Wake Up AMerica Podcast

This week:
Does Bill Richardson have a shot? We take a second look. Steve Marchand, Richardson's New Hampshire campaign consultant, fills us in.
Also,
-Ashcroft wants to be waterboarded!
-Giuliani's terrorism connection
-and will there beimmunity for corporations who spy?
It's our 100th podcast!
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This week:
Bush's new best friend, Diane Feinstein, exposes the myth of the two party system
- How do you lose 5 million emails?
- FBI confirms what we all knew about the Blackwater shooting. Now What?
- Can Meatless Mondays save our planet?
AND, no podcast next week, but we will have a BIG BIG announcement from all of us here at Wake Up AM when we return.
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This week;
-The privatization of EVERY LAST THING in America.
Naomi Klein paints a sobering picture.
-Dennis Kucinich introduces Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney...
enjoy the moment then it's back to reality
-The Democrats cave again assuring Mukasey's confirmation
-In an attempt to prevent immunity for corporations involved in spying, an AT&T whistleblower testifies that his company listened and recorded EVERYTHING you've done on the web and on the phone for years.
It's a dark road ahead, but join us anyway!

This week:
We dissect the latest Democratic Debate
AND Kathy's son reurns from Iraq!
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This week: As California's National Guard stationed in Iraq watch their state burn, Lt. Governor John Garamendi blasts Bush.
also:
- Once President, Hillary pledges to give back executive powers, we'll see.
- Congressman Stark is forced to apologize for telling it like it is
- Mukasey awaits confirmation as the debate centers on our definition of torture, not the fact that we are doing it.
-Filibuster, use it or lose it.
-This just in...  It's Islamo\Fascist week!
AND Kathy's son returns from Iraq safe and sound.
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This week: We thought Gonzales was bad. Just think what a competent, war on terror/wiretapping judge can accomplish.
Also,
- Bush wins a Nobel prize too?
- The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein talks about her new book
- What's this Armenian Genocide resolution all about?
- If Iran had a nuke, would they use it?
- And is Bush stable? Barbara Boxer doesn't think so and neither do we.
Meg is back in Canada but the rest of us are here in the land of no SCHIP.
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This week: One last chance to get the FISA thing right. Can the Democrats deliver?
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This week:
-A Battle over Talk Radio
-Blackwater hearings
-Seymour Hersh on the "new" reason to attack Iran
-AND John Edwards wins over Nancy!
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This week: The Ideal Hillary or the Real Hillary?
With her saber rattling towards Iran, a continued presence in Iraq, and corporate ties to any health care plan, are progressives willing to overlook it all in the name of putting their ideal candidate in the White House?
- Does Patraeus want to be President?
-The White House is accused of using the threat of terrorism to get their way on the hill.( It\\\\\\\'s not the first time.)
-Condoleeza obstructs Blackwater investigation
-AND the Senate officially labels Iran\\\\\\\'s elite army a terrorist group, paving the way for an attack on Iran
Join us for a lively discussion!

This week:
Another 911/War on Terror collaborator is given his reward. Bush nominates Michael Mukasey for Attorney General.
Giuliani in London- the last time he was there the subways were "terrorized"
Blackwater finally breaks out into the mainstream media
AND the "filibuster" excuse is responsible for the demise of two important bills intended to fight this administration.
It's all bad news, all the time.
Join us for the fun.

This week:
General Patraeus does his best to defend the Bush war policy, if you can call chaos a policy.
How long will this war go on and who will end it?
Everyone's singing
bomb,bomb Iran
but is  Obama changing his tune?
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This week: Blackwater starts an Air Force and begins to establish bases in the United States. Are we running out of time to stop all this?
- Global warming may be worse than we thought
- Will an attack on Iran be popular? That's what the corporate media is telling us.
-John Conyers is back! We're talking Impeachment
-And Hillary visits our town, we have a lively Wake UP AM debate
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This week:
The end to the Iraq War may come from the soldiers themselves
-Diebold is shamed into changing its' name
-If Americans voted on the issues alone, Kucinich would be the next President
-Katrina recovery, 2 years and counting
-It looks as if the attack on Iran is ON
And, Meg calls from Canada. We may all end up there.
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This week: Cheney knew all along exactly what the Iraq War would be a QUAGMIRE and we have the audio to prove it.
-the FISA bill, we're still pissed.
-read the fine print on The Patriot Act and you'll find it's worse than you think
-And, A Rudy Giuliani presidency could make Bush look like an opening act.
Nancy's away but we attempt a show anyway. Join us!
(We're away next week, so see you in two weeks!)

