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The New Capital Show is talk radio hosted by Leo Gold and airs/webstreams Thursdays at 10am CST on KPFT 90.1 Houston, a Pacifica radio station. NCS covers progressive ideas in politics, environment, economics, commerce, science, religion, and philosophy. Primary Format : Unknown Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : Unknown Region : XX User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The New Capital Show hosted by Leo Gold Podcasts Methings.com listings of The New Capital Show hosted by Leo Gold Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

July 21st, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 14th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 7th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 30th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 23rd, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website June 16th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 26th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 19th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website May 12th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 28th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 21st, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 14th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April 7th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 31st, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 24th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 10th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 17th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 3rd, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 24th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 10th, 2011 Show It's KPFT fund drive time, but we still have time to touch on James Surowiecki's endorsement of Obama's State of the Union investment goals, and on a new method of funding government social programs - a method with performance accountability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website February 3rd, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 20th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 13th, 2011 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Should Have SOTU Leo gives the speech he thinks the President should have given in last night's State of the Union address.  But Leo is not stopping there.  We at New Capital Show have started a petition.  If you think the speech is right on, and you want the future it describes - sign the petition, and we'll get it to the people in charge.  The more the merrier, so sign it and pass it along. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our New Broken System Join Leo as he attempts to wade through the incredible developments of this past week.  From shocking election results in New England, over to the Supreme Court with its amazing ruling, and back to the bonuses on WallStreet.  Leo does some news and takes your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Haiti Leo discusses the devastation in Haiti.  Harry Hayes, Solida Waste Management Director for City of Houston, comes on talk about what's going on with the current Recycling program and the controversy about the new tree-waste bags.  Leo does some news and takes your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website January 7th show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 31st Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 24th Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 17th Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 10th Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website December 3rd Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 26th Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website November 19th Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Good News and Conspiracies Leo discusses a host of important items: Honda reduces waste to ZERO in its plants, true costs for fossil fuels are finally being calculated, and Cheney is still showing his astonishing chutzpah.  Listener Clint is insulted when Leo labels the sensationalist banners on Alex Jones' website what they are: unproductive conspiracy theories (or worse). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Mendenhall We got word that Michael Mendenhall, who worked on New Capital Show, was killed by a drunk driver, and John Daido Loori, one of the world's great Zen teachers passed away.  Leo reflects on their lives, and then turns his attention to the sordid story of how an ex deputy mayor of LA could take a seat on the board of one of the largest pension funds in the world, and then turn that gig into a $50 million payment.  This should be a national scandal, but it doesn't even ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10/08/2009 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 10/01/2009 Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursay, 9/24/2009 Show The New Capital Show for September 24"th, 2009. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shadow Projections A reader's comments from Andrew Sullivan's blog The Daily Dose strike a chord with listeners: Obama is now the recipient of Jungian shadow projections by the right?  For Leo, it's all about projects, and as the President cancels useless projects in favor of useful projects, the right cannot bear the truth: their projects suck.  Mary Travers of Peter, Paul, & Mary fame passes on, but not before she spends a lifetime of showing how to advocate your views passionately, effectivel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lie to me After a fantastic speech to the children of our Nation (even Republicans agreed so), the President took his momentum to the Congress in an effort to clarify his vision of health care reform, shore up some votes, and put the debate back on a civil trajectory.  As usual, however, the Republicans doubled down on lunacy and disrespect of the office by having one of their members (presumably not coerced) shout down the President by calling him a liar.  Leo hopes and expe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Indoctri-Nation Leo tackles the Right Wing's latest buffoonery in their effort to keep kids home from school to avoid watching the President's address to, and therefore indoctrination of, our children.  How can you ever repair a child's view of the President after teaching them to show such disrespect for our elected leader?  And as the Right Wing continues to fail our children so does Texas, who recently decided to eliminate Sex Education in the class.  