Countdown to Armageddon

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IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND I FEEL FINE

Good morning slaves and welcome to another edition of:

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

Cause sometimes, you got to fucking laugh.

Come on... this is torture...

It's really so stupid...

I'm your host The Stimulator, and yes it's definitely feeling like the end of the mothafucking world.

[Scientists say] 2012 gave us the hottest year on record so far.

As a result, polar ice in the Arctic has been dissolving at an alarming rate.

Meanwhile, the two fecal dwellers who are competing for the position of corporate doggy style

have been completely ignoring global [CENSORED].

I will fight to create more energy in this country to get America energy-secure

and part of that is bringing in a pipeline of oil from Canada.

And with respect to this pipeline that governor Romney keeps on talking about,

we've built enough pipelines to wrap around the entire earth once.

Oooh.. fuck it. Who gives a shit what these corporate meat puppets think.

Well, the motherfucking Texan resistance doesn't,

and for the past three fucking weeks has been choking the oil supply to the corporate deathmachine.

An intrepid coalition of troublemakers bypass the NGO-industrial complex

and put a stop to the Keystone XL pipeline.

A giant metal cockhose that aims to bring grimy oil from the motherfucking tarsands to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.

The monkeywrenchers have been having a ball playing hide-and-seek with the planet-wrecking oil technicians.

But it's not been all fun and games and some peeps have been arrested, and others have come close to serious injury.

These folks are asking for other wily hellraisers to join them in the forest,

but if you can't make it to Texas, and have a couple of bucks to spare visit:

tarsandsblockade.org.

Keeping things on the apocalyptic zone,

zionist commander Benjamin Netanyahu used complex visual aids to describe

the allegedly sophisticated Iranian nuke catapult that threatens the apartheid state of Israel.

But, seriously... and I am not making this shit up,

this is the best fucking graphic that this good-for-nothing racist could come up with?!

Where should a red line be drawn?

A red line should be drawn right here.

Actually, I think we should draw a red line right here...

to simplify the amount of blow you must've been doing when you thought this whole thing up.

Speaking of peace, guess who got all that dynamite money for keeping things chill this year?

The Norwegian Nobel committee has decided that the Nobel Peace prize for 2012

is to be awarded to the European Union.

Are you FUCKING wango'ing my tango?

I just had to get to the bottom of how this laughable gold-medalist got chosen

and track down Tom Jangler and rock out the Nobel boom ducats.

Yo Jangle, were you and your fucking peace smoking rock before the citing?

[Thorbrun Jagland:] .... no

Yep, I am convinced, it is the mothafucking end.

But no end of the world party would be complete without plenty of food and drink for your homies,

but if your a broke-ass like me, all you had to do was follow the example of some of the unions in Spain,

who have been rolling up twenty deep into corporate supermarkets during business hours

and straight-out gangster looting stores and ganking snacks and munchies for hungry peeps.

But, the Spanish are not only hungry for food.

They are hungry for blood.

PIG BLOOD THAT IS!

This was exemplified by the anti-austerity protests last month

when peeps surrounded the parliament in a massive show of fury against the slave masters.

The following day, the steets of Athens were on fire, literally!

A general strike mobilized thousands to Syntagma square,

where the familiar, yet always inspiring battle between the anarchists and the fuzz ensued.

Yo tape ninja, go ahead and play the Athens riot porn!

[R.I.P. Riot dog Loukanikos!]

This is a fire bomb, a poor man's bomb,

a blackpowder bomb, a molotov cocktail, it goes by many names.

A very simple, very effective, very destructive, weapon.

And every reason to believe it will be used much more often and much more effectively.

Last week, for the sixth year in a row, anarchist Eric McDavid spent his birthday in prison.

He's got 13 more birthdays to go.

McDavid was encrapped by the feeble brain imbeciles from the FBI,

into allegedly bombing a dam.

Last month in Cleveland, four occupy activists,

Connor Stevens, Doug Wright, Joshua Stafford and Brandon Baxter

plead guilty in a similar case to McDavid's.

Last week the state caged Leah Plante, Katherine Olejnik and Matt Duran for refusing to speak at a grand jury,

where the state was trying to get them to name other anarchist.

This shit is nothing new.

Anarchists would like to see the state disappear, and so the state tries to disappear us.

To help us unravel this disturbing history of government tyranny,

I bring you Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red.

