Fantastic music as always, thanks for introducing me to this. Great show too!

Libertaroanism was a left ideology, until they stole it from us. Saw a documentary made by social-libertarians where a few early 80's libertarians say they literally stole the term and applied it to their extreme pro-gun, proprietarian ideology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZfq9ivpLCY That's the documentary I caught when it premiered that showed me how a lot of people are social-libertarians and don't notice. Also where self-admission by big shit libertarians that they stole the word from the left back in the early 80's.

"Trucking Shortage: Drivers Aren't Always In It For The Long Haul," NPR tells us. "The U.S. Is Running Out of Nurses," reports The Atlantic. "There's A Nationwide STEM Teacher Shortage. Will It Cost Us The Next Einstein?" Forbes laments. '"'The Future Depends on Teachers,' PSA launched targeting teachers amid shortage," notes a local FOX affiliate.

Every few weeks, we hear about an essential industry suffering from a critical "labor shortage" –– nurses, truck drivers, software engineers, teachers, construction. According to corporate trade groups and their media mouthpieces, these industries simply can’t find trained workers to fill their ranks.

But a closer examination of "worker shortage" claims reveals that there’s very rarely an actual worker shortage –– what there is, time and again, is more accurately described as a "pay shortage": industries not wanting to provide adequate compensation or safe work conditions for the available labor market that is perfectly willing and ready to work. Instead of a "worker shortage," there's a “"not hyper liquidity in the labor market" problem for capital –– the perfectly capable and trained workers industries do have are not easily replaceable, potentially or already unionized, and making demands of capital those industries simply don't like.

In an effort to increase recruiting of new potential employees, promote legislation that loosens licensing or health and safety standards, and reinforce media-ready memes that American workers are lazy and greedy, industry lobbying groups constantly whine about "labor shortages," knowing the media will mindlessly repeat these claims without any skepticism or curiosity as to why they're reporting on the exact same "labor shortages" every year for 40 years. 

Our guest is CEPR's Kevin Cashman.

Ep135 The "Labor Shortage" Ruse :  How Capital Invents Staffing Crises to Bust Unions, Depress Wages

In this episode, Whitney and Robbie Martin of Media Roots discuss how the recent heavy promotion of UFOs by the military and intelligence communities masks a decades-old neoconservative agenda to militarize outer space as a way to indefinitely secure American military hegemony. Originally published on Rokfin on June 12, 2021.

The Neocon Agenda to Militarize Space with Robbie Martin

Robbie Martin brings on prolific foreign policy journalist/writer Dave DeCamp of Antiwar.com again to talk about the increasing hysteria and fear Americans are exhibiting over China and how there is seemingly bipartisan support in DC and among the public for an aggressive stance against China. Dave and Robbie then move on to the different camps of Libertarianism, first the camp that espouses Zionist talking points, neocon rhetoric on China and wants to work with the MAGA-right and the other camp that still resists all forms of US imperialism. The discussion concludes with an assessment of where things are at with US/Russia relations in the Biden-era.

Intro/outro song: Ph.D. - Changing Partners 

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American Fear of China,  Biden-Trump Continuity & Libertarian Hasbara w/ Dave DeCamp

Robbie brings on researcher gumby4christ for a sequel of sorts to the previous Media Roots Radio episode 'The Oswald Institute of Virology, COVID-19 Origins & US Military Biowarfare'. Just when it seemed like the Covid 'lab-leak' talk had gone away it comes back with a vengeance. A series of incriminating e-mail exchanges got dumped revealing 'Gain of Function' research funded by the US government at the Wuhan BSL-4 lab and Anthony Fauci's full awareness of it. This eventually led to Fauci conceding that Covid-19 could have leaked from a lab and Jon Stewart saying on Late Night with Stephen Colbert that it was a pandemic 'created by scientists'. Robbie & Gumby break down every conceivable angle of what could actually be going on here, from the idea of a long con Wuhan lab sting operation as a vehicle for a geopolitical strategy against China to how the propaganda campaign resembles WMDs in Iraq but could be employing reverse psychology ('the fact checker elites lost!'). The podcast concludes with Gumby revealing the contents of the Ft. Detrick USAMRIID documents he obtained via a FOIA. 

Intro/outro song: Ph.D. - Beautiful Day

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Libs Love Lab-Leak, Geopolitical Sting Op & the Wuhan Coincidence w/ gumby4christ

"Beef. It’s what’s for dinner," the baritone voices of actors Robert Mitchum and Sam Elliott told us in the 1990s. "We’re not gonna let Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cut America’s meat!" cried Mike Pence during a speech in Iowa last year. "To meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to, get this, America has to stop eating meat," lamented Donald Trump adviser Larry Kudlow on Fox Business. Repeatedly, we’re reminded that red meat is the lifeblood of American culture, a hallmark of masculine power.

This association has lingered for well over a century. Starting in the late 1800s ,as white settlers expropriated Indigenous land killing Native people and wildlife in pursuit of westward expansion across North America, the development and promotion of cattle ranching — and its product: meat — was purposefully imbued with the symbolism of dominance, aggression, and of course, manliness.

