(2013/11/21) Everybody Snoops (NSA Spying)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 November 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #776
Everybody Snoops
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: NSA Back Up, Always On, Always Watching - The Good Fight - Air Date 11-14-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Don’t Worry, We'll Be Watching You - Gotye
Ch. 4: Act 2: Without Privacy There can be no Democracy - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 09-25-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Shout - Tears for Fears
Ch. 6: Act 3: Heidi Boghosian on Spying and Civil Liberties Part 1 - Moyers And Company - Air Date 11-8-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Too much information - Duran Duran
Ch. 8: Act 4: Not asking the right questions - Counterspin - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: No questions asked - Fleetwood Mac
Ch. 10: Act 5: Heidi Boghosian on Spying and Civil Liberties Part 2 - Moyers And Company - Air Date 11-8-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Democracy - Leonard Cohen
Ch. 12: Act 6: Revealed: NSA's 9/11 Talking Points - Majority Report - Air Date: 11-11-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: So long - Lodger
Ch. 14: Act 7: Everybody snoops: Official response to NSA spying 'the opposite of reassuring' - The Bugle - Air Date: 11-01-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Ain't no reason - Brett Dennen
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Good that Could Come Out of the NSA Scandal - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 10-25-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Closer to free - BoDeans
Ch. 18: Act 9: Spying On Allies Opposed By Diane Feinstein, NRA, Many Others - The Young Turks - Air Date: 10-30-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: How culture influences legislation and vice versa - John In San Francisco
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on the culture and policies behind service work and tipping in the US, Europe and Australia
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:13.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning best of the last podcast with Cubsiday from the Good Fight, |
| 0:16.8 | the Tom Arman program, Moyers and Company, Counter-Spin, the Majority Report, the Bugle, |
| 0:20.6 | the Progressive Magazine, and the Young Turks. |
| 0:22.8 | And hopefully reminder that at the end of Orwell's 1984, the protagonist wins the battle |
| 0:26.9 | by ultimately realizing that he loves Big Brother. |
| 0:32.8 | Aw, cripes. I think that email is lost forever. |
| 0:36.3 | Say, what's wrong? |
| 0:37.8 | Oh, hello there. Well, I'm down in the dumps. I press the wrong key and now I think my |
| 0:44.1 | personal data is permanently gone. |
| 0:46.6 | Well Sue, I've got some news that will cheer you up. I happen to know that all of your |
| 0:50.6 | personal data is safe and sound, indexed and stored in one of the most extensive databases |
| 0:55.9 | ever created. Wow, what an amazing service. Who are you anyway? And have you know my name? |
| 1:04.4 | I'm from NSA Backup. We know everyone's name. |
| 1:07.6 | NSA Backup. What's that? |
| 1:11.2 | If you trust other backup companies with your data, a million things could go wrong. You |
| 1:15.3 | could lose your password. You could forget to run your backup program. But at NSA Backup, |
| 1:19.7 | there are no passwords and there is no program. We just automatically backup all of your data |
| 1:24.4 | from all sources all of the time. |
| 1:26.9 | Well, some of my data was on my computer, but some was on my phone. |
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