Name: Episode 145: New F*ckin Trueanon by TrueAnon
Duration: 1 h 7 min 50 s
Description: Brace makes an NFT: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/104503460708576514723677294791054914639824523807549586153085114764453373542401

Baby brain shit is taking over the world. This shit is so much dumber than you can even imagine. Just followed @scanlime for my own sanity.

Can someone  explain to me what the global banking system thinks of this?

All of these projects are examples of 'fictitious capital.'

The episode art makes me want to smash my phone. Good job!

Clarification, the false IP claims on "Happy Birthday" were a form of corporate rent-seeking theft: "The song is in the public domain in the United States and the European Union. Warner Chappell Music had previously claimed copyright on the song in the US and collected licensing fees for its use; in 2015 the copyright claim was declared invalid and Warner Chappell agreed to pay back $14 million in licensing fees." --Wikipedia

Gotta love our Cyberpunk future. It's totally rad

The major argument for Crypto is it's less bad than normal finance. The oligarchs can print as much $$$ as they want and can control it. Not so with BTC and ETH. On the ecological front traditional finance is far worse since it is backed by oil and the number one polluter: the US Military.

For #InternationalWomensDay we review a film by Hollywood’s newest female auteur, who just happens to be the wife of former Treasury Secretary/Suicide Squad producer Steve Mnuchin. Yes, it’s Louise Linton’s “Me You Madness,” a film that dares ask the question “what if a bisexual woman HAD mental health issues?”

Chapo Trap House

504 - Me Me Madness (3/8/21)

Bryan tags in for my absentee cohosts and Matt & Felix stop by to talk TV and tease their new Stitcher Premium show: "Time For My Stories" 

Time For My Stories:
https://www.stitcher.com/show/time-for-my-stories

Episode 189: Chaos Walking, The Kurt Sutter Story(w/Bryan Quinby, Felix Biederman, & Matt Christman)

We’re joined by Dr. Jemima Pierre from the Black Alliance for Peace to talk about upheavals in Haiti and the long history of foreign interference there. 

blackagendareport.com/haiti-black-despots-and-white-rulers

blackallianceforpeace.com/haiti

Episode 143: Haiti

Brace makes an NFT: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/104503460708576514723677294791054914639824523807549586153085114764453373542401

Episode 145: New F*ckin Trueanon

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Felix Biederman joins us for a mind-numbingly long journey into the mysteries surrounding the largest mass shooting in American history. Featuring: the aerospace industrial complex, scuba gear, video poker, 4chan, Ellen DeGeneres, bingo parlors, George Soros, and more.

Check out Felix's new show, Time For My Stories: stitcher.com/show/time-for-my-stories

Episode 146: Mandalay (teaser)

We discuss why everyone loves the big boat whomst stuck in canal, then talk about Joe Biden’s big press conference last week, as well as Biden firing of all his staffers dumb enough to report weed use on their background checks. Finally, we look at the Bessamer, AL Amazon union drive, and Amazon’s extremely ham-fisted public relations push against it.

510 - Stuck in the Middle With You (3/29/21)

We spend the first half of the episode peeling back the many, many weird & gross layers of the whole Matt Gaetz saga. Then, we’re joined by journalist Ken Klippenstein to discuss his reporting on leaked Amazon internal documents detailing their heinous work conditions and baffling anti-union PR campaign.

Check out Ken’s Amazon article in The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottles-union/

512 - Through The Dark Gaet feat. Ken Klippenstein (4/5/21)

This one's mostly about the Just Transition. Is it Just enough for you yet???

Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 194: The Just Enough Transition

Leon Black is stepping down from Apollo global management .... or is he? We comb through the fake news surrounding his relationship with Epstein and his legal team's lies to muse on the ~spooky~ star of New York high society

Music by Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Episode 136: Charity Case

"Elon Musk sent a thank-you note to Tesla's workers returning to work," Business Insider squeals. Walmart teams up with UPS to air an ad "thanking essential workers." "Jeff Bezos Just Posted an Open Letter to Amazon Employees About the Coronavirus. Every Smart Business Leader Needs to Read It," insists an article in Inc.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate leaders, politicians and celebrities have been quick to paint "essential workers," and those often described as "frontline" workers, as heroes — laborers conscripted, presumably against their will, into a wartime-like scenario of heroism and sacrifice as our country battles the ongoing coronavirus scourge.

The sentiment behind this rhetoric is understandable, especially from everyday people simply trying to express their deep appreciation for the underpaid labor doing the work to feed, house, care for and treat everyone else. But when deployed by powerful politicians and CEOs, the "essential workers as heroes" discourse serves a more sinister purpose: to curb efforts to unionize, preemptively justify mass death of a largely black and brown workforce, protect corporate profits and ultimately discipline labor that for a brief moment in spring of last year, had unprecedented leverage to extract concessions from capital.

As Wall Street booms and America’s billionaires see an increase of $1.1 trillion in wealth since March 2020 — a 40% increase — while the average worker suffers from unemployment, depression, drug abuse and a loss of healthcare, it’s become increasingly clear that “essential” never meant essential to helping society at large or essential to human care or essential to keeping the bottom from falling out, but essential to keeping the top one percent of the one percent’s wealth and power intact and as it turned out to be the case, massively expanded.

Indeed, 2020 saw the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in decades, a transfer largely made possible by the essential worker as hero narrative, with little discussion or debate. In March 2020 everyone agreed in this wartime framing that was going to send off millions of poor people to their deaths for a vague, undecided greater good of the quote-unquote "economy," when really it was for the seamless maintenance of Wall Street profits.

On this episode, we explore the origins of the concept of "essential work" and those deemed "essential workers"; how it's been used in the past to discipline labor during wartime; how hero narratives provide an empty, head-patting verbal tip in lieu of worker protection and higher pay; and why so few in our media ask the more urgent question of all: whether or not low wage retail, food, farming, and healthcare workers ever wanted to be heroes in the first place.

Our guest in Ronald Jackson, a worker and organizer with Warehouse Workers For Justice.

Episode 131: The "Essential Worker" Racket - How 'COVID Hero' Discourse Is Used To Discipline Labor

We’re joined by authors and educators Aaron Leonard and Connor Gallagher, coauthors of Heavy Radicals, A Threat of the First Magnitude, and the Folksinger and the Bureau. We take a closer examination on the assassination of Fred Hampton, operational differences between the FBI & the police, and what we can learn from it.

Music by Kyle Dixon

A Threat of the First Magnitude: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564701/a-threat-of-the-first-magnitude-by-aaron-leonard/

Episode 141: Snitch City

TrueAnon is a podcast about your enemies made by your friends. Join unlicensed private investigators Liz Franczak, Brace Belden, and Yung Chomsky for a show that will drive you insane. Every other episode is a Patreon exclusive: patreon.com/TrueAnonPod

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