There’s an associated animating force behind this messaging as well: the perception of waning masculinity in our settler-colonial society. Whether a reaction to the closure of the American West as a tameable frontier in the late 19th century or to the contemporary Right's imagined threats of "soy boys" and a U.S. military that has supposedly gone soft under liberal command, the need to affirm a cowboy sense of manliness, defined and expressed through violence and domination, continues to take the form of consuming meat.

On this episode, we study the origins of the cultural link between meat eating and masculinity in settler-colonial North America; how this has persisted into the present day via right-wing charlatans like Jordan Peterson, Josh Hawley and Tucker Carlson who panic over the decline of masculinity; and the social and political costs of the maintenance and preservation of Western notions of manliness.

Our guest is history professor and author Kristin Hoganson.

Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination

A mystery Ambulance shows up in Whitesburg! A mystery opponent for Rand Paul's Senate Seat shows up on the TL! India Walton has a hit piece written about her by the local ABC affiliate in Buffalo! And the Pound, Virginia cops lost two dogs! All this and the every popular much, much more on this week's edition of TRILLBILLIES!!!

Episode 205: Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings

Abby and Robbie Martin speak to media critic Alan MacLeod, staff writer at FAIR and Mint Press News, about the outlandishly distorted corporate media coverage of the protests in Cuba across the news and social media. Alan talks at length about what is being manipulated, omitted, and what the political purpose behind the propaganda is.

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Cure For Havana Syndrome & Info War Against Cuba w/ Alan MacLeod

This is 1 of a 2 part episode expoloring new angles of the 9/11 attacks using a visual interactive map of Florida. Robbie first starts by answering listener questions he didn't get a chance to answer on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Later he explores the bizarre CIA and intel connections to 3 of the flight schools attended by the hijackers and the strange coincidece and multiple mis-reports(?) about some of the 9/11 hijackers recording a violent extremist rap record in Sarosota, Florida not long before the attacks themselves. In part 2 Robbie takes a deep dive into the eerie Florida connections between the 9/11 hijackers, the so-called 'Israeli art students' and the Amerithrax attacks, guiding the viewers through a tour of the geopgraphy using the interactive map.

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Hollywood Hijackers, Arab Assassins & Cut-Out Flight Schools 1 of 2

Robbie Martin returns for another Amerithrax deep dive episode while the 20th Anniversary of the attacks continues. This time the focus is on which parts of the anthrax murders that were omitted from the FBI investigation in order to create the appearance that Bruce Ivins was guilty (who committed suicide in 2008 before the FBI could bring charges to him). Most of the epiode focuses on key omisssions from the DOJ executive Amerithrax summary from 2010 like the AMI building crime scene in Florida, the murder of photo-editor Robert Stevens and the still completely mysterious case of the only NY anthrax fatality, Manhattan hospital worker Kathy Nguyen. These omisssions along with the St Petersburg 'hoax' letters' give the false appearance that a single person using only anthrax laced letters as a murder weapon comitted the crime when the evidence (and FBI statements from 2003 and before) actually shows that the attacks were likely conducted by at least two people, using more than just letters to infect and kill their victims.  

Note: Please make sure to look at the newly provided Media Roots Radio 'Anthrax Cache' compiled by gumby4christ & Robbie Martin, a Google Drive link containing over 1 Gigabytes of raw files from the Anthrax and 9/11 investigations as well as 50+ original txt searchable newspaper and tabloid scans to help add context as you listen to this episode, 

the 'Anthrax Cache':
https://bit.ly/3x3lUaR

Kathy Nguyen Clinical Details & Story Archive:
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/detect/antdetect_case22.html

Censored Vanity Fair Article by Don Foster
https://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/messageanthrax.html

Kathy Nguyen's Last Words
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/kathynguyensmystery.html

FBI Smears of Kathy Nguyen as Bioterrorist
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/newyorkanthraxvictim.html

UCLA Dept of Epidemiologoy Anthrax Detectives Resource: 
http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/detect/antdetect_intro.html

Raw Photo of Howard Troxler Hoax Anthrax Envelope: 
https://imgur.com/ktTJO7c

Real VS Hoax Handwriting Comparison by Robbie Martin: 
https://imgur.com/a/Y2pjhCz

Anthrax Timeline Including St Petersburg Letters:
https://anthraxmuseum.tripod.com/theanthraxmysterymuseumtm/id47.html

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Kathy Nguyen the Anthrax Victim FBI Called a Terrorist & Swabbing Hijacker Remains in Shanksville

Creepy pasta aficionados Theo Bobo (@necrobranson), Garrett a.k.a. Laughter Beneath (@intellegint), and Thaddeus Rowling (@BetrayedMan1990) share some of their favorite creepy pastas.

132 - Creepy Pod-sta

Shane Jackson is an athlete turned rockstar turned all-pro drinker looking for salvation at the bottom of a bottle. And St. Louis is a city that knows how to keep its secrets. But when Chester St. Louis attempts to buy and gentrify Shane's favorite bar, DB's, Shane must act to save the lifestyle—and the city—that defines him.

With @intellegint as Shane Jackson; @neonwario as Danny Tremaine; @necrobranson as Big Sal and Jack Scallop; @charlesraustin as Chester St. Louis; @humidnightblue as Trinity Montblanc; and @kath_krueger of @discourse_blog as Tasha St. Cream and Linda Jackson.

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164 - The Saints of Soulard

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