different great question extinction rebellion is a completely decentralized organization rooted in autonomy and based on the presupposition that there are folks out there who are sort of already on this page recognizing that we're in a climate emergency and that urgent direct action and civil disobedience is demanded and so extinction rebellion is designed to be able to be deployed locally in areas where people can come together and unite around our core demands and principles and take action that they see fit they see fit excuse me based on their understanding of the situation in their locality you know one of the key things is that it is decentralized it doesn't have you know a figurehead at the top you're not going to probably see al gore marching at the front of these things so do you still like it why is that important why is the dea centralisation important of this i think it's important for a few reasons one is that it allows us to mobilize quickly and for the movement to

sort of metastasize around the world and especially now here in the united states it also helps us to be sustainable so in the event that certain figures in the movement may you know be arrested as we are intending to be through civil disobedience the movement will not end when those figures it's sort of go behind bars another reason i think is that the decentralization mimics the kind of world that we're hoping to create through extinction rebellion with an emphasis on direct deliberative democracy and a gala tarion ism so i think all of those things make the decentralization an autonomous aspects of x. are really significant. you mention getting arrested which you know was not part of most of the kind of corporate run climate marches what why is that an important

aspect of extinction. it's an important aspect because we're emphasizing civil disobedience and civil disobedience you know this is somewhat of a loose term but important aspects of it include a public element that communicates with others in the in the society in the culture in which one is committing the act of civil disobedience to send a message to to show that. that people who are committed and passionate to and about a cause are willing to go to jail in order to spread their message and to show that there is profound injustice that is not being addressed adequately by the government and in fact the government itself is in some significant part of the source of that injustice such that we cannot rely upon conventional political mechanisms in order to milieu rate the injustice that we've identified in the context of the climate crisis this is heightened because of the again emergency

situation that we're in demanding immediate action in order to prevent catastrophic disaster for really all of life on earth but especially humans. i want to get to to your demands one of your key complaints or or demands is that we humans on this planet not go extinct why you're not a fan of that you know i'm kidding but but one of the key complaints about occupy was and i think it was a little bit on just but was that the demands were not clear so what are extinction rebellions demands. great so the three key demands that we have first the first demand is that the government which again in our case includes the mainstream media and other corporations which control the government. speak honestly about the reality of the empirical reality of the climate crisis that we're in a climate breakdown so. those of us who are paying attention can observe through our own sense perceptions what is occurring and i think

a big part of the problem with political discourse in this country and globally is that we are systematically gas lit by mainstream media and the government exemplified by donald trump who is a pathological liar and a malignant narcissist and is unable to prevent himself from imposing his view of reality on others so speaking honestly and truthfully about the climate crisis is a major part of our demands and we practice that demand ourselves by trying to familiarize ourselves with the science and learning how to communicate effectively about the reality of the situation in which we find ourselves that's the first demand the second demand is that the government following their obligation to speak truthfully seek to enact policies that will bring to net zero carbon emissions by two thousand and twenty five and this i think is similar to but

perhaps more extreme than alexandria ocasio cortez's and others demands of the green new deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions carbon emissions by twenty thirty i believe extinction rebellion believes that the issue is more urgent and so we set a target for twenty twenty five that's our second demand the third demand is a little more long term oriented i think and perhaps slightly more grandiose even than the second demand but that is the creation of what we're calling a citizens' assembly a parallel institution of city. based governance that could oversee and help to implement our first two demands and the expectation here is that the government the american government in particular is in fact not going to cooperate with either of our first two demands and we'll fight tooth and nail to resist them and so the citizens assembly is essential whether we can have a support of the government or not to create a governing body

a parallel institution through which the people can actually determine how to take collective action for themselves. based on again direct the liberty of democratic principles including sore titian which is the method of selection used in for example jury duty centrally random selection of citizens to participate in this citizens' assembly. interesting results i want to go back to your first demand you mentioned to speak truthfully about the reality of science you've probably heard the number that ninety seven percent of scientists say manmade climate change is happening but i looked at i looked into it and that number is both all right if you look at the peer reviewed scientific articles it's actually ninety nine point four percent so i wish you guys would quit with the fake news and tell but it is. but but there are legitimate disagreements however in terms of how long we have until the point of no return meaning the planet and runaway spiral

of climate change the intergovernmental panel on climate change says we've got about eleven years what do you believe. yeah i mean i tend to concur with the i.p.c.c. report and i think that many people are using that as sort of their signpost but in general extinction rebellion sort of says let's pretend like it's tomorrow because functionally it is we know the inertia of the system we know the obstacles that we have to overcome and twelve years might as well be a blink of an eye and indeed we have something like negative thirty or negative forty or negative two hundred years depending on where you want to peg the problem at and we must begin making these changes basically for purposes of survival in order to mitigate as much as we can the disaster that we know is coming and this also we have to take into account the fact that although scientists are able to

