February 2024 – Page 32

February 5, 2024

The Bulwark Podcast - The Fifth Avenue Rapist

J.D. Vance has extended Trump's Fifth Avenue immunity claim to sexual assault, espionage, RICO, and election stealing—as he angles for the VP slot. Plus, the border bill Republicans have always wanted. Will Saletan joins Charlie Sykes for Charlie and Will Monday.

February 5, 2024

The Commentary Magazine Podcast - Biden’s Horrible, Horrible Poll

Today's podcast takes up the NBC News poll that shows Biden not only losing to Trump, but with only 23 percent of Americans saying he has the mental and/or physical stamina to be president. Yikes. How will this affect the discussions over the Senate's version of a new bill dealing with the border crisis? Give a listen.

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February 5, 2024

CBS News Roundup - 02/05/2024 | World News Roundup

A second round of powerful storms hits California. Senate negotiators release a long-awaited bill that includes funding for U.S. border security and for aid to Israel and Ukraine. Singer Taylor Swift sets a record at the Grammy Awards. Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on today's World New Roundup:

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February 5, 2024

Up First from NPR - Middle East Escalation, Senate Immigration Bill, Grammy Awards

The U.S. carried out more strikes on Iranian-backed groups as Secretary Antony Blinken heads to the Middle East to try and avoid further escalation. The Senate unveiled a $118 billion bipartisan Immigration bill meant to address national security at home and abroad, but House Republicans say it's dead on arrival. And, torrential rainfall in Los Angles, California didn't stop Taylor Swift from making history winning her 4th Album of the Year Grammy Award.

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February 5, 2024

Start the Week - Opium trade to synthetic opiates

The trade in opium formed a backdrop to Amitav Ghosh’s best-selling novels, The Ibis Trilogy. In his latest work of non-fiction, Smoke and Ashes, he investigates the impact of that trade on Britain, India and China, and follows the money that was made by some of America’s most powerful and well-respected families. He reveals how the poppy plant enabled the financial survival of Empire and proved catastrophic for Indian farmers and Chinese users.

In the 21st century Afghanistan became the biggest grower of poppies, producing more than 80% of the world's opium. The former soldier, Richard Brittan, set up the company Alcis, to provide an accurate picture of what’s going on on the ground in Afghanistan by using satellite imagery. As well as tracking the workings of the drugs trade, he explains the impact of the Taliban ban on poppy cultivation in 2023.

Professor Fiona Measham, Chair in Criminology at Liverpool University, explains that one of the effects of the disruption to the opium trade has been a large increase in the number of synthetic opiates – fentanyl and nitazenes – filling the vacuum. China has become the centre for the wider development of synthetic drugs that emulate plant-based street drugs, but are much stronger and potentially lethal. The charity The Loop, set up by Measham, is instrumental in checking drugs to better understand what is being sold on the streets.

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February 5, 2024

Everything Everywhere Daily - Formal Logic

Located in the area between philosophy and mathematics is the realm of logic.

Logic permeates everything we do, from the work of Socrates to modern computer programming to the musings of Mister Spock.

However, there is more to logic than just making sense and avoiding fallacies. It can also be a highly formal system using symbols and variables to represent statements.

Learn more about formal logic, its ancient roots, and its modern applications on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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February 5, 2024

The NewsWorthy - U.S. Strikes Back, Raging California Storm & Grammys’ Top Moments- Monday, February 5, 2024

The news to know for Monday, February 5, 2024!

We'll tell you how the U.S. has started retaliating against militia groups in the Middle East.

And we'll lay out the details of a new bill that includes some of the most significant border security restrictions Congress has considered in years.

Also, what's expected from a rare severe storm impacting millions of people across California?

Plus, we're talking about the booming business of beauty products for kids, alternative health strategies going mainstream, and several highlights from last night's Grammy Awards.

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February 5, 2024

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Find Me the Votes’ investigates Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election

As Donald Trump runs for office in 2024, a new book by journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman details how Trump attempted to overturn the presidential election in 2020, and how Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis built a case against him. In today's episode, NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Isikoff and Klaidman about Find Me the Votes, the layers of intimidation behind Trump's bid for power, and the fast-moving allegations against Willis and her counsel.

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February 5, 2024

The Gatekeepers - 1. We Are as Gods

For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea what’s really going on.

Ethnic conflict in Myanmar. A chemistry professor is killed in Ethiopia. A teenager dies in her bedroom in London. A mob storms the Capitol in Washington DC.

And that’s the moment that catches Jamie Bartlett’s eye. A few days after the riot, on January 9th 2021, the outgoing leader of the United States is suspended on social media. First Twitter, (renamed X), and then Facebook. A President silenced. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain. For the first time millions of us can see the power of technology companies.

They can delete you. They can amplify you. They can change your life. Social media has conquered the world.

Jamie Bartlett follows the roots of this story back to San Francisco : the home of Big Tech, where he meets one of the early pioneers of social media who tells him about a strange hand bound book, passed around hippy communes in the summer of love, and how it turned the world upside down.

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Presenter: Jamie Bartlett Producer: Caitlin Smith Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Music: Jeremy Warmsley Story Consultant: Kirsty Williams Researchers: Rachael Fulton, Elizabeth Ann Duffy and Juliet Conway Executive Producer: Peter McManus Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke. A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4

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