This week:
-Infrastructure, which is the bigger threat, terrorism or neglect?

- Congress passes the new FISA law proving once and for all that the hope
of reform by the Democrats is over
- A Justice Department so treasonous that John Ashcroft wanted to resign
- Will China call in the debt?
- And Nancy meets Nancy .... Pelosi
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This Week: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton ? Anyone see a pattern here?
Who's next? Jeb then Chelsea? And will there really be a substantial policy change if A Hillary gets in, or will it be business as usual?
-Should you vote with your head or your heart? We have a lively discussion.
-And does your vote matter anyway. From California to Florida, electronic voting gets a big thumbs down, but can we defeat The Rise of the Machines before 2008?
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This week: What are Bush and Cheney planning?
- Paul Craig Roberts shares his deep concerns on what's ahead.
- The Director of National Intelligence defines torture by any other name.
- Bush plays the only two cards left in his deck, Al Qaeda and 911.
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This week:
Impeachment! The word that won't go away.

Meg and Kathy are hard at work churning out a podcast while Nancy and Brian are on vacation in Maine.
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This week: Michael Moore finally gets some mainstream media air time and blasts CNN for it's complicity in the Iraq War.

This week: The Democrats are split. The Republicans are fractured.
And the country is fed up. Could this be a historic opportunity?
Is the two party system vulnerable?
We have an analysis from Webster Tarpley.
Also, Scooter gets a "get out of jail card" in the real game of Monopoly.
Gee, we didn't see that one coming.
And, we've got mail, from you!
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This week:
Darth Cheney, more machine than man, proclaims himself untouchable as subpoenas finally emerge from Congress.
-Salt Lake City's Mayor Rocky Anderson speaks out against the spineless Democrats in Washington.
- A General speaks out against Rumsfeld's role in Abu Graib.
- Blackwater, private army to the White House.
-The Supreme Court takes on "Bong hits for Jesus"
-And Elizabeth Edwards takes on Ann Coulter.
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This week: Michael Moore's Sicko is poised to slay the healthcare Dragon.
Will the nation rise up to help?
Also - Meg is back from Aruba, Kathy from Ireland and Germany, and Nancy from... the Magic Kingdom?
Guess which location is the most repressive.
- Maine takes steps towards Net Neutrality, its a start.
- And should we all be onboard with Google?...  or should we find a more progressive place to do our business.
-Wake Up AM is back!

This week:
We have an intruder on the premises!
While the Wake Up crew was out of town, we called in to check messages and someone answered pretending to be us!
The mystery was finally solved but you'll have to listen for yourselves to find out.
Enjoy this special edition and we'll see you all next week.

This week:
911 truth squads start to dismantle the myth of Rudy Guliani as 911 hero.
- Bush heads to the G8 to sell his plan for "missle defense". Is this the start of The New Cold War?
- COWLEEFORNEEYA vs the EPA- Arnold and Jerry Brown, remember him?, take Bush's non environmental policy to court.
- And prophetic words from JFK.
We are on hiatus next week so this one will have to hold you. See you in two weeks!
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This week:
-Russ Feingold scolds Congress for folding on Iraq funding.
-Mitt Romney's ties to Blackwater
-Is a Darfur rescue mission for people or OIL?
-Monica Goodling confirms what we already knew,
 Rove's District Attorneys have one purpose.... fix the vote.
- And Cindy Sheehan burns out. Who can blame her?
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This week:
A Wake Up AM Special Edition:
An interview with Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream.
It's time to cut the Pentagon's allowance!
Also, correct us if we're, but didn't the American people vote to end the war?,
which makes us wonder who our "representatives" are representing.
...mass quantities of ranting and raving in this episode.
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This week:
Guiliani- Will the man behind 911(one of the possible perpetrators, that is) be the next President?
-Jerry Falwell is dead and the world is a slightly better place.
-Deputy Attorney General Comey tells the macabre tale of Gonzales and Card preying upon Ashcroft like two vampires.
-And, the players are the same. We are still living in the aftermath of the JFK assassination.
It's another fun-filled frolic behind the scenes of US politics and the world that endures us!
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This week:
Can campaign reform ever be enacted? John Rauh of just6dollars.org thinks so.
Also-
-The Iraq Parliament wants to go on vacation. Cheney flies off in a huff to Iraq.
-The Republican Debate or When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
-You think forced extensions for US soldiers in Iraq for 15 months is bad?
 It gets worse. (HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH AMERICA OR ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE TO SIT THERE AND TAKE IT?)
-Gonzales is back on the hill to waste our time.
And, a listener sends us her high school essay, a must read.
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This week:
- Kucinich and Gravel speak openly while their mainstream counterparts cringe with embarrassment.
-Will the Dems hang tough on the war?
-"What's good for business is good for America", yeah right.
- And it turns out that certain committee Democrats knew all along that Bush and Cheney were lying in the lead up to the war. They just chose to remain silent.
It's another fun-filled hour or so from inside the crumbling empire!
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This week:
-Who will prevail? Bush and his vetos or the Democrats and their will to end the war?
-John McCain wants to bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. Yeah, that's funny.
-Kucinich wants to impeach Cheney. Who doesn't?.... every other Democrat. (too bad)
-And Cheney, foaming at the mouth, spews his rhetoric and unveils his latest prediction of doom... nukes instead of boxcutters. (he should know, it's his production, The War on Terror!
Join us, !you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll kiss 1hr 14 minutes and 6 seconds goodbye!

