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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This episode of It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.81,0:00:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was made possible by contributions from slaves like you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.34,0:00:08.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spank you very much!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.70,0:00:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Vandalism is vandalism, destruction is destruction, whether it's of lives or of property, it's not acceptable.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.01,0:00:16.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you think of the Boston Tea Party?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.100,0:00:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought it was wonderful!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.15,0:00:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND I FEEL FINE
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.57,0:00:28.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good morning slaves and welcome to another edition of:
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.80,0:00:31.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.55,0:00:34.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Cause sometimes, you got to fucking laugh.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.02,0:00:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Come on... this is torture...
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.94,0:00:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really so stupid...
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.94,0:01:10.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm your host The Stimulator, and yes it's definitely feeling like the end of the mothafucking world.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.74,0:01:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Scientists say] 2012 gave us the hottest year on record so far.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.16,0:01:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a result, polar ice in the Arctic has been dissolving at an alarming rate.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.64,0:01:25.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Meanwhile, the two fecal dwellers who are competing for the position of corporate doggy style
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.02,0:01:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been completely ignoring global [CENSORED].
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.06,0:01:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will fight to create more energy in this country to get America energy-secure
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.51,0:01:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and part of that is bringing in a pipeline of oil from Canada.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.78,0:01:41.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And with respect to this pipeline that governor Romney keeps on talking about,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:41.40,0:01:45.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we've built enough pipelines to wrap around the entire earth once.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.19,0:01:50.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oooh.. fuck it. Who gives a shit what these corporate meat puppets think.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.07,0:01:53.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, the motherfucking Texan resistance doesn't,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.24,0:01:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and for the past three fucking weeks has been choking the oil supply to the corporate deathmachine.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.39,0:02:03.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,An intrepid coalition of troublemakers bypass the NGO-industrial complex
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.45,0:02:06.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and put a stop to the Keystone XL pipeline.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.46,0:02:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A giant metal cockhose that aims to bring grimy oil from the motherfucking tarsands to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.44,0:02:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The monkeywrenchers have been having a ball playing hide-and-seek with the planet-wrecking oil technicians.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.21,0:02:25.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not been all fun and games and some peeps have been arrested, and others have come close to serious injury.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.88,0:02:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These folks are asking for other wily hellraisers to join them in the forest,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.29,0:02:34.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you can't make it to Texas, and have a couple of bucks to spare visit:
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.100,0:02:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tarsandsblockade.org.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.38,0:02:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keeping things on the apocalyptic zone,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.69,0:02:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,zionist commander Benjamin Netanyahu used complex visual aids to describe
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.54,0:02:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the allegedly sophisticated Iranian nuke catapult that threatens the apartheid state of Israel.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.51,0:02:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, seriously... and I am not making this shit up,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.63,0:03:00.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is the best fucking graphic that this good-for-nothing racist could come up with?!
Dialogue: 0,0:03:00.71,0:03:03.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where should a red line be drawn?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.50,0:03:06.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A red line should be drawn right here.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.24,0:03:11.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually, I think we should draw a red line right here...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.15,0:03:15.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to simplify the amount of blow you must've been doing when you thought this whole thing up.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.95,0:03:20.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaking of peace, guess who got all that dynamite money for keeping things chill this year?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.100,0:03:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Norwegian Nobel committee has decided that the Nobel Peace prize for 2012
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.32,0:03:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to be awarded to the European Union.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.44,0:03:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you FUCKING wango'ing my tango?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.76,0:03:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just had to get to the bottom of how this laughable gold-medalist got chosen
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.24,0:03:48.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and track down Tom Jangler and rock out the Nobel boom ducats.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.08,0:03:53.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yo Jangle, were you and your fucking peace smoking rock before the citing?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.50,0:03:56.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[{\i1}Thorbrun Jagland:{\i0}] .... no
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.98,0:04:00.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yep, I am convinced, it is the mothafucking end.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.13,0:04:04.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But no end of the world party would be complete without plenty of food and drink for your homies,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.92,0:04:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if your a broke-ass like me, all you had to do was follow the example of some of the unions in Spain,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.88,0:04:15.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who have been rolling up twenty deep into corporate supermarkets during business hours
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.51,0:04:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and straight-out gangster looting stores and ganking snacks and munchies for hungry peeps.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.00,0:04:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, the Spanish are not only hungry for food.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.76,0:04:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are hungry for blood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.57,0:04:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,PIG BLOOD THAT IS!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:28.24,0:04:31.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was exemplified by the anti-austerity protests last month
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.63,0:04:36.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when peeps surrounded the parliament in a massive show of fury against the slave masters.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.96,0:05:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The following day, the steets of Athens were on fire, literally!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.05,0:05:07.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A general strike mobilized thousands to Syntagma square,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.99,0:05:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the familiar, yet always inspiring battle between the anarchists and the fuzz ensued.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.81,0:05:16.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yo tape ninja, go ahead and play the Athens riot porn!
