Is YKS in the SFU? Do abbreviations suck?

YKS In The SFU (Your Kickstarter Sucks in The Street Fight Universe)

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guest Michael Chau discuss the blurring of fantasy & reality and image & identity in our media obsessed culture with a double feature of Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) and Satoshi Kon's PERFECT BLUE (1997). Next week's bonus episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) and SUDDEN FURY (1975), you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

Intro // 00:00-09:08
KING OF COMEDY // 09:08-1:26:10
PERFECT BLUE // 1:26:10-2:25:08
Outro // 2:25:08-2:28:18

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209 - THE KING OF COMEDY (1982) + PERFECT BLUE (1997) ft. Michael Chau

Historian Daniel Immerwahr on his Guardian article "‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder" and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen bites the handbook that feeds.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/03/a-deranged-pyroscape-how-fires-across-the-world-have-grown-weirder

Fire and the modern world / Daniel Immerwahr

Immigration lawyer Daniel Melo on his article "The Capitalist Imperative Driving Cruel and Bipartisan US Migration Policies" for Black Agenda Report.

https://blackagendareport.com/capitalist-imperative-driving-cruel-and-bipartisan-us-migration-policies

Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo

Writer and Activist Hadas Thier talks to Chuck about her Dollars & Sense Article "Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us." Jeff Dorchen sees a phantom. Or was it a famine? Everyone wrestles with how to pronounce "paczki."

http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2022/0122thier.html

Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us / Hadas Thier

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Rapper and campaigner Lowkey (https://twitter.com/Lowkey0nline) talks about the Israel Lobby's campaign to get Spotify to remove him from their platform. Sign the petition telling Spotify not to cave here (https://www.change.org/p/spotify-do-not-buckle-to-pressure-from-the-israel-lobby-to-deplatform-lowkey?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=custom_url&recruited_by_id=0ccb39d0-b020-11ec-b015-6f843b977d7f). 

Lowkey is a British-Iraqi hip hop artist, academic and political campaigner. He is a patron of Stop The War Coalition, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Racial Justice Network and The Peace and Justice Project founded by Jeremy Corbyn. He has a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS university and is an advisor to the website Declassified  which investigates the activities of the Ministry of Defence and British Intelligence Services.  He has spoken and performed on platforms from the Oxford Union to the Royal Albert Hall and Glastonbury. His latest album Soundtrack To The Struggle 2 featured Noam Chomsky, Frankie Boyle and Ken Loach and has been streamed millions of times. He produces and hosts his own weekly podcast for Mintpress and has interviewed US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, Roger Waters, Naom Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Ahed Tamimi, Ken Loach and Stella Moris (wife of Julian Assange).

Lowkey has become the target of a coordinated smear campaign to demonize, defame and deplatform him. Earlier this month, organised groups forced the University of Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Society to postpone his lecture and were able to stop his appearance at the National Union of Students in Liverpool. 

Now, a campaign by lobby group "We Believe in Israel" is demanding that his content be removed from music streaming service Spotify. This is unacceptable censorship.

The campaign against Lowkey is designed to silence Palestinians and their supporters. Anti-Palestinian censorship is now reaching into the artistic realm.

Israel Lobby Pressures Spotify To Remove Pro-Palestinian Rapper Lowkey

A state-of-the-art Russian submarine has gone rogue. Is it about to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack on the United States? We finally delve into the world of right-wing legend Tom Clancy and his signature character Jack Ryan with the blockbuster film adaptation of THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990). PLUS: Winston Churchill predicts the future!

Michael and Us

#322 - The Tao of Jack Ryan

It's impossible to overstate how completely blanketed by propaganda distortion the Ukraine war is. US spooks saying they're leaking disinfo to the press, Ukrainian war propaganda, the blackout on Ukrainian losses, the uncritical media acceptance of allegations against Russia, etc. This war is a propaganda campaign wrapped in a psyop.

Reading by Tim Foley

A Propaganda Campaign Wrapped In A Psyop

This week on the Global Research News Hour, we are taking a look at the sudden threat to food security suddenly propping up everywhere, and whether or not there is an attempt to recreate food systems the way the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns was the start of restructuring the business sector via The Great Reset. In our first half hour, an expert with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Monika Tothova, offers up specifics surrounding the role of the pandemic and the Russian war in Ukraine in accelerating the situation and about actions they recommend to nations to decrease the misery in the coming year. In our second half hour, we are joined by OFF-Guardian editor and journalist Kit Knightly, who articulates the numerous other ways by which the food security situation is deliberately being made worse and the individuals, corporations and systems that could stand to gain from the outcome.

The Coming Food Apocalypse, and the Global Attempt at a Take-Over

The chief of the UK Army, Patrick Sanders, told his troops to prepare for World War III with Russia. Benjamin Norton discusses how Western imperialists are threatening nuclear apocalypse to try to save their declining empires.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MKO1v65OSt0

British army chief tells troops prepare for World War III with Russia

In a true show of intercontinental solidarity, words from Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel joined the speeches of Native activist and Co-Director of the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee Jean Roach, National Director of BYP100 D’atra Jackson, and host of this show, Brian Becker, at the final plenary of the three-day-long People’s Summit for Democracy in early June.

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Capital's migration policy / Daniel Melo

This Is Hell!

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