Though ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Diagnosis of a HealthCare System This week Leo hosts Dr. Heidi Schwarzwald and Dr. Adaeze Okeke to give us a diagnosis of the HealthCare system and prescribe some proactive treatments that could help us receive the HealthCare system we deserve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reluctant Shoppers The Wall Street Journal claims that "reluctant shoppers" are holding back the United States economy because they refuse to unholster their wallets and spend, spend, spend like it was, well, like it was yesterday!  Leo disagrees: the only thing holding back the economy is what has always held back the economy - bad investments being chosen over good ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thursday, August 6th Show Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healthcare Reform Leo finally decides to address healthcare reform head-on, as the government does the same thing.  Leo finds similarities in the failure of private banking intermediaries to do their jobs and the failure of private healthcare intermediaries to do their jobs.  If the intermediaries can't successfully intermediate at a national level and achieve their stated purpose, why are they entitled to support?  In the new economy, Leo notes a new report from McKinsey & Company th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seats at the Table New Capital Show debuts at its new time, 3pm CST Thursdays, catch it live at www.kpft.org or podcast here.  Lots of people shouting for a seat at the table to have a voice in how new capital will be raised and how it will be allocated.  Funny, these are the very same people who caused the gigantic, and now catastrophic, shift in capital raising and allocation over the past few decades.  All countries need a healthy balance between private and public projects, and capital is r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recycling Update Harry Hayes, Director of Houston Solid Waste, joins us by phone to talk about progress with the new single stream pilot program.  Director Hayes says it's a clear success, already in 10,000 households, with plans to reach an additional 50,000 of Houston's 375,000 households.  But between the lines, it sounds like the program is struggling to find funding.  Why is recycling expected to earn its keep?  No other municipal program is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hunger In America Sasha Abramsky visits to discuss his new book Breadline USA and highlight the growing number of working poor who are struggling to put food on their tables.  Leo notes that an investment banker friend of his believes that "everyone benefited" from the Reagan revolution, but Sasha begs to differ.  While the legislative agenda on global emissions, health, and others has a better chance now, it will have setbacks, as it's having right now.  Leo also recommends Niall Ferguson's n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Progress in the Storm Unemployment ratchets sharply higher in May, and critical legislation continues to get watered down in Congress by politicians on the take.  Florida shuts down summer school for lack of funding - what a country!  Right wingers grow more shrill the more they are opposed.  Still, progress is occurring as the nation goes through a big readjustment.  Even suburban developers are starting to put in organic farms as their centerpiece.  Take a break and a trip and enj ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Homeownership: good or bad? Leo hosts John Wasik, author of The Cul-De-Sac Syndrome, and they discuss home ownership, sprawling urban communities, and the results of rampant Federal highway funding.  Leo reveals the answer to his Risk Capacity Quiz. Also some news, including the the Sears Tower's plan for wind turbines and the situation in Iran, with agreement with Tom Friedman: help Iran by launching a green revolution here; $70 barrel of oil only goes into the hands of the oppressors. READ: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leo Tweets Follow Leo on twitter where he gives regular, less than casual views on today's economic condition, progressive observations, and some tweets on life in general.  Also, on today's show, San Francisco passes mandatory recycling to improve an already terrific program, Obama introduces financial reform legislation, and Leo gives his Risk Capacity Quiz.  Want to take it yourself?  You can here. LINK: Leo Gold on Twitter Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crowding Out Leo discusses the use of vast amounts of capital for, at best, highly questionable projects like more resorts in the Nevada desert and stadiums on the North Texas plain.  With huge deficits facing the US and a constrained capital account, why did we make the choices that we did over the past decades?  One thing is for sure, and that is it won't be easy to undo overnight. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silent Mentors As the economy tumbles itself about, Leo spots an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal that may prove to be the underlining solution for which we are so desperately searching.  The article speaks of Doctors in Taiwan who deeply understand the gift of Cadavers for medical research and pass this on to the next generation of students.  Leo contemplates that if you have a society that cares deeply about health, you get a good health insurance system.  If we desire a so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Messenger While the Country was fully steeped in tea bag rallies, Leo was not so sure that the messenger was quite so trustworthy to deliver the message that these rallies were conveying.  From the Newts to the Hannitys to the Limbaughs and the Becks, these all seem like unlikely messengers of fiscal responsibility.  Fun to be had with the tea bag rally and its innumerable innuendos, some news, and we take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Breaking the Bonds Leo delves into the need for each of us to break whatever negative bonds we each are burdened by.  He does some news and takes your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Rhodes and Nuclear History Richard Rhodes, author of the magisterial Pulitzer Prize winning Making of the Automatic Bomb and Dark Sun and Arsenals of Folly visits New Capital Show to talk about the past, present, and future of nuclear weapons.  As he works to complete his final volume of his history quartet on the subject, Rhodes indicates that we are on the verge of major reductions in these infernal weapons, and he states the case that we have wasted vast amounts of money for decades "over deterring" - an amo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overextended Obama? Leo discusses the meme going around that Obama is trying to take on too much too soon at one time - and dismisses it as nonsense.  