CanaryPod: Topple Uncaged EP14

THIS PODCAST CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND OFFENSIVE

Welcome to #ToppleUncaged!

Every week, The Canary will be bringing you a new podcast on the media landscape; hosted by me, Steve Topple.

I’ll be giving you the quickest news round-up in the UK in Plucked News. Then, I’ll be going in on some of the biggest stories with a very special guest on Free Flying With… After that, I’ll be taking apart, and taking down, this week’s #bbcqt in Question Time: Topple Chirps Back. And finally, I’ll be bringing you the freshest, most banging political music in Revolutionary Bird Song.

This week’s guests? One of the most important journalists of our era Max Blumenthal and the genius musician that is King MAS.

Enjoy!

CANARYPOD: #TOPPLEUNCAGED SHOW NOTES 17/02/19

Presented, produced and edited by Steve Topple.

Sound engineering by Gav Pauze.

Plucked News articles/tweets in order:

Climate change strike: Traffic outside Parliament at standstill as students take day off school to protest

Trump is looking for a new way to cut Medicaid — without Congress

MPs hear of ways to save benefit claimants from harm… or even death

Caster Semenya is ‘unquestionably a woman’, say her lawyers

Cuba warns of US military build-up near Venezuela

Come on @socialistworker and your other fronts like @AntiRacismDay and @pplsassembly isn’t it time you just stopped trying to co-opt and hijack other people’s grassroots movements? You’re part of the problem not part of the solution https://t.co/eAa1sdpvyG

— Occupy London (@OccupyLondon) February 15, 2019

Follow on from last week:
Today, I thought I had an appointment with a nurse practioner. I went to my GP surgery last week to book an appointment to find that my GP surgery had gone over to telephone… https://t.co/lc2fo87V2S

— Paula Peters (@paulapeters2) February 15, 2019

Fracking refused at second site in Lancashire

Trump declares national emergency to build US-Mexico border wall

BBC confirms it will axe long-running politics show This Week in the summer after presenter Andrew Neil announced he was stepping down

Free Flying With… news articles in order:

Venezuela news from The Canary and the Grayzone Project

Question Time: Topple Chirps Back:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0c3c35f/question-time-2019-14022019

Rachel Johnson strips off on Sky News: Brexit remain campaigner ‘inspired by’ Dr Victoria Bateman ‘to get her voice heard’

#OnThisDay 2003: Between 750k and 2m people demonstrated in London in opposition to the imminent Iraq War. Protests also took place in 60 other countries.

American-led forces invaded Iraq a month later to “free the Iraqi people” and disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. pic.twitter.com/Kzrx6yrPh0

— English Radical History (@EnglishRadical) February 15, 2019

Revolutionary Bird Song:

Crown by King MAS supplied by Bantu Nation Movement.

Download Crown on your preferred platform.

Read Pauze Radio’s bio of King MAS.

Follow on Twitter:

Steve Topple @MrTopple; The Canary @TheCanaryUK; Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal; King MAS @KingMAStheRAS; Nicola Jeffery @NicolaCJeffery; Gav Pauze @PauzeRadio; Rai Star Music @rai_star113

Use the hashtags #ToppleUncaged #CanaryPod

Find out more about Gav Pauze.

#ToppleUncaged Theme Music: Lost Souls by Lee Wrizzle.

Donald Trump speech via Bloomberg

Parliament segment via the Guardian

Babylon is Burning by The Ruts via pondscum77

Featured image via Steve Topple, The Canary Maurice – Wikimedia, RT America – YouTube and King MAS