A new episode of the The Pretty Big Place Video Hour — the monthly TV version of my radio show — is up at FACT-TV. It got stretched to widescreen, as mysteriously happens sometimes. Just adds to the fun.

And it seems that you can download it as an MP4 now. Those play on phones, right?

The Breeders – Cannonball | Tom Waits & Iggy Pop – Coffee And Cigarettes part 1 | Baccara – Yes Sir I Can Boogie | Television – Foxhole (live) | Tom Waits & Iggy Pop – Coffee And Cigarettes part 2 | Len – Steal My Sunshine | T-Rex – 20th Century Boy | Tom Waits & Iggy Pop – Coffee And Cigarettes part 3 | Doves – Catch the Sun | Alicia Bridges – I Love the Night Life | Amy Winehouse – Rehab | Coming to Alderaan | Andrea True Connection – More More More | Shocking Blue – Venus | Vision of the Future! | The Dead Milkmen – Punk Rock Girl | The Monochrome Set – B.I.D. Spells Bid | Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music

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ALIEN TRANSPORTER
Pic de Bugarach: French commune home to 20,000 ‘doomsday cultists’ awaiting alien salvation
An estimated 20,000 New Age believers who say the “upside down” mountain is home to aliens who will rescue them from an impending apocalypse have saturated a small French commune near the foot of the picturesque Pic de Bugarach.
The Independent reports the growing flock, who locals refer to as “esoterics,” believe the world will come to an end on December 21st, 2012. They also reportedly believe that the unique mountain is in fact home to a race of alien beings that will emerge to rescue the gathered humans and transport them to a new civilization.
Pic de Bugarach has long been famous because rock samples taken from its peak are actually older than points measured at lower elevation. Scientists say that is because when the 1,230 meter mountain erupted its peak flipped upside down before crashing back down upon the mountain’s base. The mountain is said to have played a role in inspiring everything from Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” to Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
The BBC reports that the French government is concerned about mass suicides taking place near Pic de Bugarach in advance of the December 21 date and that there have been reports of “strange rituals” taking place there as well.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/pic-bugarach-french-commune-home-20-000-doomsday-210932058.html

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APRIL FOOLS
CLAIM: April Fool’s Day began in the 1500s when Gregorian calendar took over from Julian. Those who forgot the change and attemped to celebrate New Year’s (previously celebrated on the 1st of April) on the wrong date were teased as “April Fools”.
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GHOST SHIP
Canada’s Department of National Defence photograph shows a Japanese fishing vessel, which is believed have been lost as a result of last year’s tsunami, that was sighted drifting 150 nautical miles of the southern coast of Haida Gwaii off the coast of British Columbia, March 20, 2012. According to Department of National Defence, the vessel is considered an obstruction to navigation, and a Notice to Shipping has been issued by the Canadian Coast …
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POLITICS
NYC free subways
This morning before rush hour, teams of activists, many from Occupy Wall Street, in conjunction with rank and file workers from the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Amalgamated Transit Union, opened up more than 20 stations across the city for free entry. As of 10:30 AM, the majority remain open. No property was damaged. Teams have chained open service gates and taped up turnstiles in a coordinated response to escalating service cuts, fare hikes, racist policing, assaults on transit workers’ working conditions and livelihoods — and the profiteering of the super-rich by way of a system they’ve rigged in their favor.

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MUSIC
Newworldson offers fans its long-awaited third national release, Rebel Transmission, on April 17. The project’s debut radio single, “Learning to Be the Light,” climbed to No. 3 this week on the Billboard Christian Songs chart.
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RF Quote: When the straw boss becomes old school life is free again.
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Watch for the July 18, 1924 Vermont Tribune coming up soon on Facebook, WOOL blog and Youtube.
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On May 19th, No Hungry Children will hold a benefit festival at Bergfeld Park in Tyler, TX. The all-day event, sponsored by Coca-Cola, Chick-fil-a, Jason’s Deli and State Farm Insurance, will include a variety of events for the whole family, including food, silent auction and musical performances.
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Bustar Maitar, Greenpeace Indonesia
These are the five words that say a lot but apparently mean little to a company that has made a mantra out of repeating something which is simply not true. And today, we’ve released proof that what APP says is wrong – the results of a yearlong investigation uncovering how APP is systematically violating Indonesia’s laws which protect ramin, an internationally protected tree species under CITES.

http://greenpeaceblogs.com/2012/03/01/asia-pulp-paper-in-illegal-rainforest-scandal/

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Join #OWS and Occupy The Hood as we march in solidarity with the 1000 Hoodies March to demand justice for Trayvon Martin!
TODAY: 6pm-9pm
1,000,000 Hoodie March for Trayvon Martin
Union Square, Manhattan
Follow #millionhoodies
On Facebook
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RF Quote: if your trying to figure out what it’s about you probably fell away!