Some news items and calls round out this fast-paced episode, with callers demanding a longer New Capital Show.  Are you listening KPFT management?  Probably not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AIG Bonus Geoff Berg hosts this week's The New Capital Show, fresh off his new show "Partisan Gridlock," which airs Wednesday night's at 10:00pm on KPFT.  Geoff's guest, Leo Gold (remote on vacation), gives an in-depth explanation of AIG's hold on the US Government and why it hasn't been allowed to fail, despite its audacious actions including the recent and incredulous Bonus fiasco. VISIT: Partisan Gridlock Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On My Own Two Feet Personal finance expert Manisha Thakor (right) visits to discuss her book On My Own Two Feet and talk about advice for gurls, boyz and everyone else.  Leo also brings up Tom Friedman's article that speculates if 2008 was the year that markets and mother nature said "no mas" and David Leonhardt's article about looting, which is what it appears Wall Street started doing to the public treasury many years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mothers for Clean Air Earth Day 5K Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama's Speech and Budget Leo discusses President Obama's speech to Congress and his just-released budget.  Is this new budget and direction proof that things are changing in ways we (The New Capital Show) approve?  Overall, Leo thinks so.  It may not be perfect, but we're making progress.  And sometimes, that's the best you can do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Trust You Deserve Leo delves into the nightmare Robert Alan Stanford and Bernard L. Madoff perpetrated upon their clients (allegedly). We do some news and take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stimulus Roulette Randall Morton drops by and gives our listeners a rundown of what's in store this year at the Progressive Forum, including Larry Wilmore from the "The Daily Show" who will be here this February 25"th. For tickets and information, including upcoming speakers this year, see Progressive Forum Website.Leo also notes that Houston will finally be having an official Earth Day event at Discovery Green and encourages you to keep Saturday Aprill 11th marked on your calendar. Earth Day Houston will b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Painting the Picture Leo wants Obama to keep on painting the picture of our future and keep us focused.  Leo discusses our economic state and what could, and should be happening.  We do some news and take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whole Earth Economy Join Leo as he hosts Peter G. Brown & Geoffrey Garver, author's of "Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy."  His guests give an insightful view of our economy collapsing, how entangled the world's capital really is, and how we can correct these problems and indeed build a whole earth economy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Desk Tax Harris County decides to tax Leo's desk. Can alternative energy efforts succeed if the Obama Administration doesn't step in to force the major energy polluters to pay their full cost? What happened to the PMI on our Nation's defaulted loans? Those topics and we take your phone calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Year Geoff Berg guest hosts a two hour New Year's Day special, the Israeli consul general for the Southwest drops by the studio to explain Israel'scurrent military actions in the Gaza Strip, and not surprisingly the majority of calls question its wisdom. In the second hour Geoff takes more calls on Israel and drops the failure of the conservative movement's teenage sex abstinence efforts into the mix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Merry Just Stop Day Leo proposes more "just stop" days similar to what we all tend to do on Christmas, discusses the obscene argument over the toxicity of the Tennessee spill of coal ash, and decides that subsidizing professional sports teams is not quite worth depleting our local infrastructure. Finally, The New Capital Show ends the year with Playwright Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. This riveting, painful, and exact speech is drawn squarely upon the United States' foreign policies sinc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recycling Management Leo discusses the Iraqi shoe thrower who aimed at George Bush.  Leo hosts Houston's Solid Waste Director Harry Hayes to discuss the recovery effort from and impacts of Hurricane Ike as well as Houston's progress and plans in recycling.  We do some news and take your calls. READ: Leo's editorial Take Your Shoes Off Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Electric Bill Trap Leo's electric bill soars as he misses the deadline to re-contract with Green Mountain Power.  Green Mountain provided no notice of expiration.  Leo thinks this scam is costing Texas electricity customers lots of money, and is ditching Green Mountain for Gexa, which claims that they notify customers of the imminent expiration of their annual contract.  Listeners and emailers say they've experienced the same thing..  Leo gets us up to speed on the financial state of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Auto Bailout? Matt Pawa visits NCS, and after solving a bad phone connection, talks about the lack of any proposed environmental requirements on the auto makers in return for their proposed lifeline.  Matt wants the automakers to stop fighting the Pavley case (in which states' rights to establish greenhouse gas restrictions is not superceded by federal requirements).  Also, Leo dispenses some year end financial planning recommendations, and Gary Edmondson of Urban Harvest describes how you can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stuff Nobody Wants Leo gives his view on how to get out of the current crisis.  The ports piling up with automobiles that nobody wants.  Lots of Houses piling up, that nobody wants.  Televisions in warehouses, furniture, plenty of stuff that nobody wants.  Our automobile industry leading the way with stuff that nobody wants.  The numbers are staggering... what then, do people want?  Leo takes a crack at the problems we are having and takes your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philippa Thomas Visits Philippa Thomas of the BBC's World News visits New Capital Show and co-hosts a show with Leo.  Covering global affairs, American politics, economics, and journalism, Leo and Philippa trade ideas and opinions and take your calls.  