{"id":42233,"date":"2011-07-27T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=42233"},"modified":"2011-07-27T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T17:40:07","slug":"planet-waves-fm-crime-in-progress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/planet-waves-fm-crime-in-progress-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Waves FM: Crime in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-42233-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110727podcast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110727podcast.mp3\">http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110727podcast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>In today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM, I look at the issues surrounding the debt ceiling battle that really amounts to an economic and political power grab: a kind of false flag collapse of the economy. It&#8217;s happened before &#8212; the banking crash of 2008 was both avoidable and intentional, and many people profited to a degree that the public has no concept of.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_39400\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 168px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/175+web-eric-audio-headshot1-300x2701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39400 \" title=\"175+web-eric-audio-headshot1-300x270\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/175+web-eric-audio-headshot1-300x2701.jpg?resize=158%2C142&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"142\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\"><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are several theories about what&#8217;s happening at the moment, one of the most cohesive coming from one of our commenters who is fairly close to the action &#8212; you can <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/kicking-the-can\/comment-page-1\/#comment-31259\"><strong>read his assessment here<\/strong><\/a>. By any analysis, the conduct of legislators in Washington ranges from irresponsible and deceitful to blatantly insane; and while Obama is doing his best to maintain his public image, he is offering up Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to the flesh-eating monster of the conservative movement.<\/p>\n<p>I briefly discuss the Oslo attacks but I don&#8217;t discuss the chart &#8212; that you can see <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/oslo-astrology-varuna-eris\/\" target=\"_blank\">on a post from this weekend<\/a>. I have a few comments about Amy Winehouse and what an extraordinary chart she had &#8212; unfortunately time did not permit.<\/p>\n<p>I cover this in a streamlined, one-hour program featuring musical guests the Grateful Dead. Monday would be the 69th birthday of Jerry Garcia, so we have two hot folk-blues numbers for you, lovingly selected from a pretty good collection. <\/p>\n<p>To listen to today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM in the old player, or to view the archives going back more than a year, <a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/current_sky\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check this link<\/strong><\/a>. If you listen to Planet Waves FM in iTunes, please check this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=40675\">letter to iTunes listeners<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Planet Waves\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.planetwavesweekly.com\/resources\/images\/sign_white.jpg?resize=185%2C45&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eric Francis\" width=\"185\" height=\"45\" vspace=\"10\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/planetwaves.fm\/podcast\/110727podcast.mp3 In today&#8217;s edition of Planet Waves FM, I look at the issues surrounding the debt ceiling battle that really amounts to an economic and political power grab: a kind of false flag collapse of the economy. It&#8217;s happened before &#8212; the banking crash of 2008 was both avoidable and intentional, and many people profited &#8230; <a title=\"Planet Waves FM: Crime in Progress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/planet-waves-fm\/planet-waves-fm-crime-in-progress-2\/\" aria-label=\"More on Planet Waves FM: Crime in Progress\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1735],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}