ORLY-EP0146D - Salty Bad Ideas: Hegemony

ORLY-EP0146D - Salty Bad Ideas: Hegemony

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #146 recorded Saturday February 25th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Amber Biesecker,and Daniel Atherton.

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Bad Ideas:

  1. DNC Chair decided on second vote.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/us/politics/dnc-perez-ellison-chairman-election.html

  2. Israel denying Human Rights Watch visas http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/israel-visas-biased-hrw-staff-170224052706477.html

  3. White House Correspondents Dinner

  4. Australia decides to slash pay benefits http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-39060356

  5. PIA Investigates overpacked flight http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39081476

  6. Kim Jong-nam was killed by VX nerve agent http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39073389

  7. Duterte tries to play nice with China http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-china-idUSKBN1630X6

  8. Russia to veto Syrian sanctions http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-syria-securitycouncil-idUSKBN1631XP

  9. Car Bomb kills 51 in Syria  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39075851

HOW BAD COULD IT BE?

  1. Russian ambassador to UN Vitaly Churkin dead: Diplomat dies suddenly in New York http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/russian-ambassador-un-vitaly-churkin-dead-diplomat-dies-suddenly-new-york-puton-a7590366.html  

  2. “Records created, generated, or received by the congressional office of a Member … are exclusively the personal property of the individual Member [emphasis added]… and such Member … has control over such records.” (You can read the full resolution here.) https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/01/house-rules-change-didnt-hear-about/

  3. BBC dismayed over German spying http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39080256

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ORLY-EP0146C - Mostly Good Ideas

ORLY-EP0146C - Mostly Good Ideas

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #146 recorded Saturday February 25th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Amber Bieseker, and Daniel Atherton.

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Good Ideas:

  1. EU looks toward carbon market reform http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-carbon-idUSKBN1631SC

  2. A councillor for the town of Övertorneå wants Swedes in his town to take a one-hour paid break from work to go home and have sex, according to Swedish paper, The Local. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/swedish-politician-wants-people-to-take-sex-breaks_us_58af0d39e4b057efdce9dde5
    http://www.thelocal.se/jobs/article/swedes-should-get-sex-breaks-at-work-says-councillor-is-that-before-or-after-fika-overtornea

  3. VW sets cap on executive pay http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39082280

  4. Japan Protests Russian military build up http://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-russia-idUSKBN1620LT

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ORLY-EP0143C - Bespoke Dystopias and Critical Hipster

ORLY-EP0143C-Bespoke Dystopias and Critical Hipster

Welcome to ORLYRADIO #143 recorded Friday February 10th, 2017 - where we dismantle the current events for your edutainment through mostly rational conversations that make you go ‘Oh Really’! I’m your host Andy Cowen, with my usual suspects, Stephen Griffith, Amber Biesecker, Fred Sims, and Daniel Atherton and JP.

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Law & Order:

  1. Paris Riots http://www.dw.com/en/riots-in-paris-after-alleged-baton-rape-by-policeman/a-37465453

  2. 9th Circuit slammed trumps appeal of the “Muslim Ban” upholding the stay in a vote of 3:0.

  3. US investigators corroborate some aspects of the Russia dossier
    http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/russia-dossier-update/index.html

  4. Michael Flynn alleged to have spoken with Russia regarding sanctions before holding office https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/flynn-is-said-to-have-talked-to-russians-about-sanctions-before-trump-took-office.html?_r=0

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EpicProgress.com - Damage Report February 14th, 2017

EpicProgress.com - Damage Report February 14th, 2017

♪ Come all without, come all within – you’ll not see nothing like the Traitor Flynn. Everybody’s googling, alternative facts and Snopes. Kellyanne’s making-up attacks and Spicer’s mixing up notes. Everybody’s in despair, every girl and boy. But when Flynn the Traitor resigns here, everybody’s gonna jump for joy. Come all without, come all within – you’ll not see nothing like the Traitor Flynn! ♪  Today, your Daily Trump Damage Report for February 14th, 2017.

