On average, 30 percent of all the honeybee colonies in the U.S. died off over the winter. Some beekeepers and environmentalists are calling for tighter restrictions on the use of a pesticide called neonicotinoids. Europe has ban some uses of these pesticides. But many U.S. farmers and pesticide companies are opposed to any such move here, and the Environmental Protection Agency says it's not yet convinced that this would help bees very much. Reported by Dan Charles. Source: npr: Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops
Changing Capitalism
Can a country switch between different types of capitalism? The Economist's Britain politics correspondent, Jeremy Cliffe, explores whether the proposals to transform the U.K.'s economy into one more like Germany, Denmark and Sweden is remotely possible? Source: BBC Radio 4 Analysis: Varieties of Capitalism
Modern Terrorism
Martin Miller is interview by Peter Slen of C-Span about modern terrorism. Martin starts with the French Revolution. Terrorism is part of a violent contest over control of the country between government officials and insurgents. Martin Miller is a professor at Duke University. Source: C-Span: Book Discussion on The Foundations of Modern Terrorism
Music includes Graham Nash and James Raymond - Almost Gone, Capitol Steps - Addicted To Oil, Leadbelly - Bourgeois Blues, Capitol Steps - Blagojevich, Graham Nash - We Can Change the World, Compassionate Conservatives - Teach Your Children, Capitol Steps - Do You Fear What I Fear?, Reverend Billy - Beatitudes of Buylessness, Capitol Steps - Shoe Bomb, Tom Lehrer - It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier, Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife, Ray Charles - America the Beautiful, Camp Galore - Happy Days Are Here Again, Capitol Steps - Johnnie Cochran's Fairy Tales, Terry Gangstad - My 3 Sons A Bitches, Linda Tillery & the Cultural Heritage Choir - Wayfaring Stranger, Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love, The Author - The Title, Inca Flutes - Zona Roya
npr: Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/07/181990532/bee-deaths-may-have-reached-a-crisis-point-for-crops?sc=tw&cc=share
BBC Radio 4 Analysis: Varieties of Capitalism http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0477nry
C-Span: Book Discussion on The Foundations of Modern Terrorism http://www.c-span.org/video/?318386-8/book-discussion-foundations-modern-terrorism
also see http://greatspeechesandinterviews.blogspot.com/2014/11/can-country-change-its-economic-system.html
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