Citations Needed Podcast

[PerrinN]

Great podcast, I'm in love with Aimee Terese's voice

 

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For over two years, the U.S. government has been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election - interference broadly considered to be in favor of candidate Donald Trump. As a result, a bizarre flip has occurred with the Right and Left: Polls show liberals now trust the FBI and CIA, while many right-wingers – though by no means all – suddenly act concerned about the so-called “deep state.” Liberals have been turned into even more extreme hawks, not just on the issue of Russia, but anything that shores up support for American intelligence agencies broadly seen, fair or not, as a check on the unhinged Trump administration.

Given that so much of RussiaGate coverage is about the alleged manipulation of Black activists, anti-fracking protesters, the Green Party –and even Bernie Sanders supporters - to attack Hillary Clinton and her campaign, the consequence has been the media, time and again, framing Leftist dissent as de facto Russian propaganda.

Today we ask: how does the fever pitch of Russia coverage, in the aggregate, harm Black activists and movements? What are the historical antecedents for these red-baiting attacks? And how can Left solidarity work to dull the effects of these efforts to marginalize and delegitimize voices for justice?

In Part II of this two-part RussiaGate episode, we are joined by Anoa Changa, host of The Way with Anoa podcast.

 

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Russia, as we all know, has sinister “oligarchs” whereas in the United States, we are told, we have “philanthropists,” “job creators,” and “titans of industry” who earn their wealth through hard work, moxie, and guile. Aside from a few cartoonishly evil billionaires – like the Walton family, Peter Thiel, and the Koch brothers – the average American has a warm and fuzzy feeling about the super wealthy.

The most notable of these Benevolent Billionaires is Bill Gates, whose foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, operates the largest overseas “nonprofit” regime in the world, worth over 40 billion dollars–– twice that of the next biggest foundation. The Gates Foundation receives almost uniformly softball coverage from the media, many of whom receive funding from Gates through various investment and donor arrangements, both from his personal coffers and the foundation that bears his name.

In this two-part episode we ask how much this network of patronage effects Western media’s overwhelmingly positive and uncritical coverage of Gates. How can one can be critical of this type of massive outsized influence without devolving into paranoia? What is the nature of the capitalist ideology that informs Gates’ so-called philanthropy? And how do his programs often harm those they allegedly aim to help?

We are joined this week by Dr. Linsey J. McGoey, associate professor of sociology at the University of Essex and author of the book, “No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy.”

 

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The United States, far and away, has the largest prison population in the world. It also has one of the greatest disparities in their prison population of ethnic minorities in the world. How does a country that prides itself on being a “beacon of freedom” and whose leaders travel the world scolding other countries on “human rights” find itself to be the largest carceral state of the 21st century?

What are the cultural forces that reinforce racist attitudes, deference to the police and prosecutors, and a belief that 7 million people – or, the equivalent population of Washington DC, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, and Rhode Island – all belong in cages or on parole or prohibition.

For this show – recorded live in Brooklyn, NY on May 25, 2018 – we will follow a hypothetical "defendant," the median being an African-American in their early 20's, from birth to the time they sit in front of a judge and, at each point, examine how the media stacks the deck against them. We cover this in five parts, each representing different moments in this chain of events - Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, the Arrest and the Plea – and show how the media conspires to make a not guilty verdict all but impossible.

We are joined by Rachel Foran and Naila Siddiqui of Court Watch NYC.

this sounds good, going give it a listen this evening.

 

[Serious]

The United States, far and away, has the largest prison population in the world. It also has one of the greatest disparities in their prison population of ethnic minorities in the world. How does a country that prides itself on being a “beacon of freedom” and whose leaders travel the world scolding other countries on “human rights” find itself to be the largest carceral state of the 21st century?

What are the cultural forces that reinforce racist attitudes, deference to the police and prosecutors, and a belief that 7 million people – or, the equivalent population of Washington DC, Vermont, North Dakota, Alaska, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana, and Rhode Island – all belong in cages or on parole or prohibition.

For this show – recorded live in Brooklyn, NY on May 25, 2018 – we will follow a hypothetical "defendant," the median being an African-American in their early 20's, from birth to the time they sit in front of a judge and, at each point, examine how the media stacks the deck against them. We cover this in five parts, each representing different moments in this chain of events - Birth, Childhood, Adolescence, the Arrest and the Plea – and show how the media conspires to make a not guilty verdict all but impossible.

We are joined by Rachel Foran and Naila Siddiqui of Court Watch NYC.

only like 10 minutes and

Making this mandotory listening for @Nicole0416 @88m3 @tru_m.a.c

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

only like 10 minutes and

Making this mandotory listening for @Nicole0416 @88m3 @tru_m.a.c

Listening on my way home now... thx for looking out

 

[JMurder]

Episode 44 is a good one too. Glad I stumbled across this. Rep to the OP

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

only like 10 minutes and

Making this mandotory listening for @Nicole0416 @88m3 @tru_m.a.c

They covered a lot of info so far- wow... media implications, panic and tropes, broken windows policing, criminalization of youth- school
To prison pipeline, pseudo science and racism ...

 

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They covered a lot of info so far- wow... media implications, panic and tropes, broken windows policing, criminalization of youth- school
To prison pipeline, pseudo science and racism ...