This week:
-Mass murder at home dominates the media. While in Iraq, the same number of victims would be considered a good day.
- Gonzo goes to the hill
- And Meg meets Hillary!
Another feel good episode from inside the empire.
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This week:
-Imus is gone but Bush is still here
-Bush extends Iraq tours of duty, is it a surge or an escalation?
-The Terror Watch List. Are you on it?
-There's so much to investigate, where do you start?
-Will the democrats really move to end the war now
 or are they stalling until '08?
- AND Kathy gets a call from Senator John Sununu!
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This week:
Barrack Obama faces a hostile audience on healthcare. Will he emerge as a champion of the people or just a new face of politics as usual?
- Pelosi goes to Syria.
- And, Bush's world is collapsing. His rhetoric is embarassing to even his captive audiences. He sends a swift-boater is off to Belgium just to prove to us all he's still The Decider.
So how long 'til he cracks?
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This week:
-The Federal Reserve. What con game have they been playing since 1913?
We expose their scam.
-No child left behind = the plan for no publich schools left in America.
-The privitzation of EVERYTHING.
- Kathy's son returns to Iraq and thanks to the "surge" doesn't know when he will come back.
-And, our we one week away from war with Iran?
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This week:
-Finally Congress confronts the White House. The Dems promise to subpoena Bush's gang.
-Who knows the real story behind the Federal Reserve Bank? A closer look may shed some light on who really pulls the strings.
-Al Gore brings his environmental case before Congress and encounters some very lame opposition.
-And we get 2 live phone calls from listeners! How is that possible during a podcast?
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This week:
-Alberto Gonzales is in over his head. Bush tap dances in Mexico. And the Democrats dust off the subpoena making machine.
-The Senate finally gets to talk about Iraq and Biden pops a vein on the Senate floor.
-Will Lieberman defect to the darkside?
-Guiliani's 911 hero image starts to fade. (It's a start)
-And the Iran clause is dropped from the Senate war appropriations.
-Meg phones it in from the ski slopes while the rest of us cram into the studio to cover it all!
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This week:
-Libby is guilty! So how long till the pardon?
-Impeachment starts at home. It's up to your local bodies of government to initiate Impeachment because the Dems in Washington will not rock the boat
- Walter Reed Hospital, the latest testament to privatization
-Scott Ritter in New Hampshire. He says an attack on Iran is still on the front burner. We have some clips.
The unending war on the Bush Administration continues, Join Us!

This week:
An exclusive interview with The Speaker of the House!  
No, not Pelosi, but Speaker Terri Norelli of the New Hampshire Legislature. She's here to talk about an anti- war resolution and why the NH Primary is crucial to everyone!
Also, what's behind the China stock market crisis?
-stopiranwar,org
-Seymour Hersh on Iran and US funding of Al Queda!
-Jon Stewart on Laura Bush
-Anthony of the War on Democracy takes us on a tour of Japanese Health Care

This week:
-Will Bush attack Iran. All indications point to yes.
-Child welfare, Bush and Blair head the worst records in the industrialized world.
-Health care, most candidates feign supporting universal coverage but it's really the corporate wolf in sheep's clothing.
-What is SAIC? If you guessed some sort of new disease, you'd be wrong. It's worse than that.
-Zbigniew Brzezinski warns of attack on Iran but in doing so opens the door to US participation in false flag terrorist attacks. Hmmmm, like 911?
-The Brits are leaving Iraq. Cheney tries to spin this as good news as he travels to plead for more troops in Australia.
-The Scooter Libby trial goes to the jury while Bush prepares the pardon.
- And Kathy's son in Iraq reports on the "progress" of the Iraqi training program.
We're here for you to spin the news back towards the truth. Join Us!

