Archive for the ‘Julian Assange’ tag
State Dept hid contractor’s ties to KXL company, Part 3 of America’s Domestic Black Sites
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Allison and Jamie discuss Mother Jones’ exclusive on the State Department hiding a contractor’s ties to a Keystone XL company, another case of rape culture in America — this time in Connecticut, and play Marc Kilstein’s (@MarcKilstein) third act in “America’s Domestic Black Sites: The Tragic History of Solitary Confinement.”
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Wall Street isn’t done screwing you, Part 1 of America’s Domestic Black Sites
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Allison and Jamie recommend a couple articles that you should definitely read this week: Sarah Jaffe on the Chained CPI nonsense and Washington’s commitment to austerity and Alexis Goldstein on the London Whale Fail and how Wall Street isn’t done screwing you yet. Then, Marc Kilstein (@MarcKilstein) brings you part 1 of his report on America’s domestic black sites: the tragic history of solitary confinement.
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Kevin Gosztola on Bradley Manning hearing, Mike Elk reports 9/11 mistakes repeated in Sandy clean-up
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Journalist Kevin Gosztola (@kgosztola) joins the show to discuss the Bradley Manning hearing and journalist Mike Elk (@mikeelk) reports 9/11 mistakes are being repeated in the Hurricane Sandy clean-up effort.
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Ecuador grants asylum to Assange, CNN’s reality TV, ninjas
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Ecuador grants aslyum to Assange, CNN’s reality TV, The Dawood military hospital scandal, corporations pay more to CEOs than they do in taxes, and the Times Square shooting.
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John Ashcroft working for Blackwater, dress your dog like a bloodthirsty douche
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Former Bush Attorney General John Ashcroft is working for Blackwater. Other Bush-era officials making the media rounds this week in a meager attempt to convince the world Dubya was right include Condi Rice, who calls Bush’s bullhorn moment at Ground Zero “probably the most important maybe in American history.”
Violence continues in Syria AKA The Place We Don’t Care About. Assad’s goons have arrested hundreds of dissidents and an Al Jazeera journalist has disappeared.
Also, now you can dress your dog like an asshole, too, with exciting “Osama’s dead” puppy t-shirts.
Bradley Manning’s living conditions have vastly improved now that he’s been transferred to Fort Leavenworth. You can write Bradley at the following address (send him words of support!)
Bradley Manning
89289JRCF830
Sabalu RoadFort
Leavenworth, KS 66027-2315
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Bradley Manning updates, a maybe cult, and right-wing lunatics kill a little girl and the media yawns
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Bradley Manning is now being denied access to the one visitor who was previously permitted to see him – could a coerced Wikileaks confession be far behind? Allison and Jamie share their own experience with sensory deprivation involving a maybe cult, and a right-wing militia killed a little girl named Brisenia Flores almost two years ago. Why doesn’t the national media care?
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Obama’s new chief of staff, John Boehner’s shady past, an audition disaster, and your mail
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President Obama has a new chief of staff named William Daley, and he and John Boehner (the new House majority leader) both have shady pasts. Also, a birther gets arrested on the first day of the Republican-controlled House, and don’t fret if you’re worried about the privatization of Social Security – you may be dead by then! Jamie shares a story about a recent audition disaster. Also, Allison and Jamie answer a bunch of your mail. Questions/comments this week concern the message board, veganism, and Julian Assange.
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‘Illegally shoot the son of a bitch’
People OK with murdering Julian Assange: A new generator that features the calls for the Wikileaks founder’s assassination. Here’s a taste:
“A dead man can’t leak stuff…This guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I’m not for the death penalty, so…there’s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch.” -Bob Beckel, Fox News contributor
It’s worth remembering that oftentimes the people calling for these kinds of extrajudicial assassinations are also the whiners who shroud themselves with the Constitution any time policy passes that they don’t approve of. The Tea Party “Constitutionalists’” cherry-picking reminds me of this cartoon (via)
Side-note: I’d also like to point out that the biblical-like worship of the Constitution is pretty strange in itself. The document was written a long time ago by white men who couldn’t have possible foreseen certain events like, I dunno, the internet. Furthermore, any law that doesn’t ultimately lead to justice is inherently corrupt, and maybe the newly minted Republican majority in the House should be focusing on the millions of unemployed Americans instead of devoting hours to reading the Constitution today, which is a pretty colossal waste of time and clearly a ‘fuck you’ to the Democratic minority. Ahem. But maybe I’m just a little worked up from having watched Machete last night.
And while it isn’t on the level of calling for illegal assassinations, the hypocrisy is a bipartisan event.
Amazing: In interview with Texas Tribune, key Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes hits WikiLeaks and
“catastrophic” damage it may cause, and then is challenged on public’s right to know what government is doing. His reason for secrecy? He compares it to a man and wife in their bedroom. “Governments have the same kind of privacy expectations.”
Uh-huh. I’m sure we can reach some kind of agreement here – how about that the government should be permitted to legally assassinate Julian Assange, and should also have the same privacy rights guaranteed to fucking heterosexual spouses? Pragmatism! Nobel prizes for everyone!
Bradley Manning, snow zombies, sexist advertising, and openly weeping in front of family
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Home for the holidays? Jamie and Allison walk you through family trauma with some delightful banter about sexist advertising, Bradley Manning, snowpocalypse (including snow zombies,) and more.
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Interview with Anonymous, the group behind Operation Payback, more on Wikileaks, and London protests
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An interview with a representative from Anonymous, the group behind Operation Payback, which emerged after the arrest of Wikileaks’ leader, Julian Assange.
UK students continue to kick ass as they protest insane tuition hikes. Citizen Radio plays the audio from an inspiring speech made by…a 15-year-old student.
It’s time for more of your Listener Mail! Questions/comments this week include starting your own protest club, and indy media versus mainstream media.
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