Podcast notes for broken show — and a hiatus announcement.

Shelly and I tried to record a show last night, but technical difficulties kept the audio from being laid to track.  While I hope to potentially have a guest host sit in this weekend to fill in the content-gap, there are no promises.

In the interim, here’s the link list containing the stories we were to cover.

If I’m able to get a remote co-host’s audio put to track, expect a posting on either Sunday or Monday.

Otherwise, here’s the link list.  We’ll be back on the air as soon as we’re able.  Apologies for the inconvenience.

Podcast: Episode 1.6

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Intro: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
Outro: Bad Religion – “Los Angeles is Burning“

Topics on the show included…

Podcast: Episode 1.5

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Intro: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
Outro: Clutch – “Animal Farm“

Topics on the show included (and beware the list… it’s a doozy [but you'll learn lots])…

Peter Marshall – “Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism”

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Podcast: Episode 1.4

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Introduction:

Intro: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
Outro: Shelly – “State and Serf“

Topics on the show included…

Doug French – “Conventional Education Will Go the Way of Farming”

http://mises.org/daily/5211/Conventional-Education-Will-Go-the-Way-of-Farming

“Conventional Education Will Go the Way of Farming”

Doug French | April 15, 2011

Food is vital for survival, yet less than 2 percent of America’s population works in agriculture. That’s a big change from 100 years ago, when over 40 percent of the workforce was toiling away on the farm. If I had been born at the start of the 20th century in Kansas, rather than at the end of the 1950s, no doubt my life would have been spent on the farm.

Ryan Singel – “Google Holds Out Against ‘Do Not Track’ Flag”

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/04/chrome-do-not-track/all/1

“Google Holds Out Against ‘Do Not Track’ Flag”

Ryan Singel | April 15, 2011

And then there was Chrome.

Apple made it clear this week that the next version of its Safari browser — which will ship with the upcoming version of Mac OS — will include the ability for users to tell websites not to track them, by using what’s known as the ‘Do Not Track’ header, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. – “Learning About the State”

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/learning-about-the-state.html

Learning About the State

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | September 24, 2008

What we’ve seen in the last week is the state at work – and by the state, I do not mean a particular set of leaders. If we watch carefully, we can gain insight into what the state is and why our fundamental problem extends far above and below the political party system.

The moment is complicated by the upcoming election, so some people are distracted by the circus of McCain vs. Obama and all the characters associated with that silly little battle. What they are looking at is really the veneer. It is a covering designed to prevent you from seeing what the state is and why it matters.

Tom Burghardt – “Democracy or Police State?”

http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/09/democracy-or-police-state-new-lawsuit.html

Democracy or Police State?

Tom Burghardt | September 22, 2008

On Wednesday, Antifascist Calling reported on moves by the Department of Justice to seek blanket immunity for AT&T under provisions of the disgraceful FISA Amendments Act (FAA).

If approved by Judge Vaughn Walker, the presiding magistrate hearing the landmark Hepting v. AT&T lawsuit in federal district court in San Francisco, the giant telecommunications corporation and Bush crime family partner would walk away scott free.

The suit, brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of AT&T customers caught up in the state’s illegal internet and telephone driftnet surveillance, is challenging unconstitutional spying on U.S. citizens and legal residents.

Steve Watson – “Homeland Security Previews Physiological Bio-Screeners”

http://www.prisonplanet.com/homeland-security-previews-physiological-bio-screeners.html

Homeland Security Previews Physiological Bio-Screeners
Polygraph like machines to “spot terrorists” by scanning general public for anxiety

Steve Watson | September 19, 2008

The Department of Homeland Security has previewed new technology that they promise will help rout out terrorists and other dangerous people in public places by covertly bio-scanning subjects as they walk past sets of cameras.

It may seem Orwellian, but on Thursday, the Homeland Security Department showed off an early version of physiological screeners that could spot terrorists, reports USA Today.