Leo insists that everyone read Michael Lewis' dark piece The End of Wall Street, a copy of which is provided below. READ: The End by Michael Lewis Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Day of Atonement On the Jewish Day of Atonement, Leo outlines what needs to be done - better investment - and Tony Cox, Garth Jowett, Bob Wilkerson and Danny Schecter start out the show while Leo hustles back from Yom Kippur services with his kids. READ: Leo's monologue Atonement and Return Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Crisis This week Leo addresses the financial crisis head on, and we take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community Organizer In an effort to combat accusations of lack of experience, VP nominee Sarah Palin took some swings at the concept of Community Organizer in her speech at the Republican Convention.  In the meantime, poetic justice chimed in as the Houston City Council voted on the ordinance to set aside $1 million of revenue from the sale of recycled commodities as a dedicated annual fund that can be used for a pilot program and a recycling education and outreach effort; a result, we believe, bo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obamanomics Leo, on the day of Barack Obama's acceptance speech, turns his attention to Obama's economic positions with focus on David Leonhardt's NYT article on the subject.  Also, Leo points out that corporate America is sitting on a $1 trillion cash pile with scant imminent intention to invest it.  Caller Toni says she's liberal but intends to vote for McCain because she "doesn't know who Obama is" and Leo directs her to Project Votesmart to find out.  And we take your calls. REA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IOUSA This Thursday August 21 at 7 pm join us for what promises to be an informative evening of multimedia and discussion about the economic and fiscal challenges and problems facing America. First at 7pm, the producers of Wordplay and the studio that brought you Supersize Me present a new documentary IOUSA; then a live national broadcast discussion with Warren Buffett and other prominent observers.  FIND A THEATER - BUY TICKETS Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Democratic Revival in Texas There are rumors of a revitalized Democratic Party in Texas, led by changes in its major urban areas.  On today's show, Geoff Berg guest hosts political scientist Dick Murray, Court Koenning, Harris County Republican Party and Garnet Coleman, Democratic Texas Representative to see if there's any truth to the rumors. READ: The Nation Democrats Stage a Revival in TexasREAD: WSJ The New Southern StrategyLINK: Dr. Richard Murray's blog Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Turning the Recycling Corner Geoff Berg guest hosts, as Leo manages to call in and help interview Mayor Bill White of Houston on the topic of Recycling in our city.  Later in the show, Lisa Skumatz, CEO of SERA inc. and Tex Corley, CEO of Strategic Materials, the nation's largest pure-play glass recycler, join Geoff and Leo to discuss what it's going to take to get the City of Houston turned around on the issue of recycling. VISIT: Mayor Bill White's Website VISIT: Lisa Skumatz SERA Inc. VISIT: Lisa Sku ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Remote Hodgepodge Leo, still on vacation, rambles through a show that covers energy, recycling, the difference between a stockbroker and an adviser, and more. READ: The Difference Between a Stockbroker and an AdviserREAD: Recycling Warning Letter to Houston citizens Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Banking on the Battery Leo takes the show on the road and ships in a few clips including financial concepts, energy policy, and some news.  Steven Rightman finishes off the show by going over some highlights of the Chevy Volt, due to arrive in 2010.  We play some excerpts of the latest Talking-Heads-Disinformation-Campaign regarding offshore drilling and "Energy Independence", and we take your calls.WATCH: Amory Lovins on Charlie RoseRESEARCH: GM's Chevy Volt Site RESEARCH: Chevy Volt S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recycling Petition Presented to the Mayor and The Shock Doctrine Leo recounts his visit to City Council.  With the Recycling Petition Signature Results in hand and surrounded by our Recycling Supporters, Leo make the case for a better system to the Mayor.  Later in the show, Leo hosts Naomi Klein, writer of the best selling book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.  Finally, we take your calls and do some news. READ: The Shock Doctrine Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Recycling Petition Delivery: Tues July 8 to Mayor White and City Council You've signed the Recycling Petition and now your voice will be heard.  And if you can, accompany Leo before Houston City Council to present our Recycling Petition on Tuesday July 8th, at 2:00pm, 2nd Floor of City Hall.  The room holds 100 (or so) people, so let's try to fill it.  Leo will have 3 minutes to initially address the Mayor and Council, with more for follow-up questions.  Change can happen in the blink of an eye - let's make it ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Oil Shocks and Shock Jocks George W. Bush announces his latest energy proposals - to drill where no man has drilled before and to extract oil from that which no man has ever extracted oil from before - and Leo doesn't like it one bit.  And Rory O'Connor visits to discuss his new book exposing "talk radio" for what it is: hate speech bordering on incitement to commit crimes.READ: Leo's editorial Now You KnowLEARN: Energy Information AdministrationREAD: Shock Jocks by Rory O'Connor Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OverThrow Leo hosts Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times bureau chief in Managua, Berlin, and Istanbul.  Leo discusses Kinzer's book Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq and his newest work A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It.   We are on our last gasp of the Recycling Petition, Leo does some news, and we take your calls. READ: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It READ: Overthrow: America ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Engineers Without Borders Leo hosts Brian Davis of Engineers Without Borders and discusses the fascinating and inspiring work being performed throughout the world.  Leo also talks a little politics, as the Democratic nomination winds down (maybe) and we take your calls. Our Recycle Petition is nearing an end and we need your help to reach our petition goal before we present it to the City.  If every one who has signed it finds one friend, one college, even a new acquaintance; it will put us o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Leading the Way Making a pledge inherently identifies you as a leader.  