Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire · Shahid Buttar: Gun Rights in an Increasingly Militarized State #021

Shahid Buttar discusses the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms. He introduces a new perspective on the debate being the fact that citizens are no match for the military-industrial-complex and militarized police forces. He also discusses 1st and 4th Amendment rights and why people should care and be worried about government surveillance and what to do to push back against it.

Show Notes

Ferguson and the Second Amendment  (Truthout)

Websites

shahidbuttar.com

twitter.com/sheeyahshee

eff.org/deeplinks/2015/09/meet-shahid-buttar-helping-eff-fight-digital-rights-your-hometown

mixcloud.com/shahid-buttar

bordc.org

About Shahid Buttar

Shahid leads EFF's grassroots and student outreach efforts. He's a constitutional lawyer focused on the intersection of community organizing and policy reform as a lever to shift legal norms, with roots in communities across the country resisting mass surveillance. Since graduating from Stanford Law School in 2003, Shahid worked in private practice promoting campaign finance reform and marriage equality for same-sex couples, built the communications team at the American Constitution Society for Law & Policy, and founded the program to combat racial & religious profiling at Muslim Advocates. From 2009 to 2015, he led the Bill of Rights Defense Committee as Executive Director. Outside of work, he DJs and produces electronic music, kicks rhymes, writes poetry & prose, and speaks truth to power on Truthout.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Shahid Buttar discusses the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms. He introduces a new perspective on the debate being the fact that citizens are no match for the military-industrial-complex and militarized police forces. He also discusses 1st and 4th Amendment rights and why people should care and be worried about government surveillance and what to do to push back against it.

I recently had the great opportunity to speak with Will Kern of WorldMeets.US and The World Meets America Report.

We discuss what it's like to be an American living in Mexico, what Mexicans think of the US presidential race, El Chapo, the drug war, Donald Trump - and the fact that the United States now consists of half of what used to be Mexico.

Check out the interview here!

http://files.talknetwork.com/WMA/WMA-2015-11-5-1.mp3

Geopolitics & Empire · Katherine Albrecht: The Dystopian Nature of Silicon Valley Surveillance #020

Dr. Katherine Albrecht discusses her book Spychips, published almost a decade ago, and reflects on RFID threats today as well as from other technologies. The US Goverment has decided to use the same RFID system being developed by commercial industry which will become ubiquitous by placing both RFID chips and scanners everywhere. She also discusses R.J. Rummel's work on democide and how the very nature of government and corporate surveillance is totalitarian. Dr. Albrecht also gives the history of the private search engine StartPage and the private encrypted Netherlands-based email service StartMail, who she also works with and helped co-found.

Websites

katherinealbrecht.com

spychips.com

twitter.com/dr_k_albrecht

startmail.com

startpage.com

Books

Spychips: How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID

I Won't Take the Mark: A Bible Book and Contract for Children

About Katherine Albrecht

Dr. Katherine Albrecht is an internationally known privacy researcher, consumer advocate, bestselling author, and nationally syndicated radio host. She is also is a senior executive with the private search engines StartPage and Ixquick, and is on the team behind the new privacy-protecting email program StartMail, to make powerful encryption available to regular people. Katherine holds a Doctorate in Human Development and Consumer Education from Harvard University, has studied at the MIT Media lab, and received a Masters from Harvard in Technology, Innovation, and Education.

Katherine has authored pro-privacy legislation, testified before the Federal Trade Commission and numerous state legislatures, and was appointed as a consumer technology expert by NH Governor John Lynch. She co-authored the bestseller Spychips, has granted over 2,000 media interviews with news outlets around the globe, including CBS, NBC, CNN, NPR, Fox News, Good Morning America, the BBC, Wired Magazine, The New York Times, and hundreds more. Katherine is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Technology & Society Magazine, co-authors an online security blog for eHow, and she heads the 18,000 member consumer privacy organization, CASPIAN.

She is the author of a children's Bible book about Revelation titled "I Won't Take the Mark: A Bible Book and Contract for Children."

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Dr. Katherine Albrecht discusses her book Spychips, published almost a decade ago, and reflects on RFID threats today as well as from other technologies. The US Goverment has decided to use the same RFID system being developed by commercial industry which will become ubiquitous by placing both RFID chips and scanners everywhere. She also discusses R.J. Rummel's work on democide and how the very nature of government and corporate surveillance is totalitarian. Dr. Albrecht also gives the history of the private search engine StartPage and the private encrypted Netherlands-based email service StartMail, who she also works with and helped co-found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Q584DaOn8

Dr. Kovačević discusses the current anti-government protests in Montenegro against corrupt Prime Minister Milo Đjukanović who has been in power for 25 years. Đjukanović has petitioned NATO to accept Montenegro in the bloc and has blamed Moscow for the protests while using false flag tactics. The people say he has destroyed the economy and jobs and want change. Kovačević also discusses his idea for a Balkan federation.

