Oresteia's Community Call: Recent Episodes
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Halley, Zeeland, Simpson, Massad, National Coalition for Men, Harvard's disastrous policy, Vargas-Cooper, Segura
Miscellaneous notes in addition to Part 2: * Being crowded/cut off/veered at in Oklahoma and New York * Two recent interviews and more of the destructive Meynellian smile * Van Eck Phreaking and the destabilizing feedback of surveillance * Taking a decade and a half to realize my so-called friends had been trying to recruit me as an intelligence "asset" for their country * A young woman whose manner betrays that she believes I am being treated unjustly * Three incidents at a cafe, including a young man's off-putting overpoliteness * Getting a job would be just as humiliating as not getting one, though for different reasons * Cell networks that track my movements in the streets * The difficulty of making this recording
On my clarification and its complications; On the thickness of skin, and the catch-22 of gag orders, Turkish baths and surveillance; Corrections to last time, on revolution, Cuba, Jefferson, etc.; The forces of politics and history, the birth of ISIS and the military-industrial monster, Ukraine, Iraq, and the prospect of another world war; Iran and Jon Stewart; "Gay therapy" and aversion therapy; The mysterious temporary disappearance of planes from European radar; Two Russian journalists killed in Ukraine; "Are foreign wars really necessary?", Lydia's views on human nature, revolutions, the decline of the American Dream; Cuba, China, Poland; On cinema, interpretation, "Elizabeth"; On writing and whether we can do it; Ham radios, procrastination, mental blocks, and associations; Our suffering, and the lack of community; Theories of acoustic modes of attack; Anna Funder's superb "Stasiland", the impotent "The Lives of Others";
RT docu on "Friendly Fire" and the soldier's shock; On the importance of being objective; The effectiveness of perps, in and out of the government; Greenwald's promise of big revelations; Hissing in Lydia's ear; Audio tech & Fourier transforms; Frequencies involved in the Malaysian Airlines crash; Technology and its tradeoffs; A chemical assault on Lydia; The cases of a couple of other TIs, including Connie Marshall; More on Greenwald, Assange, and the recording of every phone call in certain countries, the integrity of the New York Times; Our own previous suspicions of surveillance; Bilderberg; Punishing the government, and the efforts of CCR, Ramsey Clark, Anonymous, et al.; The stupidity of American Imperialism; American addiction to cosmic conflict and hysteria; The elasticity of national ideologies is potentially dangerous; Peace as a crisis to American identity; American inventiveness; The weather; Mega-corporations, the hyper wealthy, and the difficulty of living with them; On centralization, changing the world, the material conditions of culture, and the moral filth in the Northeast; On social causes; Abby Martin reports on police brutality; Boko Haram, Sandy Hook, misandry, drones, and the virulent racism of mainstream America; Lack of time and lack of civic engagement in America;