Terrorist Conspiracy in North Carolina

FILE --These undated file photos provided by the City County Bureau of Identification in Wake County, N.C., show from left: Daniel Patrick Boyd, Hysen Sherifi, Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan and Ziyad Yaghi. Authorities claim the group, including 3others and an eighth suspect believed to be in Pakistan, were gearing up for a "violent jihad," though prosecutors haven't detailed any specific targets or timeframe. If convicted, the men could face life in prison. (AP Photo/City County Bureau of Identification/file)

Undated file photos of Daniel Patrick Boyd, Hysen Sherifi, Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan and Ziyad Yaghi, four of seven men in custody on terrorism charges in North Carolina. (AP)

Eight men face charges that they were part of a terrorist conspiracy to wage an Islamic holy war on foreign soil. Authorities say the men trained in jihad camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Josh Meyer, who covers national security for the Los Angeles Times and Tribune, joins us to talk about this case.

The ‘Great Recession’ is Over

According to Newsweek, the “Great Recession” is over, but the long, slow recovery is just beginning. The magazine’s cover story this week explains how this was not your father’s recession, and it won’t be your father’s recovery. The most recent financial meltdown was caused by the housing and credit markets, rather than manufacturing losses as in the past, and digging out of the quagmire will require creativity, confidence, and most of all, patience. Newsweek’s Daniel Gross joins us.

Swimsuit Beats Phelps

German swimmer Paul Biedermann blasted past Michael Phelps in the 200 meter freestyle final in Rome yesterday, smashing Phelps’ world record in the process. Beidermann wore a new, high tech polyurethane suit and his performance inflamed a festering issue: the high tech suits that critics say are destroying the sport of swimming. We’ll speak with Washington Post staff writer Amy Shipley from Rome.

Tweet This!

Businesses are turning to Twitter to reach out to customers, improve brand loyalty and respond to customer complaints – all in 140 characters or less. Here & Now media analyst John Carroll tells us why businesses are spending a quarter of a billion dollars to reach consumers through social media sites such as Twitter.

Julia Child, Revisited

With the opening of the new film “Julie and Julia,” the late food icon Julia Child is back in the spotlight. We revisit our conversation we had with Julia Child in 2000, shortly before she was awarded France’s Legion of Honor.

Music from the Show

Peter Dixon, “Nagog Woods”
The Wee Trio, “About a Girl”
Art Blakey, “C.O.R.E.”
Ahmad Jamal, “Patterns”
Bobby Day, “Rockin’ Robin”
Edith Piaf & Louis Guglielmi, “La Vie en Rose,” performed by Frederic Foret

http://djeddieo.com Edward

what a joy to hear Julia Child’s voice! I was lucky enough to have briefly met her once, and then my wife bought me admission to a one-night “class” she did with Jacques Pepin at BU. I attended alone, so I could give them my rapt attention. I can’t wait for the film.
traven

Hey, Robin, can you ever admit that Phelps could simply lose a race fair and square? Envy is defined as an emotion which occurs when one lacks another’s superior qualities, and only envy can lead to distorting Biedermann’s victory to a topic about the loin fabric. In a fair world, Paul Biedermann would be congratulated, not destroyed out of so much envy… After all, the German whipped Phelps to a pulp in very convincing fashion and to blame it on the suit is funny and incredible preposterous. Has it occured to anyone that Michael Phelps could have worn a similar suit? Or, how’bout no suit at all?? Just dye the water all black and let’em swim their guts out… Instead of teaching Phelps a little humility (the way he did so much to others), the crazy media like you (lol) gives him excuse after excuse! Is Phelps a mythological figure now, are we gonna bow to this guy year after year?? Are we soon gonna read about Ullises, Agamemnon and Phelps?? Cmon, grow up…
http://www.hereandnow.org Katie

What a treat to hear Julia Child’s voice–it is so much like the French food she prepared–sumptuous and saucy. Like her food, her advice still fortifies: relax, have fun and have courage.
http://www.commonraven.org Dave

In his appearance on your program, Daniel Gross suggested that a broad-sweeping and innovative shift would be necessary to accomplish a comprehensive economic and social recovery. Citing examples such as the inventions of steam power, electricity and micro-processors, Mr. Gross asserted that today’s path to financial recovery is as-of-yet unknown.

I wish to propose that the only solution for true recovery is a socially-upheld package of ecologically- and globally-sensitive sustainability initiatives (such as harmless plastics, bio-processors, recyclable building materials, etc).

Far from being of interest only to the developers of renewable energy, sustainability initiatives call upon the robust vigor of all sectors including clothing manufacturing, food production, furniture manufacturing, home building, urban planning and wild-land management – as well as chemical, electrical and industrial engineering.

As long as human societies remain locked in profit cycles which are utterly dependent upon the ever-increasing annihilation of natural resources, we are doomed to repeat the downward spiral of rapid physical and social decay.

Let there be no doubt, the real damages (such as the loss of manufacturing jobs, the collapse of real estate markets and rampant discord, hunger and poor health) will continue to compound and increase.

No amount of stimulus and growth can prevent these disastrous consequences if society is stimulated to grow in the wrong direction.

Perhaps it is time to shift the focus of our deliberations from the willful denial of the painfully obvious to that of the warm embrace of a future imbued with the limitless possibilities of sustainable growth in ecological, economic and cultural good health.