Hey Will, how the fuck are ya?

I'm doing great, how are you?

Well, I've been fasting for the past nine fucking days and I feel like I could eat a tractortrailer

full of tasty tacos topped with salsa verde.

Speaking of verde, you recently published a book called Green is the New Red, what the fuck?

Green is the New Red is roughly a comparison to the Red scare in the United States of the 20's and also of the 40's and the 50's

of a period of US history where people were demonized because of their political beliefs

and being communists or perceived communists or subversives.

And the point I'm trying to make is that we get to learn from these past era's of government repression

and that very similar tactics are going on today.

I heard that there's a not so funny story about why you wrote this fucking book. Hook a brotha up.

So I was working as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, when I decided and go out leafletting with

a group of local activists. And we hung door knockers in a residential neighborhood,

encouraging this executive to sever ties with this contract animal-testing company.

It's all we did, we hung leaflets.

We were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct,

which all fell out and was thrown out of court.

But the important part of that story is that a couple weeks later I had two FBI agents come to my door

and threaten to put me on a domestic terrorist list, unless I became an informant

and helped investigate animal rights and environmental groups.

And that was really a turning point for me in a lot of ways of making clear

that these anti-terrorism resources, just a few months after September 11th,

were going against lawful, aboveground activists.

And so I really set out to find out how this all came about, how these terrorism policies got so skewed,

how corporations created this manufactured threat, to go after activists.

And to explain the importance of that, of what that threat means for all social justice movements.

A lot of people who have been accused recently have been called terrorists,

are these folks really terrorists?

In the word terrorist is being batted around without ever trying to explain what that means.

It's become a catchall to go against the enemy of the hour.

And in this case going after so-called eco-terrorists.

And I think that if you'd were to talk to most people,

regardless how they feel about environmental issues and these tactics.

To most reasonable people, terrorism means killing civilians on a widespread scale.

Things like September 11th or suicide bombings,

nothing like that has happened in the animal rights and environmental movements.

Now there have been some serious crimes that have cost corporations a lot of money,

and I'm not arguing that they're not crimes.

Things like burning down a ski resort or burning SUV's,

but they are nowhere on the same scale as what most Americans,

what most people around the world, think of when they think of that word.

One of the groups that has featured in your book is the Shack 7,

break down for us who the fuck are the Shack 7 and why did the Feds want to bring them down.

The Shack 7 are a group of animal rights activists that campaigned to shutdown

a notorious animal testing lab called Huntington Life Sciences.

The campaign was called Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty, and it was an incredible effective campaign.

It brought this multinational corporation down near bankruptcy, multiple times, and it scared the daylight out of the pharmaceutical industry

and many other industries who thought these tactics of home protests, boycots, e-mail and phone blockades, electronic civil disobedience,

and also an endorsement of sabotage and property destruction,

could be applied to other social justice movements and be just as effective against other corporations.

So they were hit with conspiracy charges, conspiracy to violate

the animal enterprise protection act, and commit animal enterprise terrorism.

I think the most important thing for people to know is that the government wasn't accusing them

of actually stealing animals from laboratories, or breaking windows,

the government said that by vocally supporting a wide range of tactics,

and saying this on their website, and saying it publicly,

that they were part of a conspiracy through their words and through their beliefs.

And it's a really chilling First amendment ruling, to say that you can hold people accountable

because of their political beliefs, and what others are doing in the name of the same cause,

and it really reflected the importance and efficacy of their campaign,

and also the desperation of politicians and these corporations.

Is this shit just happening in the US?

This isn't confined to one country, these government and corporate tactics

of demonizing activists are expanding across the world.

We've seen them appear in Spain, Austria, England, France, a little bit in Germany.

And I've even found out in my research that US law enforcement, and FBI, and Homeland Security

have briefed counter-terrorism officials in other countries about US animal rights and

environmental campaigns and the tactics that some of these groups are using.

And the reason I wanted to bring that up is because it

shows how international these corporations are in trying to maintain their power.

They're really trying to build connections across borders that aren't about nation states,

so much as just global economic power.

And they feel that power is being threatened internationally. As it should be.

And that was it for this edition of It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.

This is my fifth and last show, well at least if the Mayans are right.

If not, I'll be back in January 2013, count on it.

I want to say big fucking thanks to all the slaves who got into debt to help fund my report on the Quebec student riots:

Arigato!

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