30/05/12: Outdated news – Strikes, offence taken and patriotism. Atlas Shrugged vs. the Hunger Games
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NOT THAT WE HAVE A MASSIVE BACKLOG OR ANYTHING but I’ve been really busy. I’m working as a builder (yes! I am!) and that takes up a lot of my time. Today (two months ago) we talk about Chris Hayes, Remembrance Day, Obama on Polish Death Camps and the British Medical Association going on strike.
AND: female protagonists – Ayn Rand, the Hunger Games, Game of Thrones + POP CULTURE!!!

 

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Jack Johnstone – @infogrrrrl

Ben Herring – @raidingkvatch

Chris Mather (absent) – @chrisgypsy

 

GE are shady. Also, they 100% own MSNBC! Jack is useless with facts. http://www.thenation.com/blog/167625/predator-ge-we-bring-bad-things-life#

 

Chris Hayes original episode http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/03/12037534-saturdays-full-show-june-2?lite

 

Politico: Responses to Chris Hayes http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76799.html

 

Some right-wing vitriol against Chris Hayes http://freedomeden.blogspot.fr/2012/05/chris-hayes-and-heroes-apology.html

 

Laurie Penny article on Remembrance Day http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2010/11/british-war-poppy-carnage

 

Adam Curtis: The Power Of Nightmares – details the invisible enemies of fundamentalism http://archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

 

Straight White Male is the lowest difficulty setting http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/

 

Blackwater mercenaries! http://wsws.org/articles/2007/oct2007/blac-o01.shtml

 

She has a black friend – Cheryl Cole probably isn’t a racist http://www.iol.co.za/news/back-page/is-cheryl-cole-racist-1.683711?pageNumber=1#.T9N5UOItgzI

 

Obama mis-spoke http://www.indecisionforever.com/blog/2012/05/30/barack-obama-offends-all-of-poland-with-polish-death-camp-gaffe

 

The doctor’s strike in the words of the British Medical Association http://bma.org.uk/working-for-change/negotiating-for-the-profession/industrial-action-pensions/ballot-results-list

 

The Guardian on why they’re striking http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/blog/2012/jun/21/doctors-strike-pensions-live-coverage

 

The Telegraph on BABY KILLER DOCTOR DEATH HATES HONEST HARD WORKING BRITISH FAMILIES PEDOPHILES CANCER DIANA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9341300/Doctors-strike-how-will-it-affect-you.html

 

Pokémon vs. animal rights http://www.cracked.com/funny-7230-9-unexplored-uses-pokemon/ (it’s relevant to the episode, I promise)

 

The Missing Billions by UK Uncut http://vimeo.com/44017057

 

The Creepiest Article Title Ever: How Ayn Rand Followers Rationalize “Welcomed” Rape http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/03/10/internal-affairs-how-ayn-rand-followers-rationalize-welcomed-rape/

 

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  1. By I’m on a podcast – infogrrrrl on July 7, 2012 at

    [...] This episode is freshly edited although about five weeks behind schedule. We talk a bit about patriotism, some stuff about Obama and then have a kind of interesting discussion comparing Atlas Shrugged to The Hunger Games. Enjoy the show and try not to be offended by the terribly foul language. This entry was written by admin, posted on July 7, 2012 at 7:47 pm, filed under Blog. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. [...]

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