Joe Rogan Experience #472 - Shane Smith
March 21, 2014
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2:53:50Now PlayingJoe Rogan Experience #472 - Shane Smith
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as posted by the channelShane Smith is a Canadian-American journalist. He also is the co-founder and CEO of the international media company VICE.
Guests & Subjects Covered
Claims
114 claims extractedArctic nations amassing weapons for resource competition
Arctic territorial claims enforced by military might
Tar sands extraction destroys freshwater and environment
Oil companies will destroy environment for profit
Fossil fuel industry pays for negative comments to suppress climate reporting
Climate change is 100% man-made and will continue for centuries
Fossil fuel and car companies knowingly fund climate denial
Afghanistan and Iraq wars fought for oil, veterans duped
Iraq invasion was for oil, not WMDs or terrorism
Afghanistan withdrawal will result in Taliban takeover and wasted resources
People are used for economic purposes by governments
Military exists to protect bankers and oil manufacturers
Government preys on patriotism to manipulate soldiers
Climate change poses existential risk even if probability is low
Texas drought forcing climate change deniers to reconsider
Republican congressman lost seat for accepting climate science
NSA mass surveillance creates police state
Mass surveillance in cities creates Orwellian police state
Total surveillance equals police state
Government-tech surveillance infrastructure is irreversible
Future surveillance technology will enable total monitoring
Future total information access will eliminate all privacy
Wealthy will purchase privacy protection technology
Money will become obsolete as information becomes freely accessible
Powerful interests sabotaging Bitcoin to protect traditional currency
Silk Road operator allegedly ordered murders to maintain business
US government seized billions in assets post-9/11 without due process
Government exploited 9/11 sympathy to seize assets
Government uses terrorism as pretext for asset seizure
Snowden and WikiLeaks revelations shocking public into awareness
Alex Jones accurately predicted government surveillance
Government wastes taxpayer money on failed projects
Afghanistan reconstruction funds wasted or paid to Taliban
Government acts with impunity, violating democratic principles
Grassroots media activism necessary to preserve democracy
Current wealth inequality exceeds pre-revolution aristocratic era
Wall Street allows unlimited loss write-offs unavailable to ordinary people
Taxpayer money wasted by government
CIA murdered children to cover up cocaine trafficking in Arkansas
Independent investigation found murdered children staged as train accident
CIA drug trafficker Barry Seal murdered before testimony
CIA connected to major drug traffickers in Arkansas
Arkansas governor became president through drug money
Clintons implicated in murders and multiple scandals
Vince Foster death staged as suicide, Clintons implicated
Politicians who wage war are murderers
Politicians eliminate witnesses to their crimes
Presidency is impossible job that destroys everyone
George H.W. Bush was CIA head, like Putin
Future scenario where no one wants to be president
Single president system is fundamentally flawed
President cannot compete with Putin's military advantage
Hypothetical assassination attempt on US president
No US president assassinated by foreign power
Putin's ideology is pro-Russia and anti-West
Russia blames America for all its problems
Putin aggressively reclaiming Soviet territories
Putin defiant toward West, beyond Cold War rhetoric
Russia reclaiming Soviet territories for strategic resources
All powerful nations engage in resource-driven imperialism
Consumer choices drive geopolitical power
Consumer spending patterns drive policy more than voting
Consumer boycotts can change corporate policy overnight
US controls Saudi oil production to manipulate prices
US oil manipulation of Saudi Arabia created Al-Qaeda resentment
Cities replacing police with mass surveillance technology
Overfishing destroying marine ecosystems globally
Fishing nations destroyed fish stocks, blame seals
Industrial fishing destroyed world's largest fish stocks
Corporations destroy species to meet global demand
Rising beef demand driving prices and environmental damage
Humanity chooses short-term consumption over long-term survival
Adults failing to make rational environmental choices
Humans won't change until environmental collapse is visible
Humans like addicts, need to hit rock bottom to change
Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps misrepresented Jesus
Islamic and Christian afterlife beliefs equally absurd
Middle Eastern people are backwards remnants of ancient civilization
Middle Eastern ideology is retarded ancient remnant
Three monotheistic religions fight over minor theological differences
Christian and Islamic afterlife beliefs equally ridiculous
72 virgins may actually mean 72 raisins
Politicians should have lived flawed lives like ordinary people
Squeaky clean politicians are either murderers or crazy
Politicians should admit to human flaws and mistakes
Sexual misconduct shouldn't disqualify politicians
Character attacks should be met with admission and defiance
Society expects politicians to be saviors
Politicians should represent flawed humanity
Voting system is recent invention, essentially popularity contest
Elections determined by name recognition, not merit
Both political parties controlled by same corporations
Hillary Clinton may be involved in infanticide
Hillary Clinton has health issues that may prevent candidacy
Democrats should embrace Clinton like Republicans embrace Reagan
Clinton's sexual misconduct understandable given circumstances
Clintons implicated in murders and multiple scandals
House of Cards accurately depicts real political PR warfare
All politicians are freaks and blameless
Clinton White Water scandal prevents political support
George H.W. Bush was CIA head, like Putin
Potential new war with Russia emerging
Climate change 60 years ahead of worst projections
Global environmental catastrophe inevitable, no action taken
Young scientist developed reactor to use nuclear waste
Hoping for technological solution to environmental crisis
Tech companies like Google have global ethics
Google committed to innovation despite censorship issues
Tech companies solving global problems through innovation
Parental love could solve world problems
Climate change debate is joke, must fight for children's future
NASA report predicts human civilization collapse
Scientists paid by Exxon suppress climate messaging
Single president system fundamentally flawed
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