• Michael Flynn is now the most prominent casualty of the Bowling Green Massacre.  Today, Amerikan General Michael Flynn has resigned as National Security Adviser. He is quoted as saying “I ams to beings sure that this is all huge misunderstandinks” despite the revelation that he may have been using encrypted communication to hide his exchanges with the Russians. From us.

• Russian lawmakers immediately jumped in to trumpet loud support of Michael Flynn, asserting that Flynn’s only offense was being guilty of the “thoughtcrime” of being open to a dialogue with Russia.  A dialogue which may have been encrypted, which he lied about numerous times to the media and to the Vice President, and which contained discussions about lifting sanctions against Russian intelligence placed on them after it was revealed they had interfered directly in causing the election of Trump.

• It is now learned that last month, the acting Attorney General Sally Yates who was fired for refusing to defend the Trump’s Muslim ban, warned the White House that Michael Flynn could be the subject of blackmail by the Russians. She was promptly ignored.  Not only was she ignored in her warning, but others were as well.

• Verbal pulp fiction screecher and Trump termagant Kellyanne Conway is shredded by Joe Scarborough as an out of the loop liar for asserting that Flynn had the full confidence of the President, and a litany of other baseless, reality-averse lies.

• Trump has granted press credentials to a pro-Trump blog. According to Russian journalists who have reported extensively on the methods Putin employs to keep reporting and journalism to a minimum in his authoritarian state, this is precisely the next step in that process.

• Trump has requested 64 guest worker visas for employees at his Mar-a-Lago resort. While Trump was campaigning on bringing jobs back to America, he cut wages for the foreign immigrant workers whom he employs as wait staff and cooks at the resort.

• Soulless Republican Congress-ghoul Jason Chaffetz has decided that investigating the Russian ties and super-forgetful ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, he is going to use his powers to investigate a cartoon character.  See, the CDC has been using a flappy little cartoon character to tell people about the dangers of Zika virus. And that’s just plain awful, considering the Jim Henson Company is doing the production. Chaffetz says he considers the Flynn matter settled. The more pressing business of his investigative committee is what kind of sound the letter “B” makes, and what did Oscar the Grouch know, and when did he know it?

• Foreclosure King and pre-ghostly visit Dickens character Steve Mnuchin was sworn in as Trump’s Treasury Secretary.  

• The Washington Post does an in-depth piece on the torrent of abuse the current White House staff must endure.  Specifically, from Trump.  It turns out a sexual assault-prone oligarchic malignant narcissist without a firm grip on reality or truth is not a pleasant person to work for.

• Republican Congresscritters, emboldened by Trump’s moves to annihilate stability and economic growth in America, would like very much to do away with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as well as Dodd-Frank regulation put in place to prevent another derivatives-driven crash. Credit card companies which donate heavily to GOP congressmen are apparently too stymied by burdensome regulations right now, like being required to tell consumers how much the annual fee is, or what the interest rate you are going to pay happens to be, or if you’ve opened an account with them or not.

• The anti-Muslim ban may have had a court stay for the moment, but the courts would very much like to know how the intent to bring it about took place.  Interestingly, for major cases that go before federal courts, the court is enabled to investigate and probe the development of the subject matter.  The results of the probe will hopefully reveal the intent behind Trump’s insistence that national security is at stake, and that this is why we should ban Muslims from entering the country.

• Not surprisingly, no one wants to attend this year’s White House Press Correspondent’s Dinner. Celebrities will not be present, nor will the major news organizations.

• Trump maintains that the real problem with what has been happening lately is not what has been happening in his administration, but rather that what is happening is being reported on.

• Russia secretly deploys a cruise missile in violation of international nuclear treaties. Trump is expected to roll over like a mangy terrier looking for a belly scratch.

• Trump’s White House has posted inaccurate texts of his executive orders on its website.