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

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was made possible by contributions from slaves like you.

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Spank you very much!

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Vandalism is vandalism, destruction is destruction, whether it's of lives or of property, it's not acceptable.

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What do you think of the Boston Tea Party?

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I thought it was wonderful!

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

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Good morning slaves and welcome to another edition of:

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

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Cause sometimes, you got to fucking laugh.

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Come on... this is torture...

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It's really so stupid...

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

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

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

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

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have been completely ignoring global [CENSORED].

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

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

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

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

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

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Well, the motherfucking Texan resistance doesn't,

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

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An intrepid coalition of troublemakers bypass the NGO-industrial complex

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and put a stop to the Keystone XL pipeline.

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

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

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

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

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

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tarsandsblockade.org.

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Keeping things on the apocalyptic zone,

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zionist commander Benjamin Netanyahu used complex visual aids to describe

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

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

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

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Where should a red line be drawn?

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A red line should be drawn right here.

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

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

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

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

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is to be awarded to the European Union.

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Are you FUCKING wango'ing my tango?

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

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

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

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[<i>Thorbrun Jagland:</i>] .... no

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

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

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

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

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

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But, the Spanish are not only hungry for food.

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They are hungry for blood.

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PIG BLOOD THAT IS!

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This was exemplified by the anti-austerity protests last month

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

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

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A general strike mobilized thousands to Syntagma square,

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

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

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[R.I.P. <i>Riot dog</i> Loukanikos!]

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

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

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

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

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

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He's got 13 more birthdays to go.

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

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into allegedly bombing a dam.

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Last month in Cleveland, four occupy activists,

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Connor Stevens, Doug Wright, Joshua Stafford and Brandon Baxter

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plead guilty in a similar case to McDavid's.

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

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

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This shit is nothing new.

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

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To help us unravel this disturbing history of government tyranny,

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

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Hey Will, how the fuck are ya?

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I'm doing great, how are you?

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

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full of tasty tacos topped with salsa verde.

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

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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

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

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and being communists or perceived communists or subversives.

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

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and that very similar tactics are going on today.

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

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

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

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

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It's all we did, we hung leaflets.

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We were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct,

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which all fell out and was thrown out of court.

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

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

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and helped investigate animal rights and environmental groups.

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

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

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were going against lawful, aboveground activists.

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

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

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

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

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are these folks really terrorists?

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

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

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

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

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regardless how they feel about environmental issues and these tactics.

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

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Things like September 11th or suicide bombings,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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a notorious animal testing lab called Huntington Life Sciences.

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The campaign was called <i>Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty</i>, and it was an incredible effective campaign.

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

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

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and also an endorsement of sabotage and property destruction,

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

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So they were hit with conspiracy charges, conspiracy to violate

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

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

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of actually stealing animals from laboratories, or breaking windows,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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and also the desperation of politicians and these corporations.

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Is this shit just happening in the US?

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

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of demonizing activists are expanding across the world.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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so much as just global economic power.

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

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

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

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

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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:

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Arigato!

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To comment on this show or to get me end of the world hot sauce recipe suggestions,

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just visit my fucking website: STIMULATOR.TV

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aaand.. don't forget your can opener.