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…

Vigilant Citizen – “The 25 Rules of Disinformation”

http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/the-25-rules-of-disinformation/

“The 25 Rules of Disinformation”

Vigilant Citizen | 24 May 2011

From Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The 8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney. These 25 rules are everywhere in media, from political debates, to television shows, to comments on a blog.

Podcast: Episode 1.3

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Introduction:

Intro: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
Outro: Shelly – “It’s a One-Party World“

Video: “Speech by War Veteran”

Podcast: Episode 1.1

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Introduction:

• Intro: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
• Outro: Tracy Chapman – “New Beginning“

After a long wait, many starts, stops, fits, and restarts: finally… a new podcast.  Much has happened since this show has last fired up the “ON AIR” sign.  We’ve invaded four (or is it five?) new nations; receded mildly a front in the Iraq War; expanded the Afghanistan War; started murdering lotsa people in Pakistan with drones and missles; we’ve seen QE1 and QE2; and TARP has been expanded under the Obama junta (among many other horrible things!).  Plenty has stayed the same, though: we still torture; Gitmo’s still open; the political parties are corrupt; Goldman-Sachs still has operatives planted all over the place; and gold and silver prices keep risingrisingrising!

Murray N. Rothbard – “The Tyranny of Government Courts and Prisons”

http://mises.org/daily/5199/The-Tyranny-of-Government-Courts-and-Prisons

“The Tyranny of Government Courts and Prisons”

Murray N. Rothbard | April 12, 2011

Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure. Thus, much-venerated judicial procedure rests upon coerced testimony. Since it is axiomatic to libertarianism that all coercion — in this case, all coerced labor — against everyone except convicted criminals be eliminated, this means that compulsory testimony must be abolished as well. In recent years, it is true, the courts have been alive to the Fifth Amendment protection that no alleged criminal be forced to testify against himself — to provide the material for his own conviction. The legislatures have been significantly weakening this protection by passing immunity laws, offering immunity from prosecution if someone will testify against his fellows — and, furthermore, compelling the witness to accept the offer and testify against his associates. But compelling testimony from anyone for any reason is forced labor — and, furthermore, is akin to kidnapping, since the person is forced to appear at the hearing or trial and is then forced to perform the labor of giving testimony. The problem is not only the recent immunity laws; the problem is to eliminate all coerced testimony, including the universal subpoenaing of witnesses to a crime, and then forcing them to testify. In the case of witnesses, there is no question whatever of their being guilty of a crime, so the use of compulsion against them — a use that no one has questioned until now — has even less justification than compelling testimony from accused criminals.

Podcast: Episodes XXI and XXII

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Download MP3 – Peter Schiff Bonus MP3 (3.64 mb, no we didn’t interview him…)

Introduction – Episode XXII:

• Theme: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
• Outro: Bad Religion – “Let Them Eat War“

Introduction – Episode XXI:

• Theme: Nine Inch Nails – “Hyperpower!“
• Outro: A Perfect Circle – “Pet“

Notes to show(s): Apologies for the delay with both episodes.  To make up for the delay on episode XXI, we’re posting episode XXII the day after we recorded it, as well as a free bonus segment!  It’s an interview with Peter Schiff discussing the economy.  All great stuff!  Episode XXI discusses the economic meltdown, etc.  Episode XXII discusses Election 2008 and the coronation of our new messianic Dictator-in-Chief, Obama!  Though, rest assured, we’d crap just as much on McCain if he were (s)elected Fuhrer-in-Chief… but because we’re non-partisan around here (well, except for our support of Ron Paul), everyone’s fair game!  Enjoy the show, stock up on guns, buy some storable foods and gold/silver, and get ready!  Things are going to get really nasty–the Rockefellers and Brzezinski demand it so!

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.

Danielle Gaines – “School Forces Student to Remove American Flag Shirt”

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/275/story/460170.html

School Forces Student to Remove American Flag Shirt

Danielle Gaines | September 23, 2008

Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag.

Officials at the Merced County school confirmed Thursday that Jake Shelly was forced to take off a red, white and blue tie-dyed American flag T-shirt on Tuesday. The shirt said nothing offensive, just: “United States of America, Washington, D.C.”

The school’s assistant principal issued Shelly a bright yellow T-shirt that read “DCV: Dress Code Violator” to wear for the rest of the day. He was given his shirt back after classes ended.

Timothy V. Gatto – “America Needs a Shadow Government”

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20793.htm

America Needs a Shadow Government

Timothy V. Gatto | September 18, 2008

I think I can speak for many Americans when I say that our government has been less than responsive as far as ending militarism and holding our civil liberties sacrosanct. In fact, less than responsive is being generous, as we have seen this nation totally scrap the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, station troops in bases world-wide in over 130 different nations, and wage aggressive war on three nations, become complicit with another nation to wage war (Georgia) and institute trade sanctions (another Act of War by International law) on Iran.

During the past two terms of this Presidency we have learned in-depth about signing statements, the “Unitary Presidency”, numerous Executive Orders that remain secret from the Congress, extraordinary “rendition”, and torture to include inflicting injuries on another human being “to the point of, but not exceeding organ failure”. We know of places such as Abu Graib, and Guantanamo and watched as our Army dropped white Phosphorus on innocent civilians in a city called Fallujah where photographs of women and children showed burned blackened corpses while the clothes and blankets they were wrapped in weren’t even singed. We learned about depleted uranium and exposed our soldiers and Iraqi citizens to ionizing radiation that causes cancers, leukemia, and birth defect among other things. Radiation that we brought to Iraq and Afghanistan has a half-life of eight billion years.

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!).