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.74,0:05:25.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[R.I.P. {\i1}Riot dog{\i0} Loukanikos!]
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.99,0:05:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a fire bomb, a poor man's bomb,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.01,0:06:00.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a blackpowder bomb, a molotov cocktail, it goes by many names.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.97,0:06:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A very simple, very effective, very destructive, weapon.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.64,0:06:10.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And every reason to believe it will be used much more often and much more effectively.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.74,0:07:31.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week, for the sixth year in a row, anarchist Eric McDavid spent his birthday in prison.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:31.30,0:07:34.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's got 13 more birthdays to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.56,0:07:38.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,McDavid was encrapped by the feeble brain imbeciles from the FBI,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.76,0:07:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into allegedly bombing a dam.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.22,0:07:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last month in Cleveland, four occupy activists,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.04,0:07:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Connor Stevens, Doug Wright, Joshua Stafford and Brandon Baxter
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.30,0:07:52.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plead guilty in a similar case to McDavid's.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.44,0:08:00.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last week the state caged Leah Plante, Katherine Olejnik and Matt Duran for refusing to speak at a grand jury,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.42,0:08:04.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the state was trying to get them to name other anarchist.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.15,0:08:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This shit is nothing new.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.89,0:08:10.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anarchists would like to see the state disappear, and so the state tries to disappear us.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.62,0:08:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help us unravel this disturbing history of government tyranny,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.09,0:08:18.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bring you Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.24,0:08:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey Will, how the fuck are ya?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.04,0:08:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm doing great, how are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.30,0:08:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, I've been fasting for the past nine fucking days and I feel like I could eat a tractortrailer
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.100,0:08:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,full of tasty tacos topped with salsa verde.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:30.99,0:08:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Speaking of verde, you recently published a book called Green is the New Red, what the fuck?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.75,0:08:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.42,0:08:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a period of US history where people were demonized because of their political beliefs
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.93,0:08:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and being communists or perceived communists or subversives.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.03,0:08:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the point I'm trying to make is that we get to learn from these past era's of government repression
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.14,0:09:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that very similar tactics are going on today.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.82,0:09:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I heard that there's a not so funny story about why you wrote this fucking book. Hook a brotha up.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.15,0:09:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I was working as a reporter at the Chicago Tribune, when I decided and go out leafletting with
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.08,0:09:19.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a group of local activists. And we hung door knockers in a residential neighborhood,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.37,0:09:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,encouraging this executive to sever ties with this contract animal-testing company.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.48,0:09:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's all we did, we hung leaflets.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.23,0:09:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.03,0:09:33.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which all fell out and was thrown out of court.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.64,0:09:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the important part of that story is that a couple weeks later I had two FBI agents come to my door
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.34,0:09:42.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and threaten to put me on a domestic terrorist list, unless I became an informant
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.86,0:09:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helped investigate animal rights and environmental groups.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.35,0:09:50.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was really a turning point for me in a lot of ways of making clear
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.74,0:09:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that these anti-terrorism resources, just a few months after September 11th,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.02,0:09:59.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were going against lawful, aboveground activists.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.53,0:10:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I really set out to find out how this all came about, how these terrorism policies got so skewed,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.81,0:10:12.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how corporations created this manufactured threat, to go after activists.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.72,0:10:20.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And to explain the importance of that, of what that threat means for all social justice movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.25,0:10:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A lot of people who have been accused recently have been called terrorists,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.10,0:10:26.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are these folks really terrorists?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.50,0:10:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the word terrorist is being batted around without ever trying to explain what that means.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.21,0:10:35.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's become a catchall to go against the enemy of the hour.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.26,0:10:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in this case going after so-called eco-terrorists.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.58,0:10:41.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think that if you'd were to talk to most people,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.26,0:10:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,regardless how they feel about environmental issues and these tactics.