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On its 75th anniversary, Social Security may be closer to extinction than ever, thanks to a Democrat-controlled White House and Congress.  How—and WHY???   We find out.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Dan Newman, exec. dir. MAPLight.org
          Paul Kleyman,, ed. New America Media
           Ashley Carson, exec. dir. national OWL (Older Women’s League)
           Harvey Smith, pres. bd. National New Deal Preservation Assoc.

           Len Richmond, dir./ writer, new film “What If Cannabis Cured Cancer?”

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LIVING ROOM  Friday 6 August 2010  Healthcare Update!  Hamlet’s Blackberry.  With most voters still largely clueless about the details, midterm politics are full of misleading soundbites about healthcare reform legislation.  We try to shed some light.  PLUS:  always connected, anytime, any place—blessing or curse of the Internet Age?  Discuss.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Ellen Shaffer, co-dir. Center for Policy Analysis
           Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard

            William Powers, former staff writer, Washington Post; author “Hamlet’s Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age”

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Target Stores is backing an anti-gay gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, and MoveOn is testing that Supreme Court decision.  PLUS: forget the message, get the messenger—the Wikileaks saga as deja vu for Dan Ellsberg.  And sustainable construction in Haiti.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests : (someone from MoveOn)
           Daniel Ellsberg, released the Pentagon Papers in 1971; author (Papers on the War; Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers; Risk, Ambiguity and Decision); Right Livelihood Award “Althernative Nibel Prize 06; lecturer, activist

           Martin Hammer, architect; in Haiti assessing earthquake damage in March and April; with Builders Without Borders

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What is Helios and the Energy Bioscience Institute and what are they building downtown Berkeley at Shattuck and Berkeley Way? A discussion about the collaborative partnership between UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, supported by a $500,000,000 grant from the BP Corporation to create the West Energy Research Facility.

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Chaos, fire and fried turtles at sea in the gulf oil. A discussion about the effects of intentional oil fires burned in the gulf with guest Rose Braz, Climate Campaign Coordinator, at Center for Biological Diversity.

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The NAACP calls on the Tea Party movement to deal with it’s racist fringe – and the tea part responds by calling the NAACP racist – we’ll take your calls on that twisted logic– Plus – Unemployment is bad in the county, it’s really bad in this state – and it’s hitting the young particularly hard, we’ll talk with one economic expert about the unlucky class of 2010. Also, 70 year old civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart had her jail sentence quadrupled to10 years yesterday

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The California Dream has morphed into the California nightmare – and now some are dubbing our struggle state Fail-i-fornia – Comming up we’ll talk with one progressive activist who’s working on to move California from being a failed state to a progressive laboratory for change.

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