You don't have to be a manager, a boss, or a General; by making a pledge to KPFT you show that you are leading.  Your pledge is an investment in the past efforts, present endeavors,  and future aspirations of the New Capital Show and KPFT to carry forth the mantle we all hold of free and honest speech throughout the world.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matching Your Pledge A client of Leo's and dedicated KPFT member will graciously match your pledge to the station during fund drive up to a total of $1,000.  And during the pledge drive, Leo reminds the listeners that our Recycling Petition is also still moving ahead.  With greater than 500 responses so far, we're getting closer to our 1,000 signature goal but we need your help and fast.  Tell your family, friends, and colleagues to join the petition.  The Recycling Petition has beco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Welfare for the Wealthy It's fund drive, but Leo manages to host Dean Baker, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) and author of "The Welfare King".  Leo does some news, gives some status on our City of Houston Recycling Petition, and takes your calls for Station pledges. RESEARCH: Center for Economic and Policy Research Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Houston Recycles!??? Leo, stunned by a NYT article on San Francisco's 70% waste "diversion rate" to Houston's 2%, exchanges some email with Elena Marks, City of Houston's Director of Health and Environmental Policy, who tells Leo that the city is "catching up."  But Leo's not so sure.READ:  "A City Committed to Recycling is Ready for More"TAKE ACTION: Petition to Mayor of HoustonLEARN: City of Houston Recycling ProgramVISIT: Waste News Magazine   Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fallible Due to "technical difficulties", Leo loses a recording of an interview with Bill McKibben.  Randall Morton of the Progressive Forum drops by as a guest and they both examine human fallibility.  Leo also delves into Thomas Friedman’s latest Op-Ed, where Friedman rails against our Nation's absurd energy policy.  Finally, we take your calls, during which Leo takes a caller to task who claims liberals caused our energy problems...  Leo cheats a little ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pre-Existing Condition Leo attempts to update his health insurance only to find himself trapped in the intractable situation of people in the US who cannot get health insurance due to an actual or perceived pre-existing condition.  Though not as dire an ending as the millions of Americans left to fend by themselves without health insurance, Leo learns first hand just how rigged the system is against self-employed individuals and small businesses.  Also, we take your calls and do some news.READ: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Boss Leo wrestles with leaving a paradise-like spring day in Texas to return to the city and watch a Bruce Springsteen concert. He decides to see the concert and along the way he relives some elements of his past; some the same, some changed. But the one thing that has remained steadfast is the Boss playing for the working class. Leo discusses Obama's turn at a "misspoke" this past week. We take your calls and do some news. var so = new SWFObject("http://www.addpoll.com/flas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Value of Growth Leo examines the options companies have to utilize their profits: pay dividends, buy back stock, acquire other companies, or re-invest in the business. Leo discusses a new report from Russell Read, CIO for the California Public Employees' Retirement System, who states that clean technology investments have lately been their best performing portfolio assets. Finally, we do some news and take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Risk of Investing Leo's narrative on an investment sours into a fraud scheme perpetrated against him, leaves us with lessons that span the economic spectrum. Cris Eugster, Chief Officer for Sustainability for the City of Houston Mayor's Office, is back on the show about a year later to give an update and inform the listeners of the upcoming Green Expo in Houston this weekend at Reliant Park. We do some news and take your calls. Have you been "had" in the past on an investment? Share your story, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immigration and the Border Leo hosts former Mayor of El Paso, Bill Tilney, to discuss the immigration and the border. We do some news and take your calls. If you couldn't call in live or are listening on Podcast, give us a call on the New Capital Show Message Line (713-568-6544) and leave us your thoughts on this complicated subject. READ: Leo's editorial Our Land Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing of Racism Leo hosts The Center for the Healing of Racism's Co-Executive Director Cherry Steinwender, an apposite guest coming on the heals of Senator Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" speech.  We do some news and take your calls. VIEW: LEARN: The Center for the Healing of Racism Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The High Road of Ugly Politics Leo delivers a hypothetical speech he believes Obama should give at this point in the race for the Democratic Presidential nominee.  We take your calls do some news. READ: Leo's editorial: The Speech Obama Should Give Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Voting the Texas Two Step Leo relays his experiences with the Texas two-step voting system.  He endures a straight primary vote during the day followed by a return to the polls later that night for an interesting caucus sight.   Incredible turn out of voters, mix in some Republican tampering and Texas has itself a lively scene of the democratic process.   The fund drive ends with Leo giving away some extraordinary tickets to see Robert Redford at the progressive forum this month; we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NCS Endorses... With the upcoming March 4 Texas Democratic primary, Texas somehow, at long last, matters.  The 2nd largest state in the nation in both area and population has for several decades been a bastion of conservative votes, and its Democratic, liberal, and progressive holdouts have atrophied.  Its primaries have been unnoticed, and its votes in national elections, especially the tyranny of the winner take all Electoral College, have been foregone conclusions.  It's been ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fund Drive Leo misses a retreat to participate in the KPFT Fund Drive effort and  New Capital Show Staff member Bob Wilkerson co-hosts.  