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.47,0:10:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To most reasonable people, terrorism means killing civilians on a widespread scale.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.07,0:10:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things like September 11th or suicide bombings,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.58,0:10:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nothing like that has happened in the animal rights and environmental movements.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.82,0:11:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now there have been some serious crimes that have cost corporations a lot of money,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.06,0:11:04.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm not arguing that they're not crimes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.61,0:11:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things like burning down a ski resort or burning SUV's,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.01,0:11:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they are nowhere on the same scale as what most Americans,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.03,0:11:14.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what most people around the world, think of when they think of that word.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.94,0:11:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the groups that has featured in your book is the Shack 7,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.41,0:11:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,break down for us who the fuck are the Shack 7 and why did the Feds want to bring them down.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.23,0:11:27.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Shack 7 are a group of animal rights activists that campaigned to shutdown
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.99,0:11:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a notorious animal testing lab called Huntington Life Sciences.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.00,0:11:37.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The campaign was called {\i1}Stop Huntington Animal Cruelty{\i0}, and it was an incredible effective campaign.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.50,0:11:45.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It brought this multinational corporation down near bankruptcy, multiple times, and it scared the daylight out of the pharmaceutical industry
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.81,0:11:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and many other industries who thought these tactics of home protests, boycots, e-mail and phone blockades, electronic civil disobedience,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.52,0:11:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also an endorsement of sabotage and property destruction,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.75,0:12:05.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be applied to other social justice movements and be just as effective against other corporations.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.75,0:12:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were hit with conspiracy charges, conspiracy to violate
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.23,0:12:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the animal enterprise protection act, and commit animal enterprise terrorism.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.01,0:12:20.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think the most important thing for people to know is that the government wasn't accusing them
Dialogue: 0,0:12:20.23,0:12:25.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of actually stealing animals from laboratories, or breaking windows,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.11,0:12:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the government said that by vocally supporting a wide range of tactics,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.04,0:12:33.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and saying this on their website, and saying it publicly,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.97,0:12:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they were part of a conspiracy through their words and through their beliefs.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.04,0:12:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a really chilling First amendment ruling, to say that you can hold people accountable
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.12,0:12:50.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of their political beliefs, and what others are doing in the name of the same cause,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.03,0:12:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it really reflected the importance and efficacy of their campaign,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:54.94,0:12:58.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also the desperation of politicians and these corporations.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.47,0:13:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this shit just happening in the US?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.66,0:13:05.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't confined to one country, these government and corporate tactics
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.46,0:13:09.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of demonizing activists are expanding across the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:09.92,0:13:17.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've seen them appear in Spain, Austria, England, France, a little bit in Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.96,0:13:24.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've even found out in my research that US law enforcement, and FBI, and Homeland Security
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.02,0:13:29.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have briefed counter-terrorism officials in other countries about US animal rights and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.12,0:13:32.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,environmental campaigns and the tactics that some of these groups are using.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:32.52,0:13:35.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reason I wanted to bring that up is because it
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.100,0:13:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shows how international these corporations are in trying to maintain their power.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.01,0:13:49.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're really trying to build connections across borders that aren't about nation states,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.26,0:13:52.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much as just global economic power.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.24,0:13:58.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they feel that power is being threatened internationally. As it should be.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.09,0:14:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that was it for this edition of It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:02.99,0:14:07.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my fifth and last show, well at least if the Mayans are right.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.55,0:14:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If not, I'll be back in January 2013, count on it.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.40,0:14:18.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.95,0:14:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Arigato!
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.24,0:14:36.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To comment on this show or to get me end of the world hot sauce recipe suggestions,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:36.02,0:14:39.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just visit my fucking website: STIMULATOR.TV
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.98,0:14:42.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aaand.. don't forget your can opener.