(2012/08/09) Film the Police (Police State)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 August 2012
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Edition #631
Film the Police
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: United States: #1 in Requesting User Data from Google - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-19-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: I still haven't found what I'm looking for - U2
Ch. 4: Act 2: Predictive Policing - CounterSpin - Air Date 06-14-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: 029 Дискотека Авария - Малинки (feat. Ж. Фриске)
Ch. 6: Act 3: Let The White Guy Carry Your Stash - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 06-22-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: I know what I know - Paul Simon
Ch. 8: Act 4: Stop & Frisk Is Racist & Doesn't Work - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 7-27-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: #10FriskCommandments - Jasari X
Ch. 10: Act 5: Police Under Video Surveillance - On The Media - Air Date 06-14-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Sing Theresa Says - Greg Laswell
Ch. 12: Act 6: ACLU Releases "Police Tape" Android App - The Young Turks - Air Date: 07-14-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: I turn my camera on - Spoon
Ch. 14: Act 7: Confused 911 Caller Unwittingly Reveals NYPD Spying in New Jersey - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-01-12
Ch. 15: Song 7: I want to protect you - Eels
Ch. 16: Act 8: Bomb Sniffing Dog Humps Bomb Defusing Robot - The Onion
Ch. 17: Song 8: Puppy Love - Paul Anka
Ch. 18: Act 9: Strike Before The Crime's Even Thought Of - CounterSpin - Air Date 06-14-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Love you madly - Cake
Ch. 20: Act 10: Bloomberg Attacks Irony, Calls for Police Strike - Majority Report - Air Date: 07-24-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Take it or leave it - The Strokes
Ch. 22: Act 11: Introducing The Department Of Homeland Insecurity - Lee Camp - Air date 5-24-12
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: We should have fought harder for a primary candidate - Matt in Wisconsin
Ch. 24: Our false sense of centrism - Matt from Sacramento
Ch. 25: Why to vote for third parties - Todd from LA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments on voting strategies
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.8 | For details visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with whoops today, from the Majorder |
| 0:12.7 | Report, CounterSpin, The Jimmy Dores Show, On The Media, The Young Turks, The Rachel |
| 0:16.6 | Maddo Show, The Onion Radio News, and Comedian Lee Camp. |
| 0:19.8 | And a note for all listeners that you're probably being filmed right now, but it's |
| 0:23.2 | totally for your own well-being so don't even worry about it and just feel good about |
| 0:26.8 | how safe it's making you. |
| 0:27.8 | This is an interesting Google on Sunday released a sampling of its own data as part of |
| 0:38.8 | its transparency report. |
| 0:40.8 | It's the fifth one that they've issued. |
| 0:43.7 | It covers government issued takedown requests and also requests for user data. |
| 0:52.4 | And according to Google, democracies led the way an overall number of content takedown |
| 0:59.8 | requests shared by Google with a request for over 6,000 items to be removed from U.S. |
| 1:06.3 | court orders and government and law enforcement agencies. |
| 1:09.5 | Now, you know, in some dictatorships they just don't allow you to get to Google and they |
| 1:15.2 | don't allow you to get to YouTube. |
| 1:17.0 | So you have to take that with a grain of salt, but 6,192 items to be removed came from requests |
| 1:29.1 | came from the United States, 1700 from Germany, less than 900 by the UK on and on and on. |
| 1:40.3 | The takedown notices according to range from everything from request by a local law enforcement |
| 1:49.2 | agency to remove YouTube videos for alleged harassment. |
| 1:58.0 | Google didn't reply with about 1400 of those requests. |
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