Leo gives a Dharma talk, does some news, and tries to raise some funds along the way. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fusion Leo hosts Dr. Goldston from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) to discuss how Fusion may be a part of the greener energy solution of tomorrow.  Leo, joined by George Reiter of Thresholds, presents a rather in-depth dialog with Dr. Goldston of the basics of fusion, its progress and future. RESEARCH:  Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investment GDP Before airing today's show, Leo finds his car window has been smashed and a power tool taken.  Somehow, he is able to transform this frustrating event into an enlightening view of how this nation's economists and politicians project and purport our National GDP.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Story of Stuff  Guest Anni Leonard guides listeners through our addiction to stuff.  How all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad;  from its extraction through sale, use and disposal.Join Leo as The New Capital Show and The Story of Stuff cross ideological paths in an attempt to determine the full cost of stuff. RESEARCH: The Story Of Stuff Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Investing The investing world went on a rollercoaster ride this past week.  Join Leo as he wades through some of the misconceptions and in-depth underlining principles of investing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taxation Leo hosts David Cay Johnston, investigative journalist for The New York Times now focusing on the subject of taxation with his new book Free Lunch, and Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films' latest work War on Greed.  Leo's monologue sets the stage as he and his guests wade through the many "lawful" advantages some of the very weathly utilize to skimp on taxes and feed the greed. READ: Leo's editorial Evasion RESEARCH: David Cay Johnston's book Free Lunch: How th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Mileage Run Join Leo as he opens with a monologue dedicated to those who race across the country at the end of the year in order to meet those last elite status frequent flyer mileage points.  Leo cuts the red ribbon in unveiling the MonoBlog.In News, Leo spots a study that claims home prices must fall far to be in sync with rents.In other news, The Mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, now has his City developing its own measure for determining poverty in order to help asses the City ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Permaculture Steven Rightman takes the mic while Leo has a quick vacation.  Join Steven as he hosts Nancy Edwards and Dr. Bob Randall, Director of Urban Harvest, in learning about the concept of Permaculture.  In News, Oil hits $100 a barrel in the futures market, another solution for the electric car and utility load balancing, Bush is read a few passages from Brave New World and bases legislation on it, and a quick 2007 sports year-in-review for Leo. RESEARCH: Urban Harvest - Pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental Defense Leo hosts Thomas Glenn, Houston's Clean Energy Policy Specialist for Environmental Defense.  And though Mr. Glenn has only held the reins for 3 months, he is able to transpose knowledge from his days in Austin to our local Houston situation.  Leo focuses on the new building codes due early next year, a new phone book of codes, and how, or if, they contribute to a greener standard for Houston.  Finally, we check the news cycle and take your calls. LEARN: Environmenta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fossil Fuel A new energy policy is now on the books, and though it comes absent of many needed concepts to fully revitalize our energy profile, it does, to its credit, update the fuel efficiency standard for automobiles including the likes of SUVs.  Leo predicts this is just the start with many more laws to come, some good and bad, but more on the way nonetheless.  In other news, Bush, in his typical apocryphal style, claims to be spreading peace around the world.  Fina ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website PreSchool Investment Join Leo as he and his guests, Dr. Susan Landry Director of the Center for Improving the Readiness of Children for Learning and Education (CIRCLE) and Professor David Kirp of the Goldman School of Public Policy wade through the issues of our greatest form of capital: our children; and how we can and should invest in their early development. READ: The Sandbox Investment LEARN: The Children's Learning Institute Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Homes Leo's guest, Green Architect LaVerne A. Williams, calls in (instead of driving to keep his carbon footprint lower) to discuss his home designs that make a statement of health, comfort, durability, and maintainability, all wrapped in a highly aesthetic appeal.Leo also discusses the U.S.'s National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran's nuclear [noo-klee-er] weapons program.  Bush's take on Iran's nuclear [new-cue-ler] ambition is different, but based on his pronounciation he may ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Googlers Leo delves into the Google phenomenon and how these two former students, who wanted to solve a problem, are at it again, this time with the environment. READ: Leo's editorial The Problem Solved LEARN: The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine LEARN: Google RE<C WATCH: Sergey Brin and Larry Page video Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Kindle On this Thanksgiving day, Leo provides an extended hour and a half show.  Leo discusses the implications of the Kindle, a new wireless ebook, revealed this week by Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com.  Leo thinks it, and others like it, are a revolution to embrace.  Leo talks some turkey and we take your calls. LEARN: Electronic Books LEARN: Kindle LEARN: Sony's Reader LEARN: Kindle & Sony's Reader LEARN: E-Ink Technology Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental Defense Leo hosts Matt Pawa, global warming litigator. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Pimple It's fund drive, but Leo has managed a monologue.   One you don't want to miss.   READ: Leo's editorial A Pimple Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. James Hanson Interview Join Leo in an enlightening interview with Dr. James E. Hanson, head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and known for his research in climatology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Savannah Leo chainsaws his leg while trying to preserve the Texas land.  As a result he is treated by doctors with extraordinary care.  