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Pete FerronThe Shrugging Out Podcast Pete Ferron conducts an excellent, extended, three-part interview with the founder of Generational Dynamics, John Xenakis, and makes it available to you for free direct listening or download.Interview with Generational Dynamics’ John Xenakis: Part 1Part 2Part 3 After you’ve enjoyed Pete’s interview with John Xenakis, catch Pete’s insightful commentary about the interview:Commentary

The Shrugging Out Podcast - Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - Episode 11: Is it seditious to shrug out?Podcaster and host Pete Ferron starts out by blasting Time columnist Joe Klein's charge that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin's recent statements are seditious, or as the elitist Klein puts it, "rubbing up against it [sedition]". This makes Pete sing--literally--Sedition...Sedition! Shrugging Out is all over the news!!! Reality-based New Jersey Governor Chris Christie provides mega-doses of reality to the temporarily-chastened boobs responsible for putting New Jersey into the deep hole it's in today. Thomas Sowell channels the "Shrugging Out Philosophy" by exploring the...

So, are you doing anything different economically? Are you cutting back? Will Christmas and Thanksgiving be any different? Are you spending, saving, paying down?

Think that class warfare and mindless anti-business hatred don’t have real-life consequences? Think again: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Much political hay has been made in Congress about “unpatriotic” corporations that move operations abroad. Weatherford International is the latest, taking its headquarters from Houston to Switzerland. The oil services company said that it wants to be closer to its markets. But what it really meant was that it no longer saw the future in the U.S. In a political atmosphere of blaming corporations, it’s no wonder. Halliburton fled to Dubai in 2007. Tyco International, Foster Wheeler and Transocean International all went to Switzerland. As...

Meet Joe Dirt Stuart K. Hayashi In 2001, comedian David Spade came out with a movie titled "The Adventures of Joe Dirt." It now appears that the film was about Joe Conason, the author of "Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth" and an editorialist for the liberal-biased Salon.com. In the person of Brad Pitt, you've already Met Joe Black. Now Meet the Real Joe Dirt. His book purports to expose how right-wingers harness the corporate media to brainwash society. Instead of demonstrating such, however, Joe is too busy flinging his Dirt around. In two...