analyze current circumstances very well forecast some projections are much more difficult and there are will be novel effects and impacts related to climate breakdown that we can't fully predict so things like feedback loops and other. more extreme examples of climate breakdown will come into play soon and they will exacerbate an accelerating climate breakdown in a way that will be very difficult for us to cope with and likely will result in the destruction of what noam chomsky calls organized human life on earth i want to talk about the american people and what it will take to get them active you know there's many things that have stopped people from getting active on this issue on climate change even if they know it's happening one is of course to the bought off government funded by big oil companies that are you completely unaccountable to the american people now so that's a big one but another is that many americans perhaps fifty percent of us are just

worried about kind of their day to day how to pay their bills do you feel any quality in poverty or kind of inexorably linked to the fight first attainable climate. oh absolutely absolutely i mean capitalism in contemporary neoliberal capitalism is in some significant sense the source of the problem and the reason that is continuing to worsen rather than leveling off or improving and part and parcel of that is sort of the is a ration of the citizenry keeping them in something like a provisional existence where they're unable to plan for their future because there are so tremendously in secure economically and otherwise no job security problems with housing we know that homelessness is is on the rise particularly here in new york city and so yes there are structural reasons owing to the organization of american capitalism and global capitalism that prevent people.

from being able to mobilize and also even if they don't prevent them outright create a dispiriting atmosphere that disincentive vies is and leads to a sort of apathy with the political system and that's part of the appeal i think of extinction rebellion is that it does offer an alternative path it's a creative path it's one that we are creating now in the moment in this moment of. novelty in human history so there will be fits and starts and we'll have to figure it out as we go but i think part of the value of extinction rebellion is demonstrating solidarity that will draw people out of their apathy and bring them into collective action. yeah in terms of collective action if people are new and in fact this is our final minute here so if you want to tell people how they can get involved but also if they're not merely york city or one of these major cities is

this the type of thing where you could create a chapter in whatever city you're in in america and kind of get rolling that way and and if so how can people what's the best resource. excellent so if you are in new york city please check us out on social media at x r underscore n.y.c. on twitter instagram we have facebook page extinction rebellion n.y.c. and a website x r r n y c as far as creating chapters wherever you are yes please do that goes directly to the decentralized nature of extinction rebellion as long as you agree with the three core demands that i had to kill a bit earlier and are willing to act in accordance with our ten principles one of which is nonviolent direct action then you can perform any action in the name of x r and january twenty sixth will be our first day of national in the united states

action so that's a good day to start planning for but we'll have more in the future including especially in april. thanks again roy for taking the time extinction rebellion is the organization i recommend people get up first go to a quick break but if you don't always have time to watch redacted tonight get the complete audio of our podcast called moment of clarity it's every week for free on i tunes stitcher and spotify you can also check out my other weekly podcast commonsense or which is free on i tunes stitcher and spotify i'll be right back a lot more. when they came back from a. marijuana her was cocaine methamphetamine anything that's altering trying to get us out. that

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and then freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially the officer of the bag through his or john. usually twisted away from the officer. of his group. they obviously did a kind of lunge for the web in one's midst and then when it happened on she swung and observations didn't hit him i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pull out his gun and even turn tree. country's gone into a non mystic fever i think i'm gonna hit the road and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the charlatan the genius put the south american hero this is a point which alan would have done so we always are on the point system.

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welcome back to redacted united v.i.p. we all hate getting pulled over for speeding right and now i have breaking news on the thing you have to blow to get out of your ticket i mean of course officer mcnally now the breathalyzer the brother the lies are tests have just been suspended in massachusetts for the time being because and they here's the key here's the key part. they don't work half the time in massachusetts in two only eighteen states district attorneys had agreed to toss out evidence from tens of thousands of drunken driving cases after the lack of reliable standards by the office of alcohol testing jeopardized the validity of breathalyzer test results

the decision comes after years of back and forth in court over the reliability of the breathalyzer test that is used in the state of course you can always nail down how much you've had to drink you know maybe i just smile about go home and maybe that's who i am as a person all right i personally have probably had enough whiskey over the past ten years to you know at least have some of it pulsing through my veins at any given time so why your machine beeped when i gave it some what is that what is that really mean was that in the scope of things was that really me the breathalyzer is just a way of for a. thing. that means you're a hardened criminal and i'm taking you to jail if i had to guess breathalyzers are probably as reliable as one of those remember the fortune telling paper of things that kids used to do in like third grade like say a number all right one two. four five.

