Tuesday Night

12:00-1:10 am: Senate HELP Hearing: We Must Address the Health Care Workforce Crisis from Feb 16, 2023
Despite all of our health care spending, there aren’t enough health care professionals. This is the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee discusses the health care workforce crisis facing our country today. This hearing was close to 2:30hours; I am only bringing you one of hour of it—the chair BS, I senator from Vermont and VC Paul Cassidy, republican Senator from Louisiana. I have left out the remaining committee senators Q&A out. if you wish to watch and hear the entire HELP committee hearing.

link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-YZD2u1mO8&t=40s

There is one acronym used repeatedly in this hear: GME is an abbreviation of Graduate Medical Education.

Note: We brought you “Forever chemical” in our drinking waters from Consumer Report last week; the EPA is finally taking action on this issue. An article in Associated Press: EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water; By MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY 14 March 2023

Link: https://apnews.com/article/epa-pfas-forever-chemicals-water-contamination-regulations-560d0ce3321e7fa8ed052f792c24f16f?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01


1:10-2:15 am: Tami Simon, Director of Sounds True, in conversation with Dr. Sara King: Liberatory technology from the future.

We live in an age of astounding technological wonders. Yet there is great fear and uncertainty around where it’s taking us all. The multitalented Dr. Sará King is a neuroscientist, education philosopher, public speaker, and codirector of Mobius, a nonprofit committed to the creation of “liberatory technology” as a countercurrent to the harm perpetuated by much of our modern technology.

Tami Simon speaks with Dr. King about her life and work, on topics of critical skill of self-compassion; intergenerational trauma and the relationship between the personal and the collective; how to shift to a freeing perspective on our suffering; the pain inflicted through the practice of othering; and many many more topics. Website: Soundstrue.com

2:20-3:25 am: The Diet of the Future - EAT-Lancet a UN commission.
United Nations - How can we feed a growing population a healthy diet from sustainable food production? The EAT-Lancet Commission presents a global planetary health diet – with a guest speaker Alec Baldwin.

We are now 8B people on this planet and the expectation is that we will be 10B by the end of this century—this is not including all other better beings on the planet.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD4u9L_jd8g

Two issues: distribution of food and wasting food in the US is now 50%. Articles on student going hungry in Associated press: ‘It’s hard to focus’: Schools say American kids are hungry, By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and ARLEIGH RODGERS 11March 2023

Link: https://apnews.com/article/free-school-lunch-child-hunger-7d38b5a84e533129f507d76cc05c622f

3:25-5:00 am: The Thom Hartmann program, a rebroadcast of yesterday's show.

5:00-6:00 am: March 19 is the 20th anni. Attack on Iraq, and this week, we are bringing you special programs to reflect back on this war—an ongoing war that started in 1990.

This is a talk by Norman Solomon on War Made Easy, was given at UCSB in Dec. 2005, part 1—the 2nd part will be on tomorrow morning. Norman Solomon is/was Media critic Norman Solomon discusses pro-war propaganda generated by U.S. governments during military operations and the influence the media has on public opinion. From the invasion of the Dominican Republic to the current war in Iraq Solomon explores ways the media is used to bolster support for military intervention. The attack on Iraq was based on lies and propaganda that caused unnecessary killing of millions of Iraqi civilians and cost an estimated $2.6T to $3T, which breaks down to $63K/person of 330M people, our tax money to achieve nothing.

This was/is war crime; even George W Bush acknowledged that the WMD was misleading and Tony Blair was found guilty of lying to British parliament. All these people are guilty of war crime: Tony Blair, George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Collin Powell, Rumsfeld, Paul Bremer, George Tenet, Condolence Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Chertoff, All these people are guilty of war crime. And The Intel criminal court one day will reach the same conclusion.