He goes back to have a checkup today, the day that the Senate votes on child health plan SCHIP (just voted 67-29, a veto proof margin if the House goes along).In other news, "free-trading" utility companies ask congress to put a "cap" on the expense carbon credits could result in.And we take your calls. READ: Leo's editoria ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Temperamental Conservatism Leo cites David Brooks' article on the collapse of the Republican party and how the temperamental conservatism of Edmund Burke (widely regarded as the father of Western Conservatism) has been abandoned.  Also, Eastern Congo is going through yet another convulsion of violence.  This time it seems women are being sadistically and systematically attacked on a scale never before seen in the Congo.  Leo asks to try to involve yourself as you can through your daily life.&n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unnecessary Was carpet bombing German and Japanese cities crucial to a successful American WWII effort?   Leo discusses Ken Burns' PBS series "The War" and wonders whether Burns does the subject justice in his brief mentions.   Did the US stoop to the methods of the enemy by the end of the war?   Some emotional calls reflect that more history work needs to be done here. In political news, Leo notes the recent Bush climate change summit at the State Depart ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zen Leo hosts Gaelyn Godwin, Zen priest and resident teacher at the Houston Zen Center to discuss meditation and other sources of "internal capital." READ: Leo's editorial Zen LEARN: Houston Zen Center Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Intangible Balance Sheet Leo discusses how intangible line items are expanding on Business Balance sheets and that the industry is looking for a way to quantify them. The intangible basics of business derived environmental and socially responsible impacts are finally making there way to the status quo of accounting. Leo shows off by describing how a Monte Carlo risk analysis simulation works but stops shy of explaining a Kalman filter. Also, some news items and Leo takes your calls in the suspiciously col ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Affordable Housing Leo is out on holiday, but Otis and Tyra take the reins to bring you the latest in affordable housing. Their guests, Dan Phillips and Amanda Tullos, discuss plans for an affordable housing program made from reused materials with Brigid's Paradigm in Houston.  Also, Sheila W. Blake, City of Houston Public Works & Engineering Planning & Development Services - Code Enforcement discusses building permitting with reused materials. Phillips founded The Phoenix Commotion, buildin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It Doesn't Matter Leo gets an ear infection from swimming in a pond, can't fight through the Vicodin to finish his monologue, but presents what he's got: the Surge can't change the two major facts about the Iraq War: (1) Bush has destroyed Iraq, and (2) Bush has destroyed some of America.  And we take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prioritizing Leo discusses the AARP show from last week.  Setting up the main theme of today's show of priorities and how they are determined in business, at the government level, and even in our own lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Rest is Commentary Leo addresses George W. Bush's interpretation of America's war history, and not surprisingly the two disagree.  News articles on the disintegrating Iraqi power grid, the Chinese environmental catastrophe, and the humane treatment of animals as prescribed in the Torah.  Michael Warburton of AARP appears on the show, and takes heat from callers for AARP's reticence to produce firm policy recommendations about things that might affect its constituents, things like, oh, SO ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Priceless Leo discusses the drive-by shooting at New Capital's homebase KPFT 90.1 Pacifica.  Then Michael Osborne of Austin Energy, Austin's municipal utility, joins Leo to discuss alternative energy and the changes going on in the power business.  And Leo announces his first (and hopefully not last) guest appearance on Houston PBS's Connection: Red, White, & Blue. [Production: Tyra Rankin] READ: Leo's editorial Priceless LEARN: About Michael OsborneREAD: Michael Osborne's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greatest Hits The New Capital Show Greatest Hits show. Monologues, guests, and calls from the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Houston Sustainability Cris Eugster, Chief Officer for Sustainability for the City of Houston Mayor's Office visits with Leo to talk about his job transforming one of America's most unsustainable cities. READ: Leo's editorial Lipstick on a Pig Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bohemian Rhapsody Leo learns about Bohemian Grove and then gets a lesson in true artistry at the Round Top Festival Institute.  Also, discussions about Chrysler and Blackstone's sweet tax setup, and caller Rick wants to hear less of Leo and more of you. READ: Leo's editorial Travels to Bohemia LEARN: About Bohemian Grove LEARN: About Festival Institute  WATCH: Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major (Adagio) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bath Water Leo tackles hedge funds, alternative energy, and more.  Also, some news items and we take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainable Leo uses the 4"th of July to celebrate our nation and also to recognize the work ahead to create a sustainable independent American nation.  Also, some news items and we take your calls. READ: Leo's editorial Sustainable Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Different This Time Leo postulates why it is different this go around with green investing.  Also, some news items and we take your calls. READ: Leo's editorial Different This Time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lobbying the Energy Bill Leo discusses the lobbying cluster **** which is the energy bill working its way around Congress. Lobbying is, at its heart, an effort to shift costs, and that is nakedly apparent as oil and power companies converge on our representatives seeking advantageous treatment. Our "free market" is revealed to be, in fact, a distorted one where government picks winners and losers. Plus, news items and we take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Finance This week Leo expounds upon some financial wisdom and how one’s lifestyle and political persuasion may drive us and help us in these decisions. Plus, news items and we take your calls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Linchpin Texas The world is waiting for the United States to step up and lead on the issue of global warming and environmental protection. And while George W. Bush of Texas last week issued a new proposal to convene major nations on the issue, this President has spent his entire presidency resisting, and in many cases, contravening his obligations to lead the issue.  