Decided not to play any music. None. Just talk. There were some calls, including a delightful exchange with Allie (young daughter of Mark Kenney from Ear Bisque, Fridays 8-10pm), a couple of them with Dickie (The B-Side, Thursdays 7-9pm), plus the broadcast-shy winner of a pair of tickets to her pick of screening during the Bellows Falls Opera House classic film series. Border Pete came by (Border Radio, Mondays 8-10pm) and told the spooky tale of a small piece of skull, and others. Good times!

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Watch for the July 18, 1924 Vermont Tribune coming up soon on WOOL blog and Facebook
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Ireland St Patrick’s day theme for this year’s quizzical parade is ‘How? What? Why?’, exploring the wonder and curiosity of science.
Ireland wasn’t the first country to celebrate St Patrick’s Day with a parade and, up until 1970, pubs across Ireland closed their doors as a mark of respect for this religious occasion! It was, in fact, colonial New York City that hosted the first official St Patrick’s Day parade back in 1762, when Irish immigrants in the British colonial army marched down the city streets to St Patrick’s Cathedral. Dublin’s first St Patrick’s Day Parade is little more than 75 years old, but the occasion has changed dramatically since then!
The 10th top 10 ST. Patricks’s day song .
10. “There’s No One As Irish As Barack Obama”
9. “The Irish Rover”
8. “A Nation Once Again”
7. “The Boys of the Old Brigade”
6. “Arthur McBride”
5. “Come Out Ye Black and Tans”
4. “Some Say the Devil is Dead”
3. “Molly Malone”
2. “Danny Boy”
1. “The Fields of Athenry”
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GREENPEACE
Petition: Urge President Obama to use his authority to prevent chemical disasters
The bulk use and storage of poison gases like chlorine at chemical facilities and wastewater and drinking water plants puts millions of Americans at risk of a Bhopal magnitude chemical disaster. Just 300 of these plants put a third of Americans at risk. But some communities no longer face these risks because they switched to safer chemical processes. For example, Washington, DC converted their waste water treatment plant 90 days after the 9/11 attacks. Before 9/11 their use of chlorine gas put 1.7 million people at risk.
President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security and Environmental Protection Agency have consistently asked Congress for the authority to remove these risks by requiring the use of safer chemical processes where feasible. Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress have blocked these efforts. President Obama can implement authority under the Clean Air Act to require companies to design and operate their facilities in a way that prevents the catastrophic release of poison gasses.
www.greenpeace.org
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OCCUPY WALL STREET
Saturday, March 17, 1:00pm Silent Procession
American Spring – Sowing the Seeds of Change
March from Liberty Square to Hunger Memorial
A Call to Action on our six month anniversary: Laying to rest hunger and greed, welcoming a new season, celebrating our resilience and determination. Join a silent procession to bury hunger, greed and grief, of ritual burial and re-birth. Speakers will address issues of food sustainability, housing, health care, and the economy. http://www.nycga.net/events/event/m17-march
RF: The price of war in dollars is so expensive that any country that gets involved it, even is they win, their economy will fall apart.
Yesterday freedom was as simple as living in nature.
Today it comes with electricity, indoor plumbing, internet, and domesticated animals.
RF’s Comic Fun: http://www.comicsbyrf.bravehost.com/

1. Andrews Sisters – Well All Right
2. Ad Libs – The Boy From New York City
3. De Ndirande Pitch Crooners – Elube
4. Meryn Cadell – Sweater
5. Aceyalone – Lonely Ones ft Bionik
6. Gnarls Barkley – Run
7. Wedding Present – It’s Not Unusual
8. Vaselines – I Hate the ’80s
9. Advantage – Ducktails (Moon)
10. Pierre Dutour et son Orchestre – Elephant Theme
11. Scavanger Quartet – Excitable Sea Porcupine
12. Ordinaires – Grace
13. Automaton of Jaquet Droz – Baroque Music 3
14. Kresge Co – Background Music No 123 12
15. Ella B Gibson – Country Rock
16. Ridiculous Trio – No Fun
17. Weisstronauts – Hoopin’
18. Sub Focus and Brookes Brothers – Late Run
19. Monruedi Phromchak – Na Nao Sao Khruan
20. Prototypes – L’amour, L’amour, L’amour
21. Sweet Talks – Akampanye
22. A-Gen-53 – Stalingrad-Stumpfsinn
23. Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
24. Minutemen – Please Don’t Be Gentle With Me
25. Baby Astronauts – Tricycle Hell
26. Electricity In Our Homes – Gymnastics
27. Kills – DNA
28. Wolf Parade – Semi-Precious Stone
29. Zeus Rooster – Wound
30. Great Lake Swimmers – Pulling On A Line
31. Kelly Harrell – Rovin’ Gambler
32. Louise Massey and Her Westerners – I’m Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes
33. Peter Yarrow and John Simon – The Wabe
34. Byrds – Lazy Days
35. Beatles – One After 909
36. Bjork – Oh Mein Papa
37. Lovely Eggs – Have You Ever Heard a Digital Accordian
38. Karen O and the Kids – Animal
39. Tanita Tikaram – Poor Cow
40. DJ Cheb i Sabbah – Qalanderi

