Ruled Over (radio show replay)

Neoborn Caveman lets loose a marble-mouthed satirical ramble on who gets to rule whom. He starts on Operation Banner, the British army on the streets of Northern Ireland from 1969, and on a government that treats Magna Carta as expired. From there NC looks at Defense Secretary William Cohen’s 1997 admission that the United States has the means to steer weather, earthquakes and volcanoes, at Hurricane Sandy’s 2012 left turn into New Jersey, and at Kings Mountain, North Carolina — lithium in the ground, a Pentagon supply deal, then the floods. After that Neoborn turns to ENMOD, Project Popeye over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1967, HAARP, and the 1977 UN ban on hostile environmental modification that the United States and the Soviet Union both signed. Later he takes the flattering story every nation tells about the day it began to school its children. NC then investigates Horace Mann’s Prussian model, Massachusetts compulsory school in 1852, and Rockefeller’s General Education Board from 1902. He closes on the manufacture of obedience, and finally on the question he will not let go of: why don’t we want to be free?Music guests: Big Sexy, DAV-EL, Carlyle, Reverend Genes00:00:00 On This Day Today - Operation Banner00:20:48 Big Sexy: This City Knows My Face00:24:36 William Cohen, Hurricane Sandy, and the Kings Mountain Floods00:28:54 DAV-EL: Lost In Your Love00:32:26 ENMOD, HAARP, and the UN Ban on Environmental Warfare00:48:43 Carlyle: Without the Weed00:52:33 The Manufacture of Obedience01:07:44 Reverend Genes: Everyday PeopleKey TakeawaysOperation Banner put British soldiers on the streets of Northern Ireland. Military at home is not police work.In 1997 Defense Secretary William Cohen said the United States already had the technology to control weather, including earthquakes and volcanoes.Kings Mountain, North Carolina sits on one of the largest identified lithium deposits in the country. The same ground took the floods.In 1977 the UN banned hostile environmental modification. The United States and the Soviet Union signed it.There was a time no American law required a child to go to school, and the country that skipped the requirement read better than most of the empires that enforced it.Horace Mann brought the Prussian model home. Massachusetts made attendance compulsory in 1852. By 1918 every state had followed.Rockefeller’s General Education Board, founded 1902, funded a school meant to fit each student into a slot already cut for him.The child who reads to satisfy his own conscience answers inside himself. The child who memorizes for an examiner answers outside himself.Sound Bites“Am I a hack? Hopefully not. Well, I am more real and authentic than your government.”“Military, domestically, is not the solution. Ever.”“He who controls the weather will control the world.”“The evidence can be proved only by the same people who cause the problem.”“I have nothing to hide so I am not going to show you.”“Idiot in Greek means not taking part meaningfully in political and other decision making.”“It’s my water, it’s your water, dear listeners.”“Truth starts when you are ridiculed.”“The modern school was built to order a mind rather than open one.”“It’s not benevolent, it’s man-evolent what is happening to us.”“Why don’t we want to be free?”The tea house is at patreon.com/theneoborncavemanshow. Sit down. Support the work. Stay real.  Remember: you are worthy, you are amazing, you are one of a kind!  Humanity centered satirical takes on the world & news + music - with a marble mouthed host.Free speech marinated in comedy.Supporting Purple Rabbits.Viva los Conejos Morados. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.