Naomi Klein

It's being called one of the most historic events in history. This December 8th-18th Copenhagen is not just a city in Denmark, it's the location of the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Each morning at 9:15am PST 12:15 EST and 6:15pm Copenhagen time we call live into Copenhagen and speak with people at various locations throughout the city. The December 14th raw and uncut live interviews were with award winning journalist and author Naomi Klein, lead organizer for the Rain Forest Action Network Joshua Kahn Russell, award winning journalist, author, and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman, Beka Economopoulos tried to give us a walking tour of Fresh Air Blogging Center, Grist.org special correspondent Eugene Mirman talked about finding the funny, and Pacifica radio host and blogger Celia Alario discussed the upcoming changes in access.

'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' - George Orwell SUCH AS... If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.' - Noam Chomsky OR... 'It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people' - Gore Vidal For the first time in 14 years, weapons manufacturers are donating more to Democrats than to Republicans. The Dems have received 52 percent of the defense industry's political donations in this election cycle--up from a low of 32 per cent in 1996. That money is about shaping foreign policy, and so far, it appears to be well spent. Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill * PLAYERS NOT CHEER LEADERS Everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being. - Ellen Key Let alone the fact that most of the voting will be done on Diebold & friends machines, exposing American democracy as the sinister & cynical farce it has become under the proto-fascism Bush/Cheney junta. LYNCHING BY LAPTOP 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCR6IdTQTeE ELECTION INTEGRITY ? http://www.nowpublic.com/world/election-integrity 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. When will the American people actually vote to give to the world more than bombs and missiles, sweatshops, dubious science, frankenfood, poverty and misery?; - Cynthia McKinney Meanwhile back at the ranch... GOING UP ! Top 1% share of total income Income gap between rich and poor Foreign debt as a percent of GDP Age at which one can receive Social Security Hunger Consumer credit debt Housing foreclosures Severe poverty rate GOING DOWN ! Real income Real manufacturing wages Percent of single women and mothers in the workforce The bottom 40%&ap

It's being called one of the most historic events in history. This December 8th-18th Copenhagen is not just a city in Denmark, it's the location of the United Nations Climate Change Conference Each morning at 9:15am PST 12:15 EST and 6:15pm Copenhagen time we call live into Copenhagen and speak with a variety of guests about their various locations. November 14th raw and uncut live included interviews were with award winning journalist and author Naomi Klein, lead organizer for the Rain Forest Action Network Joshua Kahn Russell.

Filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross examine how modern capitalism affects the world. Based on a book by Naomi Klein.