Someone needs to to reassure Lesley Blume that the evil orange man did not designate all journalists as "enemies of the people" and she might be the first journalist to believe that. He was condemning the television (and some print) publicity driven hacks who have destroyed the credibility of "real" journalists decades ago. The best way to fight back is by supporting journalists like Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, and dozens of substack journalists and writers who seek out the truth everyday.
You’re also being completely unresponsive to your patrons. We may as well not exist. Except we’re writing your paychecks. Stop this ridiculous programming schedule. Give the patrons the whole show, uncut, the day it drops. This isn’t rocket science. You guys are risking insignificance by being ridiculous.
China is building Thorium Liquid Salt reactors. And they will sell them to the rest of the world. It will make a huge difference to fossil energy. Also China and India are the greatest planters of new trees.
the nuclear bombings were obviously criminal acts- and the whole Truman gang knew it - but only Stimson raised a hand. Yet Americans will ostentatiously bend a knee before a football game starts and pray fervently to the Almighty.
Nobody watches the way you guys are distributing your content. I’m a subscriber and I still have to wait days to get a full show. There is no benefit in being a subscriber once you mutilate your content and make your subscribers wait for the full release. It’s perverted and fucked up. Please fix this nonsense.
I wasn't sure what Matt was referring to with the 'Sey Hersch' Bin Laden story so i had to look it up. His account was really fascinating and I think I was like a lot of people when I was skeptical of the original story from the outset. I'd love if you guys had him on to recount this.
Outside of the US, there might be better ones, but I only know the US well enough, so in the US check out the historical "Big Bill" Thompson of Chicago. His full mayoral carrier,[1] and especially some of the Chicago Aldermen he closely associated with like Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and John "the Bath"/"Bathhouse" Coughlin, are so unbelievable that they prove "truth is stranger than fiction." The full stories are far too numerous and long to reproduce here, but as a sampling: Bathhouse John was corrupt enough that among other things he was ostensibly the effective owner of "princess Alice," the Elephant of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoon at the time whom reasonably credible stories have Bathhouse and her out and about his ward drinking heavily together while taking bribes and such. Semi-credible stories say the elephant was served whole freshly opened kegs and would relentlessly pound through them.
[1]: Key is *FULL* mayoral carrier as he has some discontinuous terms. Most notable discontinuity being because Al Capone brought him back out of forced political "retirement," because Al Capone was looking for someone both insane and corrupt enough to be his puppet mayor and apparently the obvious answer was to bring "Big Bill" back out of "retirement."
"government obfuscated its role in the deadliest attack in history and comes to the realization that dropping the bomb was not justified, despite what we’re taught in school."
I totally agree with the "was not justified," but while certainly a terrible and unnecessary thing it is not the "deadliest attack in history." Even in the same theater of the same war the traditional-style bombing of Tokyo killed more people and destroyed more buildings: https://web.archive.org/web/20121113021343/http://fff.org/comment/com0908j.asp which, of note, occurred after the A-bombings making them even more unnecessary and criminal then the A-bombs.
Peter Kuznick, professor of History and Director of The Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, D.C. discusses three myths: 1) that America won WWII, 2) that Russia started the Cold War, and 3) the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were needed to force Japan to surrender.
Please invite professor Kuznick to be a guest on the podcast.
My link here is a LONG video, but it covers the history of the US decision to use nuclear weapons, and makes a compelling case that it was unnecessary-- it dispels the worn-out myths about its utility for "shortening the war" or avoiding an invasion of Japan, when the latter wasn't going to be necessary in any case. Well researched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go
Katie, I think the actual sponsors (perpetrators?) of the climate crisis should be invited on the vacation. Their kids didn't cause the problems and it's already a given that Matt is correct, these individuals either don't give a shit about their progeny or they assume that they are smart and they will figure out how to live in a world that's infinitely more fucked up than what it is now. It could be a nice warm Carribean island, maybe even a sovereign nation where there is already a nice facility set up change one's thinking.
Lesley Blume is so full of herself. "Enemies of the People" isn't that far off for mainstream journalists these days. She has no clue what the rest of the country is like beyond her little journalistic bubble in the upper East Coast.
How do you get the remainder of interviews when you are a subscriber? Doug
Someone needs to to reassure Lesley Blume that the evil orange man did not designate all journalists as "enemies of the people" and she might be the first journalist to believe that. He was condemning the television (and some print) publicity driven hacks who have destroyed the credibility of "real" journalists decades ago. The best way to fight back is by supporting journalists like Matt Taibbi, Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal, and dozens of substack journalists and writers who seek out the truth everyday.