According to DHS officials, the scanners work like polygraphs but without the subjects having to be wired up to them. They measure body temperature, pulse and breathing regularity. Any sudden changes recorded could indicate “the kind of anxiety exuded by a would-be terrorist or criminal.”

Tom Burghardt – “America’s Spying Telecoms”

http://antifascist-calling.blogspot.com/2008/09/as-aclu-challenges-fisa-law-in-federal.html

America’s Spying Telecoms

Tom Burghardt | September 19, 2008

Last Friday the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) in Federal District Court in New York. But on the same day, Wired reported that Justice Department special counsel Anthony Coppolino informed U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker in San Francisco that the government would seek blanket immunity under FAA for spying telecoms.

Calling the FAA “the most sweeping surveillance bill ever enacted by Congress,” the ACLU urged the court to strike down the law as an unconstitutional breach of privacy and free speech rights.

The FAA, a piece of Bushist legislative flotsam, was overwhelmingly approved by both houses of Congress and signed into law in July by president Bush. While the reputed “opposition” party, the Democrats, managed a few bleats against immunity provisions for lawbreaking corporate grifters, they quickly fell into line and passed this disgraceful statute.

Why? So as not to appear “soft on terror” during November’s general election according to The New York Times. But flip-flopping “liberal” Democrats, including the party’s nominee for president, Sen. Barack Obama, joined their colleagues across the aisle for a more salient reason: cold, hard cash.

Podcast: Volume I, Episode XVIII

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Download Episode XVII (61.0 mb)

Note to show: Nate and I had so much to talk about that we couldn’t confine it to one show!  Rather than drag the initial show out to 1:45+ min., we decided to break it off into its own bonus segment.  And as a result of waiting so long to post Episode XVII, we decided to include it here for those who’d rather not miss a show.  We hope you enjoy (and, please, pardon the cursing–stuff’s getting really crazy out there!).

Stephen Lendman – “Subverting Democracy Through Electoral Fraud”

http://www.rense.com/general83/subv.htm

Subverting Democracy Through Electoral Fraud

Stephen Lendman | September 15, 2008

In America and elsewhere, electoral fraud isn’t new nor should anyone be surprised it occurs. But as technology improves, so are better ways found to pre-arrange outcomes. It’s easier than ever today so more time, effort, money and other resources are earmarked for it. The result…

Steve Watson – “Group With Big Pharma Ties Wants to Shut Down Vaccine ‘Conspiracy Theories’”

http://www.infowars.com/?p=4555

Group With Big Pharma Ties Wants to Shut Down Vaccine “Conspiracy Theories”
Kingpins of Military-Industrial complex say they will “brand” websites they consider “trustworthy and reliable sources of information”

Steve Watson | September 15, 2008

A foundation populated by the giants of business, banking, government and military wants to “vet” websites and limit the spread of information that it says creates “conspiracy theories”.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), fronted by Internet creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, says it is worried about the way the web has been “used to spread disinformation”.

Speaking to the BBC, Berners-Lee said that there needed to be a new system that would give websites a “label for trustworthiness” once they had been proved reliable sources. Only then would the rise of “cult thinking” be avoided according to Berners-Lee.

Cade Metz – “Google’s IP anonymization fails to anonymize”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/google_ip_anonymization/

Google’s IP anonymization fails to anonymize

Cade Metz | September 12, 2008

In telling the world it will anonymize user IPs after only nine months, Google has appeased EU regulators. At least in part. But it looks like Mountain View’s new policy is just another example of Google Privacy Theatre.

On Monday evening, when Google deputy counsel Nicole Wong trumpeted the new nine month policy to Silicon Valley’s Churchill Club, she said the company was still mulling “the implementation details.” But later in the week, the company outlined its plan with a few terse sentences tossed CNet’s way.

After nine months, the company has confirmed with The Reg, Google will “change some of the bits” in the user IPs stored in its server logs. But as the plan stands now, it will leave cookie data alone.

This means the missing bits are easily retrieved.