(2014/01/05) Good news, bad news for paranoia sufferers (NSA Spying)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 January 2014
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Summary
Edition #787
Good news, bad news for paranoia sufferers
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Demand a Digital Bill of Rights - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 12-10-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Count on Me - Bruno Mars
Ch. 4: Act 2: If you're not doing anything wrong, what are you worried about? - Dan Carlin - Air Date: 1-1-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Slash and burn - James Lanman and The Good Hurt
Ch. 6: Act 3: Battle over Snowden on CNN between Greenwald and Toobin - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-18-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: 99 Red Balloons - Nena
Ch. 8: Act 4: The NSA gets a report card - On the Media - Air Date: 12-20-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: See what you want - The Futureheads
Ch. 10: Act 5: Researcher Proves NSA Can Identify Most Individuals from Phone Records - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 01-02-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Ch. 12: Act 6: Is Your Webcam Off? Not If The FBI Is Watching - The Young Turks - Air Date: 12-20-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Gaze into your eyes - Above the Golden State
Ch. 14: Act 7: Why we need the Electronic Frontier Foundation - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: A look at the NSA-related legal decisions coming down - Dan Carlin - Air Date: 1-1-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: Proud of the pope for focus on the poor - Ken from Illinois
Ch. 18: The Catholic Church knows what it's doing - Zach from San Francisco
Ch. 19: Suggesting an inconsistency in corporate amorality discussion - Dave from Olympia, WA
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 20: Final comments on where governments derive their capacity for morality
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
https://www.eff.org/action
https://eff.org/r.k1o5
https://eff.org/r.cf6t
https://eff.org/r.74ju
Information for this segment can be found at:
https://www.eff.org
https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/is-the-nsa-spying-on-congress
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/nsa-spying-bernie-sanders-members-congress
http://youtu.be/bZ3W4z4q8U4
h/t https://twitter.com/dennistrainorjr & https://twitter.com/JoelPNortham
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Katie Goodman, creator: http://katiegoodman.com
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLifetime.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLifetime Podcast with Cubsiday from the Progressive |
| 0:12.6 | Magazine, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, The Young Turks on the Media, The David Pakman |
| 0:16.5 | Show, and Activism from the Unfucked at Project. |
| 0:19.4 | And a quick good news, bad news for our paranoid listeners, the good news is you may not |
| 0:23.4 | be paranoid after all. |
| 0:25.1 | The bad news is you may not be paranoid after all. |
| 0:30.0 | Thanks to Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, there's mounting pressure on the U.S. to stop |
| 0:34.3 | vacuuming up everybody's digital communications. |
| 0:37.6 | Earlier this week, the leading high-tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, |
| 0:42.2 | and Twitter, wrote an open letter to Congress and the Obama administration to urge the curtailing |
| 0:47.2 | of NSA's mind. |
| 0:48.9 | The very next day, more than 500 of the world's leading authors, including five Nobel Prize |
| 0:53.8 | winners, demanded a digital bill of rights enshrined by the UN. |
| 0:58.3 | The scope of NSA and corporate spying has undermined the right of all humans to remain |
| 1:03.1 | unobserved and unmolested in their thoughts and communications, the writers said, adding, |
| 1:08.4 | this fundamental human right has been rendered null and void through abuse of technological |
| 1:12.8 | developments by states and corporations for mass surveillance purposes. |
| 1:17.6 | As they put it, a person under surveillance is no longer free, a society under surveillance |
| 1:23.2 | is no longer a democracy. |
| 1:25.6 | Among the signatories were Margaret Atwood, Ariel Dorfman, or Anpama, Hunter Gras, Arondati |
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