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Episodes
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
This week we’re back with a nice smattering of weird and disturbing stories. The number of workers who believe their boss cares about them has plummeted in the last year, which is pretty obvious given that an Applebee’s franchising executive recently expounded the virtues of worker suffering for his bottom line. Saudi Arabia is considering accepting Chinese yuan for oil, which, like, hello? We’ve been backing you up for years, and this is how you treat us? Wow. In related news, Antarctica saw an unexplainable spike in temperature that has climate scientists confused and very, very concerned. Ginni Thomas’ unhinged texts to Mark Meadows reveal the degree of the elites’ disconnection from reality. Biden shouldn’t have said that, and Boston is making its busses free for the next two years.
Finding out your boss isn’t your family: https://www.gallup.com/workplace/390776/percent-feel-employer-cares-wellbeing-plummets.aspx
Ginni Thomas calls for the release of The Kraken: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/us/politics/ginni-thomas-donald-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare
Free busses in Boston: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/14/boston-free-public-transit/
Franchise executive things serfdom is great for business: https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article259689425.html
Saudi Arabia is a fake friend: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/598257-saudi-arabia-considers-accepting-yuan-instead-of-dollar-for-oil
Antarctica is on fire: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/03/18/antarctica-heat-wave-climate-change/
Biden accidentally calls for Putin’s overthrow: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/03/26/world/ukraine-russia-war/russia-ukraine-biden
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
The forces of Men’s Rights Activists take control of South Korea in a record-breaking election year for that country thanks in part to Seo Cheon-seok’s digital double. Meanwhile, in Texas, where they have the matriarchy on the run, a woman is forced to fly to Colorado for a life-saving abortion on her wedding day. To help Ukraine realize the kind of freedom enjoyed in America, the world’s third largest military --the combined force of America’s collective police departments-- have started donating their combat gear to that country. We’re not without a wildflower of course: New York is putting those impacted the worst by the Drug War at the front of the line for legal Cannabis growing.
Cops donate tactical gear to Ukraine:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dypkjx/us-police-donates-tactical-gear-ukraine
Texas’ abortion law forces a woman to get care in Colorado:
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/28/1083536401/texas-abortion-law-6-months
Deepfake candidate videos, hair insurance and anti-feminism in South Korea’s election:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3vx8k/south-korea-incel-gender-wars-election-womens-rights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5bnjr0bhKk
Wildflower: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/First-dispensaries-to-go-to-New-Yorkers-with-past-16992669.php
Monday Mar 07, 2022
Monday Mar 07, 2022
As things continue to heat up in Ukraine, the manufacturing of consent here in the US intensifies. A New York State County Executive is holding a gun drive to send poorly maintained long rifles purchased from Field and Stream at a discount to Ukraine. The US trucker convoy is making its way to DC just in time to protest Covid restrictions that are no longer in place, and we thank them for their service. Albany Police Chief says that officers who covered their badges last summer while crushing protests did no wrong, and their actions were the result of a miscommunication. Also, protestors are very mean. And finally, unionizing efforts at a Manhattan REI see huge success.
Trucker Convoy: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/us/trucker-convoy-washington-protest.html
NY Gun Drive: https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-gun-drive-ukraine-russia-war
Report: Police violated policy by covering badges before protest: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Report-Police-violated-policy-by-covering-badges-16946814.php
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
This week we’ve got one thing on the brain: Ukraine. David fills us in on the long history of US interventionism and context for the current conflict. This is a tragic, catastrophic story full of bad actors on all sides. From the expansion of NATO to covert CIA actions that installed bloodthirsty regimes, Western governments’ interventionism fuels so much war. One bit of good news though! Covid cases are down 90% in the United States and we’re looking forward to seeing people in person!
The history of the CIA in Ukraine:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-25/ukraine-cia-insurgents-russia-invasion
A brief and incomplete list of American election meddling:
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/02/26/msnbc-needs-a-history-lesson/
“This is what happens in banana republics around the world where the United States takes a very active role in preventing that kind of military coup.”
https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20220204_210000_Deadline_White_House/start/4320/end/4380
You never forget your first, the CIA overthrows Syria’s first elected president:
https://time.com/4735438/america-syria-war-coup-history/
When the U.S. installed Boris Yeltsin: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/06/26/russian-election-interference-meddling/
We even bragged about it on the cover of Time Magazine:
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19960715,00.html
Remember that time“Obama directed the release of 12 Lockheed Martin F-16 aircraft, 20 Boeing Harpoon missiles, and up to 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits… Obama told Sisi he would continue to ask the U.S. Congress for $1.3 billion in military aid for Egypt per year…”
Jeffrey Goldberg’s 2016 interview with Obama:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525/
Brookings Institute goons call for even more weapons to Ukraine https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2016/03/18/the-obama-doctrine-and-ukraine/
The Bidens and Ukraine:
Monday Feb 21, 2022
Monday Feb 21, 2022
This week we talk about a white supremacist rally in Woodstock, a WaPo food critic who wants to be pampered, and because we love you so much, a double whammy wildflower of labor and cannabis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/02/17/restaurant-service-problems-pandemic/
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/20/world/queen-elizabeth-covid/queen-elizabeth-icoronavirus
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/18/apple-retail-stores-union-labor/
https://mjbizdaily.com/new-york-senate-oks-bill-to-allow-hemp-farmers-to-grow-adult-use-marijuana/
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
The horrors of the modern world greet us this week, with tortured monkies, conspiracy-fueled spousal murder, whatever is going on at Fort Bragg, and Anti-China propaganda that paints Western Imperialism as the responsible parent of a wayward Africa. But German weasels are doing god’s work.