you're drunk driver and you're going to jail over those and of course the brother lives it indicts far more people of color than white people because the cops are far more likely to pull over black or hispanic people to begin with so i'm not saying the device is racist but the way the cobs use it is going to be racist so really it's a breath test or to see if you're black or hispanic that's one of the things that does look. i'm not saying i want people after downing a plighted jack daniels to just jump behind the wheel. and go. back and forth nearly killing everybody i'm not a fan of that but just have the cops arrest them for that like. you ran over three mailboxes and one slow children playing simon so i'm going to assume you're drunk

driving either that or you weigh heavy slow children arrest them for that for the drunk driving there it is that you don't have to use their the fairy tale detector that doesn't work half the time according to attorney josh egan police used several kinds of breath test device devices all of them are susceptible to error error can be caused by lots of factors the devices inherent margin of error physiological differences among drivers radio frequency interference improper calibration of the device left over i'll call in the driver's mouth and something that is tainting the breath sample yeah maybe i average left over out all in my mouth maybe i have all mouthful of alcohol at the. that there probably is the best way to beat a breathalyzer right before you do it is to you can swear quietly take

a swig of vodka keep it in your cheeks and then blow on that thing when you clock a twenty two percent blood alcohol level the cop is going to be like holy. cheese this man you don't block his ah you're percentage than beer if you want a coconut right now you'd be opinion alotta like i can arrest you here this thing is broken or your a scientific marvel either way i'm not arresting you you don't deserve to be in jail you deserve to be on the road in a freak show collected nickels by the fistful. anyway point is this stuff is often sketchy science but they let it go they don't care because it's designed to get people arrested or to get them to take a plea deal ninety four percent of state cases i believe in ninety seven percent of federal cases are plea deals they're pled out like no one goes to trial because the prosecutors scared the shit out of you with everything they would charge you with

if you went to trial that is. you had a beer and then you drove home so if you take this to trial will charge you a drunk driving and public in danger man and risking the lives of a minor because i'm sure a minor lived in the houses that you were passing as you were driving and will charge you with terrorism because you held a city hostage with your gronk and madness and will charge you as a sex offender too because the police officer said that you were when he stabbed you so that hundred thirty seven years in prison if you lose the trial or you could take a plea deal and will suspend your license for six months. you're going to take a plea deal even if it was or you were in the car you'd be like yeah you're the plato it's the same thing if this is all the same lie detectors by the way. don't

worry they never have a lie detector that's right live detectors or a giant lie how ironic is that this is from the smithsonian magazine lie detectors don't work as advertised and they never did it the two biggest problems rights the americans psychological association are these there's no way to know if these symptoms of bodily arousal like an elevated pulse that the machine measures are caused by lies and there's no way to know if someone's results are affected by the fact that they believe in the polygraph machine if this second view is correct then the lie detector might be better called a fear detector that's right the lie detector is often just recording whether you are freaking out and often when people are questioned by the cops they're freaking the out whether they did anything wrong or knocked if you ask me if you

legitimately as me if i murdered somebody and i didn't i'm going to freak out because you might know about the one from years ago anyway but if you care whether a lie detector is work or not then you're missing the point a lie detector that's on there doesn't matter where they work and that's not the point it's meant to scare people into confessing or to taking a plea deal the cops might as well like it doesn't matter what device they use their bodies will hold up just a head of cabbage to your face and go. oh. my dick cavett says you stole a car as the thief detecting cabot's yeah there's no denying it. and then when the person goes i don't steal i do a car the cops go well yeah but you know you could say that you're welcome to say that but you really want to go up against this cabbage and cora law i mean this thing as a fifteen year winning streak. all i'm saying is if someone is driving driving

drunk italy then yes pull them over for driving drunk and really we don't need pseudo science being used to lock away thousands of people every year making america the largest prison state in the world for those you might have forgotten we have the largest prison population in the world and it's a crime against humanity just say i'm moving on because i don't run out of time for this this is big news over thirty thousand los angeles teachers walked out in their first strike in thirty years they braved the rain they braved the the fear of losing their job and they shut down the l.a. public schools teachers are demanding smaller class sizes higher pay the regulation of charter schools and more nurses counselors and librarians basically as we covered on last week's redacted tonight the banks toure's and greedy fraudsters are

trying to starve the public schools and build up the charter schools where they can get rich they can profit off your son or daughter of gaining the knowledge they need to navigate the world they want to exploit that for richness and it's their standard operating procedures and they do things to starve the public service and then prop up the privatized version. then they go to the public service as someone's not working sound working right we have to sell it to corporations what choice do we have they have done this with schools they're doing it with the postal service with transportation with infrastructure infrastructure like water fountains nowadays if you find the water from this work and you know you would like usually you turn it on in a family of spiders comes running out. maybe a. gaggle of bees come flying out but when you find one that's working you're still

like wow i think i just got a big nugget a lead i got like a big one i think i just won the jackpot of lead so what do we do we all go buy bottled water and nestle and coke celebrate our society is being sold for parts intentionally gutted and then sold for parts this week thirty thousand los angeles teachers have stood up to say no and they did it in the rain to people who live in los angeles find rain a horrifying idea understand they've never seen it before so to them when it's raining it's like it's like for you or me it's like for like mustard started falling from the skies so you see how brave this is of them anyway fighting teachers that's all the time i have but if you like this then you will love my new standup comedy special not allowed on american t.v. and it's only available in camp comedy special dot com that's the only place to get

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