Show Notes

Protestors and Police Injured in Clashes After 1,000s Demand Resignation of Montenegro's PM

China & the Balkans: This geopolitical Battle in its Beginning Phases

Website

criticalgeopolitics.blog.com

mnmne.org

geopoliticskovacevic.blogactiv.eu

boilingfrogspost.com/author/fkovacevic

Books

amazon.com/Liberating-Oedipus-Psychoanalysis-Critical-Theory/dp/0739111485/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1436494380&sr=8-1&keywords=filip+kovacevic

About Filip Kovačević

Filip Kovačević is a geopolitical author, university professor and the chairman of the Movement for Neutrality of Montenegro. He received his BA and PhD in political science in the US and was a visiting professor at St. Petersburg State University in Russia for two years. He is the author of seven books, dozens of academic articles & conference presentations and hundreds of newspaper columns and media commentaries. He has been invited to lecture throughout the EU, Balkans, ex-USSR and the US. His other blogs are Critical Geopolitics: Open Source Investigations and Otpor & Pobuna: Protiv sile i nepravde (in Montenegrin). He can be contacted at [email protected]

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Dr. Kovačević discusses the current anti-government protests in Montenegro against corrupt Prime Minister Milo Đjukanović who has been in power for 25 years. Đjukanović has petitioned NATO to accept Montenegro in the bloc and has blamed Moscow for the protests while using false flag tactics. The people say he has destroyed the economy and jobs and want change. Kovačević also discusses his idea for a Balkan federation.

Geopolitics & Empire · Ryan Devereaux: America's War Of Drones And Mexico's War On Journalists #018

Ryan Devereaux of The Intercept discusses the Drone Wars, a cache of documents recently released by an unknown whistleblower. He also describes his work in Mexico related to the disappearance of 43 students murdered by elements of the the Mexican state in collaboration with a drug cartel and the comparison of what journalism is like for Mexican and American journalists.

Website

theintercept.com/staff/ryan-devereaux

twitter.com/rdevro

ryandevereaux.com

About Ryan Devereaux

Ryan Devereaux is a Brooklyn-based journalist for the The Intercept, an online publication co-founded by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill based on the Edward Snowden revelations. Ryan has also written previously for many publications including the London Guardian, The Nation and Rolling Stone and has appeared on numerous television programs including Democracy Now!, the Huffington Post and Reason TV.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Ryan Devereaux of The Intercept discusses the Drone Wars, a cache of documents recently released by an unknown whistleblower. He also describes his work in Mexico related to the disappearance of 43 students murdered by elements of the the Mexican state in collaboration with a drug cartel and the comparison of what journalism is like for Mexican and American journalists.

Geopolitics & Empire · Level9News: DARPA, AI And Government Tech#017

DJ of Level9News discusses DARPA and the different cutting-edge technologies being developed by the US Government including brain mapping and artificial intellligence.

Website

level9news.com

youtube.com/user/Level9News/videos

About Level9News

DJ’s background is in system & network engineering. She departed from her career in the gaming industry in 2014 to pursue the challenge of making a difference in a world where right is wrong, up is down, truth is lies; Level9News will provide a protected platform to accelerate "The Awakening" humanity is experiencing world-wide.

Level9News believes it is essential to keep the channels of truth and information open to continue to raise the consciousness of humanity so we don't wake up one day and wonder how we became enslaved to a global totalitarian government.

The realization of the paradox which humanity has created in its acceleration of acquiring technology faster than the growth if its moral and ethical compass – has enabled an uncontrolled proliferation of abusive powers, which has made the process of controlling the natural spiritual access of consciences detached from the individual and the collective species. This has compelled DJ to explore solutions which can be accessible to all who are willing to receive knowledge with unfeigned guidance.

Level9News.com prides itself on resisting censorship. Like-minded communities are encouraged to participate in our mission by being involved in the creation of mutually supportive network. In the future – Level9News.com will grow and further support the demand of unstoppable, decentralized media transcendence.

From the primary topic of research in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Remote Neural Monitoring -- which is being fielded by private and government intelligence entities for the purpose of mastering the Human Domain -- to accompanying commentary on geo-political, health/medicine, geo-engineering, transhumanism, forced global integration, Hegelian dialectic, crypto-linguistics, and other areas which are being utilized as means to terraform the evolution of advanced civilization’s social and technological landscape. The future is what we make it – and if we are not prepared to decide our own destiny, the choice will be made for us.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)