Yeah it's loaded with no holds bar fukkery. The topic / podcast itself could easily divulge into a whole separate thread. The main takeaway is from the podcast for me was the constant reinforcement of this debunked narrative to criminalize skin pigmentation. Despite the overzealous treatment and double standards placed on black people, nothing ever really changes because the average / median person in this country could give two shyts about this issues, because it has no direct negative barring on their life.If anything it benefits them, less competition.

The more things changes, the more things stay the same-Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Yeah it's loaded with no holds bar fukkery. The topic / podcast itself could easily divulge into a whole separate thread. The main takeaway is from the podcast for me was the constant reinforcement of this debunked narrative to criminalize skin pigmentation. Despite the overzealous treatment and double standards placed on black people, nothing ever really changes because the average / median person in this country could give two shyts about this issues, because it has no direct negative barring on their life.If anything it benefits them, less competition.

The more things changes, the more things stay the same-Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Exactly. I have to finish listening when I get settled in; Im up to the part where the public defender starts to speak. But overall how they break the criminalization labeling down throughout the entire lifecycle from birth to adulthood; the negatives that are attached before life even begins; how they enact all this legislation, research, and so called factual evidence from people that have no experience, affiliation or vested interest in black people. From the Reagan-era on down. Nothing but falsely driven excuses to justify disparities. Did you catch that survey- 80% of white people had no personal interaction or connection to blacks outside of what the media presents.

The political connections between the media and information distribution. The New York Times as a media source publishing all these analogies and think pieces; then years later they admit to promoting false information within their own articles to manipulate the perception. Like you said, narratives.

 

[Serious]

Exactly. I have to finish listening when I get settled in; Im up to the part where the public defender starts to speak. But overall how they break the criminalization labeling down throughout the entire lifecycle from birth to adulthood; the negatives that are attached before life even begins; how they enact all this legislation, research, and so called factual evidence from people that have no experience, affiliation or vested interest in black people. From the Reagan-era on down. Nothing but falsely driven excuses to justify disparities. Did you catch that survey- 80% of white people had no personal interaction or connection to blacks outside of what the media presents.

The political connections between the media and information distribution. The New York Times as a media source publishing all these analogies and think pieces; then years later they admit to promoting false information within their own articles to manipulate the perception. Like you said, narratives.

Yeah we've had that discussion on here before. To say I was shocked was an understatement. In reality I'm just baflled when I come across the blatant cognitive dissonance of people implying that they're not racist while continuing to do or say xyz. Over the years, I've come to find out that white people are worried about being labeled a racist, then the act itself.

 

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Russia, as we all know, has sinister “oligarchs” whereas in the United States, we are told, we have “philanthropists,” “job creators,” and “titans of industry” who earn their wealth through hard work, moxie, and guile. Aside from a few cartoonishly evil billionaires – like the Walton family, Peter Thiel, and the Koch brothers – the average American has a warm and fuzzy feeling about the super wealthy.

The most notable of these Benevolent Billionaires is Bill Gates, whose foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, operates the largest overseas “nonprofit” regime in the world, worth over 40 billion dollars–– twice that of the next biggest foundation. The Gates Foundation receives almost uniformly softball coverage from the media, many of whom receive funding from Gates through various investment and donor arrangements, both from his personal coffers and the foundation that bears his name.

In Part II of this two-part episode, we ask how the media is - or isn't - holding Gates accountable for his deeply ideological, often opaque efforts in sub-Saharan Africa.

We are joined by Mariam Mayet, executive director of the African Centre for Biodiversity

 

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Since there's been America, there have been American war crimes, and since there have been American war crimes, there's been a parallel cottage industry of hacks, shills and propagandists willing to not only apologize for, deny and downplay these crimes, but actually spin them as benevolent charity.

While Karl Rove mastered the art of taking a politician's weakness and projecting it onto one’s opponent, the American political and media class has mastered the art of taking the most blatant crimes and injustices and spinning them as something actually good for the subject being oppressed, cleansed or killed. From family separation to slavery to cutting people off welfare to endless war abroad, step into the Citations Needed Hall of Funhouse Mirrors to see how the most egregious offenses to human decency get turned into evidence of innate American humanitarianism.

We are joined by friend of the show, The Intercept's Jon Schwarz.

 

[Serious]

Russia, as we all know, has sinister “oligarchs” whereas in the United States, we are told, we have “philanthropists,” “job creators,” and “titans of industry” who earn their wealth through hard work, moxie, and guile. Aside from a few cartoonishly evil billionaires – like the Walton family, Peter Thiel, and the Koch brothers – the average American has a warm and fuzzy feeling about the super wealthy.

The most notable of these Benevolent Billionaires is Bill Gates, whose foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, operates the largest overseas “nonprofit” regime in the world, worth over 40 billion dollars–– twice that of the next biggest foundation. The Gates Foundation receives almost uniformly softball coverage from the media, many of whom receive funding from Gates through various investment and donor arrangements, both from his personal coffers and the foundation that bears his name.

In this two-part episode we ask how much this network of patronage effects Western media’s overwhelmingly positive and uncritical coverage of Gates. How can one can be critical of this type of massive outsized influence without devolving into paranoia? What is the nature of the capitalist ideology that informs Gates’ so-called philanthropy? And how do his programs often harm those they allegedly aim to help?

We are joined this week by Dr. Linsey J. McGoey, associate professor of sociology at the University of Essex and author of the book, “No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy.”

God damn this shyt is piff.....

so many quotables...


Billionaires know best


I gotta peep that saving superman movie....going queue it up tonight