You’re also being completely unresponsive to your patrons. We may as well not exist. Except we’re writing your paychecks. Stop this ridiculous programming schedule. Give the patrons the whole show, uncut, the day it drops. This isn’t rocket science. You guys are risking insignificance by being ridiculous.
China is building Thorium Liquid Salt reactors. And they will sell them to the rest of the world. It will make a huge difference to fossil energy. Also China and India are the greatest planters of new trees.
Matt's solution to Climate Disaster being: "Blowtorching the testicles of key politicians." Right? Let's get right on this.
the nuclear bombings were obviously criminal acts- and the whole Truman gang knew it - but only Stimson raised a hand. Yet Americans will ostentatiously bend a knee before a football game starts and pray fervently to the Almighty.
Nobody watches the way you guys are distributing your content. I’m a subscriber and I still have to wait days to get a full show. There is no benefit in being a subscriber once you mutilate your content and make your subscribers wait for the full release. It’s perverted and fucked up. Please fix this nonsense.
I wasn't sure what Matt was referring to with the 'Sey Hersch' Bin Laden story so i had to look it up. His account was really fascinating and I think I was like a lot of people when I was skeptical of the original story from the outset. I'd love if you guys had him on to recount this.
"We should find out what the weirdest mayor is."
Outside of the US, there might be better ones, but I only know the US well enough, so in the US check out the historical "Big Bill" Thompson of Chicago. His full mayoral carrier,[1] and especially some of the Chicago Aldermen he closely associated with like Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna and John "the Bath"/"Bathhouse" Coughlin, are so unbelievable that they prove "truth is stranger than fiction." The full stories are far too numerous and long to reproduce here, but as a sampling: Bathhouse John was corrupt enough that among other things he was ostensibly the effective owner of "princess Alice," the Elephant of Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoon at the time whom reasonably credible stories have Bathhouse and her out and about his ward drinking heavily together while taking bribes and such. Semi-credible stories say the elephant was served whole freshly opened kegs and would relentlessly pound through them.
[1]: Key is *FULL* mayoral carrier as he has some discontinuous terms. Most notable discontinuity being because Al Capone brought him back out of forced political "retirement," because Al Capone was looking for someone both insane and corrupt enough to be his puppet mayor and apparently the obvious answer was to bring "Big Bill" back out of "retirement."
"government obfuscated its role in the deadliest attack in history and comes to the realization that dropping the bomb was not justified, despite what we’re taught in school."
I totally agree with the "was not justified," but while certainly a terrible and unnecessary thing it is not the "deadliest attack in history." Even in the same theater of the same war the traditional-style bombing of Tokyo killed more people and destroyed more buildings: https://web.archive.org/web/20121113021343/http://fff.org/comment/com0908j.asp which, of note, occurred after the A-bombings making them even more unnecessary and criminal then the A-bombs.
I seem to keep missing the long form interviews. Can you link me here so I know where to find them?
Peter Kuznick, professor of History and Director of The Nuclear Studies Institute at American University in Washington, D.C. discusses three myths: 1) that America won WWII, 2) that Russia started the Cold War, and 3) the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were needed to force Japan to surrender.
Please invite professor Kuznick to be a guest on the podcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSjTZ6uC0ZY
My link here is a LONG video, but it covers the history of the US decision to use nuclear weapons, and makes a compelling case that it was unnecessary-- it dispels the worn-out myths about its utility for "shortening the war" or avoiding an invasion of Japan, when the latter wasn't going to be necessary in any case. Well researched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go
Katie, I think the actual sponsors (perpetrators?) of the climate crisis should be invited on the vacation. Their kids didn't cause the problems and it's already a given that Matt is correct, these individuals either don't give a shit about their progeny or they assume that they are smart and they will figure out how to live in a world that's infinitely more fucked up than what it is now. It could be a nice warm Carribean island, maybe even a sovereign nation where there is already a nice facility set up change one's thinking.
It was Peter Frampton Comes Alive that was issued to you if you lived in the suburbs, according to Wayne’s World, not Supertramp, Matt.
Lesley Blume is so full of herself. "Enemies of the People" isn't that far off for mainstream journalists these days. She has no clue what the rest of the country is like beyond her little journalistic bubble in the upper East Coast.