Robert sits down with Mia and Gare to discuss the recent Mossad attack on Hezbollah using pagers and radios impregnated with explosives. It turns out this is an incredibly easy thing to do, an attack that opens a massive pandora's box with the potential to change daily life for all of us in terrifying ways.

Sources:

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea « bunnie's blog (bunniestudios.com)

We still don’t know how the Lebanon pager attack happened. Here’s what we do know about our own electronic devices | CNN Business

Study reveals robust performance in aged detonator explosive (lanl.gov)

What is the PETN explosive used by Israel in walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah? Can dogs detect them? (msn.com)

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers - The New York Times (archive.is)

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Andrew continues his conversation with Garrison about the development of Brazilian Anarchism during repression and fascist violence in the 20th century.

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Andrew talk with Garrison about the history of Brazilian Anarchism in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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James sits down with two members of Bread Bloc to talk about mutual aid, how to set up your own mutual aid project, and the increasingly hostile environment for unhoused people in San Diego and California after the Grants Pass decision.

Sources:

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/homelessness-and-housing-instability-among-lgbtq-youth-feb-2022/

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/09/camping-ban-ordinances/
https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-homeless-sweeps-funding-bdaf5719847e11daf8cca06c62737994
https://www.sandiego.gov/police/services/neighborhood-policing-division/unsafe-camping

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Margaret reads you a story about decoration. Really.

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All of this week's episodes of It Could Happen Here put together in one large file. Sources can be found in the descriptions of each individual episode.

1. The UAW Staff Purge
2. Why Conservatives Hate Ukraine feat. Rudy Giuliani
3. The Heritage Foundation's Anti-Trans Booklets
4. An Update On The Revolution in Myanmar
5. The Current State of Meme Politics

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Garrison and Robert discuss how memes are being used in the 2024 election, from couch sex to racist bomb threats.

Sources:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jd-vance-couch-sex-rumor-explained-1235068142/
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jd-vance-couch-cushions/
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jd-vance-couch-cushion-story-hoax
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tim-walz-horse-semen-story-hoax/
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tampon-tim
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fell-out-of-a-coconut-tree#fn1
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-can-be-unburdened-by-what-has-been
https://x.com/herandrews/status/1817979762570375597
https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1834790387883413592
https://x.com/Esqueer_/status/1835321899116577206
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/19/day-by-day-how-jd-vance-tweeted-misinformation-about-springfield/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/08/09/what-to-know-about-olympics-gender-debate-as-imane-khelif-faces-off-in-womens-boxing-final/
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/8/7/imane-khelif-and-western-delusions-of-white-innocence
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/origins-haitians-eating-pets-claim
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-vance-springfield-ohio-haiti-cats-rcna170934

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James talks to Billy Ford of the USIP about the developments in the conflict in Myanmar, the recent and disastrous flooding, the situation in Rakhine State, and how the Junta is holding onto power despite massive losses.

Sources:

https://thediplomat.com/2024/09/arakan-army-commander-in-chief-twan-mrat-naing-on-the-future-of-rakhine-state/

https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/aa-chief-arakan-armys-vision-for-myanmar-is-federal-union-of-ethnic-and-bamar-peoples.html

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