Virtually Speaking

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday Talk Shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy and links at VirtuallySpeaking.us Follow @Bobblespeak

From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Gaius Publius & David Waldman compare notes and observations from the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. NSAFollow @Gaius_Publius @KagroXPlus political satire from Culture of Truth.The Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman

Militarization of the police. A former Baltimore Police Dep't officer Peter Moskos teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center in the Department of Sociology. He is the author of Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District Follow @PeterMoskos

Recorded earlier. Jennifer Ouellette hosts Caleb Scharf - Director of Columbia University's multidisciplinary Astrobiology Center. They consider observational cosmology, X-ray astronomy, and more recently exoplanetary science. His latest book is Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos. Follow @caleb_scharf @JenLucPiquant Great questions from the studio audience. They'll be posted tonight at virtuallyspeaking.us

Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday Talk Shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy and links at VirtuallySpeaking.us

From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Joan McCarter & Cliff Schecter discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. Jay Ackroyd hosts. More at virtualllyspeaking.us. Lead: From the NSA-spies-on-everyone story, the self-reveal of the NSA leaker Follow @joanmccarter @cliffschecter Plus political satire from Culture of Truth. The Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman

Excerpted from May 26 Virtually Speaking Sundays, Dave Johnson comments on Trans Pacific Partnership - what it is and what it isn't . Stuart Zechman connects the dots back to Democrats in power. Links & more at

SETI Institute Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak talks about aliens and culture with host Alan Bolye (Cosmic Log).Before his involvement with SETI research, Seth used radio telescopes in the USA and the Netherlands, searching for clues to the ultimate fate of the universe by analyzing galaxy motion.Follow @b0yle @SethShostak @SETIInstitute @SETILive @SETIHomeThey talked a year ago. Listen here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtually-speaking-science/2012/06/28/seth-shostak-and-alan-boyle

David Brin explores transparency, security, privacy & openness in The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom? (Winner of the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association).  Links and more This is their second conversation about The Transparent Society, and its implications in the 21st century, as well as the pros and cons of alien contact. Listen to them in Sept 2010.  

From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol & Marcy Wheeler - discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. This week, the so-called war on the media in light of Bradley Manning's trial, which starts tomorrow.Follow @avedon_says @emptywheelThe Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman

Marcy Wheeler discusses the implications of Obama's May 2013 national security speech in which he outlined a new direction for the country’s national security and counterterrorism efforts, from drone strikes in Pakistan to the prison at Guantánamo Bay. Jay Ackroyd hosts. Follow @emptywheel @JayAckroyd More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-with-jay-ackroyd/2013/5/29/marcy-wheeler-vs-with-jay-ackroyd

May 26, 2013 - Political satirist Culture of Truth bases The Bobblespeak Translations - "What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying" - on the Sunday Talk Shows, then creates the 'most ridiculous moment' for Virtually Speaking Sundays. We create a separate podcast and post the copy. Text and links here

From the Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Dave Johnson & Stuart Zechman - discuss developments of the week; countering the narratives of the legacy media. Informed, lively and informal. This week: the quandary of corporate income tax, TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), and the principles that inform liberal policy with respect to corporations.  Plus political satire from Culture of Truth. Follow @dcjohnson@Stuart_Zechman More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-sundays/2013/5/21/dave-johnson-stuart-zechman-vs-sundays The Virtually Speaking Media Panel: Avedon Carol, Cliff Schecter, David Dayen, Dave Johnson, David Waldman, digby, Gaius Publius, Joan McCarter, Marcy Wheeler, Stuart Zechman

Economist Dean Baker and Jay Ackroyd discuss the current state of the economics profession. More here: Center for Economic Policy & Research http://www.cepr.net/ Follow @deanbaker13 @jayackroyd @ceprdc

Tom Levenson - filmmaker, author & professor of science writing at MIT - talks with author and science historian Naomi Oreskes, about extreme weather: the 5/20 Oklahoma tornado and the social costs of climate change, carbon policy and inaction. Naomi co-authored - with Erik M. Conway - "Merchants of Doubt, How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco to Global Warming," about Big Tobacco, climate science, the establishment of scientific consensus and the role and character of scientific dissent. Follow @TomLevenson More at http://virtuallyspeaking.us/virtually-speaking-science/