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SEA TURTLES
Sea turtles are known for the amazing migrations they make, swimming long ocean distances to return to their birthplace to hatch their young.
Yet it turns out these beloved marine reptiles make another migration earlier in life that one researcher has described as “even more amazing” than the migrations the turtles make as adults.
“They only do it one time, but [the migration] can be much longer than the reproductive migrations they do as adults, and may involve tens of thousands of kilometers,” said Peter Meylan, a professor of natural sciences at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., in a statement.
Meylan, along with his research partner and wife Ann Meylan, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, recently summarized years of sea turtle tracking data in a paper published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
They found that young sea turtles travel extremely long distances before they’re fully grown.
Green turtles hatched in Costa Rica were tracked to far-flung spots — Barbados, North Carolina and Bermuda — before heading off to spend their adulthoods near Nicaragua.
“Bermuda is a place where young turtles go to grow up,” Meylan said. “They arrive there after living out in the ocean. In Bermuda waters they grow from about the size of a dinner plate to the size of a wash tub, and then move on to different, adult habitats,” he said.
The researchers concluded that the tagging data from the study suggest that these adolescent migrations can be a dangerous time for the young turtles, and that the ocean corridors they travel could need official protections.
Some ocean turtle species, such as the world’s largest turtle, the colossal leatherback, are critically endangered.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/slim-beats-gates-first-daily-000000725.html

Carlos Slim, the telecommunications tycoon who controls Mexico’s America Movil SAB (AMXL), is the richest person on Earth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 20 wealthiest individuals.

The 72-year-old’s net worth fell $478.4 million in a day to $68.5 billion as of the close of markets on March 2, as U.S. moguls Bill Gates and Warren Buffett placed second and third on the list compiled by Bloomberg News. Brazil’s Eike Batista, who ranks 10th, still covets the top spot after vowing a year ago that he’d become the world’s wealthiest man by 2015.

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Plan on visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island via ferry next year? If so, pay close attention to the vessel you board, as it just might be the world’s first to rely on hydrogen, solar and wind power for motorization. Currently, the New York Hornblower Hybrid (not to be confused with the San Francisco Hornblower Hybrid) is under construction in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and if all goes well, it’ll reach completion in April. The 600-passenger boat be equipped with Tier 2 diesel engines, hydrogen fuel cells, solar panels and wind turbines, with power coming from a proton exchange membrane fuel cell that turns hydrogen into electricity. We’re told that the diesel rigs will only kick in to cover “additional energy needs,” but it’s hard to say how often they’ll actually be used. The eventual goal, however, is to do away with emissions altogether in the ferry process, and it seems that the technology is already capable of being scaled for use in other hybrid ferries, hybrid yachts and even hybrid tugs.

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RF’s Comic Fun: http://www.comicsbyrf.bravehost.com/

Yesterday freedom was as simple as living in nature.
Today it comes with electricity, indoor plumbing, internet, and domesticated animals.

A new episode of the The Pretty Big Place Video Hour — the monthly TV version of my radio show — is up at FACT-TV. It got stretched to widescreen, as mysteriously happens sometimes. Just adds to the fun.

And it seems that you can download it as an MP4 now. Those play on phones, right?

The Move – Brontosaurus (live) | The Cleverlys – Walk Like an Eqyptian (live) | Syndicate of Sound – Little Girl | Ani DiFranco – Promiscuity (live) | Nice Muscle!! commercial | Stray Cats – Rock This Town (live) | NBC News: Sex Pistols’ First US Tour | Mr. T – Treat Your Mother Right | Tiny Tim – The Other Side (live) | Greenwashing PSA | Teenage Fanclub – Star Sign | Betty Wright – Clean up Woman (live) | Cyriak – Cycles animated short | Death Metal Rooster | Todd Michaelsen – Sita’s String Theory animated short | The Happy Life animated short | Claudio Montuori – The Lisbon Birdman live busking | Hevisaurus – Jee Hevisaurus

Leap day, the one extra day that comes around every four years. That’s what it took to get back to normal. Except for the snowstorm, which turned our brown winter nicely white. I hope that isn’t becoming a once-every-four-years thing too.

