitarian, scholar, and speaker, he makes it plain and we are proud that he is a Montanan.

Democracy's Edge Talk Radio talks to Professor Philip Cafaro about population growth, sprawl, immigration and the ethical way to look at these issues and more.   Join Di and Dave and the Feral Cats of Freedom as they cough up hair balls of myths, conventional wisdom and downright lies.   Become a Border Collie of Sanity and help us round up stray ideas, news and truths that got away from the Fat Cat News.

Democracy's Edge talk radio talks to former NY Times foreign correspondent, Stephen Kinzer, about America's history of overthrowing foreign governments.  What's the connection, if any, between the first overthrow of Hawaii's queen, Iran's Mossadagh in the 1950s, Panama's Noriega, Iraq's Saddam and other coups and invasions?  Entertaining and informative, Kinzer is a favorite of Di and Dave.  Read his book "Overthrow", "Bitter Fruit" and "All the Shah's Men". 

What do Vulture Funds and Loan Sharking have in common?  Co hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger of "Democracy's Edge Talk Radio" interview Imani Countess of the TransAfrica Forum.  Predatory hedge fund types are making lives miserable in places like Zambia.  Now that  we here in the U.S. are experiencing how the predators have worked in the financial sector, it might behoove us to take a closer look at where the sharks have been practicing up. 

It turns out our cell phones are not only killing conversation, but they are killing people in the Congo.  A World War III has been going on there since the 1990's.  Why don't Americans know anything about what is going on there and why?  To help Diane and Dave understand why what is happening in the Congo is vital to regular Americans and people everywhere, Maurice Carney joins them on Democracy's Edge talk radio.Maurice Carney is a co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo.  He is an independent entrepreneur and human rights activist who has fought with Congolese for over a decade in their struggle for human dignity and control of their country.The Congo is the heart of Africa with enough good farm land to feed the entire world and a rain forest to keep the earth from warming.  It also has a metal found in cell phones, Play Stations, computers, missile guiding systems and more.   Discover why we must save the Congo from the corporate plunderers.  It is the canary in the mine.  Our lives depend on knowing more.

Gerald Le Melle holds a J.D. from Georgetown University.  He lived in Africa for ten years and now is the Executive Director of Africa Action having previously worked for Amnesty International USA.  Hosts Dave and Diane have a lot of questions about what's going on with this new part of the U.S. military called AFRICOM.  Is this the way to resolve conflicts in countries in Africa? Do Africans want our help? Is the United States of Africa a good idea?  What has Africa got that we want?  Lots.  If we paid African farmers a fair price for their crops like cocoa for all the chocolate we consume, would they be able to get out of poverty?  A great free wheeling discussion, if I do say so myself.Diane

Dr. Arjun Makhijani joins the hosts of Democracy's Edge.  Dr. Makhijani got his Ph.D. at Berkley and now works in Takoma Park, Maryland at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Reseaarch of which he is president.A recognized authority on energy issues and nuclear issues in particular, Dr. Makhijani is the author and co-author of numerous reports and books on topics such as nuclear defense systems, radioactive waste storage and disposal, nuclear testing, disposition of fissile materials, energy efficiency, and ozone depletion.  He is the principal editor of Nuclear Wastelands: a Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects, published by MIT Press in July 1995, and subsequently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.The banksters succeeded in bringing misery to the whole world without using any nukes.  But just in case the crony capitalists and globalists don’t do us  in completely,  maybe we ought to pay a little more attention to the real thing; nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and nukes in space.  After all look what happened when we weren’t watching the bond traders and bucket shop bozos?  Should we worry or Should we stop worrying and learn to once more love the bomb? And since we’re broke, what is this costing us?Hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger cough up fur balls of truth each week from the baloney digested throughuot the week from the Fat Cat News.

Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute at monetary .org is the author of "The Lost Science of Money".  Stephen and his colleagues are dedicated to de-mystifying money because  “If it had to be summarized in one sentence it is that by misdefining the nature of money, special interests have often been able to control a society’s monetary system, and in turn, the society itself.”The Teamster and the Rancher, Dave and Di, ask Zarlenga about the details of the "American Monetary Act" that they have proposed.   Should we incorporate the Federal Reserve into the Treasury?  And they ask him to explain the difference between banking and money. And should there be such thing as a moral economy or moral and just money?The Feral Cats of Freedom on Democracy's Edge Talk Radio are searching for new ideas to either fix or replace or political and economic system.  What do you think of Zarlenga's ideas?

Democracy's Edge Independent Alternative Talk Radio discusses how the government can speed the recovery of the economy.  Caller "Robert", a small business man has his ideas.  Lady Di calls him the anti-Thain.  John Thain is the latest not so whiz kid of Wall Street that got caught on his $35,000 commode taking a dump on all of us.  He took bailout money and gave 8 billion in bonuses to his "top managers" aka "made men". Each week for three hours the Feral Cats of Freedom cough up fur balls of truth from the baloney they've digested throughout the week from the Fat Cat News.  Join them online at kmmsam.com to whack through the misinformation from the Corporate media.