These bears aren’t even bears, let alone horny! https://www.cnet.com/news/build-a-bear-just-launched-an-after-dark-series-of-horny-teddy-bears/?TheTime=2022-02-03T03%3A36%3A52&ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b&ServiceType=twitter&PostType=link&UniqueID=87175AA6-84A2-11EC-93FE-40CF4744363C
Fort Bragg is not OK: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/ftbragg-army-beheading-charges-filed-1283450/
Man pleads insanity after murdering wife because Q Anon told him to: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgd49n/qanon-man-killed-wife-cia-sex-trafficker
Imperialism and Development in Africa: https://fair.org/home/why-comparing-chinese-africa-investment-to-western-colonialism-is-no-joke/
Anti-Car Aktion: https://www.bavariannews.com/blog/2020/01/17/marten-a-misunderstood-pest-and-how-to-deter-from-vehicle-wiring/
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Boss Baby Steve’s lackeys have had their phones confiscated, and David wants to see the groypers. The infamous Renalli memo commissioned by Mayor Madden is being released, and our boy Chris Churchill is not impressed. Albany is using millions of dollars in American Rescue Plan funds to give cops raises–look they’ve really struggled in this economy, OK? Green Island is getting green micro transit that is BY New Yorkers, FOR New Yorkers! Got it? And lastly, a big round of applause for all of the Starbucks workers unionizing. You’re killin it!
WoW guilds and Market Socialism?: https://youtu.be/BKGx5xrr5eg
FBI seizes cell phones: https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/FBI-seizes-mobile-phones-of-top-Rensselaer-County-16829935.php
Churchill: For mayor, truth about Thevenin shooting was never the goal https://www.timesunion.com/churchill/article/Churchill-For-Troy-s-mayor-truth-about-police-16832172.php
Rescue Plan funds go to police: https://www.albanyproper.com/albany-to-use-9-8mil-of-rescue-plan-funds-to-cover-police-raises/
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Our boy Ross Douthat has a bad case of tick borne illness and takes the entirely wrong lessons from his journey to wellness. Fuel tax dollars meant to repair infrastructure in Pennsylvania took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the state police’s pockets. All crypto is a fake scam, but this crypto especially is a fake scam! Some good news coming out of Saratoga and the Gulf of Mexico.
Ross Douthat gets Lyme, learns nothing: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opinion/lyme-disease-health-care.html
Douthat’s Lyme coming out story: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/opinion/lyme-disease-chronic-illness.html?referringSource=articleShare
Fuel tax for cops: https://whyy.org/articles/pa-fuel-tax-meant-for-bridge-repair-went-to-state-police-instead/
Crypto Scam: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epxakz/crypto-co-founder-revealed-to-be-infamous-fraudster-investors-shaken
Judge dismisses BLM charges: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Judge-dismisses-charges-against-BLM-protester-16800379.php
Court revokes leases to drill in Gulf of Mexico: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/climate/federal-court-drilling-gulf.html
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
As Covid peaks in the Capital District, its complications surge around the globe. From indentured servitude to scam testing to trigger happy parents to presidential quackery, we have a lot of depressing covid news that we can’t wait to share with you. Also Dry January is pure evil and New York is keeping farty food out of landfills.
Medical workers barred from beginning new jobs: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2022/01/21/what-we-know-ascension-thedacare-court-battle-over-employees/6607417001/
Bolsonaro guilty of crimes against humanity: https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/covid-commission-finds-bolsonaro-committed-crimes-against-humanity/
Pop up Covid testing scams: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-testing-company-300-pop-sites-us-faces-multiple-probes-rcna12261
Deliberate hospital understaffing driving nursing crisis: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000008158650/covid-nurse-burnout-understaffing.html?smid=tw-share
Mother threatens to bring gun to school over masks: https://wjla.com/news/local/page-county-public-schools-luray-virginia-increase-security-police-presence-mom-threatens-to-bring-loaded-gun-over-mask-mandate
Dry January is pure evil: https://nypost.com/2022/01/18/dry-january-is-pure-evil-to-bars-reeling-from-covid/
New laws on food waste to go into effect: https://www.ecowatch.com/new-york-food-waste-recycling-law.html
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
In Biden’s America, parents face fines for keeping sick kids home in a pandemic, blue-pilled Senators flagrantly violate public health and safety rules, and the plebes are told to treat Covid testing like going to your favorite brunch place. The Spanish Secret Service was behind the 2017 terror attack in Barcelona in an attempt to keep Catalonia in line. The 1/15 hostage situation in Fort Worth surrounds a shadowy figure called the Gray Lady of Bagram. How the decision to have kids is personal, regional, global, and everything in between. And great news on the Covid front: a cannabis cure and a vaccine for all.
Latham restaurateur: Senator doesn't get pass on mask mandate https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Latham-restaurateur-says-Gillibrand-doesn-t-get-16778202.php
Secret Service was behind Barcelona attack: https://www.thenational.scot/news/19841925.secret-service-behind-barcelona-terror-attacks-says-ex-cop/
To breed or not to breed: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/20/style/breed-children-climate-change.html
Aafia Siddiqui: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/24/aafia-siddiqui-al-qaida
More on Siddiqui: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/21/us-pakistan-protests-release-neuroscientist-aafia-siddiqui
Texas hostage situation: https://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-man-takes-hostages-texas-synagogue-source/story?id=82285896
Weed and covid: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/01/14/marijuana/can-cannabis-really-prevent-covid-not-quite-new-study-shows-promise/
Patent Free Vax Development: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/15/corbevax-covid-vaccine-texas-scientists