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Waking Up Orwell
Hosted by Sheila Dean · EN
You never know when you'll need your freedom next.
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FBI misbehavin' & shadowy ways of government "Flexians"
Sep 30, 201002:06:50Tap to summarizeThis week on Waking Up Orwell **** KPDO PREMIERE DELAYED*** The station, in an ambitious 4 day effort to install new programming board, is still in it's testing stages and will be automated 9/29/2010. This gives us an additional week to upgrade graphics, develop the website and come up with ways to promote the show. " 22nd Century" music by Kelis THIS WEEKS NEWS: This about sums the national state of affairs pertaining to civil liberty this week. "A bad weekend for civil liberties" http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/9/27/905707/-A-bad-weekend-for-privacy,-civil-liberties DIY Government http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2010/09/upgrades-and-exemptions-electronic.html This weeks bid for sanity is to add your public comments about the Dept. Homeland Security's request to for exemption from legal conditions set by the ECPA or Electronic Privacy Act of 1974 to monitor e-mail, phone calls, and anything else that creates a record from an electronic pulse. Big Thanks to Lady Axxiom for throwing this out there. PUBLIC COMMENT DETAILS HERE: http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2010/09/10/2010-22639/privacy-act-of-1974-implementation-of-exemptions-department-of-homeland-securityall031-information Public Knowledge about ECPA, COICA and a return to the days of the "clipper chip" with special guest, Art Brodsky. http://www.publicknowledge.org/ Jessica Sundin for the Minnesota Anti-war Committee tells us what it's like when the FBI raids you when they HAVE a warrent. More news about "improper" FBI conduct. http://www.antiwarcommittee.org/ Professor and social anthropologist, Janine Wedel, teaches us about the world of Washington D.C.'s Shadow elite public-private policy drivers called "flexians". http://janinewedel.info/pubs.html Tony Fish reverse engineers the properties of a digital footprint towards the body of online reputation. http://www.mydigitalfootprint.com/footprint-ugc/
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An explanation and an apology to Muslim America
Sep 10, 201001:43:23Tap to summarizeWAKING UP ORWELL "GOES THERE" We are featuring two rapidly spliced interviews addressing the increase in violence against Muslim Americans in the continental U.S. We wish we could have gotten this to you sooner. Dan Merchant, Film Director, asks God to save us from his followers.@ 7:47The Park 51 Cordoba Center Special Analysis with Shahid Buttar of the BORDC. @55:05Music from Kelis: Flesh Tone Album [Think Donna Summer does Electro.]@ 51:40
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SEASON FINALE: Triple Treat: Erasing David, Edwin Black & Florida v. Real ID
May 28, 201002:24:51Tap to summarizeTHIS WEEK ON WAKING UP ORWELL: EDWIN BLACK * ERASING DAVID* FLORIDIANS AGAINST REAL ID Waking Up Orwell is taking the Summer off so we can focus on developing a classic analog technology, tried and true, to create futuristic revenue streams. We return in the fall. You'll like it when we do. WHEN YOU DELETE YOUR FACEBOOK...kiss your friends goodbye with some Miami basics c/o DJ Ryan Morales. http://ryanmorales.podOmatic.com/entry/2010-04-29T18_05_10-07_00 Should The Government Take on Facebook? http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/should-government-take-on-facebook/ ON FILM: David Bond celebrates UK moments of Liberty and his attempt to erase himself in privacy thriller Erasing David [@32:07] David Bond producer of UK film Erasing David speaks with us about the UK's recent decision to move away from their national identity program and a new direction for their civil liberty. Bond's film was 3 years in the making. His discoveries about commercial possession of his personal identity articles and the use of biometrics in UK school programs clear the fog about the direction the West is headed on public surveillance. www.erasingdavid.com OTHER REFERENCES: UC Berkley and DNA swabbing http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2010/05/uc-berkeley-asking-incoming-students.html Florida finally get's theirs [@ 1:23:20] Paul Henry, advocate for Floridians Against Real ID discusses the development of a new lawsuit and his progress in advocacy for the Sunshine State. http://www.liberty2010.org/realid/index.php BP, Nazi Nexxuses & Edwin Black' slick analysis [@01:57:00] Author of Nazi Nexus, Edwin Black will be on to discuss the BP oil crisis and the balances of ethics and corporate hegemony to wrap up the season. www.edwinblack.com DIY Government : Tell Your Lawmakers: "Anti-Counterfeiting" Treaty Is a Sham https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=451 BACON ALERT: Tell Senate NO appropriations for junk border surveillance technologies http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2010/05/bacon-alert-tell-sencornyn-no-to.html
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May 20, 201001:14:03Tap to summarizeTHIS WEEK ON WAKING UP ORWELL Make sure to search "Facebook" on the search bar located on our blog BeatTheChip.org to pull up all of this weeks news. Why waste a perfectly good show complaining about it when really important news is getting no coverage - like in the case of our Special Guest. NEW TO THE SHOW: Ambient Music! Here's how it works... cue music up from the following link and hit the play button during Ed Hasbrouck's world class interview. You can listen to the interview with or without the sound. It should calm it down so you can be a rational sane person during and after this interview vs. someone super agitated while you have to do pragmatic things like... work and concentrating on driving. MUSIC HERE: http://techno-minimal.podOmatic.com/player/web/2010-05-19T07_05_05-07_00 CHECK OUT THE INDENTITY PROJECT HERE :http://www.papersplease.org/wp/ SPECIAL GUEST: Edward Hasbrouck, leading privacy & travel identity blogger & advocate updates us on what is happening to paid escalation services to bypass or to expedite time consuming trips with the TSA. Heads up for Nexxus & CLEAR card owners - this is very bad news. Hasbrouck also discusses the latest on a New Mexico man who is facing jail time for refusing ID to fly. In the trend of the exceptional becoming the norm, it is really high time we started paying WAY more attention to travel surveillance. The US is leading the international pack in the quest to surveill everyone. We discuss what's driving this in a very special 53 minute interview. Do we still have to worry about an RFID chip? Oh yeah. SEE ALSO: USA presses travel surveillance & control agenda at ICAO http://www.papersplease.org/wp/2010/05/18/usa-presses-travel-surveillance-and-control-agenda-at-icao/ DIY GOVERNMENT: Continue to send your opposition to National ID programs. Washington needs to hear from your one man army. http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2010/05/action-alertcontinue-to-send-your.html
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May 6, 201001:21:12Tap to summarizeHIS WEEK ON WAKING UP ORWELL DIY GOVERNMENT: Local city ordinances with Shahid Buttar; who is working on getting YOU in front of your City Council to recognize your rights to a free society in America. Check out more of their work on BORDC.org . NEVADA's REAL ID REVISITED: Will the process for Real ID change much now that the 120 executive order period is over? We check in with ACLU of Nevada's, Rebecca Gasca about how their State, like many other states, is being sold little known incremental compliances while the law remains on the books. Do you know if your being redistricted based on how many prisoners there are in your district according to the Census? Find out at PrisonerOfTheCensus.org Watch: Pennsylvania's Amnesty TV Ad " We know who you are!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybcu2itqvEQ You have to see it to believe exactly how Orwellian this is! Does it discourage prosperity? Yes. It makes me not want to own anything or have any property mortgaged due to government entitlements. Whatever, Government.