How much longer will this go on? We have a madman (or two) in the White House. Everyone in the room at this week's press conference knows it. How many more have to die before someone does something?
-Bush cranks up the saber rattling. It used to be WMDs, real or not, were cause to go to war. Now, do they expect us to believe that so-called Iranian roadside explosive devices will be enough to attack another country?
-The Democrats seem content to focus all their attention on debating a NON-BINDING resolution against the surge.
- And who will ask the tough questions of the Presidential wannabes?
- We've just been through a blizzard here. Kathy stays home, but phones in.
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This week: We have an EXCLUSIVE interview with Presidential candidate
Congressman Dennis Kucinich, and this guy is the real deal. No other candidate has the credibility to believably oppose the war. It's a no-brainer!
If you call yourself a progressive, who else is there? Take a listen and if you don't agree tell us why. Join Us!

This week: A huge anti-Iraq War rally in Washington. Members of Congress are there. Gold Star Families are there. Jane Fonda is there.
CSPAN is there. BUT WHERE IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA?
-In the face of other meaningless resolutions, Russ Feingold holds hearings and introduces a bill to bring the troops home in six months.
-And Joe Bidens attempts to launch his campaign but hits the self destruct button instead.
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links:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/790877.stm#facts

This week: The heat was on Alberto Gonzales but will it translate into accountability? Will the Democrats repeal the laws and prosecute the criminals? Don't hold your breath.
Also, a look at the State of the Union and a listen to the Democratic response from Jim Webb.
And, are our troops being set up in Iraq and for what?
It's a jam packed edition this week. We've got a lot to cover so let's get started. Join Us!

This Week: Haliburton has been supplying nuclear technology to Iran for years. This is just one of the top 25 news stories that the media censored in 2006 according to projectcensored.org
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This week:
Surge! I guess Bush didn't get the message in November.
Bush orders more troops into Iraq while threatening
Syria and Iran.
Will Congress take action or just complain?
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This week:
Which direction will we go in 2007?
The new congress is in session here in the U.S.
Can they live up to our expectations?
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This week:
2006 - The Year in Review.
It started out dark (so dark that we started podcasting as our only way of fighting back) but thanks to all of us, we the people that is, we enter 2007 with some light at the end of the tunnel and some hope for salvaging what is left of our democracy. This year could go down in history as a milestone for America. Join us as we look back on the rollercoaster ride that was 2006!

This week:
Half our show gets blown away in a technical mishap,(If you happened to be listening live on the streaming version of our Low Power FM broadcast you heard it all, if not it's probably about to leave our solar system, so wave goodbye)  but the glass is still half full of Wake Up AM listening entertainment.
I honestly forget what exactly this show is about and don't have the time to review it
(holiday pressures) but it's a good one right up until the mishap. Enjoy!

This week:
We're one year old! Happy Birthday to us!
- A few thoughts on the so-called war on Christmas.
-Meg has an exclusive interview with Dennis Kucinich, very exclusive.
-Barrack Obama's book tour hits New Hampshire
-The Iraq Study Group. What is it's real agenda? We have a Webster Tarpley analysis.
-Accountability, we want the new Congress to embrace that word.
-Will Tim Johnson's Senate seat be up for grabs
-Remember those anthrax attacks following 911? Yet another inside job.
- And the 911 Truth Movement refuses to go away.This weekend, a 911 Boston Tea Party will throw the 911 Commision (Omission) Report into Boston Harbor, where it belongs.
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This week:
-The Iraq Study Group intervenes in the nick of time. Now we can all relax, right?
Russ Feingold isn't buying it and neither are we.
-Mary Cheney's having a baby, and Nancy's having a fit.
-It's the Economy stupid! We must be stupid because they're taking the shirt off our back and using it to polish their gold.
-The Democrats may be taking power, but we're not waiting for the calvary to ride to the rescue. We've got to look out for ourselves. Join Us!

This week:
-We hear from Jim Webb, Claire McCaskill, and John Tester and we like what we hear, we'll see if they come through.
-Subpoena Power! some of the new committee chairs get our hopes up
-Will there be a draft bill? We'll hear from Charles Rangle
-Bush forces Maliki to meet him (thereby shortening his life expectancy)
-And are the Saudis preparing for war?
-We have our full crew back together again so Join Us!