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In the first portion of today's program I spoke with
Jeff Lydon, the Executive Director of Farm Sanctuary, about Farm
Sanctuary's Adopt
a Turkey program for thanksgiving. We also spoke about the passing
of California's Prop
2 - a major win for the welfare of factory farm animals, the environment,
human health, and global moral conscience. We also discussed the actions and intentions
of Farm Sanctuary, other state and federal legislation pending, and issues related
to animal rights.
I was joined in the WKNY studio by founding members of The
Virginia Wolves - Kelly McNally (singer/songwriter/guitar)
and Adele Schulz (voice/french horn/trumpet) - for some Organic
Rock. Kelly and Adele performed songs from the upcoming album "Curse
of the Kill" - a series of peace songs with a deeply spiritual bent
and subtle political undertones which are unavoidably elicited when dealing with
the human issue of war and peace and life and death and soldiers returning from
the battlefield.
I spoke with Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor at the Black Agenda Report, about
his first in a series of articles "Holding
the Obama Administration Accountable."  We
spoke of the need to the people to lobby Obama since we can see in his current
selections and projections for cabinet that he is representing the same lobbyists
(corporate donors) that fund the military media infotainment pharmaceutical
education complex and that the change we are likely to see based on the current
and potential choices is going to be more of the same and none of the change
we hoped might be 'delivered'.
In the last half hour I aired a brief interview with Gerald
Celente, Director of the Trends Research Institute regarding his
latest alert "Yes We Can, says Obama, No We Can't Says Celente" In
which Celente discusses the current picks for Obama's cabinet and what they
represent. From his article:
Long before the Election Day ballots had been cast, candidate Obama had
picked Rahm Emanuel and John Podesta for the crucial positions of Chief of
Staff and transition leader, respectively. Both are quintessential cronies,
pedigreed insiders. It would be difficult to find two individuals who better
represent the breed.
 and
"Going to Summers, Rubin, Reich, Tyson, Volker and the rest of them
to fix the economy is like fighting the War on Crime by bringing in Al Capone,
Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seagal, and Machine Gun Kelly,"
My guest co host, Shana Panchak, and I also discussed an action by Veterans
for Peace at the National Archives and our some of the ideas for
our program next week on the Prison Industrial Complex.
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