Journalist Mohamed Elmaazi joins to let us know how whistleblowers are doing and if Julian Assange is in jail for being Australian

SEE US LIVE ON 9/10: https://www.caveat.nyc/event/pod-damn-america-live-at-caveat-9-10-2021

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READ THE ARTICLE: https://thedissenter.org/british-high-court-expands-us-appeal-in-assange-extradition-case/

Whistleblowers 2021: Spies Of The Hun w/ Mohamed Elmaazi

Welcome to episode 152 of The Ringo Zone! 

We're talking about Growing Pains! Salient talking points include: Greg's questionable parenting, the Gems' questionable parenting, Dr. Maheswaran's clutch parenting, hospital appointments and the point at which the show's disbelief would cease to be suspended, and of course, t r a u m a . 

Thank you for hanging with us for so long. We love you guys. This is usually where I’d say to tell your friends about us, but if you’d like to get them into The Ringo Zone in our twilight, that’s between you and your god. Also, come talk to us on Discord! This episode featured Max, Carrie, and myself. Next episode we'll be talking about Mr. Universe!

Episode 152: Growing Pains

So UATX happened.

Dear God I wish stuff would stop happening.

Thankfully we got Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton from Christian Rightcast to come back to help us talk about it. 

Content Warnings.

Podcast Notes here: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/98-the-university-of-austin-with-kristin-rawls-and-jeff-eaton

I Don't Speak German

IDSG Ep98 The University of Austin, with Kristin Rawls and Jeff Eaton

Fire Draw Near Episode XXIX features songs by the Watersons, songs from the north of England, a song by Lingua Ignota, songs from Scotland, songs and tunes from Ireland as well as some puerile nonsense from the 1940s.

Tracklist:

Cormac Begley – The Flogging Reel
Lick the Tins – Can’t Help Falling in Love
The Watersons – North Country Maid
The Watersons – The Broom of the Cowdeknowes
The Watersons – Rap Her to Bank
Vin Garbutt – The Hartlepool Monkey
The Wilson Family – I Am Coal
Lainey Dempsey – Haiku
Arun Sood – The Old Dictaphone
Lingua Ignota – Katie Cruel
Pádriac Keane – Old Hang You Have Killed Me / Garrett Barry’s Jig
Al O’Donnell – Lord Abore and Mary Flynn
Unidentified Singers – The Lucan Dairy
Packie Dolan – A Drink in the Morning
Packie Dolan – Saddle the Pony / The Rakes of Kildare
Unidentified – I Came in My Best Sunday Suit

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Fire Draw Near Episode XXIX

"Investigative journalism." It’s a term that conjures imagery of committed, industrious newsrooms like those in the Oscar-winning films All the President’s Men or Spotlight, filled with intrepid reporters dutifully scouring documents, scrutinizing photographs and taking secretive yet explosive phone calls at all hours of the night. It’s a rallying cry for TED Talkers and Brookings Institute essayists, many of whom extol the virtues of scrappy and scrupulous reportage that succeeds in taking down a crooked politician, exposing a company’s abusive policy, or otherwise changing the course of history.

It’s common to think of investigative journalism as an honorable line of work - after all, investigative reports have exposed powerful misdeeds, labor abuses, air and water pollution, and racism in healthcare. But this isn’t the only form of investigative reporting in the United States. Too often, stories characterized as well-meaning investigative reports - local news pieces alerting viewers to the “dangers” of bail reform, or New York Times scoops on government “leaks” demanding billions more for military spending--end up reinforcing the very power structures they’re supposed to be challenging.

While the title of “investigative journalist” is so often used as a catch-all term for a noble tireless, truth-seeking, deep-digging reporter who, like a determined fictional detective, follows a twisted trail of breadcrumbs to their blockbuster end, why should we assign valor to what can often merely be the lazy practice of government and corporate stenography? Or laundering intelligence or pro-police propaganda?

On this episode, we discuss the ways in which investigative journalism is portrayed as an inherent good even when it serves powerful interests, how professional norms in the journalism industry seek to remove power dynamics in deciding what leaks are important and who is leaking them, and why investigative reporting without politics isn’t an inherently subversive or moral enterprise.

Our guest is Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting's Jim Naureckas.

Ep 156: How the "Investigative Journalism" Aesthetic Can Be Used to Launder Power-Serving Narratives

This week new debuts from The Jigs and 3rd Secret, the brand new Kim Thayill/Matt Cameron/Krist Novoselich project. New RHCPs plus tons of your faves and the late Gilbert Gottfried revives a comedy classic! Roll up a couple and turn on the smoking lamp. Rock. Mock. Dance. Laugh.

American Debauchery With DJ Duane Bruce 4.29.22

Bodwen on the radio

Inspired by and featuring samples from an awesome prank call on the Snow Plow show dated May 12th 2015.

Featured on the Snow Plow Show dated May 19th 2015!

Rap lyrics:
No I don't drink coffee, I don't even have a cup,
I drink bottled water so you need to back your facts up
I'm a diabetic so I need to watch my sugar count
Coffee's not a beverage I drink when I'm driving about

I've never dropped litter in my whole damn life
If you see me in sat in Starbucks I'm just here to use the Wi-fi
I didn't no secret camera hidden in that cacti
Andy Anderson is gonna fuck you up, wise guy

I don't drink coffee, it's not my drink of choice
I order spring water when I'm drinking with the boys
Caffeine is mean to me, there's nothing to enjoy
What did you say your last name was again, Roy?

Im recording this call on my answer machine
I assure you that it's working though you didn't hear it beep
I'm gonna take this tape and go out in the street
Knock on Andy's door and get it heard by the chief of Pheonix police


I Don't Go To The Go Cup Places And I Don't Go Out For Coffee

Dr. Misterio's Patented Video Almanac of Fun

The Dr. Misterio's Patented Video Almanac of Fun Theme

Interview with Eric Barbour on Wikipedia. Topics included the true history of Wikipedia from Bomis forward, why Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales was not the true founder, the insane culture of Wikipedia administrators, the amount of money the Wikimedia Foundation is sitting on and more. Recorded at KNSJ-FM in San Diego.

Radio Godzilla 7-16-17, Interview with Eric Barbour of Metasonix on Wikipedia

Four-Three-Five Recorder