465 – Topics

00:03 TerroRising trends: explosion of lone terrorists, changing terrorist tactics, terrorism’s means and ends, terrorism’s differing forms and objectives, psychology of terrorists, motives behind terrorism, grey borders of terrorism, organized crime, protest, violence vs terrorism
14:15 Go indoctrinate yourself: differing penalties for differing motivations, legal responses to convicted terrorists, ideology’s influence on terrorists, religious belief – faith – doubt, comparative religious violence, ISIS and Al Qaeda, successful prevention of terrorism, self indoctrination, the dark web
28:55 Nuclear chaos? nuclear terrorist threat, seventy years without nuclear warfare, weapons of mass destruction, chemical and biological weapons, technical revolutions, history’s account of ideologues in control of the state, a changing world of violent actors, distracted by terrorism, taking all security threats seriously
43:40 Paper tigers and straw men: climate change – the distraction, avoiding real environmental problems, destructive ideology of the left, fighting paper tigers and straw men, illusory progress, blind governments as an obstruction to safety, full-spectrum threats, arming the public, emergency preparedness, Swiss model vs Texas model, arming individuals, creating a safety culture
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