The weather kept Julio up in his mountain hideaway, so I did back-to-back shows. Clipper, who haunts the studio most of the time these days, stopped in for part of my show and launched Julio’s with a live set from one of The Monkees 2001 reunion shows in remembrance of Davy Jones, who died today. I’ve nonetheless omitted that set from the playlist. Read the rest of this entry »

Vermont Tribune July 18 1924 .05 cents – Vol. L. No. 19A story called “The Days of Poor Richard”by: Irving Bacheller.
Amazon.com “In the Days of Poor Richard”: -1922
31 chapters – Buy new: $29.99 – on sale for $9.99
1922. Bacheller, an American novelist whose works were chiefly concerned with early American life, founded the first newspaper syndicate in the United States. The Foreword reads: Much of the color of the love-tale of Jack and Margaret, which is part of the greater love-story of man and liberty, is derived from old letters, diaries, and newspaper clippings in the possession of a well-known American family. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.
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Singer and songwriter Holly Starr officially debuts her brand new radio single, “Let Go,” tomorrow February 14th. Her brand new album, set for a summer release through Save The City Records/Provident Distribution, will be Starr’s third project. The single “Let Go,” produced by David Garcia (Group 1 Crew) and mixed by Chris Stevens (TobyMac, Mandisa, Jamie Grace), streets on Tuesday digitally via iTunes, Amazon, and Rhapsody..
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10 Occupiers Arrested Retaking Liberty SquarePosted 1 day ago on Feb. 29, 2012, 12:13 a.m. EST by OccupyWallSt
Around fifty occupiers with sleeping bags are currently risking arrest in Liberty Square.
Updates
•1:15 a.m. EST Things have calmed down in Liberty Square following arrests.
•1:00 a.m. EST @OccupySteve livestream online. See video below.
•12:55 a.m. EST 10 arrests so far
•12:30 a.m. EST Global Revolution LiveStream currently down because filmers were arrested!
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New Antarctic Ocean Alliance to blaze trail for marine reserves
Posted on February 28, 2012 by admin Blogpost by Richard Page, Greenpeace UK
2012 is the year by which the world’s governments should have committed to a global network of marine protected areas. The shocking thing is that for all the fine words, currently our oceans are unprotected: only a mere 5.9percent of national waters and just 0.5percent of international waters are set aside as off-limits to destructive fishing, energy exploration and other industrial threats, leaving the vast majority open to plunder. While it may not be the end of the world just yet, scientists from the Census of Marine Life and IPSO have been warning us that the oceans and the wonderful array of marine life they hold cannot withstand our pressures forever.
In order to address this sad state of affairs, Greenpeace has drawn up an Emergency Oceans Rescue Plan and is campaigning to ensure the world’s governments live up to their promises and put in place the steps to create a global network of marine reserves. While the Arctic Ocean and some other areas of the high seas totally lack any means by which to establish marine reserves and protect marine life there is one area where efforts are being made to provide adequate protection – the Southern Ocean.
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This Revolution comes stright from our beds: United We Stand -Together We Live

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29 Companies Had More Cash Than The U.S. Treasury As Of July 13. This not only includes Freddie Mac & Goldman Sachs but also the Federal National Mortgage Association. Check the list: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/635585/29_companies_had_more_cash_than_the_u.s._treasury_as_of_july_13/
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Next week SWITCHFOOT heads to Australia and New Zealand, where they will headline the traveling Soundwave Festival. They’ll also be capturing footage for Fading West, the San Diego-based band’s upcoming surf film, which will feature numerous other incredible surfing locations SWITCHFOOT has visited on its world tour.
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On February 15th, six North Carolinians built and ascended two 20-ft tall tripods in front of Duke Energy’s headquarters with a banner between them that read “Duke Energy: no dirty rate hikes.” Hear from an activist on why she was there.
The protest follows an announcement from Greenpeace Executive Director Phil Radford that the organization has opened a campaign against Duke Energy, and a dramatic protest on top of the 400-foot stack of an Asheville coal plant.. Earlier, Greenpeace flew an airship over Cincinnati with the message “Dump Duke.” In Cincinnati, residents are deciding whether to keep buying energy from Duke, or explore cleaner alternatives.
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RF’s Comic Fun: http://www.comicsbyrf.bravehost.com/

RF’s Quote: This Revolution comes stright from our beds: United We
Stand – Together We Live

These guys from the What Doth Life music collective are gonna have a great show, I tell you what. Good music, fun banter. They graduated tonight. But they still need to face the management team gauntlet before they get a showtime though. And after tonight’s Red Button incident with Julio, that might be hard going.

I don’t have a playlist to post here again this week, but it was a great show. Including Ave Maria sung by a dog.