Month: December 2023

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Bad Faith - Episode 328 Promo – Invoke The Genocide Convention (w/ Sam Husseini)

Subscribe to Bad Faith on Patreon to instantly unlock this episode and our entire premium episode library: http://patreon.com/badfaithpodcast    You may know him from his viral questions posed to the heart of empire, but independent journalist Sam Husseini has much more to say than what’s allowed at State Department press briefings. On today's show, Sam argues that activists should focus on pressuring governments that are already willing to acknowledge Israel’s genocide in Gaza to invoke the Genocide Convention treaty so that the International Court of Justice can hold Israel accountable for war crimes. Why haven’t any countries sympathetic to Palestine who are party to the treaty done this— even Palestine itself? Sam also unpacks a theory about RFK Jr’s commitment to Zionism and its possible relationship to his uncle and fathers’ assassination.

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Focus on Africa - A sex trafficking ring in Sierra Leone

A report shows how six young girls fell victim to sex trafficking in Sierra Leone. They ended up in Senegal and are waiting to be repatriated. We have the details.

Also a look at the African Disability Protocol. What is it, what does it aim to do and is it effective?

And we meet Zandile Ndhlovu, the first black South African free-diver, inspiring local children to swim.

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The Commentary Magazine Podcast - The Intifada in America

Today's podcast notes that the end of the fighting "pause" in Israel almost denotes the end of the idea of "ceasefire." And now the disingenuous efforts to oppose Israel's self-defense are going by the wayside. This is now leading to outright calls for "intifada" here in the United States—which is the term used over the past 35 years to describe Palestinian efforts to attack Jews for being Jews with any means at hand. And the attacks on American Jews and Jewish public life are only accelerating. Give a listen.

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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.4.23 EDITED

Alabama

  • Congressman Carl says states should decide on abortion issue
  • The AL Cannabis Commission issues new set of licenses for third time
  • 2 out of 7 of AL House members vote to oust NY congressman George Santos
  • Stolen car and high speed chase leads to storefront crash in Mountain Brook
  • BMW recalls its SUVs due to air bag inflator throwing metal shrapnels
  • Jaden Heard with TPUSA in Auburn featured on 1819 News podcast

National

  • USS Carney involved in Red Sea skirmish with Yemen's Houthis
  • MS congressman denounces DEI policies in the military
  • Federal judge rules against Biden admin on gun sales ban based on age
  • 3 GOP committee members demand docs from SC Jack Smith
  • Tucker Carlson and Roseanne Barr discuss US leadership and lies
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CBS News Roundup - 12/04/2023 | World News Roundup

Supreme Court considers the legality of Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement. Israeli offensive in Gaza. Aviation merger. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Intelligence: Israel pushes south in Gaza

As its ground offensive appears to be expanding, Israel is acutely aware that time and international support will run out; we examine its impossible set of aims to achieve before then. Europe has not yet faced the kind of fentanyl crisis that has plagued America—but there are risks that it may soon (10:53). And the power-napping prowess of penguins (18:26).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 12.4.23

Alabama

  • Congressman Carl wants states rights to prevail over abortion issue
  • The Medical Marijuna Commission issues another set of licenses on 3rd round
  • 2 out of 7 AL House members vote to expel NY congressman George Santos
  • A stolen car chase with police ends with crash into storefront in Mountain Brook
  • BMW issues recall on SUV air bag inflators due to explosion and metal shrapnel
  • TPUSA chapter  president at Auburn University featured on 1819 News Podcast

National

  • The USS Carney attacked by Yemen based missiles in Red Sea, no damage
  • Missouri congressman says DEI is destroying US military
  • Federal judge strikes down Biden initiated ban on certain firearm sales
  • Oversight committee members seeking docs from SC Jack Smith
  • Tucker Carlson and Roseanne Barr talk about psychopath liars leading nation


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Start the Week - Playing games

It’s play time on Start the Week. The mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy looks at the numbers behind the games we play, from Monopoly to rock paper scissors. In Around The World in 80 Games he shows how understanding maths can give you the edge, and why games are integral to human psychology and culture.

The historian Anthony Bale looks at game-playing in the medieval world. In A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, he finds travellers passing the time with dice and tric trac, as well as collecting pilgrim badges along the way.

Many of today’s most popular video games immerse players in historical settings, and the practice of collecting items along the way is nothing new to gamers. The co-director of the Games and Gaming Lab at the University of Glasgow, Jane Draycott, researches the historical authenticity of these online worlds, and especially the depiction of women.

And the mathematician G.T. Karber has taken his love of classic detective fiction and puzzles to create the murder-mystery riddle Murdle. A combination of Cluedo and Sudoku, what started as an online game is now a series of bestselling books. The latest is Murdle: More Killer Puzzles.

Producer: Katy Hickman

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NBN Book of the Day - Andrew C. McKevitt, “Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America” (UNC Press, 2023)

The United States has more guns than people – a condition that is “unprecedented in world history.” Scholars often focus on gun culture, the Second Amendment, or the history of gun safety, duties, and rights. Often, people assume that the number of guns is a natural state – the guns were always there. But were the guns always there? What caused the drastic boom in firearms, and when did it happen?

In Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America (UNC Press, 2023), Dr. Andrew McKevitt investigates how and when the guns arrived – and why so many people bought them. McKevitt argues that what Americans refer to as “gun culture” in the 21st century “emerged out of the intersections of the Cold War and consumer capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s.” A booming consumer market following World War II coupled with a surplus of cheap firearms readily available for American entrepreneurs to resell to citizens laid the groundwork for rampant firearm distribution in the country. War made the United States into a “gun country” but US gun politics – “interwoven with struggles over race and gender” cannot be detached from consumer politics. Gun safety and gun rights organizations both demand consumer regulation and protection.

Dr. Andrew C. McKevitt is the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. His previous book, Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America (2017) was published by the University of North Carolina Press and he received the Stuart L. Bernath Scholarly Article Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

George Lobis served as the editorial assistant for this podcast.

Susan Liebell is a Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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