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Inside Edition with AZ Republic's, JJ Hensley
Apr 29, 201000:50:30Tap to summarizeTHIS WEEK ON WAKING UP ORWELL DIY GOVERNMENT: Help Nevada fight for their rights for a free identity http://www.aclunv.org/category/issue/privacy/realid-redux In this weeks news: Gizmodo's controversial status, their many legal assists and details on "iPhonegate", pay-to-say in Wisconsin, Red-light scameras fold and how to deal with Facebook and the EPIC amount of privacy violations due to Instant Personalization. This week we are joined by Public Safety reporter for the Arizona Republic, JJ Hensley. We asked Hensley about detention of US citizens since the passage of SB 1070, the now infamous Arizona law requiring citizens to show their "papers" to law enforcement on demand. SB 1070 was recently condemned by President Obama for being "poorly conceived" due to it's racial profiling impacts on natives and legal residents of Arizona.
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DOUBLE FEATURE: Immigration & Police State special
Apr 22, 201001:55:07Tap to summarizeWaking Up Orwell's 2 hour Immigration & Police State special. Interview start times are in bold. 1st hour - News magazine coverage of this week's chronicle of dystopia followed by instructions on how to assert your rights over a police interaction with Scott Morgan of FlexYourRights. org. (42:44) 2nd Hour - Alex Norwrasteh, an analyst for Competetive Enterprise Institute (01:06:28) covers the nasty business of Immigration and Arizona's police state bill, SB 1070. He also exposes the anti-immigrant movement as a pan-partisan strategy initiated and sustained by the type of Global Green who are in favor of eugenics. Why? To depopulate North America. How it plays out shocked me and I know it will surprise anyone who listens. It will change the way you see Republicans, Progressives and the way you've interpreted social darwinism in the past.
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SPECIAL EDITION: Dissapearing with Evan Ratliff, a story of evading a WIRED identity
Apr 15, 201001:09:33Tap to summarizeFor Tax Day only, we are switching from our regular formatted programming to bring you a special talk with Evan Ratliff, a co-editor for WIRED Magazine who created an assignment to disappear with strategic aims to not be found. WIRED's sponsored contest had escalating tiers of money for the digital bounty hunter who could track down and catch Ratliff in his remote locations. Evan was in and out of disguises for the duration of his extended assignment. He toured with a band, became a granola hippie and even adopted a disguise as balding stereotype in a suit to evade getting "caught" for prize money. He shares a very unique story of how he did his best to evade being actively identified by those who tracked him down with arcane and creative digital clues. Relax, as much as you can, in this moderately paranoid yet entertaining tale of public evasion. ABOUT EVAN RATLIFF Evan Ratliff is a freelance journalist whose writing appears in Wired magazine, The New Yorker, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Outside, Discover, Men’s Journal, New York, and many other publications. A contributing editor for Wired, he is the co-author of Safe: The Race to Protect Ourselves in a Newly Dangerous World (HarperCollins, 2005), about innovation and counterterrorism. A former fellow at both the International Reporting Project and the Japan Foreign Press Center, he has reported from Russia, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Brazil, and elsewhere on science and technology, the environment, terrorism, politics, and transnational crime.
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The LATE-LATE HOOT for Privacy with PRA’s Thomas Cincotta
Apr 9, 201001:05:28Tap to summarize"As usual, we get the best stuff for show and it is usually oh-so aptly timed. We start with good news report from traveling Libertarian Congressional candidate Philip Berg on his way to the D.C. area. This week’s DIY government segment becomes a challenge to go get your own FOIA dossiers back from the FBI - Thomas Cincotta tells you how."
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The Lost EFF Episode found on podOmatic
Apr 1, 201000:39:04Tap to summarizeDue to previous technical difficulties, the EFF was so rudely interrupted. http://beatthechip.blogspot.com/2010/03/waking-up-orwell-seeks-new-radio-home.html It's high time Lee Tien, FOIA counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation had opportunity to tell the truth about the FBI, FOIA and Facebook as well as the Census and a few other really important things that relate to your privacy in todays adventures in computing. Listen here!
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