Meanwhile in Austin, Texas, the Texas legislature itself failed in its recent session to adopt measures that would help our st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portfolio Theory Leo evaluates our National Portfolio, hoping there is time left to fix it - before all the capital is destroyed, and there's nothing left in the account.  Plus, news items and we take your calls. READ: Leo's editorial Portfolio Theory Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website BoGo Light The BoGo Light is a scientific, eco-friendly breakthrough that is making an impact worldwide. From Cairo to Cape Town, from the Caribbean to the Amazon, it is improving the lives of individuals, families, and entire villages by replacing costly kerosene, candles, and disposable battery flashlights with an affordable, long lasting, solar flashlight. View the trailer by pressing the play button. Also, it's KPFT Pacifica pledge drive - call (713) 526-5738 to join and get a 2-for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Snow Job  John Snow served as Bush's Treasury Secretary from 2003 to 2006.  Now he's buying Chrysler as Chairman of Cerberus Capital - another Bush crony playing both sides of the street.  Also, it's KPFT Pacifica pledge drive - call (713) 526-5738 to join and order a brand new New Capital Show T-Shirt ($90 pledge) and Window Sticker ($35 pledge). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Mind Dr. Reid Montague, a raconteur par excellence who also happens to be Director of Baylor College of Medicine's Neuroscience Human Neuroimaging Lab (admittedly a mouthful) and the author of a new book Why Choose This Book?, joins Leo to talk about the latest thinking in how our minds work.  From how decisions get made to the nature of empathy, neuroscience is increasingly informing us of the causes and conditions of human behavior. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give the Chance a Plan Leo thinks the President is onto something when he malaprops his way into wisdom.  Plus, Tom Friedman is finally "all the way there," some Franciscan friars do their part, and we take your calls.READ: Leo's editorial Give the Chance a Plan Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peace Leo considers what constitutes peace, and hosts Kathy Kidd and Patty Kuderer, two people working to bring about a Department of Peace in the US government.READ: Leo's editorial Peace Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 1710 California Leo tries to find a "home office" and battles the Cherryhurst Civic Association in the process.   Can Houston preserve any of its old homes?  Should it?  Leo's guests are: David Bush (Greater Houston Preservation Alliance),  William Pesota (Hyde Park Civic Association),  Robyn Holzer (Citizens Transportation Group), and Mark Sterling (neighborhood activist). 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Can Do Tim Flannery, scientist, author of The Weather Makers, and 2006 Australian of the Year, appears on NCS for a half hour interview about global warming.  And Leo takes a little umbrage at Mayor Bill White's remarks to a group of his progressive supporters.READ: Leo's editorial Can Do Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GMO Labeling Genetically modified organisms (GMO's) are now prevalent in our food products, with an estimated 70% of goods on grocery store shelves containing at least some GMO inputs.  Often, this is in the form of modified grains, such as corn.  Proponents of GMO's extol their potential health and environmental benefits, while detractors criticize their potential health and environmental benefits.  Can both be right?  Today's New Capital Show convenes a round table of Dr.Tom McKnig ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SRI Of all the topics that the show has received requests to cover over the years, Socially Responsible Investing, or SRI, tops the list.  Finally, this week's show brings together an extraordinary list of the top mutual fund firms practicing this form of investment, where investees are rated on social issues (such as environmental management, labor relations, and others) as well as more traditional financial measures.  Representatives from Pax World, Portfolio 21, and Domin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TXU Turns This week, the TXU saga blazed out of Texas and into the world's headlines as the company announced it would be sold to two major private investment firms for an amount greater than any private buyers have ever paid for a single company.  Astonishingly (delightfully?), the buyers announced that they would scale back (though not eliminate) TXU's plans to build new coal plants in Texas, and that several pivotal environmental groups had participated closely in working on the det ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Hospitality Natalie Marquis, general manager of Austin's Habitat Suites, discusses their little hotel's efforts to create a green hospitality business. [Production:Lokey(lead)/Mendenhall] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hybrid Cars Leo examines hybrid cars and changing energy issues with the help of Jeffrey Ball of The Wall Street Journal. [Production:Kocurek/Rightman(lead)/Wilkerson]READ: Leo's editorial Wasting Time Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Experimenting Leo reveals his own personal travails with alternative energy, and explains how better products and systems will be needed.  Just don't expect it to happen under the current Administration.READ: Leo's editorial Experimenting Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Surge Speech On this week's show, Leo discusses George W. Bush's speech to the nation about his troop surge plan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Killer in You, The Killer in Me On this week's show Leo ponders the execution of Saddam Hussein.READ: Leo's editorial The Killer in You, The Killer in Me Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiday Costs On this show, the last of 2006, Leo discusses the cost of the holiday season using James Surowiecki's New Yorker article as a roundtable centerpiece. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Betrayed in China READ: Leo's Editorial Betrayed in China Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website