EP 454 Be Aware: Made in China Label May Mean Made in a Forced Labor Camp

EP 454 Be Aware: Made in China Label May Mean Made in a Forced Labor Camp

THIS IS A BOOK AND PODCAST THAT YOU CAN’T AFFORD NOT TO PAY ATTENTION TO ! https://www.ameliapang.com/ That’s a nice shirt you’re wearing and where did you get that cute little display for Halloween?  In all likelihood, both of items came from China.  While we are aware that Chinese goods are cheaper than those made …

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EP 453 Poverty in America is Poorly Understood

EP 453 Poverty in America is Poorly Understood

https://www.amazon.com/Poorly-Understood-America-Wrong-Poverty/dp/0190881380 America loves to tell itself fables about many things.  For instance, the issue of poverty is often thought of as an issue of ‘them’ not ‘us’.  Yet over an adult lifetime, owing to divorce, job loss or health calamity, over half of us will experience poverty for a year or more.  We have so …

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EP 452 Marijuana Laws Changing Across America

EP 452 Marijuana Laws Changing Across America

https://norml.org/ It may seem like marijuana laws across the country have been changing almost overnight, but according to our guest, Paul Armentano, deputy director of NORML, a group that has long sought these changes, it’s been about a fifty year process.  We are a long way from ‘Reefer Madness’ and Cheech and Chong, as we …

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EP 451 Where Is My Office?

EP 451 Where Is My Office?

https://thechriskane.com/category/where-is-my-office/  The pandemic has upended much about American life, including where we work.  The concept of ‘one person, one desk’ in a large office building may never be the norm again.  With the rise of agile working, third space working and new technological innovations, the traditional office space may no longer be the place where …

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EP 450 Why Would a Doctor Talk to a Patient About Money?

EP 450 Why Would a Doctor Talk to a Patient About Money?

https://www.michaelsteinbooks.com/copy-of-pained   In medicine it is said that you only find what you’re looking for.  If you do not dig deep to find out whether, say, drinking was at the root of a medical condition, you may never know.  And the problem goes unsolved.  Money is the same way.  In a society where safety nets …

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EP 449 Healing America Will Require Government to Work Again

EP 449 Healing America Will Require Government to Work Again

https://www.amazon.com/Presidents-Populism-Crisis-Democracy-William/dp/022676317X American government is broken and has been so for a long time.  In some periods of history we muddle through and use our natural advantages, like remote location from adversaries, to give us time to figure things out.  At other points, like after The Great Depression, we needed a whole new toolkit of government …

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EP 448 Informed Medical Consent Bypassed by the Medical System

EP 448 Informed Medical Consent Bypassed by the Medical System

https://www.amazon.com/Carte-Blanche-Erosion-Medical-Consent/dp/1734420723 The topic we are bringing you on this podcast startled me.  My concept was that we, the medical consumer, gain protections year after year.  In fact, Harriet Washington’s chilling expose, ‘Carte Blanche: The Erosion of Medical Consent’, reveals just the opposite.  It is becoming harder to avoid being part of risky medical research as …

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EP 447 QAnon: A Political Movement or a Gathering of Lost Souls?

EP 447 QAnon: A Political Movement or a Gathering of Lost Souls?

https://www.adamenders.com/ Much of the attention drawn to QAnon of late has common from the mainstream media and not the dark corners of the internet.  The election of an adherent to Congress and a rebuke of her utterances has also shone light on a movement with some very unusual beliefs and indeterminate motives and goals.  According …

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EP 446 Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science

EP 446 Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science

https://www.amazon.com/Preventing-Next-Pandemic-Diplomacy-Anti-science/dp/1421440385 It is a head scratcher to many of us that the anti-vaccination movement has taken hold in the way that it has in the 21st century given the unassailable fact that vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives.  The achievements are astounding. Vaccines have eradicated small pox, virtually eliminated polio, brought measles transmission …

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EP 445 Twice for Obama and Twice for Trump: Who Are These Voters?

EP 445 Twice for Obama and Twice for Trump: Who Are These Voters?

https://www.amazon.com/Trumps-Democrats-Stephanie-Muravchik/dp/0815738633   For many of us we still scratch our heads as to how Donald Trump made it to the White House in the first place.  We have all had our theories which range from the wrong candidate opposing him, a strong reaction to the Obama presidency from disgruntled white voters in rural communities and …

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