We’ve been receiving some great feedback from our listeners and we’d just like to thank everyone that has taken the time to comment. It makes doing the show a lot more fun! This week we respond to some more listener comments, talk more about how a stateless society might work, and then we observe the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by delving into all of the things ways the government has overstepped its bounds in the last ten years.
The Missing Links
- This Bus Goes Nowhere – Vin Suprynowicz
- Stateless Society – “Evidence of the earliest known city-states has been found in ancient Mesopotamia around 3700 BC, suggesting that the history of the state is in truth less than 6,000 years old; thus, for most of human prehistory the state did not exist. Since homo sapiens have existed for about 200,000 years, it implies that state-organized societies have existed for at most 3% of the whole epoch of recognizably human history.”
- TED talk from Bruce Schneier on how we’ve failed at improving our security
- Jeffrey Goldberg article on failures of the TSA
- Stories about TSA “Red Teams” that have managed to smuggle weapons on board planes
Bombs in Denver | Fake bombs | Loaded gun - NPR interview with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta where he says the War on Terror will effectively never end
- Definition of a false dichotomy
- Rachel Maddow clip on Obama’s actions related to Guantanamo
This week’s music:
Superpoze – Sweet September | Superpoze – Monkey Attack