Patt Morrison for Monday, May 10, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, May 10, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:39

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

The wild, wild Western Hemisphere: State Dept. on immigration, drugs & more

Millions of their citizens reside in the U.S., our shared borders makes for shared policy on the environment, energy and more, and our appetite for drugs fuels their drug wars—the American relationship with countries in the Western Hemisphere, from Canada to Cuba, is arguably the most important for our foreign policy.  One of the top policy makers from the State Department is in Southern California for a rare visit to discuss joint energy programs between the U.S., Canada & Mexico but his portfolio expands well beyond that subject and those two countries.  How is the U.S. assisting Mexico in its continuing drug cartel battles?  Is there still a movement within the Obama Administration to normalize relations with Cuba—what about Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela?  From the Strait of Magellan to the Panama Canal, Patt and the State Department cover all the issues facing the U.S. and our Western Hemisphere neighbors.

 

Guest:

Craig Kelly, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere

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2:06 – 2:30

Another round of Wall Street grilling concludes, but are we closer to the causes of the crisis?

The commission in charge of figuring out what lead to the financial meltdown held another round of hearings last week. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) called executives from Bear Stearns, PIMCO, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to the hot seat.  Former Fed Secretary Henry J. Paulson and his predecessor Timothy Geithner shared their insight into what caused the biggest financial disaster since the Great Depression.  Geithner told the commission that Wall Street experienced a “pure failure of discipline”.  Paulson warned against over regulation of non traditional banks but conceded that our “archaic and outmoded financial regulatory system” contributed to the financial crisis.  So, were the questions tough enough and did the answers give us anymore insight into what happened and how to prevent it from happening again? You’ll have to listen to Patt’s discussion with the head of the commission to find out.

 

Guest:

Phil Angelides, chairman, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

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2:30 – 2:39

OPEN

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

Isabel Allende’s “Island beneath the sea”

Arguably the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, Isabel Allende is back with a new book, this time bringing elements of her signature magic realism to bear on the violent birth of Haiti.  “Island beneath the Sea” follows teenage slave Zarita (know as Tété) from her arranged marriage to a Frenchman to freedom in a free-wheeling New Orleans and is the story of one woman’s capacity to forge a new identity out of the most desperate of circumstances.  Patt talks with Allende—one of Latin America’s shining examples of women writers—about her own history as a refugee of the 1973 Chilean military coup, her travels through Latin America and the Middle East, and the current situation in Haiti.

 

Guest:

Isabel Allende, author of “The House of the Spirits” (La casa de los espíritus) (1982), “City of the Beasts” (La ciudad de las bestias) (2002) and most recently, “Island beneath the Sea”

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Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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